TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1926.
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MR. CLAYTON'S LOCAL· NOTES.
"TEN YEARS AGO:':
HAYLEY MORRIS.
DECISION OF COURT, OF...«.
APPEAL..
'AN APPALLING“ CASE..
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That he wraithe disgusting villain POSTPONED WORKS. that he admits 'he, whs, who de bauched Hittle girls one after the other, was likely to prejudice the fury far more than anything the Judge said or did
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With some remission. Hayley Morris would only spend 30 months in prison under the existing sent-
evidence to show that he would suffer from such a term
Mr. P. B. Chyton, who is so a court crowded with barris-ance. There was no shadow of popular in connection with theters and the general public, Hayley
Toc H movement writes thus Morris... of
Pippingford Park. in the March number "St. John's Uckfield, Sussex, and his young Cathedral Notes":
wife, Madeline, applied for leave to appeall against their convictions at Lewes Assizes. The applications were dismissed and the Lord Chief Justice directed that both the sen teneos should start from that day.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO, LTD.
ATOTICH IS HEREBY GIVENİ.
that the THIRTY SEVENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEET. The submitted expenditure of ING will be held at the Company's $1,366,720 not included in the 1926 Offices, P. and O Buliding, on budget occasioned comment at the FRIDAY, 12th March, 1926 at or Finance Committee meeting restor-am for the purpose of presenting
The work was for certain public works postponed from 1923.
The Lord Chief Justice: un derstand that there are certain classes of offences which are re-day. garded as of such a kind that there
can bo no remission.
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The Director of Public Works explained that in 1925, the Secretary
the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 31st December 1915, and alecting:| Directors and Auditon"
The Transfer Books of the Com- of Stato, sanctioned an expenditure pany will be closed from 1st March
Sir Douglas, said he was inform- that all offences could secure remission.
This man for this series of offences of the most gross and ordinary.
every
of $8,000,000 on public works extrato 12th March, 1926, both, daya
Enter the Department Inclusive.
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Ten years ago. a battered House in Flanders opened its doors to all and sundry in the Salent of Ypres; but, instead of windling into importance like
Morriss and his wife were found mogl ww-fellowships. Toe H has had the courage to extend Rushy on" December 17 last of end to expand has extended fences with regard to young its Membership. 80 that the women whom Morriss employed at veteraneis to-day but a the of his house, and the sentence passed brutal. kind, carried on for nearly was told to retrench as far as pos- By Order of the Board of Directors,
onsible, but It was quite impossible ; a year deliberately carried its hetive hast, and it has expand on the husband by Mr. Justice with the intention of getting one at that time to know exactly to GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents. ed from one broken Belgian hos-vory was two years hard labour after another fresh victim
what extent they could retrench.. tely until its mama is a watch and one year without hard labour months to be let out again 24 The result of the year's work show- Hoogkong, 23rd February, 1926. word among the British stock in both teeme bo run consecutively) years from the time his sentence ed that over a million dollars on A sentence of nine months hard runs. If the court te to consider these items sanctioned by the Secre- many fur corners of the Workt
As the Red Crass Secky labour was passed on the wife for the offence, as invited. I might re-tary of State was payable, but they sprung from Scutari, and the spiracy and for riding and mind you that there is a power of were not provided for in this year's Boy Seduts from Muteking, sojabetting her husband!
estimates as when the estimates, the sentence Tee is emerging as the trium- Si. Douglas Bogg. R.C. the ways. There is something to be were framed it was quite impossible phant trophy wrested from the Attorney-General.
said for making the punishment to say to what extent savings would Marshal Mal. K.C., and Mr. John adequate to the crime and for pro- Just great Tragedy of wae BO
Hon. Mr. Lang This year's Bruin the younger men of the ewers appeared for the crown. tecting the public from the latting
estimata not worth the paper more in many spare time tasks of M. Roland Olivet, KC, and Moose of a man who had made wick- service. The H in its own way is St. John Hutchinson represented ed and disgusting attempts of this they are written on
great structural achievement as tayley Morviss, and Sir Henrykind" that gigantic causeway in pro- Curtis Bennett, K.Ç., and Sir cess ncross Sydney Harbour Travers Humphreys were for Mrs. is in fact a fourfold bridge, built
Morvias.
from both ends is oncer
Sie Edward
considering
both
Judgment Delivered.. Delivering judgment, the Lord
The
Chlef Justice said:—— Both prisßners asked for permia-
"This appeal is one of a sing age, it spans the gap, so danger son to call further evidence. but plar degree of unreality... Das and dispiriting, hetween the only Morriss himself asked to have evidence in the case, as was ad- Boy Scout and the Retarian, and the sentence reviewed. While hemitted is not merely disgusting anters deeply into the aims of did not appeal against the convic-but it is also in the highest degree beth. It is bridge on heap them for procuration and the cone overwhelming. Neither of the two gulf which inherited class conquent sentence of two years hard counsell on behalf of the appellants sciousness makes ever more dubour, he wished to appeal against has attempted to deal with the sive and distressing between the the conviction for conspiracy and mass of repulsive facts disclosed young employer anothe young alleged assault, and against the by the evidence in the case. employed: and Toe H springs sentence of one year's imprisonment happily from both sides at onced It is a Hink which is at last be- mg to lessen ti allenation
without bad labour.
Mrs. Morriss In Dock..
were:
So far as Bayley Morris is coneumed it was never in contem-. plation that he shopli go into the Ms. Morrisa, who was necom-witness-box to offer an answer: to any of the allegations made against him. It is said that there certain matters at the trial of such a kind as to entitle the appellants to take advantage of them and, to urge, notwithstanding the verdict off the jury and the character and volume of the evidence, that the condiction hr 'the one crise should! be quashed and that in the other case the sentence should be re- vised."
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- between the younger men and pantert in the dock by, two ward- organised religion: for in Foc Hasos, wore a smart brown costume the Padres of many churches with a small hat to match She may meet their men in the hap- looked pale, During the hearing pics and most wholesome spielt of the case she often wiped her of understanding, with a common eyes with a handkerchief. aim of doing good which leads Morris who sat next to her with them back to the deeper needk of twry warders on his left, frequently ille itself within the would-be japoke to his wife. When he first worker for God's Kingdom. And entered the dick he shook her hand ama Tor Bhes yet another cause smiled and had a short conversa- at heart and is Building a further tion with her.
Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, deal- Causeway to carry it. This is the spanning of the wide sensing with the applications of Mrs, which separate the younger mbi Morriss, said the notice of her of the Empire, sping largely appeal stated that the refusal of from the same stock. bred in Me. Justice Avery to postpone her schools and circumstances which trial when appliention was made, have at least certain great com- owing to her condition of health, mon factors, but patifully ignor amounted to a denial of justice, ant of one alocher. od sking for it was not arrive us by the any great unifying principle of exercise of judicial discretion, but purpose. Yet on them, in a few was an arbitrary decision contrary years' ore, falls the Titanic task to the only evidence on the matter of making the Empire one houre- before the court: hold more than ever.
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A few days after the date of the committal for trial & doctor was consulted, sincerely or insincerely, about the alleged condition of Mrs. Morriss. On December 10 bill was found by the Grand Jury and on the evening of that day, "h consultation was suggested wish another physician as to her pond tion.
other doctor the consultant who was not called. It was said that
be effected:
that..
The Chairman: You cannot say
But here we
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Hon. Mr Lang:
are asked for another million and
quarter at any bato!"
The Director mentioned that the items were exceedingly urgent, but on instructions the Department. marked time on all these items last year he added that the contrac- tors had not been paid since the beginning of the year.
The Committee's approval was ultimately given.
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was that the jury exercised a wise discrimination in the verdicta On Friday, December 11, she which they found. It was said that was examined by that doctor. On the effect of what was said and December 10, as soon as the Grand what was done in the course of the Jury had returned a true bill, an application for postponement de Mrs. Morriss's, application was application was made to fix theprived the female appellant of her date of the trial. After that had right to give evidence, It was diff- Towards all this, the Ettle based on three points: Lamps of Toc, H. W by the Prifg The rat was whether or not the been fixed for December 14 an apealt, to follow that argument. What and upheld undimmed by teams juge had in fact exercised his dis-plication was made on the Saturwas there in what had taken place of Serving Brethren, may prove eretion judically.
diy for a postponement of the trial to prevent her from going into the noelk1lbkt
The seeund was contribution.
whother this to the next ussizes."
TO THE CONCERNED. The question whether the trialclusion was irresistible that what. Last December, was especially statement made by the judge; when
should be postponed or not to the prevented her going into the "box Significant for it saw not only leave to call further evidence was
TOTICE IS HEREBY GİVEN the end of the de donde of made on the Monday morning, was next assizes was not an issue-at was the knowledge that by doing that unless the sum of $1230 To: H but the homecoming of such a statement, made in the pre- the trial. It was a matter within so she could not help herself or
--due for storage upon a quantity ids first world-missionaries. In jaence of the jury, as to prevent that the discretion of the judge. The her fellow-prisoner. Tommes, Winnipeg. Saskatoon. Jury from giving a fair and im-application being made, a doctor. It was clear that the evidence in of articles which was stored trial to the female was called, and his evidence had this case a conclusive as it at the Sul Heong Yueo Go. Vancouver, out on the Western partial
been read That doctor was cross-was repulsey in Appellant.
down of Mongkok ex the Motor praries and south weat British Columbia. Tog His The third was whether or not as examined, and more than that, it
"When one looks at the case It Vessel "WING HOF LEE* in building bravely. In New Zea- the result of the course taken by was admitted that a certificate on
is quite easy to dee that the ap May, 1919, is paid and the said Mand, four," units "have their feet the judge in this case, Mrs. Morrisa report should be put in from the pleation made to the judge for articles. cleared before the 15th | firm and their hands busy with was prevented from exercising what
postponement was made in eircum. good deeds. In Australia, where was her statutory right to give
stances and with results involving instant, it will be sold by public it would be dangerous to the ethe gravest suspicion. There is auction to cover storage and ex (apart from a few survivors evidence on her own behalf. ant
·Case for Morriss.
of Madeline Morriss to stand her not the slightest ground for the ap- penses. Legal proceedings will a handful of juckaroos) Tou H was unknown a year ago,
Mr. Roland Oliver, dealing with trial at Lewes within the next few peal of the woman
be taken for the recovery of any there are now ten units well earlHayley Morriss's application, asked days, very dangerous indeed.
Roberta, or, Morriss"
deficiency. truly founded, with some sur-he court to consider whether
Dealing with the appeal of prising resources in men uld justice would not have been pretions to the doctor who was in the Hayley Morriss against the sen money already and Singapore, Judiced if one prisoner, not having box and he did not grant the ap-tence the Lord Chief Justice said plication. No issue, in the trial if the sentence was to be revised Colombo, Calcutta, Bombay, anything to do with the second one, Aden, Cairo, and Jerusalem were ordered to surrender to his was involved, but, in the circum- by the court it would be in the have their groups well gathered. bail sooner than was usual simply stances which were alleged on be-direction of an increased term. Meanwhile the Prince himself because the other prisoner made an half of the defence, a request was more appalling case of its kind has laid some good seed for Toc application that the judge wald was made to the judge for postpone is not within our recollection. It Hin South Africa. when for the purpose of deceiving the ment formal opening. Tollows in 1926court and was a conspiracy.
With regard to the sentence, Mr. and in Buenos Aires he has con- firmed the Branch, whose Lamp Oliver sold it had been the policy he Hit last year.
This December of the courts and the legislature it is possible that he will also be not to imprison a person in a local called upon to light a Lamp for prison for more than two years. men, who, will never be his sub The Lord Chief Justice, asked jects. To His growing deep Mr. Oliver if he had considered the in the Eastern United States fact that Morriss, had been proved Its first Hours there is now open gülity of several offences and that, at Washington, and there are for any one of them, he was able many seedlings in Pennsylvania to two years imprisonment. and New England.
Mr. Justice Avory put some ques-
been confrmed.
Madeline
is said that the court is preventad from passing a sentence of impri sonment following that of two years hard labour.
A further attempt was made on the Monday morning, when the it was said it woman, for whom
"This court has never laid downs would be dangerous for her to stand her trial, appeared and was the doctrine that, in no caso, may in the dock. One could imagine a sentence of imprisonment be how strongly by this time, the rea-given so as not to be consecutive sonable suspicions of the judge had to a terra of two years hard labour. If the daw had permitted it, the * Repulsive Case.
proper sentence would have been. It was said that in these alreum- one of penal servitude? stances the judge failed judicially The Lord Chief Justice... added Mr. Oliver replied that he had to exercise, his discretion in refus that the court only hoped that be-
ing to postpone the trial. In the fore long and, indeed, before an In previous years at the considered it deeply. Guildhall, the Prince, assisted The Lord Chief Justice remark-ppinion of the court there was no other case of these dimensions by such men as Lord Grey ofed that what was done in this case ground whatever for that criticism could possibly arise the legisla Falloden, Sir James Barrie, and came near to being rape. If it had It was said further that, having ture would have removed a blentish Sir Charles Harington, has it been, and there was a conviction formed an unfavourable view of from the existing penal legislation the growing circle of these the maximum punishment was penal the nature and origin of this un- and would have given to the Courts successful application, the judge, a discretion, where there was a Lamps: and many men have servitude for life.
Attorney General Replies made an error in point of law in multiplicity of offences of certain wondered. This year the Birth- `day Festival of Toe I will be a
Dealing with Morrisa's appeal, expressing his conclusion in the kinds, to impose sentence of penal portent that must carry round Sir Douglas Hogg commented that, presence and hearing of the jury servitudo. the map, to call our breed of in effect what Morriss was saying But persons who made applications men from far and near to find was, I admittedly am guilty of to judges in court must be prepared more pleasure in their duty most revolting crimes against little sometimes to receive an answer more fibre in their faithfulness, girls, but that would never have that was not helpful to them.The Mrs. Morried, who had risen from prejudiced the minds of the jury judge stated before the jury some her seat in the dock when the Lord against me What is important; in thing of what he thought, in all the Chief Justice began his Judgment. that they wrongly found as guilty circumstances, of the application.clutched at the rail for a time and of conspiracy because the judge it was said that the effect of that then resumed her seat, while, her ordered me to be taken into custody was to provent these appellants husband remained standing on the Saturday. How could it from having a fair trials There At the conclusion of the judg-
.
Cramps in the Stomach.
No need of suffering from cramps in the stomach or intestinal pains, Cham berlain's Colie and Dürriben Remedy to Beriously argued that the case was not the slightest evidence never fails to relieve the most severe Cones Out It to day there will be of the men which had not a shred in any respect there was, time to, sand for it after the attack of evidence to support it had been to give these appellants comes on, For sale everywhe
the prejudiced?
In both cases the applications would be dismissed and the aen tence would run from that day
Mrs. Morziny (rose quickly,
tter d'few hurried words to usband, passed out of the dock
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