1947-05-31 — Page 6

London, May 20.

One of the biggest manhunta in Britain's crime history ended today when three young men were formally remanded on a charge of murdering Alee de Antiquis In Charlotte Street, Soho, London, three weeks ago.

The accused are Charles Henry Jenkins,: aged 23, Christopher James Geraghty, 20, and Terence John Peter Hold, 17.

De Antiquis, n passing motor-cyclist, was shot and killed when trying to prevent three gunmen escaping after an attempted robbery nt a jeweller's shop.--Reuter,

HE man with the bulge in his coat pocket ran quickly down the steps of the white," bomb-splintered central police sta- tion at Savile-row, W. I walked three paces behind him as he crossed the scarred spaces of bombed buildings. It was 9 p.m.

When he came to the narrow patchwork of Soho streets behind Piccadilly, where the foreign cafes and clubs form a Maltese, Italian, French oasis in the centre of London, he hunched his shoulders and walked more slowly.

Detective Sergeant Nick-which is not his real name-of The Murder Sqund, was starting his three-hour patrol to and the ment who killed motor-cyclist Alec de Antiquis Ja Charlotte street, Sabo.

The police know that the trigger- cilly men they are looking for will shoot it out. They have been told

that they con Carry temporary measure "in circumstances."

BUDA #s

exceptional

Solu

At half-hour intervals in there la a detective, an unobtrusive man in a dark suit sipping beer al-each bar, drinking coffee in each cafe. He is one strand in the dragnet which has been flung eriss- cross over the city. And the focal point is Soho.

WELL KNOWN

BEAK S

REGENT

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.

SOHO. MIDNIGHT

The first of a short sorios of news-in-fine-focus studios of the main backgrounds where the postwar London criminal is at work. In the opinion of Scotland Yard these are: 1. The Sida- Street Cafo: 2. The Customs Shed-barrier to the smuggling racket: 3. The Flash Wine Shop, hive of the illicit liquor deals. Beginning today JOHN DEANE

POTTER joins a Soho patrol.

BROAD-ST.

DEAN-ST

WARDOUR ST

GREEK ST

FRITH:

STREET

·SHAFTESBURY-AVENUE

One strand of the dragnet- the three-hour patrol through Soho taken by Sergeant "Nick' and the writer of this articio.

one

They jerked their heads up and straight ahead.

or two put their hands on the inble as if had

concealed

DETECTIVES are known by their wo prove ther

Christian names to the foreign weapon. After the detective had cafe proprietors, the cockney publi- sald a few words to the proprietor, a cans. They are also known to most nervous effusively polite Italian, we strolled out again. The girls and of the regular customers.

the men ngering over their coffee avoided our eyes.

In the intervals between their visits. someone else takes over~~ often woman--who works

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for them. They telephone the Yard when they hear anything, and with- In a few minutes a squad round.

car

10.30 P.M.

A BILLIARDS saloon In a durks

side

street off Shaftesbury-

RKARD

CHARING

CAMBRION

"I know that sort of job well. I've done many of

them. Everything about it was dend wrong. They went in the afternoon when the place was crammed with assistanta., Now somo time near the Junch hour most of the staff would have been out-ent- Ing.

"They were nervous too, because the plice had not been properly drummed. (Soho jargon for looked eper by Romcome who gives the

bandits the layout including the best time to tackle it).)

"No wonder they got away with nothing, and had to kill. That sort of thing is bad very bad for the district"

Threaded together from informa- tion and expert opinions like that Is the police trail. They realise her only chance to catch the killers is through a first-class unexpected informer.

The men are

not fingerprinted. Their numbered photographs are not In the steel Aling cabinets of the Yard. Their cafes and hangouts are unknown. They did not get anything so they have no need of a fence, what Soho calls a "buyer"-and they probably had no "drummer," no nd- vance mni who might become frightened and give them away.

12 O'CLOCK.

MIDNIGHT: As we walked down

Soho enter,

There is

Shaftesbury-avenue for the last The Yard are getting the greatest me the lights were going out in the housing co-operation they have ever had from the men of the narrow streets, shortage in Soho, too, and the crooks who take the last tube home to Camden The professional screwsinen preserve L tacit neutrality with Town or the Elephant and Castle,

There, at the coffee stalls and cafes police are anxious to

their in show disapproval of these Chicagoesque which stay open longer, are other killers.

self-effacing men like Nick watching for the flash boy who pays for his They hate the man who uses a coffee with a bundle of notes.

We But Nick's night, was over. gun. They know it means that their haunts will swarm with policemen walked back to the while building and that holds up their work. They in Savile-row and for half an hour. cannot get on with their legitimate he wrote his night's report in the business of planning "run-out" Jobs big diary. Then he, too, made nls -snatching trays of jewellery and way home to Streatham, dusting off with them in a waiting

Nick

is off to-day and will spend caror arranging the sale of forged it playing with his two children and seen clothing coupons.

digging his garden, which has been Also they have the professionat neglected a little for the past few mann's contempt for

the bungling days.

is avenue. The men in the pointed amateur. Any of these criminals could shoes and the narrow yellow and buy a gun for £5 from a deserter red bows went making their or from men who mixed with thu strokes, but the conversation solut- American troops. but they do not tered and died away like an engine want guns. short of betral.

Three things stamped Sergeant Nick upart from the other people in Soho. The bulge in his pocket, his eyes, His Jinlf-hourly telephone

calls.

เ

That was one of the bad Joints. Others were more friendly. Several Solio pubs we visited were taking Up collections for the murdered man, the Antiquis,

I watched him talk to people at the every place we visited, bui ali time his eyes were watching, check-In Ing. photographing a new face.

Then he would walk to an open his telephone. No one who heard conversation would have realised who he was. He dialled and breath- ed into the phone. "This is Nick.

1s everything all right?

Will call you back."

Right.

Police switchboards nil over

London lost night

were receiving

few

these nonchalant calls every minutes. Out of this careful routine

It is hoped will emerge the clue to

the killers.

9.45 P.M.

LOOKED at my watch: it was 0.45 p.m. We were opposite u

curtained shop windows,

and the

TOWA

EL

ย

It was 11 nm, and there was real scorn In smash-and-grab man's voice in the Old Complon-street cafe as he described to me indigantly how as he described to me indignantly how badly the job was done.

Family

But it will not be

SPRING COMES TO THE GREAT CITIES

"How about me and you and a little pro-fab ?"

Can't we have the Power and the Glory?

EVER, said the grim, en- raptured Englishman lean- ing on the bridge, had he the like.

1

The river was bleak and tur-

gid, he looked across at a wan- dering, tumbled range of

a holiday for Soho. bricks and mortar, stone Not until the net has

closed on the mur- and lime, chimney pots derúr of innocent

citizen Alce de Anti-and gable-ends. Earth, quis.

he jotted on his cuff for [Montague Lacey. continuing the posterity, has not any- series on Monday, will write on the amugglers.]

thing to show more fair.

A

NEWS-GAME FOR EVERYONE

Double or Quits

WHO ARE THE EXPERTS

3. President Truman

has

3.

IN YOUR HOME?

British 3. The

by JAMES CAMERON

St. Pauls

S°

O up, guards, and at Mr Slidin! In

vim let him plead that a power station created by Sir Giles Scott Is unlikely to offend any artistic canon: that there is no logical reason why n tall and slender chimney should be any lesa graceful than a tall and slender steeple; that if power stations had been around in Wren's day, Sir. Christopher would have been the first man to make them lovely.

First of all the thing is Planning. and Planning is anathema to tradi- tion. But stay! Half the argument

River Thamee

New Power Station

་

It sets a questiun

St. Paul's v. the Power House is more than London's battle, on which you and the man next to you are likely to have very different views.

Industries

cafe in Greck-street with wide un-1 NOWARDS the end of each

In which European city light from them making strong month, the Hongkong Tele outlined a hemispheric defence was a memorial unveiled recent Fair held early this month was golden patch on the pavement. The graph presents on this page a policy, but which countries are ly to the unknown children who split into two sections. One

cafe was convenient for crooks-news-game patterned the included in it?

on villains as the police call them-famous Double-or-Quits radio because through the wide

windows feature. they could see anyone coming.

you know which?

died in World War 11?

4. A message of "candid 4. To which country did the friendship" has been addressed principal scientific parties go to *This cuts both ways. It was just Here's how you play: For to a certain part of Europe. Do observe the eclipse of the sun as easy for us to see inside by stand-each topic there are five ques- ing across the narrow street.

tions hased on

on May 20? this month's

5. Which party in India news as reported in Hongkong created the Pakistan policy?

6. The Duke of Gloucester We stood there for 15 minutes.

Choose the tople The men

In the long American- newspapers,

has been on a trip recently. style jackets with belts, and greasy you think you know best. Poli- ENTERTAINMENT Which country did he visit? uncut hair went on drinking coffee tics for Father? Sport for out of chipped cups and talking to

young Tom?

each other heads close together.

A girl with a wora young-old face and brassy blonde hair sudden-

Lucky Dip for

What is the name of the Mother? Give them their choice. Royal Command Performance A correct answer for the first film exhibited in Hongkong this

month?

1.

PEOPLE

1. A prominent English M.P., journalist and broadcaster ly glanced out of the window and question in each five gets one rubbed her nose with her forefinger. point. From then on, it's double- 2. Which country is reported was a recent visitor to Hong- Detective Nick it another cigarette or-quits. So correct answer to have been considering setting kong. Who was he? and walked on. Ife had had the to the second question can be up a state-owned film industry

that nothing had Happened it that tion 4 points, to the fourth ques- ed? cafe, up to 10 pan.

tion 8 points.

his View!

What a man was this Words- is that Bankside will be built, slop worth, and what a stinker he in the middle of the open vista that is scheduled for the New London; could have written today about therefore Mr Silkin is interfering

with a plan, he is an anti-Planner.

Why doesn't he put his machinery #t would Becuuse ut Rotherhithe? take two years. So for the sake of two years Mr Silkin, that impetuous

will mon, spoll posterity's London.

WHAT

a people we are anyway for our views and landscapes and The thing is both ruthless Organisa- vistas, which we mutilate and de- tion and standash Opportunism.

has ever

this view? end,

We

are doing it today,

loudly

than ever, with the

mix aesthetics.

little

on

morc

ho

secnobody: it

biltz-

titillation of being able, for once, to Which of them has looked at it?

B

with politics

stray with desperate urgency-but not, let us admit, without beating our From the St. Paul's breasts and violently calling

of amorphous Heaven to witness our shame. does not exist yet; the squalid and

rubbishy barrier of survivors still hems the Cathedral in to the south. From the power-sta- extra tion side, practically every Londoner. our Which of them is competent to say whether that unsightly wilderness Oh, the melancholy interest of see opposite St. Paul's will be spoiled ing a national heritage in danger, by a modern building or not?

Such is the force of this sort of just because we need more electricity!

thousands probably A power station is competition debate

people London faments. of

feel strongly about with enthedral.

the troublesome the matter who never saw St Paul's in their lives. And of course, right- ly,

uneasily

under

that

choice: a view or a volt. section was located in London;

It can hardly have escaped the where was the other located?

keener students of mass-indignation

the TF someone wantonly decides to that bllier words now bridge 4. A famous English Thames between Southwark and the shove up buildings around Eng- novelist, now 74 and living on City: must there be a new general fand's premier cathedral, then it is a St first class thing that everyone should ing station to stare across the French Riviera, is said to be Paul's Cathedral? Must there be a kick up a row. Let them shout, I

Yes. Will writing his last book and in-generating station at all? Will Ithe fountain-pens rattle in a thousand tends to retire after that. Who it work? Certainly. is he?

scabbards Spell The View?

5. What is Hongkong's cor- rect revised allocation of rice for the year 19477

SPORT

at

say, for the true cause of visual beauty and pure aesthetics; it is sci- enough we do it in all con- dom

two?

science.

It would not have been bad if we No person in his senses could object right now to the provision of had done a bit more and a bit sooner, of Philistines let generations a new power station. A great many We

senses mess the Surrey sido of the river

up people very much in their

anyhow; 'redemption

who have objected to this one, the Bank- past side proposition.

screamed about the view then?

they curved back the Certainly It will, they say, conflict with St. Paul's; it will interrupt the prospect top of Reuler's building in Fleet- 1. The Walker Cup-an in- of that serene and lovely dome from street to preserve St Paul's outline. ternational golf match-was the south side of the river; it will be but who did anything to stop the 2. An important war criminal

siled so precisely an to interfere with indescribably ghastly railway bridge signal from one of his best informers worth 2 points, to the third ques with chains of cinemas attach- was sentenced to death during played during the month. What the proposed open visto from St.. which cuts the Cathedral facade in pete with the traditional supremacy The only man to my knowledge May, since when an agitation country won, and by what Paul's itself; above all it will com-

of the Cathedral over London's who did anything active to open up 3. Who is the wife of Orson has been started in England He turned sharply dnd went down, And the fifth question, if the Welles, the actor and producer? protesting against the sentence. 2. The "Match of the Cen-river-scape; a presumptuous, men- St Paul's to the Londoners was the

strous thing.

late Marshal Goering, and even be left the intrusive little superstruc tury" was played in Scotland on with middle-aged men and

turn of St Martin's-Within-Ludgate 4. Who is Robert Helpman, Who is the war criminal? young swered correctly, is worth 16 girls, raucous with laughter.

to pred the air. before St Paul's. Wo

In any viewi

thu

world shouldered our way towards the bar. points. The real family expert whose autograph is reported to 3. The "Merchant Prince of May 10. What was the game,

Worth fotch a higher price than that

Britain" died on May 8. Who

TE answering arguiment is just az The manager saw Nick and shook will get a total of 31 points,

preserving against the necessities of of Bernard Shaw in certain cir- his head.

simple: there are technical reasons a complex mechanical Lito? Several was he?

why Bankside is necessary; second, thousand times yea. There are so one it will in itself be a sightly enough many, views in the world for which innings of a recent county building-only 90 feet high, ten feet I would argue all night against the less than the general height of new arrival of no matter what invalu- and the side then declared for sers, without smoke....all of them.

bar. a divé

:

some steep steps into blue with cigarette smoke, crowded previous four have been "an-..

Now who's to be Question cles? We ordered two beers and stood Master? Fixed that? 0.1. Get near an alcove where a dozen men started. sat' drinking at a long table. One

of them caught sight of the datec- live, half rose, thought better of it,

4. A 1,000,000 word book of war memoirs is to be paid for

Who is the author?

score?

who were the contestants, and what was the result?

3. Four batsmen in'

TU

.The correct answers will be "Forever Amber," has just been at the rate of US$1 per word. cricket match scored centuries, London bulldings, without conden; able power house or atomic pile.

and aut down. He watched us care found on Page 10.

fully in the ten minutes we

there.

were

When wo turned to go he fol- lowed quickly and whispared some

POLITICS

thing to the detective. Nick, nodded adopted a new constitution. The 1. On May 3, a country his ficad.

correct name of that nation will earn you a point,

10.15 P.M.

2. A national political party I was 10.15 p.m. We went into

-a_cafe in Frith-street with dirty recently issued "eight command- lace There a murmur ments" followers.

5. The film version of Kath- leen Winsor's best-selling novel,

completed after many months. Who plays the part of the prin- cipal character, Amber St Clare?

PLACES

1. Plans for a new reservoir In the New Territories were 'made public this month. Where abouts is it to be located?.

Which American

5. What is the name of the relative of the Royal family who died recently?

LUCKY DIF

the team?

WOULD I, however, continue so

further infuriate the opposition, who the loss of four wickets. What arguments which do no more Uma tion was made and which was over the water. was the score when the declara-would, one chapel were going up to argue in favour of doing my»,

ong feels, be just as mad the Slatine

And all because

of.

A self out of an extra couple of kilo-

• View. view that really wasn't a view at watts whon leicles hang by the wall? 4. The European feather-all until the billz scoured down the I think, do you know, I

would. But weight boxing championship City and gave St. Paul's air to it would have to be a very ugly 1. What relationship is was won last week on a foul, the

breathe. But there it is, the skyline power house. As ugly as the pre- of the City.

which, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten French contender being dis-

nent: Bankside power house, The power house will that.

spoil (formerly Prince Philip of"

the now plan will remove, Who was the winner? Who cares? Why, everybody cares, in any case, before long

the only whether they know what they are people who will care are the people 5. Next Saturday is Derby talking about or not. Of all the who use (a) St Paul's, and (6) Bankside's electricity. And then

Greece) to the Viceroy of India 7 49alfied. : **

at convertation, but as soon as we met 'n toessary, to score two republic has just had a change 2 The word Congress figures Day in England. Name the horse millois of people who pass that way. Bobkridele, eateries Christopher swill

walked in the customers stopped talking abruptly as though someone more points is the name of that of government as the result of frequently in news from India. that has been made favourite to had pressed, a, switch..

party.

a coup d'etat?

What is it?"

win.

ly and say: "This is beautifutang nd doubt mod to Sir Giles and say::CULA

Nevertheless it must be protected. "It's your world... can takoji