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SATURDAY, JULY~4, 1931.
Mr. Leonard W. Knox, of the MANY BEQUESTS FOR
Bankers Trust of New York, is on
a business trip to Hong Kong, hav- ing arrived by the a.s. President Cleveland yesterday............
The Offices and Stations of the Chinese Maritime Customa for Kow- loon and District will be closed to the transaction of public business
on Thursday, July 9.
SPIRITUALISM.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's £63,491 Will.
די :
*** FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; M.D.,
Windlesham, Crow-
VIVIAN ⠀
GORDON'S MURDER...
Police Seek Man Behind Crime.
THE MASTER MIND 2.
Although the men who are he lleved to have murdered: Vivian of "Sherlock Gordon, the young Broadway author of many actress who was found strangled in
A through passenger for Manila LL.D., of by the as. President Cleveland is borough, the creator
Holmes" and. Senator Key Pittman on a tour of
Investigations of the Philippines, romances, left £68,491, unsettled a New York park, are now safely property in his own disposition, in gaol, with their Immediate ac- accompanied by Mrs. Pittman,
with net personalty £55,708...
complices, the police are not Sir Arthur, who was formerly a satisfied,
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power Roman Catholic, in his later life be- of disallowance with respect to came a Spirituallet, and in his will Ordinance No. 8 of 1981, An are a number of bequests to further. Ordinance to amend further the the cause of spiritualism. These in-
clude- law relating to larceny,
£100 to the National Spiritual
The body of an unknown Chinese Union, Manchester. male, aged about 30 years, was, found in a nullah In Water Street Queen's Gate, W. yesterday. He was apparently? sitting or sleeping on the wall of London. bordering the nullah when he ac- cidentally fell in.
£200 to the Psychic Collage,
They are seeking the master mind behind the crime..
The reason the police believe How under arreat that the men were mere tools in the hands of a principal is that from the first there have been stories' of 'a wealthy man whom Vivian Gordon blackmailed shamelessly.
It is thought that he found her Abal demands so terrific that he at
£100 fo the Spiritualist Alliance
Sir Arthur states, as regards last refused to hand over the these three bequests, that he is money demanded and had her kill "well convinced that these institued as a measure of economy.
If They Find Him-
A man named Li Ming (20), of tions represent the most important 10, Cochrane Street, was taken to religious movement that the world The discovery of this man would provide a fitting climax to one of the Kowloon Hospital yesterday, now holds." He continued
"I would also leave $100 to the the most remarkable cases in re auffering from the effects of opium
He was found on the Spiritual Community which holds 1 cent crime history. If the theory poisoning. ground floor of 8, Saigon Street. its meetings at the Grotian Hall in is true, one or more of the present Wigmore Street, W. If I have not prisoners is likely to wish to save Yaumati district
left more to promote this cause it his own life by sacrificing the real The Chinese Maritime Customs is because in my lifetime I have murderer.
to devote considerable having effected payment on the been able Boxer Indemnity, the coupon No. sums to this end, and because my 13 of the 5 per cent. Gold Loan successors will I know, follow my 1925, will be redeemable at any of example in combating materialism the Agencies of the Banque Franco- and endeavouring to Infuse fresh vitality into the various religions of Chinoise from July 15, 1931,
the world.
A joint first degree murder in-
dictment has been returned against two of the prisoners, Greenberg and Stein.
[Both men were aquitted during the week.]
•
A TRAGIC YEAR.
Conditions in South- West Africa.
Geneva, June 18.
Harry Harvey alias Schlittle, a taxi-driver, after a whole night of "third degreel' at the hands of the Sir Arthur left £100 to the police, is alleged to have confessed Ylu Yam-tal (60), a female graes -cutter, was taken to the Govern- Authors' Society Pension Fund and..that the girl was strangled by them
ment Civil Hospital yesterday auf- a life annuity of £250 to his former in his taxi. many licences the Folice are defering from an injury to her foot, secretary, Alfred H. Wood. He left feating their own ends, for clear which is stated to have been caused his MSS. to his wife, and directed ly the way to put a stop to the by a plece of rock which fell from that his executors should "deal as hired car nuisance is not to ad-the hillside at Plantation Road, on they think best with copyrights, minister fines, but to limit very the: Penk
plays, cinema rights or unpublished considerably the number of hired
MSS. There is also a life annuity cars. When they are restricted Mr. Dwight F. Davis, Jun., son of £50 to Monsignor Richard Harry to a degree that is reasonably of the Governor-General of the Doyle, now residing on the
Riviera. conformable with the demand, Philippines, returned by the as.
The residue of the estate is left our public thoroughfares may President Cleveland from Shang- know for once a little peace and hat, where he met his sister, Miss as to one-half upon trust for his order, which at present is far Helen Davis, who is on her way to wife and one-half equally between from existing.
Manila, accompanied by Miss his three younger children, Denle, Mr. Tewater, concerning the carry- Josephine Shaughnessey and Mrs. Malcolm, and Jean. Apparently the Branton Kellogg. The Cult of authorities are
The Nude. determined to Two falls from tramcars" whilat show по sym-in motion were reported to, the pathy with the "cult of the Police yesterday. The victims „nude” » movement, and the fine were a man, Tam Sul (17),, a car- which was imposed on a Chinese penter of the Shing "Lee matshed, “nudist” for bathing in a pond in and Yuen Sze (87), a woman,. They Yong Chuk Hang, in full view of are both being treated at the Gov- the public, should be an object ernment Civil Hospital. One ac addressed to the Newspaper Eulesson, to those who have been cident occurred in Main Street, Sai terprise, Ltd., to whom all remit- tances should be made payable. -..
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attempting to spread the gospel wanho, whilst the other was in Des of nakedness by correspondence Voeux Road propaganda in the local Press.
SUICIDE CLUB.
Murler as Penalty of Failure.
AMAZING STORY..
Further investigations by the New York police into the so-called "Suicide Club" have revealed one of the most amazing crime stories known even in America
A tragic year formed the theme of the South African Government,
ing out of the mandate for the former German Colony during 1980, Mr. Tewater: stating that last year proved disastrous on account of prolonged drought. Planters and natives have, according to the re-." port," suffered incalculable losses, Fagricultural productione sinking to almost zero, while the general de- pression on the diamond marketa reacted unfavourably on the min- ing industry. Although the Man- 'datory Power granted loans to planters, the report states that the number of bankruptcies in the Colony largely increased.
"POLISH STÓWAWAY,
Daniel Fobram, a native of Po- land was charged at the Kow". loon Magistracy this morning with stowing away from Shanghal on the |a.s. President Cleveland,
Defendant was remanded for a week pending his being sent back to Shanghai on the same ship.
The charge against the defen At the Central Police Court The police are now working on dant was "that he did indecently yesterday, Mr. E. Williams, the theory that if a member of the expose himself in broad daylight Coroner, and a jury held an en- "Suicide Club" did not commit in full view of the public," but quiry into the death of Tam Tong, suicide he was killed by other mem- it would be interesting to hear a 35-year-old concubine of Ho Po-bers of the strange cult. Hong Kong, Saturday, July 4, 1931.what the regulations have to say san, of 18 Staunton Street, who was The “Suicide Club" was discover about bathing by moonlight in found hanging in a room on June 22 ed when Edward Schwartz, an the nude. This is done to a con- last. It was stated in evidenco elderly man who was in ill-health, siderable extent by eminently that the woman was wearing her was discovered shot. His sister, respectable European residents of favourite jewels, and was clothed in Louise, told the police that he was the Colony, and one has only to rich finery. A verdict of Death one of a band of thirty who had visit Repulse Bay on a moon- By Suicide" was returned.
originally formed the Club. Four Mr. Schofield very
light night to see groups of
of them are now dead. She is now The Hired wisely imposed a
bathers, lacking either costume The possession of goods bearing charged with murder.
· Extraordinary precautions are
Entertaining the Chinese Recrea Car Fest. substantial fine on or slip, walking down to the sea. infringing trade marks was the
the driver of R
Even if this bathing be mixed, subject of a summons, by. Mesars. being taken by the police to prevent tlon Club in a "B" Division match hired car who was charged at and there is no evidence that it Jebsen & Co. against the Kwong any of the remaining twenty-six in the Lawn Tennis League on the Central Police Court yester 19. it could hardly be described Yat On firm before Mr. W. members of the cult doing away Thursday, the Hong Kong Cricket Club were well beaten, conceding day with dangerous driving. Ac as indecent, for even on the Schofield at the Central Magistracy with themselves.
brightest of moonlight nights it yesterday. The proceedings con- "Every night,"
Bald Louise 7% sets to 1.. cording to the evidence of a is difficult to see detail with any cerned two cases of "Blumen Schwartz, "we met at the home of a Traffic Sergeant, the defendant clearness "for more than a few Toilette Selfe," a brand of soap member to pray for a period of four emerged from Pedder Street and encircled the signal beacon at 30 yards away: The pleasure to be for which Messrs. Jebsen are the hours that one of us be cured of our miles an hour. Another driver, obtained from bathing in the local agents, but which were Im- feebleness. There are four mem- who was fined for a similar nude is obvious, for there is a ported from Japan. His Worship bers dead and twenty-six still living. certain amount of restraint in a reserved decision until July 18, and the member we prayed for offence, was seen driving in the costume, particularly when it is made an order for the confiscation was not receptive to our prayers he middle of the road. These cases, saturated with sea water, for of the two cases of soap and the de- was bound to commit suicide. If he the majority of which escape this to some extent restricts the struction of the Infringing labels, failed to end his life. before the next the detection of the Police, are freedom of the limbs. From this so numerous as to constitute a point of view nude bathing may considerable menace to the pedes perhaps be Instifled, but there trian as well as to other vehicles seems to be in the minds of many he hired car driver is the big exponents of the new cult, es
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China. Mail" `of··
July 4, 1921-1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/71⁄2«/
At Victoria Jail a prisoner whose death sentence in 1922 was com muted to one of life imprisonment; Laing by defeating A Succumbed to plague at the Gov- Gomes by 21 ahots to 8 in the pre-ernment Civil Hospital on Sunday.
meeting he was to be slain by a chosen member of the cult.”
COMEDY OF ERROR.
gest offender and he has develop pecially in Europe and the Unit Gilbertian Situation in Siminary round of the Open Lawn Yesterday afternoon Magistrate
African Senate.
Gilbertian situation in which
ed into a perfect pest. Wherever one goes these persistent touts which is suspiciously akin to ex- ed States, an erotic pleasure crawl down the thoroughfares, hibitionism. We have worn usually on the wrong side of the clothes and bathing costumes for road, searching for casual fares, They cut in with deliberate diso long that they are a part of Ministers of the Crown narrowly regard for the rules of the road, few men and
our moral consciousness, and averted their own disenfranchise- and seldom have the courtesy or abroad without common sense event to ing perfectly?
dicate); by-putting out", their hands, the direction they
Lake. The Let® 11
seldom know where they *ing, but follow, pedestrians from street to street in the hope of getting their patronage are far
for there oad and if-
be little
We have a path of
qen can go mont enlivened the usual drab, dis- emarid feel cussions in the Senate at Capo and uncurious Town recently,
to go on the Dr Malan, Minister of the In- before we shall tarfor, discovered that if the Gov- ace each other "a läernment's amendment to the fran-
· being "deeply chise laws disenfranchising per-
conscious of
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