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JOHN CLARKE'S CASEBOOK
Research Matter
COMETIMES"
man's
profession moulds him
almost as clearly as soot marks a sweep or
storie-
dust a quarryman. In the case of Charles it was so.
The long years he has spent working on research into the causes and towards the cure of disease show in the slow, de ments of his hands, in the pre
liberate, almost delicate
move-
with which he chooses
words, and in his air of patience deliberation that attracted the Ho sow Charles standing by a station bookstall, watched as he took a paper-back book and thumbed through its pages, saw him put the book into a bag and walk away without offering to pay for it.
The policeman followed
It was, perhaps, this slow policeman
"You've a Charles, mught up, book in your bag that you've taken from the stall and not: paid for," he said.
"Oh dear," said Charles, "yes, that's right. May I be allowed
DOW?" arresting you'
to
L
"Oh please give me grace," Charles said.
CHINA
∙1345
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1955.
STARTS INSTANTLY“
NEVER MISSTES
OUR AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER "Pete" The Alleged Pickpocket The Royal Easter Legless.
Show Again In All Its Glory
FROM H. KING WOOD
Budgerigar
By Staff Reporter
SHEAFFER'S
CLICKER
MEDIUM & FIRE
· BALLPOINTS AVAILABLE
Says 2 Days. For
Money Was His Own
In the Victoria District Court this morning, Ng Kai-man, charged with picking the pocket of a tram passenger, maintained that the money
For six months past the was his own. PG Farm at Aberdeen has attracted visitors nature lovers and curiosity seekers dropping in while on week- end trips.
According to Insp. K. Bodle Questioned by Judge A. D. the complainant, Lee Pok-sang, Scholes, the complainant sald Sydney, Apr. 6.
a photographer of the Blue Sky that be noticed, his money, miss- "The Greatest Show on Earth”
touch at his the third classing when he felt the Royal
Studio, was on compartment of a tram car on pociont. On the way to the Easter Show is on again in all its glory, and
the morning of March 12 with Police Post be counted his the wealth, size and beauty of rill classes of exhibits
The attraction? Not the pea- $4 of his own in one packet and money and found that out of the
immigrant from gives no inkling that in the vital weeks before the monkeys, but a little $38 of his firm's it a back hip 338 he bad only $8 remained.
Australia-ā
The pocket.
tram conductor, Shul-shing, also testified that hand some of the best agricultural areas in the chattering budgerigar.
There are budgerigars aplenty
the accused showed the in the Colony but little "Pete"
plainant a few $1 denying that State were hit by the worst floods on record.
he had picked his pocket. hatched without legal
The case is proceeding.
This thriving, bustling Show city already is drawing record crowds, in spite of the weather and worries about shows of the future are again being unearthed.
The Show, on the outskirts of
Australian the latest wool re-
was different. You ses he was
Although "Pete" had difficulty
in hopping out of his shell and making his way about till he could fly he persevered and survived--much to the surprise of his keepers.
When he could flap his wings and take off "Pete" would fy to the top of his roomy cage and hold on to a trapeze wire with his beak.
MEAL TIME PROBLEM
Meni times presented a special problem, but plucky "Pete" re- mained undaunted.
«As his mama and papa and many neighbours swooped down to feast Pete would surrender his grip on the wire and pide down with wings outspread to make an effective if somewhat
As the tram passed the traffic lights at the Pedder Street Junction, Lee went to the plat form
to in readiness alight, There were the conducter and two other men, including the
accused, on the platform.
Lep felt a touch on his hip pocket and turried to
ect the accused putting some money into his own packart. He challenged the accused who denied having picked his packet
complainant caught hold of the When the tram stopped the aimed and together with a Police Reserve constable, they went to the Queen's Road Pollice Post for the accused to be searched. In the pocket indicated by the complainant the Police found three $10 notes which the compliant claimed to have lost.
Wi
COM-
AMAH ROBS
MISTRESS
A 24-year-old amah, Chan Wai-lin, pleaded guilty before
Evidence Changed His Plea
A
Faced with witnesses from the Police Identification Bureau, a convicted burglar, Chan Fai, alias Wong Kit in the Victoria Diskiet · Court this morning admitted that he had three pre-
vious convictions for house- breaking and not one, and that be also had previous convictions for larceny and assaulting the Police.
Chan,
2 Repeating Meal Fraud
one of the men who had $10 Tung Wing-ming, · · 20--- sent to him by "Mr Anony mous" to settle the account for a meal on April 4-was sentenced to two days", im» prisonment by Mr T. Cree don at Kowloon Court this morning for obtaining credit by fraud.
When sentencing the deten- *** dant, Me Creedon warned him that he "can't carry
on like this* Defendant's bond of $100 for 12 months, which he signed. similar offence, on April 4 for a was ordered to stand.
Defendant
appeared before and was
Mr Creedon yesterday. whether he could obtain the remanded until today to sea money to settle the bill of $1.30, the price of his unpaid meat taken or April 10. On this oc- casion, he consumed a bowl of ice, meat balls and tea at the Yat Pun
Restaurant, Hung Castle Peak Road. cn April 1 pleader! THE FIRST OFFENCE", Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central this, guilty to a charge of house- Tung came before Mr Creador morning to stealing $360 fram breaking and two of stealing, on April 4 because he had in- her employer by substituting an but he only admitted one precurred a bill of $8.60 and had empty money jar for one con- vious conviction of horebreak-no money to pay the restaurant. taining the money. She was ing. He was accused of having His case was reported in the sentenced to three months' in- broken into the third floor of China Mail, and a reader sent prisonment.
62 Benham Strand, East, on $10 to
to the be forwarded According to the Prosecution, March 11 aut to have stolen a Magistracy to settle the account. In evidence the complainant the complainant, Leung See, of suit and a fountains poor from From the $10, the su from France, y landing within inches of said that Ng was the only one 27 Pokkulam Road, second floor, the occupant of that floor and $6.60 was, deducted for settle- standing behind him. on the kept her money in a jar which $23 from the occupart of the ment of the bill, while the platform. When he accused him, stood on a cupboard in her first floor.
balance was given to Ho Yin- Pete lived
and of having stolen his money, Ng room. She discovered that the frolicked with halls friends; took a few $1 sotes from a lar was empty on March 27, and sentence until this morning for
Jurige A. D. Scholes postponed piu, the second defendant In that case, to be shared with happy and quite accustomed to different pocket and showed suspected the amah. his deformity till a few
days him that the money was not his. The Police were informed and the Police to prove Chan's Tung.
criminal record
Tung told Mr Creedon the ago when an eager visitor found Ng did not show him the money the defendant, when arrested, Pete's wire swaying empty in he ad
Having admitted his previous following day that he had not seen him put into admitted switching an empty jar convictions. Chan wanted to seen his idend and therefore he the breeze.
another pocket.
for the one with the money know why the charges had did not get his share of $3.10. Chan used the money to buy multiplied since he appeared two gold rings, a wrist watch before the Magistrate. and two suits of clothing,
An international textile re- the city, and jam-packed into search conference will be held 75 acres, cannot spread. Ideas in this country in August and of taking it away from its cen- September this year. Leading tral position and out to the bush wool scientists from the British will not be entertained by the Commonwealth and the United RAS authorities so the show is States
will meet going to grow upwards.
scientists to discuss Sir Frank Berrymanı, now developedments in the Society's chief Executive search. officer
lifetime in the after a
conference, which
is army, said this week that all being spot
sponsored by the Com future
plans building
within monwealth Scientific and Indus- the showground will allow for tal Research
Organisation tall buildings which at the best (CSIRO) and the Australian will only be a respite, anyway. Wool Bureau, will be the
Arst As a sequel to the Bloods, farm of its kind held in this country equipment orders worth at least and delegates
£1,000,000 are expected to be Germany, Sweden, and.. Japan taken during the 10 days of the are also expected to attend. display. Manufacturers believe that damage caused by the food will skyrocket sales of chinery,
Arrangements are being made for overseas visitors to visit wool ma-growing areas and see something of the problems of wood produc- tion at first hand,
NEW RECORDS Meanwhile it's the old story of records.....exhibits worth on
more
that £3,500,000
are
The conference will begin in Sydney and will centre around the three CSIRO wood textile research laboratories at Sydney, Geelong and Melbourne,
MENTAL ABERRATION T the police station Charles A was ordered to
turn out his' pockets. He did so and out came, among other things, `a quarter-pound packet of coffee, two small spirit-levels, a pen knife and two pairs of shoe-] laces, a plastic clothes peg.o Easter-egg and a flimsy yellow scarf, all brand new goods.
"Where do you get these?" the police asked.
I was in
#Charles aid and named a store near
display....mor thank exhibit entries were the station. "I suppose I got
officials say the display of them there. I have a mental
pure-bred anima's, birds aberation, I would have re-
industrial machinery is the turned them. I've done this
a greatest ever....some of the Last week this year's read sort of thing before, and
cattle are
than more
deaths reached 200-23 ways I've returned the things,
2,000
guineas head.... than on the same date last year or sent money for them to the parted judges say the cattle is and, according to Traffic Super- shops.
all the At Bow Street when he was tives of old are being used; the frightening figure".
best ever.....
superla intendent J... Gribble, charged with stealing. Charles said again: "I am guilty,
only thing missing is what the He promised a special police but I
eattle think of the imported blitz over the Easter holidays to try to reduce the figure of 23 Mr E. G. Judges
deaths last year.
31
have this aberration
The magistrate, Robey, decided the plea should be one of not guilty.
T LOST EVERYTHING' E story was told and then Charles spoke. His voice was soft and unhurried, and he kept a tight rein upon his dis- trass
"I'm 72 years old," he said, to "and I've been brought up
honour, fear the Lord and to men. When my wife died, nine
yours 480, I went away from
home, and while I was away children broke into the house.
"They lived in it four days, then set it on fire. When I re- turned I found the bouse gutted. I lost everything- £20,000.
man
worth
2
TOLL OF THE ROAD Something certainly will have and
to be done about this toll of the read.
We have the fattest woman in the world, and the smallest ar. if you want to get. among nature there is
& honey- amid live extraction display, bees, in the Dairy Hall
A
WORTHY EXAMPLE
more
ה"
BITTER STRIFE The strife within the Austra lian Labour Party, mentioned here last week, not only widens, but becomes more bitter.
various States have either been suspended
expelled that
tall. gentlemanly, well liked soldier from India, has put many Australians to shame,
He is the Indian High Com- General K M. missioner, Cariappa who, with two of his Sunday staff, spent a recent afternoon removing papers, bottles and cigarette buts from So many ALP members around the war memorial at
or
in
trimmed the grass there might be close as many around it and intended paint- members outside the Party asing the fence but the General there are in."
said they could not buy any
One of the weakest moves in paint in the town on a Sunday |* the fight this week-certalaty | afternoon. "Since then suffered from below the usual standard ot The General, in a very nice this aberration. It isn't klepio-Labour tactics was the declara- way, revealed that he has been mania. It's something to do with tion by some NSW State Party on the job at other war memo- my brain. I pray about it, and officials that Dr Evatt was no rials. Diplomatically, he waves I want to see a psychiatrist."
longer a member of the Party away the suggestion that he is PAYING BACK HE spoke dispassionately as a because he had not taken out a doing anything out of the or
research worker might of some experiment in which unex- pected phenomena had been ob- served. He said: "I think mine is a maladya malady of the braka" Then he had nothing
Party ticket by due date,
This stroke-more worthy of a small town cricket club than a rational political party was at least indicative of just bow badly some officials want the "Doc"
out of the way. To arse the leader of the Federal Par- The case was proved and a detective went into the witness liamentary Labour Party and
more to say.
dinary, .OT that Australians
should be ashamed of them- selves.
"I am only doing what any living soldier would do for his dead comrades," he remarked.
The Returned
Soldiers League, however, have taken the cue and have begun a shake- up with local councils who are
to say that Charles was well-e Leader of the Opposition responsible for the memorials.
bex known in his home
Charles
for
T
lown
no longer being a member of the Party because he allegedly did not take out a ticket worth about 5/- seems to be going to extremes and is certainly well below the standard of schemes.
party bosses.
A JUDGE ENOUGH Although justice is blind, the august Supreme Court of Vic- toria must have twitched its eyebrows over the case of the Croaking Frogs.
his sced plate.
And
"Pete" the legless-budgerigar had died.
"Pete's"
"Mama and Papa" chirping sadly together by "Pete"
vacated 'wire at the PG Farm.
Britons Revel In Holiday Sun
London, Apr. 11.
Britain's seaside resorts were packed today with Easter holiday crowds determined to relax in the sun after one of the worst winters for years.
normally thought out by the Seems that for sometime On the beaches, at sports meet... „At Torquay, south Devon re- But it is a good bet that the 14ings haven't been too neigh- | jogs and in the mountain ranges sort, hoteliers had to turn away-
STILL ANONYMOUS
year loother, Joseph,,
Back After
7 Years
On a
three weeks' visit to Hongkong, Mr and Mrs Howard the B. Lyman are here for first time since 1948, when they then visited China, Japan and Hongkong.
Mr and Mrs Lyman were some of the last tourist visitors
to Shanghat before the Com
munists took over, three weeks later." We could hear the guns
out
Judge Scholes explained that in law the offences of house- breaking and the actual stealing were separate but the sentences would be as for one offence.
He sentenced the accused to a concurrent term of three years on the three charges, warning him that the maximuni he could receive was 17 years.
Boys Steal
Alleged
Assault: Date
For Hearing
Hearing of the case against Chester Owen, United States marine, of room 418 Shamrock Hotel, who was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm, will be beard before Mr H.HB. How on April 25 and 28, at 2.30
Kowloon pm, at Court.
Defendant is alleged to have assaulted George Edmond Corry
When and
Ammunition
Four boys, found guilty of
this Mr F. Zimmern,
Burho
rumbling in the distance" said stealing 96 rounds of 303 am on April 8. Mr Lyman, "However every- munition, were cautioned
defendant appeared thing seemed to be calm and we bound over in $100 for six before Mr T. Creedon this managed the usual touring with months by Mr 1. T. Morris at morning, he was represented by
trouble:
Kowloon Juvenile Court
asked for any Mr Lyman is in the home
The morning
ages the ao early date of hearing, as construction business in Hono boys ranged from 11 to 16. defendant pleaded not guilty to said that Laim is Chinese, born in the prosecuting, add that a party of defendant has been in Hongkong States. One thousand homes a RAF were practising firing at on a rest and recuperation leave year is their aim. These are Kai Tak rifle range list Wednes- and should have je lett last mostly bungalows" and can be day. Their attention was drawn | Friday.
lulu. His partner, Mr Q.C. Det. Sub-Insp. N. Lellott, the
the charge.
bought on the "never never" to a group of boys who were Now' Owen is absent without plan. "It takes most people 25 hiding behind rocks about 20 leave so far as the United States. years to own their home caldļ yards away:
Marine Caps. Is concured, add- Mr Lyman.
Later, they discovered 96ed Counsel
Six years ago Mr Lyman rounds of ammunition missing. Mr Creedon then transferred worked for the Dale Pineapple They approached, the boys and the case to Mr How, who set the company. This plantation, which found a packet containing the date of hearing. Owen is on bail. grows about. 75% of the world's | arómæltion, pineapple is about 88,000 acres im size.
While they are in Hongkong the Lymans will be visiting local people who graduated from the same University of Commerce as Mr Lyman, who is now work- ing as a business consultant as well, as a home constructor.
Man Escapes
Deportation
-Washington, Apr. 11.
theft in US history, escaped being deported today for stealing a dozen golf balls,
The Supreme Court handed down the ruling in the case of Anthony Pino, 47, of Quincy, Massachusetts, who once was
robbery,
the detective said shops have received. £5 notes and other sums of money that came from him when he had discovered he had stolen."
"I think perhaps you were right to plead guilty." the magistrate sald gently to
bourly
George Street, Rich of Wales, north, England and thousands of latecomers who "I shall remand you next idea will be better, and monda Melbourne suburb.
A former suspect in the Scotland, Britons forgot the arrived hoping to find last- Brinks, Inc., robbery, greatest it is also a good bet that 'Doc medical report,"
Miss Eileen Maud Steenson
weeks of snow, sleet and fog, mimate accommodation. Charles nodded and
will not be the next and her went Evatt
last away, quiet and courteous--and Labour Prime Minister...
writ seeking dam-
The blazing sunshine sent tem-
BOOKED OUT puzzled as though he were
ages and an infunction to restran Peratures jumping into the 60's trying to apply the rigorous
their neighbours from having
then 10 degrees offen. more
More than 30,000 holiday- tests he was accustomed to in
Here is a little story that is
crocking
higher than yesterday. It tempted makers surged into Bourne- frogs or toads. his research, to himself,
worth repeating.... About seven
The neighbours, Mr and Mrs many to have their first swim of mouth, Hampshire, where at Applying them and getting years ago an anonymous fellow
E Wiston, unsuccessfully
hotels and boarding houses were the-sear." nowhere, and glad in a way that later to be called The Voice applled this week for trial by By car and rail the sun-seekery booked up for the rest of the questioned about the Brinks, now other men would come to began telephoning highly ac
Jury.
poured from the cities to coastal week, his aid.
Their counsel claimed that if towna and the comtryside, curate race tipe to a city news frogs and toads, purported to Nearly 200 special trains carried every deck chair had
At Scarborough, Yorkshire, deport Pino to his native Italy be In artificial pools croaked, hundreds of thousands to the sapped up soon after breakfast theft made him subject, to de- BOTH BLAMED strak up an inccymous tried rardly.
From the calls "The Voice" they croaked only softly and south and north west couste. and pleasure bouts were packed portation as a twice convicted ship with Miss Veronica Bull, The court decided that a
alien, Td-Aviv, Apr. 11 secretary of one of the execu- single judge would hear the The Egyptian-Israeli- Armis, thyes, Lice Commission today censured both Egypt and Israel for two incidents in Gaza area on
in the
paper..
Last week The Voice" learne
ed that Yon was leaving for Britain, so on her last day he took her to lunch.
pleasant
F:
HOTEL FRACAS
April 1 win censured for They met, load a
an Israeli patrol's tank lunch, chatting like old frienda Driver George Edmond Corry, the Gaza strip, which | As they parted The Voice" 20, of 8 Coy RASC, Whitfield resulted in the destruction | said Just in case you are Barracks, was bound over in ofsn'`Kartel Larmy vehicle. ever in need of a few quid, I've $100 for six months by Mr T. One soutien was wounded in lodged a sterling drift for your Creedon et Kowloon Court this the baciderit.
her resolution censured tell the maunger your name, orderly manner
use at my London, bank, that morning for behaving in a die Israel for firing at an Egyptian Here's the address" He Inted Defendant was byvolved in outpost half an hour after the his had and was gone -- still fight at Stammock Hotel on mine exploded.--Reuter,
April 8
M
TRAFFIC JAMĄ
The government
ment wanted to been on the grounds that the golf bail
of
not
The Supreme Court said the attained such anality as to sup „ball" conviction.had
In England's northern lake London motorists streamed land, the mountains and valleys southward at the rate of 30,000 were dotted with hundreds an hour. Trafic jams a mile sightseers.
port an order of deportation"/ Pino had been convicted of a long appeared on many rosda Be leading to popular resorts.
Scots left Glasgow in thou- moral charge in 1828. He never Millions of Londoners, how-randa for the beauty spots was naturailed. United Press, ever, made for 2008, parks, around Loch Lomond and down fairs and pleasure boats plying the river Clyde, W Cyclist Injured up and down the river Thames. There were capacity crowds
Soon after breakfast 16,000 at sports gatherfang which in A cyclist, Chan Fat was in visitors invaded Brighton, south cluded a full Detional football collision with a private car at coast holiday town 60 miles programme, 14 major race meet the function of Chatham Road London, to cram the inga inotor cycle and eyele races and Gascoigne Road this moen- beaches pe Bnd promenades, rallies and trails and a national ing" He sustained injuries which Thousande more timed up by gliding contes China Mall necellated his removal to hos-
Special
pital for treatment
SIDE GLANCES
12-16-
of $500,
By Galbraith
“Yes, l'guess we do learn a lot about people on this job-
especially by the tips
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