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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March, 4, 1939. "
SCHOOLMASTER CROOK Jail Comforts For
STOLE MAN'S LIFE SAVINGS
PLAUSIBLE, cultured Edward Jones, graduate of Harvard University, ex-minister, ex-social worker, ex- school master, and ex-convict, will spend the next 12 months in gaol for "the exceedingly cruel thing of robbing a poor man of his life savings.”
While housemaster at a farm training colony at Benson, Oxfordshire, he offered to pay into the bank a cheque for £85 Bs.. belonging to a Mr. Frederick W. Trotman, a worker at the Colony.
He sent the cheque to a grocery p store in Wallingford as security for
a debt of £15,
He gave permission for the
cheque to be cathed, kept the balance, and vanished after re-
signing, his job.
They Scored A
He was sentenced at Oxford Assizes Bull-With A Hose
after, a record of his remarkable
career had been read out.
"I was broken by my past record,”
Jones said from the dock.
have got Into
Once you mess you Holyhead,
criminal dare not tell tunyone about Jones began life in North Wales. Leaving a secondary school there, he went to the United States and graduated at Harvarit.
"NOTHING AGAINST HIM"
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He went to Canada und, according to the police, was convicted of Seribus offence while headmaster at a college in Nova Scotia and deported in 1932
Back in England, he worked, as a minister and social worker. But he went wrong again, and was sentenced] to six months' imprisonment at Ayles- bury for false pretences and fraud,
Ha atatement that for 18 months he worked as an independent investi- gator, studying soclul conditions for the Ilouse of Charity, an organisations in Soho, W., which helps professional and educated men who are in need. is not substantiated.
"He came to us at the god of 1957, and was given help," the chaplain-a the House of Charity said.
We have nothing against him. He told us, truthfully, that he had been co-principal of a preparatory school at Littlehampton and had lost all his
money."
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BURIAL
BOARD
IN DEBT
BULL crazing in feld at Shripney, Bognor Regis, took
a dislike to an open fire at a gipsy encampment.
So he turned over a ketile, up- set the breakfast, and set fro to the sleeping quarters.
Bognor Regis fire brigade was called, but while they were put- ling out the fire, the bulk rc- appeared.
11 ratata was checked when a lose was turned on ilm. The ball shook his head, bellowed, and trotted off.
Salvation Army Changes
Changes in the higher command of the Salvation Army, caused by the retirements on reaching the age limit, include the appolatmest of Lieut- Commissioner J. F. Lewis as governor of the men's social work in Britain and Ireland, in succession to
Commissioner G, J. JollifTe,
Great
Colonel Joha McDougal, chlef secretary for Wales and the West, has been appointed to command the northern territory in'succession to Commissioner Lewis,
LONDON. So healthy are
the 5,000 in-
Commissioner David Cuthbert, un- habitants of Amble, Northumberland. that the local burial board is getting til recently managing director of the into debt. The board's only income Salvation Army Assurance Spelety, is from burials, and as there have has been sent by General Evangeline only been 28 denths in the Inst six Booth on a special mission to Austra inonths, its outlook is discouraging. lia and New Zealand..
These two amarily dressed indles attended the Ladies' Day at the Race Mecung-Staff Photographer,
Library, Suprem
Income Tax Debtors Spring is in the air
will
THE jail-for-income-tax season recently opened. It go on until Easter, when the number of jailed debtors will fall abruptly.
There are three other "seasons" In the year, ending at Whitsun, August bank holiday and Christmas,
"Income-tax debtors.dont like to be 'inside at holiday time," an offelal of Brixton Prison, S.W., said recent-
London's Lord Mayor issued war- runts against 20 defaulters. If they go to jail, their imprisonment will wipe out their debt (although in the- ory it shouldn't)
Soine of the habitual defaulters find all a comfortable way of -get- ting rid of their debi
ONLY "SNAGS"
The debtor is accommodated in a bpecial portion of the prison:
is room is fitted out for comfort. Perhaps the only discomforts the de faulter finds are inability to smokėj or drink or to see his friends as re-j, gularly as he would like. Visitors are) only allowed at intervals.
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It is true that the debtor hus, to get up fairly early and tidy his yours, but after breukfást he can read,
HIS BOOKS
The librarian visits him regularly to find out his needs,
GERMANY'S NEW BATTLESHIPS.
Berlin.
Naal Germany's first 35,000-ton battleston was recently lanyched at Kiel in the presence of Uller. who made an important speech.
A second 35,000-ton battleship Is, expected to be launchick this summer and a 45,000-ion super dread-noukht is also planned, It Is said that further Anglo-German talks on limitation of battleship fanriage is not necessary as Enge land has already"netlled the prob- Jem by a proposed, increase fo‘45,- 000 tons in her own construction (if other Powers" increase lo this tonnage).
Then he is, taken out for exercise wo gain an appetite for dinner, which he can' have sent in if he has the] means to pay for it,
In the afternoont he can do more reading until exercise and tea-time, Then, until lights out," he does as The likes.
Little interest appears to have been taken of the ponies parading In the paddock before races as this picture shows.Staff Photographer.
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