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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 12, 1940
REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS.
THE FRENCH
In the days when "Little Old New York" was more like an over- grown village than a great nietro- polis, a story from real life was enacted which combined all of the elements of anger, murder, love, ro- mance and suicide.
The captain of a ship plying be- tween New York and New Orleans had been detained at the dock after the usual salling time. On the day the vessel was to start on its long- deferred voyage the attention of the officer was attracted by strong stench coming from the hold. An examination proved that it came
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from a large pine box marked for a New Orleans address. It was open- ed and the shocked workers were
METHOD
|INDIA'S ANSWER TO WAR CALL
London, To-day. From almost every district of India reports continue to be received that there is no lessening of the desire, so clearly shown by the bulk of the Indian people in the early days of the war, to render such assistance as they can.
Countless numbers have offered themselves for enlistment and many have had to be refused, even if only temporarily.
To meet the overwhelming res- ponse and mitigate disappointment,
confronted by the partly decomposed { mises, but said he was out of work an explanation has once again been
body of a man.
After a long investigation it was identified as the remains of Samuel Adams, a printer with a shop on lower Broadway. He had been miss- ing for a week-and this was the result. Adams was a close friend of
-By
GEORGE BARTON
a
Jumes C. Coles, New York business man and John Howard Pay- ne. They were naturally interested in the investigation. Another person who followed the case closely Caroline Henshaw, a beautiful who was engaged to marry Coles.
FOUND IT IN HALLWAY
was
girl
The first important discovery came with the location of the expressman who had carried the box to
and was looking for a job. Chief Byrnes now resolved to try the He French method on the suspects. ordered them to go to the morgue for the purpose of viewing the re- mains and placing their hands on the
what remained of it. corpse-or The tramp went through the cere- mony without flinching, but the ex- pressman showed traces of nervous- ness. But he did as he was told. But when Coles' turn came he re- fused to look at the body. When pressed to do so he let out a wild shriek.
"I did it," he Adams."
cried, "I killed
MOTIVE LEAKS OUT
He confessed that he had become Involved in a business quarrel with the printer and struck him violently, When Adams fell his head struck the hammer on the floor and he died almost instantly. Terrified, Coles hid the body in the box and lugged
it down into the hallway from whence the
steamer. He said he found it in the hallway of the building occupied by Coles. He had taken similar pack- ages to the boat and us the address was duly stencilled on the box he took it for granted that it was to go to the ship.
issued by the authorities in India, showing many important respects in which the present war differs from the last one.
During the early days of the war, it is explained, many thousands of Indian soldiers were brought into full army service.
LARGE INTAKE
These included newly enlisted men reservists and members of mobilised Territorial units, and the large intake was fully adequate for India's re- quirements at the time.
It must also be borne in mind that the enlistment of greater numbers than are really necessary might en- tail interference with India's industries and with agriculture. British. Wireless.
vital
Page 21 NORTH RIVER CROSSED
Shiukwan, To-day. The Chinese have crossed the North River and are driving south.
One Chinese column is pushing to- ward Synkai, 17 miles north of Nganchanngau, while another is mov- Canton by way of Lungtong and ing toward Paknal and Cheknal by way of Shekkok, and Kwoktal.
Some 3,000 Japanese are surround- ed between Naganchanngau and Shekkok.-Central News,
A Wise Precaution When Travelling.
Travellers often experience a tem- porary derangement of health due to the changed routine of daily life, change of air and change of diet. When travelling, therefore, it is a wise pre- caution to carry a vial of Pinkettes with you, whereby speedily to restore normal intestinal regularity and healthy well-being.
Pinkettes have a
gentle laxative action and neither gripe nor purge; they dispel constipation, tone up the KIANGSI CELEBRATES headache, help keep the skin free from liver, banish biliousness and sick
it had been carted away by the in-hsien yesterday afternoon in celebra-lence, correct drowsiness, banish irri- nocent expressman.
Kian, Kiangsi, To-day, pimples and blemishes, purify_the A mass meeting was held in Kan- breath, aid digestion, prevent flatu- tion of the recent Chinese victory in Pinkettes keep you cheery and well. tability and depression.. In short, had north Kwangtung. Central News.
What followed after Coles been sentenced to death was even more sensational, Caroline Hen- shaw insisted on marrying Coles the night before the execution. John An examination of the remains Howard Payne was the best man. proved that the skull had been But when they went to the cell of fractured. Coincident with this. dis- the condemned man the next morn- covery was the finding of a hammering they found him a corpse. In the shop of Coles which correspond-had stabbed himself to death.
ed with the mark on the skull of--He had cheated the gallows, - the dead man.
A further fact that interested the investigators was the finding of bits of wood in the place which seem- ed to be fragments of the box.
Coles waved these supposed clues astide, saying that even If correct they did not necessarily connect him with the crime. His reasoning was not illogical and the expressman was subjected to a further cross- examination. It proved useless be- cause he persisted in his statement that he was utterly unaware of the dreadful contents of the box which he had hauled away simply as part of the day's work. The only weak- ness in his statement was his ad- mission that he had carried it away without orders or authority from any
one.
who had been
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INDIA'S GIFT TO TURKEY
London, To-day.
He
As a token of the deep sympathy of the Government and peoples of India in the terrible calamity that has overtaken Turkey, the Govern- ment of India have presented one thousand tents to the Turkish Gov- ernment for the help of victims of the earthquake disaster.
The tents are being shipped imme- A third person
diately to Egypt for onward trans- picked up as a suspicious character mission according to the wishes of the was also grilled. He admitted that Turkish Government. - British Wire- he had been hanging about the pre- less.
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