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WIFE STABBED.
MARVELLOUS EGGS.
Young Chinese Couple in Hen's Wonderful Laying
Court.
A
Kuala Lumpur, May 22,
young married couple, a
Straits-born Chinese and his wife,
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Shanghai May 30.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BABY ELEPHANT,
Trip from Siam to New York.
PAUSES IN PENANG.
Penang. May 12.
A baby elephant arrived in Penang yesterday and will leave at noon to-day for New York..
The "dear little animal" appear- ed quite friendly when viewed yesterday by a correspondent in its the after-deck of the crate on Chinese Prince. It had been trans- ferred from Siam to Prai by rail and from Prai was shipped aboard a lighter to the steamer lying at Penang Harbour.
The creature, hurdly six feet high, had attached to its neck a thick cord which.was made fast to one
of the bars forming the wooden crate. Hay was strewn about the interior of the confines and the 'baby' seemed quite content to lift, by the ald of its trunk, a few straws at a time and eat them. I did not resent the friendly pat which a member of the crew bestowed upon it when passing the crate.
The owner of the animal is an American named Mr. C. Bulkley, who paid $400 for it. Mr. Bulkley is sending it to the Zoological Park, New York.
and
Messrs. Adamson, Gillan Co., the local agents of the Prince Line, are in charge of the arrange- ments for the shipment of the elephant from Penung to New York. The cost of freight is $152 Straits, while the native attendant, who
animal accompanies the throughout its journey, pays a fare of $147.
Messrs. Adamson, Gilfillan & Co. advise that Mr. Bulkley contem- plates sending more wild animals to New York.
Aboard the Chinese. Prince were other animals also, which the cap- tain of the ship said belonged to
a Mr. Rogers, a Briton-Bangkok
Daily Mail.
A section of Nantao, according NEPHEW MURDERED
the Chinese newspapera, la
aroused over the alleged laying of Goldsmith Sentenced at an egg by a black hen owned by a
Singapore. rice dealer. Nothing strange, of
were the parties in a CLAS voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapon which came be-course, in the laying of an egg by
a
fore the Singapore District Judge (Mr. C. Wilson) on Monday, Toh Keng-lim being charged with stab- bing his wife in six places, with a kitchen knife belonging to his mother-in-law, When the case was mentioned some short while back the accused pleaded guilty under On Monday, how- provocation.
à normal hen, be that hen black, white or green, if green hens exist anywhere. Neither is there any- thing peculiar er extraordinary in the fact that a hen owned by a rice dealer laid an egg. Most hens are impartial as to ownership and laying, eggs.
Then why all the fuss? Well, according to the report, this per- ticular hen laid an egg with double shells. Not only that, so the much-
Was
Singapore, May 24, Yeo Nghee Keow, an elderly goldsmith, who yesterday found guilty at the Assizes of abetment of the murder of his young nephew, Chin Ylang, nine
years ago, was sentenced to seven years'
rigorous imprisonment. The motive suggested by the pro- secution was a young and pretty wife and a jealous husband.
Mr. Ebor, for the defence, sub-
POOR MAN! Strangled by Mother and Wife.
DRAMATIC CONFESSIONS.
Shanghai, May 25. Facing a judge of the Shanghai Special District Court yesterday the mother and the wife of a Chinese calmly admitted murder ing the man, declaring that he was better off dead than alive, that he lived on the earnings of his wife and sister and that they killed him rather than submit to his treatment.
A
TALK ON STAMPS. Collection Valued at $100,000.
126 ALBUMS.
1926 when the nineteenth century issues won the second medal, while the twentieth century bureau prints won the first gold medal.
New York City. One of the most valuable collec- of United States postage tions stamps in this country has-been pur- chased by the Nassau Stamp Com- pany of 70, Nassau Street. It was the collection of Arthur H. Lam- born, head of the sugar brokerage firm of Lamborn & Co. and senior member of the stock brokerage firm of Lamborn, Hutchings & Co. The It was n strange and startling stamps were exhibited at the inter- story and one that held the atten-national stamp show in this city in tion of both the court and specta tors alike. The wife of the victim, Mrs, Chen Ming-dah, 24 years old, pretty but poorly dressed, told the court in a calm. unafraid manner, that her husband, since their mar ringe, had dragged her down, and that she, with her husband's mother, plotted to kill him.
"We strangled him to death," Mrs. Chen told the court.
Asked if they realized the seriousness of the confessions they were making, both women vigor ously asserted that they did, and that they were ready to take the consequences. Both are being held on the charge of murder.
Chen Ming-dah, 25 years old, a man of the loafer type, was mur dered on Friday. His lifeless body was found by police on a piece of vacant ground in the Settlement on Ferry Road. An investigation was started by Detective Sergeant V. S. Cardell, and after the body had been identified the trail led to th home of the murdered man.
Tell Story of Crime. Questioned by the police, the wife and mother of the victim readily admitted the crime. They told the police that, while, Chen slept they stole into his room, gagged him with a piece of cotton, tied a strong cord about his neck
and strangled him to death.
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"He was a wicked man and hated him," Mrs. Chen told Judge
Sung. "Many times I planned to kill him, but something always happened to prevent it. He smok- ad opium, gambled and never work ed. Every cent I earned he took from me.
I often went hungry while he gambled with my hard- earned money.".
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The collection is remarkably com- plete in varieties, colour shades and plate numbers. Its valute is conser vatively estimated at $100,000 and the stamps are handsomely mounted The collection con- in 126 albums. tains all of the rare inverted cen- tres, including the three of the 1869 issue. Of the Pan-American 1901 issue, Mr. Lamborn bad what is said Leather Sole Canvas Shoes ...$ 4.50 Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $5,00 to be the finest block known of the Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10,00
single Black or Brown Shoes from 6.00) four-cent denomination, a copy of which sold recently at auc-Black or Brown Boots from $8.00 Children's Boots or Shoes from $ 2,00 tion for $1,085. He had also a copy
Best styles, most complete stock, of the still rarer two-cent value and
of all sizes. Repairing à specialty," of the also a fice unused copy
WONG SIU WOON twenty-four-cent acroplane with the
Phone 21474. 21, Pottinger St. inverted centre.
Mr.. Lamborn has been collecting ever since he was a boy. stamps Not content with being a mere col- lector he is known among philatel ists as a careful student in all the details that ndd zest to stamp ac- cumulating. This feature is ea- pecially well shown in the United States Bureau Prints of which he succeeded in getting fine strips and blocks of every plate issued of every value and these all contain the wide margins with the plate numbers and
in many cases the printers' arrow lines.
One of the rarest sets in his nine-
teenth century lot Is the August, 1861, issue, complete with shades of while the three and ten cents, among his postmaster provisionals are fine coples of the Millbury, Brattleboro, Baltimore, all of the St. Louis issues and many fine copies of the five-cent New York.
the sale
BL the
Unable longer to endure the The willingness of collectors to alleged treatment of the man, Mrs. pay high prices for fine specimens Chen declared that she and. Chen's of United States stamps was seen in mother agreed to kill him in his the record prices paid for many
at sleep. They confessed to carrying copies the body from the house, after the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries of the Thomas Lawrence murder, and abandoning it on the
Wells collection. It contained only vacant ground in Ferry Road.
Judge Sung listened to the state-twentieth century issues and practi- ments of the two women and order- cally everything to date
ther investigations.
was com-
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was an accident, says the "Free shell bore Chinese characters the Press."
It transpired in the course of the hearing that the accused had been out of employment for a long time and that he and his wife were
resemblance of which aroused much superstitious concern in the neighbourhood.
All of which is most distressing to certain credulous Chinese. Ti Chinese Press states that the black hen, having thus startled the being supported by his mother-in-natives with this wonderful egg
waited exactly one day and laid
law.
In questioning his wife after she another egg, this one also with had told the story of the attack.double shells. from the witness box, the accused declared that he had been tricked into the marriage.
"Have you ever had occasion to chastise the accused with broom?" asked Mr. Meredith (Chief Court Inspector) of the mother-in-law when she had given her evidence.
"Never" replied the witness. Mr. Meredith: You haven't got
a bad temper?
Witness: No.
who
Mr. Meredith: You are one of the few mothers-in-law haven't.
The accused asked the woman if
it was not a fact that she abused him all the while and told every- body of his family affairs.
Witness replied "Why should I abuse you? You are not my pro- per son, you are my son-in-law. I told people that you pawned my daughter's jewellery."
!
"I Have Stabbed My Wife." Police evidence was given to the effect that the accused surrendered himself at a police station saying
"I have stabbed my wife."
Asked if he wished to make his
defence on oath or give à state- ment, the accused replied "I have nothing to say."
His Honour convicted the ac- eused.
Mr. Meredith asked. His Honour to take a serious view of the case. "If he had kept to his first plea of guilty under provocation I would have been satisfied," said Mr. Meredith, "But I have, never heard a more stupid defence than his saying that it was an accident, especially as there were eix. wounds on the women, men by N
Addressing the nodused and re ferring to one of the wounds which was on the woman's chest, His Honour said "Another half an inch and the knife would have penetrat
ed her heart; you would then have been just in time for the present Assizes."
Sentence of 18 months rigorous Imprisonment was passed.Malay Mail,
have
on the part of the accused's elder brother and others to get rid of the accused, who was the mole executor to the father's will.-Ex.
hard-shelled egg inside. The first
TRADESMEN HOAXED
found to contain the ordinary yolk and albumen and also another Groceries Ordered in the egg, exhibited to the astounded Name of Lord Inverclyde neighbourhded, created a great im- pression.
A hoax has been perpetrated on West End tradesmen by a mat, aged about 50, who represented himself to be butler to Lord Inver- The man has called at a number of shops and placed orders for groceries.and chocolates, "on behalf of Lord Inverclyde," and has ordered the goods to be delivered at the house in Park Street, W.
The man entered a store in Wig-
The police, noting the large crowd around the rice dealer's Not only did both eggs
shop, bent on seeing the shells of double shells, but they were of these marvellous eggs, investigat-elyde. unusual size, one stated to haveed, suspecting a trick of some kind. been the size and shape of a goone The rice dealer convinced them that so far as he knew the hen egg, and the other round like that
had actually laid both eggs. fruit made famous by the Golden States-oranges.
fancy price is now being demanded for the hon.
The shells were broken and
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