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Who Was The 13th Juror?
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A murder had been committed. A man had been sentenced. Twelve men believed him guilty. But the Thirteenth knew he was innocent. For the thirteenth Juror WAS the guilty man. Who he was and what he did are revealed in this startling new picture.
CARL LAEMMLE
Ossanta
ANNAQ NILSSON FRANCIS X.BLISHMAN
A UNIVERSAL PICTURE
13th Juror
fran the story by HENRY IŔVING DODGE
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AFTER 14 YEARS. SAYING
'CHINESE FARMER RETURNS TO COLONY.
SENT TO JAIL.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1928.
GOODBYE.”
HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE! DO.IT.
"CROCODILE" TEARS.
.
PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
If any more schools "break up". there won't be an educational build-
A Chinese named Wong Chi was
The "Yellow Dragon" for Decem- ing left. this morning charged before Mr.ber, full as ever, of good things, Roger Edward Lindsell at the contains the following under the The Family Man: "What kind of Central Magistracy with returning caption "On Saying 'Good-bye"" a car would you advise me to buy??? to the Colony after having been and over the initials “KE":-- Salesman: How many, children banished for a perfod of 20 years on May 18, 1914.
"Twelve."
It has been truly said that there have you, sir?" - are a million ways of doing any one thing: this is certainly correct "You don't want a car, what you where leave-taking is concerned.
want is an adding machine.”
to say "Goodbye" is to die a little, The Italian proverb has it that
The accused said that at the time he was sent away he understood that he was being banished for ten years only.
and one has only to witness a Latin A woman living in America who Asked for the accused's record, bidding farewell to realise that weighs 24 stone complains that she Sub-Inspector Vincent, in charge of whether he 'belleves the saying or cannot get employment. If she Police Records, said that the ac-not, he lives up to it. He may be comes to England, says the Show cused did six weeks in 1912 for parting with his wife in the morn man in "The Passing Show," she stealing and was banished for five ing; he may be seeing his brother might get a job as a pantomime years. He returned the following off on a railway journey of half a fairy. year and received six months' fall dozen miles (and it is notorious after which he was banished for 20 how one loves one's brothers); he
may be saluting the retreating but "I see you've 'ad yer 'air Eton-: resplendent figure of Mussolini; he cropped Mrs. Jones." The Magistrate asked how the may be paying for bia vino blanco, "Well, I 'ave and I aven't. What accused was arrested as surely no with a ten-lire note; conceivably he reely 'appened was a accident wiv one could recognise him after 14 is merely quitting a cafe acquain-the gas-stove!" years.
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MARRIAGE.
It is the belief of a famous
Chinese policeman who arrested the heart, his Borsalino clutched fever scientist that some metals will, ishly, his eyes well with tears.!
accused had received information.
and in a voice which vibrates with under special circumstances, ex Had A Farm, The Magistrate asked the accused the highest emotional genius of hibit a certain "sensitiveness. I Duse "Addio." The world le end-hope, writes the Showman in the if he had in fact believed that heed, the sun has ceased to abine, and Passing Show, that none of them was banished for ten years, why all is gloom and despair, hopeless are employed in the manufacture of should he wait for 14 years. to and pathetic! And the noxt' saxophones. elapse before returning.
minute? But there is no need top The accused said that he was spoil a touching picture with nar farming in the country during the rating the harsh reality of a short lawyer, warmly, "I never took a period of his banishment, and was memory. The whole show is mere-
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霸
"Look at mel" exclaimed the
so comfortably situated that he did ly part of his theatrical make-up drop of medicine in my life, and not want to come back to Hong essential as his ridiculous point- I'm as strong as any two of your
ed patent-leather shoes, as neces-patients put together." Kong. Lately, however, he was sary as his black shirt, and with "Well, that's nothing,' retorted forced to leave his farm as the re- about as much meaning.
the physician. "I never went to Bult of the activities of bandits in I once aaw a German priest at law in my life, and I'm as rich as the district in which he had settled. Munchen Railway Station-be was
Sentence of six months' hard speeding some twelve of his flock any two dozen of your clients put labour was passed.
on their way to Ober-ammergau: I] together.".
was also bound in the same direc-
tion. He packed them into the "There's an article entitled 'How same compartment as myself and to Meet Trouble," said the wife. then, horror of horrors, he realis- "Shall I read it to you?” RICH BY CHANCE. ed Mean Auslander, a heretic, "No, thank you," replied the hus possibly a pagan. Out he bundled band. "How to dodge trouble fu them, to my infinite relief, and then the brand of information I'm look- the farewells began. "Remember
ST. PETER'S Y.M. CLUB DEBATE.
VALUE OF LUCK.
not to stay up late at night. Talking for." to no strangers, particularly for cigners (his with a baleful look in my direction), Look out of the windows on the way, one should you.”
He: "I know that you love me." She: "Then. I can never marky
presentatives of the companies dé- finite sume as "squeeze," or tribute. This unlawful and undesirable prac- tice has been in existence for some while. Many people outside the companies concerned know about it; maybe the Chamber of Com- merce and the Government know about it. Whether so or not, it is a custom which should cease, for The subject of an interesting de- never neglect an opportunity of ae-
bate at the St. Peter's Church Observe well the play, but don't marry a man who knows more than quiring knowledge and information. "Because I have sworn never to whlist piracy is thus supported Young Men's Club last night was pay more than three marks for a I do," there remains small hope of its "That a man becomes rich as a re-set of post-cards, or five if they are eradication and small hope of Chin-ault of chance rather than ability coloured." The whistle blew. "Auf ese assistance in clearing the Bias or industry." Mr. N. V. Halward wiedersehen! See that that door Boy neat.
B.A.T.'s Record.
In spite of the troubles in China, where for the last couple of years boycotts, labour troubles, and civil
has emerged from Its last year of working with a wonderful record
whether or not he was industrious
Had To Work Hard.
"Why not?"
American Girl: "Were you pre-
presided, and there was a good at- is firmly closed, the train is mov-sented at court when you were in tendance of members of the Club ing Karl Ludwig you are sitting England?”
Her Friend: "Yes, for driving on and their friends, including Sir an the leberwurst sandwiches!!!"
The train was now moving rapidly, the wrong side of the street." Robert Ho Tung,
and my last remembrance of him le The affirmative was led by Mr. fluttering, black robe careering
Well Meaning Old Lady: "Thank in which P. Sands who cited many instances down the platform frantically way-
men had become rich ing a mysterious parcel wrapped in you so much for your song, my through mere chance. He said that a newspaper, containing, alas, dear. It took me back to my child- opportunity comes to every man know not what.
hood days on my father's farm. war have combined to militate
The scene changes to a loved] When I shut my eyes and listened. against the Company's operations, or had the ability and it was mere the day before the beginning of the the old gate creaking in the wind.”
familiar spot-Paddington. It is to your singing, I soomed to hear the British American Tobacco Co. ly a question of grasping it. winter term, and No. 1 Platform is crowded with school boys and their Dr. F. Ashton, leading in the sisters and their cousins and their
"A man tried to pick my pockets of business done and profits earned negative, said that the world's rich-aunts, not to mention self-conscious in the streat yesterday, but my greater than in any year in its re-est men had made the best use of fathers. I am concerned only with wife prevented him." markably successful history. The their opportunities to turn them one party, two boys, and their "Did she grapple with him, or profits available for distribution into money and for this, they had parents. The father went ahead, just scream?" ber 30, 1927, at All Saints' total the enormous sum of £6,354,-worked hard and assiduously. He and pasted himself outside what "Neither; she wasn't there." Church, Maidstone, Edgar, 096, and while these alone give quoted Bacon "If a man would look seemed to be to his untutored eyes Then how could she prevent youngest son of Capt. and some conception of the magnitude carefully, he'll find fortune. For good compartment, containing him?" Mrs. H. Bathurst, Iste
of of the concern, it has to be noted tune may be blind but not in arrived and gave one look. "Come. She had been through my poc China, to Betty Deborah that they do not include the com-visible. To look for fortune one on Dad. Can't go in there he isn't kets first! Blount, second daughter of Dr. and Mira. 3. Aldington Gibb pany's proportion of the undivid-must work and have the ability to in Our House. The spoken cap-
ed profits of the associated com- work. of College Road, Maidstone.
Itals were significant and the search "There are two sides to every panies which such companies have Mr. T. Price, seconding Mr. started again. I settled myself in question," proclaimed the wise man not thought fit to declare as divid-Sands, said that Henry Ford ac- an empty compartment, and as It "Yes," said the fool, "and there ends. The result is all the more quired his vast militons not through was arranging the various impedi- are two sides to a sheet of fly- Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 17, 1928. remarkable, having regard to the industry or ability, but through ments of travelling, they came to paper, but it makes a difference to
so recently as 1928-24 chance. It was ble good fortune to it and gat in. Farewells were said, the fly which side he chooses." profits ranged around £4,866,000. have people tell funny stories about father bluff and cheerful-my own the mother a little tremulous, the
BATHURST-GIBB-On Novem-
PIRACY CONDONED.
are known to thrive there.
fact that
but one solitary youth.
His sons
"Emotion 7"*
"No," banana siin.”
In 1925 the £5,000,000 mark was his tin Lizzies," that caused Ford memory went a little sadly to simi- "When the tourist arrived home crossed, followed by a comfortable cara to. gain so much popularity. lar scenes a few years back. At he fell on his face and kissed the margin over the round £6,000,000 Mr. A. E. Len, seconding the op- last we moved off and I was in pavement of his native city.” Not much is heard these days re-
a year ago. Last year, it will be position, gave various statistical spected and found wanting. A garding ridding. Bias Bay and remembered, states the "China Ex-gures of the vast sum of money whispered consultation followed; they finally decided it was an O.R. neighbourhood of the pirates that press and Telegraph," that this left, behind by men who had work-tle round my neck, so I was dia
great company paid to its share-ed hard and had the ability to work. missed with a look of pity and she walked into the fashionable She was very well dressed, and as True holders a capital bonus of 25 per He said that 200 years ago rich men sorrow as a product of one of the boot shop the manager himself the matter is one which was recent, so that the maintenance of were scarce, but to-day they are barbaric northern schools. It is ported to have received the atten- the Ordinary dividend at 25 per numerous.
cent. means the distribution to tion of the Diplomatic Body at Pe- shareholders of a sum approaching won by 23 to 17...
Put to the vote, the affirmative
king and also the recently re-estab- £1,000,000 more than ished Kwangsi faction in Canton.sorbed a year ago. The carry for- Nothing, however, has been done ward is also a quarter of a million more. In the balance-sheet the and no programmes of a punitive chief changes are a reduction from or represalve nature have been out- £8,589,000 to £5,890,000 in the lined. Future outrages, maybe, amount of loans to associated com- will be treated as those in the past, 900,000 to £20,100,000 In the panies and an Increase from £16,-
by Isolated action on the part of amount Invested in associated com-
was: so ab-
AFTER A SMOKE.
DOCTOR HELD UP AND. ROBBED.
A doctor of Chinese medicine
curious how the schools of the came forward to serve her. south look upon those of the north. "I see by your catalogue," she I hadn't been at B and there-said, "that you have just received fore it was safe to talk." "Decent 2,000 pairs of ladies' court shoes." sort, the Mater. She never "Yes," madam," the respectful knows how many tins of salmon I manager informed her, really need for my tucker, though." "Good," said the girl, aitting "Dad, did his stuff fairly well, down. "I wish to try them on!" must say but why must he insist
on kissing us "Goodbye" e the
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platform? So very Victorian!" "How did you come by that black That young man is now at Balliol, eye, George?"
I'm convinced. Don't seek my rea-“Oh, our Jersey cow has a play- sons for this rash and damning ful habit of flicking her tail while statement--I have none, I just I'm milking her, so yesterday I tied a brick on the end of it to keep know it.
There are, too, the Shakespearean it down!" adieux, unless the reader prefers Bacon for his literary breakfast.
the British authorities. The fact panies, which movements would named Ng King-yuen reported to remains that the more this problem seem to suggest that loans of assethe police that some time about clated companies have been convert- 11.16 p. m. yesterday, his flat on of piracy prevention is considered ed into a more permanent form of the second floor of No. 884 Shanghai the harder of solution it becomes, capital in the hands of the parent Street was visited by three men The crocodile tears of Wolsey over The professor was annoyed by who represented that they wished his fallen state, his lost greatness; the untidy appearance of his small to rent a vacant cubicle Ng in magnificent words and noble senti- son.
A-DEAD CHINESE.
In this connection it behoves us, we company. think, to draw attention to what is more than a side Issue. This is the brazen condonation of piracy
produced a revolver and hold up the his son has always appealed to me: "No, Pa," replied the boy; "keep by certain firms, of British and
The polles discovered at 8 o'clock host. The others quickly bound but the conception of Polonius as a the money and get a hate cut other foreign origin, in the Canton last night the body of a Chinese and gagged Ng, and then the trio tedious old bore has robbed most people of the beauty of his address. Delta and at river ports generally male aged between 80 and 85 under proceeded to ransack the fiat. They There are a score of others. It cost Mr. Hustlem very little These firms are concerned in the servoir. The man, who had the ap value of $111.50 and then decamp
the bridge above the Pokfulum re- stole clothing and money to the total exploitation of a certain commodity pearance of a Peak chafe coolto, had ed. It was some time before Ng which has a ready sale in the been murdered and the body was was able to release himself and give →
A badly mutilated. The remains were the alarm, and by then the robbers Interior - of China, "a": "commodity
removed to the public mortuary, had made good their escape, which the Chinese,,from peasant to rich man, Eave been gardāns am essential. -In order that their goods may pass with
vited the men to smoke oplum and ments entirely out of keeping with John, he said, “If you will." they accepted. After the smoke, his earlier catalogue of earthly pos- wash your face I will give you sin one of the three men suddenly sessions. Polonius parting with pence."
sboard ship to their desti, tion the pirates receive from.
listen
Angelico las Asses
that they would inspire his em to buy some mottoes, and he hoped
ployees to special efforts.
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Bo It happened that on Monday A Chinese woman named Cheuk morning there appeared above Sau chun
yes every desk the
it now!". and framed
embossed, gilt bor- "Central | der,” But
the stand took the
terday detained the
eLead F.RGIS Station late of the Straits Steamship Co to commit Flinn, has been apointed to a Government self with attendance post in the Harbour Masters Dei her
partment at Penang, kaj
advice her lady
oped