DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT
$3,300 Awarded To
Local Firm
AMAH WAYLAID AND ROBBED Strange Incident On Pokfulam Road.
An extraordinary tale has been related to the police by Tan Fun, a 33-year-old wash amah, employed by Mrs. Sayers, Elliott Filterbed
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1937.
DRUG CREATES
CONFIDENCE
THINKING SPEEDED
UP
DOCTORS HELPED IN EXAMINATIONS
Judgment, with costs, were award- ed Messrs. Peterson and Company by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Quarters.
A recently introduced drug, which At 7.35 p.m. yesterday, she stated, is said to produce a general psy- MacGregor, at the Supreme Court this morning when they claimed a she was accosted by two men in chological stimulation with no harm- ful reaction except a temporary ten- sum of $3,309.39 from Ho Yun-Pokfulam Road, one of whom Ɖad- dressed her in English, seized her kwong, trading as Tai Shing, for a
and put his hand across her mouth dency to sleeplessness, is described breach of contract.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara appeared for and then proceeded to
while the other pulled her down, in the "British Medical Journal" by Dr. Emil Guttman, Rockefeller. Re- drag her plaintiffs, but the defendant
twenty yards along a forestry path, search Fellow, and Dr. William Sar- not legally represented.
Here, they bound and gagged her, gant, of the Maudsley Hospital, Lon- don. It is benzedrine, a coal-tar The action alleged failure to de-tied her by her hair to the stump
derivative. liver a cargo of gall nuts, for which of a tree and robbed her of $35. defendant entered into a contract with the plaintiff firm.
was
scuffle were later
Defendant maintained that he was merely a salesman of the defendant firm for whom he signed the con-police. tract.
Mr. H. Arfas, senior partner of
found
by
in-
Its chief physiological effect is She released herself later and
to a reported the incident to her master. to raise the blood pressure A pair of ear-rings lost in the marked degree. Psychologically it
the produces increased confidence,
itiative, ease in making decisions, talkativeness. The authors declare: Thinking processes appear to be speeded up without impairing at- tention, concentration. or judgment
the plaintiff firm, said that defen- ABORTIONIST
dant told him that he had an ex-
port and import business under the SENT TO PRISON
name of Tai Shing and could sup- ply witness with gall 'nuts.
SEVEN ALLEGED ROBBERS
Important Week-End Police Captures
Woman Taken Very
Medical colleagues and others who have themselves taken benze- drine have found it of definite value in such tasks as lecturing or taking an examination.
It also helps
Kwok Sa Ho, a married woman,fatigue brought on move mental
excessive
those
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was sentenced to six months' im-work or worry. Important inter- prisonment by Mr. W. Schofield at views of various kinds have been the Central Magistracy when she tackled more confidently than usual pleaded guilty to having supplied or under benzedrine, especially procured for Yu Lan-fong, a marri-requiring quick thought and ability ed woman a mixture, knowing that to talk convincingly and fluently. : Sentence of 12 weeks' hard lab- it was intended to be unlawfully
dis- In depressive psychological
our was passed at Stratford police- The Police have arrested a gang used with intent to procure a mis-orders the drug has been found court on three seamen found guilty of alleged armed robbers who are
carriage.
valuable, especially those of a re of combining to disobey lawful com- accused of the robberies at the
liner Chief Detective Inspector
It is particularly mands, in the Union Castle J.current nature. Sheung Shan Restaurant No 121,
that the Wellington Street on June the Murphy said
woman useful at the end of a depression: Llandovery Castle. 1,
was per-"It may enable a patient to start
The case was a sequel to the ac- Kam Wah cafe on May 14, and an on whom the operation unnumbered hut in Wong Chuk formed had a large family and was work or take the initial steps to cident to the liner in Spanish waters Hang village, Aberdeen, on May.9. not keen to have any more children social readjustment earlier than on February 25, when she struck
a submerged mine or a torpedo. Seven men were charged before as she had not the means of sup-without it."
Vendres, After repairs at Port Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis-porting them.
France, it was stated, the ship was tracy with taking part in these rob- the defendant and had engaged her beries and with conspiring together for the operation. The defendant Benzedrine may be bought at any prepared to go to sea again, but the on or before June 3 to commit visited the house of crimes of violence. defendants were further charged ture to drink.
The spokesman alleged that the with possessing a revolver and am- As the result of the mixture the say: "This seems inadvisable with
ship was not safe, and declared that munition and a three cornered dag-woman became very ill and her a drug all the properties of which they would not sail without a bonus husband called in a doctor. It was have yet to be fully investigated." and their discharge at Marseilles or found that a miscarriage had taken An eminent psychiatrist, who has Genoa.
The master told the men that no place. The woman was sent to the used the drug on himself and on
showed Yeung Wo Nursing Home and was his patients, that he was in em- bonus would be paid "and · discharged yesterday.
phatic agreement with this view. them a certificate of the vessel's sea-
"There is little danger of addic-worthiness.
ger.
of She had heard
Too Easy Sale
Three of the June 1, and gave the the woman on chemists without a prescription; engineers" staff sent a deputation to woman a mix- and while the drug does authors
The defendants were remanded in Police custody for three days at the request of Sub-Inspector L. Whant, who said that the case against some of them may be heard for com- mittal.
SPORTS CUPS GIVEN BY: HAILE SELASSIE
to be habit-forming, the
the captain.
I
Inspector J. Murphy added that cases like this were common in the tion," he said, "since too large doses On February 26 each man indivi- Colony, but if the operations were produce sleeplessness, palpitations, dually was ordered to his task, but
and a disagreeable all refused. successful the Police were not in-breathlessness, formed.
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gave at the College, school Prince
NEGRO M.P. THROWN OUT OF TRAIN
Mr. Arthur Mitchell,
Harvard educated at
feeling of disquiet. But there cer- Consequently they were all paid tainly seems grave risk in it for off and substitutes had to be en- anyone whose blood-pressure is gaged. already too high.
The men sentenced were: Walter
The Emperor Haile Selassie two cups for competition
"I regard it as a very valuable Carr, of Cranbrook-road, Waltham- athletic sports of King's
emergency drug. It alleviates some stow; Thomas Frederick Dougal, of and Taunton, at the preparatory
psychological conditions, and I have Downing-road," Dagenham, of which his youngest son,
lawyer had good results in certain types of Henry Pugh, of Fanshaw-crescent, Sahle Selassie, is a pupil.
University, paralysis. The drug seems to make Dagenham. All pleaded not guilty.
West The Emperor attended the sports who sits for a Chicago constituency the nerves more sensitive, and so It was mentioned that at and presented his cups, which were
in the House of Representatives, is able better to carry their messages Ham on Thursday another member engraved with
of the crew was sentenced to six the
of America's only negro Congressman. to the brain. arms Ethiopia, to the successful com This, he alleges, did not prevent
"It is useful for adolescents who weeks' hard labour; a number were him being thrown out of a Pull- petitors.
are morbidly introspective, suspi-on bail from the Thames court, and Prince Sable Selassie was placed man carriage on his way to Hot cious, and shy. It is also used as warrants were out for the arrest
reduc-of others all on similar charges. second in the 100 yards preparatory Springs. Arkansas, in the South, an effective inhalant for school under 10 years flat race.
ride in a "day ing inflammation of the mucous Defendants all stated that they other negroes. membrane.
e. Normal people should had nothing to say. He is now suing – two railway take it only rarely and for some Mr. R. M. Hewett, the chairman: Dr. H. H. Kung, the. Chinese companies and the Pullman Co. for special reason, with their doctor's You caused an enormous amount of Vice-Premier, left. Paris for Bel- £10,000 damages-- gium on Saturday, and Admiral Chen Shao-fun, the Chinese Navy Minister, invited by the Italian Naval Ministry to inspect the Italian Navy, left Paris for Rome' on the same day.
Fred Robson, the Addington Club golf professional, slipped on a flight of stone steps at Saunton, Devon, and broke a leg.
and being told
coach" with the
rarely seen King's Spring, Bath's hot waters, is to be
Pump Room.
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