To-day's Short Story.
A Set-up For Psychology
By Peter Cheyney
AMES don't have any gratian unfair advantage an” a piece
Damme concha you will see of lead pipe.
THE CHINA WATLAWEDNES
CONVICTION
NOT ALLOWED
TO STAND
Successful Appeal By
Govt. Interpreter
[UNSATISFACTORY SUMMING UP if you take one look at **The point is," says Billy, "that Sadie Perrosino who used to these two guys have gotta fight In the Fall Court of Appeal, work the frankfurter stand in and they have gotta fight good" before His Honour the Chief Schmid's speak-easy on Grape- He says he don't want any of Justice, Sir Atholl McGregor,[ street an who ditched me for this lying down in the ring an' and Mr. J.J. Hayden, Mr. H. C some travellin' salesman with sleepin', because, three weeks ago, Macnamara. instructed by Mr. wavy hair ant no sense of the his patrons have almost torn the M. K. Lo, lodged an appesi on proper thing. -
place to pieces over some guy behalf of an interpreter in the Sadie is a blonde with an appeal gettin' knocked out almost before Sanitary Department. Cheong that will knock your eye out the fight started.
Hing-U. who was convicted on August 20 on a charge of hav- ing accepted a bribe of $50; as a public servant.
Also, she has a great business I tell Billy that this is all right; sense and is educated so that she that I got a big idea; an" he asks can hand you out a frankfurter, a where did I get it from, to which wisecrack an' some good advice I reply that I got it out of this In his opening to-day Mr. Mac- whilst you are trying to find the psychology book.
namara briefly described the case ten-cent bit that is stuck in the That evenin', about six o'clock, and went on to say that at the lining of your pocket.
I go an I find MGuiz in a beer trial there had only been two wii-
one 22-
I am stuck on Sadie for years, cellar on Twenty-second-street. Hejnesses against the appellant, and and my intentions towards her are is drinking rye, whisky with his these were an individual who said absolutely on the ‚up an" up...be-manager and is looking very de- that he had preferred a bribe to cause she gets me all poetic and I pressed. We get down to business the appellant, and the other was desire nothin' so much than tojan" I tell these boys that I'm out a man who said that he had been marry this girl and go off to to fix up a fight between M'Guiz present at the time as an inter- Arizona with her. That bein" the an" Delarez and that M’Guiz need preter. These two men had given only State in that part of America not bother his head about trainin' evidence, and as witnesses for the where the District Attorneys are because I have already arranged Crown had contradicted not always tryin' to find out where that Delarez shall lay down in the other and what had previously I am for the purpose of pulling third round after a right book been said. me in for something they allege I from M'Guiz.
"The learned trial judge in his must have done at some, old time I say that there's not very much ruling said that the case for the around their particular dump. - to it from the money angle, as the defence was in their favour and
purse is only goin' to be two the case for the Crown hundred dollars a side, the winner their favour. He held, though for any guy without capital to take the lot, but it's easy money with considerable doubt, that the which is the sort of guy I am for them, because all they have to Crown witnesses were not, accom She also says that I should go get do is to back M'Guiz to win. myself a lot of personality an brains like her friend. Willie Tobolsky, the travellin" salesman
So I get very hurt when she tells me that she ain't got no use
who is a smart guy.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Best Policy." by Anthony Armstrong.
plices.
Was
in
They think this is -kig idea.
"The fact that the witnesses can but I tell them they must be very be accused of some other crime. careful about gettin' the bets on does not make them any the less because, so far as Billy-the-Goat participators in this one." Counsel is concerned, this is goin' to be a concluded.
straight out-an'-out fight to aj Threatened Into Bribery
finish. an' I've practically guar- anteed that one of the guys is goin" to be killed in the ring.
The upshot of it is that they (ask me will I do the backin' for them quietly, an, after a lot of pressin", I consent to back M'Guiz This Willie Tobolsky runs a rac- with some friends of mine for ket selling gas refrigerators on seven hundred dollars, which they one instalment down to dames go an” borrow off some guy who who, according to his friend in the has had a lot of rye whisky an” is supply office, are about to have the not, very interested in anythin^. gas cut off, after which he collects I then take a walk an' I find the refrigerator an" lets em off Delarezza' I tell him the same
story, only the arrangement the rest of the payments.
Sadie says that this Willie make with him is that M'Guiz is Tobolsky was as big asap as me goin' to be beat in the third round. until he read a book called Psycho-I also tell Delarez that he must logy an Power. She said I ought be very careful how he backs him to read this book ad get wise an self, as this idea of mine must be that if I had a thousand dollars kept very quiet. capital she would marry me. In
spite of my face an the fact that
the District Attorneys of seven
(Continued on Page 10)
different States have got a decided TAIPO SLANDER
interest in where I am at ans given moment.
So I get this book an read it,
ACTION
and it seems that this psychology $250 And Costs Against stuff is a business what tells you. what another guy is thinkin' about
that is, supposin he does think
already.
One Defendant
Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, who appeared on behalf of the Crown, said that before the two witnesses
for the Crown can be regarded as accomplices, it must be shown that they are liable to be indicted, either together with the appellant or separately, with the same affence with which the appellant is charged.
"The principle witness for the Crown was threatened into offer- ng a bribe, and there is no evid ence that he offered it warrant- ably," the Crown concluded.
In answer to the Crown's con- tentions, Mr. Macnamara said that the learned trial judge in his! summing up had made no mention as to whether the witnesses were accomplices or not.
Judgment Given
In giving judgment the Chief
Justice said: "The appellant in this case was convicted on August 20 for accepting a bribe as 2] public servant: Leaving out of] account certain purely formal evidence, it would appear from the learned trial judge's notes, and it
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(Continued from. Page 1) French circles report that Count "WHITE GUARDS" Mr. Dundas and Mr. Walden de Roquestille. the later informed Mr. Hull that the manager of the East African Co., company had decided to withdraw has been arrested on Jijiga from the concession. T
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STANDARD VACUUM VIEWS A statement issued on behalf Consal, M. de Ridawa, has gone
to Jijigs to investigate. of the Standard Vacuum Oil Co,!" ABYSSINIA STANDS FIRM Ltd, declares that Mr. Rickett An Addis Ababa message states approached them early in 1935 that the Government is not dis- regarding the possibility of nego posed to change its attitude tiating, a petroleum exploitation garding the concession awards. has not been disputed by counsel Interviewed about the prin-development with Ethiopia
• CHINA "MAIL.” SPECIAL" It affirms in an official communique I then get a big idea and go After several hearings ex-for the Crown, that the evidence ciples that guided them in The company organised the that it acted within its full sover-
Moscow, To-day. round and tell Sadie all about it, tending over a period of three against the appellant was that of evolving the machinery of the African Exploration and Develop eign rights in granting a concession
Three former officers of and she says it is good an' that months, the Taipo Village the two witnesses. Ma Shing, who type with which the pilotment Co., Ltd, in Delaware and the book is beginning to work slander action was concluded had admittedly paid the money Duennebell achieved the first authorised him to negotiate the exclusively of an economic charac-Czarist army, described as "mem ter, designed to assist the develop official report, have been sentenc bers of the White Guard” in the before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the which formed the bribe, and Sin successful air flight driven agreement This does not ment of the country. I then go round to see Billy-the-Puisne Judge, in the Supreme Chek shui, who acted as interpre solely by human muscular vide for any payment or loan, nor With regard to the suggestioned to death by a Court Martial at Goat, an in case you don't know Court this morning.
ter between the two parties and power, the engineers Haesler has any been made. The matter that the concession is contrary to Irkutck. who he is, he is the guy who runs The case against the first de-actually received the money from and Villinger, declared that they has been handled as a private the 1906 treaty, the communique A semi-official news agency de- prize fights at Spitzler's Stadium. fendant. Lee Sang, was dismiss Ma Shing and handed it over to the had not spent much time in transaction with Ethiopia, which |
Now most of these fights thated with costs, but judgment was appellant. wtfaster theoretical speculation, but bad did not think of consulting and says that Ethiopia is not a party clares that in the course of the thereto, while the British Govern-ial the territorist activities of Billy runs is set-ups. They're in given against the second defen- "The appellant bases his case on gone straight to work along the other Government. the bag an everybody knows who dant, Lee Kwai-sang, for $250 these grounds: That the leamed lines which seemed to them, as President Roosevelt, informed ment, which is a party, is not in-the members of the White Guard and their foreign employers were is goin' to win about two days be- and costs.
trial judge was wrong in holding skilled engineers, to promise the by phone, said he was most grati-volved directly or indirectly in the
entirely exposed. It was further fied at the decision, because the concession. fore the fight eames of. The re- The action was a claim by that neither of the witnesses was greatest prospects of success.
TO-DAY'S MEETING
alleged that the condemned ex- sult is that business is very bad Chang Ah-tai alas Mrs. Lee an accomplice, and accordingly "There might, they said, "he grant was so upsetting to the
A Geneva message states that officers maintained relations with for Billy
Yau, for $1,000 damages for neither of them needed corrobora-other possibilities for utilising peace negotiations. Reuter.
the Council will meet privately at the military commission of a car- I then proceeded to tell Billy slanderous remarks made by tion
muscular power than the use of US POLICY UNCHANGED that I have got a big idea to fix up the defendants on the occasion “For these reasons the summing feather-light glider with a pedal
A later message states that the Pm to-day, when the agenda fortain foreign PowerTrans-Ocean Ethiopian concession -to
the first session will be settled Service. thei a fight between Willy MGaiz, of her marriage on March 14 up was unsatisfactory and the con-propeller. Nobody has yet gather African Exploration Corporation The meeting will be followed im- commonly known as the East SideIt was alleged that the defen-viction cannot stand Mr. Hay-led any experience in muscular Terror, an' Ike Delarez, who is a dant then said that she was un-den concurred with what His Lord-driven fight. The chief thing in will play no part whatever in the mediately by a public session tough guy lately resigned from the chaste and pregnant, and trou-ship said.
proceeding along the lines adopted United States attitude towards An Addis Ababa messa beer racket over an argument with ble ensued in which her hus
by us was to construct an appar-
the Italo-Ethiopian situation, an a cop, which the cop won by usin' band and Lee Kwai-sang brand-LAND SURVEYING Jatus that with the pilot is so zhrnounced Mr. Cordell Hullnounces that all Italian wond
that it may be started by musco- added that whatever the nature exodus of men conti CORPS
lar power alone plus the energy of the transaction may prove to bout
be, either commercially or politi- CHINESE COOLD stored up in taut rubber bands. Transferred To Finance ESSENTIAL FACTOR cally, the Government's policy, tó- A essage
-“The essential part played 37 wards the controversy will be that it is repo Department
weight is apparent from the fact maintained hereafter just as it that the Ital that the heaviest flying creature is would have been maintained had Chinese Canton, To-day hardly a sinh or even an eighth the transaction not occurred “ to Its The Kwangtung land surveying of the minimum weight achieved. He reiterated that the concession corps, which was formerly under in building this the control of the Civil Affairs important matte Bemarking that the man Department of the Provincial Gor- pulatin tain Cecil Boyd Shamon, of Mar- may have thought that the back erament, has now been transfer- ble Hall, Kowloon, the son of of the station was the entrance red to the Fiance Departme Major William Boyd Shannon, for coolies to visit prisoners in The star of that corps will D.S.O was married to Miss Edith the cells, Mr. E. L Wyn future work under the Kate Hetherington, the daughter Jones discharged a Chin
Finance Departa
REGISTRY WEDDING Capt. Shannon Married To Miss Hetherington
In the Begistry of Marriages,{ Supreme Court, this morning, be- fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, Cap-
of Mr. Frierd. Joseph
ton.
Stafe
Mrs Stokes
hours ending fuch
has beer 5* Can average of
ished knives.
TRESPASSER DISMISSED
Logical Error In Police Compound
hering-male named Chung Yau-hewn
who was charged at the
nd loon Magistraty this
with trespassing in the
pound of the Water Police Sta
rday:
stated that he
dire
who
Another had been negotiated without the
of Government's cognisance."
"DISQUIETING INCIDENT.
message from London states that on the eve of the League.
ry into the Abyssinian.
a disquieting personal incid reported from Addis A cord
ITALIANS LEAVE CAPITAL
Children have lett-Abyssh
Charged with harbouring an 18-year-old unmarried girl named el-sin between August 13 24 without the consent of her a 23-year-old Chinese, Cheng Lok-wing, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour by Mr. E
Fones at the Kowloon Court this morning,
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