The Seaforth News, 1958-11-13, Page 7Gave Racing Tip
On Way to Gallows
If you were walking clown a
street and saw a stray mongrel ..
dog chewing something, what
would you d$? Nothing at all,
probably:- But if you were a
detective investigating the dis-
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 trying 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 and 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 was a fire-
man, a man of forty-three, a
steady sort of chap. He showed
the police letters he said bis
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
coat—and the coat was a perfect
$it for the body of the woman,
who still had no name.
Then the detective saw the
mongrel dog chewing. He caught
hold 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 cheWecl-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
30 persons aboard collided
with an Italian Air Force jet
fighter and plunged to earth.
All aboard the airliner were
killed. The jet pilot parachuted
Into the sea and was rescued.
traced, and the name of the
customer found to be Irene
Manton. Police patience had at
last been rewarded.
Eat was the fact that :Irene
Manton's coat fitted the body
sufficient proof that Manton had
murdered his wife? .'Evidently
the police slid not think su.
They had noticed in Mrs.
Manton's alleged letters that
there were certain spelling mis-
takes, and they dictated the'
words to Manton, asking him to
write them down. He 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. He told
of the many quarrels about her
had habits and neglect of the
children.
This time he had hit her with
a heavy stool. When he recov-
ered, 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 man 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 'ern," 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 Bred
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 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
IVIr. Bertram Webb, a Bayswa-
ter hotelkeeper, who went home
at 5.30 p.m. that February af-
ternoon with his 500, Clifford,
and a friend, a Mr. Frank
Sweeney. Mr. Webb inserted
his key, but the door opened
only a couple of inches, The
safety chain was on.
Mr. Webb called out to his
wife, thinking she was in the
flat, but as he called he saw a
man's shadow through the glass
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 up!" Then there was
a shot, and a man dashed down
the stairs into -the street.
On the landing behind them,
HELD IN BOMBING — Wallace
Allen, 32, Is shown in Atlanto,
Ga., where he was booked, by
police on 'charges of suspision
in the bombing of a Jewish
synagogue. Police said they
found anti-Jewish literature In
his possession when he was
taken Into custody.
they saw Bertram Webb lying
wounded. He died in hospital.
Passers-by saw a running man
throwsomething 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 some-
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 &th—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-
acution to be postponed until af-
ter Derby Day so that he could
know the result of the race!
His request was refused. As
Stewart was being led to the
gallows, he whispered to the
warders: "Back Felstead to -day
for the Derby."
Felstead won at 33-1.
How Can 1?
Be Anne Ashley
Q. How can I remove soiled
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A. This can often be done by
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On a damp cloth and apply to
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$ GN OF TRAGEDY -This is part of the wing of a British Viscount airliner. that crashed near
Anzio, Italy, after colliding with an Italian let fighter: Thirty-ene persons aboard the airliner
were killed. The jet pilot parachuted to safety.
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 $35,000 worth of dia-
monds hidden in packets sewn
inside her corset.
She pleaded that they were
her private property; she had
quarrelled violently with her
eusband and was running away
to Belgium to start a new life,
But the officer's heart
was not much touched by the sad
story. For he knew that the hus-
bagd had bought, the wife's tic-
ket and, only a few minutes
earlier, the husband had seen
his wife off with a fond farewell
embracet,
This is one of the many fan-
tastic stories told by Geoffrey
Williamson in a new book, "Sky
Smuggler," a comprehensive sur-
vey of modern smuggling by air.
Another strange ease was that
of a couple who flew into Lon-
don Airport from Brussels and.
immediately aroused suspicions.
The couple were smartly dress-
es — but the man's shoes seem-
ed to have been crudely cobbled,
It was found that the man had
adopted the old trick of carry-
ing
arrying diamondsin' 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 done his
own cobbling and botched it.
Williamson also tells the story
of a vast smuggling ring dis-
covered in the summer of 1951,
which operated a whole network
of secret transmitters in the
Alps and Sicilian mountains to
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 Secily. The
stations in the Alps served to
link -up agents and runners in
Italy, France and Switzerland.
Shortly after this discovery the
French 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 escape from
Devil's Island, to have acquired
luxurious villas at Pisa, Rapallo
-end Santa Margherita, and to
work with a beautiful Italian
woman as his mistress and ac-
complice.
At one time, the French police
and Interpol concluded that sat
least five gangs were working
in the Mediterranean area from !,
secret bases at Tangier. They
were estimated to cost the French
Treasury about $180,000,000 a
year in lost Custom's duties.
In another strange case, Lon-
don Airport officers noticed that
a young girl appeared to be
wearing 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—
and 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'llbe buund 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 8
few drops had been spilt, he
found the concealed cavity.
Williamson not only relates
dramatic, astonishing stories in
this engrossing work, but de-.
scribes Customs officers' trainir:;;
and all the smuggling tricks with
which they have to cope.
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