HIS MAJESTY WORRIED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 7

HIS MAJESTY WORRIED.

Anxiety Over British Crime Wave. LONDON, May 12. Deeply concerned regarding the increase in violent crime, the King summoned the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Lord Trenchard, to Buckingham Palace, and asking what measures were being taken to cope, with the situation, urged that everything possible be done to safeguard life and property. Lord Trenchard detailed his organisation of wireless motor patrols, and the provision of extra plain-clothesmen in the suburbs, who hope to discover the bandits’ plans by association with them. A ghastly family tragedy is reported from Devonshire. George Yeoman, aged nine, was in hospital at Kingsbridge, recovering from an when a man called to see him, and was told to return later. He did so, remaining for about 20 minutes. Then he was told to leave. Pulling a double-barrelled gun from beneath his overcoat, the visitor shot the boy twice, clubbed him, and fled, leaving his shattered weapon. Police then w’ent to the home of William Yeoman, a farmer, and, finding the doors locked, burst in. In the kitchen they fouhd Mrs Yeoinan shot through the head. The daughter Kathleen (10) was found dead in a shed, and the 14-months-old. baby was found in another shed. Yeoman, the father, who is 6ft in height, and heavily built, was later seen running across some fields, and was arrested at Marlborough, four miles away. Frank Cable, labourer, has been charged at Barnes, London, with ‘the attempted murder of Arthur and Sarah Gapp, who were shot on the stairs of their flat at Mortlake. Cable lived in the flat below the Gapps.