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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
HONGKONG AND THE TRAFALGAR DAY CELEBRATION.
took his prisoner to the Police Station and charged him with the burglary. He was after- wards taken before the Magistrate and re- manded.
The Secretary of the Hongkong, Branch of Navy League has received the following communication from the head office of the THE YOKOHAMA POISONING CASE. League
13, Victoria Street, London, S.W.,
Trafalgar Day.
Dear Sir, The Executive Committee desire me to convey to you their most cordial thanks for your practical support of the National Celebration of Trafalgar Day.
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We purchased on behalf of your Branch a gigantic laurel wreath ten feet in diameter and attached to it a white China shield, with the inscription painted in blue letters, Contri- buted by the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League." Your tribute was placed in one of the positions of honour at the base of the column, and has been inspected with great interest by the many thousands who have visited the Nelson memorial.
We received your cable "Hongkong unites in honouring the day "at eight o'clock this morning and at once communicated it to the press. It has already appeared in the London journals and will be copied by all the provin- cial newspapers throughout the United King-
dom.
Again thanking you on behalf of my Com- mittee for your patriotic support of this great national celebration.-I am, dear sir, yours faithfully,
MONCBIEFF WILSON, Secretary to the Navy League. The Hon. Secretary, Navy League, Hongkong.
A BURGLAR TRÅPPED IN A RAVINE.
On the 25th November P.C. Gidley (45) effected the capture of a burglar who belongs to what is no doubt an energetic and dangerous gang of criminals. The arrest was made under somewhat. peculiar and rather amusing cir- cumstances. About four o'clock in the morning Gidley met a couple of Chinamen in Queen's Road and he asked them where their light or pass was. They excused themselves for not possessing either a light or pass by saying that they were just going to the Police Station to give information about an attempted burglary at a contractor's shop at 1, Queen's Road West -a very reasonable and sufficient explanation which Gidley readily accepted. He at once went to the shop mentioned by the men and found that their story was perfectly true and that the burglars had made two attempts to rob the place, the second being made just about the time that Gidley was informed of the first. The thieves had gone about their work in a decidedly professional manner. At the back of the shop there is an embankment, which is a part of Scandal Point, and bamboos had been firmly fixed in this embankment and ropes run across to the window. Entrance to the premises had by this means been effected, but as nothing was taken it is most probable that the rogues were disturbed at an inopportune time. Gidley climbed up the ropes and entered the building, but his search for the criminals proved unavailing and he made quick tracks for the adjacent lanes, and in a short time his efforts were rewarded. About five o'clock he saw four men sitting under a tree in a lane leading from Scandal Point to Headquarter House, and as the con- stable approached them they ran away. Gidley ordered them to stop and drew his revolver and fired one shot in the air to frighten them. Ap. parently their nerves withstood the shock of the one round as they contained to run at a considerable speed. Gidley determined to keep eye on one man, one burglar in a lane ing better
than four in the country. After ning some distance the man suddenly shed as if the earth had opened up and swallowed him
Gidley went on and when he got to the particular spot where the pursued one, deviated from the level road he cautiously, looked around. The night was dark, but in a minute or so the man who had fitted from view so mysteriously was found in a ravine, about ten to fifteen feet deep, which was covered with bracken, and which acted as
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ortunate trap for the thief. The chase was of course over now and Gidley
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THE ACCUSED COMMITTED.
12th November.
Evidence was given by Dr. Todd, Dr. Wheeler, and Dr. May.
13th November.
Mary Esther Jacobs said she was a nursery. governess in the employ of Mr. and Mrs. Carew from the 13th May last, when she arrived from England, until the 24th October. She gave evidence similar to that given at the inquest as to going to Maruya's for arsenic. After Mr. Carew's death on the 23rd October, she went to Maruya's again with her friend Miss Christoffel to try and get the piece of paper she had taken. She could not get it, but while the man was looking for it he found an other one which he said had been brought on the 20th. Paper produced. It ordered a bed pan and a bottle of Fowler's solution of arsenic, and was signed by Mrs. Carew.] She was anxious to get back the paper she took on the 21st because Mrs. Carew, on the night of Mr. Carew's death, denied having written it and said it was in Mr. Carew's handwriting. Mrs. Carew said Mr. Carew had taken his own life and that she had a letter in her possession saying he was going to do it or had done it.
Before leaving Mrs. Carew's service, had you, for reasons of your own, looked at the waste- paper basket ?—Yes.
Where was the waste-paper basket kept ? In the dining-room.
Why did you look there ?-I expected to find letters of my own there.
What letters of your own ?-From my home. Letters you had received P-Letters I hadn't received.
Did you find any letters there ?—I never found any of my own there.
Did you find any others ?—Yes. Fragments of others, rather ?—Yes. What did you do with those fragments P-I gave them to my friend Fraulein Christoffel.
Did she stitch them together for you ?-Yes. When did you find these ?-The first time I ever went to the basket must have been the 23rd or 24th of September.
Did you find them all at the same time P- No. I found the fragments of the first on the 23rd or 24th of September, and the rest after my return from Miyanoshita, the first Monday in October.
Elsa Christoffel, a Swiss nurse in the em- ploy of Mr. and Mrs. Dunlop, said she had been resident in Yokohama since November, 1894.
You have been a great friend of Miss Jacobs since her arrival here, I believe P-Yes, I have; she is the only friend I have got here.
She has confided to you from time to time what troubles she has had ?-She did. We were in the habit of telling everything to one another.
Did Miss Jacobs give you any fragments of paper that she had picked up somewhere?— Yes, she did.
Recently P-I don't know the date when I received them. I never keep any dates. It was a little while ago in September and again in October. I never keep any dates.
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She did not give them to you all at the same time ?-No, not at the same time.
Were they in order or disorder when she brought them to you? They were in disorder. Did you stitch the fragments together to make sense of them as well as you could? Yes, I did that.
Did you preserve all the fragments that she brought to you, or did you destroy any of them P-I preserved all of them.
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Would you recognize your work again if you saw it P-Certainly I should.
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In the presence of Miss Jacobs you handed to me some papers one Sunday night in No- vember P-Yes, it was on the 8th November, in the evening. I remember that date. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
His Honour-Were they fragments P-No, they were sewn together in the form of letters at that time.
they are,
Mr. Litchfield Are these the letters
Have you any mor received from. They are not. They are in the form
Have you got them not.
You have not shown them to m have never seen them, I ha to you.
1896
No. I have.
Are they in the same handwriting bulk of these P-Yes.
Mr. Lowder I object to any question of that kind unless you introduce the
get thems
Mr. Litchfield When can I can go and get them now if you wish mo
to do so.
The court adjourned for ten minutes the witness went to fetch the letters. return she handed to the Crown Prosecnt packet containing some letters stitched and some pieces, and said those were all the ever had. Mr. Dunlop saw the pieces she stitched them together. The pato letter produced by Mrs. Carew at the i was not composed of fragments which wi received from Miss Jacobs; she had never seen those except at the inquest and in court that day.
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Cross-examined by Mr. Lowder the witness said she advised Miss Jacobs to collect the pieces of letters.
When did you give that advice? When she told me she had seen them in the waste-paper
basket.
Why did you give her that advice? — Because I thought they could be useful to her some day if it should come out that visits there at that house not exactly in the form of house friends. I was afraid my friend's character might in such a case perhaps have to
out that men were paying
suffer.
You thought it would be useful to Misa Jacobs and not to Mrs. Carew? Useful to Miss Jacobs should the visits be known by the husband or outsiders.
The witness was then requested Lowder to write from his dictation, an done so (some of the dictation bein "Annie Luke's" letters), Mr. Lowde timated that he intended to have writing examined by an expert and com with certain documenta put in at the
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Ah Kwong, a Chinese boy twelve- age living at the Convent, was called an he came from Hongkong and that his hop in Canton. He had been in Japan a year and
ahalf.
As there was some trouble in connection with the interpretation of this witness s evidence he was withdrawn for the time being
not being in attendance the court adjourned Hayashi Shichiro, of Maruya's, was called, but for a short time.
After a brief adjournment, .
Mr, Moss (Clerk of the Court), said At Mr. Walford's request I handed to him an env containing exhibits. The envelope was opened in my presence and now I am unable to find the first one.
His Honour examined the exhibits and said
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Mr. Moss closed. I opened it with Mrs Mo
consent and took out the exhibits there. - I did not look at the lettering of the that exhibits, and I am unable to say whethe particular one was given to me or not. Mr. Moss reporting to me that it it on my deak I made a searc been unable to
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