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THE CHINA MAIL.
AFTER FIVE MONTHS.
OWNERSHIP OF A BEAVER FUR.
FUR GUILD AND LADY,
SHORTHAND
31.
HOW SIR RICHARD MUIR TRAPPED CRIPPEN.
COUNSEL WHO USE¬T,
the aid of a sheaf of shorthand notes which he had jotted down during the witness examination- in-chief. The shorthand-writing. barrister was Mr. Laurence Viue, who is appearing in the kidnap- ped grandfather case.
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After exactly five months off. A barrister cross-examined at "We won't drag the ladies into it. I've enough trouble on my waiting, during which time both the Oki Bailey in mail week with hands already," said Mr. G.
parties to the claim repeatedly King O.R.E., H. M. Magistrate, in the British Police Court, vowed that the property in ques Shanghai, on March 80 reports tion was their own after, the the "Mercury," when F. Staley, matter was left in the hands of charged with parking his cur in fur experts who could not satisfy the Nanking Road for an extend
both parties and finally, after the
Mr. Vine has been at the bar fed period formed His Worship that he did not think there was argument had to be decided by the less than two years, but he has any objection to his leaving his Shanghai Für. Guild.. a piece of figured in more than one sensa car for an hour in the early hours benver fur, collar shape, valued tional trial, notably the Woking of the morning "until the
murder case, and the prosecution come to town to do their shop-by some at $110 and others at half of O'Toole, the schoolmaster of ping."
the price, was definitely handed Lec. He uses shorthand in all, The oft-discussed question as back to "Tom" the Tailor of his cases and finds it helpful to to what is a reasonable period Broadway by Assessor Bucknel him in his gross-examination of (Three minutes from Kowloon Ferry Wharf & Railway Station) was again brought up, and Chief and Magistrate Kwan in the witnesses.
Shorthand is used extensively Inspector Lynch informed the Mixed Court, Shanghai, on March Court that, whilst the Police re-30, reports the "Mercury," and at the Old Bailey and at ussizes garded fifteen minutes as
"an application made by Ms. by junior Barristers, who make Stone of. Wongkashaw Gardens rapid transcripts and pass the for the return of the far to her slips to their leaders to guide on the ground that it had been them in their line of cross-ex- stolen from her was dismissed..
Fatal Blunder.
ladies
"reasonable period" some Courts had ruled that the period should be half-an-howr
His Worship: I don't know how the Traffic Commission will deal with the problem. I am inclined to think that the real solution will
amination.
Tal Kowloon
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The application made by Mrs. Stone came about in an unusual It has played an important part 000000000000000 way. Mrs. Stone some time in in many of the great murder
te that there shall be no parking June last year returned frem atrials at the Old Bailey. It help- fat all in the Central District. holiday abroad and found thated Sir Richard Mu to tráp Owner-drivers will have to make a piece of beaver skin had been Crippen in the witness-box when their own arrangements. There stolen in her absence. One day he made his fatal blander about. are very few places for parking while on business in the shop of the pyjama suit which sent him cars in the City of London. "Tom" the Tailor, the lady noticed to the scaffold. The great crim
Defendant: Oh yes! You can a piece of fur in the shop window final lawyer used shorthand in park your car in the middle of which struck her immediately as every important trial in which he Regent Street or in High Holborn being her own and after inform was engaged.
Sir Richard Muir, an His Worship "I know High ing her husband of the discovery
an expert Holborn pretty well but I never all parties proceeded to the Cen-journalist, was such know you could park a car there.
trad Police Station bearing the writer of shorthand that he often professional shorthand Defendans: Oh. I have purked beaver skin between them in took my car there when I was home in order to settle the question of writers to task in the witness-box, 1929 V
ownership.
Corpse Revealed: By Straw.
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His Worship: And got away Mrs. Stone produced fur cuffs
Mr. J. D. Causels, K.C... M.P... with it. This time you are upland buttons which she said had against Inspector Lynch. I am been cut from the same piece of once a Fleet Street Journalist. is sorry, but I am against you. The fur but "Tom" stoutly affirmed another famous barrister who fine will be the same as the last that he had bought the fur from a Juses shorthand in his work: Some time you were hore-$3.-*-
Russium fudealer, who had since barristers use a combination of gone to Vladivostock. The case various systems. One Old Bailey was repreatedly adjourned by the barrister writes a kind of short- Court in an effort to arrive at a hand which was invented by his Just conclusion of the matter father, who was in his time but finally recourse had to be famous Old Bailey pleader. The failure to find. by ordinary made to the Shangha Fur Gui dragging operations the body of af Mrs. Stone at the last hearing little boy drowned near Crusheen, of the case even went so far as to Co. Clare, led to the adoption in offer to pay $40 for the fur so mail week of a device which has positive was she that it was hers. long" Beem the subject of local"Tom," however, represented by superstition. A sheet of oaten Mr. N. B. Lurton, was as equally straw was blessed placed in the positive that the fur was his and river above the scene of the acci-refused the offer*** dent, and allowed to Boat with the In doing so he saved himself euerent. At epo pofat,, It was $40 for a letter received by Mr. noticed to spin around several Burton within the past few days times. A search was made at this rendered a decision favourable to is estimated there were only spot and the body was recovered. himself and the Court on March one-fifth as many books on child An inquest was held and a verdict 30 dismissed the application of psychology when alder switches: of Accidental Death was returned Mrs. Stone for the return of the grew in every back yard
fur to her.
2
Tramp: Madam, I was not al- ways thus.
Housewife: No: it was your other arm you had in a sling last werk.
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Husband (in the early morn ing): It must be time to get up.
Wife: Why?
Husband: Baby's fallen asleep.
Lord Merrivale. President of the Divorce Court and on, old "Gallery" reporter. is an expert shorthand writer and when "at the Bar, where he was know as Sir Henry Duke, often used it. He used to communicate with the late Sir Isaae Pitman, the great shorthand pioneer, by means of the winged art.
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