FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1928.
FOR NO REASON!
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THE CHINA MAIL,
SADIE THOMPSON.” GERMAN TRAGEDY.
ING TRIUMPH. *·
GIRL MURDERED IN DERLIN TRAIN.
A SPLENDID DRÁMÁ.
GARAGE MANAGER HIT WHEN AFTER PLEADING GUILTY 'TO GLORIA SWANSON'S CROWN-
AT HIS SAFE.
CHINESE FINED.
EMBEZZLEMENT.
BROTHER STUMPS UP.
Shadows Before
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To-day---Quson's Theatre; "Sadie. Its Name-
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To-day-World Theatre; "Don
Aug. 12-13-Queen's Theatre;
CALLOUS CRIMINAL.
Playing the most difficult role Employed as a sub-accountant ini
Berlin.-A well-buift, - pleasant- That for no apparent reason he had been struck when he was bend- Temple-street, Yaumati, a Chinese of her career, Gloria Swanson re-looking young man named Kiebach ing over his enfe was the story re-appeared before Mr. W. Schofield gains her allegedly waning repu who was sentenced to death here; latest to Mr. W. Schofield at the at the Kowloon Magistracy this tation in a dramatic tale provides a curious problem for "The Count of, Ten't (At 9.15
criminologists. Kowloon Magistracy this morning morning in answer to a charge of taining picture entitled "Sadie which is being
Long Tack Sam). when the manager of the Chang embezzlement of $708 from his em- Thompson"
screened at the Queen's Theatre in a hot and stuffy court had ob"Let It Rain."
Although the two days" bearing Mei garage, of Shanghai-street, ployer, Mongkok, appeared as complainant Det. Inspector Fallon prosecuted. to well patronised "houses."
Although not ના wholesome viously told on his powers of en- He said that defendant in an, assault case.
The four defendants were each trusted with $708 by the complain-story, the picture must be judged durance, he heard the judgment as fined $20 (or three weeks) and ant to deliver to a firm in Bonham- rather on its merits as a film than if it had no bearing on his own fate.
behaviour for a year.
COCK-FIGHTING.
.com
RACING MEN BEFORE MAGISTRATES.
was en-
Aug. 14-15--Queen's
Aug.
Theatre;
Land Sale. August 13-At F.W.D. Offfeea,
Aug. 12-13 World Theatre;
Aug. 12-13-Star Theatre; “Up- stage."
Aug. 12-13-Special. Repeat per- each was ordered to sign a per-strand as payment for cattle. No-on its niceness. It is of a drama- When it came to an end he exchange formance of Long Tack Sam and his | souni bond of $100 to be of good thing appeared amiss until the tie type, interesting and appealed a few sentences in tones of easy wonders, workers at Queen's Thea
affability with his counsel and step-tre, 9.20 p.m. master became anxious about the ing.
The acting of Gloria Swanson ped lightly out of the dock without the defendant. won-appearance of He was about to communicate with and Lionel Barrymore make up casting a glance at his weeping "Paid to Love." the Police when he received a mesa for the noticeable lack of dia- mother, sister, and flancee, who sat
14-15 World Theatre; age from the Bonham-strand firm logue, their expressions in "close in the public section of the court.
"Love 'em and Leave 'em." He had told a story which was
August 17-Promenade Concert that the money promised hud not ups" afford a lesson of film-direc arrived. He then got in touch with tion. Rasyl Walsh, who supports very extraordinary, precisely be-
at Volunteer Parade Ground 9.15 Miss Swanson and plays the part cause he told it and because of the
p.m. The police.
It then appears the tthe Police of O'Hara, a soldier, is the direc-way in which he told it. In a quiet,
Lammerta Auelion. traced defendant to No. 31, Tem-tor of the piece, and the scenic cultivated voice, and with the smil-
August 14-Miscellaneous goods Landun, July 16.
In the police station, backgrounds afforded through- ing obsequiousness of an overtrain at Godown No. 18, H.K: Kowloon A cock fight in a red-carpeted ple-street. horse-box with a baize cavered ring he said that he had been robbed out the length of the role, speak) ed shop attendant, he described how whf. godown. Kowloon, 10.30 a.m.
much for his able direction. The he travelled about in second-class on a stud farm at Old Buckenham, in Connaught-road,
In court he said the same thing.story centres around the adven- compartments on the Berlin subur Norfolk, was described at East Barling Petty Sessions, when eight lasperior Fallon then stated that! tures of "Sadie," a number of sol- ban railways until he found himself Crown land at Mong Kok Tsui, 3| magistrates, presided over by Lord the brother of the defendant had diers and a hypocritical reformer, along with Olbemarle, heard charges against expressed his willingness to pay and is gripping in its simplicity. Perske, who evidently had money in "Sadie Thompson" is a vérsion her purse, and then drawing from the occupier of the stud farm of the mumey and, in view of this fact,
a triangular iron allowing a cock fight and eighteen complainant was not pressing the of "Rain" written by Somerset its concealment
rod struck her with it on the head. charge. Defendant was discharged. Maugham."
Without betraying the faintest sign of contrition or any other grave emotion, but rather with the air of a man trying to make a com monplace story as clear and inter- esting as possible, he went on to tell how the girl raised her hands to protect her face and ran screaming
Miscellaneous. into the next compartment; how he
August 12-19-Missionary Con followed her, and, carefully keeping ference at Cheung Chau. his distance to avoid being bespat-
Moonlight August 29-Second One of Douglas Fairbanks' out-tered by the blood that spurted from picnic of St. Peter's Y. M. Club. standing successes is being
her severed arteries, continued to
September 14-H.K.V.D.C. (Ma- screened at the World Theatre rain blows on her head until she lay chine Gun Company) dinner, Head- at usual performances till Satur-
motionless" and silent at his feet;
others, including Sir John Jardine and others prominent in racing circles, of assisting at a cockf fight.
:
The prosecuting solicitor said that the proceedings were taken under the Protection of Animals Act, which prohibited fightings or racing of animals. The police raid- od the farm during Newmarket Race Week and found a cock fight proceeding for which careful pre- parations had been made. The birds were fitted with steel spurs and their neck and tail feathers had been clipped. Seventeen other cocks were found in boxes and baskets, some bearing traces of wounds.
Sir Patrick Hastings, defending, contended that there was nothing
illegal in watching a "cock fight." These were gentlemen of position, he aid, and they felt most keenly the suggestion that they would de anything illegal. Furthermore the use of artificial' spurs was more kuman than the bird's own spurs.
The pisseruting solicitor replied that "assisting" meant participat Ing by watching.
The benel fined 16 defendants £10 each.
AGAINST A JUDGE.
BARRISTER SUSPENDED FROM PRACTICE,
Extraordinary
allegations
Biri Kemeruan, who with then flash will shortly attempt a trans-Atlontle Aight,
"DEFECTIVES."
NEW ZEALAND BILL TO PROHIBIT MARRIAGE,
Wellington. July 17. The Mental Defectives Bill in-
against a Jurige have resulted in the suspension for six months of Mr. S. U. Shivdasani. Barrister troduced in the House of Represen- at-Law, practising in Hyderabad,) tatives provides fur the creation of Sin, after trial under disciplin-the next class of mental defectives to be known as "Socially defective" nry jurisdiction.
"DON
ATTRACTIVE PICTURE OF VIVID ROMANCE.
AT THE WORLD,
girl named Dora
p.m.
Meetings. August 13-H.K.V.D.C. Sports Committee meeting, Volunteer Headquarters, 5.45 p.m.
6.15 p.m.
August 13-H.K.V.D.C. Promen- ade Concert meeting, Headquarters,
Sport. August 24-H.K.V.D.C. aquatic ports at Victoria Recreation Club,
9 p.m.
day. This is the thrilling picture how he took her purse, and on the quarters. B p.m.
| called "Don Q, the son of Zorro.
The action of the picture is laid almost entirely amid the love ly and attractive scenic surround- ings of Spain, in the early Romance, and the "eighties."
same night spent the money in it. which he had wanted to buy a Christmas present for his fiancée, In company of a woman pleked up on the streets..
there
Kiebach is just 21 years of age. He helped his father, who is a aise prepares taxidermist, but human anatomical specimens for the doctors. An alienist said could be no doubt whatever as to responsibility of the the mental young man, who was merely abnor mally cool and calculating.
thrilling adventures of one vil- lainous soldier, grips the interest of the audience, and excitement, is raised to high pitch by the startling disappearance and yet more amazing reappearance of the feuding character. His dar-
his ing exploits,
alarming acrobatic powers, are enthusias tically followed to the final sceno.
BLOODSTAINED GLOVES. Interest is gained by the may- After the mardur Klebach went nificent support afforded "Doug" to a friend and asked him to keep by the splendid acting of Mary a pair of bloodstained gloves 'for Astor. The cast is large and in-him. clude many other very notable performers.
DISTRESSING STORY. PATHETIC TALE OF POVERTY
"What have you been up to?".ask. ed the fridad. "Oh. I've just kill- ed a girl on the Metropolitan," replied Kiebach.
The couple then discussed the question whether the opportunity might not have been used for other criminal purposes than murder and robbery. "But," Kiebach told his judges, "our talk was in expressions I should not like to ropont here.".
Another question of the friend.
was: "Did she leave you anything
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The Singapore Coroner (Mr. Mr. Shivdasani, it is alleged, and the constitution of a special F. G. Bourne) heard a pathetic addressed, some months back, aboard to supervise curtain classes story of poverty when he inquired communication to the Court of of defectives.
into the death of a Chinese woman Judicial Commissioners, Sind, in The Board will be composed of whose body was found hanging in in her will?" However, eventually DIRECT FROM LONDON AND
the friend blabbed to the police-- which, referring to Mr. R. B.leading medfent, educational and her hut at Changi, Milne, of the LC.S.. District and prison authorities who will be
The woman's husband said that whether because he discovered in rudiments of a con- himself the Scasions Judge, Ilydoralind, he charged to compile a register of he was a cigarette seller at Tiong science or for the sake of the pro- stated: "To my mind the Judge names of all mentally defective per- Bharu. They used to live there in that ignores all laws is worse sons who, though not of unsound & hut. When that was demolished mised reward was not made clear- than the criminal he tries,
mind, may be classified as 'idiots. by the Government in connection and now he is bring mercilessly The criminal breaks the law imbecile, feeble minded, epileptic or with the Tiong Bharu housing persecuted by "the boys" of his dis- to look upon un- once, but the Judge ignores the socially defective.
trict, who seem law ten times a day. What can
In order to assist the ecmpilation should continue his cigarette sell-protected women very much as a farmer with a gun look upon rab- be said of the conscience of a of a register, the Director of Educa-ing, while, with the few dollars bita. Judge who sits on the Divine tion is required to furnish a return they had saved up, his wife should chair to administer Justice, and yet ignores every rule of the school children suffering from try her hand at vegetable growing at Chang!. to think he is retarded mental developments, de- and poultry farming
fciency, disorder or epilepsy. They received no compensation from The Bill prohibits the marriage of the Government for their demolish- Mr. Shivdasani is also alleged to have stated that the Judge registered persons and the Board ed hut. "made the laws of the country may authorise the sterilisation of subservient to his passing any registered persons subject to was a witness. He said that some. fancies, or subservient to his set-the consent of the parents or guar-times his mother and he had food tled policy of diemissing all dians. appeals.'
Law! He seems above the Law."
A
tele-
Dublin correspondent graphs:-What are the chairman's powers at a port and deeks board
meeting? The question threatens
scheme it was decided that he
The deceased's 10-year old son
After leaving his gloves with his friend Kiebach went home. His sister met him with the words: "Have you read about the robbery on the Metropolitan?" The brother replied, nonchalantly: "It was I│ who did thai." And the glri's only further contribution to the conver and sometimes they did not have it. Bation, so far as we know, was an Mr. Bourne: Why did you not kill expression of the hope that, "at any rate, he had got something out The ind explained that the hens of it." were meant for laying and the cock birds for sale.
ĮDEGREES OF MURDER the chickens?
"GROWING UNEASINESS" REGARDING PENALTY.
Adelaide, July 2.
A' verdict of death by was returned.
OF MURDER.
hanging
"A MORAL MONSTER.” Finally, there is the murderer's fiancée, who hought him the "gmart socks" he wanted to wear-at-the trial. She is a typist, and has what to become a matter of high State At a meeting of 'the Council of
are known "respectable, connec- consideration here. Mr. Munden, a Churches, the following motion was
tions." When she gave evidence member of the Dublin Port Board, carried: "That this Council shares CRAWLEY INQUIRY. the already knew from the papers questioned the right of the chair- the growing, uneasiness in regard to
that her lover is a "moral monster," man (Mr. Lawrence) to closure a the infliction of capital punishment CORONER RETURNS VERDICT in the sense of being absolutely member; asked what were the and, while not prepared to demand
blunt to alf etdical considerations, chairman's rights and privileges, the total abolition of the death pen
But when she was asked from the and described the chairman's closur-aity. culis
tho upon
Govern-1 A finding of murder against some Bench whether she still wanted to ing as an adroit move. Mr. Law. mest to amend the law relating person or persons unknown was
marry him she replied, without even agent, on being appealed to, suld thereto, by providing for degrees of returned by the Coroner (Mr. momentary healtation, “Yes.” he considered that Mr. Manden was murder, as set out in Ernest Row- F. G. Bourne) in the inquest on the The court pronounced the death well nware of the rules
Frederick Europaan. of the land's book, 'Judgment of Death.'
Crawley, sentence because the law, left it Bo recommended board. Mr. Manden intimated that (1) Deliberate and unprovoked whose body was found in the alternative, but
Singapore River on June 16.
Kiebach to mercy on the grounds Mr. Bourne said, "In view of the both of his upbringing his father medical evidence I am satisfied that apparently being a drunkard and a (3) Deliberate unlawful homi- the wound on the head was not self-bully-and of his own "exaggerated cide, which is the result of a com- inflicted, and I am therefore unable eccentricity." The latter extenua A Chinese named Leung Iu-kal pact by two or more persons to to accept the evidence of the Bengali tion most murderers would probably (42) a workman engaged on the commit suicide,
watchmen except a so far as it in be able to plead with a good deal rew site of the Telephone Co., in (4) Deliberato, unlawful homi- dicates the place where the wound of plausiblity. Nathan-road, Kowloon, was yester- cide, which is committed by a was probably fufflcted and I"view
Cheng Leung, (20), a native of day. removed to the Kowloon mother in circumstances which show their evidenco with great suspicion. Hospital suffering from face and to the satisfaction of the jury that I am convinced that after the wound Yen Plug, an accountant of the head injuries. The man was work- the woman, although sauc, was by had been Inflicted on Frederick Wah Cheong Blog domestic remit ing on a steam pile driver when the poverty, friendlessness, or betrayal, Crawley, his hands were secured tance firm of No. 270, Des Vaux 'machine alipped off the rail which deprived of ability to control her with his own belt, probably whilst road Central, 2nd floor, is alleged to he was unconscious and that he was have absconded with 37,000 odd, sprung up and struck the coolfe in conduct, patal the head. Lig condition is not All other kinds of homicide are then thrown into the river and being remittances from
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he would raise the matter in an- unlawful homicide. other place and in another way."
(2) Deliberate, but provoked The other place and the other way unlawful.homicide. is taken to refer to a court of law.
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