THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1927.
“QUITE SANE.”
TRAIN SMASH.
THE C
“SUNNING” PIRACY.
CHINA MAIL
LOCAL DEBATES.
Officer Who Shot His Colonel.
SEVEN LIVES LOST IN
CANADA..
LAST TWO MEN PAY FINAL SPORTS PROFESSIONALISM
MOTION. PENALTY.
ST. PETER'S & Y.M.C.A.
"I KNOW WHAT I HAVE DONE.”
"
THIRTY-EIGHT HORSES KILLED | YESTERDAY'S EXECUTIONS.
Toronto, April 20. Wong Hing and Liu Fat, the The European Y.M.C.A. will de- Seven people were killed through last two of the "Summing" pirates bate the motion to-night that Pron Gibraltar, April 20. the derailment of a gooda truin 56 to be condemned to death, were fessionalism Benefits Sport, the At the opening of to-day's promiles west of Hornepayne, Ontario, ceedings against Lieutenant Duffleld including three Englishmen, Mr. executed in Victorin Jail early motion being led by Mr. T. J.-Price, two atatements By the accused Garnett, Mr. Bull and Captain yesterday morning. The doomed supported by Mr. W. J. Keates, the
men who were said to have been were read out. The Brat said. "I Lidington.
The last employed the other two converted to Christianity. went to opposition being led by Dr. Ashton, am perfectly sane and I know what I have done."
and was in charge of wagons con- their death without flinching. supported by Mr. Howell,
On Tuesday, St. Peter's Young' taining foily racehorses from Eng-The execution which was simul- land for purchasers at Winnipeg taneous was carried out without Men's Club will debate the motion u hitch. Five minutes after the at the Club House (Bonham Road), and Vancouver.
men took their places on the That Bachelors Should Be Taxed. scaffold their lifeless bodies were The debate. begins at 8-30 p.m.
A similar motion was lost rather removed to the prison mortuary.
In the afternoon Mr. R. E heavily at the first debate under the auspices of the European Lindsell in his capacity' as Y.M.C.A. Coroner and a jury inquired into the prisoners' death.
The second apologised for the extra work he had given but point- ed out that he would not be kept there long as it was a civii charge.
The statement added that sincs arrival at Gibraltar the Colonel had "given up all idena of soldier- ing and it was better that one mun should die than a whole regiment should be ruined."
"I made a mess of things. 1 missed with the first, shot, and hit
Thirty-eight of the horses were killed when the wagons were over turned.-Reuter.
EGYPT'S CABINET
him with the second which was TO CARRY ON FOR THE TIME mennt for myself."-Reuter.
BEING.
Lieutenant Colonel J. S. Fitz-
Cairo, April 20. Gerald, commanding the Second
It is understood that since Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, was shot dead by Lieut. Zaghlul Pasha's health does not A. C. Duffeld of the same regiment. permit him at present to deal with At the opening of the inquest the the political situation arising out adjutant Rave
evidence that
Lieut. Dußeld entered the orderly room to see Col. FitzGerald, after which two shots were heard and the adjutant rushed into the room. Lt. Col. FitzGerald then said "He has shot me. Arrest him,"
All the witnesses, brother officers, testified that there was no the feeling of illwill between Lieutenant, and his Colonel. Onl the
Lt. Duffield had contrary, lately been complimented on his good work.
It.-Cal. J. S. FitzGerald was ap pointed to the rank he held at the time on October 13, 1921. The baltalion was recently at Jersey. Lieutenant Duffeld, who belongs to the same battalion, received his Licutenancy in July, 1922.1
TRAGIC ERROR.
HOW AIR FORCE PLANE CRASHED.
EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.
London, April 20.
Zaghlu! Pasha,
Chief Warder W. Robertson said he was present at the exec- tion which took place at 5, a.m., | in the presence of the Superinten- dent; Assistant Superintendent and Medical Officer. The wit- ness produced the Criminal Calendar and warrants signed by His Excellency the Governor authorising the execution in each
case.
THE WRONG LOT.
AMUSING INCIDENT AT CHRISTIE'S.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments.
April 21-Queen's Theatre: "The Temptresa."
April 21-World Theatre: "Mon-
Vanna"
April 21-Star Theatre: "Our Hospitality."
April 21-Dance in the Gymna- slum at Police Headquarters, com-] mencing & p.m.
April 22Third dance of the Hong Kong. Dance Club, Lane Crawfords Restaurant, 8.30 p.m.
April 22-Dance at United Ser- vices Recreation Club, 9.15 pm.
April 28-St. George's Day. Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
April 29-Concert for Service men at the "Cheer O," Y.M.C.A., Chater Road.
Sport.
April 24-First Extra Race Meet- ing at Macao, 11.30 R.m. Meetings...
April 23-Telephone Co.'s second annual meeting): at Exchange Bldg., 11 cm.
April 25-Meeting of all Com- pany Commanders und Offcers at Volunteer Headquarters, 5.30 p.m. to discuss future training pro-) gramme of the HK.V.D. Corps.
April 28 Annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, City Hall, 4 p.m. i
They still tell a story in one of the big London auction rooms.of.a man who made it an invariable rule on entering the anle room to nod Dr. Alexander Cannon, acting a next bid regardless of price and Medical Officer at Victoria Jail, of knowledge of the lot. He had said he was present at the double some strange frights, but in the execution. Afterwards he ex- end he made a surprising collection amined the bodies and found that which proved to be very profitable. death in each case was due to There is another type of man, fre- comato asphyxiation and fracture quently seen at old silver sales, who of the second and third cervical bids on the childlike and bland ue- vertebrae due to hanging: Death sumption that the price per ounce Rd., 2:30 p.m.
the in shillings really represents
must have been instantaneous:
The jury returned a verdict that deceased were executed by hanging, which was carried out In accordance with law.
HUSBAND'S FRENZY.
ATTACKS WIFE AND WOUNDS
HIMSELF.
Lammert's Auctions. April 22-Ladies' Novelties, etc.. Sales Room, Duddell St., 11 a.m.'
April 25-Valuable household furniture, 27. The Peak, Lugard
is beaus.
April 22-Practical demonstra- tion on "Home Nursing" Matilda) Hospital, 3.30 p.m.
April 24-Farewell Service, St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, 6 p.m. Preacher: Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M.A.
at
fecture April 25-Public Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m. Speaker: Rev. W. T. Featherstone."
gross value of a waighty flagon.
April 21- Weekly public lecture Knowing that this may happen again, a cautious auctioneer will of the H.K. Lodge the Theosophical
the Socioty, 7, Duddell St.. 6. p.m. often emphasise and repeat words "at per ounce." An amusing Incident of another kind occurred at Christie's in mail week. Mr. Mc- Kenna, the auctioneer for the day, was offering a bust of John Milton, displayed beneath a modeat panel of tapestry. The number of the lot (44) was called in the usual way, and a moderate price was reached. Daring a quarrel a Chinese Whereupon the winner declared April 26-Beethoven centenary living on the third floor of No. that he thought he was bidding for recital by Mr. Harry Ore, Theatre
the panel. "Caveat emptor!" is ar Royal, 9.15 p.m.) 217 Reclamation Street, Yaumati, much the rule at auction-as. any- yesterday slashed his wife with a where else. The panel was ten lots CHANGE OF NAME. chopper and then attempted to later on."
take his own life by hacking him- self with the weapon, He is now in the hospital in a critical condition. The wife was able to
of the resignation of the Cabinet, the Adly Ministry has agreed tom- porarily to carry on in office. Jor administrative purposes only.- Reuter,
ROYAL ARTILLERY UNITS
AFFECTED.
A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest at East-
London, April 20. church on Flying Officer William' The War Office announces altera- Kelly, Pilat Officer John Dowder- tions in the nomenclature of cer well, Flight Sergeant Alderton and tain Royal Artillery units to take Aircraftsman Daniels, the victims effect on May 1. These include the of the crash mentioned yesterday. British Pack Brigade and Pack The machine, a two-engined Batteries which will be designated Vickers-Virginia, had just arrived Light Brigades No. 1 (Hong Kong from Manston aerodron.e. A pilot and Singapore) and the Pack officer testified that the machine Battery will be designated No. 1 was taking off again when alic (Hong Kong and Singapore) Moun- struck the wing of a stationary
tain Battery-Router. aeroplane, possibly owing to error of judgment.-Reuter.
[Yesterday's cable stated
that
when an Air Force bomber crashed
at Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey, BANKER'S SUICIDE. four airmen were incinerated.]
AGAINST SOVIET.
ACTIVITIES OF ALLEGED PLOTTERS.
POISON BEFORE RUSSIAN PRISON.
It is pitiful to be a parson in go home after her wounds have Scotland.-Rev. W. Brews (Dum- been attended to.
barton),
LEITER MILLIONS.
CASE REOPENED AT CHICAGO.
The famous law suit for the con-
trol of the Leiter millions was re- sumed at Chicago when a bitter at- tack was made by the attorney for Mr. Joseph Leiter, the defendant, upon the late Marquis Curzon, whose first wife was formerly Miss Mary Leiter. The suit involving the estate of £6,000,000-amassed by Mr. Levi Leiter has dragged through the Chicagó courts, for over a year, and the volume of court How a banker, anticipating a records requires a pantechnicon to visit to Russia, carried a supply of move. poison about with him lest he Mr. Henry Platt, for the defence, should be captured by the Bol- reopened his case with the charge! sheviks was described at an inquest that the genesis of the Leiter tan- at Hammersmith сп George gle was the bitterness and accusa- Hugoline, 48, n Norwegian subject, tions of Lord Curzon.
The Countess of Suffolk in court who was found poisoned at an hotel at South Kensington, where he had heard herself and some other mem previously been imprisoned and bers of the family charged with creating bitterness over the admin- tortured by the Bolsheviks. Mark Neven Dumont,
a journ-istration of a rich estate.
· Mr. |
Moscow, April 20. An official nows agency reports that the State Political Depart ment has discovered and broken up à Monarchist group who were alist, said he met Hageline eigh- Platt stated that a letter written by followers of the ex-Grand Duke teen months ago. Soon afterwards Lady Curzon from the Viceregal Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who are Hageline left England, but return- Lodge, Delil, complaining that all alleged to have been mainly engaged about four weeks ago, He had her income from the estate had been ed in military capionage for certain been engaged in banking. Witness destroyed and asserting that the foreign intelligence services. last saw him on Thursday evening, entire estate would be dissipated
The
WHERE BILL SIKES DIED.
The group is stated to have been when he complained of insomnia, within five years, was inspired by directed by Koutepov, a former bayg he had not slept for several Lord Carzon. general of the White Army living in nights. He appeared extremely de- pressed and unhappy, and greatly! Paris.
The report refers to certain ar-worried over family matters.. rested persons who are stated to following morning witness received a telephone message saying that confirm this object, also an endea Hageline had been found dead in vour to assist the creation of an bed. anti-Soviet organisation in Russia.
-Reuter.
DAMAGES FOR ACTRESS.
London, April 30.
that
ed.
Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey, where in "Oliver Twist" Bill Sikes came to his inglorious end is to Dr. J. H. Wilkins, of Gloucester come under a clearance scheme pro- road, Kensington, said he had been posed by the London County. Coun- attending Hageline since Januarycil. The origin of the name "Hick- for insomnia. Hageline said he had man" is unknown, but, Folly Ditch; recently lost his wife: Witness re according to the Rev., T. P. Stevens; garded Hageline as being rather the historian of South London, was morbid. When he first saw him one of the pestilential canals which two years ago he noticed Hageline possessed a tube of formed Jacob's Island. The area A jury in the King's Bench cyanide. Hageline explained that he was one of the worst slums of the
Kingsley have
have both vividly describ Division have awarded the Amer- was expecting to visit Russia, and last century, which Dickens and ican actress, Miss Fay Marge, was taking the cyanide with him in
In one of the houses Dickens tells £3,000 for damage to her reputa-case he was imprisoned or tortured by the Bolsheviks. He intended tion, in consequence of the using the poison as a last resort. how Sikes took refuge from a how- defendants, Daly's Theatre, He said he had fireviously been iming mob. From the roof Sikes be to: the canal below. He fell, and Limited, terminating after the prisoned and tortured in Rus gan to let himself down by a rope
He gave Hageline the rogo, making a
noose, closed dress rehearsal her engagement als. to play "Lolette" in the musical sleeping draught. The following upon his throat, with fatal results. comedy "Yvonne," because they morning he was called to see him in Mr. Stevens's view, Sikes and
and found him-lying dead in bed. did not consider her suitable for Dr. R. M. Bronte, pathologist, get a in the part in a West-end produce said that the man's organs at the who met their kind in a house in
the neighbourhood. tion, although they offered her post-mortem examination bore the the same part and the same characteristic amells of prussic salary on tour.NTARAN
SPROVES BRA" acid--an extremely deadly pos Mies Marge also was awarded Death wag due to cyanogen polson- $100 damages for a libel.containing organ
ed in a letter written by defen. The coroner recorded dents, which she construed as suicide while of unsound mind. We
suggesting that she had obtained
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okyo, April 20 The Cabinet has been formally Ennounced The names are the Part of Kowloon Inland Lot sante as riven this morning except her contract by untrue repro
(Woosung Street, that General Yoshinori Shirakawa sentations,
sold to the Yuen is Minister of War Defendants paid into court the Yaumat amount of anlary due, viz. £100 Fat Co. Ltd for $7,100 yestar It is believed that Baron weekly, for 82 weeks day at Mr. A. G. Rocha's auction kae-ansumption of the Fore
Damages were awarded in rooms. Another Kowloon Inland portfoliacismoniy tempo
AmbassadorZ at Washington, addition to salary Lot No 1507) at Homuntin wes that either Mr. Tsuneo
egal argument on the contract sold to Mr. J. A de V. Soares at each Yoshizawa
be heard later, and many the Chine Auction Rooms for 136,500 affect the Award of damages
iina at Peking, are adīs likely candidates.I
We must go all out for a great national policy of employment and Empire development Sir Henry Croft:
May 3-Quarry Bay School holds spring festival, 11 um. Launch for Visitors leaves Murray Pier 10-20
B.XII.
May 7 Annual dinner of the Hong Kong Football Club, Hotel Savoy, 8.p.m.
Twenty fishing nets worth $80 has been reported by a fisherman to have been stolen from the sea at Deep Water Bay.
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