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Woman Lied To Customs, Fined £100

MRS. Sylvia Margaret Wills, of

Park-street, Mayfair, pleaded guilty at Croydon recently to being knowningly concerned in a fraudulent attempt to evade Customs duties on a camera at Croydon Airport.

She was fined £100, with £3 3s, costs. Another summons alleging that she made a false declara- tion that the camera was a present from her husband was withdrawn.

Mr. B. M. Stephenson, prosecuting, said that' on June 6 Mrs. Willa arrived at the airport and said that she had nothing to declare. In a bot- tom drawer of a trunk a camera was discovered, Mrs. Wills stated that she had it with her when sho left, and had received it in this country from | her husband as a Christmas present.

"NOT THE TRUTH"

Mrs.

Following inquiries, however,

Wills went to the airpori on June 30, accompanied by her solicitor, und stated that the camera had been purchased on her behalf at St Moritz and that all she had said before was lies,

She said that it had been paid for on

her hotel bill, and she thought it was purchased in February. The camera was left in Paris and was, subsequently brought to England by a friend who was now in the United States.

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HIGHLAND WEDDING IN LONDON: Mr. John Wi-

NOVEMBER 1,

1938.

Girl's picture

is only clue

to

'lost' man

An unidentified Englishman who awoke one night recently lying injured by the roadside near Abbeville, Northern France, lay all the next day in hospital with nothing but photographs of a smiling girl he had found

in a pocket to help him to remember who he was or where he had come from.

Police tried to help by show ing him visiting cards they had taken from another of his pockets.

They cut the seams of his coat and trousers, split the heels and cul away the welts of his shoes; examined his signet ring under a magnifying glass. They found nothing to guide them.

brown suede shoes, and a shirt with

black and red stripes.

"Then I believe it was last Monday, but I'm not sure I took

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boat for Boulogne. The next thing I remember was staying a night at a place culled Berck Plage. I had £35 or £40 in a

waltet.

"When 1 woke up last night the wallet and the money were gone. I recognise nothing that was pockets,"

BATHING PICTURE

in my

One card bore the words: "Gern-

On the telephone to London from dantzen, Berlin. Wittenau Blumen- his hospital ward in Abbeville the weg 23; another, "Mrs. A. Shruba Man Who Doesn't Know Himself Hordan hotel belonging to A. and P. described what he called "the dream Wood. 1 am living in."

SEEMS LIKE A DREAM'

" found myself on the graya verke

Later she said she was certain the duty hadams Elliot Mackenzie, of the Seaforthis, with his bride, of a road near here, with bruises on

not been paid on it.

Mirai the

Mr. Stephenson added that Wills explained that she took camera with her to Le Touquet at Whitsun. She was asked for an explanation of the various

state menta she had made, and in reply she said: "I am afraid I am not parli- cularly truthful. When I was nakedi about it I was in a dot spin. I hadį had a rotten journey and was very tired,"

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Mr. Colin Duncan, defending, saidļ that it was true the camera was Christmas present from Mrs. Wills%) husband and was purchased at SL! Moritz and Imported here by frlend of Mrs. Wills. She did however, desire to cover herself by

Miss Valerie Margaret Dawes, after their marriage at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge.

Woman

"Plunged the

On

Clerk

Dogs

A woman clerk who "plunged and plunged" at dog

saying that she thought the duty had racing in endeavouring to get out of her difficulties was

bern pak.

"TOOK CAMERA”

she

Later Mrs. Wills went away for a week-end to Le Touquet, and 100k the camera with her, but did notį use it. There was not the slightest attempt to concen! it at Croydon. The question of smuggling the camera

charged at Old Street police court recently with stealing

$45 from her employers.

my legs and cuts on my head," sald the Volce, "and haled the first car

Then there was a photograph of the unknows man himself, in n bathing costume, another of him with his arm linked with that of an attractive, smiling girl in a summer frock. A third showert the girl by herself.

"That girl is my only chance of I saw. It turned out to be the hos-discovering who I am, said the pital ambulance, and they brought Voice. "I feel I ought to know her me straight here.

face. Obviously she is some one dear to me.

"But my memory goes back before all that oh, yes... Let me

"

"I've had

to laugh to-day. They've treated me like a spy. It as a pause, then the Volce. reminded me of the films, They slowly, hesitatingly, took up the story! Eut every bit of my shoes, look- again

ing for seerel hiding places. belleve I spent about a week "When they ask me about nemes at St. Leonards-on-Sea before I there is one that comes into

my head, took a day trip from somewhere to for no reason whatever-Peter Erics- Boulogne. But everything I think son. I have not the

the slightest I remember seems to me only like for believing that's a dream.

Mr. George Mash, of Abbeville, "When I arrived at St. Leonards who acted as interpreter during the ut a place called the West Madne interrogation of the unknown man, Station, I believe, I bought a suitcase said: "The police are baffled. The and a change of clothing. I put it man does seem to be trying to re- on- sports jacket, grey trousers, member what has happened to him,

my name.

reason

She was Mabel Hart (32), of Glengarry Road, East Trained Sons In Crime'

Dulwich.

It was stated that the amount involved was more than

into England did not enter Mrs. £1,000, and the police and the woman's employers, Messrs.

Wills's mind,

On June, Mes. Wills had had a

rough passage. She was fatigued and rother upset. She

exhausted and was of unimpenchable character and! had never been in any trouble before.

Stand Up To Blackmail, Lawyers Say

A petition, signed by 181 lawyers, urging the Government to join in a "collective stand for the rule of law," was handed in at 10, Downing Street recent- ly.

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barristers, leut-Colond Three William Frederick Wright, Mr. P. R. D. Shufeldt and Mr. John Platts MB, presented the petition, which bore the signatures of barristers, solicitors and members of the General Council of the Bar.

It asked the Government to recon-! sider its policy and nut to be a party; to the dismemberment of a friendly! State.

the

The signatories "elew with deep larm the apparent willingness of the Government to allow force alone to be the determining factor in relationship between nations, and be lieve that peace can be assured in Europe only by a collective stand by Great Britian, France, the U.S.S.R.. and Czechoslovakia in favour of the principles of justice and the rule of luw,"

Mr. Plaita Milis said: "Our resolu ilon urges the Government to save pence by making a firm stand against German blackmall. Lawyers know well that the only way to deal with a blackmailer is to stand up to him,

know

from professional experi- ence, that the blackmailer is only when he is faced with formidable cowardice, and it seems to us that Britain must display courage in the present alluation."

Wo

A Ranching Life

Lugton and Co., of Shoreditch, suggested that there was

a man behind the matter.

A detective said Hart's wages were £2 10s, a week. She had been with the firm ten years.

Her story was that she took the money on her own initiative, went dog-racing, and, endeavouring to get out of difficulties, "plunged and plunged.**

"VERY SORRY"

The offer added: "She says it is

Mothers

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School Head

Because there is a larger propor- all her own fault, but 1 don't believe [tion of boys than girls at the school. that. can see on possibility of many mothers are protesting against the appointment of a woman instead restitution."

of a man as head teacher at Berkshire Road L.C.C. School, Baw, E.

Hart: "I can only say I am very sorry. I have done my best to help

with the books."

"We have nothing against Mias Spender personally," Mrs. Hellena, Discharging her under the Proba-Jone of the mothers, said. "She comes tion of Offenders Act, Mr. Metcalfe from Stoke Newington and has a ilhe said: "I suppose. I really ought to record. make an example of you and send

"But we think that boys should

you to prison. On the other hand, have a master, especially when it is if I did so, you would be ruined and 'a mixed school, as masters have better

it would be terrible for your people." control over children."

Sentenced Men Freed After Wives' Plea

After being sentenced and taken to the cells recently at Old-street two men were saved from prison by their wives.

In one case the wife pleaded with the magistrate (Mr. Herbert Met- alfe) and in the other the man was released because his wife is expecting a baby.

of

Mr. Metcalfe: This firm seems to be constantly shot at although they pay their people well. It is all very well to offer to pay, back the money, but the point is whether I have not a duty to the firm and the community."

He sentenced each man to three the Imprisonment in the recond division.

Shortly afterwards Mrs. Abrahams was ushered into the witness-box.

"GIVE HIM A CHANCE"

The men were Julius Abrahams, aged 33, of Green-Innes, Harringay, and Henry Covill, aged 25, Chevening-road, Brondesbury Park, both collector-salesmen. They plead- "Give him a chance," she pleaded. ed guilty to embezzling 188. Gd. and "I have a boy of 14 who doesn't know 14%, respectively belonging to their anything about it. My husband will employers, Messrs. Jolm Blundell, repay every penny of the money." Ltd., City-rond, Finsbury.

"CONSTANTLY SHOT AT"

Detective-Sergeant Bowler said that;

Mr. Metcalfe: Do you mean to say that if your husband goes to prison It will affect the boy's future?—Yes, I shall have to inke him away from

school, and pay £5 if I do no. I have

the total defalcations in the ease of taken a house for three years, and if Abrahams was £50, and in the case; of Covill £46. There were no pre-my husband is sent to prison 1 can vious convictions against either. In not carry on,

Mr. Metcalfe discharged Abrahams

each case the men lind been spending under the Probation of Offenders Act, the money on dog racing,

Both men offered to pay back the and put him on his honour to repay

money.

son-

Smee the fall of Austria, Prince Starhemberg and his wife, the flim actress Nora Gregor, with their baby

the money. son, have lived in a small house.

Before the court rose, Sergeant With them has been a loyal servant,

Bowler told Mr. Metcalfe that Covill who works for them without pay.

wished

to make an application. A wealthy friend of the Prince,

ACTRESS'S DAUGHTER

Mr. Metcalfe: Is there any special Herr Frita Mandle the former owner

reason? Yes. Since

being TO MARRY of the Hirtenberg munitions factory, is negotiating for a

tenced, he has informed me that his farm in large

Notice has been given at a London wife is

is expecting a

chlid," South America, which Prince Star-

Covill was brought up, and Mr. forthcoming hemberg, who has expert agricultural register office of the knowledge, is to manage; for he has marriage between the Hon. David, Metcalfe said that he would discharge found that there is little hope of his Tennant and Miss Virginio Parsons, him also under the Probation of the Offendera Act on the understanding of Miss Viola Tree, discovering a means of existence in daughter

actress, Mr. Tennant is described as that he would make a proper, and Europe.

He will travel as soon as his wife a club manager and his age is given reasonable effort to repay the money han fulfilled a film contract in Paris.] as 33. Miss Persons is 21.

embezzled,

A whitehaired man with an inter-

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and

Charles Wolfe, aged 65, a traveller, of Streatham-hill, Streatham, Henry Wolfe, aged 29, of the same address, were charged with being concerned in attempting to steal £130 by means of a trick from Alfred Clyde Boswell, of Tarunaki, New Zealand.

Mr. Walter Hedley, K.C, sentencedi the father to six months' hord labour and the son to four months bord Inbour,

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Pilot Omeer Van Mente recently told an inquest jury how he struggled

Mr. W. T. Ricketts, defending, sub-1 bring R.A.F. aeroplane out of a spin after a mid-air collision with mitted that the case ought not to another machine at Stamford, Lin- succeed because, in the circumcolnshire, on Thursday. staners, no attempt at a trick could have been successful. Boswell was in touch with the poller.

"MANOEUVRED BY POLICE"

"I suggest the whole thing was be- Ing manoeuvred by the poller to try

The Inquest was on Miss Violet Mary Russell, aged 22, of Lancaster- road, Stamford, who was killed when the blazing wreckage of Pilot Offeer Van Menz's machine fell on her parents' house.

"I was travelling with the sun be- to Ket u conviction," sold Mr. bind me and the other machine was Ricketts. "Under police schooling, presumably straight out below me." he was trying to trick these men, and he said, "I think one of his wings that is not the sort of thing that struck me. ought to be encouraged."

Detective-Sergeant

"My machine inmediately fell spinning. I tried to correet the spin, Gowan said but could get no response from the that Charles Wolfe was a member of control, and declded to take to. my a family of

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"He is a persistent criminal, and

"SAW NOTHING"

has never been known to do any Det. Sergeant Humberstone raid work. He is very well known as a that he found the aeroplane In flames confidence trickster, and an associate at the back of a house which was on thieves. He travels in fire. Someone said, "The daughter's racecourse liners between this country, the in the bathroom," and he entered, United States, Australla, and New but could see no one.

After the Are had been put out he Zealand, committing thefts by means of confidence tricks. There is no found Miss Russell's body under the doubt that he has been responsible wreckage, so churred as to be unre- for the training of his family incognisable.

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Flying Officer John Eric James Slag said he was pifoling the other "He has obtained large sums of machine as a height of about 1,500ft. money from Colonial visitors to this He was flying into the sun, and had country who have declined to take neither seen nor heard any other any action because they were return-craft until he fell the impact. He

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Mentz.

"He is a menace to foreign and | Colonial visitors, and the sums of money which have been obtained by this family through confidence tricks have amounted to many thousands of pounds."

Von

Wing Commander D. V. Car- negle, commanding officer at Wit- tering RAF, station, stated that the engine of Van Mentz's 'plane rather obscured the pilot's view, and the other machine travelled Into this blind spot.

The jury returned a verdlet of Accidental Death.

the Referring to

501, Sergeant Gowan added, "He has been con- victed on two occasions. lle brg

They added a rider "that, in view four brothers, all of whom have been convicted of confidence tricks."of the evidence on the subject of imitation of visibility, a recommen- "Mr. Boswell deserves the thanks dation be forwarded to the proper with П view to the of the people of this country," said authorities

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