Evening star., 1935-12-25
.L|NDBERGH MOVE
HAILED |NL0NDON
Press Flares With Stories.
Underworld Note Hits
Use of Firearms.
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON. December 25.-An ap-
parent revolt against use Of firearms
by even Great Britain's underworld
was disclosed by Scotland Yard last
night, while London's front pages
flared with news of the Lindbergh
flight from American crime" to law
abiding England" Yard officials an
nounced the receipt of q strange
anonymous letter from the under
world.
The missive purported to give infor-
nation concerning the identity Of
gang responsible for a series of armed
raids. 1t added that although men,
bers Of the criminal fraternity were
ready to pit their wits against police,
In an ordinary way" they strongly
disapprove of the use of pistols and
revolvers."
Authorities, meanwhile. disclosed
that the docks of Liverpool would be
guarded by extra police when the
American Importer, carrying the
Lindberghs away from threats against
their second son, arrives about Janu-
ary /.
Extra Guard to Be Small.
The extra guard which will augment
the usual helmeted boobies and plain
clothes men will be small, however,
and it was thought unlikely that Scot
land Yard operatives themselves would
be utilized.
Officials made it plain the British
police have no fear outlaws will at
tempt to molest the little family.
In general, the British press regarded
the Lindbergh move as a flight from
"unbearable" crime conditions in their
own land to the security Of eficient
British safeguards for the rights OF
private citizens.
One newspaper, the Daily Mail, said
the news Of the Lindberghs' departure
sheds a piercing light on the anti
crime machinery Of the United States,
which has not only failed hitherto to
exact the penalty for the kidnapping
and murder of their first son, but also
has proved itself unable to check the
inundation of threats against Jon."
Yard Sometimes Fails.
Despite its reputation, England's
Scotland Yard does not always get its
men.
= - In fact the riddles of nine unsolved
murder mysteries still confronted Sir
Philip Game, new metropolitan police
commissioner, at the year-end stock
taking" of London crime.
= Five Of these date back to 1884 and
include the celebrated Brighton trunk
crime No. l" and Brighton trunk
crime No. 2"-the most battling deeds
Of human butchery In England since
Jack the Ripper terrorized the coun-
try nearly half a century ago.
The dread Ripper, never captured,
but popularity believed to have been
an insane Russian scientist, once wrote
the yard" informing them that he
would cut of the ears and nose of his
next victim and mail them to police
to help them piece together the jig
saw puzzle Of the victims identity.
Less impertinent but equally daring
was the perpetrator of trunk crime
No. l." who June 18, 1884, deposited
a trunk stuffed with the nude torso of
a woman, armless, legless and head
less, at Brighton Railroad Station.
Another Package Left.
And while Scotland Yard hunted
high and low the same cold -blooded
murderer calmly walked into Kings
Cross Coaching Station, in London,
and checked another package con-
tanning the Inflated woman's arms and
legs. The head was never found, nor
the slayer.
Less than a month later Brighton
was horified to discover it has become
the scene of trunk crime No. g."
Again the victim was woman, later
identified as Violet Kaye, a music hall
dancer, and again the nude body had
been hacked almost beyond recogni-
ton.
These two crimes, still on the I'M
solved list. have become the "bete
noire" of Scotland Yard-with some
slight consolation coming from what
ofhcials say is solution of the latesV
chopped body" murder.
This was the slaughter Of Mrs. Buck
Ruxton of Lancaster and her squint-
eyed maid, Mary Rogerson, 20. whose
mut1ated remnants were found scat
tered in half a dozen parcels in the
appropriately named Devils Beetub,"
q vale near the Scottish border.
Charged with this crime, DR.. Ruxton,
the husband, physician Of Indian de-
scent, has now been ordered for trial
January %.
Unsolved mysteries of 1885 include
at least five killings.