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STUDENT'S THEFT OF
GOLD WATCH
Leave To Bring Evidence Of Character
BUT MAGISTRATE THINKS SENTENCE DESERVED
JANUARY 22, 1935.
HUGE STOCK PURCHASE ·
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In the last five years, it was brought out at the recent nation- al conference on crime at Wash- ington, there were 3,278 bank robberies in the United States, with losses amounting to more |than $16,000,000. It was estim- Appearing before Mr. E. Wated that some 12,000 citizens Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis-were murdered each year, 100,000 assaulted, 50,000 robbed and the
TO COMMEMORATE SILVER JUBILEE
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London, To-day. Building operations are about to tracy this morning, on behalf of homes of 40,000 burglarised. begin......... at · Burbil), Surrey, on Wong Lam-kiu, the 17-year-old From the enactment in July, "King's House, which is to be student who was sentenced to 1982, of the federal Lindbergh erected to a design by Mr. Beres two months' hard labour. by Mr.[law against kidnapping to the ford Marshall as a gift by the Hamilton on Saturday, January jarrest of Bruno Hauptmann last Royal Warrant Holders Associat 12, for stealing a gold watch September department of justicetion to commemorate His Majesty's from Fung Keung, a shop foli, agents investigated 29 abduction Silver Jubilee.
on June 4, Mr. Leo D'Almada, cases and with one possible ex-The scheme for building and sen., asked His Worship if he ception solved them all. would consider hearing evidence
for defendant's character.
Mr. D'Almada admitted. his client had been wrong in plead-
EUROPEAN IN COLLISION
A collision occurred in Shauldwan
equipping for the accommodation of such a person as the King might nominate, a small house, represen tative of the best that British ar- Chitecture, building and furnish- ing not guilty, and that he had Road at 9: p.m. yesterday when Mr. ing can produce had the advance also been wrong not to get any Gahagan's car, No. 1836, proceeding approval of His Majesty and pro- legal advice. He pleaded that the from east to west, collided with a minent architects were invited to defendant... had committed the lorry belonging to the Hop Hing submit designs, **.
offence in a moment's temptation. Factory close to the Folo Club. His The King and Queen made the He could produce many witnesses car was alightly damaged, but there final selection from three of these for the defendant's character, were no casualties.
such as his school teachers, the master of the place at which he
had been staying, and also his HOUSE-BREAKERS FRUSTRATED
father.
He then suggested a personal bond signed by the defendant and his father should be sufft- cient.
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All the doors, and windows being
locked they pulled the ladder up "If the boy had just taken the managed to get at an open window watch," said Mr. Hamilton, "on the second floor which was occa- would not have sentenced him, a pied by Mr. and Mrs. Tam.. bond would have been sufficient; Mrs. Tam was then awakened by
which had been set aside by Sir Girles Gilbert Scott, President of
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but as he showed such a skilful the noise they made in attempting the National Institute for the mind as to have the watch to steal an overcoat with a bamboo Blind, three Transatlantic shipping changed, I think the sentence is pole.
lines have agreed to allow a blind deserved."
She silently woke Mr. Tam, who person and an accompanying guide] His Worship, however, agreed sprang up and seized the pole, using to travel at the reduced rate of 75 to hear the evidence as to char-his strength to push it outwards, percent. of the normal fare, acter, stating that he would not He heard a crash which indicated The companies granting the con- release the defendant before that the thieves fell down, and Im-cession are the Cunard-White Star, three weeks. He fixed the hear-mediately ran down to the ground the Canadian Pacific Railway, and ing for Saturday next.
Boor, but the robbers had fled. Ithe United States Lines.
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SIX VESSELS TO RESCUE London, to-day-Fire brokeo the British oil-tanker Valverda, A vessel of 8,807 tons, in mid-Atlantic Yesterday, and, in response to wire Jess calls for immediate help merchantmen of various ationall- gold currencies. — Reuter,
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Swiss centres had offered
but later cancelled all gold gold against French francs,
sales,
ties are reported to be teaming
with all speed to the scene
Reporta state
the British Navy are also.
to the Valverda's assista them being
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Ships of engine room was gut
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