The Carter the Great Company arrived in Hong Kong from Bangkok yesterday. Mr. Carter is in the centre of the group. The whole Company will appear on the stage at the King's commencing on Wednesday, nightly at 9.30 p.m.
ROBBERY CHARGE↑ TELEPHONE USED IN
FAILS
· SEQUEL TO ATTACK ON WOMAN
FOUR TO THREE VERDICT AGAINST CONVICTION
•
SHOP FRAUD
Employee Gets Away
With 34 Tins
́TO MAKE RESTITUTION AND SERVE PRISON SENTENCE
The telephone was used to as-
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1935
To-day's Short Story.
Elephant's Feet
By F. W. Brooke
CITRAINED by the steamy, tion, they told themselves scornful- sultriness of the Suez Canal, ly, to regard marriage as a business splintered by the sizzling heat of proposition, a partnership, as it the Red Sea, it required but little were; if one sat down and calmly to produce the "Complete Col-discussed "things" it was impos- lapse;" then, as the Ordose sible to go wrong. Any couple whe approached Colombo Michael really understood love, psychological- kicked away over the traces by ly, as they did, wore assured of refusing to go on a curio-hunting success.
expedition. In the native quarter. Opportunities to test this fool- All previous quarrels paled into proof doctrine had arisen during nothingness before this all-embrace the honeymoon. He had put on 15. hg, nerve shattering brawl (there white collar to a striped, shirt and is no other word) which ended by had absolutely refused to change it, Michael stating that he would re- saying that he liked white collars. move his belongings ashore and leave her to continue the cruise alone.
"That's the first decent idea you've had since we left South- ampton." Helen flashed back.
ALLEGED MURDER Later, shaken and somewhat be
IN WANCHAI
Accused's Plea Of "Not Guilty"
TRAGEDY FOLLOWS FOOTBALL ENCOUNTER
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Sense Of Hamour," by Damon Runyon...
wildered Michael leaned over the rall of B deck and gazed unseening Then, temperatures slowly mount lly at the slow approach of the ing, they had suddenly remembered const-line. He marvelled that he and laughed, had sat down and could have made such a mistake. calmly discussed the matter; Helen, He reviewed the past three years, feaying that it "looked common." starting with that June morning Moreover, she hated the piebald when she had clung daintily to his effect," He assured her that a white arm in the steps of St. Margaret's, collar looked smart with any shirt. laughingly facing a barrage of pho He had changed the collar. Yip Ka, 29, of Ting Kun Village:
The next time things hadn't} Before His Hon. the Chieftographers and confetti-sprinkling in the New Territories, this moresist in the theft of 23 tins of lard, Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Macgregor, relatives. She had been a sweet worked quite so smoothly, and the ing entered a plea of not guilty valued at $114, from the Woo in the Supreme Court this morn thing then, all blue eyes and tender echo had reverberted unpleasantly, marring the otherwise blissful when charged at the Criminal Kee Shop, 1. Kee Cheung Street, ing, Lee Shing appeared on a solicitude. • Sessions before Mr. Justice R. E last month.
charge of murdering Lum Wing
serenity of the honeymoon. It had Lindsell, with robbery by two or The theft had its sequel at the by stabbing him with a knife, on They had started off with a sub-come as a distinct shock to him to 1934. Accused lime faith in their own · common learn that. Helen used lipstick. The more persons at Kowloon City on Central Magistracy this morn- October 28,
sense, Others might make a hash battle had ended with tears on one January G.
ing, when Ko Cheung, 21, a for-pleaded not guilty. Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, Assis-mer employee of the shop, was The jury was composed of the of it. But not they. Others might side and murmured apologies on the
over infinitesimal, other. Helen still used lipstick, tant Crown Solicitor appeared for sent to prison for one month by following:" Messrs. Frederick quarrel bitterly
The position had progressed to the Crown, while the accused was Mr. W. Schofield.:
Cope (foreman), Cheung Wah microscopical differences. But not unrepresented by counsel,
Detective-Sergeant Shepherd Sim, Liang Tak Chuen, S. A. they. If one only had the gump-increasingly bitter variances over anything and everything that offer- Counsel for the prosecution, ad-stated that between December 3 Rumjahn, A. I. Ribeiro, Pong
ed an opportunity for a clash of] dressing the Jury, said that the acand 23 last, telephone orders, Lui Kam, and Thomas A. Pierce. cused was charged with robbery, to-purporting to have come from Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant A
sonted itself, no matter; they man- gether with another man, at present the Tai Loi Pork Store, were re-torney-General, appeared for the
aged without one. unknown. On January 5, at about ceived by the complainants. Ac- Crown, while Mr. H. C. Mac- 6.30 p.m. while Yip Tai, an old cused, who was then employed as namara represented the accused. Chinese woman, a vegetable stall- a delivery coolic, was sent to de- Mr. Fraser stated that the mur European Woman Fined
dered man was employed as BESÍA-| holder, was on her way home she liver the lard.
On December 24, after receiv-tant by, a clausman who owned was set upon from behind by two men, neither of whom was she able ing his wages, accused abscond-hawker's stall in D'Aguilar Street. ed. He was seen and given into At two o'clock on October 28 he left cuatody by complainant last Sat-the stall to attend a football match urday in Kowloon. The lard had in Wanchal. He was never seen
沪
to see
Held By Throat
A
DOG'S ENTRY INTO wills. If no reasonable excuse pre-
MARKET
After Warning
“NOT GUILTY" PLEA
Summoned for permitting a dog
*
In desperation he had suggested this pleasure cruise. So far the venture had been a complete failure, culminating In the spectre of separation-divorce, perhaps.
And of all the ridiculous things to quarrel about. Michael told him-
While one of the men held her by been sold by accused to different alive again by his employer, to follow her. into the Tsim To self bitterly, surely a pair of ele the throat, the other snatched, a btores in the Colony. In addition At about six o'clock when the Tsui Market at 9:40 am. on Decem-phant's feet was the absolute limit! purse from her girdle. As the man to the prison sentence he was or-streets were crowded with people ber 29, Mrs. Keller, of No. 80, Mody Inanimate, senseless oddities, they holding her throat released her and dered by the magistrate to make returning from the football match, Road, was fined $10 by Mr. E. W. were, reserved and fashioned for made his escape, she raised an alarm restitution of a sum of $100, in the deceased was attacked in front Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- use as receptacles for umbrelles, by blowing a police whistle.
default, two months' further im- of houses 13-15 Queen's tracy this morning. A young Chinese girl standing a prisonment.
little distance away, hearing the
:
cries of "snatching", and "ave CHINESE WIZARDRY life," called the attention of two
AND SORCERY other men, who gave chase and cap- tured the accused.
When asked if he wished to make a statement accused replied, "I went out for a walk on Saturday night to look for a friend. I could not And that friend and then I heard police whistles. There was a chase, and I was taken to a police station."
East Learning From West-To-day
COMING DEMONSTRATION
AT KING'S THEATRE.
Road, East, by several men, Mrs. Keller, pleaded not guilty, clading a butcher's knife. It had to her. armed with various weapons, in- stating that the dog did not belong
walking sticks, and the like..
"But, Michael," she had protest
"If you think," he had declared, that I'm going to trail around those rowdy, smelly bazaars hunt- been said that the person with the Sanitary Inspector C. Strange ing for a pair of elephant's feet- knife was the accused. One of the stated that he was visiting the mar- you're making a mistake!" men held Lum Wing, while the ket on the morning in question when others attacked him. He WAN
he saw the defendant on the first ed, "we're only staying twenty-four stabbed in the left breast. The floor with the dog on a leash, te hours in Colombo. And I've always men made good their escape. went up and spoke to her and told admired those that Sylvia's brother The injured man managed to her that he was going to summons sent her. Think how nice they'll stumble along the road for a few her as It was not the first time be look, one on either side of the hall-
On door-you know.” yards, but then collapsed outside had spoken to her about it.
December 24 he said that he warned "Yes, I know," he had retorted Counsel said that in order for the
In China there are many Chung shop No. 9.
savagely. "And you might think jury to return of verdict of guilty, Ling Soos, but they, like the East
The occupants of the shop sent for her about it.
Mra. Keller then gave evidence how nice. I'll look carrying the be must first of all prove that the Indian, have nothing new to offer. police officer end Sergeant Whit accused took an active part in the In truth, in the realm of magic-croft appeared on the scene within stating that she had not known that wretched things around in this
a few minutes.
the dog was following her, and blistering heat!" crime.
There or abroad-there is little new Crown witnesses corroborated or startling. The science, Ike
An ambulance was sent for, but when the Inspector spoke to her the After the resultant scrimmage he counsel's statements, but after a music, has seven notes, but unlike the injured man died before it ar-was surprised to find the dog in had realised that this was the end
rived.
thore. She definitely denied that there could be no reconciliation. short retirement the jury returned music, its harmonies have been ex-
A a verdict of not guilty, by four voten hausted.
month later, on November. 28, the dog had been on a leash, but Oh, damn! Still, that was the There are no new prin-]]
best way out. Fortunate that to three.
ciples, inexplicable or awesome. As the police arrested the defendant admitted being warned previously.
make her a liberal and a few other men as they were The owner of the dog, Miss he was able with necromancy, so with necroman- cern. So says Carter the Great, disembarking from the Canton boat Sheila Haloes, who lives at the same allowance. They would be hap who with his box of tricks and as at 11 o'clock at night. The other address, was then called and stated pier apart. He would look about sistants will appear for seven nights men were discharged by the police that the dog usually followed the for a suitable hotel, then come back at the King's Theatre from Wednes. as there was insufficient evidence defendant. day next.
THEFT OF THREE PERAMBULATORS
One Month's Gaol For Each Stolen
BUYER OF ONE RECEIVES TWO MONTHS
Some old trick is oftentimes
dressed up freshly and passed for something new, or a small trick, the principle, whereof is as plaas; an Egyptian mummy, is converted into an illusion.
against them.-
Immediately upon his arrest the
accused was taken to No. 2 Police
Station, and there he was told the reason for his apprehension. Hej intimated that he wanted to make s [statement which Sergeant Fitches had taken down.⠀⠀⠀ For certain res- sons this statement could not at
BANISHED ROGUE RETURNS
Long Criminal Record But about magic there is always| a now factor; this is, the growing Appearing before Mr. EW and the new generation. They are present be disclosed.
SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS' Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis more difficult to fool that their pro murder and that was revenge.
There was only one motive for the HARD LABOUR tracy this morning on three genitors and more imposing appara- There was evidence to show that the
unemployed, was
I.F
for his things in the evening.
And wasn't It just possible that romance could be found in this sun- bathed land? According to all accounts it was a beautiful place!!! Cinnamon Gardens... Kandya Mount Lavinia Mount Lavinia?
Why, of coursal Fancy his forgotting Lois and Stephen lived somewhere near Mount Lavinia He had their address in his pocket- kood Good old Stephen
you
Come and see us if ever. our part of the world."
Hoi Village was this morning named-had echoed his words sentenced to thre
hard. years
eyes
Like
parate charges of stealing babica tus is required than in the days murder had some connection with Wong Man-yiu, 31, of Nam And Lola Gosh she was aptly perambulators, Li Wing-tak, 26. Anderson, the Wizard of the North, secret society.
sentenced to Maskalynė or Carl Hortz, but they Later on be was formally charged terms of hard labour totalling three are equally credulous, for the trend and made another statement. W labour, by His Honour the pansies oft would be
of the times makes for credulity and Lo Hang, 88, shop-fokl, who was (modernity of thought and innova nessee Dr Pringle, the deceased, Luigne Judge, Mr
clansman Sergeant Moray
months.
charged with receiving one of the tions of science bring along in their vehicles, was sentenced to two wake, the Investigator, the thought months hard labourful and erudite, hand, in hand with Deted Sergeant Daviess innocent and childish wonderment, the Water Police stated that the as personified in this and over re
with current and success
was arreste
his
China, the sine ngs giant boys out of
sell, at the Criminal
It
ber again. Now was the the being found guilty of a breach of tunit
byor) and Ser corroborate
the Departation Ordinance.
On December 15, 1988, accused
om the
10 year
abin to see Helen istress her:
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