PARTNERS IN CRIME ARGENTINE WHEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 11

PARTNERS IN CRIME

ARGENTINE WHEAT

HUSBAND AND WIFE SENTENCED

(Received 9tlu February, 2- p.m.) '.'■",. JjQiSTDON, Bth February.-- ----• ''He would-'not havo.been; acrin^in^l if he had not-loved, me," said gheiagh Hann> aged twenty-four, .when, pleading guilty at the■ Middlesex v sessions' /;t« three charges of house-breaking, wit* her husband, George: Evelyn \Hann, aged thirty-one, whom a detective ,de« scribed as the son of the 'Superintendent of Prisons at Fremaiitle. •■/" -■■•• . Shelagh admitted giving afalse na,m.« when she married. . ■• •, :' '-' ■"-■: A detective gave evidence :.tha,t 'Shelagh had.-been trained as a hospital nurse, but gave it up owing ,to illhealth. She disappeared front hpma and- lost her memory in 1928, but re- ' covered it and married : Harm in December. . V Harm scrvod'with the British'Arvny during the war, and later joined, th«- . American Army, after which, he became a ship's steward. • ; ••■-■• ' Harm told the bench, that his wif« was bitterly opposed to .'the burglaries. Once when he was going, out she took the tools and threw them into a river. He pleaded that other men were'involved. He spent every penny on hig wife's: and his own maintenance. "■• Shelagh said her husband- had don« it all for her, as his illness prevented him from working. -1 . --, *" Harm was sentenced to eightee* months' imprisonment, and Shelagh to twelve months, but in. the second divi» sion. , ' ■; .. ' ■ : . ".,: / :

PROPOSED DIRECT SALES" ;'•

(Received 9th February, 2 .p.m.) .. NEW YORK, Bth February.. The *'New York' Times'." Bueno'i Aires correspondent states ■ that ,in aa effort to free Argentine,farmers from the impositions of foreign cereal export firms, the jfinister for Forejg* Affairs has instructed the Argentirtf diplomatic agents in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Belgium to visit millers and' try to sell them Argentine wheat, to be shipped direct by the Government without interyerir tion by tho middieman. ; ',' .. 'I The Government contends thai foreign exporters are- depressing price?, and that the low exchange and cheap ocean froights make it possible; for diplomats to get orders.