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HONGKONG," TUESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1921.
do not.
PLAIN ENGLISH,
On
course of his reply he said:
I congratulate him [Dr. Addison) on this fame which he has won, fer he has won it all at the expense of one month's salary."
THE CHINA MAIL.
ber them too constantly, For what is at stake is nothing less than the: authority of public opinion, which at this moment seems to have less weight than ever before since demo
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emic institutions were established in WELL-KNOWN SHANGHAI PILOT.
this country. Why, indeed, shoukl
Goverment fear hostile criticism
{China Mail SPECIAL]
when it is expressed in the mild and uncertain peripasasex in which even
SHANGHAI, Sept. 12. the much abod Northcliffe press Captain P. Fenwick, a well-known usually clothes its thought? Mr. Shanghai pilot, was killed instantane Lloyd George himself understands ously at Hangchew railway station. very well the virtues of plain speech,
and laughs, no doubt, up his sleeves ARMED ROBBERS DROWNED. he discourses upon the standards of English journalism." But how much longer is he to be allowed a monopoly of unparliamentary language?"
This is a quite serious and very timely protest against conditions to which we have drifted.
A BIT OF A. SCARE.
Most of the London papers, and doubtless many provincial ones, hive eagerly given publicity to a sensational item started by the Post Office people. They tell the story as follows:
illustrating bow
Az incident Customs detectives of the Post' Office protect the public recurred at Mount Pleasant, when a risk called
!
[China Mail SPECIAL, ]
SHANGHAI, Sept. 12. Two armed robbers detected by police and civilians Jumped into the Whangpoo on Sunday morning and They had robbed were drowned, a Chinese of $1,000.
JAIL BREAKER CAUGHT.
ATTEMPT TO HIS UNDER
..TRAIN
NOT GUILTY.
WOFING MURDER VERDICT.
PRISONER GOES FREES
THE SUMMING UP,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBES
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attaches to it. It shows how beland man the Attorney General, as. realises that it tells against the representing the Crown, ever treated prisoner. I did not put in this ticket) the nationality of the prisoner! ny because I thought the Crown case something of prejudice. If he did so wanted strengthening; on the con be would be unworthy of his position trazy. I put it in because it eras and the Judge would be unworthy of the plain duty of the Crown to dis his position if he allowed it.” close it, whether it told for or against
There were many instances in the prisoner." As to the theory, Criminal trials at Home, the Judge advanced by the defence, that the pointed out, which showed that After deliberating for twenty five ticket was "planted" in the prisoner's whenever evidence of this kind was minutes the jury in the Woping pocket, the Attorney-General pointed found it had been and must be Theatre murder trial returned into out how many people this theory produced. His Lordship referred Court this morning with a unanimous involved and he protested against the particularly to the famous Crippen verdict of "Not guilty" and the suggestion that the police were pre- Cisc. prisoner. Yeang Ko, was acquitted, pared to swear away amin's life His Lordship said that in his Most of the morning was taken up just for the chance of getting 2 opinion the case had been presented with the Judge's summing up which medal
to the jury in fairness and Ee resent began when the Court opened at 10.30) "The prisoner, contioned the Attacled very much the imputation that o'clock and continued with 12.50 ney-General, “suddenly appears on anything had been done in the case when the jury retired to consider the scene, at 6 o'clock that night, of this man--a Chinaman of low
from Canton. At 8.30 he is caught, estate-that would not have been their verdict
The Acting Chief Justice (Mr. Hacesrding to the evidence, running done in the case of any man standing H. J. Gompertz) presided at the hear-away from the scene of the murder. in the dosk, ing and the jury of seven was com In his other coat, perhaps through
They had heard a great deal, the posed as follows-Robert Gay forgetfulness, is found a ticket for a Judge went on to point out, about foreman), CE. Tavas V. F. V seat which would be one of the most prejudice in the case. They bad Ribeiro, R. S. Juchab, 1.1. Gutierrez convenient to commit the murder heard that the police were prejudiced E. M. Xavier and D. J. Cuthill. from. He said he was going back to witnesses and that every palicemen Attorney General (The Hon Mr. Caston and he had no change of who bad not got a medal desired to J. H. Kemp KC). conducted the underclothing. He has told you Crown case and Mr. P. C. Jenkin appeared for the prisoner,
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S ADDRESS. Mr. Jenkin's address to the jury yesterday lasted for more than three SHANGHAI, Sept. 13.
hours and at its conclusion.the. Muncie, one of the two American
address for the Crown. Mr. Kemp left it behind in forgetfulness and Sat afternoon clinging to a brake under-] neath a train about to start for Nan-began by saying that after the bought another, or he might have Lordship
vigorous, picturesque and very able bought two and used one, forgetting due to inadvertence-read the whole king. Norman is still at large.
speech the jury, bad just listened to, to destroy the other. Criminals often of the pattage dealing with the what he had to say would be father made mistakes and through them maner. His Lordship read out to dull and prosaic...
were detected. On the case as a the jury the remainder of the extract whole he submitted that the evidence which, he said really established of Constable Sin Chuen, alone, was that a policeman was human and quite enough on which to find the desired to succeed in his walk of prisoter guilty.
life. A policeman, when he got started, had the professional bias that every man had in following any occupation. The great test after all was whether, when they established the fact that like every professional they might be carried away sometimes by professional zeal, they took the individuals who had appeared in the witness box and saw whether they were honest, reliable men or men who had come there with a trumped In the course of bis lengthy up story. They were the judges of the jury. His the fact and it was for them to
decide..
[China Mail SPECIAL:]
nothing as to where he came from or get one while those who bad medals desired 10 get more. where he was going. Counsel bas not told you the prisoner's story of Therefore, it had been contended. how be came to be mistaken for the you could never trust a policeman not to fake up a case although he murderer."
knew a man to be not guilty Mr. As to the ticket, the Attorney Jenkin had read a passage or the
counsel had
at the Returned Letter Department jail breakers, was captored yesterday Attorney-General delivered the final General said the prisoner might have subject from "Taylor o evidence"
and asked for a bundle of poisoned
darta
Some time ago the son of a Swindon man sent him, as a cutio,
h parcel containing a blow-pipe and a number of darts of the kind used by the natives of the Malayan A Archipelago.
To his surprise only the blow- pipe arrived. There were no darts, and correspondence passed between the local and the London pest offices,
It was found that the London Customs opened the package and discovered that the points of the darts were smeared with suspicious-looking substance, and that an accompanying note warned all who handied them that the darts were poisonous.
The London authorities would not allow them to be sent through the inland past, but forwarded a voucher which gave authority to a special messenger personally to receive the darts and take them to their destination. This was the explanation of the man's visit to Mount Pleasant.
Examination of the darts showed that they were coated at the tip with a purple coloured poison, the chief ingredient of which is an extract from the deadly Upas tree. One prick would cause a man to die an agonising death within half an hour.
SHANGHAI BANKRUPTCY.
FRAUDULENT ASSIGNMENT.
[China Ma SPECIAL.1
SHANGHAI, Sept. 13. The Cecil Humphreys bankruptcy was again before the Supreme Court Pesterday. Assignment to a limited
pay was declared fraudulent European, the The bankrupt was not present and his whereabouts are not known. His liabilities are estimated at over half a million taels.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Hongkong Hotel Garage invites public inspection of its Pedder Street show room.
The Kowloon-Canton Railway timetable will be revised on and from Friday, September 16.
Major W. M. Sime, O.B.E., founder and senior of Messrs. Sime Derby & Co. Ltd: the well-known Straits firm, is paying a short visit to Shanghai.
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Before I proceed," said the At torney-General, "I should like to protest against the suggestion, made and repeated, that a man who is not a European gets less justice and less
The Court rose at half past four, care in these Courts than a Europea. the Judge intimating that, in the in- That is not true. It is a false ac-terests of justice, the jury should not cusation, and I resent it and protest be required to sit any longer on one against it strongly. It is suggested day.
f the man had been that
case would have, different presented ia * That 15 not true.. N1- tionality, race, has nothing at af to do with the case. I feel, also, that I ought to protest against the com tinuous and reckless-I call it, reckless accusations made against summing up the police in this case. Anything in Lordship said that in his
It was, of course, a fact that the convenient in the evidence is said to the case as he would put it to them be untrue. The police are accused fell under three headings which he witnesses in this case were all either of having recognised that the man is would call (1) the identification. (2) actors, or policemen and that there was only one witness who was en-. not the right may. That is not true the pink ticket and (3) the pursuit.
It had been Something had been said, His tirely independent. They are accused of trying to bolster up the case by false evidence. That Lordship observed, about the onus of suggested to the jury that there was is not true. Sergeant Rozesky, is proof. The position in law was that such a stampede in the theatre that "dishonest," Sia Chuen, is-lying," the Crown had to bring home the it was imposible for any of the case of No. 161 is fabricating false evidence, case to the prisoner beyond all audience to be found. They had
this kind it
Casy to get witnesses who Inspecter Murphy is suborning per reasonable doubt. A strong suspicion consider whether in a jurers I have never known a case was of no use, a grave suspicion wa
It. the case, a independent
had nothing to do with the case to in which so many wholesale and beside the point. reckless accusations have been made not brought home to this man then
come forward. As regards the actors" against the police, Why? Because whatever suspicions they
the .defence convince barbour, they must bring in a verdict it had been put to them that the deceased was a very popular man that all. the police of not guilty.
They would remember, said the and the star actor in the troupe and that on Friday. the that his death deprived his fellow- have given false evidence you are
that actors, at any rate for the time being, bound, on the evidence, to convict Judge; The facts are so strong that the only Attorney-General mentioned
W15 some conversation of their engagement. The jury would way to get rid of them is to say that there the whole of the witnesses are lying between the prisoner and the Chinese have to weigh the evidence and if and the police are prepared to support constable who arrested bim. The they found that there was any pro Attorney General was quite right fessional colour about it they would no perjury."
The Attorney-General discussed and it was his duty to bring the doubt discount it accordingly. If there different people's powers of observa matter before the Court but as the was anything of a conspiracy it would tion and urged that, in details, one ex-result of careful consideration His have been easy for the actors to go pected variations, Stories too much Lordship had found
The Bank of East Asia will re unless move on Monday, September 19, to you its new premises, No. 10 Des Voeux The darts were sent from Ipoh in Road Central, where its business will the state of Perak, and were pur-henceforth be transacted. chased from a native. They are
The total output of the Kailan mentioned in une of Sherlock
Mining Administration's mises for Holmes' adventures, wherein
the week ending August 27, 1921, native commite a silent murder amounted to 73,330 tons, and the of revenge.
Sales during the period; to 72,671 In the bottom of the dart case tons. banded over to the messenger at Mount Pleasant was found to be enough poison to wipe out half the postal staff.
There was
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his duty to out and have a look at the man when
he was in the hands of the police. Dishonest actors or dishonest police scheme by which the prisoner-might. might easily have cooked up have been seen by all of them,
IDENTIFICATION
2
On the question of identification the evidence disclosed that there were
The old trick of robbers in enter- alike in detays were suspicious. A exclude the evidence. That did not ing houses under the pretence of in-point had been made as to the in show, however, that the Attorney that there was any mis specting gas meters is becoming a troduction of new evidence some of General was wrong on the contrary "We have some odd things here frequent occurrence in the Shanghai this was brought to rebut suggestions or
the made by the defence; some at the conduct on the part of the police. Concession, states sometimes," said an official." The French
request of the defence, and some in This particular piece of evidence was, other day we had a quantity of vernacular press.
support of a new issue regarding unfortunately, brought out at the skulls from Germany, but it is) Messrs. Lammert Bros. auctions the ticket only known of a week Police Court and published in the natural course of affairs in the Press.
some witnesses who either identified rarely that we get any thing so to-morrow include the sale of thirteen ago.
The jury rust, His Lordship warned, nobody or else identified the wrong deadly as these bits of wood." bales of cotton yarn and twenty
exclude anything they might have man. His Lordship said he did not It was of great importance to the heard about it from their minds. no protection of the barrels of glucose in the morning and
think that the Attorney-General had The Attorney-General in bis It was the gibe of a cad, but we public here, since the poison was a valuable collection of antique china defence to establish the existence of a pass over the question of taste' ...delivered. In any case, the public and curios in the afternoon.
panic or stampede, after the shooting, address yesterday had made a remark put it too strongly when be said, that so that it could be argued that the about absence of explanation by the where a witness who saw the pri The Prime Minister, it seems may did not need such protection. There
afterwards identified the At the Hongkong Theatre a fine police could not see the murderer be prisoner and that was objected to by wrong man that was in fact evidence descend in controversy to what was to danger.
The Adventurer" fore he ran out, but the Attorney. Mr. Jenkin whereupon the Attorney for the prisoner. It seemed to His two-act comedy featuring Charlie Chaplin, is now General quoted from the evidence to General withdrew it. In the sense
on identification had been put very being screened, also a magnificent show that there was no stampede. On in which the Attorney-General meant Lordship that the case for the Crown drama "Eve's Daughter," featuring the contrary, the evidence bore out the remark it was, His Lordship clearly before the jury but it rested Billie Burke, Interesting scenes from the natural expectation that the thought, legitimate, but it might on the evidence of one man. If the Burton Holmes Travel No. 1169 people would be momentarily, frazes appear to the jury as a comment on identification stood on that alone he to their seats by the shock. The the fact that the prisoner had not would be very inh to counsel them complete the programme.
murderer, who was the only person gone into the witness box. It was
on.
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Regular readers of the China Mail depths he pleases, but his critics must! Suchi darts are not used by the who happen to have noticed in the always remember that they are natives of the Malayan Archipelago." New Statesman an article extitled gentlemen' and keep the gloves That suggests that Malays use them
As long as that is generally They are the weapons of the Sakai, A Plea for locivility." will not coubt accepted, the Press will inevitably primitive race of jungle dwellers, who that we found ourselves is cordial remain the powerless, self-stultified get by their aid small birds for food.
The poison is not got from a tree- agreement with the writer. It com- thing it is to-day, In dealing with plains that the Gentlemen of the a man like the present Prime Minister" Upas" or other-but from a trail- As there was no bidding, a lot not taken by surprise, would be gone not meant as such. never put for. to accept it however reliable a witness Press have become too gentlemanly, it is as absurd to keep the gloves on ing vine. One prick would nos cause of Crown land at Taitam Bay, regis like a flash with Sin Chuen after him, ward as such and if it had been. His it might be.
· THE FINK TICKET. They treat words as if they were as it would have been for the Allies a man to die in half an hour, even if tered as rural lot No. 176, was sold before the audience began to move. Lordship would have had to ask them
Regarding the finding of the pink invented to emasculate thoughts, 1915 to forewear the use of poison the poison were fresh. It might make at the Public Works Department Sin Chuen, the Attorney General to exclude it from their minds. The
It loses ita offices yesterday afternoon for the spoke of as a man of promptitude prisoner, Elis Lordship reminded ticket. His Lordship said it was for They fence when they are not gas in Flanders. A newspaper him uncomfortable. sitting it-and don't fight, has only one duty: to say what it potency when kept any length of upset price, $1,375. The lot which observation, determination and quick them, had the right to say: Here I the jury to decide whether the ticket has an area of about 25,000 feet, was decision one of the best witnesses am; let the Crown bring home the was actually missed when the
one could wish to have straight crime to me.
prisoner's coat was perched at his French journalists say very realy honestly thinks. The moment it time.
The sensational testimonial my flet for the awal term of 75 years.
forward, clear, frank and upahaken.by what they think. British journalists begins to wonder what it is wise
Hla Lordship said he wislied, to boarding house or whether it was to say, what it is 'patriotic to say, have been contributed by some faker Prominence is given in the cross-examination." If his evidence, congratulate Mr. Jenkin on the very "planted" with the obfact of ime. おか innocent map. It There are exceptions of course. what it is gentlemanly to say, it in Ipoh, making them for sale as Shanghai Chinese pres to the fact alone, did not justify a conviction a able defence he had put up but there pleating
to curice; or it may have been meant to that during the past month shares in man caught red-handed might hope was one-comment he had to make, seemed His Lordship that "Even the Times has had its lapees," cannot fail to become impotent."
He had understood Counsel in the the consensua of evidence the various stock and produce ex for acquittal Thus the Nae Slatesan, which enhance the rarity of the gift. whimsically harves our weekly
All of which facts could have been changes have greatly depreciated, As to the identification parade, the heat of his address to suggest that if that the ticket should have been contemporary, derring to the protest certainly practises what it presches.
ascertained at the British Museum, if and while some few have made profits Attorney General said that possibly the prisoner had been a well known found although Calef Detective In- Against Lloyd George suri Curzon It concludes:
We have called this article aany one of the newspapers had the majority of shareholders have the second might have been made man the case would not have been spector Murison had confessed that guing to the Washington Conference.
auffered loss. The report is current more fair, but unlem the jury saw conducted in the way it had been he himself might have missed it. He potest which evoked a department Plea for Incivility. We do not troubled to enquire.
that the cashier of a Chinese bank good reason to doubt the Identifica and to complain that evidence had had gone to some trouble to find out albaycott by Cazed and a parlaaggest that civility is worth nothing,
Mr. Mischa Elman has returned and two fellow members of the staff rion the fact that the police failed to been flangin. His Lordship Indicated from Inspector Morphy whether any
embezzled $120,000, and carry out certain rules was quite that he disagreed with Mr. Jenkin - body knew a second search was made mentary explosion by George, to or that there are not standards of
and Inspector Murphy_had stated which we have already called atten- public courtesy which should be re-to America after a successful tour in have
It was the practice at Home that ; that he had not mentioned it to any... to The Neis Statesman's comment cognised by journalists as well as by the Orient. Interviewed at the Hotel absconded, whilst an employes in irrelevant. Mistakes of the pulice in tote on that point.
guilt, or innocence.
when evidence of any kind bearing body. other people. Gratuitously insulting Ansonio, San Francisco, on Aug. another, bank has disappeared after had nothing to do with the prisoner's
The gong-beater's evidence was upon the case was discovered by the Mr. Jenkin interrupted His Lord “Instantly these truisms aroused a language, for example, or the ascrip 2, he said that he had greater having lost $20,000 in speculation.
success than he had expected. Mr. storm of protest. We may all say tion of motives without evidence, is Bertrand Russell was on the same The fifth anniversary, of the attacked because, after a glance at Crown it was not only the right but
that Inspector Murphy, had said than the things to our friends, but to say bad journalista as well as had man- ship to Vancouver, and Elman said, Holland Club was celebrated during the man in the theatre, be identified the duty of the Crown to bring it into ship to draw attention to the fact them in print is simply not done. nera; brat if a politician is a liar he "Oh, he knows everything!" and the week-end. At noon on Saturday, the prisoner on the identification Court. Very often it was quite cert was the usual procedure to search We were not told that the attack should be called a liar, and if he is again. "The Japanese are a remark a reception was held at which many parade. But I draw your attention tain whether this evidence would any clothing that was an exhibit in was untrue or nojust but that it was demonstrably untrustworthy, the fact able people. There is nothing they visitors were presenter, A. W. to the prisoner's face," said the go for or against the disconteous; disloyal", "personal", should be stated. To condemn all cannot do. The Japanese baseballers van. Andel, the prefident, proposed Attorney-General, it is not a com- but at any rate it was not for the saffringement of the elementary personal" attacks as such is not could be dangerous competitors to the health of King George V. under mon face; it is a very distinctive face. Crown to keep it back. The usual rules of public decency,' and so on. only absurd, but puts & premium on America's best teams, Concert seats whose rule, the Club bad existed in The witness picked hind out by the procedure was to werte, counsel with spector Murphy was recalled. In Lloyd George said it fell below all scoundrelism in politics. It may be were all sold in advance, he said. peace throughout a very troubious face be only looked for a face, and a copy of the witness's proof state reply to questions be said it was his The prmal standsads of English difficult in the heat of political-con-But it was very different in China" period if story. The gathering that is why he filled when questionment and no request for a reason we practice to check exhibits to wes that
as when they were handed by SN new evidence wooldiarifused; A fourkalisen. I pass over the question troversy to preserve a perfect balance, Gowns, kimono, vases, prints, books, also drank to the kind of the Clubed about delass of örte, madlowcument in auler to considerathe, they were in the same conditions
swords and so on fill the violinist's | and gave threszteners for kis founders.
"As to the ticket fake the I have sat in the Court for many hat he could not recall any case in of taste". Two days later the Prime between the extremes of, scavity, and rooms Commenting on this, the The evening was given up to dane
which individual "arikcles had been the year His Lordship, said “ and ad to reply to a speech by scurrility, but if we mean, it is Japon Chronicle Maya: “In Mr. ing, and on Sunday the members of Attorney General continued, Dr. Alson, bondening the policy better that we should forget our man's memories Kobe is probably the Club joined in a very endeyable very fiertence of my friend's assault have cerez heard it anggested that
(Continued on Page 5) when it came to justice Advicla mag shows what very great weight- 4 the warnment in shanding its manners than that we should remem. situated in China."
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