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POISON VERDICT
FOREIGNER'S DEATH IN
SHANGHAI
1
CAPTAIN K. W. J. POWER
A
THE CHINA MAIL,
deceased was given medical atten- tion, witness stated he would not expect to find any poison in the stomach contents as it would have already dissolved into the system.
MACHINERY CASE CHINESE MILL MANAGER AS CO-DEFENDANT
Dr. J. A. O'Driscoll bad little
TLS. 500,000 INVOLVED to add to the testimony of Dr.
When the private criminal pro- Evidence that he had taken some Renner from a medical standpoint.
Russian When deceased had fully regained secution for alleged, fraud involv white powder from cabaret girl and had drunk it with consciousness witness had asked ing Ts. 500,000 brought by Ander was him what he had been taking the son, Meyer and Company against his whisky and sola
a former at the inquest previous evening. Capain Power a bank manager and out brought
Court, replied that he had a headache and mil manager was resumed in the Police the British
Court Shanghai, on on was in the Alcazar Cabaret where Provisional Shanghai, on April 25, Captain Kenneth William Joseph he asked a girl he had been dancing April 25, it was announced that the Power, of the Chinese Maritime with for an aspirin. She produced second accused had ignored the Customs.. Mr. A. J. Martin, the a white powder from a bag which Court's order and again failed to
sitting Coroner, she told him was aspirin and he appear.
a8 Registrar,
The allegations against the of anlawfully were that brought in a verdict that death was took the powder which he said
He did not feel, the two tasted bitter. due to pneumonia brought on by
effects of it and returned to the mortgaging a set of machinery of narcotic poisoning.
complainants. The Captain Power returned to Shang-Palace Hotel about two in the the American firm with intent to hai recently and was living at the morning and went to bed. He had defraud the Palace Hotel. He was found an-been drinking, Dr. Driscoll inform-second accused, Moh Shu-teai, wasi conscious in his room at the heteled the coroner, which might have stated to be the former manager to the General slowed the action of the narcotic.of the Hung Dah Cotton Mill in and was removed
nar- Pootung who had bought the set Witness suspected that the away Hospital where he passed
cotic was herols or some deriva- of machinery and engines from Andersen, Meyer on the deferred two days later.
tive of oplate.
The mill was sub- Found Unconscious
Detective Sergeant A. C. Barton, payment plan. Dr. O'Driscoll, who was one of stated that he went to the Hospital sequently sold for $400,000 owing the two physicians who attended to see Captain Power who was unto business reverses, and it was the Captain at the Hospital, dis-conscious. At 11 am. on April 18, alleged that its entire plant, in- closed to the Coroner a conversa) when witness again called he was cluding the set of machinery and engines of the complainant which he had with Captain lying in bed reading a newspaper. had not been paid for, was mor tion which Power.
The latter told him that Witness put a few questions to gaged by the mill-manager to the
the
Native Bank of the evening before he was found him and he related that on
Heng Loong unconscious he was in the Alcazar evening of April 15, he had been which the second accused was the Cabaret. He had a headache and to several cabarets in Frenchtown manager. It was also alleged-by asked a dancing girl for an as-but could not give their names but counsel for Andersen, Meyer that pirin. She gave him some white only recollected that of Alcazar. the two had connived at what counsel called a fraudulent mort- powder from a package which was!
him that it Witness was also told how the каке. in ber bag and told
Andersen, Meyer, it was disclos- was aspirin. He took the powder Captain was seated at a table in
подопе of these resorts drinking jed, had sought to recover their which tasted bitter but felt
whisky and soda. He became faint alleged loss of Tls. 500,000 in the effects.
The action was Witness asserted that death was and asked a Russian dancing girl native court. due to hypostatic or insipid sitting at the opposite side of subsequently brought in the Pro- The proceedings of the the room if she had an aspirin. visional Court. pneumonia a blockage lunge due to artificial respiration From her handbag she produced were heard before Judge Chen and and the oxygen which had to be a small paper package containing Mr. C. D. Meinhardt, on April 25, white powder which he Senior Consul's Deputy, Mr. Y. administered. This was substant some iated by the testimony of Dr. emptied into his glass and drank. L. Wang and Dr. Y. L. Yao, legal Chinese Chamber Renner, who was called by the Sergeant Barton stated in answer adviser to the
Hotel to to the coroner that he had made of Commerce, appeared for Ander-! Wong manager of the Palace
Dr. Renner inquiries at Aleszar and all cabarete sen, Meyer, and Messrs. attend the Captain. thought that death was also due to In Frenchtown but was unable to Peh-dong and Yue Hai-yuin were heart weakness and asserted that find which place and girl it was for the bank manager accused.! pneumonia had nothing directly to There were quite a number of girls Mr. C. S. Franklin, of the firm of and Allman, do with the poisoning but pro- in each cabaret, abou: 30. The Fleming, Franklin
also attorney in fact for bably indirectly. He had called in coroner wanted to know whether was
or
Swallowed White Powder
the police after discovering that the witness had heard of cabaret-girls Andersen, Meyer and Co. deceased had been poisoned.
carrying heroin and witness replied
the
Warrant Is Asked the that he could not say for sure. During the proceedings,
When informed of the further After a few minutes' delibera- coroner enquired from one of the
court, Dr. Yao ager from witresses, Detective Sergeant Ber- tion the Coroner returned the fol.absence of the former mill-man- ton, of the Central Station, whether lowing verdict: "I find that Ken asked for a warrant to be issued the police had been able to locate neth William Joseph Power died at for his arrest with the assistance the cabaret giri and he elicited the the General Hospital, Shanghai, onof the Native Court in accordance reply that they had not but expect April 18, of pneumonia brought on with the provisions of the Chin- to do so. They had visited, every as a result of narcotic poisoning."
ese Criminal Code. eabaret in Frenchtown.
Traces of Poisoning
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Mr. Wang, the second counsel for Andersen, Meyer, next stated that since the last hearing they had gone
into the books of the Hang Loong Bank relating to the business it had with the mill and The following programme will had been convinced that the bank be broadcast to-day from Govern was in no way implicated in the ment Broadcast Station ZB.W. on fraud with the former mill-man- ager, They had a different im- The rates 5.30-6.80 p.m. Programme of pression before that.. The
of interest which the bank. charg Chinese music.
7.48
Evening weathered to the mill for certain loans p.m.-
certain were irregular between report.
350 metres.
Dr. A. Renner stated in evidence taht he was called by telephone to the Palace Hotel to attend come- one who was very sick at about 8.80 a.m. On arrival at the hotel he was taken into a room where he found the Captain tying unconscious in bed. An examination showed traces of opiate poisoning. symptoms pointed to heroin, phine or opiumL. Artificial breath- ing and injections were resorted to,
8 p.m.--Evening programme of periods. and after a while the patient re- gained partial consciousness, and Chinese music relayed from the witness sent him to the General Roof Garden of Sincere Co., Ltd.
10.30 p.m.-Close down. Hospital in an ambulance, follow-
ing in his car later.
ness
mur-
Describing his examination of the deceased at the hospital, wit- stated that his condition aggravated and witness called in another doctor as it was a cate for the police and he did not want to shoulder all the responsibility. He sent for Dr. O'Hara who was operating, but bis assistant, Dr. O'Driscoll, arrived in his stead and gave witness his assistance. Until three that afternoon they did everything they could for the patient who regained full conscious- ness then and showed an improve- ment in his condition. When wit- ness saw him again at 6 pm. hel was what witness thought "Per- fectly all right.”
Died After Relapse
The following day, Dr. Renner continued, the patient got along
Life's Outlook
is always overcast to the man
An agreement between the parties stated that there was a mortgage but the books of the bank only mentioned a loan in-
·In other stead of mortgage. words, the book did not agree The agree- with the agreement. ment.should have been made be- fore the entry in the book but the. reverse seemed to be the case. Counsel then handed into court a copy of certain entries in the book,
No Security Put Up
Judge Chen then asked counsel what further evidence he could Mr. produce against the accused. Wang replied that it was not for the complainant to bring fresh proof but for the accused to answer the evidence of guilt brought against them so far. Pressed for further proofs, Mr. Wang asseri- ed that he would call in more evidence if the court was perfectly satisfied that the former mill manager would not abscond in the meantime, Counsel pointer
Judge Chen replied that the accused in a criminal case
THURSDAY, MAY 2. 1929.
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very nicely but there was a relapse whose nerves are all awry or who out that this accused had not put the day after. That morning the suffers habitually from dyspepsia,
Dr. Yao not under detention. patient was in
a primary state Cheerlessly he gazes out on the P any security or bail and was world's activities and pleasures, intervened with the remark that of hypostatic or insipid que unable to understand how others they had already produced abund- monia, Witness summoned Dr.
can find happiness therein.
ant proof and should not be O'Hara for a consultation which
The need of such a man is a was fixed at 6.10 p.m. The patient revivifying of his nervous fortes. called to give more evidence. was in a serious condition then. And this can only be accomplished
THE WAS Dr. O'Hara stayed with him in through his blood, for it is the blood onus of proving guilt of the BOOKBINDING. the patient's room for three quart that supplies nourishment to every on the party bringing the prosecu- At the end of nerve and fibre of man's being tion. That being the case they ers of an hour. that period they left the room In Dr. Willams Pink Pills in had to bring forward every par as there was no imminert darger numerable, gloomy, nerve-racked ticle of evidence they could find. When they had gone five or six dyspeptics have found just this long Counsel further stated that it steps they were called back by sought help. Speedily and surely was understood that the mill had the boy.
They returned to find these world famous tonic pills parin sold for Tis. 400,000. The DENTIST. the Captain in a state of collapse. fy, enrich and strengthen the manager of another bank who He passed away from weakness of blood, and thus, at very dose, the was an agent of the mill he said, the heart.
nerves are fed with new strength, had approached Andersen, Meyer, Dissolved in System
the digestive organs are changed proposed the sale of the mill and In answer to the Coroner, wit-with fresh vigour, spirits revive, a liquidation of its indebtedness ness added that pneumonia had old interests re-awaken, life is found to Andersen, Meyer. That arrang- nothing directly to do with the again well worth the living "Iment was not lived up to because poisoning. He had told the man feel a new man, since taking Dr. of the disappearance of the man- ager of the hotel to telephone to Williams' Pink Pills!" has been the ager of the mill.
The case was adjourned after, the police when he was firat called glad cry of thousands of former into the case. That was directly sufferers. If you are dyspeptic, further argument. Tokyo, April 25, after he ascertained that the man nervous, despondent, why not let 0.980 Marquis Yoshichika Tokugawa, had been poisoned. Contents of it be yours too? Dr. Williams' 0.886 accompanied by Marchioness the stomach of the patient were sent. Pink Pills for Pale People are ob- Escrick Park, near York, the re- 0.505 Tokugawa, left here yesterday to the Health Department of the tainable from chemists every sidence of Mrs. Forbes Adam, a 1.640 for Kobe, whence they are sailing S. MC and witness subsequently where, or post free, $1.50 per daughter of the third Lord Wenlock for Batavia to attend the 4th received a report about it giving a bottle $36 bottice from the Dr. and a first cousin of Viscount Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress to negative result. If the poison had Williams Medicine Co., 60, Kiang Lascelles, is to be turned into
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