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SUICIDE PACT IN SHANGHAI ?
A Dancing Girl's Affair."
CHINESE UNDER ARREST.
THE
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KAO YING'S HARD FIGHT.
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A wealthy Chinese grocery · Apropos of the case in which When S. Parker Gilbert the 98- merchant, for whom a warrant Mr. and Mrs. Kao Ying were ar-year old lawyer, turned over about had been issued in connection with rested in San Francisco on opium- $38,000,000 to the International the attempted suicide in a foreign smuggling charges last year, the Bank recently and left Berlin hotel on Bubbling Well Road of 'a Shanghai Times says:-
quietly for the United States, he dancing girl of the Black Cat Mr. S. Francis Liu, chief de- had completed one of the greatest Cabaret, surrendered himself to fending counsel, of the Kao Yings, tasks of financial statesmanship the Sinza police recently, says the yesterday Informed a representa-ever attempted by any man, young Shanghai Times. He was to be tive of the Shanghai Times that or old. brought up in the Shanghai the Supreme Court of Nanking During his five years as Agent Special District Court under an will in all probability hear the he collected from Germany and General for Reparations Payments, article of the Chinese Criminal second appeal of the former Chin- transferred to the former Allies, in Code making it an offence for ene Vice-Consul of San Francisco caah and goods, more than anyone, except licensed druggists and his wife, in oper court. This $2,000,000,000. to procure drugs to be used by would be a departure from the the New Bank for International Although he could have headed others for an unlawful purpose. usual practice of Chinese courts Settlements, this young lawyer- The court trial will be a sequel of last resource which generally banker refused, the offer, turned to what is believed to be a suicide decide cases by a study of the "ver his great trust, and packed pact between the merchant and briefs filed by the prosecution and the girl, with whom he was in defence, without the summoning love. It was ascertained that of witnesses and other details at after leaving the cabaret, the tending a regular court trial.
Mr. Liu explained that the lovers motored down to Woosung. Supreme Court of Nanking may They returned to Shanghai about grant his application for an open Will Parker Gilbert return to 21, Pottinger St. 8 a.m., went into a pharmacy in trial because of the complex and law, in which he was a conspicuous Ward Road and bought a bottle of ed out that the courts of last re-
difficult issues involved. He pointsess before entering the United & Is Treasury twelve years ago? drug, before repairing to the source of China are empowered to he became counsel in war hotel in Bubbling Well Road, depart from the usual practice, in where the man engaged a room.
| exceptional cases. The practice, which is only applicable in courts called to try a second appeal, is intended to obviate the cumber Jsome inclusion of evidence already submitted by witnesses in the former courts where a case has been tried.
Statements by Girl. Fifteen minutes later the girl was reported to be in a serious condition as the result of taking a quantity of the drug. She was immediately removed to Hospital, where she made a statement that
's trunk for New York,
At first, there was objection to being paid $40,000 a year as head of the reparations work, but it soon died away. The presidency of the new International Bank pays $50,000 annually.
ap-
loan matters, and later was pointed under secretary of the Treasury. in charge of fiscal affairs, serving from July, 1921, to Nov. 17, 1923.
Which will it be-law or bank- Both offer alluring oppor- tunities to this man still on the
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sunny side of forty, with more experience in both law and finance Short and Sweet! The last legal battle of the Kao his age.
than probably any other man of It will not Xings for freedom will commence a surprise, if upon his return, come A9 in about a month's time, Mr. Liu said, and will probably he of short partner of J. P. Morgan and Co.,
is asked to become
indicted before the Nanking Dis- his close personal friend, Russel C. duration. The Kao Yings were there to be associated again with
Leffingwell.
she had been coerced by the man into taking the drug. Her com- panion, on the other hand, assert ed that she had, in a moment of frenzy, emptied the contents of a bottle containing the drug, with-trict Court in September last year. out leaving any for him.
After & long-drawn-out legal fight After the statement was made seven years on charges of smug- Mr. Kao was sent to prison for by the girl, the police applied to gling opium into the United the Shanghai Special District States. Mrs. Kuo got four years Court for a warrant for the arrest for assisting in the offence. of the merchant on a charge of assisting in the attempted suicide of the girl. Hopes are being held for the latter's recovery.
From this decision the Kao Yings appealed in the Appeal Court of Soochow, which reduced Mr Kao's sentence to six years' It was learned that the mer. Imprisonment and the fines im- chant was in company with his posed on Mr. and Mrs. Kao res brother when he walked to the pectively of $6,666 and $5,000 to Sinza police station and surren- $6,000 and $4,000. dered himself.
Mr. Liu went on to say that the His defence was to be conduct-reasons in his second appeal peti. ed by
two prominent Chinese tion would be along the same lines. lawyers whose services were en- as those introduced by him in the listed by relatives.
Soochow court of appeal.
JIGGS TURNS ARCHITECT.
And Deserts New York,
The house that Jiggs built!
from Mr. Jansson which the Govern-
Of bright plaster stucco with ment's paper printed. Mr. Jonsson wrote that his political opponents flaming tiled roof, this new abode for years had spread ugly rumours of Jiggs and Maggie makes a bril about him, and that at the begin- liant splash of colour on ning of this year Dr. Tomason went
DOCTOR'S FEUD.
A COMEDY OF ICELANDIC
POLITICS;
California landscape.
to the Prime Minister and urged the latter to exclude Mr. Jonsson
Jigga was his own
the
architect
Dr. Helgi Tomason, Iceland's from the Cabinet because of in and Maggie chose the colours. best authority on psychiatry, has sanity. When Dr. Tomason was For Geo McManus, creator of publicly declared that Iceland's ropudiated by the Prime Ministen Minister of Justice, Mr. Jonas with Mr. Jonsson himself. Kr. demonstrated that he is a master he asked for a private meeting"Bringing Up Father" recently Jonsson is insane. Mr. Jonsson has Jonsson was ill in bed, but received of the blueprints as well as cómic answered by discharging Dr. the doctor, who at once began a art when he drew up the plans for Tomason from his position as chief long-drawn-out political conversa his mansion on the coast of cen physician of Iceland's official asylum tion, "I broke him off and asked tral California. for mental diseases.
him to go writes Mr. Jonsson.
The house was finished only two "When he had left my bedroom and months ago but already is one of Mr. Jonsson is at once the most reached the hall, he met my wife the show places of Santa Monica. loved and the most hated man in out Iceland. The farmers especially adhusband is mad. These same mighty Facific, Jiggs new home gripped her wrists, and said, Your
High in the hills, overlooking the mire him. Most of what the pre werds he repeated in the streets of cominands one of the finest views sent Icelandic Government has ac:: Reykjavik complished is said to have been in. It was this public letter which centre of attraction from its along the coast, and in turn is a spired by Mr. Jonsson, and he
caused Dr. Tomason popularly called the Dictator Many
sto declare
mighty hillside refuge, of the Bills which he has made the publicly that the Minister was ins Allting pass are definitely against Bane When Dr. Tomason left his
hospital he took several
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State
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Tomason As
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.j
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coarser than dust 64-Haulėd
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eoft substance 27-Fabulous bird- 28-To penetrato *-* 80-French for "the" '82-Odors 83-Most maturs 84-Fondled. ias-To ridiepla $41-Time period.
142-A douch:
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44-Interest (abbraya
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calendar 27-Author of "Baron Munchausen” 28-Rofloved 29-Ascended 31-Precipitous: 15-Discoverer of Bri
Greenland 38-Large drinking cup. 37-Mare indistinct 38-Balls
prophat an independent.Island -Musicnt note-ams. In N. Atlantic
A river of Vane-
40 Famous American
editar.. 46-Prafix-thras
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chorugh
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B-Troublesome plant
10:To shut in
47-Lads
48-A he-bear (Latin) 49-Girl's name
61-A diminutive suffix
52-A current or streami 44-8ame na amu
Primitive people of 56 Half an ofan
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