MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1931, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

“BLACK LIST” FILMS. LONDON, October 28. That “black list” films are frequently shown at secret gatherings in London and other British cities, visitors paying large sums for seats, is disclosed by Cecil Bishop, a former detective in the Criminal Investigation Department, in his book, “Women and; Crime.”

Tho author says that the police are baffled by the subtlety of arrangements, whereby a large room, a shed, or even a cellar, is hired for a day. Tho films and the projector arrive immediately pefore the spectators, who are informed of tho actual moment when tho display will start. Within half an hour of the finish of the programme the films and projector are hidden in a secret place several miles away, in readiness for a later exhibition in a different venue.

Mr. Bishop adds: “A well-known solicitor approached me in an attempt to discover two men who were blackmailing a 21-year-old youngster whom they met at an indecent film show. We visited the address given, and it turned out to bo a cellar in the West End. Three Americans, one Frenchman and four Englishwomen, were present. Each had paid £5. The film was the most disgusting exhibition I have ever seen. But we failed to catch the blackmailers.”

SHOOT AND RUN. VANCOUVER, October 28. Four bandits sprayed machine gun bullets along a street in Menominee, Michigan, after they had robbed a bank of £2OOO. As they left the bank they kidnapped James Kraft, the 19-year-old son of tho managar. On tho outskirts of the city a police car fired a volley into the robbers’

motor. Five miles along the highway tho bandits threw overboard two bodies—one bandit, killed by the police,, and young Kraft, whom they killed as a reprisal after police bullets had killed their companion.

BOY KILLS MOTHER. LONDON, October 28. I couldn’t see her,suffer or heai* her groan any more,” said Frederick Cox, who was charged at Wellington (Somerset) with the murder of his mother

who had suffered from delusions. He added: “I did it out of love. She asked me to shoot her fight through the heart.” His father testified that Frederick dearly loved his mother. Cox was committed for trial.