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CURIOUS STORIES. BOBBED HAIR GIRLS WITH BOMBS
ANOTHER ARREST.
Letters of: · Sweetness Like Unto Honey."
A second bobbed-hair Chinese girl is said to have been taken into custody in connection with the. Malay: States "bomb outrage. The first woman is believed to have passed through Hongkong with explosives in her possession.
Several months ago it was res ported that the Hongkong Police. aeting in conjunction with the Naval authorities, closely search ed in-coming passengers from Canton for a young Chinese woman with bobbed-hair, who was easily distinguishable because of a prominent birth-mark above one eye and who had been given some high explosive, supposedly by Russian agents, to take through Hongkong to Singapore, Bangkok,
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BLOWS AND CLOTS.
ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER.
CASE EVIDENCE BE
this more
he said in Dr. Fehily aata hed the Court
cross-examination that he had known a case in which death had been caused by a blow inficted on a part of a pupil head by a teacher using an ordinary school ruler.
vernacular rapers, the Hongkong Police have sent to Kuala Lumpur another smartly dressed bobbed hair woman of about twenty-five. On receipt of telegraphic instruc tions the Criminal Intelligence nection with a charge of man-
His evidence was given in con Department, so the story goes slaughter heard against a Chinese, took this woman of the China Yuen Kam employed together Merchants' steamer Kwany Lee, with the man whose death formed which runs between Canton, the subject of the charge in an Hongkong and Shanghal. She iron foundry at Shamsuipo, the had only a leather hand-bag and evidence going to how said Mr. a box and nothing was found ex-G. K. Holmes in his opening, that cept some.correspondence which With the sailing of a Singapore- the Chinese Press describe as of there, had been a quarrel as to the bound steamer, the search was "sweetness like unto honey."
moving of some iron bars.
At eight o'clock on the morn given up, and it was presumed After detention, she was sent fing of February 23 the two men were working together when the
or even further:
that the "bomb girl" had refrain-away-under escort. ed from coming to Hongkong.
About two months later, the "China Mail" "received
from its Singapore corro.
cable ndent
to the effect that a bobbed-hair girl had thrown a bomb at. Mr.) Richards, Protector of Chhese in. Kuala Lumpur and that the girl was believed to be the one the Hongkong. Police had been on the look-out for as there was no ques- | tion of personal animosity to Mr. Richards. Subsequently.the. theory was questioned as the woman could speak Matay, the presumption being that knowledge of the language meant that she Was a native rather than a Cantonese
In the latest Kuala Lumpur paper ("Malay Mail") to hand, it is mentioned that the woman was' dressed in a white jacket and a dark skirt the skirt according to Hongkong ideas being an indies tion of the fashionable She W committed for trial.
According to this morning's
OPIUM RAID."
"RATHER INGENIOUS"
ROBBERY,
- SEVEN YEAR SENTENCE.
A man who is alleged to have posed as a police officer searching for illicit goods on a sampan and in that capacity to have got away with nearly $150, was sentenced to seven years hard labour at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
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CENTRAL POLICE COURT.COMEDY.
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FACIAL MAGIC.
Taking Off His Nose to Spite His Friends!
Even the expert Malini must stand baffled before the feat of a
Magistracy man who pulled off his nose in the waiting-room of the Central
This deed was performed by a into a pocket and then glare at defendant who had been fined those around him $500 by Mr. J. R. Wood for It was then that they found out possession of opium. It was that it was only a false nose that because the other Police Court he had removed. To the chagrin habituces insisted on poking fun of the victim everybody now at his somewhat prominent nose laughed all the more.. that, roused to a fine pitch of anger, he finally removed the offending organ and put it in his pocket, ···
For only a second or so, the
police officers who were waiting with prisoners in their custody, either for payment of fines or the prison warrant, aback.
were
taken
Following the man's action, they aaw him calmly put his nose
CRASHING THROUGH HEAVY SEAS.
Here in H.M.S, "Hood," the flagship the Special Service Squadron, which was mentioned by the First Lord of the Admiralty, as cabled yesterday, during the debate on the Navy Estimates, Mr. Bridgeman said that the cruise was a very fitting complement to Wembley, giving the Dominions, glimpse of the peaceful force of the Navy, of which the Beemity of trade depends.g.
QUEEN'S GARDENS.
• NEW RENTS SCALES EXPLAINED.
TENANTS STILL SECURE.
STEAMER AFIRE. SERIOUS BLAZE AVERTED.
BRIGADE'S GOOD WORK
An eyewitness who was present described the man's head as re sembling a dead man's skull when the "nose" came off
Unfortunately, the man's power
of deception did not baffle police have been so ruffled as to forget detection, or else he would not
his personal appearance.
In Ming Yan Lane, a private street at Wanchai, the police had discovered a niche in a wall, cleverly covered with a board and hidden from view by: wall- paper. Five taels of illicit-oplum were brought out from this cavity and the quick-change artist, was arrested.
Brought before the Police. Magistrate, he was given the option of a fine, and it was while sitting in the room adjoining the Court that he became the object of ribald laughter.g
Nature had apparently given him a nose which he had been careless enough to lose. With the aid of some sticky substance he had managed to conceal his dis figurement until Saturday.
It is stated that a pock-marked woman of stout dimensions com- pleted the comedy by going up to pay the fine
Detective Sergeant Kwan H nam of No. 2 Police.
responsible for the
as the officer, it will be reme
trymenta
on. Mrs. DeaconTM Road, to book..
WEEK-END RAIN. WATER SUPPLY LITTLE "AFFECTED.
RESTRICTION MUST REMAIN,
The three inches of rain whichr had fallen may add a day or 50'6 supply to the reservoirs, but otherwise will just be soaked up: If heavy rain follows it will make a good deal of difference now that the surface is more or less saturated,
deceased told the prisoner to carry something and he replied in effect. "do it yourself," continued the Crown Solicitor. The deceased picked up a hammer and threw it at accused, and it was the conten-" Mr. Whyte-Smith, Acting Crown
tion of the Crown that the
What threatened to be a serious Solicitor, described the robbery as The foreshadowed reduction of prisoner picked up a pole and in blaze on the s.8. Fooksing anchor-
These were the replies given to a" rather ingenious" one. The rent for the houses at Queen retaliation struck the deceased on ed at Cheungshawan yesterday a "China Mail" reporter who prisoner was a guard on the steam Gardens, recently acquired by the the head.
morning was averted by the made enquiries at the offices of launch "Hothon" and fo that Government, has been taken by There was no sign of bleeding, prompt arrival of the fire fighters the Water Authority this morn capacity had access to the place some of the tenants as an indication said Mr. Holmes, and workmen The fire was caused by the breaking as to the effect the recent where the arms were kept The that it is the intention of the who were near by at the time ing of a kerosene supply pipe.
rains would have on, the water key was found on him when Government: to turn them out at a would depose to their opinion that
Two equipments of the fire The restriction at regard the
Bupply.AM he was arrested and it was the later period.
they had no idea that death would float were brought into action submission of the Crown that the arms found on the prisoner and $130 furnished, as they are now
The reduction in question is from follow the blow. The deceased, under the direction of Station Water supply at Kowloon will be seemed to have challenged the Officers G. C. Moss and G. taken off as soon as possible but two others who went with him to to $90, unfurnished, as they will prisoner to "come out and fight" Saunders, who had a staff of on the rain that had fallen it is. the sampan obtained from the launch on which the present owner is no longer to be tools and went, home. His rela- removed after nearly two hours present
the question were be in June, when the furniture of but shortly after he picked up his thirty men, and the danger was certainly not safe to do he was acting as guard.
reckoned.
tives would give evidence, that he work. AT DEN 22, said the Crown Solicitor, two Mail", this morning elicited the in- thought, went to sleep. Shortly at $100, was confined to wooden Enquiries made by the "China went straight to bed, and they The damage, which is estimated
At 9.30 on the night of January
men boarded the sampan as, it
beams in the bulkhead.
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lay off Mongkok in the typhoon formation that the Government bus after he came out of his room shelter. The men, on the pretexto settled policy in regard to the holding his head and complained of looking for oplum, searched the ouses but they certainly have not of fesling dizzy. He fainted and owner and other people with him, the slightest intention of turning did not recover consciousness took from the former $141, made out tenants. As tenants left, their again. enga him accompany them to another places were being taken by others, At the Tung Wah Hospital tourdite will be burnt at Stonecutters figures will be published-to- sampan alongside, and get aboard some Government servants and em which he was taken it was when they were taken to another ployees at the Dockyard, but the thought that an operation might junk. When they got there Government were prepared to con- save his life but owing to the the men told the man from whom sider any application when objections of the relatives this they had taken the money to walt vacancies occurred, until they returned and they then went on board. After an hour had passed the man became suspicious, went on board and found that the mon were nowhere about and kad obviously walked off the other side and got away a
Evidence of Identification was that of the sampan woman who had worked the boat the men had hired, the having picked
HUGE OPIUM HAULE
10,000 TAELS ABOARD STEAMER
ENGINEERS ARRESTED
Revenue rofficers: effected biggest: seizure of the
the prisoner out from sight board the 6.8, Lai Sang.
others at an identification parade.
The man when charged at the morning when they dise
Police Station had replied went the engine room approximately
there to search for opium,
tas trould not poss
the duty of one tha
under the ePir
10,000 Laal cof opium. They also
understood that one
the vessel
was not done and the man died on the following al
Dr. Fehily of that spital gave evidence of the nature of the Injury which had led to the man's death, stating that the post morem examin
closed that there was clot of blood pressing on the brain sk
mined by
Dr. Fehily
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