MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
SELLING STOLEN
PROPERTY
Merchants"
Who Ask No Questions."
ONE OFFENDER CONVICTED
father and that he used it as picture frame.
His Worship remarked.
"I don't see how you can use this
as a picture frame.'
U.S. STAGGERS
BENEATH OWN
DEBT BURDEN
G$134,000,000,000 In Obligations
&
PICKPOCKETS NEW METHOD
THE CHINA MAIL
Farthest Pocket Chosen By Thieves.
Dealing with
expert!
To-Day's Short Story.
THE
FLAW
·
ed be wasps.
gifts.
It was
By Alice Herbert.
conceal
your
MAGISTRATE'S TEST IN COURT DEMONSTRATION A metal cigarette case that was
MAJOR BARRIER TO RECOVERY
HE wasps' nest was a god-practical politics with Edgar. You stolen last year from a store ព
THE New York
send. Queen's Road, was produced in the
two pickpocketing
No one even knew could guard against most dangers. Central Police Court this morning
Long-term debt obligations of cases at the Central Court this that he had heard of it, or of The facts in the papers and the as evidence against Chan Ting Government agencies in corporations, individuals
and morning, Mr. E. L Wynne Jones the cyanide He had been up-fiction in the magazines helped you the made a personal demonstration on stairs, in the guest-room, with there. There remained the two! chul, who was charged with unlaw-United States amount to $134.one of the complainanta.
the windows open, when his host initial snags. If you killed at close ful possession of same.
In both cases the defendants had called out loudly to the quarters, how When
[000,000,000, more than 40 per questioned by. Mr. Wynne-Jones the defendant said tional wealth, and their interest
cent of the estimated present Na-were stated to have stretched their children :-----
presence! If you poisoned from a left arm across the complainant to "What are you doing with that distance, how procure the poison the case was given to him by his and amortization charges amount pick the pocket on the right side: stuff? Who told you you might without being discovered? Bless-
Remarking that it was very un-touch it?" to 20 per cent, of the estimated National income, according to a
usual to pick the opposite pocket, "It's the cranide, Daddy," the He thought his plan out to the
detail. tury Fund. report of the Twentieth Cen- the Magistrate carried out a de- elder boy had answered, "we're minutest
No loophole monstration on the complainant in going to put it in the wasps' nest." should be left.. Waiting for the The report was based on
the witness box in order to judge "You're going to do до such winter, Edgar gradually wrote his The accused was caught trying to three-month study
the practibility of this method. He thing," shouted the anxious father. murder-story in his own mind, sell the case in Paddy's Market. It indebtedness by a group of eco of internal
remarked that it was apparently a
You'll kindly bring it here to me! preparing its materials with the was brought out in Court that num- nomists under the auspices of new technique, and that it was not I never knew you could reach the neatness that was one of his chist erous stolen articles are being the Twentieh Century Fund. tin accordance with the general garage shelf.” tought by merchants who ask no
practice. According to
The garage shelf
You wrote a letter on questions.
The report held that the debt views it was general to concentrate not difficult to engineer a few un-writer and the type betrayed you. a type- The Police are watch was a major barrier to economic ing these places.
on the nearest pocket, he said.. noticed moments in the garage. Pitfalls, those typewriters, with The defendant was fined $40.00, the "were existence of long-term plainant, a "boy" employed in the unnoticed.
recovery in U.S.A. and said that in the first instance, the com- Edgar made quite sure they were their faulty "e's" and nasty little --or one month.
debts with a fixed principal and Hong Kong Electric, said that he
habits, as fatal as your finger The police could hardly find and print. rate of interest in an economy felt the defendant's hand in his question all the friends one had,
You disguised your of rapidly changing income and;
own hand- industrial activity creates proant,
pocket and seized it. The defend-as to whether cyanide had ever writing, and the experts showed blems that challenge American that he merely, stood on the com- they could, the master of this "block letters," and the same thing an unemployed youth, aid been in their possession. Even if you up in no time. You printed in ingenuity in their solution."
The severest strains in con- ad him.
plainant's foot and the latter seiz. house would swear the guest knew still might happen. nection with interest and amor
nothing of it. Edgar would wait tization payments, the report fendant, imposing a sentence
The Magistrate convicted the de- until the winter, when wasps' nests would be fresh in no man's Isaid, are felt in the fields of rail- four months' hard labour."
consciousness. That night he lock- ways, public utility bolding com-
Change Dismissed.
Jed away a matchbox that contain- pany and real estate obligations.
In the second instance, the deed no matches in the inner fast- The country is said to be fendant, a wharf ecolies, was stat-ness of his private desk. twice as heavily indebted now in ed to have been seen in the act by relation to its wealth as it was a district watchman who was stan-
Edgar bore his aunt no malice, and no love. She was no kin of before the World War. -- Reuter ding behind the defendant. Both
his.
His uncle had married her. were listening to a lecture at Wes- and died, leaving her a comfortable tern Market at 9.45 p.m. yesterday, to his nephew, Edgar Brook. In an The thing began when he bought income for her life, with reversion when the incident occurred.
The defendant, who has worked academic sort of way Edgar had the two stamped envelopes, one of the waterfront, pleased not guilty. for seven years on the wharves of often considered the possibility of the square size and one
hastening nature. Aunt Marion oblong. He had asked for a pac- was no silver-haired darling, Herket of each in a post office crowd- hair had turned auburn in a single ed at its busiest hour. night, now many years ago. She lived entirely for herself and one please," he had added, "and one "A two-shilling book of stamps, fat lap-dog. A quick end was no foreign post-card." crime against the world, nor much
LOCAL OBSERVANCE OF PAPAL DAY Many Attend Religious Ceremonies,
FUNCTION AT WAH YAN COLLEGE
Papal Day, which was made to accord with the Feast of the Saints, Paul and Peter yesterday. evoked a rare manifestation of af- fection and loyalty on the part of) several thousands of Catholics in- Hong Kong.
UNUSUAL COURT
CASE,
Legal Point Regarding Contractor's Death.
of
the estate
The religious ceremonies appro-j priate to the event High Mass in the morning and Benediction in the An application to swear evening, were given a prominent death of Yap Chea-miao, place in the day's doings, and were contractor, as well attended as such occasions Street, Yaumati, Kowloon,
late Shanghai could be, but the possibilities for made this morning at the Supreme social contact and for a united rea-Court before firmation of loyalty to the Church Mr. J. R. Wood, by Mr. Leo the Chief Justice, were not overlooked.
D'Almada e Castro, Jnr., (instruct
Wha
A social gathering at the Wahed by Messrs. Lo and Lo). Yan College, organized by the Je-i Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., who ap-;
-this.
The case was; dismissed.
COOLIES IN "REAR. GUARD ACTION."
Lumps Of Wood As Weapons.
of
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be. "The Girl from the Fiat Opposite," by David Evans,
Edgar avoided all these suarez.
of the
of a tragedy for Aunt Marion. So That ought to put the envelopes out of the girl's head, in the pre-
he assured himself.
of
He had two motives for the mur-posterously improbable event der, where many men would have her remembering so ordinary a found the one enough. There was purchase at long range. Or had it a girl, a niece of the old lady: he called attention to his person? He suit Fathers in charge of the in-1
A quarrel over a gambling game had met her on ja visit there and glanced at her. stitution, which took place imme-ears for the China Underwriters in Belchers Street, West Point yes- on very many occasions since then.
No, she looked busy, harassed diately after the evening service, Ltd., and Mr. Yee Thai opposed terday, led to a fight between two She did not, praise be, live with and uninterested. Her eyes never was the opportunity furnished for
the application.
Chinese coolies who attacked each Aunt Marion, but in rooms with a once lifted themselves to his face. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, in other with lumps of wood.
girl friend at Wimbledon. If he As he thrust the packet in ital It was attended by practically the opening his case said the hearing Charged at the Central Police had money he could marry her; flimsy outer envelope into his suit- whole Catholic community, in ad- of the application had previously Court this morning both defendants and If Aunt Marion .... died, he case he felt the thrill of a first dition to representatives of the come before the former Chief complained that the other hit him would have mones. various Catholic Missions in Hong Justice, Sir Joseph Kemp, on No- on the back. They both exhibited Kang.
vember 25, 1982, when His Lordship the marks of their wounds. The Rt. Rev. Henry Valtorta, the adjourned the hearing because of in- Vicar-Apostolic, who is the repre- sufficient evidence, sentative of the Pope in Hong Kong and South Chins, at this function delivered an address in which he clearly expounded the duties of those of the faith.
The bearing is proceeding.
Personal Pars.
Mr. . H. Blake, partner in thei
and Grist, back in the
In connexion with the reception firm of Wilkinson held at the Wah Yan College, solicitors, arrived concert entertainment was given in the Great Hall of the institution, and was enjoyed by a large gather ing of visitors.
Colony this morning on the sus. Em- press of Asia.
3.4.
Lieut. Col. M. Carrington-Sykes, Amongst the contributors were M.C., late of Portland, has arrived the St. Louis Industrial School in the Colony aboard the Band, Girl Guldes, Boy Scouts, the Hector to take command of the 8th Halwaiian Trio, and the Catholic Heavy Battery, R.A. Chinese Young Men's Club, the last named appearing in A Chinese .sketch.
+
rear
"Apparently there was a guard action," said Sub-Inspector Logan, in describing the fight.
Both men were fined and bound lover in a bond of $50 for one year
to be of good behaviour.
THEFT FROM FISH SHOP. Banishee Gaoled .
It had been the vast difficulty of the thing that had kept it out
News In Brief.
step safely taken. He locked the becket in his desk. Only two en- of velopes would be needed later
one of each size:
His correspon- dents would testify that he never used stamped envelopes. It would. be rash to keep a packet of them Jin his room.
He waited patiently till Christ- The City Hall Hbrary has
now mas before getting the next and by been transferred to the old Sea-far the most important tool for his men's Institute, No. 18. Johnston purpose.. When the buyers of pre- Road
sents for children were besieging stall in a multiple store he picked
In response too numerous. re out a superior-looking toy printing- quests, the management of the press, with two or three more Central Theatre have arranged for articles of roughly the same size, to the hard- a re-showing of the Alm, ""Tell Me and handed them A returned banishee, convicted at To-night." Two shows will be held driven saleswoman. Like the girl the Central Police Court this morn|5.15 and 9.30,
daily, to-morrow and Wednesday, at in the Post Office, she never glanc ing for theft of $95 and a silver
ed at him, but scrawled his check, Mr. C. S. Rosselet, secretary of Watch, was sentenced to one year's
tore it feverishly from her block," Individual contributors were Mr. turned to the Colony from the in the act of, stealing the property day by Miss Ho, of the Laichikok of customers waiting for her. He
Hong Kong Amusements, Ltd., re-imprisonment with hard labour.
despatched his person to the cash A case of suspected drowning desk and his parcel to the busy The defendant had been caught was reported to the police yester-packers, and turned to the queue At this function, Bishop Valtorta of Asia, this morning,
United States, on the s.8. Empress from a fish-shop belonging to Fan Bathing Matshed, who stated that looked at them, the customer Sik, at 86 Aplichau street early this a suit of white clothing was left by Without exception they were turn. Fr. De Angelis also spoke for the Mr. K. E. Grieg, manager beneft of Chinese members of the Talkoo Docks, who has been on a
of morning.
a Chinese bather who failed to re-fing The prisoner's record showed that turn after a swim. audience.
short business trip to Shanghai, re- he had previous convictions for re- turned to the Colony this morning turning from banishment and un- on the 8.8.Empress of Asia.
lawful possession of a knife.
Abraham and Miss Alica Young.
made an address in English, while
ONLY CITY WITH
SPEED LIMIT.-
Oxford's Application Granted.
London.
*
PASSAGE MONEY TO BE REFUNDED
Stage
ever, fingering, appraising toya. He left the shop. Number Two was reached. Colonel M. H. Logan, the well-
Thin rubber gloves were the last known Shanghai architect, arrived and perhaps most dangerous item Mrs. Salle Hume Douglas, the
In the Colony this Turning on the -for man to buy. Women, he Iprominent musical composer" and
5.8. Empress of Asia. Col. Logan supposed, bought them to keep fainger, who la making a tour of the
is in charge of the direction and their hands from getting spoiled world, arrived in the Colony this
organising of the new Hong Kong with housework. However, at a morning on the sa. Empress of Judgement in the sum of $120
and Shanghal Bank building in great cheap store a long way from Asia.
his home he bought them when the and costs was this morning award-
Hong Kong. ed by the Paisne Judge, Mr. R. E
place was crowded, without ap Oxford is now the only town Mr. R. E. Russell, sub-accountant Lindsell to Fong Man-kwal, who
bearing to arouse the faintest In in England to have a speed limit.of the National City Bank of New claimed $200 from Liu Chi-wing Montreal, Canada, who died intes-locked inside ble drawer prepara Lee Kay-lau, washerman, late of terest. When they were safely The maximum speed to be al-York, arrived back in the Colony on a money paid to the defendant tate at Shanghat while in the tions were all but over lowed on certain roads in the the ss. Empress of Asia, this morn- for obtaining a passage for the course of his voyage on the s.. Paper was the last considera- city is 30 miles, an hour. The lug.
complainant from Hong Kong to Proteallaus enroute to the Colony tion. The ordinary cream-lald" the United States, which passage from Vancouver left local estate five-quire packet, sold at every valued at $12,500. Letters of ad- stationer's, that was the stun Colony, this afternoon on the "Pre the plaintif.
Mr. J. B. Prentis appeared for ministration to the above estate People were probably buying it all The ruling has been made insident Jackson.”
have been granted to Lea Yim day long. Less conspicuous than Oxford because students found.
cheung, student.
asking for a separate quire or two. difficulty in studying because of Brig. General and Mrs. Stanley
He turned in at a large, thronged street noises. In Oxford.". Ford of the United States Army:
The heavy storms during the 24 stationer's Women were buring states a letter written by the arrived here to-day, and will call
hours ending 10.30 am, this morn tinsel string, coloured piper, Ministry of Transport, the ex again to-morrow on the "President
Havana, Cuba. ing have resulted in almost one inch coloured labels, all for Christmas Garages - and motor accessory of rain. Nearly half of the total parcels, His own dull purchase caused by traffic in the case of Mr. W: C. Clarke, manager of the ball bearings, nuts and bolts without fall between 6.50 and · 7.30; o'clock. When he got home, he arst pat
establishments here may not sell 40 inches, accrued from the heavy Passed unnoticed">Cl rooms and colleges fronting on Hong Kong branch of Millington, police permission High Street and on certain other rd, died suddenly in Shanghai,
this morning, J...
Zdrauti on the rubber gloves, then eagerly: The authorities are said to fear Yesterday's maximum
unpacked the little printing-press. places, is so great as seriously to this morning, Mr. Clarke left the that they might be used in bomba ture was 90.1, degrees in the shade, tempera-
borate affairs, they made for Impair their usefulness. Reuthe Colony recently for the Not by political terrorista, according to the average
children: nowadays. This thing (Continued in Paga 10.)
Ministry of Transport has just
granted the application of the Misses. Esther S. Melrose and the defendant failed to obtain. Oxford City Council for the Marie H. Shirley arrived in the speed regulation. ***
tent of the noise and disturbance
(Jackson"
on a business trip.
THE CUBAN TERROR.
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