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THE SEISMIC FORCES.
P. Yothe MAMEER
MURDER TRIAL.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE CRIME.
CASE AGAINST COOLIS.
CONSTABLE ROBBED.
REVOLVER SNATCHED.
AN UNSOLVED MYSTERY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
Subject to Audit, the Balance at Credit of Profit and Loss Account for the year 1920, after allowing
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
for Depreciation, Rad and Doubtful DR. JOS W. NOBLE and DR. P.
Debts.
Debenture Interest, etc. REA DAUGHERTY, BARODA The meteorological correspondent and including the sum of $4,355.95 that their dental office, heretofore locat of the Morning Post writes in a recent brought forward from 1919, amounted in the Bank Building, will be issue of that journal-More than aed to $332,673.50, as compared with moved on March 1st, to the 4th Floor, werk has elapsed since the violent $223,455.79 for the year 1919. Hotel Mansions. agitation of the seismological instru- Alter deducting the interim dividend Fongkong, February 28, 1931. ments at Mr. Shaw's Observatory at paid in September, 1920, amounting West Bromwich, and the abundant to $100,000, the sum of $232,673.50 confirmation afforded by the very remains, which the Directors wil). REPULSE' BAY HOTEL, similar behaviour of a number of recommend, at the annual meeting, other instruments in various parts of be apportioned as follows: Europe, North America, and Japan, To pay a Final Dividend on the same day indicated that an earthquake of great magni- tude-" catastrophic," according to the statement of an Italian authority, and "the greatest earthquake shock Lever recorded," according to the Tokyo report had occurred in some part of the world."
There being considerable diversity HIT ON THE HEAD WITH A CLOCK in the results calculated by the
different observers, it is not possible At the Criminal Session this morg- ing, before the Acting Chief Justice.
at present to fix upon the immediate Mr. Justice Gompertz, Tong Tim, z
While on duty in Chatham Road, locatity of the seat of the earthquake. coolie formerly employed at Govern- Kowloon, about 7 a.m., yesterday, a Thus far the only destructive tramb- ment House, was charged with the Chinese detective bad occasion to in-ling of the earth's surface reported murder of Chan Chuk, a wash amah.spect a lane running along the back has been that at Lavello, in
of the houses, and there saw a the Argentine Province of Mendoza, The crime was committed in the ser Chinese standing near the entrance on the eastern foothills of the Andes. vants' quarters at Government House
of the Kowloon Canton Railway shed But beyond the bare statement that On January 2.
with a clock in his arms. As the there had been much structural The prisoner pleaded not guiky. The Hon. Mr. 1. H. Kemp, Ator-man was unable to give a satisfactory damage and loss of 400 lives. account of how he came by the practically nothing is known of the gey-General. prosecuted; the Hon. clock, or what he Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by there, the detective caught him by this very meagre information it can was doing occurrence, not even the date. From Mr. Mason, appeared for the defence. the collar with the intention of only be inferred that, for a South The following jury was empanelled: removing him to the station. The American earthquake, this one must Messrs. A. J. J. Martin, WL Mer-man struggled violently. In the be classed amongst the rainar ones shall, B. W. Tape. O. A. de' Car-
of that continent, the Andean seismic valho. Chop U Ting. I. J. Maxwell,
region being celebrated for its earth and N. R. Alan.
shakes and disasters on a grand scale.
course of the struggle another man made his appearance. Picking up the clock which had fallen to the The Atomey-General, outlining ground in the scuffle, he struck the the case, said that about 6.15 on detective several blows on the head Monday morning. January 3, a man with it. The detective was 100 stunned employed by the Gas Company found to prevent his prisoner from tearing a certain lamp near the East Gate of his holster and revolver from their Government House, on Upper Albert belt and making off with the other Road, was extinguished. He went man. farther and came to a narrow path which runs past the Bark House, and there found the dead body of a woman. Half an hour later a Sani- tary Board foreman also saw the body, and rotifed the police..
The police discovered that "the woman was a wash amah employed at No. 56, The Peak, 'and was about 44 years old. She had been a widow for ten years, and had three sors. Two of the sons were about to go o Singapore, and had received money from an uncle to help pay their pas- sage. This money they had given their mother. After the murder, the money had disappeared.
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KOWLOON EXPLOSION,
'TWENTY-NINE KILLED.
OFFICIAL POLICE REPORT.
As we cannot ignore the almost simultaneous indications of the oc- currence of a more than usually severe earthquake, although we are unable to determine its position, and as so many days have passed with- out the telegraph bringing us news of any catastrophe commensurate with the instrumental indications, we are left for the moment to assume that the seat of the trouble was situated in some Arctic or Antarctic region whose inbos pitable shores are rarely visited by mas, or far out under one of the great oceans.
of $5.00 per share on 20,000 Saares.100,000.00 To pay a Bonus of $2.00
per share on 20,000 Shares T To transfer to General
Reserver-
To carry forward to New-
Account
40,000.00
50,872.94
41,800.56
$232,673.50
A well dressed Chinese who gave his address as No. 28, Hollywood fined by Magistrate Linksell, at the Ruad, top floor, was this morning
instance of Sub-Inspector Pain, for indecent behaviour on Glenealy Road. It was a nasty case. The fine was $50, or four weeks' hard.
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There have been many instances in THE Steamship “DILTARA " the Pacific. On the Asiatic side, gear The seismic forces!
Captain BAEB, carrying His are quite as active, and exhibit their the Equator, in June, 1877, e-ship Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from energy just as frequently, out at sea
was shaken twice in five minutes, the this Port on or about FRIDAY, as they do on shore, but for obvious
Erst shock lasting four seconds, and a 156 Kareb, 1921, taking Pissen reasons comparatively few of the first-supposed to be distant thander, Gers and Cargo for the above Ports. occurrences are experienced by man, but it seemed to proceed from the Silk and Valuables and Tea for Italy. ship itself. The second shock lasted France and London (under arrangement) seven seconds, and dispelled the idea will be tianshipped at Bombay into the of thunder. The ship trembled as Mail Steamer proceeding direct to when a cable is running out, and the Marseilles and London. mumbling noise was louder, as if a heavy cask was being rolled quickly along the deck. The sea surface ge mained flat calz.
The sficial police report gives the total number of casualdes in the Hoi Sang Cracker Factory explosion at Eomaatin a#58. Thirteen corpse, badly mutilated, were picked up im. mediately after the explosion and at It was found that the woman had once buried. Thirteen others were been at Government House several dug out from among the debris and times on January 2. The sons went removed to the Kewicon mortuary to find her, but did not see her again where only four were identified watil they identified her at the mor-Thirty-two injured people were re TUARY.
moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital. As to the motive, the Attorney. Of these six were able to go home General said that it was important after receiving medical treatment, bouring shore, because they are as
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NOT-DANGEROUS. », Happily, these under sea tremblings are not as a rule associated with the devastation of great cities and the wholesale destruction of human life, unless they happen close inshore. In such cases they frequently result in extensive destruction on the neigh-
In July. 1869, there was a curious case of a violent but noiseless shock,
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always in a murder case to establish and three-died after admission to sociated with the formation of great the apparent motion of which was per- the reason. A motive which appears hospital. The other twenty-three are tidal waves, which sweep away towns insufficient is very often a suficient still being detained, several in critical and villages, and occasion serious had taken hold of the ship by the waist)" Hongkong, February 28, 1921.
condition.
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SUIGIDE OR MUSDER?
less of human and zuimal life. These disastrous visitations are more fre quent on the west coast of South America and in Japan, where the hard and sea shocks are more closely associated than anywhere else.
motive in a murderer's somewhat ab. normal mind. But it was not incun- beat on the Crown to prove a motive. If it was proved that the prisoner had committed the murder, without the establishment of à motive, it was the
Our only means of knowing of the jury's duty to find him guilty. It
occurrence of submarine earthquakes was possible that the prisoner had The remains of a male Chinese, which take place far away from the taken the money that had disappear-aged about 35 years, were picked up land has been the, as it were, Recid ed. He did not put that forward as by the police on the foreshore at ental passage of a ship across the the motive. The fact the money had Ngaritankok on Saturday. The body, scene at the time, and as it would disappeared did not show necessarily which must have been in the sea for seem that the shock is limited to a that it was the "motive.
several days, was badly decomposed. comparatively small area it is seldom, When Inspector Appleton went to The man's hands were tied behind his if ever, that a seaquake has been the spot where the body was found, back and attached to his girdle. An he discovered a trail, as if a heavy examination is being made in order to body had been dragged. · It crossed ascertain whether or not death took the road, and went up the bank. The place before the body was thrown trail was clear. He traced it through into the sea. There are no external the fence and up to a verandah, and marks of violence.
there it stopped before a closed door.
Opening this the trail led on into e
supper room of Government House.
experienced by more than one vessel And even when they have been ex- perienced, numbers of them have never been reported, because they did no damages, and by the time the sailing ships of former times reached their home ports, many weeks, months, or even years after. wards, the occurrence had been
He tracked it still farther, to a bathsary for business purposes. The pay-forgotten. room opening intą, the supper room. ments in the association were month- Here there were what appeared to be ly.
Deep water shocks, those that take place in the open ocean, far away from
and shaken her up and down; yet, there was no perceptible disturbance
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was quite clear that the 'murder had for him about 11 a.m., again at 6 severest nature at the bed of the ocean, been committed in the badroom and p.m., and was seen in his company and probably cause vast changes in the the body had then been dragged to about 7.30. There was evidently bed itself, are so much modified dur where it was found. He proposed to some special reason for her frequenting their upward transmission through take the jury, to view the spot. visits.
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The man who committed the mur- The prisoner was a coolie employed on arrival in the surface layer, they der must have been someone who on the upper floor of Government are not nearly so nerve-racking and knew Government House and had House. He had no duties at all in terrifying as those experienced on access to keys to the servants' quar-the East End of the bulking, except shore. The lardsman, confident in ters: The Attorney-General thought on occasions of a ball or dinner. the solidity and firmness of the ED & THURS. also the murderer must have been Curiously enough, on the night in ground under his feet, loses his head someone who lived in Government question, he was not in his accus- and his legs when he suddenly finds House; no one else would have taken tomed place. Another curious thing that he is on a wobbling jelly; but such an extraordinary risk. The pri- was that the morning after the mur the sailor, always rolling and tossing soner lived in the servants' quarters. der, he was seen in the East End of on the ocean, probably is never con- The murderer must have been the building, where he had no duty.scious of the vibrations produced by acquainted with the woman; they must At the time, he had cloths in his the minor submarine earthquakes, and have been fairly well acquainted, hand. One wiméss: saw him get rarely is he seriously alarmed by the otherwise she would not have been a broom. Another saw him gazing severest of them. The moment it is Hikely to accompany him to the bath towards the place in the fence through realised that the stop is affected by room, which was in a lonely part of which the body had been dragged. If an earthquake there is an end to any the building.
would seem that he had been occu- suspicion of dangerous consequences. The Attorney-General showed the pied in trying to remove traces of the SEAQUAKE CHARACTERISTICS. jury plans of Government House and crime. He had scratches on his An unusually severe shock, lasting part of the grounds, pointing out the hand, and bloodstains on his coat. three minutes, experienced near the scene of the crime and the path of When taken to the mortuary to view] Cape Verd Islands, in November, the trail.
the body, he refused to go near the 1893, caused the ship to tumble most It had been established that the body, and said he could not identify it violently. "Every man rushed in deck 'crime was committed about 10.30)
Outlining the methods of money to see what was happening. The ship p.m. Captain Warner, the Gover- lending associations, such as that of seemed to be grinding over a reef of mor's Secretary, would be called, and which the prisoner was the head, the rocks. Further south, near St. Paul he would testify that about half past Attorney-General "said the prisoner Rock, on the Equator, in June, 1888, ten he heard a cry.
had some difficulty making payments. the vibrations of a shock lasted twć The evidence would be that the He was hard up and this may have minutes. The steering wheel shock deceased paid frequent visits.. to had something to do with the case.. so that the heimsman could scarcely :Government House to see the" pri- At the conclusion of the Attorney-hold it. The hands on deck noticed soner. It was true that the prisoner General's address, the jury was taken there was something unustalon, and was head of a money-lending associa- in motor cars to Government House the sleeping captain awoke. The tion of which the deceased was £ to view the scene of the crime. On serious Spanish earthquake of Christ member, but he thought her visits, its return to the Court, the trial was mas, 1884, was preceded, three days were more frequent than were neces-resumed.
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