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AN EXPERT IN CRIME.
A
LATE CLD. CHIEF. -
SOME REMINISCENCES,
markable was was the late
Sir Melville Marmaghien. The son of a man who was for some time chairman of the East India Company. he spent Efteen of the best years of his life in India, engaged in commerce, on the Bengal side; then he blos somed forth as a detective, and o readily did be slapt bis transmission from commerve to the detection of crime that in a very few years he
HE-HAW..
From a sermon on Sunday by Mr. Maconachie: Beneath the surface refinement of buman nature we have also heard the ape and tiger roa”, the donkey bray-a porten: quite as ominous."
''Tis true, 'tis pity.
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
An extra gymkhara meeting will, weather
rose to be the head to the greatest { NEXT SATURDAY'S GYMKHANA detentive agency in the world, and for just a decade he was thief of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, retiring in 101 "with a knighthood and the Oider of Commander of the Bath as rewards for the efficiency to which he had brought the department with the working of which he was associated for years
UNSOLSED CAVES... Some time ago after his retirement. Sir Melville was interviewed by a Press representative on his criminolo. gival researcher"We have after
permitting. be held at Happy Valley next Saturday. Ad- mission except for club members, will cost $1 and half that in the case of sailors and soldiers in uniform. The ladies of Hongkong, are invited by the Stewards to attend. Programmes, costing 20 cts, will be obtainable from Noronha & Co., on Friday.
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all, in our London records." he said. a number of the public seen always wonderfully little crime considering willing to think a jury has gone wrong the circumstances, and it is remark-in returning a verdict of guilty, able what a small proportion of the Apparently Sir Melville Macnaghten perpetrators are undiscovered. There is under no doubt as to the Beron are, of course, dass unsolved, and I cose. The public, who only read think particularly of two of which the newspaper." he pointed out. I was coz able to touch a single forget, or perhaps are not aware. leather of the criminal. One was that there is hardly a case in which the murder of the watchman at the full reports may be given in the daily
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Cafe Royal in 1994. as to which Press. Much has to be left out. Amor, Shanghai and North Chine
was unable to get the slightest clue.
and the other was the case of Mary Bails, the little girl who in 1909 was murdered and whose body was found
Beyond that there is the great factStraits, Bangkok, Celestis, and ADEN
to bear in mind-that the jury. Straits, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritian, IL just as with the judge and the counsel
engaged must go a great deal by the
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in a brown paper parcel in a lavatory demeanour of the witnesses. Very How she had got there and even in often, the demeanour of a witness is what district she was murdered of thore importance than what he swato has remained an absolute mystery-says, and has more influence with all
FRIDAY, JUNE 24.. Another case that caused me thee incerned in the case."
*Swetow, Shanghai sod North China...... Hopsang greatest anxiety was the Muswell Hill. The ideal detective? Sir. Mel Swato, Amoy and Foochew. murder. 1. had made my own in- ville's view has always been that Haiphong quiries as usual, but could see no the attributes of an ideal detective thilippine linds clue, and Henry Biarshall, who bad are to keep his eyes and ears open
Weihaiwei, Chefoo and Tientsin the case, in hand, was at his wits and his mouth shut. What class. end. Night after night be used to of man makes the best detective it come down to my place and talk over is impossible to say. A mac to be the day's results, which were generally successful must be born with the
ail.
detective instinct. You can't make
Straits, Bangkok,
It was quite five weeks before he a detective unless he has got the straits, Bangkok,
esme to me ose evening with the neww that he had got what look like
necessary ability in him: "One of the finest detectives I ever knew. was at two dues, que really big and the one time a fazra hand.". other a small one. He told me, he
Sir Melvile regarded the develop was going on the big one, and next dayment of the system of identification
I had a message from him to say that by finger prints as the most notable
wonderful
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it had failed and that he would now achievement in crime detection during take up the lesser. That was the his experience. This discovery of the association of the system is due entirely to Sir Edward hall's eye lantern found near the Henry, the Commissioner, although murdered man with Millson's nephew many people persist in the belief that owing to the wick being made out it is modelled on that of the French Swetow and Bangkok of a piece of-tartan cloth which Mrs. Iman, Bertillon. The latter is Millson was paking into a dress for anthropological and much too in straits, Bangkok, Calcutta & ADEN her little girl. That tiny clue hanged tricate to teach to the ordinary prison Boibow, and Haiphong both Fowler and Millson.
wander. The first time Sir Edward and ANT Henry's system came to the front Swatow and Bangsok That was a very interesting case, was in the Stratton case; in which Shanghai and North Czios. and. even more so was the murder two brothers murdered a shopkeeper shanghai, North Chias, and Japan of Beron on Clapham Common, foruod his wife. They left what I dis
STIME HOZRISON.
Ewɑbow, "Amoy and Foochow woma
which Stimie Morrison was convicted. fovered to be a finger print on a Shanghai and North, Chips
A reference as made by the inter-cashbox, and as the result of my dis
viewer to the curious way in which covery, they were hanged.
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one," said Mr. W. L. Hichens, chair-Tel. 2143, 10, Queen's Rd. Cenky,
CHINA OVERBELS TRADING OR
man of Messrs. Cammell Laird & Co.. to a Press representative, when dis Hongkong Observatory, June 21, 1921.cussing the future of British industry. I am a manufacturer of goods, 1. Bizoutra, reduced to 37 degrees and am seeking foreign markets. If tel. Fahrenheit, on the level of the ts in I can compete with my trade rivals Inches, tenths and hundredtias.
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in de- I get the business, if I can't I don't. grees Fahrenbát,
That is the position in a mutahell When I tell you that in certain sections Tel.
2. HUMIDITY, is percentage of stra tion the humidity of air saturated with meistare being 100.
4. DIRECTION OF WIse, to two points Beadford Scale
5 FORCE OF WED, according to
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6. STATE OF WEATHER, bbie thy, the coal and pig iron. what hopes Tel. 2170. 60, Queen's Rd. Cearm. detached clood, d driting rain, fog have we of competing with them in g gloomy, bhail, lightning, cremast the foreign markets?..
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dredths.
HONGKONG REGISTER..
Previous
to inquirers in foreign countries prices
which have allowed no profits what-
ever, and even then have been un cash received might be somewhat successful in getting the contract, with less, the purchasing power of wages the result that more workers in this would tend steadily to increase country have been thrown into the "I do not think that the proposal On date at Oxidate at ranks of the unemployed.
that reductions in wages should,
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
We are thus faced with the in-automatically follow the fall evitable conclusion that in order to in the cost of living is a sound one," get trade we must sell more cheaply for the simple reason the cost of To do this we must produce at a living will not fall to any appreciable lower etat, and towards this end every extent until the flow of trade has avenue must be pursued." Economies commenced, and, as far as this country": must be effected, profits must be is concerned, this can only happen curtailed, every profitable develop when the cost of production is lowered ment must be carried out, and in the manner indicated. organisation must be keyed up to the This readjustment must be highest point of efficiency. But every-general and not confined to my thing that could be elected in the di- particular industry, In an industry Hongkong, Observatory June 21, 1221.rection would not suffice to reduce such as ours, the cost of production our prices to a level of those of some of cal and pig-iron has as important of our principal foreign competitors.a bearing on the cost of our finished "It is inevitable that there should also productions, as our own wages and be a reduction in wages and, salames. other expenses. High transport This is perfectly apparent, when I charges are responsible for quite a tell you that in some industries on slice of our costs, and such items as which we are dependent wages absorb our telephone fees in Sheffield for The Time Ball on Kowloo & goal up to 80 per cent. of the total cost of instance, amounting to £1,500 a year, is "dropped dadly at 10 am and production. Such a course must have all to be taken into account except on Baturdays when it is dropped at naturally cause some preliminary when estimating our costa, 10 am and 1 p., and on Surdays and discontent and inconvenience, but As to the future, tzade revival. Holidays when it is dropped at 10am.
BONGKONG TIME SİGNALS,
The Ball if bristed baf mist st the 55 the only alternative is that indus it is a matter on which it is very minute and full mast at the 37th minuts. try should practically cease altogether dificult to express an opinion. The Should the ball fail to drop at the arret and there would be no wages at all. majority of buyers are, I think, hold- tims it will be-lowered at 5 minutęs par I say preliminary, because Iing off as far as possible until prices the hour and the ordinary rozbine repes, think the effect of the readjustments make a very considerable fall and Shook the Time Bal be out of order would cease to be felt as soon as we conditions generally are more stable. the above routine will be carried out with started satisfying the world shortage When this happens we may look the fitg " 24" on the Storm Signal mert. -
ed at the following hair, il possible"
Time Signals are sle given at night by of manufactured goods. This re- for a general revival in the world's moens of three white lamps mounted vernewed trade activity would be reflect trade, of which Great Britain's Khare Firally on the Observatte wineleer touted by a gradual decline in the cost will depend upon the policy she mean Trom, 346 to 9.00 pm, he lamps are of hiving, so that, though the actual while
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