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“HANGMAN'S DIARY." them and stole their clothes. Be- A SURE WAY TO
hended with the sword at Nurem
berg.
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First Woman Hanged.
STOP INDIGESTION.
GRUESOME EVENTS IN FAR OFF DAYS.
No. 77. Maria Kurschnorin of Indigestion is such a common ail- FIRST WOMAN HANGED. ·
Nuremberg, allae Silly Mary, who ment that many people use the rat had formerly been whipped out of thing that's handy to stop it. They the town with rods and had her frequently use ordinary bl-carbonata The savage Middle Ages, when
of aoda, never realising that a al- women were not merely hanged for Schwertzin of Weber, allas Coun- it is doing incalculable harm to the ears cropped, also Katherine though this frequently stops the pain, murder, but frequently drowned or try Kate, who had also formerly stomach lining, and may beheaded, are graphically brought,
even cЯUBO
THE Undersigned, have received Instructions to sell by Public
of the Christian Brothers else-T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that, of them thieves and who with is a little Bisurated Magnesia in a to life in the journal of Master been whipped out of the town; both stomach ulcers. The best, anfest, and where, are invited to attend a gen Ion and after FRIDAY, the 1st Franz Schmidt, Puble Executioner thievish youths and fellows broke quarter of a tumbler of water after surest remedy for digestive troubles feral meeting of the above Associa-
tion at the College on TUESDAY, June next, a CONSTANT SUPPLY 1573 to 1617, which has been pub-I into citizens' houses and stole a meals, which not only corrects the
OF WATER WILL BE TURNED, lished under the title "A Hang-mighty quantity of things; both troub
its mourco, but soothes, ON in all Rider Main Districts man's Diary" (Philip Allar and
hanged at Nuremberg. It was an The moment you take 'Bisurated" heals and protects the stomach lining. until further notice.
Co., Ltd.). It is culted, with an unheard of thing for a woman to Magnesia it neutralises the excess Supplies to Wharves in Victoria, introduction, by Albrecht Keller, be hanged in Nuremberg, and it acidity, prevents fermentation, and which were suspended in February and translated by C. Calvert and had never yet (1584) happened. that's the and of indigestion.
chemist sells Bisurated Magnesia in last, will also be restored at the A. W. Gruner, with an introduo- No. 78. Hennsa of Geyselwind, both rowder and tablets; the one and above-named date.
tory essay by Mr. Calvert, which alias the Fat Lad; Hennaa Pallauf only Bisurated Magnesin that doctora gives an account of criminal pro- of Hernda; Killian Wurmb of recommend and hospitals use, because cedure in Germany in the Middle Virnspach, allas Backendt; Hans it is as safe as it is effective. ¡Ages..
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"The soul of the Middle Ages," and Hennsla Klopffer of Reigels- writes Mr. Keller, "is laid bare be- dorff; five thieves who, with the fore us. Hore a young girl hopes previously executed "Silly Mary," to feter the affections of a youth and "Country Kate," had burgled by a love potion, there a woman and stolen, (they had also former- seeks to make her man invulner- ly been whipped out and put in the SOCIALIST WHO WAS THUS able, even proof against torture, so stocks ten times). They had to REGARDED BY LABOURITES. IN
Accordance with Ordinance that he shall, utter no confession. be clothed, for they were naked and No. 5 of 1912, the EXCHANGE),. A merry farce of Hans Sacha bare; some of them knew no pray THE LATE MR. G. H. ROBERTS. BANKS will be CLOSED for the lives again when a rogue professes ers and had never been in transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS to have come from Venusberg."
church; the eldest were twenty-| -| on MONDAY, the 4th June.
There are
300 entries in the two, seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen Sevenoaks. Mr. G. H. Roberts, Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928,
Diary relating to executions by years old, the youngest thirteen the printer who became a member Master Franz Schmidt, but the years. All five hanged hera in of the Cabinet and a Privy Coun- number of executions he records is
Unheard of Procedure.
cillor, died suddenly at a private much larger. One entry sometimes covers four or five executions. No. 92. Hana Hoffmann of hotel here last month at the age The following are some of the en- Obersdorff, a thief who stole of 59. tries, relating chiefly to women: clothes from the sick in the lazaret,
Mr. Roberts, who became HAVE appointed Mr. G. A. H.
Savage. Crimes.
and had broken the Ban (order of known throughout the country as POTTS as my attorney to act'
No. 9. Wastel Pennas, of Leuch- banishment) six times. Because the Food Controller after the war, for and on my behalf under the tenberg, a butcher, and thief, who he was caught in the act at the had lately become a director of a style of ELLIS HAYIM, Share & hanged at Rotkirch.
also sold dogs' flesh as mutton, lazaret, an honourable council number of companies,
ordered the sentence to be read in General Broker as from 1st June,.. No. 14. Hans Peyhel, or Forch- front of the lazaret by a town-fering from heart trouble, but For some time he had been suf- heim, who committed three murders beadle. He was then led out to the when he returned home the night with his companion; behended with place of execution and hanged: before his death he seemed quite the sword at Forchheim and expos- such a proceeding had never been well. ed on the wheel. Two years ago heard of before.
Mr. Roberts was apprenticed to I cut off his ears and flogged him
No. 99. Four burglare hanged. the printing trade and became at Herzog Aurach.'
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Labour M.P. for Norwich in 1906. He acted as Chief Whip of the party for some years. He offend- ed many of his old friends by hie patriotism, and was eventually Ireturned by Norwich as a.Nation-
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He
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She gave birth to an infant at the farm of her master, and killed it, executed by drowning at Lichtenau. No. 34. Eberla Eckhardt (a young person) of Nuremberg, a
STANDARD TIME....
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN- HONG KONG.
Sunrise and Sunnet in Hong Kong thlef as a favour beheaded stand during June, 1928, standard time ing, with the sword here in for the 120th meridian, East Nuremberg.
of
Sunrise, Sunset.
1,m. p.m. 6.98 7.04 6.98
7.07 5,88 7.08 5.88
7.08 *6.38 7.09 5.38 7.09 5.38 7.09
Greenwich, is as follow:-
8.30 a.m. 9.30 am.
No. 43. Margaret Dorflerin (50 years old) from Ebermannstatt,: Elizabeth Eruatin (22 years old) from Anspach, Agnes Lengin (22) years old) of Auberg, three child murderesses. All-three, behead- ed with the sword, as murderesses and their heads nailed above the great scaffold, no woman having
2
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4
6,38 7,05
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5.38
7.06
6
5,38
7,06
7
5.38
7.00
8
3.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m.
By Order,
8. W.
priests,
been beheaded before this (January |26, 1580) at Nuremberg, I and the
two
6.38:
*7,00
9
5.38
7.07
namely Master
10
5.38 7.07
Eucharius and Master Lienhardt;
11
5.38
*7.07
CHENG,
|Krieg, brought this about, as the Secretary. three bridges were already pre-
12
6.88
18
parad, because they should all three. have been drowned.
14
15
Tortures of the Age. No. 50. Margaret Bockin, citizen of Nuremberg, who murder- ed another woman also a citizen,
"The Treasurer's' wife.” .
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5.89 7.09
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5.89
7.10
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5.39
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5,39
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28
5.40
7.10
24
5.40
7.11
26
5,40
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540
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27
5,41
7.11
28
5.41
No. 55. Christoff Hanck, alias)
29
5.41
7.11
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5.42 7.11
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On then beheaded with the aword; THURSDAY, 7th June, 1928, at 12 standing; her head fixed on a pole noon for the purpose of receiving above and her body buried under the report of the Directors together the gallows. with Statement of Accounts for the
- General Managers. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1928.
year ended 30th April, 1928.
the Fiddling Cobbler, from Neuen- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the stadt on the Aysch, a shoemaker, Company will be CLOSED from by trade, also a fiddler and drum- SATURDAY, 2nd June to FRIDAY, mer and
a great thief; he also 8th June, 1928, both days inclusive played the jester at the town fea
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, tival; hanged at Nuremberg, took,
leave of the world as a Christian, Had been spared the gallows twelve years before at Culmbach. No. 61. Michael Passelt of Sultzbach, a pursemaker's hand, who was wedded both to his mis-j tress, called Maglin, and ber daughter.
Beheaded with the
■HE FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN sword here in Naremberg; his body TARY GENERAL MELDIRDI - afterwards but
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the Company will be held at the Offices of the General Managers, native of Burckenstatt, formerly Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., called "Stamlet Kathra" and "the Ltd., Podder Street, Hong Kong, on foreigner," whom my father for WEDNESDAY, the 20th June, 1928, merly whipped out of the town of at Noon for the purpose of receiv Preseck with rods. Lately, con- ing the Report of the Directors, sorting with thieves and robbers, passing the Accounts, and electing formed a band of sixteen, attacked, Directors and Auditors.
people by night at Mossfuhl, at The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Esterfold and at the mill near Company will be CLOSED from the Wurzburg, also at Pubal and, 18th June to 4th July, 1928, both Hennau and many other, places, days, inclusive.
Bound their victims, tortured, beat and wounded them, forced and ex-! torted money from them,, robbed ;
́ ́‚By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Managers, Hong Kong, 29th May, 1928,
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
undersigned, Master of the British. S.S. "Lancaster Castle" will
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G. W. LOWE.
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became Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in 1917; then Minister of Labour and Food Controller from 1919-20. In 1923 he joined the Conserva- tive Party, but was defeated at: the next élection after retaining his seat for 17 years.
During the war his patriotism brought him in collision
with:
some members of his own party, and it became obvious that he had lost his faith in Socialism.
Socialism Fallacy.
"In my propagandist days," he declared, "I used to think of the State machinery as the one pana- cea for overcoming all ills, but experience has taught me that this is not very sound."
1 He left the Labour Party and as an Independent joined the first· Coalition Administration in 1915 as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In the following year he became Parliamentary. Secre- tary to the Board of Trade, and for the final war period he was Minister of Labour.
He was
Food Controller for little more than a year after the Armistice.
In 1928 he joined the Conserva-- tive Party but was defeated at the next election after retaining his seat for 17 years.
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