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Friday, November 25, 1932

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'EDDIE" GUERIN'S PLEA BROADCASTS

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In Tears as He Asks Court to Give Him a Chance Student's

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A twenty-three-.year-old girl, who was s t a t e d to have been t h e most o u t s t a n d i n g b o t h socially a n d intellectually of 500 s t u d e n t s a t h e r college, was convicted of t h e f t a t Leeds yesterday. , She was Emily Mounsey, a schoolmistress, employed by the War Office. She was stationed at Lichfield Garrison School, and lived at Freelord, near Lichfield. The charge against her was of stealing a gold yristlet watch from the room of an old student a t a reunion gathering at Leeds City Teachers' [Training College. Is was stated yesterday that of her monthly salary of 12 6s. she had to expend 9 15s. in repayment of grants and loans from education authorities., STRINGENT POSITION Mr. w . R. Hargrave, defending, said that he attributed Mounsey's appearance in court to her stringent position. The Stipendiary: Her positions have now been taken from her ?I am afraid that will happen. The Stipendiary: It ought to happen. He fined her 5 with the alternative of one month's imprisonment and allowed her three months in which to pay. It was stated that Mounsey's fiance, a sergeant in the Royal Engineers, intended to marry her.

F a m o u s as t h e m a n who escaped from Devil's Island, T h o m a s Edward (Eddie) Guerin, who is n o w seventy-two, was a t London Sessions yesterday sentenced to twelve m o n t h s ' imprisonment. He was convicted of stealing a handbag and contents worth 4 18s. from Miss Ethel Bonavia, of Ealing, while in the Army and Navy Stores, Victoria-street, S.W. He pleaded guilty. A detective officer recalled that Guerin in 1904 escaped from Devil's Island. On his return to England extradition proceedings were taken by the French Government, but after being detained for seven months Guerin was set at liberty and the extradition was refused. Police-Constable Chilcott, of the C.I.D., said that Guerin was married and had three children. , The officer then related a long list of Guerin's convictions and sentences in England

and abroad, dating from 1887, In November, 1929, he was given twelve months' hard labour at London Sessions, He was released in September of 1930. " H e is unable to obtain regular work," the officer added, " because he is in ill-health. He tells meand I have no reason to disbelieve himthat he obtains a living by running errands and doing odd jobs for bookmakers at racecourses." Guerin told the chairman, Sir Percival Clarke, that three of his previous convictions were cases where he was wrongly convicted. Mr. Stevens: In his favour it should be said that he is an old man and is suffering very badly from bronchitis. ' A VERY BAD P A S T " Guerin (addressing the chairman): You know, my lord, I have had a very bad past, but I have paid very dearly for it. I have never had a chance ail my life since I was a boy. " I ask now if there can be a chance given to me," he added. " I was sent to Prance, although a British subject, and I did ten solid years there when France was not very favourable to British subjects. " I should appreciate a chance now and be very grateful for it and I would not use it wrongly," Guerin spoke with great emotion and there were tears in his eyes,

WHICH WERE NOT

B.B.C. on Its Abandoned Programmes

REPLY TO CRITICS
Of t h e countries employing a, licence system for broadcasting, only D e n m a r k can show a higher percentage of listeners t o population t h a n G r e a t Britain. This claim is made in a review of ten years of broadcasting which forms an introduction to the B.B.C. Year Book for 1933, to be published to-day. The estimated number. of licensed listeners on December 31 next is 5,000,000, arid the Year BOok remarlcs that even in'America, though broadcast listening there is " free," the census of sets disclosed a percentage not much greater than the British. The book explains the position,of the B.B.C, as regards " the usually ignorant and ill-informed agitations against some forthcoming broadcast, of v/hich there was a crop at the beginning of 1931." " I n every case." it is stated, " t h e B.B:C while taking full notice of the protesting opinion^, made its decision on what seemed to be the merits of the case. "There was Patrick Hamilton's play'Rope,' for instance, which was broadcast, and successfully, in spite of strong protests before the event. TITANIC DISASTER " Then there was Filson Young's play ' Titanic,' the protests about which were remarkable, as they referred purely to tlie subject, the play itself not having been written at the time, and the author having publicly stated that the actual sinking' of the ship did not figure in the play. "This protest was all the more remarkable in that some of the most successful broadcasts of the past have been plays liltc ' Journey's End ' and ' Brigade Exchange,' which must have aroused many more sorrowful memories than the sinking of the Titanic. " In this case the B.B.C, decided to abandon the projected broadcast, as it felt that the play v/ould not obtain a fair hearing; and would be prejudiced by the misrepresentation to whiclj it had been subject. " On the otiier hand, there have been postponements on tne E-I.i.C.'s own initiative where circumstances beyond its control have made the broadcast of a particular play inopportune or tactless.

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RENT RESTRICTION
Doubts regarding the Government's intentions in respect of rent restriction are cleared up by the text of the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, which was presented in the House of Commons. This provides that the Increase of Rent and JWortgage Increase (Restriction) Act of 1920 shall be continued in England until Christmas Day, 1933, and in Scotland until May 28, 1934.

lO YEARS GASTRINS

" One example was the postponoment of Galsworthy's ' Escape,* the broadcast of which had
been arranged for a date which happened to come just after the Dartmoor mutiny.

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Seaside Home Proprietor's Reinarloble Cure.
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Tlie Marchioness of I.oiicIoiKlei.rj' (Uolfling lam PS hade) aiici the Marcliioness oE Titchfleid lit the exhibition at LimdoncfeiTy House in aid of the Wav Seivice Legion (iulid of Sailor and Soldier Broderers.

GIFT TO PRINCESS
Mr. George R o b e y ' s Toy Woolly Dog" lt' for Good Luck *' Just as the midnight express was leaving here for Genoa, l\lr. George RObey thrust a I toy woolly dog into the
NICE, Thursday,

NO GUARD RAILS YET

FoUowir^ representations, the Minister of Transport has decided to revoke the regulations regarding the use of guard rails on motor vehicles. He has informed the organisations concerned, however, that in his opinion, the fitting of guard rails or running-boards on all ordinary types of goods vehifles is, in general, desirable. If the investigation into road accidents which is to be carried out during 1933 should show the need on grounds of public safety for such fittings, he will be obliged to make and enforce a regulation, possibly at short notice.

the wonderful power of Bile Beans. Mr. and Mrs. Kin^ are the proprietors of the popular Holiday Home* Flint House* Belgrave Road* Seaford, near Brighton, where they cared for over
5 0 0 L o n d o n c h i l d r e n last s e a s o n . " I had ten years of dreadful suffering with gastritis, liver trouble and-general debility," says Mr. King. "Everything I ate or drank upset my stomach and caused wind and excruciating pains. The spasms exhausted, me. My nerves went to pieces ! I lost four stones in weight and was devoid of energy and strength. Life became unbearable I I spent, over 50 on different preparations that gave little or no relief. I was X-Rayed and even medical treatment proved unsuccessful. Regular doses of Bile Beans, however, stopped all the pains and other symptoms, built me up, and wonderfullyrestored my health. I never felt better than I do now." Mr. King wrote on November 16th, 1932 : " I am pleased to say I am still keeping absolutely

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heir of the Nixam of Hyderabad., " It's for good luck," he said. The Princess and her husband are on theh- way to India with Prince Moazzam Jah, the latter's younger brother, and' his wife, after a long stay in Nice. Prhicess I>urraiGeorge Robey became a Mlievar. firm friend of the royal couples while they were staying at the same hotel here. Two special sleeping-cars were reserved for the young Loch Lomond's Snow.Loch Lomondside has Princes and Princesses, who have nve tons of had a fresh fall of snow. -Reuter. Brooklands Victim's Estate.Clive Dunfee, who was killed at Brooklands, left estate valued 9 9 6 EPSTEIN SALE at 1,602. Diamond -Wedding.Mr. and Mrs. John W. A number of Hodge celebrated their diamond wedding at realised a total of bronze atportraits by Epstein 996 Sotheby's yesterday. Devonport yesterday. They,were sold by the executors of Mr. John Coffee Restriction.-^A decree has been pub- Gibblns, of Birmingham. lished at Rio de Janeiro forbidding the planti " Head of Dolores " brought the highest pics ing of new coffee trees for the next three years, ~135. It was bought by Mr. Walpole, who ^Reuter. also bought "Eileen" for 100 and "Lydia"Scott MS. Stolen.Details of the theft of the for 100. manuscrip't of Sir Walter Scott's "Guy ManMrs, J. B. Priestley paid S:.GG for " Mrs. Am.' nering " have been sent by New York police to brose iVTcEvoy." Scotland Yard. " Peggy Jean, Laughing " went for 80 and Louis x i i i ' s Letters.Letters from Louis "The Marchesa Casati" for 120. XIII to Cardinal Richelieu and the King's " Mary," for which 90 was paid, will go to autographed replies have been acQUired by the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. " Mrs, Quai d'Orsay.Reuter. Jacob Epstein " was sold for 105, Home Secretary Indisposed.Sir John GilLINER'S CHANGE OF NAME mour, the Home Secretary, owing to a chill has cancelled an engagement to address his

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OTHER NEWS IN BRIEF

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at Chrishall, near Saffron Walden, _Andrew built at Clydebank In 1911, has been purchased Macrea-was killed by the accidental discharge by the Clan Line and will be renamed the Clan of a gun he was carrying on the plough, tfrauhart.

Glasgow constituents to-night. A Greenock message states that the scottisU Farmer Shot.While ploughing on his farm Shire liner Argyllshire (10,236 tons), which was