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The pint-sized stubby car was designed and produced at the
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Days In.
Irar,off. Lands
"Step thief!. It's Martin crash-
tine buslirepspor! Stop hills!"
There- had never been such a hue
and, „pry he the streets of 'Hebert
TWA 45 the huge crowd surged.
Orwercl, For no hunt is ta0r.e
.4RVOPI,Out. than a manhunt: no
bleedelest as savage, as the lust
for human blood.
WI they'd been. tenet Mar-
tin. Cashee blood for nearly a
Year in the island known as Van
T-neMen's. Land (now Tasmania).
ever since he had made a daring
jailbreak and become the leader
of a 'ruthless tliretwinan gang:
raiding farms, robbing home-
steads, and attrlacioush holding
up coaches.
On one .oceaeion the three of
them had captured twenty-three
.fully grown men—a farmer and
his hefty labourers — and tied
them up neatly in the dining-
room before plundering the rest
of the house. The only redeem-
ing feature about Cash was his
Robin Hood touch. He never
used brute force urdess abso-
lutely necessary. And he was ale
ways courteous to women.
A massive .six-footer, he had
been transported from his native
Ireland to New South Wales
his youth • for a minor house-
breaking offence. After serving
his term • of imprisonment he'd
become an expert stockrider,
• Until he had abducted another
mates wife, a strapping beauty
:named Bessie Clifford, arid fled.
,with her to Van Diernen's Land.
Imprisoned again, he had made
(mother daring escape and .be-
come the most notorious bush-
ranger in the island's history,
But now, on the evening of
Tuesday, :august 29th, 1843, it
seemed that Martin had taken
One risk too many. Obsessed.
y,'Ith jealousy, he strode brazenly
into Hobart Town after rumours
reached him that Bessie was be-
ing unfaithful to him with one
Thomas Pratt. His one idea was.
to be revenged.
His thought a chaos of mur-
derous hate, he stopped by a
tevern,. the Bluebells of Scotland,
to ask two men where Pratt
lived. But—t00 lateI—He recog-
nized them. as policemen; and
they recognized his brawny, re-
treating figure, too. Drawing
their pistols, they scampered af-
ter him in the dusk. The crack
01 their guns and their yells of
"Stop thief!" soon had a big
crowd joining in the chase.
His own pistols at the ready,
Martin's great raking strides
soon took him clear of his pur-
suers. All thoughts of revenge.
end jealousy had vanished now„
les he veered left up Melville
Street his one concern, was to
rave his own skin—to reach an
mint park, known as "the pad-
dock," on the northeastern edge
of the_ town. Once there he could
dodge away in the dark to the
freedom of the bush.
But when •;Martin turned into
relviele Street he made a ter-
tette blunder. He had overlooked
ale point in Hobart Town's to-
y egeaphy that was of life-and-
e` tath importenee, writes Frank
('June in his absorbing blogra-
t 'fiy_ "Martin_ Cash," Ho had for-
ettten that it was a cut-de-sac,.
I lacked at its end by the town
-eitentlary.
Ee-en today in Hobart they
call that dead-end street
artin's Mistake.
Doublirig back desperately on
I is backs, he fought his way
let his pursuers, brandishing
;.g pistols as he pounded into
i'et: next street with the baying
ctewd still after him, He had.
City a few hundred yards to go
t the park and freedom.
when once again fate turned
egeinst him.
'titer Winstanley, a, constable
ee-duty, was enjoying a pint in
`avert when he heard the hunt
Jetta-too,: Rushing out, he grap-
y tec, with Martin, Then fell with
re enguished cry, shot through
Tie chest.
i3ut he had slowed up their
enerre sufficiently to let the
f• eeing pursuers' get their hands
Gal him. Writhing, punching,
I irking dad cursing, Martin was.
irne to the ground under a
eatcious assault and clubbed
Fed kicked. Into uricoescioueness
Ells career' of .edventere•
was 91(9r. There. was only refit
:button to come.
Winstanley d a nd er•o ro his
wound. Martin Caste' was son-
teneed to death; then later re-
prieved and __eCalaerAtlecl. f0 a fat*
:that: ; seemed. even were* than the,
gallows. He was transported to
the terrible Norfolk Island,
freak, volcanic upthrust in the.
PaCifie Oceen, hundrede of miles
from anywhere, a hell on east)),
dreaded by convicts as the "16-
/and of Despair."
On the brig going out there he
got a foretaste 0f what his jailers
could do, when some, Os his fel-
low convicts were caught break-
ing open a cask of rum. Fm
punishment they were put -on the windlass."
wire cable was paid into the
hold where they were huddled.
together and passed between
their leg-irons, It was then
tightened viciously so that they
were all jerked feet-first into the
air, their dangling heads bump,
ing on the boards, After a while
the cable was slackened; only to
be heeled tight again at frequent
intervals for days and nights on.
end.
There were 2,000 convicts On
Norfolk Island when. Martin
Cash arrived there. Five miles
by three, hilly, with steep cliffs
on all sides, it had been Occu-
pied. as a penal station for the
very worst types of offenddrs
some twenty years before, in-
tended to be, in the words of
Governor Darling, "a place of
the ex•tremest punishment, short
of death."
There was no chance of escape
and no attempt to reform the
prisoners Discontent simmered
all the time, particularly among
the old lags—incorrigibles who
were frequently flogged. Each
morning at six o'clock charges
were heard ley a magistrate who
believed in stern discipline
The fiagellator was waiting
beside the triangles outside the
court Sentences of up to a hun-
dred lashes were inflicted on the
bare backs of screaming Offen-
ders, who were then soused with
water to revive them and pre-
vent infection of their wounds,
Twenty or thirty men were
flogged eech clay.
Some offenders were hardly
able to walk in the 30-lb. leg-
irons they were forood to wear.
And solitary confinement was a
nightmare punishment calcu-
lated to drive men mad—periods
of up to thirty days in window-
less dungeons to which the only
access was a tiny trap-door
through which food could be
pushed, -
"The atrocities committed
there under Britain's flag. for
fifteen years, from 1825 to 1840,
surpassed in sadism and cruelty
the most fiendish horrors com-
mitted in any other nation's pen-
al annals, before or since," writes
the author..
Yet, strangely, since he was
probably the most notorious
prisoner who ever went there,
Martin Cash was a model of good
behaviour from the moment he
arrived on Norfolk Island. He
was eventually pardoned after
ten years at the age of forty-
four: Soon afterwards he mar-
teed and settled down, and lived.
happily for over twenty years, a
respected :Ind successful farmer.
DIDN'T TELL ALL
- - After the wedding, the mitlsa
ter patted the bridegroom. on the
back and told him: "Blest: you.
You're at the end of all your
troubles,"
A year or so later, the young
husband met the parson and
threatened to punch him. on the
nose,
"What's the mater? the pare
eon asked, in. astonishment,
"When you married me, yew.
told me I was at the end of all
my troubles!" the young Man
cried.
The minister smiled. "But X
didn't tell you: which end."
HOW CAN Y ?
Q. How can It prevent the
cracking of an egg when boil-
ing?
A, An egg will seldom crack:
during boiling if an end is first
pricked with a pin.
Crashing Tha
iron Curtain
They were In love . . . they
wanted to get married . but
they saw no future behind the
leen Curtain, Me must marry
In a free, country the .11a1;10-
would kill out' love," whisperer*
twenty - five - year • Old Karl
Ujvari to his pretty, dark-eyed
sweetheart, Suzanne Yee, And so,
quietly, this young Hungarian
couple schemed.
The method they chose was
daring, almost suicidal. In Karl's
car they planned to crash throttle
the frontier barrier at Deutsch-
Schuetzen, about seventy miles
from their home town.
Karl and Suzanne packed their
few belongings into the car, said
their sad, strained farewells to
family and friends, and set off.
As they neared the heavily
guarded frontier post their hearts
thumped wildly, They knew that
in a moment a hail of bullets
could end their bid for freedom,
but even worse than death was
the prospect of capture and life-
long separation in forced labour
camps.
They came round a bend—and
there was the frontier post, gate-
way to freedom or . . .
Guards, tommy guns at the
ready, stepped into the car's path
and waved to them to halt. "Now
— get ,„ down we're going
through!" shouted Karl to Su-
zenne, his foot ramming down
theon accelerator. Body
crouched, eyes tense, he gripped
the whel and smashed straight
threugh the barrier.
The guards leapt for safety at
either side, then poured fusillades
of bullets after the speeding car.
But Karl and Suzanne reached
the Austrian customs barrier
without being hit.
But Karl and Iris sweetheart
were lucky, as well as courage-
ous, for at the time of their es-
cape, unknown to them, the
minefields and barbed wire en-
tanglements at the frontier were
being overhauled and were Out
of action at the time.
Few successful escape bids
across this no man's land be-
tween East and West have had
so stirring a sequel as that of
Foronz Iszak who last July with
five compatriots seized a Dakota
aircraft while flying over Hun-
gary and forced 'its crew to land
on a disused airfield at Ingold-
stadt, Bavaria,
Afterwards, two groups sat on
the grass, the fugitives on one
side and, on the other, the
passengers not in the slot and the
"shanghaied" crew. Then there
was a tense • and unforgettable
moment when a nineteen-year-
old Budapest girl, Bona t Antel,
rose slowly and walked over to
these who had chdsen freedom
and the West. She looked across
appealingly at thirty-three-year-
old Bela Horwarth, to whom she
had become engaged a few hours
earlier. Dare he, too, choose
freedom?
If he did it meant the loss of
his important 'job as planning
director of a textile factory, pos-
sible victimization of his family
and a hazardous future. For a
few moments he sat silent and
undecided, Then he smiled at
Ilona and went to her side,
But many of these Iron Curtain
Incidents end in tragedy. Trying
to escape with. his sweetheart
from Red domination, a young
Latvian, who had already suffer-
ed forced labour in Nazi Ger-
many, encountered a, profession.-
al guide near the Austro-Gers
man border, For a large sum tale
man undertook to escort them.
safely to the border by a secret
mountain track which avoided
the minefields, guards and sav-
age fontier dogs,
Before setting Out the guide
bad learned that the Latvian
came of a wealthy merchant
family, and had with him jewel-
lery, a large wad of banknotes
and securities cashable in S-aiite
zerland,
Having led the couple through
darkness along the mountain
track, the guide arrived at a cave
and told them they must wait
there until the following night,
But inside the cave was a collec-
tion of hard-faced, thugs, melee,
hers of the guide's gang,
The fugitives realized they hail
walked into a, trap, "We've
brought you so far," rasped, the
guide, "and we demand our
price for your further safety, You
must heed over your cash, and
securities st and leave your girl
here!"
The young man clenched his
fists, "You double-crossing rats!"
he cried, speinging at the gang
leader. "You won't get tneetty
With this"
but one blow frotrehehieti laid,
him senseless on the cave floor,
.And the girl's screams weite soon
WOIar1 as ertother ruffian green-
ed her and gagged her.,
When iahr regained her eerisee-
her sweetheart had Venish.eci, Site •
Bever sa* hint again, One Of the
bandits Pitched hint oven a pi etc
eipict, ft is believed,
The girl was relekSed • latato
Hies anywhere, end attee
'steinblitig fee bouts through
rough ?taunt*, Oa ateletect tett
Beat at Welt
industrial Spying
'Want to be a spy? Engage in
top-secret, highly lucrative cloak-
and-dagger operations? And not
run the risk of having capture
mean a firing squad or long
years of prison?
Sound interesting? Well,
all part of a relatively new and,
definitely booming variety of
espionage — industrial spying.
Instead of petrel: lining formulas
and secret documents from a
foreign power you will be en-
gaged in the often illegal but
comperatively Safe art of trying
to uncover a company's secrets,
new inventions and production
figures,
If You're caught with the goods
the company will think twice
about prosecuting since their pre-
cious secrets would then be sub-
ject to public scrutiny in court.
And if you're successful, yeti will
probably get a fat. bonus from
your employer,
In our highly competitive econ-
omy, this kind of inside inform-
ation can be of vital importance
to a -company's future. I know,
because I have just retired after
15 years of being a business spy
myself.
Few businessmen are willing
to talk about it openly, but big-
time secret stealing has become a
major headache, and is combat-
ted with drastic measures, When
Publicker Distillers developed a
new whisky decanter, for in-
stance, outside consultants Were
given peeks only at the parts that
concerned them, Sub-contracting
work was spread thinly so that
no one firm could piece the pro-
gram together, Not even top
executives' confidential secretar-
ies were let in on the firm's idea.
Some companies are mindful
that business spies can take a
firm's waste paper for one week
and figure out its entire oper-
ation. This is due to the habit
of both'executives and secretaries
of thro wing spoiled. contracts and
secret letters into wastebaskets.
Careful firms send all their waste
paper through a shredding ma-
chine,
U.S. Steel fight; information
leakage by making certain that
all confidential papers are turned
in at the end of higb-leVel meet,-
ings, And the Chas, Pfizer drug
firm recently spent over $50,000
prying into employees' private
lives in. an. unsuccesseul attempt
to trace the source of an outward
flow of .secrets.
As you can see, this form of
espionage reaches everywhere;
it respects few barriers. Bernard,
Sisindel, the wire-tapping auth-
ority, said recently that during
an investigation Of business
phones, he found 75 percent tap-
ped by Oita method or another,
even the phonee of United. Stateet
Supreme Court justices were tape
ped while they were, deliberating
a public vs. private power meta
The million-dollar piracy Ina
Mistrial spies like me engage in
requires careful, planning, a dash
Of thespian blood and the ability
to run a nervy bluff, I have
taken parts of, several, recent
cases of my own. and. merged
them into one representative
signment that will ,givettt good
idea of our working methods.
My job was to ].earn; the pro..
portions of the ingredients a Mid-
western metals firm. used, to pee-
duce an alloy. The big cOmpetihg
firm that hired MeWas being
priced out of the Market because
its alloy hest more to make, They
agreed to my fee Of. $15,000 plus
expenses,
When I arrived lit the rivet
Aimee town on 6:13'ridaY effete
noon, the telephone directory
gave me the address of its plant
Manager—I'll deli him. George
Haley, A half hour toter I pro.
rented myself to the eriaid as
Waterernetee reader, She taped.
Me for credentials, but having all
sorts of. identification cards. LI
standard: operatifig proced.ttee for,
persons my bin:Moss,
In the caller / tapped. into Me,
Heteetla telephone wires with a
6bute—a miniature transmitter
wand dropped: an ultra-tieresitive
recording receiver into a eltiblp
of bushes near the street,
At seven. Saturday iflorfatie
riicovered the rebordet. and heard
it overt,breakfast let ney hotel.
tetetta ia', 1o'- had ,Paade g
Big Business
date to play golf at 10 a.m. with
two friends, They'd pick up a
fourth at the course, they said.
Shortly before 10 I appeared at
the links as the answer to the
threesome's prayer. When I iden-
tifieddnyseleas the vice-president
of a large Metals concern, I
caught, a flicker of interest in
the plant manager's eyes,
"I'm looking for a site for a
new plant," I explaingd, "We're
expanding in, all directions." I
stressed that we were in a dif-
ferent end of the metals business,
to make hint less cautious,
After the game I offered, to
drive Mr. Haley home, and on
the way I brought the problem
of -People into my talk about
metals and factories.
"Big problem these days find-
ing the right man to run a plant,"
I said, "We go up to $17,500, but
a well-rounded metals executive
usually can't be lured away.
Know anybody who might be
our man?"
'He replied nervously, "Might
be interested myself."
I laughed, "I'm embarrassed,"
I said, "I've been wondering
about you, Mr. Haley, and didn't
quite know how to put the ques-
tion. I'll be frank with you. You.
obviously know your field, but
our operation is so different that
it might be out of your line,"
His face fell, but riot his de-
sire, and he asked me over for
dinner. That evening while Mr.
Haley was mixing a drink and
his tardy wife was dressing, I
dropped a tiny, battery-operated
"bug" behind his sofa, After din-
ner we chatted and I told Mr.
Haley that I'd be in touch with
him,
During the next three days I
learned that Haley needed more
Money, that his wile was press-.
ing him for an 03:pensive college
for their son, and that he figured
he might have to violate a few'
company confidences to convince
me he could handle our Vent.
I called him toward the end of.
the week and talked turkey.
"I've found a site," told, him.
"And T. think you're our man."
"I'm. sure you'd be pleased,"
he blurted eagerly.
"Well," I countered, "person.-
ally, I'm. satisfied. But. let's do it
this way, Forget about our end
of the metals business. Give me
a presentation that shows your
grasp of your own plant's oper-
ation. You make some alloy,.
don't you?. Give me the techni-
cal. end. of it, It won't make
acme in our work, but it'll show
our president that yoU. know your
business,"
One evening a week later a
furtive but -enthusiastic Mr.
Haley delivered., a detailed. report
on. hitt fierees alloy Process. Et
was perfeet. The next, morning
I departed and. lie hasntt heard.
from. me since, My othployees
met' his firm's alloy quOtatioy.
and I got , a bonus.
Even if i‘e% Haley guesses the
true. identity of ' the mere who;
hired. me, h.e can't tell his firm,
'that he gave sway produ'ct'ion.
seckete in trying to land' another
Sob.
Of course, no all secret-spirit,.
ing is that bald. And sometime»
it's not that successful; either.
When. l's riot, a then may •gat
iiito court, as public records.
show: In a Maryland court in
1955, the Colgate-Pahnolive Corn
party was found to have taken ,
over the trade secrets Of Carter
Products Inc., in a Wrongful Watt.
Colgate had hired a, bright .young
Carted chemist who had ,pitee
ed.:elegy promised Carter he Wetted
not .dhatteile its ee-crat Peedeee
for -manufacturing a pressuritect,
shaving creek), The trouble bee
gar; when Ctfigate Ooze .aetette
ward beought tittt similar
product.
And late in 1955, the Sperry.
lland Corporation sod the giant.
Inteenetional BOO:wee IVIathihea
Corporation for $00 millon
charging among other Midge, that
JIM agents had "'tampered or
irithiefered with the efficient
normal operation" 8perry's
tabulating inachineFf, Nothing
unsavory appeared in court, hovae
ever, because the two firma de-
tided to 'settle. their diffetchtes
itri the hush-hush atmosphere of
tiegotiatfog i'oonn,
Whet* avoid spying and swat.
stealing is concerned, a ease takes
on the flavor of e rough end
:Neale fight, '13ttelee, bizarre situ-
ation was described by a judge
not long ago.
In order for pit .companloo to
(Whet* accurate geaOgioal in-
formation About potential off-
shore. wells, ships ply the coastal
waters taking soundings and
gathering data about the ocean
bOttonl, The poslion Of these.
ship must be knOwn, almost to
the second of latitude and longi.„
tnde. Various companies tried
for years to .develop devices that
would fix these position& and
finally a young electronics
eineer named astings succeeded,
News of Hastings' invention,
which he called Raydist, reached.
the Seismograph Service Corp.or-
ation which, according to Judge
J. S, Wright of New Orleans,
gated quite shabbily, "Instead of
going to Hastings as upright
businessmen, Seismograph deter-
mined to steal the work."
Not only did it apply for
patents on a similar - system,
which it called Lome, but it sent
a company officer to make fake
propositions to Hastings and to
pick his brains. "During the time
Seismograph was deluding Hast-
ings," Judge Wright said, "its
own technicians were perfecting
their version of the. Raydist eye,
tern based on the information
Hastings had given them." Seis-
mograph then sued inventor
Hastings fore infringing on its.
patents,
"Fraud and dishonest dealings„
was Judge Wright's description.
I won't say whether I agree or
not, I will say, though, that ate
awful lot of firms are doing the
same thing and not getting caught.
Their officers see nothing im-
moral in espionage; instead they
say, it is "an aggressive way of
doing business—giving it every-
thing we've got." •
Sometimes giving it "every-
thing we've got" means taking
chances that could end in. dis-
aster, I once drew that kind of
assignment when I was sent out
to pick up the new element 01,
certain pressing iron, I spent a
week in a truck outside the fac-
tory with my ear at the hearing
end of a sensitive parabolic
microphone that faced an open
window in the production super-
intendent's office. I bought liquor
for a guard without getting any-
where. And then, the break came.
A newsboy at a nearby street
corner told, me there had. been.
a.rash of unexplained fires in the
area,- Also that the security
guards at the plant gale way
during the night to an elderly
watchman.
That night, for a price, I picked
up a fire,inspector's badge, and
a car with a red-lens spotlight,
At midnight I pulled up •k•efore
the rear door of the plain and
pounded ray arm off. When I
heard the watchman corning X.
returned to the car and flashed
the red light es he opened the
„plant door,
"Suspicious g 1 o w reported
through the sixth floor window!
Seen 'anything inside?"
Noticing that he was only half
awake and, flustered, I sent him
upstairs quickly and, made for the
production line on tho second
floor, There on a table uridel
night light was one of the new
elements. But as I poeketed. it
a voice rang out behind me,
"Who's there? Not tt move
now, till It frisk youl"
Under the haft-light I waited,
cursing myself for eldt finding
out there were two watchmen in
th,e place. Fottunately, the • first
watchman came down:. just as the
second drew his revolver,
"He's . a fire inspector," the
sleepy 'one said, His armed part-
ner looked. away for 'split
second. I smashed the night light.
and tore for the door; the element
in, my pecket,' Fifteen Eili.rititea
later,I was heading home for .the
Iekteeff, •
The Intereoting thing abOttt
ostrial espionage 14 that Senitie
Limes the spy is caught with a
.dollars.' prth .infOrnte-
tion and still gets off unscathed,
every effort is. made, in fact, to
bush the unfortunate incident up.
A case that's, still buzzed ahOt1t,
is Detroit concerned a Cl.enerat
Motors plant guard who develop-
ed a fondness for the firm's
styling rooms. While wandering
about theei one day In 1055 ho
photOgraphed a bevy of 1906
Oldsmobiles, )3nicks and the racy,
turbine-powered Firebird&
The guard put a UM: price
the photos and Offered them to a
competitor among auto's Dig
Three, However, the competitor
turned him down and called. GM,.
which .promptly had the Man
arrested. The pictures were re-
covered but the spy Was immune
from. proeecution. The reason?
Trial and conviction would have.
meant public display of the
Photos in. court.
That kind of spying rims into
Obstacles today, The styling
studios of GM's spanking neW
technical centre, for instance, aro
protected by electronically con-
trolled curtains that snap closed'
at the approach of snoopers,
whether on foot or behind a
telescopic lens in an airplane or
helicopter, Out in the highs.'
walled yard, while GM's bras.e
was pveviewing the '57 cars we're
now driving, a helicopter appear-.
ed on the horizon, Canvas cover-
ed the cars in record time.
But it would be wrong to as-
sume that such defenses will ballet
the industrial spy very long, He'e'
got his own scientific gadgets,
Induction coils placed near a
telephone wire tap it without
even touching the wire. Roomy
are filled with sonic waves which,
when interrupted by voices, send
comiersation"out the window,
New cameras that need no light
can be hidden in a wall,
Perhaps the trickiest of all new
espionage wrinkles turned up
when a veteran spy took a novice
out with hint one day. The bee
ginner was perplexed as his part-
ner sat in a car and- photograpl d.
two men conversing on the side-
walk.
The next day he understood
everything. He accompanied his
partner to a school for the deaf,
where • professional lip-readers
watched the movies and trans-
lated. the businessmen's lip move-
ments into spoken English. Noth-
ing, apparently, is too difficult
for the nation's industrial spies.
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