WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1932.
"Brass Ats Is Like Women, Chum"
Dennies Dunn "Does" Aldershot
SEES ARMY LIFE
AND LEARNS A DEAL OF HOMELY TRUTHS,
THE CHINA MAIL.
TIGER TURNS UPON Cheng's Case Nears End
ITS TRAINER.
Women's Power Over
Wild Beasts."
GOOD LION TAMERS.
London, August 10."). Why is it that circus Hons and tigers will sometimes turn on
their trainers, who have handled them since they were cubs?
This question is prompted by the latest instance of the kind which Foccurred at. Wrexham, where a tiger during à performance at Chapman's Circus auddenly seized its trainer's leg in its jawa and We spoke of Quarterblokes-held the man a prisoner" against Aldershot. "Brass 'ats," said Private Blun-quarter-master sergeants of the the side of the cage. derbore, slowly, “——"
He knits his brow, seeking the four to a combine word.
"Brass, 'ats is
"A crime scggested Private Thunderclap hopefully.
"No, Brass 'ate is like the women chumi. A bloke never knows where she is with a brass ut.. With some sergeants it isn't easy, but with brass 'ats if's-"
"Ell" obliged Private Thunder-
number of
The trainer is Captain Kovah, of British Army, one to a company Tottenham Court Road, W. When According to the Tommy, the the tiger caught him his shouts Quarterbloke is a pleasant mix quickly brought a ture of Scrooge and Ananias, a circus hands to the rescue. kind of company Kreuger. Tommy Finally the animal was, drivep off and Captain' Kövah, with hig leg badly lacerated, was rushed to hospital.
reards the Quarterbloke asa species of uniformed tramp with & queer passion for collecting nine bayonets, four, dixies, and twelve
Later he
In spite of his injuries he insist- jed on returning to the circus and overcoats. Apart from that they carrying on with his act at the are pals. The Quarterbloke never gives evening performance. "I once knew a brass at," said any. It is his job to preside and returned to hospital for further Private Blunderbore, "who was a dispense everything regimental, cure." He gazed intently into the from n carbine to a corn pad.. interior of his tankard; which was empty, and favoured his colleague with a suspicious look.
Timeless War.
(Continued from Page 1)
"What is the possible state of mind with this jury with regard to the evidence of Zim- mern and Christie on this sum→ ming-up?" asked Mr. Jenkin. "Firstly, the whole of the Zime mern and Christie evidence had been admitted and placed be- fore them as proper material for their consideration. Secondly, they were directed that the purpose of that "evi- dence as a whole was to estab- lish two things; nämely, the existence of murderous hate in the mind of the prisoner and the taking of active steps by him through Zimmern and Christie towards the 'mur- der of Fung Thirdly, they were directed that the Is- Hue in the case, as the Crown had proved, was that the ac- cused was the man who em ployed Lau to organise the murder. We are told, further more, that there was a distinct gap between the evidence of "Lau, which did not implicate... the accused, and the evidence of Tsui and that of Zimmern and Christle."
Jury Unassisted.
these circumstances
sum-
Mr. Sheldon's proposition, was that evidence of different crimes with one end in view, was always | admissible. Counsel went on to give examples, and said that in this case, the Accused had incited Zimmern and Christie to murder.
The evidence of Zimmern and Christie, he submitted, was admis- sible on various grounds-showing jealousy, hatred, intention to kill, means to kill, and preparation, to kill on the part of the prisoner. If the evidence was admissible, the result would be that there was overwhelming evidence that the prisoner procured the murder of Fung.
Two Suppositions
Mr, Sheldon put forward these two examples. Supposing Cheng had brought Fung to his house at Village Road to be poisoned by Lau, with Christie and Zimmern waiting outside to shoot Fung as he left should the poisoning fail. Would the evidence of Zimmern and Christie be admissible?
Supposing Cheng had Fung poisoned, and asked Zimmern and Christle to remove the body to the mortuary, and nothing more Was said. Would the evidence be ad- missible?
Mr. Sheldon referred to the
| treatment.
Generally In Play.
"Is it not clear my Lords" con- Mr. Bertram Mills, the
circus
tinued Mr. Jerkin, "that under Mr. Sheldon, then quoted at proprietor, said, that when dions
the learned length authorities in support of his But years of tradition have given and tigers "turned" on him the scepticism of a lawyer and trainers it was generally only in these gentlemen by directing how
their Trial Judge should have assisted contentions.
"Reasonable". Evidence. I put things right (Dennis Dunn the wild, guy, extravagance of a play.
they could properly bridge that gap "gap" in the evidence upon which writes in Daily Express) and he Scots miser. Timeless war is When the animals are, young continued:--
waged between the Quarterblokes they give their trainers little bites ming-up, subject to any check by Mr Potter had dwelt. Nobody saw
and yet the perusal of this This 'ere brass at sees a lot of and the troops..
and scratches." he said, "but they waggons, and can't keep his 'ands Private Penniless reports, with do not realise that playing in this anyone present in this Court, dis Cheng commit the murder, and it off. Take off them wheels, he overcoat-one. ruined utterly. The way when they have grown up is
closes this fact, that there is not was possible that somebody "en-
tirely that sentence in
"unconnected with a single says, and when they do it be grins Quarterbloke opena "the game. He not the same thing.
Cheng as if he had drawn a nap hand, and begins by denying it is Кл "I do not believe that any animal ming-up which gives the slightest was responsible for the assassina Bays. Just as I thought, no grease overcoat. Reluctantly compelled that has become used to and fond assistance to those seven laymen aa tion, he admitted. Everything was So the bloke, greases 'em, and what to admit
he of trainer will hurt him de- to either how in law or in proper possible. It was possible for 20 with the writ that prease collected takes heart and dénies that liberately.'
application of the facts they could elephants to be eating grass in Can it be Statue Square at that very moment. Mr. Mills declared that women denied in this Court that
But what was reasonable? The is likely evidence adduced was such as to make excellent trainers. "When that the jury may have understood leave no doubt whatsoever as to
woman trainer really knows. her business she is wonderful the summing-up to mean that they who instigated the crime.
the axle wure out and bust.
derclap.
"..
WAR one.
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solve this problem.
sum-
were entitled-taking the Zimmern
chauffeur.
it is Private Penniless overcoat; Well. next day he were with an-suggests Private Penniless stole. it. other crush, and he strolled up as from somebody. Private Penniless you please says: Take off them shows name under lapel in ink also wheels, which they do. Just as Ilchit for new coat.
with animals," he said.
Mr. Sheldon then attempted to thought,', says he. 'Grease all over Quarterbloke staggers, but comes "One of the best trainers of and Christie evidence in its totallity them axles. Don't you know it]
up fresh with forgery theory. Pri-tigers working to-day is Mabel
to assume that the accused was,ay the "murder af Cheng's door busts them? He were a cure." vate Penniless: "Company Com Stark, who has one of the finest on the evidence, a man likely to com- through the agency of Ah Lau, the
"Not alf," agreed Private Thun-mänder." Quarterbloke: "Scripture, troupes of tigers in the world." mit this murder that is, likely to
"You mean," said Sir Joseph King's Regulations, Rabelais, "and Women who have no fear of Procure Lau or that in the evidence But with due respect to those precedence." His back to the wall, wild animals are able, apparent there was something pointing to the Kemp smilingly, that it was Lau's two excellent fellows, I must di unearths disreputable overcoat from
ly, to exercise a power over them fact that the accused was just the men who put Fung on the spot!"
Counsel acquiesced, and proceed- agree. I have been privileged to rear, hands same to Private Penni-
which nobody, has yet satisfac./sort of man to have employed Laued to deliver himself of his argu- | see a little of what goes on behind less, who discovers thirty minutes
“I venture to `say, properly using the scenes, and learn the purpose of later that he has got his own back |
the phrase used by the learned ment, which he concluded at 12.80
· Mr. Hugh Tyrwhitt Drake, who what appears to be the chipers of in unexpected fashion.
Judge, that these seven untrainedP.m., the Court being then adjourn owns, a large private zoo and has a pack of jolly and irresponsible. A straight line being, the shortest himself trained lions privately laymen entered the library for their ed until 2.30 p.m., with the anticl consultations with blurred and pation of a speedy conclusion of distance between two pints, Private said that, considering the number Lieutenant Bayonet, who has had Blunderbore and Thunderclap met of trainers who are regularly giv. confused minds, as to how they could the argument
Different - Argument. his orders countermanded
me early.
ing two and three performances rightfully apply any part of the evi-
Mr. Potter concluded his argu- Ehith! Your stuff wasn't 'arf daily, the percentage of accidents do think that the learned trial judge after the tiffin interval...
dence of the issue before them. Σ times in two hours and is lividly;
ment yesterday afternoon shortly, marching to a village he doesn't bad this mornin. Alf 'ere showed is comparatively small. know by a road which is not there, it to the quarterbluke, and "e was "There is a great difference in warned the jury on my eighth point,
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., rose to ard on arrival is met with anfair tickled."
temperament among animals," he but I respectfully submit that the urgent order to submit at once the "Not arf." grinned Frivate Thun-said, "and tigers are not so reliable summing-up does not conform with argue on the Chief Justice's sum- number of left-foot. "gum-boots in derclap. E said it was a knock-in captivity as lions."
the other seven points I put before ming-up. After argument, a ruling
Junatics.
three
torily explained,"
the unit last March, doesn't realise jout how some guys get paid formati
it is all done on purpose.
doin' it."
#J
you.
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was secured from the Court "that] Mr. Jenkin then dealt with the misdirection in law to the Jury was (Continued from previous Colunm.) All those orders are duplicated "He writes hisself," confided Pri-town of grey hutments and queer phases in which the Trial Judge point of law, and it was within the and were worked out beforehandvate Blunderbore. E ad a plece happeninge.
had summed up, and, in reply to the jurisdiction of the Trial Judge to G.H.Q. wants to find out the speedo poetry in the regimental paper Tim causes all those fellows to le Mr. Justice Wood, said that his reserve this point for further argu-
ment. in which maneuvres can be carried which wasn't arf bad. It were on their tummies and curse. He is complaint was that the Trial Judge
The Chief Justice-Your argu had failed to give the fullest assis- out and the time Lieutenant called
the reason why G.S. waggons trun-! Bayonet can last without going
"Dorn," said Private Thunder-dle by in the wet. He is the reason tance to the jury (in a case of such ment is much the same as Mr. dotty.
elap. "And 'e can spell, carn't 'e, why the Camerons are Here and the gravity) as to how it could weigh Potter's only couched in different and allocate the evidence put before Mr. Jenkin-No, my Lord. My
words. Bob?".
Loyals are There, and the reason it on the issue. Those two stout fellows suddenly why the 1st Divisional Engineers |
position is this. Should you agree Hard To Criticise. | began to whisper. All I could hear are playing pontoons at The Other
with Mr. Potter and yet find there was: “Shail us? Why not? Well, Place.
The Chief Justice interposed to was no substantial miscarriage of "You get darned good dinners one carn't do not 'arm, any'ow; can Three years ago No. 2 would have say that he wanted to avoid is justice; what then? My contention been listening to a concise and understanding, and pointed out is that there has been a miscarriage Sunday." said Private Blunderbore. 'e?"
derogatory account of his parentage that a point of great importance to of justice:
remember was that the summing-up
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It is all changed. Aldershot was made immediately after the re- Mr. Jenkin submitted leave us alone pretty well Sundays," loaned across and said: explained Private Blunderbore. "Look 'ere, mister. Go an' see N.G.Os. are teachers, not tyrants, ply by counsel for the defence. points which he said constituted
"It is a very delicate thing to the correct summing up. to the "Kind of peaceful, when a bioke, the signallin' crush, Basin'stoke. The class-room has come can get on with his hobbies," and It's only eighteen mile off."
parade ground.
eriticise the summing-up in your paints were: he took a hearty swig of his.
Ellos and puttis" up a lot of "Things ave changed," said Pri Lordship's face, Mr. Jenkin re- 1. In any case, other than Some of these Army hobbles are poles," nodded Private Thunderclap vate Blunderbore. Things ave marked in conclusion. The con simple one, It Is the duty of the intriguing. There are Tommies eagerly Eyes of the Army, see? changed," agreed Private Thunder viction must be quashed because It Judge carefully to direct the fury, who are eager Philatelists, natural- Make a nice story for the paper it clap. The idea of this new training is impossible to say that, with an both on law and on fact ists, artista, and photographers. will, won't it, Bob?"
2. That when there is a mass of is to tell the soldier why, instead of adequate direction, the jury inevi ("Ellos are known to the un- because.
tably would have come to the same evidence, it is essential that the Private Thunderclap collects coins,
initiated as hellographs).
A Tommy is no longer a pawn, conclusion and would have con-judge should carefully, sift it and any old coins.
The two old philosophers hitched" "Not arf," said Private Blunder-but a part of the military, machine.victed."
put it to the jury in such a way at their belts, straightened their bore.
One young chap spent half an hour
as to ensure their due appreciation tunics, and strode slowly down the Signallers are the white-headed with me, and told me enough about
of it road with a cheery "Watcher!""" boys of the British Army. Brass the working and tactics
'E's an 'art as 'ard as granite, hats treat them with deference. machine-gun section to make Al Waxed moustaches, hair oil, an it Sergeant-majors bring them morn Capone jealous.
He was eager and enthusiastic, Makes a bloke fair. mad to see ing ten.
"him rob
They are the prima donnas of proving that you no longer join the The squad of tasty teas, and me war. Shy and temperamental Army because you can't joint any-
They need not clean their buttons, thing else. of new putteos, But I'd pawn me blinking rifle for They can wear odd puttees. Nice
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fis job. Rea
of *
There goes a Scots battalion by fellows. Give them a bit of wire, the window. "They've been to gas "I knew one who was in the Plug and they will play for hours-sand-drill, said Private Thundarbore. 30
"Mucky fób," said Private Thun- Street show w us," murmured Pri- ing messages they cannot under-
derclap, vate Blanderbore, reminiscently, stand, or see.
It's like this, ***E's in the tobacconist line Nor-
Thunderclap. “W]
"He's-the-Blöke":
Replying for the Crown, Mr. H. G. Sheldon said that, at the outset, he would dispute that the case had been difficult and complicated. It was an ordine ary criminal case, distinguish. ed from the ordinary murder. by the mere fact that the charge was an” accessory be- fore› the fact, and by its cowardice and cruelty,
Admissible Eviderice
3. The fury are entitled to that assistance from the judge in order to prevent their being lulled into a miscarriage of justice on their
14 The speeches of counsel, on either or both sides cannot relleva the judge of that duty,
5. An inadeqtists summing up is worse than none at all
The trial had been a lengthy one, 6.” There must be direction an to and his submission would be that the bearing various facts have evidence of the class of Zimmern unen wadis rooky and Christi
has been ad- you got blarsted into it—see? Nowi mitted from
time and will of o His real name is General Sir they persuades
time in there
wich way; a big, fat chap, with a They call him Tim.
*igh voice. He settled down with a
tidy bit. But what a blighter Charles Harrington; and, as PrivateIf you can't sheath yer bayonet the was. Bring 'Im a dixle bung full of Blunderbore remarked, "He's The without looking you gets holes and dripping with rust and Bloke and Private
talks so good yer would think it was gazed intently at the 'ali-marked
silver, and get out tankard and echoe
Bloke
quickly, athamed like
cursen Ain't that
Kald Private Blunder.
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