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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1

DOROTHY PAMELA OʻGRAD Y-served nine years in paol

OING ON

by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE

two

tortal

dinner

MRoyal Air Force this keleit. Highlanders have

She had herself sentenced to death

a huge joke'

as

TRUE only. British woman sentenced to death for

spying during the war was released from Ayles. bury Gaol a few days ago after serving nine years of n 14-year sentence.

Immediately she told an credible story,

on almost

By Sidney Rodin

let me go.

"I went to Aylesbury next day. For many months I told no one that my spying was a mere-pre- tence, Then I wrote a letter lo my husband explaining every-

thorities.

It

"I was taken before the "When the pollee took me to thing for the first time. It was commanding officer. He Yarmouth Police Station they intercepted by the prison au- release checked up on me with the found my maps and sketchen in

a false "Then, after two years, I in- police at Sandown, and then my handbag, and also

Identity card. I thought I had wrote out a full confession. lost my eard a few weeks before was sent to the Home Secretary... and obtained a new one.

My statement concluded with the words: 'I know I acted foolishly, but I did not realize the gravity of my nefs at the time.

She said that in fact she had never done any spying; that the whole episode was

"A young policeman came to question me some time. He asked me afterwards.

they

"Then I found the old one and look great delight an rubbing out my name and substituting a false "A huge joke" a piece of my views on Hitler. realised that "I

one, with a London address. exhibitionism on her part. That being sentenced to thought me a spy. I said

"I was kept three months in death gave her the biggest to myself, Very well, I'll Hollywood Gaol, in London, and give them something to interrogated for long periods. My think about."'

chief interrogator from M.L3 kept asking; to whom I gave my Information.

thrill in her life.

The woman concerned is Mrs Dorothy Pamela O'Grady, now 52 years old, formerly a hoarding-house Osborne Villa, keeper at Sundown, Isle of Wight.

She has

to

gone back Osborne Villa to reopen her boarding house.

Hor 'talos'

Guide maps

"I refused to say. Earlier,

"The Home Secretary acknow- ledged my communication and guld it would be filed with the

documents relating to my case.

"The war ended, but I heard nothing.

Privileges

at!l1

"After three years I had

"So I told the constable however, I had made up the yarn that I thought Hitler was a that a submarine used to appear become a special prisoner with fine man and if he wanted off the Isle of Wight at night many privileges. The specials. came ashore in a have their own anali wing with

Immense thrill,

bo

sitting room and kitchen, and a to make Germany greater I and didn't see why he shouldn't, rubber dinghy,

very nice garden. I became quite "This is the man I said 1 happy in prison. "To my huge delight the constable wrote all this had contacted.

"My husband visited me down.

"When I knew I was going to gularly. He had stood by mo "Now I began to enter be tried at Winchester I became through all the years und kept our home together. But he was Let Mrs O'Grady tell her into the lark in earnest. I a ttle frightened and Was

make one more effort to story in her own words:-

had guide maps of the almost on the point of confessing Eetting old and I felt I should ******bought London.

"Since I was a child I island which I used to give that the whole thing was a joke. released so that I could come out ARSHAL of the jackets.

"But I hardened and looked and look after him. But there is nothing new to have loved to nuke up tales to my guests and I began

"Therefore, last November, I and pretend I have done marking-them-with-military forward to the_trial_vs_____

petitioned the 11ome Secretary- Trenchard, worn them for generations. Lord

for my release. I wrote: My father of the R.A.F., cannot Lord Bruce, son and heir of things that I have not done objectives.

"I was nearly a casualty "The trial lasted two days. husband is now 72 and wants me- keep his feet on the ground. the Earl of Elgin, was photo out of love of shocking graphed wearing one at a Perth

prople,

in a daylight bombing at Although right Inside me I was at home, At the age of 77 he has ball. It was copied from just made his highest flight, doublet 250 years old.

"At school I once wrote tack on the Royal Marina scared I enjoyed every monent Lord Salioun wears a tarian

I bought of it. With Lady Trenchard last

And Smoking jacket,

Harry on pieces of paper that I Hotel, Ventnor.

postcard showing the "I learned that because of my Wednesday he reached a cumming-Brace, one of the war's had killed my mother. I a

the place hotel, which I marked, for maps most of the defence plans height of 40,000 feet (7% youngest brigadiers, has a com-hid them about

a for the island had been changed. miles) in the jet-propelled plete tartan ruit,

hoping they would be found I knew it stood above De Havilland Comet.

and that they would hang military billet.

That is the story as Mrs Black cap "I went to St Boniface

Dorothy O'Grady told it to me. me. Yet I was very fond of my mother.

Down, near Ventnor, where

Renders who may doubt her A secret radar

"The excitement of being tried sanity should know "When the war began all there was

The material thne has It been made rough for my life was intente. Osborne station, and my guests left

official stood behind the judge Villu, and my husband, who pencil sketches of the lay- supreme moment came when an doubted. I am learning to wave good- own "mannequin" for any new -is now 72, took a fireman's out, one of which I dropped and put on his black cup for him before pronouncing the death sentence.

Mr Cube talks

• STATING his case at Olympia during the next four weeks: a talking model of Mr Cube.

He is two feet three-inches tall, can move his lips, eyes, and vue of his rubber hands.

fo bue

Mr Strachey and Dr Summerskill," he says in a deep voice.

Mr Cube was invented by 25- your-old Charles Garner, ex- I.A.F. specialist on "George," the automatic pilol.

How much did Tate and Lyle

spend to make him?

It is estimated not less than £2,000.

Maharajah moves

• THE Maharajah of Baroda is getting rid of properties in Britain.

Teeth 'mannequin'

• SPINNING money from false teeth: Mr Frank Hawtin, chair man of Dental Manufacturing. fils company made 35.000.000 teeth last year, 10,000,000 more than the year before.

Toothless Mr Hawtin is in

idens in dental couture.

New York colleen

• REVERSING the usual pro- cess: Miss Mary Collins arrived frem America for a film test a Shepperton Studios.

Miss Collins has won

nine

beauty competition. She in "Miss New York City."

And at 23 the is "America's Most Beautiful Girl telth Irish Rackground."

Her great-grandfather from Kildare.

Coats wedding

• NEWS

дл

came

In

retriever Rob.

job in London. I was all near the sentry. alone except for my black "At Luccombe Chine the

stone steps down to beach had been partly blown up to prevent easy ascent of the cliffs.

At the beach

know I did ++I

wrong In pretending to be a spy, but I have paid for it now.'

"The answer came on Feb. ruary 15 ordering my almost Im- mediate release."

that at no

When she had been in prison. four years she was seen by Dr Jean Durrant, a paychiatrist,

Dr Durrant is not at liberty 01 "The man didn't put it the

her at home in straight. It went over one of the to discuss individual cases. Dut judge's eyes and looked so funny when I kaw

"NO that I was giggling Inside and Chelsea she said to me:

person certified as insane would had a job not to laugh.

be kept at Holloway or Ayles-

"It was hard to keep a straight bury.'

look

and serious

face

and

"The island was full of

"But, exploring with my the dog Rob, I found a narrow, soldiers and most of sen. front was prohibited to twisting path which enabled solemn as I knew a spy should. residents.

"I found it disappointing that But the summer me to descend to the bench

I was going to be hanged instead was hot, and I continued to and climb up again,

of shot. take my dog for his swim.

"I walked miles to get the better of the sokliers In order to reach the beach.

"Gun emplacements were

"I made three sketches

arrows,

"My next disappointment was

The truth

Mro- What further light can O'Grady herself throw on her affair?

He has bought a Paris flat, e

from Glentanar

of this place, indicating the to learn that they would put a

With what I judged to be com- villa in Chunes. Reports that he

Decside: The marriage of

and hood over my head and tie my path with

hands behind my back before plete frankness she said: will soon put up 17 yearlings for sale in Britain indicate that he Jamie Bruce, tecond son of the

showing a trench which was taking me to the scaffold,

"Perhaps I have some mental y transfer his muin racing Karl of Elgin, and Jean Coats. daughter of Lord Glentanar and

manned by soldiers at night

This upset me, I protested. Kink, which took hold of me at interests heroes the Channel,

time because I was alone Coats millions The Maharajah is one of the heiress to the

will take place at Glentunar in everywhere, and one day in I even indicated the num- what to the good of being the

at ber and the time they went hanged if I can't see what is amid the continual noice of guns. richest men in the world,

Sluice his deposition as active August.

on duty--and a camouflaged happening? Sametimes I said: and the droning of planes. Baroda, elements

gun which I had seen on a They won't hang a

England." the Indian Government

housetop above the beach. manoeuvred to recover money and jewels which, they claim, are State property.

ruler of

July I got to the beach Whiteeliff Bay, Bear Bem- bridge. have. ACTING

Australian High Commissioner Norman Mighell "I was sitting reading still does not know when his

when two soldiers appear- successor arrives. But he says that he will go home in April ed.

Rowing envoy of

The Maharajah may Think that his money is safer in France.

and his

nnyway.

le will travel by Queen to

New

A summons

"They asked me what I "Other sketches I made in After the ball

York, overland to the was doing there, and then cluded there of the naval wire- MILLIONAIRE Edward Hulton Pacific, and thence by boat to one of them, a sergeant, lesa station of Culver Cliff, and

wife formerly Australia-"If my

Government Russian Princess Nika Youre comes across with some dollars noticed a small paper swas the sea fort where a big naval vilrch-last July gave a house- Be sure that Mr Eric Harri-tika pinned under the lapel gun had just been installed. warming party at Cleeve Lodge, son, who will take over in Aus-of my coat. 24. Byde Park Gate,

tralia 19

House, is looking forward "It came from the Daily The house was not ready to be to spending June in England.

took place He is warmed, so the

war cerlain visitor to the Express

map, with The sci-trancformed into Henley regatta, where he rowed which

little coloured flags fairground and in the Australian miniature heated by braziers.

won the King's Cup after the were provided for marking

the changes in the front. There ja

that Mr first world war. a story Hulton, shaking hands with her hundreds of guests, came across murmured: до nequaintance

"AR

know you.” After all that, the Hullon never lived at Cleeve Lodge: now they have moved from the Dorchester to a house In street.

Cleeve Lodge is up for sale. The King's jacket

-

1

boat which

Author in a tub FOR many months Mr Ernest Hemingway has been keeping himself to himself. He has been writing a novel, his first for nyc years.

Where has he been hiding?

Chocked up

woman in

"All my life I had never been unything.

I have always been- "I took some persunding to insignificant. I never had a close appeal against the death sentence friend even at school.

the I spent Christmas in

"I felt tremendously bucked death cell. They gave me a little when I saw that they thought piece of Christmas pudding and me clever enough to be a spy. It

and

a few sweets and some cake. made me feel somebody instead.

sorts of yarns about my spying.

"I used to spin the officers nil of just an ordinary seaside land-

lady. All these, I discovered, were la

"Yet I was astonished when. I ler written down.

they believed it all.

I never imagined they would.

"Most of these skelches dropped where soldiers would

"My only fear was that find them, but I always carried would be taken away one morn some more, and a marked map ing to be hanged without having of the island, in my handbag to keep up the fusion of being been told the night before.

"Sometimes I dreaded going to a spy should I be arrested.

sleep in case this happened, was terrified, yet I enjoyed being terrified.

"I longed to be arrested. "Then n summons came order. ing me to appear at Ryde Police

Answer

Court io

charges of having been found in a prohl- "The swastika flag must bited place and of attempting to have stuck to my hair as I bribe soldiers.

"But I consider it better that: people on the Isic of

Wight who doubted me should now Better to ba know the truth. thought a fool than a traitor."

A Home Office official to whom submitted the statement was said: "The question whether Mrs O'Grady's explanation of her conduct is feasible is not one an which the Home Office can pro- perly express an opinion is sho was tried in open court,"

A letter

Three judges heard my ap- bent down to pick some-- "I packed a bag, locked up peal at the Law Courts. It hurt thing up in front of the the vilin and

at me that not once did any of them Gaol no woman has ever served

went to stay

In the history of Aylesbury

long a sentence-not even-

In the bathroom of Room 86 at the Ritz Hotel, Paris,

There, sllting in the tub, he map. As I walked I felt it Alum Bay. I was three weeks turn to look at me. When I was has written most of the book, at | in my hair and quite there before they found me. All sentenced to 14 years' imprison so EYEBROWS went up in sar- the rate of about 500 words naturally pulled it out and maps and dropping my Uttle and could not slop crying all that usually released after five years..

put it under my lapel

torial circles when it was an- nounced that the King had

day.

(London Expreza Service)

NANCY

Hit and Run

YEP

HAVE HOW ABOUT HAVIN' A YOU ANY

SODA

WITH

ME ?

YOU'RE KINDA CUTE --- DO YOU

LIVE HERE?

the time I kept marking my ment I became almost hysterical those in

swastikas.

By Ernie Bushmiller

SURE-- A DIME HERE'S WILL DO MONEY ?||TWENTY

I'LL HAVE MINE IN MEXICO CITY ---

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