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h onestly,
First, they went to the Gold
Coast and tried unsuccessfully to,
get a regular cheap supply of
diamonds direct from African
chiefs, Then, with a third Pole
Who had already served a sent,
ence abroad for smuggling, they
got an Eastern oil magnate to
provide capital and a Hatton.
Cierden broker-who had no
knowledge of the plot—to help
, to buy diamonds for what he be-
lieved to be an accredited agent,
acting for Middle East buyers,
They then recruited airline
stewards to work secretly, using
codes and passwords, with con-
tacte in London and in New York,
Bed Customs officers became
gispicious, trailed the stewards
and unmasked the whole in-
geniously planned scheme. The
two Polish ringleaders received
long jail sentences at the Old
Bailey, One, it transpired, bad
acquired $1,500,000 worth of
diamonds in three months.
In another strange case, Lon-
don Airport officers noticed that
a young girl appeared to be
weaving two sweaters, Why.
when the weather wasn't cold?
A searcher found that she was
carrying about $4,500 worth of
contraband platinum and $90
worth of gold in a pouch
strapped between her shoulder
blades. She boasted that she'd
made two previous trips without
a hitch, but this time, in a fit
of nerves, had donned a second
sweater- ;'for safety"!
If he hadn't talked too much
one smuggler might have got
away with a large stock of
contraband perfumes in flat
flasks stowed neatly in a hid-
den cavity built into a suitcase,
To allay suspicion, he carried--
end declared—two loose bottles
of the same perfume, allowing a
little of it to leak on to the
clothes in his case to "mask"
any smell from the concealed
flasks.
Grumbling to the Customs of-
ficer about the mishap with the
stopper he lamented: "I don't
know what my wife will say!
I'd meant it as a present for her.
When, she finds my clothes reek-
ing like this 'she'll be bound to
think the worst!"
He so over-acted the part that
the officer became suspicious.
Rummaging among 'the clothing,
and noticing that the scent
grew stronger although only, a
few drops had been spilt, he
, found the concealed cavity.
One officer who suspected that,
a cavity, behind a panel in • an
airliner was being used at. a
cache for smuggling laid an in• -
genius trap. With his screw-
driver he turned the slots of
the four .corner screws vertieal.
When next he examined the
panel .the screw slots slanted: in
different directions, proving that
someone had moved the panel
du'ririg his absence.
Behind it he found contraband
gold; which 'he seized. He then
replaced the panel, kept watch
and seized the smugler, too, when
next he went to his hiding-placel
Coritraband worth thousands is
sometimes unclaimed by fright-
ened smuglers. Customs officials
at Orly Airport investigated a
battered suitcase consigned as
"unaccompanied luggage" to a
mysterious • someone at a Paris
hotel. Under a false bottom, they
found diamonds worth over
$30,000.
A second package, looking like
"an old piece of 'sacking that
'nobody would claim," andesimi-
larly consigned, to a man at a
Paris. hotel, contained second-
hand books, a few scraps of old
clothing worth •half et dollar or
'so — and at the core $120,000
worth of diamonds le a small
plastic packet. Both suitcase and
parcel are unclaimed.
Williareseon not only relates
dramatic, „astonishing stories in
this'engrossing work, but de-
scribes Customs officers' training
and all the smuggling tricks with
which they have to cope,
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n Yon Were walking clown a
street any saw a stray mongrel
dog chewing something, what
Would you do? Nothing at all,
probably, But if you were a
detective investigating the die-
appearance of a woman, you
might act differently',
For, by removing a piece of
material chewed by a dog, an
alert Luton detective helped to
solve a murder mystery.
Until he saw the dog pollee
had been tryjeg for four months
to find out the identity of a wo-
man whose unclothed body had
been found in .the River Lea
at Luton. Her face had been so.
Mutilated as to be unrecogniz-
able end her false teeth had been
removed, Although the police
thought the dead woman might
be a Mrs. Irene Manton, who
was missing from home, they
most certainly could not prove
It.
Bertie Manton., his wife and
four children lived in Regent
Street, Luton. Mrs. Manton did
not have a good character and
was known to form loose asso-
ciations with other men. She
liked staying out late and
neglected her children, to whom
her husband was devoted. They
had frequent quarrels.
Then, said her husband, she
left him and went off to Lon-
don. Bertie Manton wee a fire-
man, a man of forty-three, a
steady sort of chap, He showed
the police letters he said his
wife had written him from
London.
They seemed to be in her
handwriting; her children were
sure of it. But the police did
not quite know• what to think.
Were the letters forged?
Perhaps they were, but there
was absolutely no proof of that
and, until they could prove that
Irene Manton was dead, the po-
lice could not prove that the
letters were forgeries, Every-
thing led up a blind alley, at the
end of which was the naked
body of an unidentified woman.
There had been no lack ,of in-
vestigation. The police had col-
lected pieces of material from
all the salvage dumps for miles
around. With infinite labour
they had pieced the scraps to-
gether. They made up into a
coats—and the coat was a perfect
fit for the body of the woman,
Who still had no name.
Then the detective saw the
mongrel dog chewing. He caught
held of the dog and removed
from its jaws a very small piece
of material. It was taken to the
police laboratories and placed
under a microscope.
There the chewed-up frag-
ment was revealed to be a clean-
ers' tag. The cleaners were
PLANES COLLIDE — This news-
map spots Anzio, Italy, where a
British Viscount airliner with
36 persons aboard collided
with an halbert Air Force let
fighter and plunged to earths
All aboard the airliner were
killed. The jet pilot parachuted
Into the sea and JWas resdied,
traced, and the name of the
customer found to be Irene
Marston. Police patience had At
last been rewarded,
But was the fact that; Irene
Manton's coat fitted the' body
sufficient proof that Manton had,
murdered his wife? Evidently
the Wive did Pot think so.
They had noticed in. Mrs.
Manton's alleged letters that
there were certain epellieg .mis-
takes, end they dictated the
words to Manton, asking him- .to
write them do.wn. Ile made the
same spelling mistakes. •
Now the Police, armed with
a warrant, searched the Man,
tons' house in. Regent Street,
Luton, looking for fingerprints
to compare with..those of the
dead woman. But not a print
was found, apart from those of
Manton and his children— not
until they came to a gloomy
cupboard under the stairs,
There, on a shelf, was an
empty pickle jar, and on the jar
was a thumb-print that corre-
sponded exactly with one of the
thumbs of the woman found
dead in the river.
Now Manton was arrested
and charged with the murder of
his wife. He broke down and
made a full confession. lie told
of the many quarrels about her
bad habits and neglect of the
children.. -
This time he bad hit her with.
a heavy stool. When he recov,
erect, he ,found he had killed
her. He undressed her, wrap-
ped the body in canvas sacking,
put it on a bicycle and wheeled
it to the river.
At Bedford• Assizes, Manton
pleaded guilty and was sen-
tenced to death. When he heard
the sentence he begged that his
children should be looked after.
The sentence was commuted to
life imprisonment, but Manton
died in prison in 1947, less than
three years later.
On at least one occasion, it
'was a detective-sergeant's good
memory that sent a marl to the
gallows. The killer was • the
diminutive Fred Stewart, just
half an inch taller than five
feet.
In the flat-racing season Fred
was a "bookie's clerk," but dur-
ing the "over the sticks"
months, Fred was a fully-fledged
burglar. He knew that his lack
of, inches would scare nobody,
so he carried a revolver—"Just
to scare 'em," as Fred explained
His method of burglary was
simplicity itself. He would
knock or ring at a door. If his
call was answered, Fred would
ask for an imaginary name,
then go away. If the house was
empty, he would "forcibly en-
ter."
On the last day of February,
1928, Fred rang a door bell in
Bayswater, London, and an old
woman came to the door Fred
said he wanted to speak to "the -
chauffeur." The woman replied
that there was no chauffeur
there. Where had he come
from? "The Warwick Garage,
mum," said Fred, as he turned
to go.
Fred had to ask for an imag-
inary chauffeur c at' another
house—once again saying he
came from "the Warwick Ga-
rage"—before finding a flat
that was empty. .;
The tenant of this flat was a
Mr. Bertram Webb, a Bayswa-
ter hotelkeeper, who went home
at 5.30e p.m. that February af-
ternoon with hie son, Clifford,,
and a friend, a Mr. Frank
Sweeney. Mr. Webb inserted
his key, but the doores opened
only a couple of inches. The
safety chain was On.
Mr. Webb balled -out to his
Wifen thieking,*ehe Was in the
flat, hut as he called.-he saw si
man's shadow through the glees
panel in the door.
He told his 'son to go for the
police. Clifford Webb and
Frank Sweeney started Off, but,
as they did, heard a man, shout:
"Put 'em upl" Then there was
a shot, and a Man dashed dowel
the stairs into the street, .
On the landing behind. theta,
they saw Bertram Webb lying
wounded. He died in hospital.
Passers-by saw a running man
throw something into a garden,
and police found the object to
be a revolver, but unfortunate-
ly there were no fingerprints on
it. Near the front door of the
Webb flat valuables were found
packed in a basket; obviously,
a professional burglar had been
on the job—but which one?
The police made inquiries
round the neighbourhood and
collected the stories of •a little
Man who said he came from the
Warwick Garage. The police '
decided that the only thing to
do was to look for a burglar
who had some connection or
other with the word "Warwick'.
Up came a veteran detective-
sergeant with this idea: Look up
Frederick Robinson, who seems,-
times called himself Frederick
Stewart. He has relatives living
in Warwick Road. Smart' work!
Fred's record showed that he
had served a twelve months*
jail sentence the previous year.
But where was Fred now?
He was known to frequent
greyhound. tracks when in
funds; the Southend track was
his favourite. And it was on
this track that police picked up
Fred Stewart and charged him
with the murder of Bertram
Webb.
At his trial Fred pleaded
guilty to burglary. He said ,
someone had hit him on the
head and that had caused his
gun to go Off. But the jury did
not believe Fred's story and he
was sentenced to death.
The day set for the execution
was June 6th—Derby Day, In
the death cell, Stewart asked
for and obtained a copy Of a'
racing guide and studied it He
sent a petition to the governor
of the prison, asking for his ex-
ecution to be postponed until af-
ter Derby= Day so that he could
know the, result of the rade!
His request was refuted, As
Stewart Was being led to the
gallows, he whispered td the
warders: "Back Felstead td-clay
for the Derby,"
Felstead won at 33-1.
Fantastic Ruses
Used By Smugglers
The smartly dressed young
woman burst into tears as the
Customs officer asked her to
explain why she had been found
to have 1,35,000 worth of dia-
monds hidden in packets sewn
inside her corset.
She pleaded that they were
her Private property; she had
quartelled violently with her
husband and was 'running away
Belgium to start a new life.
But the. Customs officer's heart
•was net much touched.by the sad
story. For he knew that the hus-
band had bought the wife's' tic-
ket and, only a few ,minutes
earlier,. the .husband had seen
his wife Of with a fond farewell
embrece!
This is one of the many fen-
tasticie 'stories ;told by,- ;Geoffrey
Williamson in a new book, "Sky
• Smuggler," a comprehensive 'sur-
vey of modern smuggling by air.
Another strange case was that
Of a couple who flew into Lon-
don Airport porn Brussels and
immediately aroused suspicions.
The couple were smartly dress-
ed — but the man's shoes seem-
edle 'have been crudely cObble.d.
, It was found that the man-had
adopted Ale old trick' Of carry-
ing diamonds in the hollowed-
Out heels. The, woman's shoes
were examined .next, and more
diamonds were found in the'
wedge heels. Between them, the
couple were smuggling $750,000
worth of diamonds—and might
have got away ,with . it if the
man hadn't stupidly dohe his
own cobbling anti botched it.
Williamson also tells the story
of a vast 'smuggling ring dis-
covered in the simmer of 1951,
which operated a whale network
of secret transmitters in the
Alps and Sicilian mountaits
,direct its operations.
Trafficking in dangerous drugs,
gold, diamonds and tobacco, the
' ring had its OWn fleet Of. fast
motor launches and seaplanes
operating in the Mediterranean,
which were directed on their
smuggling missions from the
radio stations in Sicily. The
stations in the _Alps served to
dinketep agents and runners iti
Italy, France and Switzerland.
Shortly after this discovery the
Feelich government sought the
extradition, from Italy of an ex-
convict believed to be the head
of the ring. He was said to have
made a daring eseatie, itch
Deeil'e Island, to have itequited •
luxurious villageat Pied, Eapallo
and Santa IVIarghetites and- to
Week With a Iseatitiful
woman aS his rikistre§S• and ac4
complice.
At one tithe, the, French pollee,
and Interpol concluded that .4
leseet into pegs were working.
Ain the Mediterranean area from'
secret bases at Tangier They
Weed estimated to cost the French
- Treasury aboitt ••$18060,600
year in. lost Custom's eltities,
in 1951, twei Poles. launched
conspiracy to smuggle $3,066,e
000 Werth Of disiinendS froth
London Airport to New. York,
using *IOU'S& stewards ee care
net's. Refugees' kern dernien
.6cbtipation, they bed
Beeelish nettle§ anti .feittid :jobs
in. Lencicin 'us diaiiiortil•tiolishers,
essele.'
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