1934-10-12

CAUGHT AFTER FOUR YEARS

Accused Pleads Not Guilty To $600 Theft.

Arrested On a warrunt

issued

in 1980, Yuen Fu, u 36-year-old sentenced to two salesman, was

months hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Central Ma- the gistracy this morning, for

theft of $600 from the Chan Wo 3 New Market Kee Firm, No. Street, on December 28, 1930,

J. Murphy suid that, when arrested, accused said that he did not steal, the sum mentioned, but that he still owed complainants $150.

Detective-Inspector

in 1930,

Accused pleaded that when he was employed by the entrusted complainants, he was

with the money to make purchases Was in Canton. While he in Canton he was informed that his father was seriously ill in the country and took the money with him.

BAG SNATCHER FACES

TWO CHARGES

Gaoled On One And Remanded On Other

Was

Starting on August 29, General Andrew Ignacio Menendez (above) is now addressed as President of the Republic of El Salvador. This will last for six months. Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez is the candidate for the ensuing four-year residential term.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934'

GETTING MONEY BY Today's Short Story.

FALSE PRETENCES

"Professional" Gaoled

The Making Of

A New Yorker

By. Ö. Henry

On Four Charges

"I think he is a professional at this game," said Detective Sergeant

BES

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story" will be "The Doclor." by Dora Mercer.

Fitches to Mr. E. W. Hamilton at ESIDES many other things, met the civic corporation that could the Central Magistracy this morn- Raggles was a poet. He was engage and hold his critical fancy. was Through the ancient poets we have ing, in prosecuting Lui Sap, un-called a tramp; but that employed, who wis charged on only an elliptical way of saying learned that the cities are feminine. three counts of obtaining money by that he was a philosopher, an So they were to poet Raggles; and false pretences and the theft of alartist, a traveller, a naturalist his mind carried a concrete and letter.

and a discoverer. But most of clear conception of the figure that| all he was a poet. In all his life symbolised and typified each one On August 25 accused went to Chun

Kwal-sim a woman residing he never wrote a line of verse; he that he had weed.

lived his poetry. His Odyssey Chiengo seemed to swoop down on 234 Lockhart Road, and obtained would have been a Limerick, had upon him with a breezy suggestion $30 by falsely purporting that heit been written. But, to linger of Mrs. Partington, plumes and was Wai Chung-ching and sent by with the primary proposition, patchouli, and to disturb hie rest Tae Shiu-fal, the husband of the Raggles was n poet.

with a soaring and beautiful song woman,, to collect $30.

Raggles's speciality, had he been of future promise. But Raggles On October 5 accused went to No.jdriven to ink and paper, would have 341 Hennessy Road and stole a pri-been sonnets to the cities. He vate letter from the letter box on studied eities as women study their the staircase, the letter belonging reflections in mirrors; as children to Lam Yuk-ch!, a merchant. Gon.

study the glue and sawdust of a who On Wednesday he went to Lam dislocated doll; us the man Yuk-chi and attempted to obtain write about wild animals study the $50 by false pretences.

enges in the Zoo. A city to Raggles Sergeant Fitches asked for a was not merely a pile of bricks and heavy sentence to be imposed on mortar, peopled by a certain num- defendant, and said that accused her of inhabitants; it was a thing would awake to a sense of shivering) had been arrested before in connec-with a soul characteristic and dis- Lion with a, similar offence, but noftiact; an individual conglomeration cold and a haunting impression of conviction was registered.

of life, with its own peculiar ideals lost in a depressing aura of Sentence of three months hard essence, flavour and feeling. Two potato salad and fish.

Thus Chicago affected him. to the north and labour was imposed on each charge, thousand miles the terms to run consecutively. south, east and west, Raggles wan-Perhaps there is a vagueness and ered in poetic favour, taking the inaccuracy in the description: but cities to his breast. He fonted it that is Raggles's fault. He should on dusty roads, or sped magnificent-recorded his sensations in magazine ly in freight cars, counting time as

Pittsburg impressed him as the of no account. And when he had found the heart of a city and listen-play of "Othello" performed in the ed to its secret confession he stray-station by Dockstader's minstrels. language in a railroad ed on, restless, to another. Fickle) Raggles—but perhaps he had not royal and generous lady this Pittsburg, though-homely, hearty, with flushed face, washing the dishes in a silk dress and white kid sippers, and bidding Raggles sit before the roaring fireplace and drink champagne with his pigs' feet and fried potatoes.

COMMODITY PRICES IN AMERICA

Roosevelt's Plan To Utilise Idle Money

SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL,

Lok Ming, unemployed, charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at the Central Magistracy this morning with the theft of a (By Tricgraph, Copyright, Telegra- SERVICE IN ENGLISH handbag, containing money andphic Messages Ordinance, 1891, Re-}

FOR CHINESE papers. the property of Miss P.vived October 12, 9.49 a.m.)

Every Sunday At Bishop's Chapel

་ '

Choa, at No. 5 Broadwood. Road, and charged with returning

okay from banishment.

Shepherd; Detective Sergeant stated that as Miss Choa Was parking her CUF near Queen's

Washington, To-day. Observers believe that the Pre- ident's plan to boost and peg commodity prices will in- clude increased Government pres-

A service in English for Chinese. sore for crop control and foreign trade, plus eredit expansion, for returned students, and others, will Pier, Lecused snatched the purse the purpose of utilitising idle be held on Sunday at the Bishop's Chapel, St. Paul's College, at 10.30 They believe that the President a.m.

From the car and ran. He was caught by an Indian constable.

ed to ask for a committal.

money.

This service will be held every

not naturally at home in a Cantonese service.

Personal Pars

LOCAL WEDDINGS ANNOUNCED

To Wed Mr. Hung

poems.

Russlan

Indefinite and unintelligible ideas.

in the second charge, Sergeant has been a convert to the theory. Moran anid that he was instruct of the United States Secretary of Sunday morning in future, and is Dr. Kotewall's Daughter

you will say; but your disapproba- Said that defendant had returned Agriculture, Mr. Henry C. Wal-intended for Chinese Christians and those interested in the Christian re-

tlon should be tempered with three times since his banishment, lace, that, devaluation is neces-

are poets' Sentence of three months hardry and desirable, but that the ligion who are

The forthcoming wedding is an-gratitude, for these benefits rendered in increasing

nounced of Mr. Walter Alexander fancies-and suppose you had come labour was imposed on the theft the export of American surpluses

Hung, Assistant Manager of upon them in verse! charge, while a week's remand

are only temporary, and therefore

the Wo Sang Co., Ltd., One day Raggles came and laid was granted for the hearing of the problem should be approached!

No. 38 Bonham Road to siege to the heart of the great city the second charge.

by both Increased foreign trade via the Yankee Trading Corpora.

Mr. Frank L. Hough, General Miss Phoebe Jesper Kotewall, the of Manhattan. She was the great- KNOCKED DOWN BUT tion, tariff agreements,

and res-Manager of the R.C.A, Victor Com-second daughter of the Hon. Dr. K. est of all; and he wanted to learn pany of China, who is making a H. Kotewall. C.M.G., residing at No. her note in the scale; to taste and tricted agricultural production.

appraise and classify and solve and The Administration is primarily business visit to Hong Kong from 57 Kotewall Road. seeking to boost the prices of Shanghai, arrived to-day by farm products because the farm-President Johnson.

RAN AWAY

Driver Fined $10 For Not Reporting

Summoned for failing to report

er's money is quickly spent on machinery, shoes, automobiles,

the The wedding of Mr. William label her and arrange her with the Stoker, Accountant, residing at the other cities that had given him up of their Individuality. European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, to the secret

to the Police after a collision, ouji Press, per S. E. Levy and Com- Columbia Broadcasting Company of nounced.

September 27, in Des Voeux Road, įpany.

near Queen Victoria Streel. Miss

LI So-so, of No 101 Gloucester |

his

and Mrs. Madge Weeks, a well-known Miss Nellie Moss, residing at the And here we cease to be Raggles's

become chronisler. and other town products-United Radio star connected with the Kowloon Fire Station, is also an- translator

Raggles landed from a ferry-boat one morning and walked into the core of the town with the blase air of a cosmopolite. He was dressed with care to play the role of ani

No country,! "unidentified man."

SILVER MANIPULATION

Chicago, arrived here to-day by the President Johnson, en route Manila on a vacation.

CHICKENS CAME RUNNING TO HIM

Johnson.

So He Put Them In A Bag!

For

being found with

race, cian

Road and driver of private car No. In view of President Roosevelt's 2607, was fined $10 by Mr. E. W.japparent acceptance of Mr. Wal- Mr. A. J. Campbell, the American

class, clique, union, party. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy lace's theory, it is believed that Consulate-General, returned to-day

or bowling association could this morning.

any monetary manipulation will from Shanghai by the President

have claimed him. His clothing, Mr. Leo D'Almada, who pleadedbe in silver, instead of in gold.

two which had been donated to him guilty on behalf of defendant. said It is pointed out that the Pre- that his client after having knocked sident is empowered to increase Mr. A. M. Simpson, of the Hong chickens, which he admitted steal-piece-meal by citizens of different down a woman, who apparently the price of sliver in relation to Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, jing, in his possession in Tai Kok height but same number of inches October 11, round the heart, was not yet as received no injuries and who ran gold and also that the gold in the was a passenger on the President Tsui at 6.25 am on away, did not think it was neces-dollar is at present worth 59.06, Grant, which arrived here to-day. Man Tong, a 26-year-old unemploy-uncomfortable to his figure as those

cents, leaving 0.6 cents as a man-!

ed, was sentenced to two months' specimens of raiment, self-measur- sary to make a report.

Ipulative margin.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara, barrister-bard labour by Mr. B. 1. Wynne, that are railroaded to you by

tailors with It is believed that the Presi- law

and Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy trans-Continental

suit-case, suspenders, silk handker- dent is saving the margin for cur-solicitor of Messrs. Wilkinson and this morning. rency stabilisation dickering with Grist, were among the passengers

Sub-Inspector Mair stated that chlef and pearl stude as a bonus. Great Britain and France, and, who returned to Hong Kong by the the defendant, who was stopped by Without money-as a poet should therefore, will not further devalue President Grant this morning.

Ja detective, was carrying a flour bebut with the ardour of an 28- bag. When the bag was opened the tronomer discovering a new star in the gold content of the dollar in

chickens were found inside.

the chorus of the Milky Way, or a Defendant: "The chickens ranlman who has seen ink suddenly flow up to me so I took them."

from his fountainpen, Raggles wan- Mr. Wynne Jones: "That is nodered into the great city. reason for putting them in a bag.".

MURDER ECHO

¿Continued from. Page 1.)

Touching scenes were witnessed

at 9.15 p.m. yesterday when Queen Marie, the Queen Dowager, and her son Peter, the new 11-year-old King of Yugoslavia, entrained for Belgrade.

United Freas, per S. E. Levy an effort to boost domestic prices.

and Company.

PRIVATE RICKSHAW

UNLICENSED

MILITARISTS CONTROLLING

JUDGE'S VIEW OF "WAR MARRIAGES."

The President of France, M.

Those Who "Repent" Albert Lebrun, bowed with grief, and members of the Cabinet, in

The Common Serjeant, Mr. Hol- deep mourning. AAw the Royal For allowing his private rickshawman Gregory, K.C., commented on couple off. The large crowd which No. 396 to be driven along Prince war marriages at the Old Bailey

Road at 1.15 p.m. gathered at the station were solemn. Edward

recently, when Edward Belcher September 20 without a license, Mr. Norman, 42, a ly silent.

labourer, pleaded under

the strictest nature, strong bodies

at all entrances and exits to the

POLITICS

•

Late in the afternoon he drew out of the roar and commotion with a flook of dumb terror on his counten- ance. He was defeated; puzzled, discomfited, frightened. Other cities has been to him as long primer to (Continued from Page 1)

read; as country maidens quickly "The celebration this year

is to fathom;

send-price-of- circumstances. The subscription-with-answer rebuses to A. M. D'Eca, of No. 1 Torres Build-guilty to bigamy at Southall. The police precautions were of

most happy celebration was on solve; as oyster cocktails to swal- ing was fined $5 by Mr. E. 1.

cold, It was stated that Norman mar-the first anniversary of the Re-low; but here was one as of armed gendarises being posted stracy this morning.

Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Mag-ried his legal wife in 1917, and that public, when the Manchu dynasty glittering, serene, impossible as a she left him about two years later-was overthrown. The second four-carat diamond in a window to Lo Kam, the driver of the rick- station, while hundreds of plain shaw, was summoned for driving Elizabeth Hilda Barber, to whom he teenth aniversary, when the Kuo-his pocket his ribbon-counter salary. In 1980 he "married" Miss Sarah happy occasion was on the seven-la lover outalde fingering damply in clothes men mingled with the vast the unlicensed vehicle, for which he throng which waited in the streets. was dismissed with a caution, and

mintang was devoted.

was able to unify the The greetings of the other cities A squad of motor-cycle police for not having a driver's license, was moved to take a lenient view in Nanking

The Common Serjeant sald he country and set up a government he had known — their homespun escorted Their Majesties motor for which he was fined $1.

kindliness, their human gamut of car to the station. The public

of the case because Norman's first Unfortunately the militarists rough charity, friendly curses, gar- were rigidly excluded from the

marriage was what was called are now in control of the govern-rulous curiosity and easily estimat neighbourhood of the Royal train.

"war marriage."

ment, he said, which is now being fed credulity or Indifference. This "I expect," he said, "that you utilized for their selfish ends. As city of Manhattan. gave him no both married under the stress of a result, the Reds are increasing clue; it was walled against him. Sentence of one month's hard Now York, To-day-Eighty per excitement which then existed, not activities and the Japanese are Like a river of adamant it flowed past him in the streets. Never an labour was imposed on Li Yim, acent. of the American railroads realising that it was for life, and extending their hold on China.

The speaker also denounced the eye was turned upon him no voice young amah, by Mr. Q. A. A. liave voted to equip all freight cars that afterwards you both repented

American wheat and cotton loan, spoke to him. His heart yearned Macfadyen at the Central Magis- with new alr brakes manufactured of it." tracy this morning, for the theft of by the Westinghouse Air Brake The judge said he understood whose proceeds are not contribut for the clap of Pittsburg's Booty a gold necklace, valued at $50, the Company, thereby sharply increas that Norman was going back to ing to the material well-being of hand on his shoulder; for Chicago's property of her mistress, Li Yuk-ing the earning prospects of the Miss Barber Binding him over, he China, or serving any useful purmenacing but social yarp in his ching, of No. 116 Wellington Street, Company-United Press, per S. E. said to Norman "I hope you will pose, except the enrichment of feari

several individuals. "first floor."

be happy in the future.".

-Reuter,

BIG SPENDING VOTED BY

U.S. RAILROADS :

Levy and Company.

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