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Mr. Spencer Wilkinson, appearing for the accused, said that his client did not understand English Ac-but spoke French.
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The accused it was alleged was in possession
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Chief Court-Inspector Meredith By Order of the Board,
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middle-aged. The skull was, dozen yards on the radiator, to crushed and perforated. with a the amazement and consternation hole more than an inch in dia- of his companion, meter. Clearly he had been kill- The driver then applied his ad by violence.
brakes and deposited the ex-pedes- Grave Escorts.
trian on the ground. Fortunate- No. 1 was clearly the import ly the latter escaped serious phy- ant person, probably some mighty steal injury, though both knees
The other hunter in his time.
were damaged and veins broken. The shock, however, was natural- ly very severe.
ed like the widow of the sutter.
Modern archaeology is altering all that, and Mr. Kaud Rasmussen on the Fifth Thule Expedition on Ee- did very thorough work automatic kime folklore. In the summer of pistols and 221 rounds of ammuni- 1928 the schooner Morissey was of Natural History tion and was arrested red-handed chartered on behalf of the Ameri- to collect specimens in the waters while trying to sell an automatic to can Museum an Indian detective.
of Alaska. in the Bering Sea, and off the Siberian the Arctic Sen
Mr. Edward M. Weyer.. coast. jun.. was told off to prosecute the special interests of the Depart- In consequence of certain informa- ment of Anthropology,
Meredith said, Their most interesting find was tion received, Mr. Detective Inspector McIntosh and a the discovery of an old Aleutian detective visited the vessel, which burial in Unalaska. where four
Lower was lying alungelde godown 20, at mummies were found packed, ab- about five o'clock on Friday after-viously with the greatest care skins, probably of scal.
of grass ncon. Detective Inspector McIntosh and reverence, in a large wooden down were two layers (National Frode Higher TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN concealed himself while the detective chest. The burial customs of the fabric of different texture, and
No
that at a MEETING of the took up a position near the gang-northern races have always been another bulkier packing of straw The American Eskimos bandles. This was no rough-and- DIRECTORS of Hong Kong Telc-way. It was arranged that the puzzle.
On the top of all phone Company, Limited held on detective, who was given 330, was deal with their sick and aged in ready burial; everything was done
pistol from the way which is strangely incon-with care. the 17th day of February, 1930, to purchase a
sistent with their sociable temper these layers, under the centre of per share was accused.
themselves and their the lid, was a second stone lamp TOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and a Call of $2,50
Shortly afterwards the accused among
towards Mail" made upon all the members, hold-
strangera eight inches long, and among the three may be grave escorts, kill promptly printed."China Office, No. 3A, Wyndham St. Teleing shares upon which only $2.50 was seen coming down the gangway friendliness
avoid the together with two shafts of wood. to serve the needs of the chief per share has been paid and that and meeting the detective who was They remove the dying person loose matting was a double paddle
Person in the spirit world. such call will be payable to the waiting for him. Detective-In- from the dwelling to
up in lid of split logs laid crosswise. Sarytchen, who wrote an account Bankers of the Company, The spector McIntosh, who was keeping contamination of a corpse. Both Below the matting was a second
Inside, the sarcophagus measur of a voyage to North-east Siberia liong Kong and Shanghai Bank- an eye on their movements, saw him sick and aged, they wall ing Corporation at their head hand over a small automatic to the some lonely hut and leave them
to die. They have a special feared 4 ft. x 7 ft. x1% ft. The parts ia 1806, speaking of the Aleutian office, No. 1, Queen's Road Central detective and take the money.
If a were skilfully mortised together Islands, says that "the custom Victoria, Hong Kong, on the 30th
Coming out of his place of con- of the dead men's spirit.
to fix it formerly prevailed on the deccase cealment, Mr. McIntosh arrested death occurs in the house they and bone nails added
Four bodies were of a skilled whale, hunter, or any day of June, 1930.
890 take ingenious precautions to pre- more firmly. accused and found
All were doubled other man of consequence, of with their knees on his person. He was also found vent the spirit from finding its inside.
close burying one of his servants with the 'shoulders. Almost him." Sauer in bla account of to be in possession of 50 rounds of way back, a common method be- up ing to put the body out through to ammunition to fit the automatic, the window as, to put the one half of the space was given Captain Billing's Voyages, 1786
confirms Body No. 1, which was the 1794,
the Going back on board with the spirit off the trail. The Chukches to
statement. accused, Mr. McIntosh searched his
Siberian largest and was more elaborately Whether the other three Northern cabin and found two more automatie along
coast, south of Wrangel Island, buried than the others. With the funeral ancrifices cannot be stat pistols and a further quantity of
Etone or strangle their aged and exception of Body No. 3 each layed with certainty, but it is evi-
dent that all four bodies. an oval hoop, to which an sick and leave their bodies to be in Addressing counsel, his Honour consumed by bensta of prey. animal skin was loosely attached. burled at the same time. said that he did not think counsel Not infrequently the aged anti-The hoop was made of one or surprising thing in to find a child
two pieces of wood bent and Jash- among the grave escorts. could do much for the accused as-he
tain Bartlett states that among was caught red-handed. His Honour cipate their fate by suicide.
The immediate neighbours of ed into shape by a rope of woven said that the case was serious and
the Aleutian sinew.
the "Peary Eskimos" (i.e., on the the Chukches on referred to a similar case which
their.
north-east coast of Greenland) Islands mummify
dead. His Spear and Her Powder.
the father's love for the children occurred four years ago at Tan- They seem to have no fear of No. 1 was clearly the most im-
a Chinese who
exceeds the mother's. This might them. On the contrary, they like nortant person of the four. instructions to sell by Public German ship shot dead a police mother will keep her dead child body lay on several thicknesses
jong Pagar, when had purchased arms from a German to keep them near them.
was a man. Inside the boop the account for It
From the fact that the bodies
a in doubled-up position constable and wounded
in the hut for weeks, or even of straw cloth, which were fold- of civilians while trying to evade until another one comes into the ed over the body. On the legs might be inferred a certain fear At of the dead, but that is not neces- capture.
world to take its place, always was
birdskin garment. A In answer to the charges the treating the baby mummy with
The bodies in this either side. of the head was a sarily so. accused admitted having brought the utmost tenderness. The dead roll of birdskin. Spearheads with case are not lashed in this posi- tion for fear they should get free, the weapons into the Colony. "Yes, are often buried underneath their long heads of bone were found
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As to the date, there is no re
I brought it but it is no good," winter dwellings, but in generallying across the hoop of the de- and the doubled-up position car- as burying grounds ceased hunter for him to use in responds to the usual sitting posi he said, when shown the weapon he they select hind sold to Detective Kamla.
places unsuitable for human the happy hunting grounds to tion of the Aleut as he sits in the
sun or over his fire. When the question of postpone habitation, often small uninhabit which he had been translated.
where the pient was raised the Captain of the ed lelands
bodies Two halves of a harpoon shaft Kambove, who was present In/Court, will
molested. Mr. were under the first layer of grass liable evidence. But all imple. said that his vessel was a tramp ship Weyer's find was on an exposed which covered this body. Beneath ments are of bone, stone, or wood, and that it would not return to uninhabitable island rising some his feet was a shallow wooden and the wood has been fashion- ed with stone tools. Rope, cord, what like the Bass Rock abruptly bowl. Singapore for another six,months.
and thread are made of einew. Mr. C. Smith, who deputised for from the sea, with steep cliff
Body No. 2 was a woman cover-
antedates Mr. Spencer Wilkinson, said that 125 it. high.
ed with a wrap of woven grass Evidently the burial very little could be said for the EMPIRE DAY.
accused who was only a young man The explorers were told by the like No. 1. The head is remark the advent of civilisation and the Strung trader with his implements of ably and one of those who evidently did natives of this strange and Sports Meeting at Minnot reallas the seriousness of doing they found it about rock, led through the nose on a string of iron. Also it raises an interest-
such things,
from Unalaska Island, one of the gut are six beads, of which four ing question as to the racial Agair referring to the German Easterly Aleutians. It is a flat-were Korean amber, Amber was affinities between the Aleuts end
the greatest traveller of prehis. the Eskimos. ship incident and the lives lost on topped rock some 450 ft. long,
Near the head was toric times. that occasion his Honour said, sharply cleft by a deep gorge, ex the head of an Infant contained "I have got to go the limit in regard tending almost to sea level near
Yuan.
Tientsin, May 26. Ideal weather conditions prevailed on Saturday afternoon when the
SEQUEL TO A JOY-RIDE.
Tientsin, May 29.
A Sarcophagus,
well
preserved.
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
German Resident's Narrow Escape,
Tientsin, May 29.
|
Police appeared on the scene and the German gentlemen and the driver proceeded to the Polico Station of the First Special Area, where the driver was detained.
This is one of the worst cases of reckless driving by Chinese chauffeurs that has come under our notice for a long time. What with acrobatic cyclists who prefer to zig-zag at top speed and ride without touching the handlebars, and motor-drivers who pick up pedestrians in this manner, streets are becoming a menace to life and limb, and it is time that traffe offences of this description were severely dealt with.-P. & T. Times..
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to sentence and this kind of thing the one end. The larger plateau in a gut sack. Near the feet was annual Empire Day Sports arranged must be stopped. Two years had to be climbed, by a narrow bag containing a fringed de- by the Overseas League were held.
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The mummales were dicsovered at skin rolled up, a block of wood parade inspection of the Girl Guides,
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A Body No. 4, wrapped in children, reminding them of the Ivan Batourio, the Russian who where a alip in the earth expos Al Garden Fertilizer "Simplex" significance of Empire Day,
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