NESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1926.
ÁRMS ON SHIP.
CASE BEFORE TWO MAGISTRATES.
IN PERFECT ORDER.
THINGS OF SPIRIT.
JURY INSPECT A HOOK LADDER.
TWELVE FIREMEN CHARGED.
A FIREMAN'S DEATH.-
LIFERARY VALUE OF GHOSTS.
SHADOWS IN ALL AGES...
THE CHINA MAIL.
$2,000 COFFIN.
BOOTLEGGER'S ROYAL BURIAL
PENSIONS FOR CRIMINALS.
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those pioneer days, the Chief of Police evidently belleves that the run-man has his place, and his place is six feet under ground
Crime is such an expensive drain upon the law-abiding people of Chicago that according to the president of the Crime Commis- alon it would be cheaper to pay They buried Sammy Amatuna the criminals a pension of £4,000 fow days ago in Chicago with yearly on their promise to forsake and almost the expensiveness of a estimates there are 80,000 profes- Pharaoh (says Sir A. Maurice sional criminals, or one per cent. Law, in the "Morning Post) of the population, and at 54,000 year apiece the pension roll They put his worthless, bullet-u coffin costing £2,000; his admir A not insignificant sum, and it shredded body into a silver bronze would be £120,000,000 annually. ers sent 50 truck loads of flowers, gives some idea of the importance the professional estimated to have cost £8,000, attached to One more original than the resturiminal in these days. sent a life-size oil painting of the lost leader framed in carnations..
With Mr. R. E. Lindvell and The inquiry ince the death of a "In literature, the ghost exists Major C. Willson sitting together recruit fireman was concluded at las symbol of man's eterna at the Contral Magistracy-yester- the Central Magistracy yesterday.ignorance and eternal inter all the pomp and circumstance the city and never return. He day, eight Chinese were charged in the morning Mr. R. E things of the spirit said Miss with unlawful possession of me Lindsel and the jury visited the Cence Dane, the playwright, revolvers and 926 rounds ofWanchal Fire Station, where the in a lecture, in mail week to the ammunition, and four others were accident, occurred, and witnessed six Point Grup on The Ghout charged with possession of some demonstration of drill and in Literature, at which Mr. Alee of the arms. The arrests followed||spected the tower. the seizure of 53 revolvers and It may be recalled that, at the Bane presided. 6,664 rounds of ammunition on first hearing last week. evidence. She agreed, he said, with board the 9.9, "Benavon" on was given, that the recruit was stinguished man of letters, who using n hook Buffer and feltold her that as soon as ghod was Mr. H. S. Fitzroy and Mr. Eeuwhen climbing to the highest infeed into a work of literature d'Ahmad each represented one stage of the tower,"
December 12
the
of the defendants, and Mr. D. Further evidence was taken
showing that McCallum appeared for the reyesterday. mainder.
ladder used was in perfect work- ing order.
In answer to Mr. Lindsell, the 'progerbtion stated that there was no evidence against the four men than had been indicated at the lass hearing except that the seized property was found in the meals quarters.
Chief Preventive Officer S. J. Clarke described the raid whien he carried out with two European and Chinese revenue othcers. Cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, witness said it did not appear that the firends had left in the ustral way. The place was untidy and things were in disorder. Answer- ing questions, witness said he f
The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death In reply to questions by the Coroner they snid the drill had been properly and reasonably carried out, anil) that the revruit was not given more to do then night reasonably
respected of him."
COMETS YEAR.
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ORBITS OF TWO 'REFENT DISCOVERIES.
"This your now holik ke revopi arceived information after the for. Mumber of pools ob
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event smul Pr. Brenumelin at the
eling off this Brisisch „Vistronomiczna. Vescention in muil week.
Beharon" arrived in port. did not think the disarraiged con- tion of the place was doo to the Search by revenue officers. Fe The tagger manber of comets thought someone had ransacked it jierer wr 11 may previous your Was before the officers arrived on. That was je 1808. The 10-| Several sampans left the ship, but reet dis overy of Van Bierbroeck's he saw no one climb overboard. leonet ad of Wilk's comet had
. Reventie Officer Beattie also brought the pamber for this year up- gave evidence as to the finding of to eleven, the boxes and other packages.
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FIVE GASSED,
NIGHT.
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Jits liderney vadne disappeared. The
whole of lifeaure was simply need of the spirit in mut!
"MRS. JUMAUS KAHN
Mrs. Julius Kahn, who has taken the place of her late husband in. Con- gress from. California, cailed on President Coolidge.
white
Sammy was the product of his time and environment: He was the leader of a gang gambler, bootlegger, trafficker in human
GERMAN AIR TRUST.
Berlin, January 6.
ffesh. He made money fast and A fusion has been affected be- came to the usual end. He went tween the Aero-Lloyd and the to a barber's shop to be shaved Junkers air communication ser- und oiled and perfumed for vice. The contracts have been Sammy was somewhat of an exsigned and the new company will quisite when he was not combe called The Deutsche Lufthansa. mitting murder, and that night he The air service will be rosumed on was going to the opera, having.
the Italian's love of music. He April 1. never got there. As he stepped from the barber's chair; two shots. ware fired and found lodgment in his body. The police asked him. if he suspected anyone, but Sammy was true to the best tradi- tions of the gangster. He suz- jeeted no one, although gangland was buzzing with the name of the sassin, and with that comfort- ing be he passed beyond. Gang- and does not unnecessarily con- Bee in the police; it settles? its
NOW READY;
THE CHINA YEAR BOOK 1925.
affair in its own way. Sooner or BDITED BY H. G. W, WOODHRAD,
later another gang leader will!
come to a violent end, the poller
D
will ask a few perfunctory ques Large And More Comprehensive
tions, and there will be another
great funeral.
It was because Sammy died as
A
Than Ever.
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Dr. Crommelin wont on to dis
The present (1925-6) issue of The case was adjourned until russ the orbits and the probable
a gentleman and gangster Monday, the Soug defendants con- Gate peers of these two comete;
should cynically mystifying the the CHINA YEAR BOOK is again cerned in the second charge being bus though he spoke with "fair
police. that gangland paid inconsiderably larger than any of The Chapters allowed ball in $100 each:
brudderico about Wilk's comet be
this last homage. For hours be- ta predecessors. į was' unable, 'owing to the seureity
fore the funeral the streets of the on "Mines and Minerals," "Educa "Prodacts," "Labour," Italian quarter about his house tion," polo obseryntions, to say anything
"Commerce," *Opium,"
"Ship- Homer's ghosts were facts, though were blocked with a dense mass Ivory definide about Van Bierbrook'>abs. Odysseus
went of men, women, and children Ping," "Currency," etc., have been. romet.
lades as we to-day might go to watching with amazement the rewritten and brought up to date. Fe mid that Wilk's come would Morow. To the seks ghosts vans of the florists arriving with The Report of the Shanghai Child BURST MAIN PEREL IN THE probably fade rapidly, far although we piers and helpless; to the flowers, an endless procession.abour Commission is reprinted in would containe" to approach the Norseman ghosts we dangerous After brief religious services at full in the Chapter in "Labour." sun until December 24th, it was enemies, With Shakespeare's time she house the casket was carried "The Political Suramary" describes Blondy hurrying awa from the the ghost came into its own. Pairing out
by pall-bearers in dinner events up to the end of March 1925. The Chapter on "Defence: The people. Being de bouses Aul. El seemed likely he heard got and sprites came out of jackets. It required an hour to next or opposite to such other, we come other world never return their hiding places.The Mid-load all the flowers into trucks, appears at the end of the Book Baken to Stockport Indiemury early jugðin, or, if it did, not wwil after !
mer Night's Dream" establish and the dingy streets were strewn New Chapters include a Summary "Political in the running suffering from gas ja "long interval. 1.
so for ever.
the phew of the ghost in liter. With the petals of roses and of Medical Events:"
chrysanthemums, the only touch Parties," "Taxation" a "Biblio word, ghost of sweetness in that sordid place.graphy for 1924," and a docu was also fading: it was persibly had then, in a
Hundreds of men have sworn ented Chapter on "China's Con- husth age According to Mrs. Howarthy, wife nearest to the sun early in the them
vengeance on Sammy's slayer.stitutions and Election Laws." The own. of Willem Edward 1122), a grocer persona moakh. Neither of the two reminding that there
Jer Hundreds of youths taking their THE TERMS OF THE GOLD FRANC SETTLEMENT ARE of Bond Street, Puriwoor, her compets were, husstant heard a hang in the right without optical assistance. Wk's would one day play a part, The his fate, but to die with his boots bab zuld it in-croplast 11. the cause. find had no tail but Van ghost of Banquo is Macbeth's ownon, as Sammy did, to be followed When he got me he said he fell begbroeck's whe powersed of along incarne. It is noticeable to the tomb by wailing thousands, sick and bayaga do skarger. kebab an indiention of one."
It is supposed dud there was large escapes from the main,
went downdairs, and sho. there
As far as could at present, he Bjudged, Va Bierbeek's comet
The
Um
was first lessons in crime will be more or will be visible another word, in which they stadious. Every gangster knows INCLUDED IN AN APPENDIX
THE MECCA PILGRIMS.
But Macbeth is never wanted By to be remembered as a leader, and ale ghost of rena, whom he band to leave as a legacy a blood feud- kilka with his own, band. 14 what more could any gangster [affer the second outrage on his own | ask?
POWER TO HAUS),
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She led in a doctor, and then
Beyh door 10 a lenne poundi
Jeddah, January 8.
better bure that Macheth goes: 'PERSUASION AS DETERRENT. the earn" be Broly Shore. Ag she The Jeddah Consulate states the pieces and sees a ghost. J Sometimes one is inclined to pro got ou auswer she burst open Government of Sultan In Saud is hamlet's father and Bathe think that New York, despite its Theer and found Nellie Coleman going to levy the following taxes get in berature is crowned.
sophistication, is still living in 16 and Mary Cox (121, lying in on each pilgrim: 37 Egyptian
the age of innocence. Having bad nuances, Miss Coleman piastres equal to fl. 4,68 V for
tried the ordinary methods to #apramed to be dead, Bub precovered quarantine duties, visas on pass-
The matter-of-fach eighteen suppress and detect the criminals 1. It! * falling,
ports 32% piastres equals 1. the khem, on the other ade of so-called "ikram" (expenses for all not take ghosts who make New York their happy Bruly Stred, Willam Meglenhousing, etc.) £4 10s, of which £1srsly, but could bre, do withont hunting ground, and having in- bem ad the sure. William Blake gloriously failed, the trusting ish, Bank been gassed, and had 10s. belongs to the Government. Ballers with less her on the chimney On. account of bad times, the was a man who seemed to live his authorities have resorted to sim- pler and more humane methods, plan, und klizabet) Steak (80). [reat of houses has been lowered whole life in the world of spirits,
Sir Walter Scott's Wandering a combination of Freud, Coué, Masinn bauli suffering, from the effects to one-half and that of shops to
Willie's Tale" was perhaps the and the old-fashioned teaching of of the fumes.
two-thirds of the normal rent.
finest ghost story in the world, the Sunday schools.
In the elevated and subway Ghosts, generally, tended to die
Cars. are placards warning the ent: their power to hund decreused kriminal that the game does not with the years, -- bu modern ghost pay, and to point the moral there Peries, also, it was curious how the are pictures of the big policeman writers mere inclined 10 use pointing his revolver at the slink- } ing criminal. Suggestion, my In our age the ghost had ceased Jear Watson, suggestion. All to be ridiculous, on the stuge, It you have to do is to keep on teli- was Bernard Shaw who had restoring the desperate crook he is ed the ghost to ita proper place in bound to lose, and he will become Man and Superman, St. Joun," a "law-abiding, self-respecting, and "Back to Mothneetah. The Church-supporting citizen, nase- amalterable message of the ghost ining the plate and asking, not oven There is a be a slight commission for his work.
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drawn
children.
literature was: vond."
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It was the inspiration of genius, i bus unfortunately the under world is stupid and unresponsive to suggestion. While the tired business man reads these thrilling placards and thanks his good. fortune that he was born honest, the thief sitting next to him Weltevreden, January 9. At Menado, Celebes, a heavy gently relieves him of his watch and money. Not only is the earthquake lasting one minute criminal atupid, but he is also was felt.
ungrateful yo Heavy rains are falling at THE WAR ON CRIME. Semarang. The storm makes it Chicago, relying less on the Impossible for the steamers to powers of persuasion and more on and passengers or cargoes, "e the efficacy of the bullet, has
At Balangnipa, the river is flooding the country and has
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adopted other methods in sup prossing, crime: The Chief of
carried away a large fron bridge. Police has organised a squad of
The Communist, Sjamsjoedin, was sentenced by the Padang ecurt to one and a half yeare Imprisonment for strike pro paganda in the port of Emma hawene
picked men, crack markamer, and fearless. His orders are concise. Arrest acknown criminal on sight, he tells his men, if a man has e gun in his hand, kill him without any loss of time. When Chicago Sergeant Huisjes, a pupil of the was an output of Western civilisa aviation, school at Kalidjatti, fell tion and the Indian was at its
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