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LAMMERT BROS.
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WEDNESDAY, November 1, 1822," commencing at 245 p.m.
at No. 8B, Orient Building" (Top floor) ▲ Quality of Valuable Household Farnitara, (Fall Particulare from Catalogue). On view on day of sno Torme:Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctionpere
Hongkong, October 28, 1923.
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FRIDAY, November 3: 1022, commoncing at 2.15 p.m.
at their Salce Rooms, Duddall Street.. A Quantity of
Valuabio Household Furniture,
Comprising
Drawing and Dining Room Suites, brass belstaads, carpets, typewriters, Electric fana, etc., etc.
Mackwood cabinet, table, chairs, etc.
Alao
One psir binoculars by F. Davidson
& Co.
(Tae Telescope by "G____Falconez
& Co."
And
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One Upright Piano by "Challa "S
Ban.
Oa view from Thursday, the 2nd November.
Cataloguea will bo instiod
Torma :-Card on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
ON
Auctioneers.
TUESDAY, November 14, 1927, at 19 o'clock - (noon),
at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street. The Motor Launch
"Peswit"
Built in 1910 of Toakwa ul.
INTIMATION
LOOSE LEAF STAMP ALBUMS
WITH SPRING BACK COVER.
No illustrations for stamps, no text whatever, but all pages are printed with quadrille roling The best albums for collectors, enabling them to arrange their stamps in their own way, leaving no empty pages.
FAVORITE AT ......$6. each CROWN AT
..$5.
́GRAÇA & 00., Dealers in Postage Stampa, Post Carda, Garden doods, Toys, etc. No. 10, Wyndham Dress, P. O. Box 620,
Hongkong
SHOEMAKERS.
(Japanese Hand Made)
Every klad of Footwear. "MADE TO ORDER.
CHERRY & 00..
8, D'AQUILAR STREET,
Opposite Kayamally & Co.
Telephono Central No. 491
Hongkong, March 20, 1914.
MASSAGE.
Mrs. SEKAI
The Cantor Bank, 2nd Floor, No. 7, Duddell Stroot, Hongkong.
MASSAGE.
Engine: 3-cylinder Bolinder (Condo || Mrs, HONDA, Mrs. KISAKI and
Oil) 30 B. H. P.
Reg. Tonnage: 7.09 tons.
On view now at anoberage of the
Hongkong Club
TermaCash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers.
Hongkong, October 3, 1922.
EUROPEAN AGENCY.
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HOLESALE Indents promptly executed at lowest eash prices for all British and Continental goods. including
Books and Stationery.
Boola, Som and Leather,.. Chemicals and Druggists' Sundries,..................... Ukina, Karthenware and Glassware, Oycica, Hator Cars and Accessories Drapery, Millinery and Piece Goods Fancy Goods and Perfumery. Hardware, Machinery and Metal", " Jewellery, Plate and Watchee, Photographia and Optical Goods," Provisions and Dilmen's Stores,
etc., etc.
Commarion 2% to b
b%.
Trade Discounts allowed. 3parist Quotations on Demand. Sample Cases from £10 uproards, Congrenents of Produce Bold on decoună,
WILLIAM WILSON & SONS (BeraLMHED 1814),
25, Amateuch LANE, LONDON, E.0. Ochia Address : “ ÄNNU AKM' LONDON.
WOON YAU YUE
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"ONE PRICE" DEALERS IN
CHINESE ANTIQUES AND WORKS OF ART.
Old
Chiness Porcelains; Broszát, Buddhistic Stone
Scalptures, Painting 5, Screens, &c., ac.
CHUN XING YUE,
Proprietor.
So 18, Queen's Road, Central,
NOTICE.
IGH-CLASS PRINTING
AND
BOOK BINDING
DOUR AT
'THE CHINA MAIL OFFIOR
·· ØKS & PAMPHLETS A SPECIALTY
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K. SAIMIDZU,
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MASSAGE EXPERT HARRY FURUKAWA, K. SAKI,
19, Wyndhara Street.
JAPANESE MASSAGE.
N. AKAJL Graduata of Tokio Masange School,
No. 23, Wyndham Street.
Tel. Central 4395.
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the late BIEN TIXO. 14, D'Agullar Street. TERMS VERY MODERATE. Consulation Fres
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THE CHINA MAIL.
CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
FATHER AND STEPMOTHER
GUILTY.
Joan, the watlul child of eight found very cold and very hungry
Er d'Eyncourt: Is this your only obild?
Saunders: No, sir.
Mr. Ball: How many other children have you?
Saudere: Only one, a boy 4 years. Mr. d'Byncourt: With whom does in live?-Mrs. Martin a friend.
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on the doorstep in Jermyn-street-Continuing, Faunders-aid-Joan S.W., eleven o'clock at night by a subsequently it the convent and policeman, attended Marlborough: went to another school. street Police court. A strange, sad ̈ ̈Mr. Ball~When did you come to tory of her neglect by her father and Jermyn-street-About the middle of stepmother had been told; and he last October. magistrate (Mr. d'Eyncourt) had What has been the state of your adjourned the case for the attendance wife's health recently t-Daring the of the little girl Georg William last two or three months she has been Saunders and his wife Dalla aro ce upset, nervous, and ander medical cupants of an expensive flat in treatment. Jermyn street, B. W. They arG
The point has been made that the accused of filictly neglecting Joas, child Joan was directed to do certain the child of Mr. Saunders's first mar-honsework; ie it a fact that she has riags, in a manner likely to cause her helped her mother ?--Yes.
Has Joan to unnecessary suffering and injury to Lealth.
VISIT TO STAINES
your knowledge besa in the habit of going out It is alleged that the defendants frequently by herself!--Oh, frequent went away for a week-end leavingly. Joan with only a dog for compasy sad some bread and butter, and that she was told that she could, after eleasing down the staire and doing other work, go into the Green Park and look after-herself. She-lost the. Hatchkey of the dat, and the police- man who discovered her took her to Vina-street police-station.
Mr. d'Eyncourt eatened each of the defendants to two months in the
recond division.
I
Coming to the morning of August 26, did you go to your office! Yes. returned to the flat about one p... and then I did shopping for Joan's food
When did you first make up your mind to go to Staines?--About noon on that Saturday.
Witness explained that the reason for this sudden decision was that he
CELLAR GRAVE,
TUESDAY, OUTOBER 31, 1932
NOTIČEŠT
MURDER CHARGE AGAINST G. FALCONER & CO., LTD.
CHINESE.
The body of Sing Les, the Chinese proprietor of a laundry in the Crookes district of Sheffield, was discovered trusted like a fowl, enoased in his ow travelling track and buried in the cellar of his own premises _in_a_bola over which several hundredweights of stones had been heaped. The police bave arrested and charged with wilful murder Sing Lee's Chinese asistant. Loo Doon, whose proper name is be lieved to be Leong Lun, who had been at the handy for six weeks,
Sing Lor, who had been carrying on his laundry for many years, was popn. ler in the district, when his invariable courtesy and diligence won him favour. He had told many of his friendle that next year, when be would have been working for ten years in England, be intended to pay a eix months' visit to China. with his wife and family.
Between Saturday avoning, Septem- ber 9, and the following Sunday Sing Les disappeared. The fact of his disappearance did not causs much comment at first, as it was understood. that he had alother laundry business in Liverpool and he was frequently
absent.
Joan came into court twice during
He had, however, an English assist- the day's proceedings. On the first occasion she stood just below the had a friend who lives at Staines, nant, Miss Lily Siddall, 23, who was puzzled by his disappearance and magisterial:dais:neas, the desk of the he told him in the morning that as it caused inquiries to be made. The magistrate's clerk.
was fine he should like to accept his police searched the premises and invitation to spend the day and found a great pile of stones heaped evening with him at Staines, where hoover a part of the floor of the cellar. has a river bungalow. Witness told when these were shovelled away it his wife that he thought it would be was found that the floor had been good opportunity to take her away recently disturbed, and digging re- for a week-end, and asked her to vealed the trunk in which Sing Lee's pack the bag.
body was hidden. Throughout the search-Las Doon-stood in the cellar- watching the operation of the police and their assistante.
There is to be an appeal against both sentences..
Mr. d'Eyncourt said: I don't think I have ever had a case quite like this before It・ in certainly a very pecular case. Here are two people of education and very good position. They are not guilty of cruelty in the ordinary sense at all. There seems to bano active cruelty against this child in any way. The child Joan is an extemely bright and intelligent child |—a splendid little child-o very pre
cious possession, as every child is. You, the defendants, left this child from Saturday till Monday. You say you missed your train, and it seems it could have very easily been caught il you wanted
a
What did you tell Joan you were roing to dol-That we were going way for the afternoon and night, and returning on the Sauday night.
Did she expreas any regret or terror at your going away?
Witness replied in the negative. What happened on Sunday?-We proceeded in a punt up the river to Windsor, and had tea, and we did not get back to Staines until after dark. About 9.30 p.m. and we missed the train.
Did you try to get a cab touanepessfully.
The bungalow was about: a mile and a ball to mile and three- barters from the station Quite
do 20. You left the child absolutely by herself. That seems to mae in itselfs very heartless thing to do, not mere thoughtless cruelty. I think Joan is a splendid little girl.
You found in the end that you Ang sort of accident might have bap could not catch a train, and did not pered to her. She did have an ac turn until Monday morning 3-Yes. cident; she lost her key. Eu far as
From first to last, have you ever you, the defendants, made provision, bad occasion to consider that your anything might have happened to wife treated Joan in anything but a her. Apparently neither of you even discussed the matter whether it was proper way?-No. asle to leave the child like that.
Has the child ever complained in Any way-No.
Without going into the question of With regard to his mother, she was the provision made for the child.74, and in possession of her faculties, which I should think was not very except for deafness.
wholesome' for her, it seems to me to
Mr. Barrington Matthews: Is it have been the act of people who could
true that neither you nor your wife no possibly have any sympathy with over took the child out?--It is untrae. children. The child has raid she was He often took her out during the not frightened, and although Joan weak and, and his wife took Joan out had also said and I have no reason till the time she became ill. to doubt that you were not unkind to her, it was a most cruel and heart- less thing to do; a mostextraordinary thing to do, to abandon this child in the way she was abandoned.
"REARTLESSLY CRUEL."
Continuing, Mr. Matthews asked: 1 understood you to say that the food you got her was liver, sausage, and tomatoes-food fit for a child of 8?~- the is swially fond of it,
Mr. d'Eyncourt: Why didn't you come up by so earlier train on Mon-
"TELLING FIRS."
The magistrate continued: I have no way of making people el your sext, day-Well, sir, our hostess came up who do not love children: do so, but too. one can stop people doing this port of thing-cruel, heartlessly cruel,. to Mr.-Matthews: Did you say to abandon a child in this way. I can 'Inspector Parish of the N.SP.C.C. draw no distinction between you, and, that your wife had taken a dislike to
bas taken a dislike because she had told fibs, not a dislike to her.
She Ikes the child I—Yes.
The body was taken to the mortuary, where a post-mortem examination was made by Dr. Godfrey Carter, who will give evidence at the inquest.
When Leo Doon was formally charged before the magistrates on Saturday with the murder of Sing Lee he made no reply, though the polica stated that he understande English. He was remanded in custody until Friday,
Did you say I marry George Saunders I don't want either of his brats”;
The female defendant (with em- phase): I swear that that is untrue; it is absolute prejudice.
much Mr. d'Eyncourt: I don't pay attention to there sort of things before they are married. They all say all sorts of things. that they are going to
do
Dr. Matthews: Did you think it a right and proper thing that the child should be left alone?
Mrs. Saunders: It never entered my mind at the time.
Mr. d'Egneourt: Have you ever left her before-Never. Joan was de lighted at the idea,
Joan went into the witness box, above which her shoulders just ap peared.
Mr. d'Eyncourt: I think I will not havo the child sworn; she is only tight.
The child smiled in a winding man. ner to every question when answer- ing. She was 8 years of age.
Ob, ao; I was not a bit nervous about my father and mother going away during that week-end.”
Mr. Ball: Are you quite happy?
And very fond of your mother?- Yes, (Exclamations of "Oh 1") Il it is said your mother
WAS
I shall make no distinction between Josa for telling fiba ?-No, I said she-Yes. you. I shall make it two months each in the second division.
Answering questions by Mr. Ball, Inspector Henry Thomas maid: The child Jean was found on the step out. side the flat. I asked her bow it was You swear that ?-Yen,
Tha female defendant gave that she was alone. She told me that ber. parents had gons.for-a-week and, evidence, and Mr. Rall søked her: I and she had the key and went to the is enggated that you disliked Joan, Green Park and lost it and could not is there any truth in that i get in. 1. asked her if she was sure
Very affectionate, very fond of hert, cruel, what would you say?—I should say she was not. My step mother Yes.
has sometimes taken me out.
Mr. J. Martin; of Cheltenham gave evidence.
Mrs. Martin: I should like to keep the child always. I have never wanted to part with the child.
Can you account for his conduct towards this little girl in any way!
Mrs. Martin: I think it is the
Mr. d'Eynsaart said: I under- stand that it is, rather: at your re Mrs. Saunders: No, certainly not.quest that you kept Mr. Saunders's that her parente would not come back I suppose, the child would require other child! that night, and she said, "Oh! they correction at times-Yes, for, her won't come back to-night," and I own sake. ; asked her if she was hungry. Sha
I believe you have been receiving caid, "I am, rather." I said, "I medical attention Yes. And, there any food left at home for yon." in consequence of your bealth stayed She'caid, "Oh 1 ya." Isic. Are in the fat a great deal t---Quita's lot. you not afraid of being there, alone?" In order that she might have proinfluence of the woman. Whe replied, "Oh, not I have got my per exercita you allowed Joan, to go then a general impression? { duge","
cut by herself in the day Yes..
Mrs. Martin replied in affect that Mr. Barrington Matthews: Did you Mrs. Saunders was not actively cruel The child was brought into court, She smiled as she approached the ever say with regard to Joas," he to the child. She had earrooted load, magisterial dais, and looked up is a is not my child. I am not respon-hat she had never seen the step- bright manner at the magistra o besible "f-I did not use the word "re- mother emask the child. fore going out of court, to re appear sponsible." I said "She is not my daughter, bat my stepdaughter," to
later and maku ber-statement.
Mr. Ball called the male defendant, In psstor Parish I said I don't want a shipbroker, who, giving evidence on to have anything to do with the oath, said Joan was born on April 19, matter."
Have you any reason for that other
3 Ball You were acting the part
Witness; I was fond of his first of the Good Samaritan 1
wile.
The magistrate commented on the very intelligent way to which Josa answered questiona, an i gaidi :
1914, so that she was now about P3-May-1-take-it-that-you-are-very years, and the child of his former wife, affectionately disposed towards Jean?
She looks well an 1 seems bright. Witness married again on March 31, Why not replied, Mrs. Saunders. I
am fond of all children and animals. 1920.
-Mr. Ball anggested that the adoks- You have no children of your ownfations against the defendants, had not been made out. He suggested that No DANA When you were at Cheltenham, their condget was, thoughtless, but when you were Miss McCulloch, did that there was no evidence of feltbar you say to the child during his neglects CS
Mr. Ball: And since your escond marriage where has Joan been think she was then at a convent. Sha apent a good deal of her holidays bet Living with us and my motter, Kombaye a married sister who lives With our mother!-Ye
on pug nosed little thing Nevada The magistaje snutanosd the de- I am sure I didn't..
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