GREAT BRITAIN: Winter's End

In London's Wandsworth Prison last week gentle-mannered, somber Harold Dorian Trevor, 62, was hanged by his neck until dead. Thus ended a life which the London police hated to take. They had known Harold Dorian Trevor long and well.

In 1895 London-born, 15-year-old Harold Dorian Trevor stole a gentleman's morning rig, cane and single eyeglass, to begin a career which brought him fame as "The Man with the Monocle." For 40 years he did business at the same stand. From renting agents he got lists of rented quarters. Then he played the perfect gentleman to landladies, often with romantic embellishments. Then...

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