FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927.
MISSING $1,000.
A PRETTY STORY BY TWO ROGUES
SWINDLING THEIR EMPLOYER.
Two fokis, of a Chinese firm in Bonham Strand East were this morning charged before Major G. Willson with larceny by ballcea of $1,000 belonging to their employer, and alternately, with conspiring to defraud.
MURDER CHARGE.
ACCUSED'S MUI TSAI GIVES EVIDENCE.
SEARCH FOR DEAD WOMAN.
At yesterday afternoon's hearing i
OUR G.C.H.
NO REBUILDING FOR THE PRESENT.
BONHAM ROAD SCHEME.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LABOUR OUTBURST.
INSULT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
MR. J. MAXTON SUSPENDED
The omission of reference to
London, June 23. of the Castle Feak murder case be- the Government Civil Hospital In the House of Commons, Sir fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the young from the local schemes of de Thomas Inskip, the Solicitor ui taal referred to by Mr. Svelopment which the Colonial General, moved the third reading Whyte Smith (Assistant Crown Solicitor)' in his opening statement Secretary Indicated yesterday of the Trade Union Bill.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, the Labour are to be financed by a loan gavo evidence.
The girl said that she lived with rather than from local revenue, leader, moving the rejection of the accused and his kit fat wife is due the "China Mail" learns the Bill, declared that the Opposi (the deceased) at Castle Peak. on enquiry, to the postponement Both accused claimed that they The accused had a concubine who of the scheme for rebuilding the tlon would use their constitu- had been swindled by confidence lived elsewhere. This woman Hospital until financial conditional rights in the country to
tricksters.
Reuter.
CHASE IN CITY.
A DASH AMONG THE BUSY TRAFFIC.
AN ABSCONDING BANKRUPT.
A dramatic scene and chast, ending in an arrest, took place in the City.
Among the Traffic.
Mr. A. L. Jurd, while in New- gate-street Post Office, thought he recognised a man standing by hig Henry Coopman, a solicitor, late of side at the counter as Mr. Edward Giltspur-street, E.C., and of Red- Ington-road, Hampstead, NW, who had failed to appear at the London Bankruptcy Court, and for whose invite a mandate to remove the arrest a warrant had been tesued. sometimes visited the Castle Peaktions are more favourable.
Following the man from the past who is a creditor According to Sub-Inspector An-house, and on one of these occa-
The taking over by the Gov. Bill from the Statute Book.
office, Mr. Jurd, Mr. J. Maxton (Labour) des- of Coopman, informed a constable drews, who prosecuted, two days slons the witness aaw a quarrel be-'
ernment of the old. Diocesan
At en-tween the two women. The con- ago the manager of the firm
Boys' School premises in Bonham cribed. Sir Douglas Hogg, At- and explained matters to him.
a political once the constable followed the man trusted the two accused with $5,000 cubine best the deceased with a
Road (referred to by the torney-General, as
whereupon the and touched him on the shoulder. to pay two bills, one of $2,000 and broom. the other of $3,000. The accused Led up to the day of the tragedy Colonial Secretary yesterday), blackguard
the officer, ran along the street to- turned to the master with $2,000 of the morning meal accused sent her ing recreation grounds for the was suspended by 146 to 78 votes wards the Post Office tube station, paid the $2,000 bill; and then re- (April 7), the little girl said after is for the purpose of construct Speaker named Mr. Maxton who The man, turning round and seeing the remaining $3,000, and said that cut with two of the children to sisters' quarters which is part and quietly left the House.followed by several people. they had been robbed of the other collect fir cones on the hillside of the G.C.H. rebuilding scheme.
Near the tube station, the pur- Measure Passed. $1,000. The master handed them They were driven back to the house The rebuilding will not be put
sued man darted across the road At the police by a rainstorm. When over to the police.
Later. they in hand this year and, when a
when the traffic was held up. He station the accused said that after arrived there they found the house start is made on it, the recon- The House of Commons by 854 attempted then to thread his way! paying the first bill they went to was locked. They sheltered on the a teahouse for some refreshments. verandah. After the rain accused struction is calculated to take to 199 votes passed the third read-through the traffic into the tube There they met two men who sug-sent the witness out to buy some three years. The present build-ing of the Trade Union Bill after station, where he was caught by the gested that they should keep $1,000 cakes, and when she returned the ing, in the opinion of the experts rejection of Mr. Thomas's motion. constable and taken to Salisbury-
The deceased bas "come to the end of its life"--Reuter.
square police atation, where the in- of the money and return to the house was open.
formation of Mr. Jurd was taken. When and the only solution to the pro- shop and tell their mastor that they was nowhere to be seen. were unable to pay the second bill the accused left the house a Httle blem of providing adequate ac- because two of the $600 notes given later, the witness began to search commodation and facilities is the
were forgeries, The for the deceased. She first went erection of a new building. them to strangers undertook to procure the to. the attic and there found
The new building, which will forged notes for the accused if they length of rope hanging from a nail agreed to share the $1,000 with driven into a beam on the roof. eventually be erected on the pre- them. The bargain was struck and Under the rope there was a stool. sent lawna adjoining the Hos- FOUR BIG POWERS DEMAND
Confusion in the Street. the accused alleged that they foo-She saw some dry bloodstains on pital, will have greater accom-
At the time of his capture traffic lishly entrusted the two strangers the floor which was wet as if it had modation all round, including more European wards, and will
Belgrade, June 23,
in Newgate-street was thrown into with $1,000 of their master's money. recently been washed. The two men promised to
Continuing her search for the be designed to meet the more The Italian, French and Ger- confusion and stopped on account with the forged notes, but they were deceased, the witness went to an pressing needs of the Colony man Ministers and the British of an accident to an elderly woman never seen again. After waiting a outhouse on the right of the main since the present Hospital was Chargé d'Affaires have present who had been knocked down by a long time the two fokis returned building. Here she found the body erected some sixty years ago.
ed the Yugo-Slav Government taxicab outside the Post Office tube
station. to the shop with the story that in a sitting position in a large bas-
The site of the present, Hos-with separate identic Notes de- But for this diversion the police they had been robbed of $1,000,ket with another basket inverted pital will be used partly as an manding that the Albanian and consider that it is probable the
After evidence, both accused over it, forming a lid.
be man might have given, them were convicted on the first charge neck the witness saw a rope. She open space and gardens and part-Yugo-Slav dispute shall
settled by the release of Juras-aterner chase. only, and given four months jail was too terrified when the accused ly for providing residences,
kovitch simultaneously with At the time the warrant was modification of the terms of the issued Coopman. was stated to be Yugo-Slav Note of May 30 on the high see and hal let his which the Albanian Government residence furnished at £525 for one considered insulting. The For- At the public examination the eign Minister has intimated that Official Receiver sald that proofs Yugo-Slavia will accept the sug- of debt amounting to £45,409 had gestion-Reuter,
been lodged and that Coopman had not surrendered to the bankruptcy proceedings.
each.
return
Round
A
returned to say anything to him as
to what she had seen, Early the next morning, about 5 o'clock. when the witness awoke, she heard
MOTOR ACCIDENTS. the accused coughing, and, the
CARS COLLIDE IN GARDEN ROAD.
TWO PRAYA EAST MISHAPS.
sound appeared to come from the outhouse. At 7 o'clock, she saw wet the accused drying some clothes in the kitchen..
OBITUARY.
WELL-KNOWN PORTUGUESE
RESIDENT.
BALKANS DISPUTE.
SETTLEMENT.
A tipstaff who held the warrant for the arrest of Coopman was tele-) phoned for and arrived within a few minutes, and the man was taken In a taxicab to Brixton Jail, where he is now detained pending his ap pearance at Bow-street Police Court. ,'
[The Albanian police arrested an Albanian named Jurash kovitch, employed as a drago- man in the Yugo-Slav Legation
The little girl then proceeded to MR. G. A. YVANOVICH. describe the accused's subsequent
One of the oldest and best-known movements, and how he brought his concubine, her sister and children of the Portuguese residents died Three motor car accidents occur to the house. On April 11 they aliyesterday morning at his home in at Tirana, on a charge of spying. red yesterday afternoon, one in the moved from Castle Peak to Sham-Gordon Terrace, Kowloon, in central district and two in Wan-shuino where they stayed until the person of Mr. G. A. Yvanovitch.
accused's arrest,
chai.
Mr. Nagen, chemist, residing at No. 10, Macdonnell Road, was driving his car from Macdonnell Road to Garden Road at 2.10 p.m., when at the junction the car was, run into by another (No. 1036) which was travelling in the opposite direction. Mr. Nagen had both mudgards on his car smashed, while the other, car suffered slight injuries. No one was hurt.
A 19-year-old Chinese youth war
The case was adjourned Monday afternoon next.
SCHOOL TRIP.
the Despite Yugo Slav protests, his Deceased's connection with the release was refused, and the until Colony dated back probably longer Yugo Slav Charge d'Affaires and than that of any other foreign re-the entire Legation staff sailed sident, his arrival here being in the from Durazzo.]·.
LESSONS TAUGHT ON THE HARBOUR.
ELLIS KADOORIE SCHEME. As a novel method of acquaint- knocked down by a car owned by ing students with places of local the World Garage at the junction interest in a more striking manner of Praya East and Mallory Street than through the medium of the He suffered a compound fracture of blackboard, an educational outing
early '60's. He was for many years
a member of the staff of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.
year.
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL."
Entertainments.
June 24-Queen's Theatre; "Held By The Law
but retired a considerable time THE IDEAL TRADER.tage
ago.
"Mr. Yvanovich, who was 78 years of age, lived to see a large family of descendants around him and there are several great grand- children among those left to mourn his passing.
The funeral took place at the
There was Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, yesterday.
a large
ARTIST, DIPLOMAT, SOLDIER, SAINT.
VALUE OF TEAM SPIRITS.
of the Desert." June 24-World Theatre; "Heri-
June 24-Star Theatre; "Pri- Boners of the Storm."
June 24 Tea Dance, Cafe Res- taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m.
June 24-Isako's Circus, New Re- clamation Ground, Praya East, Wancha! 9.15 p.m.
June 25-Concert at "Cheero," Chater Road.
Councillor James Stanworth, an ex-Mayor of Blackburn, was elect his right leg, and was removed to for junior students was organised gathering of the Portuguese com-ed president of the National Cham- the Government Civil Hospital
The third accident also occurred yesterday for the junior students of munity at the graveside and a great ber of Trade, in succession to Sir cert at Lee Gardens, 9.30 p.m.
A MACAO RELIC.
Ellis Kadoorie School.
two
SECRETS OF TRADE. AMERICA INCREASING PRESS ADVERTISING.
Speaking at a luncheon of
Association, Advertising
June 25-Grand Promenade Con-
William Perring, M.P.,
June 28After Dinner Dance twenty-ninth annual conference 8.30-10.30 p.m.
Sport. held at Buxton. The delegates,|
at thel
who numbered 400, sent a message
June 25--Fifth extra race meet- of loyalty to the King, recording ing of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, their gratification at his Majesty's Happy Valley.
Lammert's Auctions... continued interest in all that ap-
June 25-Furniture, Axtures, rice pertained to the advancement of British trades, and their deep ap-machines, motors, fittings, etc., 116, the preciation of the inspiring efforts Connaught Road, West, 11 a.m.
June Sir and declarations so frequently
28-Valuable household
in Praya East. In this case a 12-
Some two hundred and eighty number of wreaths were sent." year-old Chinese girl was knocked
boys were taken in all in down by motor ear No. 565. She launches, the trip being round the suffered injuries to her left leg, and harbour, dockyard, wharves, fair ia also at the Government Civil ways, epecial anchorage and fea Hospital.
tures of geographical interest, the significance of which were pointed out to the students and their posi tions given on mapa.
The trip occupied the whole morning, and in the afternoon there Charles Higham, who has just remade by the Prince of Wales. furniture, etc., Sales Room, 2.80 was bathing at Kennedy Tow turned from America, said that at
The president, in the course of p.m... which concluded an enjoyable and least 100 delegates will come over his address to the delegates, said
Meetings. from America to the Advertising that the nation must get down to June 26-Combined meeting of instructive day.
As a measure of safety, four Exhibition and Convention at Olym work. Our goods were too dear members of the (H.K. branch)
To-day business was a science, and China Coast Officers Guild & There is a precious relic of St. N.C..'s from local Troopa, all ex-pla in July.
day from the United States as to efficiently it was as 18 any 67, Des Voeux Road Ct., 10.80 a.m. the launches throughout the trip...
how to do good advertising," said of the professions, Financial pro- "Religiao e Patria." It was
June 29-Sixth yearly meeting of Sir Charles.
it was regarded as respectfully in shareholders of the Hong Kong property of St. Paul's Church. On
"Our agencies are as capable and Harley-street and the Inns of Court Amusements, Ltd. at Queen's account of the disastrous fire which
officient as theirs. Our copy is as in Regent-street and Mincing- destroyed hat magnificent temple; SEEING THE CIRCUS.
lane. even better, I believe.
To be a successful trader Theatre, Queen's Road, Central, "Press advertising is being more one needed the imagination of the noon; extraordinary meeting at and more accepted in America, as artist, the tact of the diplomat, the 12.16 p.m.
Miscellaneous.
NOW IN POSSESSION OF JESUITS.
Francis Xavier in Macao, says the cellént swimmers, accompanied the "We have nothing to learn to-lf carried out conscie and Marine Engineers' guild of China,|
leaving only, as a monument of our ancient glories, the splendid fron- tispiece, the relic was saved and sent to the Cathedral where it was kept for many years.
It had a poor wooden reliquary. The head of a religious family in
The re-
MAN WHO SAID HE WAS A CONSTABLE.
MAGISTRATE'S DIFFICULTY.
it is in Britain, as the only means courage of the soldier, and the to-day economically and success fully to market a product.".
GAMBLERS DISGORGE
The
June 29-Lantern lecture by Dr.
patience of a saint. He was glad June 24-Whist Drive at St. the universities of Oxford and John's Cathedral Hall, 8.80 p.m.
June 25-Opening performance Cambridge had recognised the im- Macao therefore obtained permis- Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this
portance of business, They were of Lane, Crawford's new Orchestra sion from the Ecclesiastical author-morning, a Chinese was charged
now publishing books on trade and under the direction of Miss Violet manufacture, and awarding Andrews, during dinner. ities to substitute one of silver, with gaining admission Into Isako's
June 26-Social gathering in St. which he specially ordered from Circus at Wanchai last night by re-
While crossing the Atlantic from acholarships for these subjects. I London on condition that he should presenting that he was a policeman.
Evidence by Mr. H. C. Haylitt, an England in the Cunard liner "Be- was, beginning to be realised that John's Cathedral Hall, 6 p.m. keep it in his own house. lic was annually exposed to the assistant at the Circus, was that he rengaria" a Loudon business man there was no essential difference veneration of Catholics during the saw the accused near the dressing took part in a "friendly" game of between the trader, the doctor, and Osma...nt St. Peter's Club, 8.80 p.m.
was Bridge with three fellow-passengers the lawyer. What the world need- Novena of St. Francis: at the tent. When asked what he Cathedral. This family had the good doing there the accused said that a woman and two surve, men, ed to-day was class unity. fortune to keep it for many years, he had been detailed for duty there The stakes were gradually raised madness of 1926 showed the utter
The grocery and provision shopa it being ofton venerated by mis- by Chinese Detective Inspector and when the business man decided uselessness of strife between mas sionaries of various nations that Chue Heung When asked to pro- that bedtime had arrived he found ters and men. Employers and em- of Scotland are the finest in the passed through Macao, specially on duce his Identification card the ac- himself poorer by £1,100, for which ployed must get together in groups of dr. A: E. Wiltshire.
co tackle their difficulties in a the occasions of pilgrimages to cused sald that he had forgotten to amount he gave his cheque
Some days later he mentioned his common-sense, economic, and
The undergraduate who owns a Sanchoan.
bring esa constable said that he loss to Sir Arthur Rostren, the cap sétentific spirit. The trouble was Years after the death of the head of the family, the remaining mem- actually saw the accused in the tuin of the liner, who recognised that our goods were too dear for motor-car is rapidly becoming & bere thought, and very rightly; that main tent. When interrogated the the other players, as notorious our customers abroad. It was not Gilpin, a wild, roving, romping Ind. as long as there were members of accused said he was a policeman Trans-Atlantic gamblere. Sending enough to keep pace with other Mr. E G. Benn, the Society of Jesus in Macao, it and that, he had been sent to the for them, Sir Arthur made them re- countries; we must outstrip them, would be better that they were the Circus, by the Chinese Inspector turn the business man's cheque
A Chinese
keepers of such a precious de-
As accused had no identification.
posit, and delivered it, therefore, witness arrested him
card, or even a
police
whlable, thai
and our future as a world Power
depended on how far we
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DROWNED WHILE BATHING
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