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DEATH
TUESDAY, FEBRUA
RTISTS SUICIDE
FATUATION PORCA
MODEL
£20 FOR A DINNER
5, 1929.
I am finished. I cannot gut work how, will it pleases the dealer, toi fiver. Ift me, and they are busy? dunk masy." "X" have been very foolish, but my chief fault has been my gan- erosity. I trusted,too much.
Please forgive me. Everything I dil yours: Take care of my pic- fures For myself I ask nothing because I am proud.
which every now and again we hear something... One of the most remarkable flights of modern times, both for length and rapid ity, was that of Coates and a com- patriot. It will be recalled that these French aviators arrived in
A story of the infatuation of a Tokyo after, a, long and remark- able, aviation, venture in quite a 20-year-old artist for an artist's diferent part of the world. They model, who deserted him when all had not flown to the Japanese his money had been spent, was told Your broken-hearted son. capital but they intended to fly at a Paddington inquest on The Coroner said that Atkinson. from it to Europe via India in re Frederick Atkinson, who was found was only twenty years of age, a cord time. They did so, and in a gay poisoned in his studio at a mere boy. He had become infatu manner that created universal house in Blomfield-road, Maida-vale, ated with the woman, who deserted
admiration. Jon Jan. 8.
him as soon as she found he had no astonishment and
A verdict fof. "Suicide white, of mare, money. It was an uncom- That was some two years ago, and
mon story-the case of a man be- since then, if we mistake not, no unsound mind" was returned,
The boy's father, George Atkins "coming Infatuated with a woman' such feat has been so ably per- formed. It is therefore with very son, a coal miner, living at Rother and rain ng himself over her. It much interest that we read that ham, stated that he last heard from was a great pity that the young about. A fortnight be-man should have made the sacrifice Costes (evidently alone) intends to his son make another venture this time fore, when he wrote that he in this way, as he was a man of for the wonderful intellect, with a very from Paris to Hanol, in Indo was sending something
at Christmas and bright future. China and back in ten days' time. children The principal stopping places will that he would see them later.
be Constantinople, Basra, Kara- He had since heard that his son was REGISTRY NOTICES chi, Calcutta and Rangoon short of money.
Mr. Allan Hildick, engineer, said | FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES (though the last-mentioned place
tor.
IN HONG KONG
Notice of the following forth-
is not stated in the news). Very that Atkinson had accupied a studio probably Costes will accomplish in his house since last August. the feat, as he is a first-rate avia- Lately he had complained that
All will wish him and his things had been quiet. Ha owed coming marriages has been post- Dragon of Annam" the beat of about £4 in rent, but witness had led at the Registry:
not pressed him for money. Know- Mr. C. H. Burton, dental ing that Atkinson was not getting surgeon, No. 502, The Peak, to E. much to eat, he and his wife had Foster (formerly McGeachie), en invited him several times to dinner
luck.
The voices of famous men who with them, but he only took advan-route to Hong Kong on board the
s.s. "Taiping." have spoken over the radio are tage of the invitation on one occa
Mr. G. L. Fox, New Grand still wandering in the ether and sion, some weeks ago.
Atkinson had been friendly with Hotel, Yokohama, to Miss E. they may be picked up a hundred
What be a young woman, an artist's model. Edwardson, nursing alster, Vic
toria Hospital. Hong Kong. years hence.
Mr. A. A. Olacs, No. 32, Ice comes of these messages? They He bad told witness that the woman
House-street, Hong Kong, to are never lost, radio engineers had made a lot of promises to him
say, and. may, go on forever. The that she would bring him business.ancisca Maria Gomes, No. 1,
Granville-road, Kowloon.
Marconi Company has actually but these promises she had not car trapped messages after they have ried out. He used to spend a good passed a third time around the deal of his money on this woman, earth. It is not impossible they and had practically exhausted his The woman had not been say, that fifty years hence the moans. voices of men long dead may be to the house for over a month.
"What A Beautiful Woman!" still wandering about and be
Fredericke, Mra... Mabel picked up by sensative instru ments." New York Times."
Mr. C. V. Ferrer da Roza, No.
Ladder-street, Upper Terrace, Hong Kong, to Miss E. M. Yvanovich Hyndman. No. 27, Jordan-road, Kowloon. sip which does nobody any good.
art Mr. G. G. Schwab, No. 1308, True; & number of concerns have
dezler, living at King's-road, Chel- Belen-street, Manila, to Miss B. closed their doors during the last
son, said that she was the widow K. L. Hartmann, also of Manila. Mr. F. W. Kurt Gronke, Manila, of a maing engineer and had few days, but that number is no
known Atkinson for over two years. to Miss J. M. Bertha Kuss, Manila. larger than the average of, say, At the Central Magistracy yes-He was a very clever artist. She the last decade. One trade seemsterday afternoon, a Chinese work- know that he had a very serious H.K. TELEPHONE' CO. to have been particularly hard hit, man, employed at the Nanyang love affair. He had been keeping Bros. tobacco factory, was company with an artist's model that of the restaurants and eating charged with illegally moving a named Dolores. She believed that houses. Since the amount of cus- quantity of dutiable cigarettes, the woman was a Jewess and was tom for such is occasionally taken with their possession and larceny, now in Sweden.
Accused was convicted on the
-
FINAL DIVIDEND OF 4 PER CENT.
Subject to the confirmation of Asked by the coroner (Mr. H. R.the shareholders at the fourth
as a reflex of the public's spend-possession" and larceny charges Osward) how Atkinson got to know annual general meeting to be ing power, we feel that an ex-only and fined $25 and $30, re-the woman, Mrs. Fredericke said hed on Friday, February 22, the planation, based on our long ex-spectively. perience, will be useful. Whereas
that she was dining with Atkinson directors of the Hong Kong Tele at a place in Westminster and saw phone Company, Ltd., recommend Dolores there. Atkinson then re- the following appropriations:- in "western" 'countries places of Three armed robbers, who rald-marked. "What a beautiful womant Payment of a Final amusement and such like are pa-led No. 282, Portland-street, Yau- I would like to paint her." Hav..
Dividend of 4 per cent., making à total tronised more during boom times, mati, yesterday afternoon, threat- ing known this women in business ened to set fire to the house if as an artist's model, witness intro-
of 8 per cent. for the the reverse is the case in China the inmates attempted to raise the duced him to her, and the next she
year If not in so many words, a sage alarm. The house was then ran heard was that they were living to Transfer to General
the desperadoes gether at his studio. Atkinson had
Reserve once said that in bad times the sacked, and
eventually departed with booty saved from £150 to £200. people will congregato often in worth $200. No arrests have yet tea-houses and theatres to forget been made. their worries.
The number of
The Coroner: Do you know if he spent this money on the artist's model?
time?-
Mrs. Fredericke: She spent the "flashy" restaurants which were It is announced that the invalids
money for him. She was living How opened in all parts of the in the cast having recovered, re-
а with penniless artist.
she be living with Colony in the second of 1925 and hearsals of Lonsdale's "On Ap-
proval" are going very well, could the first half of 1926, the throes of Booking will open at the Ander-two men at the same the strike and boycott, is teati-son Music Company on the 9th Well was the case.
I mentioned the fact to Atkinson in Macao, cn Feh, 4, the Cous-mony to the truth of the saying. instant, and those who want good that he became alive to this state of tess Dowager De Senna For several reasons, business seats are advised to book early. Fernandes (Madame A. T has been dull for some appreciablo
The Ferreira)
**2. aged funeral takes place this after-
FERNANDES-At her residence,
noon.
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1929.
use
BEWARE ALARMISTS
into a boom. But when the situa-ing review of the most important this money? tion is summed up at the end of events of 1928. every Chinese year, it can always
$76,904.00
50,000.00 9,725.67
Bonus to Staff Transfer to Stores Ob-
solescence Reserve 25,000.00 Carry forward to.next
account
29,886.76
Total: .$191,016.43
near
Neither had ever given any hint that he or she was other than mas- ter and housekveper, and Mr. Davies had been regarded as a con- firmed bachelor.
"You know what village gossip
It was when MARRIAGE SECRECY
COUPLE WHO FEARED · GOSSIP. things.
Asked how he spent this money,
Hertford Mro. Davies, of Mrs. Fredericke replied that he
here. Court, time. There has been no audden Included in the excellent pro- used to buy clothes and jewellery Marden
a "Daily me, (says slump, however. Caution has gramme which is being screened for Dolores, and take her to res, told
only at the Queen's taurants. to-day
In one night he spent Mail" correspondent) the reason been exercised all along, thereby Theatre is a super British about £20 on a dinner.
why she and Mr. Davies kept their preventing improvement growing Gazette which gives an interest- The Coroner Did she get all marriage a secret for 33 years.
Their marriage was revealed, at Witness: Yes, she got the whole the funeral of Mr. Davies, who was of it: She used to make out to him 84 and formerly a prominent farm- that she cauld get him business er, when Miss Jenkins, as she was known to everybody, admitted be said that some trade or other The new Musafer Khana (tra-through.art-patrons.
"When he got his very last that she had sent a wreath on which Were it not for the fact that, to has done well. This time it is the vellers' rest house) for Mahome,
dans will be opened by the hon pound," added Mrs. Fredericke, was an inscription indicating that cricket phraseology, the metals and leather merchants Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. (Cap-the woman disappeared. She went it was from the widow. "Mias Jenkins" then produced ber mar- alarmists appear to be getting set who have most cause to smile tain Superintendent of Police), Back to the other fellow."! because the fielding side is play-Last year it was some other and at, 30, Shelley-street at 4.15 p.m. The Coroner: Had she been livriage certificate.
Ing with this other man before sha ing into their hands, we would so on if one troubles to look back. to-morrow!
met Atkinson?--Yes.. have preferred to ignore batsmen Money is not acarce. It is only
"So Melodramatic" The Indian community is hold- who can never be stylists. Their withheld for sound investment
Witness said that she told the ing a reception at the Hong Kong' calibre has been exaggerated be- and incorrectly.declared to be Hotel, at 5.15 p.m. to-morrow to woman afterwards that she had cause the bowlers--and by them "short" by those whose position is tender congratulation to Khan ruined Atkinson, and she replied, "I is," Mrs. Davies said to me."We we mean the business community precarious. There was that run Sahib Nawab Khan and Sardar had to leave him, he was so melo did not want any of it, so I was
ing to take his life."!: It was report people outside. FA.S.P.MTV gest in general-have not bowled with on one of the exchange banks Sahib Mohender Singh, the new dramatic, and was always threaten content to remain Miss Jenkins to "Mr. Davies had always made It their heads and thereby lent which proved, a few days, to
ed that. Dolores, was married and colour to the crop of rumours cur- have been altogether unwarrant. The funeral of the late Coun- had been twice divorced. Atkinson plain that he did not wish the mar had worshipped" her, and had rlage to remain a secret for ever, rent in fluctuating extent for ned. Money talks. It did in the tesa Dowager de Senna Fer-written a bank of poems all delic and he left it to me to make it nandes (Madame A: T. Ferriera). week or ten days each year be case of the bank referred to. who died yesterday at the age The Coroner: He was quite a
fated to Dolores, ka ar
Mrs. Davies, who is a grey-haired fore the Chinese say "Kung Hay will do so again for the firms that of 82 years, takes places this good artist you say? woman of over 60, denied that she Fat Choy." According to the bea are well established, even if trade afternoon at Macao.
Witness: Yes, he had a most was the executrix. Provision had brilliant future. We thought so been made for her, and she was sonal and not the old lunar has been bad for them. Houses: calendar, yesterday was the most will close, of course, before or on The Hou Dr. A. B. Wellington much of his work that we had kept going away to live with friends. auspicious day of the year. It was New Year's Eve (this Saturday), the new Director of Medical and him going, for about two years. The household effects: at Marden
Atkinson, she said, had no train-would be sold. Sanitary Services, and Mrs. Well- set down as the advent of spring only because it is the most importington, arrived yesterday by the lus only an ordinary education, but (brrr!) and is considered by ant of the four settling days in sis "Remo"" and are at present he had studied closely, and had read It was stated at a Cheltenham in- many to be as "good" a day as the native fiscal year, and not be staying with Dr. and Mr. W. B. A. books. He had intended to buy a quest on Mrs. Louisa Gurney, aged China New Year. So, we might cause there has been widespread Moors, at the Peak suggest, to counteract the peasi havoc. Merchants know to with- mists who shake their heads and in a few dollars what they will col- predict a sensational number of lect a
and what mu failures, that the exchange of over. They have matie, proy "Kung Hay Fat Choy" be started for such and, we au
only because thể nigh" "the"
ish for prosperity is the keynote text
done.
New
"
:
known."
little business with the money be 79, a widow, who died accidentally had saved. When be found Dolores from gas poisoning, that £352 was ab had been telling himikiés ho sočné found in a cupboard in her house, Mr. G. P. Lammert, Jr. has ed overwhelmed. Dolores, looked plan been appointed to act as author young, but was about forty years
Six carriage horses for the fsed clerk to Mr. G Harriman, of age, aby
Viceroy of India were shipped in Mrs. Fredericke stated that he the transport "Dorsetshire," had had 200 of Atkinson's pictures salled, from Southampton recently Mr. GT Cotton, bar, manager, in the last two years
for Bombay, with 1,600 troops. Police evidence was that vatkin pornSANTARA Kong Hotel, completeschis M
the son was found fyjng dead in 30 45th year of
studio, with the gas escaping from Histove and the end of a tube near
His head wa38,000
to-m
En eklerdawY was found on:
Bristol City Council decided to form a committee to consi memorial scheme which would make for the dependants
Tel: Central: 125.