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GLEN KIDSTON'S DEATH.
MURDER OF DUTCH BARONET'S GROCERY
MILLIONAIRE.
Further Details of Crime, Sir C. Markham on His
at The Hague
has
Huge Losses.
PEDIGREE CATTLE DEAL
An Overloaded Machine ?
EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY.
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931.
PROBLEM OF CHINESE
IN MEXICO.
Agitation for Expulsion Renewed.
BITTER DISCUSSION.
BODY IN PACKING CASE.
Great consternation
Mr. Samuel S. Young, former been Huge losses suffered by Sir The suggestion that the machine
Charles Markham. Et. of Little In which Lieutenant Commander Chinese Consal-General at New enused throughout Holland by the Sussex Place, W., were described Glen Kidston and Captain T. A. York, who le now the Chinese Min- murder of M. Eschauzier, a mit at Bankruptey Buildings, Carey Gladstone met their deatha was ister to Mexico, Is finding the Honaire of The Hague and manager Street, London, at the statutory overloaded when it crashed on May "yellow peril" a topic of increasing- 6 on the Drakensberg Mountains ly bitter political discussion and of the Dutch Indian Sugar Union.first meeting of his creditors. He had been missing and his body Charles in the last few years, had and inquiry opened at Harrismith
The creditors were told that Sir was made at the combined inquest agitation in that Republic.
Depressed business conditions was found in a pêking casć in an been interested in
(Orange Free State).
throughout the country recently empty warehouse at The Hague.
Mr. Philips, an apprentice of the have accentuated the difficulties of He appeared to have been chloro-
De Havilland Company, who had the problem created by the residence formed and strangled. Brief re
passed the test for judging weights, of many thousands of Chinese in testified that he told both Lieuten Mexico. forence to this murder was made; in a cable to the China Mail
the time.
At
M. Eschnuzier was to have had
County estates; Pedigree cattle;
Dairy farming;
Agrocery shop;
A cheese factory;
A vaccine for preventing cer; and
tora.
to meet the man. It is suggestedments
ant Commander Kidston and Cap- Expulsion of the Asiatics for the can-tain Gladstone that the big trunk benefit of Mexlean business men, they placed in the machine was too labourers and domestic servants The manufacture of refrigera heavy. He was of the opinion that who presumably would fill their It weighed 1201b. In addition there places, is being discussed constantly n conversation with an inventor, The receiving order was made
was brother cnae weighing 60lb. by the Press and the politicians. and left his Club to go to a cafe on the petition of the Societe Lieutenant Commander Kidston re- Mr. Young, who spent several
Anonyme des Grand Establish-plied that the
charge trunk was lighter months in Mexico s du Touquet Paris-Plage, than a man,
d'affaires last year, le famillar with | that he must have been kidnapped who claim to be creditors for
On the other hand, a taxi-driver the situation and, during his brief by someone in a motor-car during £160,
who took the airmen to the aero-etay in Mexico, was successful in Mr. E. Parke, Official Receiver. drome said that there was one large ameliorating somewhat the condi this walk.
presiding, said that Sir Charles cane-which he thought weighed tion of his countrymen. Protests The inventor, who did not come had stated, in a preliminary ex- 85lb.
against allegedly legal measures to the cafe, has been arrested. amination, that he succeeded to: Mr. Thomas Edwards, ground taken by local officials to drive
From police investigations, it the baronetcy, which was created
engineer at De Havilland's Johan Chinese from their homes, and appears that recently negotiations in 1911, on the death of his father nesburg, stated that on the Tuesday pinces of business evoked a speedy had taken place between the vic
morning Captain Gladstone asked and highly satisfactory reply from His father left estate of the him to inspect the luggage, as, In President Ortiz Rublo himself. The tim and the inventor concerning value of over £700,000, but three Captain Gladstone's words, "Kidston President's word, which was ad- the exploitation of the latter's in. years previously he had created a
was carrying a damned sea chest." dressed to the chairman of a Chin trust fund amounting, to £150,000 The witness heard Mr. Philips tell ese committee in Mexico City, gave vention.
for the benefit of the children, Lieutenant Commander, Kidston so, assurance that the rights of for Eschauzier and a friend of his whose portion was two-fifths. bought the licence from the inven
1
in 1916.
The fund-was to be equally dis-and heard the airman reply that it cigners, regardless of nationality, tor. The latter went to England tributed among them on their at-was not heavier than a man, and, were to be respected scrupulously.
that the pllot and not the ground
Instructions Violated. in the hope of exploiting the in- taining the age of 25′ years. vention, but with no result, and re! In 1920, when he attained his engineer was responsible for the
of luggage carried. The It was announced that instruc received about amount turned to The Hague entertaining majority.he
witness did not see the luggage tions conveying the sense of the fantastic plans.. After he had £20,000 of the Income so.accumul
strapped on.
President's message were sent to spent all his money he addressed'ated.
A farmer who saw the aeroplane officials throughout the Republic, himself again to, Eschauzier.
come down said that it was flying but the Chinese Legation in Mexico high but not fast. He saw it rock City has been informed of cases in and drop fifty feet. Then the which the Instructions were appar plane righted itself and, so far as ently violated, and the popular de- he could tell, rose again to its mand for expelling the Asiatics or original height, again rocked, and boycotting their business enter- then crashed, the broken wing prises appears to be gaining ground. Senor Jose Angel Espinosa, form- reaching the ground before the 'plane.
er member of the Sonora legisla
Securities Sold, He married in November. 1921, The millionaire, however, be- came somewhat distrustful and re- and then became entitled to stocks about £50,000. fused to supply more money. The and shares worth inventor persisted in his request The whole of that was realised and fresh conversation between from time to time and the pro- the two men was to have taken ceeds lost in various ventures.
When he was 25, he received, place.
In the meantime the inventor is under the trust funds, stocks and alleged to have rented a small, shares of the value of £30,000, the empty warehouse-under a fictitious whole of which had also been
realised and lost.
About 75 per cent. of his inter-
nume..
3
ran
WIVES' DOLE ABUSE.
Union Official Suggests A Remedy.
BANFF FISHERMEN.
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OUR
LADIES' TAILORING
- DEPARTMENT
undertakes to execute orders FOR MAKING DRESSES & GOWNS on latest styles with-
in 16 hours.
ture, In an interview just published LOVELY SILK STORE the most important d'ailles of No. 2, Stanley Street. Tel. 22100. Mexico City, has renewed the fre-
(Adjoining D'Aguilar Street.)
quently reiterated charge that many
thousands of Chinese. are residing illegally in Mexico.
Horrible Discovery. The owner of the warehouse, de- cat as holder of the baronetcy whs siring to remove the notice an-invested in the coal industry, hia nouncing that the warehouse was income from that source being
The former deputy declares that! Latterly it had £23,000 in 1924. to let, entered the establishment
careful estimates indicate that the and made the horrible discovery averaged. only £4,000 or £5,000.
total number of Chinese in tho Sir Charles further stated that, He noticed a packing chest from
The abuse of the dole by married country is approximately 250,000. which a brown shoe was protrudin 1922, he bought for £30,000 ing. On lifting the cover he dis- Longford Hall Estate, Derby, and women was referred to by a witness of these scarcely one-third are able also a herd of pedigree cattle for giving evidence before the Royal to prove that they were admitted covered the body."
immigrants while the about £30,000. Eventually he dis- Commission on Unemployment In- legally aa The panic-stricken owner
other two-thirds entered surrepţi- and telephoned the police who imposed of the herd at a loss ofsurance in London recently.
Mr. John C. Hendry, secretary of tiously, many with the connivance about £15,000. He lived at Long- mediately arrived on the scene. ford Hall for five years, expend the Scottish Council of Textile of Mexican immigration officials LAI YANG EMBROIDERY CO.
Eschauzier's hands were found to 2. Wyndham St.
be tied with a rope, and his arma ing between £12,000 and £16,000 Trade Unions, said he believed many who were bribed.
Espinosa urges a speedy check of (above Book & Bible Depot.)
lack of employment to register, the credentials of every Chinese in Direct Exporters of Swatow Drawn bound to his body with a leather on improvements. In 1927 he sold wives took advantage of the present
In 1924-25 he was Liberal dan-though they were not in a position the Republic, with a view to the Silk Shawls, strap. His mouth was covered with the estate for £30,000. Irish Linen & Grass Cloth, Handmade a handkerchief probably, contain didate for the Mansfield parlia to accept employment if it were immediate deportation of all unable
ing chloroform. On examination
to prove the legality of their blood was discovered on the hand-mentary division, and, with the offered to them.
He suggested that every wo- residence. kerchief, and. Eschauzier's throat idea of reducing the price of food
Officials at the Chinese Legation and as propaganda, he opened a man who left her employment to showed signs of strangling.
grocery shop in Mansfield which get married should, be held to have at Mexico City told the United The owner of the catablishment he stocked chiefly from his farm. "abandoned" employment and Press correspondent that they have and his wife declare they recog Eventually, however, he with should be required to re-establish records of only 20,000 Chinese liv- nise the inventor as the man who drew his candidature. The busf her position as a worker before ing in Mexico, and that of this rented the warehouse, but the lat- ness proved a great success and being allowed to draw benefit. number approximately 1,000, reside! ter denies having rented the place he decided to carry on a similar. Bailie James Falconer, chairman) in Mexico City.
A boy also states that he re business on a far larger scale. of the Public Assistance Committee The great majority of the total cognlace the inventor as the man Accordingly, in 1925, he entered of Banffshire, said there were number reside in the northern who some weeks ago sent him to into partnership with another per- stokers and engineers in the States, where they are farmers, bank to cash a bill of exchange in son to conduct a general provision fishing industry who worked shop-keepers, labourers, servanta the name of Exchauzfer.
only The store in Nottingham, and, in con- for
Bix months, con- and laundrymen. cashier considered that the signa- nection with it, Sir Charles estab- tributing 15s. 2d. to the insur- At least 18,000 of the 20,000 ture of Eschnuzier was forged, relished, at a cost of £8,000, a checse ance fund, and then drew about £38 Chinese registered at the Legation Pair fused to pay, and warasd the factory on his estate.
from the fund for the following six are men, a fact which has created Brown police, who went with the boy to He financed the business from months.
one of the most serious problems Shoes from $6.00.
Brown the cafe, in which the inventor had its inception, but it was unsuc The Banff fishing season had connected with the Chinese popula- Dinck
Inter-marriage Boots from $8.00, arranged to wait for him, but he cessful and in 1927 it was closed. diminished from 30 to 26. weeks tion of Mexico. Children's Boots or had already left on their arrival. He estimated his total loss in con-owing to these people being eligible with Mexican women especially Shoes from $3,00,
Thanks to the confession of the nection with that venture at for Insurance, and would be still marriage, by common law is wide Beat styles, most complete stock Inventor who has been arrested on £80,000.
shorter this year. The boats used spread and has aroused strong op
· of all sizsa. Repairing a specialty.
suspicion of murder, full light has Sir Charles said that he was to go out to Winter fishing, but now position even in quarters where the WONG SIU WOON
been thrown on the death of the divorced in 1927 and he had they did not go out at all.
competition of Chinese in. business #1, Pottinger Sti Phone #147 millionaire, M. Eschauzier, at The agreed to pay £1,000 per annum
or agriculture has no effect. Hague.
for the maintenance of the three
"AUSTRIA OF TO-DAY.” M. Eachauzier and the inventer, children of the marriage. named Koning, had arranged a
Cancer Vaccine.
Issued by the Vienna Chamber of meeting in a cafe for the purpose! In 1926 Sir Charles was intro Commerce, "Austria of To-day" is of discussing an invention of Koning's. The latter, however, duced to Mr. Hooley, who a handy little publication containing sent a letter by an accomplice was trying to dispose of a secret a surprising amount of useful in- named Fenders to M. Eschauzier, process for the prevention of can- formation within the space of 100 Informing him that he was preventer and in that year he formed spages, especially for those who visit ed from caming ewing to an injury company to take over an agree that country on business or plea- to his foot, and suggested a meet-ent for the purchase of the vac-sure. The 1981 edition has been re- vised and amplified in many re- ing at his own house. Both PenA sum of £7,500 was paid for the specta and contains a synopsis of
Calcutta, June 1. ders, and the millionaire drove to
process, but the vaccine was not the salient historical, economie and J. Thompson, who wee extradited THE LIANG YOU CO. Koning's house.
fready within the time stipulated social facts, together with a sum from London, was placed before the After ten minutes talk, accord- and an action was pending for the mary of the attractions Austris is Chief Presidency Magistrate to-day fog to his confession, Honing gavo return of 25,000 from another per able to offer to the international to answer a charge of bigamy. a pre-arranged signal to Fenders, Home
The hearing was adjourned unti travelling public. In addition there and both attacked the millionaire, Sir Charles said that he had are 86 photogravure Illustrations, July 8. Koning put a handkerchief soaked acted as a director of the com- four colour-prints and two excellent in ether over his head and in his pany, but it had transacted no mape which cannot fail to be both
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In default of ball, Thompson, was remanded in custody.BA mouth
A business.
of interest and of service to Intand It was alleged that while his The victim was then bound, He had also been interested in ing visitors...
legally married wife was still alive, placed in a paelding chest, and
company formed to manufactura |*****
he, bigatnously went through the transported by motor-car vi to the
He acted as a
form of marriage with Miss E. Wareho where later his body
the compa and in a view to obtaining their consent Joseph, at a Roman Catholic Church discovered bereft of 1100 connection with it and another re to an application to the court to in Calcutta, on January 20. Subee Now on sale at guilders in natan Koning declared """iya ting invention he considered release part of the trust funde forquently he went to Britain. BREWERS that he had given these to
that he had expended $10,000 to the benefit of the creditors.js who, however, fearing that the $12,000 crime would be discovered; irned
the notes
Koning
that his
HOP SING
部
Shin confession
The prosecution added that
Mr. G. E. Tong, for the trustees, Thompson's wife was at present WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW
t of affairg had yet said it would be impossible to employed at Kharagpur and MissEXCELSIOR BOOK STORE.
Bir Charles raise enough funds to pay the Joseph had decided not to come back
liabilities | debta in full..
to India as she felt that she was ad value of the Mr. Randall remarked that. It disgraced. ZAREN GENE assets was estimated at £790, was hoped to sub
rete: The prosecution stated that Mies
the Publisherguréol
Randall (for Sir, proposal to the credito thin 14 Joseph's photograph was available The Newspaper
short ada das
roached,with fourned.
consent, the; meeting:
and could: be enlarged;
the