TUESDAY SEPTEMBER A, 1921.
ASYLUM SUICIDE.
RECENT TYPHOON:
YESTERDAY'S INQUIRY. »
EFFECT IN SHANGHAL
a
CIGARETTE DEALER FINED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
·TRUCULENT RICSHA COOLIE
FIGHT WITH PERUVIAN SEAMAN
HARBOUR ACCIDENT..
SHIPS BOAT CAPSIZES.
SEAMAN DROWNED.
When orders
ORDINANCE CRITICISED.
Charged before Magistrate Orme: A vendiet of "suicide whilst insane."
M. Harpat, Deputy Commisyesterday afternoon with having had
George Arriaga, a Peruvian seaman, A distressing.accident resulting in was the verdict returned in the big
no duty had been paid, a cigarette and a riesha coolie employed by Mr. the death of a Chinese seamed on roust yesterday afternoon at the inner of Shanghai Public Works, in on his premises cigarettes on which yuiry into the circumstances surround. his report for August says:--
Although the typhoon, which pass dealer represented by Mr. Leo Longi Ismail, were this morning charged board the s.s. "Sunning." occurred in ing the death of an Indian watchman
plored to the Canton branch of ex south of Shanghai on the night of notto claimed that he bought the before Magistrate Lindsell with dis the harbour yesterday afternoon, soon The Asi tic Petroleum Company, who Saturday, August 20. did not cause cigarettes at the market price and that orderly conduct by fighting in Des after the ship arrivil in part from: was found dead in the lasthrm of great deal of dames in the Settle his main business was agent to Messrs. Weet Road, opposite the King Amoy and Shanghai, and anchored Arriaga said that as he came out of were given for the gangway to be the Lunatic Asylum on the morning of ment, the effect of the high winds on Liggett and Myers, of Chicaga. The Edward Hotel, yesterday afternoon. and Shangh
the Peruvian Consulate, the coolic lowered so as to let the police come September 11 with an ugly gash the wvulside trees and the heavy rains person from whom he bought the
on the road surfaces entailed a heavy garettes had absconded.
Mr. Longinetto said that the Or-invited him to engage his ricsha-bard, the mooring boat was, through in his throat.
inance cast the onus of proof entirely When he refused, the coolie struck him a misunderstanding by the man in expenditure to the Department in
on the defendant; if it had been on carrying out reinstatement works.
the prosecution, the case could zot was drawn there must be a technical Inspector Cashman said it have been proved. As the Ordinanceriesha coolie! conviction. Mr. Tarior (of the In- quite possible Arriaga was telling the perts and Exports Department) had truth. said that retailers must buy from an
Dr. C. W. MeKenny, medical officer at the Government Civil Hospital, raid he found the deceased lying on the floor outside the bathroom, dead. There was a large neised wound in
much Book the neck
the floor. la thr bath- broken mirror, TINIZI W213
pparently torn from the wall. have iwen used by the man to cut his throat. The deceased must have had another attack of mania and killed Limself
};
on the chest. He then retaliated.
The Magistente: But he is a private
was
Private ricsha coolies had
been known to offer their vehicles for
accosted
The most noticeable feature was, perhaps, the very high level to which the water reached, all of the lowlying roads and land being flooded.
The level reached, however, was about 1 foot lower than that Aduring the typhoon of September 1905, large piece of the glass appeared to the levels in the vicinity of the Public agent of the B.A.T.. but that was hire in order to make a few extra The fourth man could not be found.
Gardens reading respectively 17.03 to create a kind of monopoly. If cents. They generally
The coolie, who exhibited a plaster feet and 16 feet for 1905 and 1920 a Chinese wished to do business strangers.
the side of his nose and above the Woosung Ilorizontal Zero with a Chinese, apparently he could
not do it, without running the risk of on
said O account of the strain that SEA
bloodstained, jacket.
him in being put on to the Canton Road not being able to prove that the mid-ja
Mr. that Arriaga spoke to
He waved his hand to pontoon due to the connection with dleman had paid the duty. the bridge becoming jammed, it was Loaginotto added that he had gone Spanish. decided to sink the pontoon, the sub-into the matter with the Government, indicate that he did not understand Arriaga evidently mis-under- notsequent work of mising it being an
stood his action for an insult and easy matter.
struck him.
The mirror was, originally, firmly sed in the wall. It would require a great deal of force to dislodge the
mirror.
The Coroner: You would think it a dangerous article to have there!
Dr. McKenny: No. One las never
The por Ja used like this before. sibility of such use was never suspent. ed but they have all been removed NOW,
One of the mirrors was exhibited to show how the broken ane had been Sxed. It had been screwed, through vyelet holes, to two plug in the walls,) Dr. W. B. A. Moore, medical officer in charge of the Goverment Civil Hospital and Asylums. sak the patient had been perfectly quiet and there was no reason to sa peet suicidal tendencies. Consegnent- a general ward iv. he was in with freedom to move about in the ward and to and from the bathroom whet was, really, part of the ward. The whole thing must have happened in a very short space of tine,
It
Tras
explained, in further evidence, that there were three at tendants on duty at the time. One was entering the duty book in the office, one was sweeping the verandah and the third was quietering a Rus-
in patient who was fighting another! inmate.
Inspector Wills mentioned that a patient had stated that he straggled with the deceased to try and prevent hi from killing himself.
TROUBLE IN EGYPT.
A REALISTIC FILM AT THE CORONET.
•
About 1,500 ruadside trees were blown down. No damage was cone to Municipal Buildings.
with a view to haring the Ordinance made reasonably possible of perfom ance" and he hoped it would be amended very shortly. He asked the Magistrate to inflict the smallest possible fine and suggested that one
cent would meet the case.
The Magistrate remarked that the JUMP FROM VERANDAH.defendant had no excuse in the case of brands of cigarettes regularly marked respecting duty.
ELDERLY JAN'S SUICIDE.
A Chinese yesterday committed forni bv euicide
jumping verandah of the 1st floot of No. 71. Des Voeux Rond West He received severe injuries to the head and died at the hospital soon after admittance. His relatives say hat he had been ill for sometime and lately bad been a little peculiar in his behaviour. He was 2 years of age.
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Mr. Taylor said that about half the defendant's stock was confiscated as not having paid duty. A great deal of evasion was undoubtedly going on. The Magistrate told the defendant that he was liable to a fine and As it was first imprisonment.
offence. be would be fined $500 and the cigarettes would be confiscated.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
MAX HIRES MOTOR BOAT AND
JUMPS OVERBOARD.
him.
Inspector Cashman mid that Arriaga was perfectly sober when brought to the station. The Indian who arrested the men told him that when he stopped the fight and told the defendants to go. Arriaga went away quietly but the coolis followed and struck him
on the back.
The Magistrate fined the coolie $5 sed discharged Arria:a. Both parties. were required to siga bonds in the sum of $50 each to be of good de- haviour for six months.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
MAM FALLS INTO DOCK AND ESCAPES WITH MINOR INJURY.
Whik at work on a suspended plank painting the hull of a ship in the course of construction at the Hung- hom dock yesterday afternoon. a abourer overbalanced and fell to the bottom of the dock. His comrades thought he was killed, but when they
A Chinese engaged a motor boat at the ferry wharf at Yaumati yester- day afternoon to take him to a ship reached him, they found he had had a
in harbour. When the boat was in mid-miraculous escape, escaping with only
+
One case of enteric fever and two
Mr. Martin Johnson, the film photo-streams, he jumped into the water. The an injured arm. grapher, and his beautiful young motor boat immediately stopped and wife will leave London for one of the crew jumped overboard year or two's work in the wilds of and succeeded in rescuing the man. British East Africa. Kalowit makes up the trio-she is an ape who goes to keep her mistress company in the jungle.
Mr. Martin Johnson sat in the lounge of a West End hotel beautifully gowned. She did not look like the In Flame of the Desert" the woman who has been captured by Coronet presents a picture that has cannibals and saved just in time by a clearly been inspired by recent events British warship. She hunts and in Egypt. It deals with a proposed Swims, and her husband says she is a She helps her rising of the tribes of which the very good shot.
husband to take the films. aware and Government is well
When I go away on these long which the Government is allowing
head in order tours to the jungle." she confided,
The boat then put back to Yaumati of partypäojā fever, all Chinese,
ending yesterday. where the would-be suicide was hand-rere reported during the 48 ed over to the police, who removed hours
Last
him to the Kwong Wah Hospital Heeek five Chigese died from in- ill be produced before a magistrate Buenza, one from cerebro spinal fever, in due course.
TO-MORROW'S CONCERT
NEW PROGRAMME.
Included in the programme of to morrow's concert at the Theatre Royal
and one from cholera. One imported
case of paratyphoid fever, Chinese, and two cases of diphtheria, one Brit- ish and the other Chinese, were also reported.
In order to relieve the shortage of rice in Kwangtung, where the crop has been poor, the Chamber of Com- merce at Fachow has petitioned the
the quelling of it will take in my trunks dresses is a Japanese dance. recently prepared Commissioner of Finance of Kwangsi
to
11 to come
that
take
and out
An anonymous Japanese Privy Councillor is quoted by the Chugai Shogyo Shimpo as expressing un-
same."
CHOPPER INJURIES,
ASSAULTED MAN NOT EX-
PECTED TO LIVE.
3
charge, lowered instead. It capsized car the water throwing the four Chinese seamen manning it into the harbour. The men's jokis jumped in and rescued two of them. A third
which happened to be in the vicinity. was pulled out by a police motor boat
It was at first thought he had been im- prisoned undertheoverturned boatand several of his contrades dived under but failed to locate him. The police boat circled the vicinity for some time but without success. The deceased was said to be a good swimmer and his | death is attributed to bis having been oars falling on his head before he rendered unconscious by one of the touched the water, is body has not yet been recoverovi.
The seventh National Educa- tions! Conference will meet in Canton be in session for two weeks. on Cctober 10. The Conference will
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
DANCE in aid of the Ministering Children's League to be held at Wiseman's Cafe on 2nd September, 1921.
Tickets to be bad at Wiseman's or at Anderson Music Store.
THERE'S A LONG, LONG TRAIL
of
Bugs, Fleas, Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,
etc.,
all killed by
KEATING'S
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Suffering from injuries to the head SHOWING SHORTLY.
THE MASTERPIECE of PATHE'S
OTHER INSTITUTIONS. look at by Miss Mirova, and entitled "Harri- to cancel the embargo on Kwangsi TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND
The price for foreign rice Miss El-Tour will sing new rice. be Enal and complete. Into the can
and Saigon) has very heart of the conspiracy against when I'm lonely. I used to put on
by Mr. Podolsky will be a complete dropped twenty cents per picul, ALL. preliminary notices of forth- the Cantou coming meetings, lectures and British rule wanders Lady Isabel some icvely gowns when we were in songs, while the selections to be given (from Siam
concert. according to
The price for entertainments, sent for insertion in Channing (Geraldine Farrar) though the Borneo jungle."
"As a matter of fact," added her change from the former she is unconscious of so doing until
More rice will be are charged for at the rate of $1 each, going down. the storm bursts prematurely. She husband, when we are working we Concerts are to be given at Canton on rice desfers. is impelled on the one hand by almost do without clothes. We hall Friday, Kowloon on Saturday, and native to is also reported to be the news columns of the China Mail, imported from the central provinces (as announced in May and Jane of her love for a week-kneed brother, be round the Congo a great deal, Macao on Sunday,
(in the Yangtze River region) in last year) providing that they do not attache to the High Commissioner, want pictures of lians. rhinoceroses,
order to relieve the shortage of rice in occupy more than four lines. In and by quite another kind of love giraffes. gorillas, and elephants in
Canton, and keep the price within future if this space is exceeded they That their natural homes" for
desert chieftain. $
the reach of the masses. alien growing love for one of an race has to fight down a natural shrinking from showing her love to one racially so far apart from herself. In the end love defeat racial pride and all comes well-how, it would be unfair to tell here. Geraldine Farrar hounded joy at the safe return of the alleged to have been received in the here has a part after her own heart. Crown Prince. In connection with course of a fight in Kowloon City with The struggle that goes on within her his safe return the Privy Councillor a man who used a chopper, a Chinese breast is made finely plain and quoted cannot but feel profound was yesterday alternoon admitted to is never for a moment overdone. "ympathy with H.1.H. Prince Kanin, the Kwong Wah Hospital where little In the final scenes, which are all Count Chinda and other members of hope was entertained for his recovery turmoil and turmoil, she touches fine the Crown Prince's suite, for the and his dying deposition was taken. heights. She falls into the hands of great anxiety which they must have The alleged assailant, who the fanatics andi finds herself alone at felt about the welfare of the Prince arrested by the police, was produced the mercy of their leader. Him she all the time during his tour. Vice-belore Magistrate Orme this morning stabs and escapes from his tent only Admiral Oguri, the Commander-in-and remanded for a week. to fall into an even more serious Chief of the Third Squadron, which situation. She is dramatically rescued escorted the Crown Prince to and and escapes in the nick of time to from Europe, was second to none B serions in his solicitude for the welfare) call help which averts
Imperial Highness and rising. These closing scenes
are of his
C. P. O. Watt, R. O. Brown and a admirably done. But, for the matter in praying for his safe journey. of that, all the scenes those of the On the occasion of his departure from party of Chinese fokis searched the s.s. desert in particular-are notably fine. Japan on his important and responsi-Hanoi" on the vessel's arrival in The whole story is splendidly realistic ble mission, the Admiral actually told post yesterday morning and seized his family not to expect him to 1,000 taels of raw and 500 taes of pre- and is told most convincingly.
return alive. He was firmly resolved pared non-Government opium, worth to atone with his life for any misfor-about $7,000. The drug was conceal- tune that might befall the Prince dur-led in the coal bunkers, engineroom ing the voyage. Knowing full well and stakehold. No arrests the many auxious moments which made. The opium was brought ashore them members of the Prince's suite and taken to the Import and Export rust have had the Privy Councillor Office,
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