Birmingham Evening Mail from Birmingham, West Midlands, England • 14

ATE CITY Monday May 2 1966 11 HUNT AFTER HOSPITAL BREAK-IN Smallpox is mild type BRADY TELLS says MOH Evening 'Mail Reporter YETECTIVES today were visiting all school classrooms in the Aston area to make sure that footwear stolen from a hospital in which there are three smallpox cases had not been pasesed on to children Meanwhile at the nearby Wltton Isolation Hospital where the smallpox victims were under close medical guard nursln gstaff searched the grounds from which even detectives were banned for fear of contamination The urgent hunt was for 10 pairs of white operating theatre shoes and a pair of Wellington boots stolen from a washroom by a thief who was believed to have travelled to the hospital in a smallpox-spspectte amul-lance It was thought the footwear could carry a mild form of smallpox further afield It was revealed today by Bdr-! Medical Officer of Health Dr Millar who is in charge of the public health side of the West Midland outbreak that the smallpox virus has now been identified as a mild one He said: "It is unlikely to cause death unless is occurs in person who is frail or in a poor state of of the home lor ex-prisoners helping mothers to keep children amused at the day nursery They want a place apart CHILDREN PLAY WHERE EX-PRISONERS WILL LIVE Detention for youths after attack OF From Page One you and Smith or Smith alon could rob Yes Did you not have the faintest idea that this boy had nothing worth stealing? No I was going on appeaarnces What appearances wealth? I know People walk about in rags these days and have £20 or £30 on them Revolvers The Attorney General then questioned Brady about his evidence that this was intended to be a hotting-up exercise and asked hotting-up exercise for what? Brady: Robbery a small robbery How were you going to handle the robbery of the lone man in the electricity With violence Ana with loaded revolvers- If necessary? Carrying them yes Smith was one of your trainees 1 revolver shooting? He was interested You were his Instructor? I showed him how to shoot Questioned about the Brady said this was to a Guns were to be used There was no question of robbing banks Brady denied that soma homo-sexual activity took place between him and Evans in the living room on the night of death Attorney-General: I am not suggesting you were murdering all the time What I am suggesting is that you were a cool calculating killer that night Brday? No When the Attorney-General suggested that Hindley was in the living room when she shouted Dave help him" Brady sadi I know where she was when she shouted back She was not in the room I heard the voice and was holding Evans and then blow were Attorney General: You go with the view of the Marquis de Sade on those views on murder dou I have read de Sade and it is book You have read it and enjoyed Yes The Attorney General referred Brady to a list of books which he said he did not want to be read out He asked Brady: are all squalid pornographic books Brady: They cannot be calld pornographich They can be bought at any bookstall A sink of pornography No there are better selection than that all over the country You have a bad selection as pornography goes being a humble collector A very poor selection There are better Hatchet The Attorney General then produced a notebook and Brady agreed that it was his handwriting The lists had been produced in preparation for future robberies with violence Attorney General: You had thought of yourself as some fantastic master crimanal by now you No Brady said that meant meant End meant and meant (Proceeding) Evening Mail Reporter AfORE than a dozen young children played happily today in a large Birmingham house which was being opened this evening as a hostel for ex-prisoners Mr Horace A VALUABLE SAYS LORD MAYOR Evening Mail Reporter rjTHE efforts olf Newport Monmouthshire In attracting business from the Midlands could be of inestimable value to both the Midlands and South Wales the Lord Mayor of Birmingham Alderman George Corbyn Barrow said today The Lord Mayor was speaking at the official opening ceremony of the Newport Docks and Industry Exhibition at the Birmingham Engineering and Building Centre Broad Street The exhibition ends on Friday The ceremony was attended by a large number of civic officials from all parts of the Midlands arid South Wales in addition to representatives of industry from both areas The Lord Mayor added: We need ports with good communications because Birmingham with its geographical position is rather short of deep water anchorages Newport is probably the nearest deep water port to Birmingham With the opening of new roads to South Wales Newport provides good access for our industries The South Wales ports are modernising and Newport Is in the Mrs Buglass standing at the the point where Steven fell THIS WALL CAN KILL PARENTS WARN Evening 'Mail Reporter A SO-FOOT wall in Balsall Heath Birmingham known locally as the wall of death may soon claim the life of a child a group of parents warned today The warning came after a flve-year-old boy had fallen from the top of it' into the River Rae below Now the parents are organising a petition callingo Birmingham Corporation to fence off the wall in Gooch Street The wall's latest victim is Steven Buglass of 260 William Edward Street Balsall Heath who Is recovering in Selly Oak Hospital after falling 30 feet on to rocks and rubble in the river Stevein's injuries Include cuts to his head concussion and bruises His mother Mrs Jean Buglass said today that Steven was playing on waste ground FERRYMAN PRAISED FOR GIRL RESCUE The parents of a Streetly girl who fell into the Avon near Evesham today praised the ferry man who dived into the water fully clothed to rescue her Seven year old Vivienne Wright the daughter of Mr and Mrs Wright of 54 Egerton Road Streetly fell into the river off the The warden Mr Horace Holder said that on the face of it a nursery in a house where prisoners and ex-prisoners will live was a strange mixture But it Is all pan of our policy of integrating the hostel into the community We want it to be a place apart and we hope it will be Record entry in music festival Entries in this one-day Northfield Music Festival reached a record of 900 and an extra adjudicator had to be called in to cope with the 92 clfisses The entrants were aged between six tind 20 A hjgher standard than usual was reached too and a concert is to be held at Turves Green Senior School on Saturday People who achieved first place in three or more classes included Mavis Sharp of Northfield Anne Court of Castle Bromwich brothers Nigel and Kevin Grim of Solihull Myra Boden of Streetly and Paula (McKay of Erdington used for a variety of other Mr Roy Jenkins the Home Secretary was performing the opening ceremony et the hostel McNeiile House in Upland Road Selly Park By Wednesday the first of the ex-prisoners will be living there The hostel provides accommodation for 13 men most of whom will be discharged prisoners Eventually prisoners will be able to take leave at McNeiile House in preparation for leaving prison Mr Holder said that the nursery which opened last week in the hostel lounge was started by a number of local mothers Some of the mothers had actually signed the petition that went round protesting about this he said But they came to me and asked me if they could have one of our rooms for the children children about 18 of them come three mornings a week and the mothers look after them on a rota basis In normal circumstances the men will be out at work during the day of course HOPE OF CLUBS We want to encourage other organisations to use this place as we intend it to be a bridge between the men and the outside world we hope the Toe will start a club in our sellar which the men living in the hostel can About 300 people living In Selly Park signed a petition protesting against the proposal to open the hosel This was presented to Birmingham City Council cpwo who followed a man off a bus and attacked him were each sent to a detention centre for three months by the Birmingham Stipendiary (Mr Milward) today He told them attacked a perfectly innocent man This kind of conduct has got to be dealt Keith Smith aged 17 of 142 Sidcup Road longstanding and a 16-year-olid youth had each admitted assaulting Mr Roger William Berry and occasioning him bodily harm and to being drunk and disorderly Mr Morgan prosecuting said it was a case of two young men who had far too much to drink becoming very aggressive and Mr Berry suf-f erred for it REMARKS On Friday night Mr Berry was a passenger on a No 33 bus going to Kingstandiing when the two youths got on They started making remarks albout Mr Berry and when he got off the bus they followed him along the road shouting after him It was alleged that the 16-year-old youth caught up with Mr Berry and punched him in the face causing an injury which required two stitches Shortly after the incident the youths who were singing at the tops of their voices were arrested for being drunk and disorderly in Sidcup Road Later they admitted the attack on Mr Berry It was stated that neither youth had any previous convictions BIGGER SHOW The size of Alrewas Show to be held at Fradley near Lichfield on July 16 is to be increased this year by the expansion of certain events and the addition of new attractions There is to be an additional novice jumping class for ponies up to 122 hands and extra flower arrangement classes The new features will include a rabbit show and a mannequin parade I Police Inspector Evans with a boot of the type stolen from Witton Isolation Hospital White theatre shoes similar to this were taken from a hospital washroom Stole from shopping bag TF an elderly woman who was A- walking from Union Street Into Corporation Street Birmingham at about 515 pm on March 4 cares to get in touch with the police she may find that they are holding £1 2s 6d which belongs to her the Recorder Mr Michael Argyle suggested at Birmingham Sessions today The money was stolen from her shopping bag apparently without her being aware of it Michael Richard Draper (21) of Sheldon Grove Weoley Castle admitted stealing the money the property of some person unknown and also breaking into a house and stealing a radio and la 6d He asked for four other offences to be taken into consideration and he was sent back to Borstal Prosecuting Mr Kelly said that Draper was with two other youths in Union Street One kept watch while the two others jostled women shoppers Draper was seen to push an elderly woman into the path of one fthe others who put his hand into her shopping bag took her purse and took something from it Refused Permission for the building of a petrol-filling and service station on land next to an inn at Kettlebrook Tam worth has been refused by the Minister of Housing and Local Government An appeal was brought by Pet-roflna (Great Britain) Ltd Hampton ferry The ferry operator Mr Sam Raphael immediately dived in after her There is no doubht that he saved her Mrs Wright said today He had just changed his suit but went in without any hesitation He kept Vivienne afloat unti some people in a rowing boat grabbed her hair and pulled her aboard It is difficult to know what to say to the people who helped we are very grately It is a dangerous river in which even strong swimmers can lose their Vivienne who attends the Egerton Road Primary School said she was She is taking swimming lessons possibly overlook Aldermen hand over in good cause dragged her across the grass and she lost one of her shoes DETERMINED FIGHT The girl put up a very determined fight but Taylor put hands round her throat made it clear said Mr Morrison that he intended to rape the girl She told him that she wanted to go back for her shoe replied right but if try to run kill sthe girl did run away and got home in a very distressed condition Later Taylor gave himself to the police and it was obvious that what had happened very much on his conscience Mr Clarke said that Taylor was full of remorse Had not been for the fact that the course of a long social evening he had drunk more than he should this would never have happened This was some thing completely out of character Mr Clarke suggested that Taylor was a basically decent person who really had the worst possible conscience about events of that night The Recorder commented that there was much to be said favour particularly fact that he had given himself up but this was an offence which the court could attacker gaoled for 18 months A 23-YEAR-OLD man who attacked a girl of 18 had been so troubled In conscience about It that after telling his wife and family he surrendered himself to the police Mr Kenneth Clark told the Recorder Mr Michael Argyle QC at Birmingham Sessions today Mr Clark was appearing for Alan Leonard Taylor of 54 Fallindale Road Sheldon who pleaded guilty to assaulting the girl with intent to ravish her Taylor was sentenced to 18 imprisonment Prosecuting Mr A Morrison said this might be regarded as an extremely serious and brutal attack The girl a thoroughly respectable young woman was walking home alone at night She had noticed Taylor on the other side of the road and had certain fears because of his conduct Her way home led through what was known as and going through it she broke into a run She heard Taylor running behind her He grabbed her and produced a knife and when she screamed he told her that if she did not shut up he would kill her He his He He you Never-theles up was it in and the in the not of the new certificate one lot for himself one for his wife and others for his two sons Richard aged 19 and Roger 16 at the Post Office in Pinfold Street He said: "One has to practice what one preaches This is not a gimmick I believe strongly in family savings wanted to set an example which I hope others will follow For this country must get back to thrift that is what made us great in the past The two-week campaign should have been launched with a fanfare of trumpets outside the Broad Street offices of Birmingham Municipal Bank where the Lord Mayor and Aid Lewis were met by the manager Mr A Guy It was not posible to lay on the fanfare however but as the Lord Mayor made a special deposit inside the National Savings Movement flag was hoisted on the roof of the bank CITY PARADE The Lord Mayor It Is important to the country to increase our investments in the public sector as well as in The civic party who will later today take part in a parade through the city with floats publicising the savings campaign then crossed to the Post Office in Pinfold Street where the Head Postmaster Mr Blunt took them to specially decorated counters where the Mayor Aid Lewis and other members of the Savings Committee bought the new certificates WEATHER Named The virus named by Virus Reference Laboratory experts in London as Variola Minor or Alastirim a form of smallpox not seen in this country since 1935 except for a small outbreak In Lancashire in 1952 A meeting of West Midland experts has confirmed the view that the risk to the public is minimal and does not merit widespread vaccination Dr Millar said that sudh vaccination aw was required was now being carried out through appropriate public health departments No further cases of illness were reported today Three victims of the disease were in isolation today at the Witton Hospital Eleven people from the Willenhall and Stone districts of Staffordshire are suspected of having the illness Quarantine When it was discovered that a thief had taken the theatre shoes made of canvass with a black rubber heel and yellow rubber toe Birmingham Regional Hospital Board made it clear that the hospital was in quarantine A spokesman said Even police officers cannot go A police spokesman said not want our officers to run a risk of becoming contaminated and carriers of any sort of Dr statement today said It is emphasised that the present type of smallpox is quite different from the severe form which occurred in England and Wales four years questions about cars Midland MPs will ask questions affecting the car Industry in the Commons on Wednesday Mrs Renee Short (Lab Wolverhampton North East) will invite the Minister of Transport (Mrs Barbara Castle) to set up an authority to check the safety of motor vehicle designs She will also ask the Minister to seek power to make it an offence to sell vehicles whose safety standards have not been approved Mr loan Evans (Lab Yardley) will ask the Economics Minister (Mr George Brown) what consideration he has given to creating an Economic Development Committee for the car and motorcycle Industry to work In conjunction with the National Economic Development Council £70 raised A spring fair at Bumtwood Methodist Church near Lichfield raised about £70 to help pay for the development of a car park there I Mayday Evening Mail Reporter and Gunner Edward Stringer aged 28 who has sustained head injuries is "fairly Miss Margaret Storey a 19-year-old typist from Hockley won the Tulip Queen competi Steven Buglass near the wail with his brother Anthony aged six "On one side the wall is only two feet she said' "On the other side it drops away 30 feet to the river It was at this point that Steven fell I was called by a neighbour soon afterwards and with my husband ana brother rushed to the spot SITTING ON ROCK When I looked over the wall Steven was sitting on a rock below He was dazed and blood was gushing from his Mrs Buglass said her husband was lowered down by rope and carried Steven back to the top with his help Mrs Buglass added: the fire brigade arrived one of the officers told me that it was the third case of a child falling from the wall It was a miracle that Steven was not killed But the accident would never have happened if the wall had been fenced She said her husband had now decided to organise a petition about the wall and was sure it would be supported by the many parents in the area who had young children Mrs Lily Carter of 238 Hope Street who took her three-year-old grandson Kevin to see the river today said she would sign the petition "The river is a lure to all the small children in this she said: is amazing there have not been more accidents Evening 'Mail Reporter was an expensive morning for two City Aldermen the Lord Mayor of Birmingham Alderman George Corbyn Barrow and Alderman John Lewis Between them they handed over birds killed it pigeon alert Evening Mail Reporter JOBINS thrushes and blackbirds were found by hospital staff lying deade or doped In the grounds of Rubery Hill Hospital after attempts to destroy pigeons had been made Mr Tonks administrator of the hospital said today that a firm bad been called in to get rid of hundreds of pigeons at the hospital The numbers had been growing in recent years This was done on the advice of the hygiene officer who said that the pigeons presented a hazard to the health of patients "The firm put down some form of said Mr Tonks which made the pigeons unconscious The pigeons were then picked up by the firm and if they were wild pigeons they were destroyed Tame pigeons were returned to their owners when they recovered I understand that a number of song birds were also affected by the dope but most of those recovered and flew away Some however were attacked by other birds whale they were in a helpless State and were Mr Tonks said: "We were assured by the firm that 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