GANGSTER'S SON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22444, 13 June 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)

GANGSTER'S SON

DEPORTED FROM ENGLAND Awarding to his own narrative to the Ifnglish police, a 19-year-old youth. Frank Deering, has had an adventurous career. When Deering, who is dark, thick set, and sullen-looking, pleaded guilty at Norwich Quarter Sessions to failing to register as an alien, it was stated that ho had been sentenced to a month's imprisonment and recommended for deportation for being on enclosed premises at Norwich. Chief-Inspector H. W. Balls informed the Recorder, Sir Ellis Hume-Williams, that Deering claimed to have been born at Cicero, Chicago, and was tho son of a gangster. His mother died soon after he was born. Eight years later, when his father died, lie went to live with another Chicago gangster. Then ho was taken to Detroit and lived with "a painter and gangster named Browning." Ho stayed there about four years before removing to New York, where ho lived in an apartment house on £2OOO which had been left him by the Detroit gangster. He spent the money in two years. When IS ho went to England on a freighter, working his passage in the ship's galley. Deering "jumped" the ship at Southampton, and had since been to London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Swansea, St. Albans, Hitchin and Norwich. Tho Recorder directed that Deering should go back to prison until instructions were received from the Homo Office about his deportation.