CAPTAIN’S TRAIN EXPLOIT

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1935, Page 5

CAPTAIN’S TRAIN EXPLOIT

THIEF HELD UP WITH REVOLVER

PARIS, February 4.

An English sea captain named Glanville has played a part in the break up of what the police claim to be an international opium gang. Several arrests, including that o£ a woman, have been made and more ara expected. On Jan. 17 Capt. Glenville was travelling by night from Dieppe to Paris. At three o’clock in the morning the communication cord of the train was pulled, and officials found him covering with a revolver a man whose acquaintance he had made on the journey. He said he had found the man, who had given himself out to be an Australian practising book-making in London, rifling his suitcase. Police inquiries led them to a pretty villa hidden behind trees—the Maison Rouge, at Cormeilles, near Paris. They became satisfied tbat the tenanT.s or this residence, who frequently made international journeys, were concerned in the drug traffic, and they arrested a man named Mac Cord and a woman, Mary Pearson, a Canadian, who acted as housekeeper at the'Maison Rouge. A second arrested man was deported, as no charge could be made against him. A number of big robberies are alleged by the police against Mac Cord. In one case he is charged with having swindled an Englishman, John Robert McEwan, of £9,000.