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BEFORE MR. A. G. WISE (ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE).
THE TRIAL OF ADS TTS PRISONER BEN-
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Tho trial of William Hall Alsatta for the murder of Gertride Dayton on August 4th is
this Colony was concluded. The spectators in Court were more numerons than on previous accommodation available, sad days, and by ten o'clock there was no sitting very little standing room.
as before the Att rney-General, Hon. Mr.
W. Bees Davies, instructed by Mr G. M. Morrell, from the Crown Solicitor's office, pro secated, und Sir Henry Berkeley, E.C, iu struoted by Mr. R. Harding, appeared for the accuse!
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espacial jurors were:-E. A. Ram (fore man), C. W. May, D. W. Craddock, J. Bartou, A. Turnor, B. P. White and G. L. Toalín. Adsetts again entered the witness stand, and was cross-examined by the Attorney. Gonoral:
order that she might avoid the ends of justice in Manila. And I was often in Mian Dayto" sod in Mise Marshall's company, and I told them I was going home on the Minnesota They persuaded me to stay, and I remained thro and played cards with them, and went out riding and driving.
At any rate you were a willing victim: you accepted her proposal and left Manila with her, and becams her familiar friend antil the night of her death P-Not necessarily. No, air Well
there was no oriminality on my part
you were with her, and registered in the hotel as husband and wife? Yes, sir, but
I am not talking about criminality. It is a smalt matter having regard to the charge under whish you at prosont stand. The deceased woman trusted Miss Marshall implicitly, didn't she P-I don't know.
You fold gasho gave her those orders?—I said Miss Dayton gavo Mi Marshall one of the post offloe orders
I put it to you that the deceased regarded Miss Marshall as a friend, and trusted ber im plicitly ?--Yes, they were friends.
Now, on leaving Manila you told us that a Chinese coolie spoke to Miss Dayton ?-At the steam launch landing.
Do you attich soy importance to the fact necessarily. of the Chiamo bay speaking to her-Not
I understand you admit all the ovidence put forward by the prosecution, except in so far What importance do you attach to the con- as the murder took place and the fact that you versation at this time between her and the did not, es ulloged, put the bax over the samboy -I am just stating the facts of what pan? So ne par's I don't admit.
bappezed from the time of my leaving Manila sutil my arrival as Hongkong.
What are they Seeing the boy at six 'aleck in the hotel, and some minor details I dou't admit.
I put it to you in short that you admit you cane here by the Eastern as allgod; you admit that you west to the Hongkong Hotel, and were sanu there by the various witnesses who gave evidence ?--I admit being seon by some of those Fitosse.
And that yon were as a fact staying at the hotel with the deceased under the names of Mr.. hasad Mrs. W. H. Jones? I do, sir.
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with the future health, wealth and the absence of an offer of adequate con- wisdom of his auditors. The man who pensation. perpetrated that other saw about six bours sleep being sufficient for a man, even for a woman, eight for a child, and Rine for a fool, was something at:ll worse, and we trust has had his reward. Accord ing to SHAKESPEARE, it is sleep that kaits up the ravelled sleeve of vare,” and it is gratifying to find that modern common sense is overcoming the old bumbug. We road now that it is impossible to sleep too much. A recent authority writes:
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Walling, bis wife and sister, have been The wealthy American writer, Mr. arrested in St. Petersburg, together with four Fiune, it is supposed as Socialists, but the charge on which they were arrested bas not transpired; their rooms were searchedand books, pump.lets, and mauuscripta seized,
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You admit you went to the house with her known as No. 1, and to the house occupied by Misa Levitt -I admit going to the house kept by Miss Hempstead, but do not recollect the other place.
His Lordship-I think you stated that you went somewhere else?
Prisoner went to some other house. The Attorney General-I will come to that
later. Thon you adasit the details about taking the trunk to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire leaving it there, returning and exchanging the дато Of the place to which you wished to send it ?--Yes sir.
You admit all that, and that you yourself saba qusutly took it in ampan tu the Monteagle P-I do, sir,
sir.
You admit the purchase of the hox? -Yo,
You admit the pawsing of the diamonds on the day after, and that you loft the Colony na alleged by the Tora Maru-
Yes, sir.
Now you admit all those statements, notwith- standing that your learned counsel, Las cross- examined the various witnesses at length to show that it was a case of mistaken identity, and that yn were not the man who weat to these places?
I admit that.
What was your business before you wera, arrested?I was returning home to the United States as a civilian,
Do you suggest that the boy mad any communication to her with regard to the dis pute between her and Misa Hooth Miss Dayton seemed to be excited at the time.
the
Other people spoke to her, you know, on board the ship. What I want to know from you is, what is there in the fact of this boy saying good bys to Min Gortio ?--I'don't notaal any importance whatever to the for, only that boy spoke to her aud Miss Dayton teca me axvited Nobody spoke to hor on board the ship. All her jewellery, you say, was entrusted to you 7-Yes.
And she remained on the deck of the steamer at night watching for the police?-I remained Da deck at aight.
In castods of her belonginga!-In custody of her belongings,
What was to be your altimate destiastion when you both left Manila - Hongkong.
You booked for Hongkong?-Yes. And paid for the tickets P-Yos. For both-I did.
That was a generous act on your part,
wasn't it? No, the money was to be refauded on arrival at Hongkong,
The amount of her ticket, or the amount of yours and hers P-The amount of her lokot.
Not yours? No, sir.
expense? No, air,
You were not youreof travelling at her
On arrival at Hongkong there was another Chinaman it appears-Yes, Miss Dayton said she thought she knew him.
Did it strike you as being a most remarkable fact that a parson landing in Hangkong should know a Chinese boy P-Not necessarily.
None, she was in a boss where there were What importance do you attach to the fact P
number of Chinese servants.
Hongkong you and Mas Dayton were in I suppose on the royage from Manila to
jects F-I oan't follow you.
Did he seo ya withher PI suppèse he did We were both going towards him."
Now I suppose your suggestion is that this murder was committed by some man to avenge the wrong done to Miss Booth by the dogposed!
I don't know.
You have no suggestion whatovar na to the reason why she was Laurdered-No,
Then you don't yourself think that the motive was in any way sotuated by the dispute between her, and Miss Booth with regard to money matters-I don't know anything about it.
Come now, who do you think murder?-I do not know, sir,
committed the Who do you think did it P-I do not know What are your suspicions in the mailer?-- The first thing I thought of was B Booth.
And that the man who murdered her did it at the instigation of Bliss Booth ?--I don't kuow who it was. I thought of Misa Booth becauss, the deceased had stolen money from her. You don't suggest it was the strange mau ?→→ I don't suggest anything.
Apart from that fact, all you are prepared to say to the jury is that you think the murder was committed through Miss Booth ?—I'am not prepared to say anything.
You needn't have any compunotion in stating what you really do think about anyone ales! The only thing I said was that my thoughta first went to Miss Booth on scoount of tiss Dayton stealing the money from her.
How long wore yon at No. 12 that night P-L don't know. About an hour and a half, two hoars, or throw hours. I couldn't say exactly
Were you still in possession "of all her jewellery Yes,
Having regard to the fact that you had taken a room in the Hongkong Hotel, dil you think it necessary to carry all that jewellery about P I did it at Miss Dayton's request.
On that night, at the various houses to which you went, do you mean to suggest that you had the whole of that jewellery deposited on your person ?--Yen.
Was duchased wearing any jewellery ?-Oue or two rings and some pine to pin bor dress up. Two of those pins were wine.
She was going to these gay houses to meet bor old friends, all of whom were well known to her, sud she preferred you to carry her jewellery in your pockets rather than to wear it herself ?-She couldn't wear it all,
How many other houses did you go to?- One or more, I don't remember.
How many do you think I am not prepared to Bay
Where did you leave the deceased ?—I don't know,
Do you suggest you were so helplessly drank that you don't know anything that took place P -You, sir.
And then you found yourself in a Japanese house in Ship Street -Yes.
Were you carried there by farce, do think P-I don't know how I verived there.
you
Raiber curious wasn't it, that when you had a woman living with you at the hotel here, you Babsequently, visited some of the English bouses, and then found yourself in a low brothal in Ship
Street-Not necessarily. I was not intimate with the woman, fact that you were going to a Japanese house? If that is phe ease you were cɔnicious of the -No, Bir
ally because the wuman with you was unwell?-- You just suggested that you wont intention- 1 don't remember geing, but would rather go Any other place than be with her.
What was the number of the Japavose
We had yesterday some testimonials as to perpetus conversation on a variety of sub-brothel?—I don't know.
your character and antecedents. Would you have any occupation nw if you were not under atrest Yes, if I was at home in the Stater. I am a plumber and tinsmith.
What were you doing at Manila Whon air At the time you were in the society of the deceased woman?-What was my intention?
I don't want to know what your intentions were. What were you doing there?I went to Manila en route to the United States.
How long had you been staying there -From
occupation-No, sir. It wasn't Becomeary. July 17th to July 50th.
During that time were you engaged in say How long had you known Gertrade Dayton? month in house 92, Calle Alejandro, bad but I met Min Dayton about a year ago this three or four minutes' conversation with bar a id lett the house.
At Manila Yes,
Had you seen her in the meantime since that mesting?—No, sir.
Had you any letter communication with hor daring that time?-o letters came to ine, but
Baw letters from her.
So I may take it you only saw her onde before you saw her in Manils this time Yes. Therefore your soquaintance with her was quite casual, was it not ?—Yes.
How the superstition ever grow up that there is such a thinx as weakening yourself by over- sleeping. I cannot imagine. Whatever may bate bean the source of the dalasion, it is utterly without basis in physiology. No one ever got too mack healthy, natural sleep, or injured himself physically by staying in bal until he felt rested. Most men and all womsu would be better for a nap of from twenty
Now, as regards the dispute that took place minutes to an hour after the midday mol
between B. Booth, Miss Mareball and the Sleeplessness is even mora emphatically a a sigo
decessed woman, you were called in by Miss of disease in children than to adults,
Among the cargo shipped by the 9.9. Booth to not as a sort of intermediary --No, maka children or rapidly growing yomg adults got "Empire' for Australis yesterday was a large sir. up before they have had their sleep ont, and quantity of bran from the Junk Bay Mills. Mr. feel thoroughly reated, ie not merely irrational H. Rennie also received last night an but cruel, and when it is done as a routine extraordinary wire asking for as much wheat as at boarding schools, or other institutions, by those who protend to be fitted to have the care of children, it is little short of crimiasi,
he could ship. The Australian harvest pro- spects cannot be bright this year when mer The writer knocks the old
*beauty chants there are seeking whost from Hongkong, sleep" fallacy determinedly on the head. proceeding which reminds those who know There is no foundation for it, and still less of the vast area under cultivation in the Islanded on to approach
Continent of abipping coals to Newcastle. for the notion about one hour before mid- LONDOR OPRICA: 131, Faust dresar, Be.. night being worth two afterwards. This
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I put it to you that Miss Booth called you in
me into the hotel -and-asked-you-to-act as a mediator between her and the decaed-No, sir. She did not call
Booth while out driving, and she asked me I have not said so. I said I mat Miss
to ge. Miss Dayton to meet her alone.
That is exactly what I said. Why do you think then that Alisa Booth sbonld have sel ot
Mies Dayton on her behalf?-I suppose because she saw isa Dayton and I out driving, and Miss Marshall also. We used to go to the theatre tog sther as well.
In fact, she know at the time yra were living with the deceased I was not living with her, You were in the same hotel In the same hotel, but not living with her.
Were you friendly with Miss Booth ?-No. Did you have much discussion about the insurance payments! None whatever. Booth asked you to try to get Mine Dayton Do you mean to Bay that when Mias
to mest ber alone, no reference was made
to the subject in dispute P-No. In the hotel
people who consider every moment of out of the early bird catching the word. what a disgraceful condition Pokfulam Road is obligation to me, and I did not think it was any
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You can follow, me perfectly well. But I cannot bear, sir.
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I put it to you that you had converantions on variety of subjects during the voyage ?—Yes. Why do you think it necessary to tell the Court about that particular instance of the Chinesa boy-Because we met him thera and she was excited. looking at every Chinaman on the boat coming She was sooing things sud
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What was there on her mind, do you think
do not know, sir. I am not a mind reader, ani usanot read B-woman's mind.
not, that some unknown man committed the The whole thing is part of your story, is it
alarming her at Manila; then the Chinese boy murder. First the story of the Chinese bay a'arming her here, and then the strange gentle mau who accosted her P-Yes.
way, you. And what you regard na an important part?
to
fact of your being there No.
Have you got any witnesses to speak to the
You paid, I suppose, the woman with whom you stayed I suppore 1 did.
How did you pay, in English gold or Ameri can money I don't know...
pay the woman in the morning, that I know.
You were sober at that time? -I did not
I didn't. I don't remember paying her.. Then you didn't pay her at all! ---I
at Ship-Street again. You say you awake I should think you would be a walcome visitor next morning as soon as it was light, about Boven o'clock-It would be about revan as near as I could judge.
of August ? Yes.
It would be light about five in the month
You were sean at the Hongkong Hotel at six- o'clock that morning by the boy-No, sir.
eight o'clook..
You deny that, do you Emphatically. You never want to the hotel from the time you left it the night before when you went ont And why didn't you tell me that before. Isto dinner until-arrived in the morning about there anything about the statement of the Chinese boy that you regarded as important? I thought it was peculiar in Manila, and coming Over Ms Dayton was acting peculiar and strange.
Haring regard to the fact that this woman' was murdered, you consider that her seeing this Chinese boy gives some due to it in no way. There was something on the warpath P. There was something stranga about those boys meeting har.
You went to the Hogkong Dotel, and you say you had two battles of brandy and two bottles of whisky Yes, sir.
the two bottles of whisky were found in the don't know. room; what became of the brandy That I
Where did you gat the brandy P---At Chofno, ou did not dispose of them yourself ?-No. And they wore not found afterwards?-Not to my knowledge.
Who are Mr. and Mrs. Feist I don't know. They dined at the next table to you that night?-I believe they did, or one moar.
Had you ever seen them before ?-No, sir. Have you seen them since, og either of them ?-No.)
So far as they are concerned, apart from the conversation had when they were introduced to you, you did not see them again ?—No,. but I can describe them,
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Last evening at the City Hall the Baudmann atter idea has grown up."with the early Cambiaation produced the sparkling musical rising fetich," There is nothing to prove comedy, "The Beauty of Bath," before a large that the last two hours' sleep do not giva azdience. With Miss Georgia Corlass in the fully as much rest as the first two.
title rolo and Mr. Harry Cole as "Lemon," Nor is
ably supported by the other members of this there any necessary physiological connection excellent company, the comedy proved a great
Upon arriving at the corner of the Hongkong between sleep and darkness. The reason why success, and the audiende frequently manifested
direction of the King Edward Hotel. What Hotel, you were met by a man coming from the A gentleman named WILLIAM WILLETT
working by night and sleeping by day is often its enthasinatio approval of the individual off t bas discovered that on an average to injurious is because of the lack of sunlight of the artists. Tonight the Company produce
Jew. I did not get a good look at him, as his was that area like-He appeared to me like hundred and ten hours of daylight every The writer would have had much sympathy the funny music comedy,The Gay Parisign certain papers I heard the conversation.
when Miss Booth tried to get Miss Dayton to back was towards me. -year are "wasted" by every person in
As soon as he spoke to her she immediately England. It does not appear from his with the schoolboy who made his famous sienne.”
When you met Miss Booth alone, why did turned round and said to yon-" Don't go. retort to the paternal admonition on the
you tell her you would try to get Miss Dayton to tar" Yes: pamphlet that he is one of those annoying
Does the Director of Public Works koow in meet her, but that you did not think she would ? I meant that Miss Dayton was under na
Did you hear the conversation between thom P-No.
You heard her talking excitud'y, did'at There is no advantage, he assorts, in carlynightly loft by the workmen now repairing it? inaction a sin.
It is daylight, and not
you ?- hoard him. It is a survival from more Heaps of stone and blooks of grauite angroach time, that he desires to see fully utilized, rising in itself
what pissed between your lover and the other Did yon walk away deliberately not to hear It must have occurred to everyone at some primitive times when our agricultural upon the thoroughfare, leaving the barest possible margin for vehicular traffic, and at
man Who? She was not my lover, ancestors had to work in daylight only, and night, the road baing antigated, it is most time or other that if people rose and retired when candies were dear. Civilisation and dangerous. If there had not been ample room
Well, you were living with her. I will call with the sun, a great deal of the unnecessary late hours always go hand in hand. He
her your companion, or what you please. Do you mean to say you walked away not to hear expense of living would be saved. Mr.
to learè a wider road, this complaint' would not
the conversation -Yes. It was none of my says further a WILLETT sees further that people would have
have beon de, but as it ie, wo say there is no on 65 & Casual aoquaintance at this hotal ? and Misa Booth ?-I don't know,
business. Nor is there any adequate support for the possible excuse for such carelessness of life sod more time for healthy outdoor recreation. impression that the early morning hours are in property. If the material had been left ones, As quoted by a contemporary, he would any, WAY more wholesɔms or healthy than later only one side of the road it would not have been the time you were with her at the hotel gour out off some of the morning hours and add are apt to be damp, foggy, ohilly, and among other, and one has to drive or staar a gork-Positively.
Do you mean to suggest to me that during or five minutes... periods of the day. Except in summer time they so bad, but it lies first on one side, then on the relations were purely-of a abate character time About ton or twelve pso them on to the afternoon. This, he proceeds to the least desirable hours of daylight. It is show, could be effected by no greater task than quite true that during the summer there is a that of putting the olooks of the nation on a sense of exhilaration about bing abroad in; and in peril of serious accident" We shall be you to accompany her to Hongkong ?--I me
Why do you suppose Miss Dayton asked few minutes, and back a few minutes, at stated those early morning hours, but this evaporates glad to hear that a little commonsense and intervale according to the rise and fall of the with the dew, and is apt to be succesded by a
tioned that I was coming to Hongkong myself. year. The mouths selected for this change corresponding depression and loss of working
Would a woman with whom you were not Armness of supervision has been brought to on terms of intimacy select you particularly would be most usturally April and September, power later in the day,
bar on those responsible.
as company to go away with P-She did it in
screw-like coarse, to the detriment of vehicles
This gentleman, Mr. O'Brien, acsozding to your statement is a lawyer in Manila-I believe so. capacity of a lawyer advised Mas Dayton to And be, according to what you 897, ja his get out of Manila, having already carried out monetary transactions for bor?—Yes, siz,
Now you saw Miss Dayton, as you say, on scoasion previous to this year, before you
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It was not about the dispute between her How long did this conversation last-Four You were standing a ten pases off the whole And you say there was no further conversation between yon aud her as to who this man was
Supposing he was in Court to-day, could you point him out? No, sir.
Was he an old wau? As near as I could see he was a man between 25 and 30,
No.
What time do you say you bought the cam- phorwood box-Immediately after I left the
it to you that you were in the Hongkong Hotel st six o'clock that morning before you bought this box? No, sir..
Why did you want to avoid being seen leaving Ship Street -I did not care about being zoom coming out of a place of that kind when I was stopping at one of the principal hotels.
Do you mean seriously to enggest to ma-that- you thought this box was a suitable peace offer- ing, and would be appreciated by a laly -Yen. She said before she was going to get one to put ouride in.
And that was the only reason for you buying the box-Yea
It was rather surious sort of present to give
a lady, wasn't it ?-Not when she had a desire for one.
And this great big ugly box was to account for your misdeed in leaving her?--It was no misdeed. I was my own boss- and under no obligation.
And you expect the Court to believe that story I do.
What cause had you to fear her anger?-T had no cause,
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I put it to you, now, that you murdered that woman, and got that box with the pure inten- tion at Brat, of putting her body in it-No, sir. known to yourself that it did not
And
Anding for some reason best wait body in the other bax-No, sir. I bought the your requirements yon subsequently put hor bor and then returned to the hotel,
easier than the other box --I suppose it would, That box being of wood would flost rather It would not be so easy to sink it from a sampan-That I do not know. I never tried to sink one.
east than Ship Street, isn't it?-I don't know. This shop where you bought the box is farther
corpse. You must have been greatly shocked It was to my right facing the water front.
Now I will take you to the finding of the when you found it on the bad -Yos.
Was she dead? She appeared to me to ba dead.
for
Are you sure she was dead!-Positive. If she had not toen it would have been sisior you to call the hotel people and sead for a doctor, wouldn't it? -I saw she was dead. was lying in the middle of the be, on its backs.
What was the posion of the body ?--It Was the bed made - Yes.
Did it appear to you to have been slept on 2 No, it was in the same condition as it was in on the afternoon before when Mis: Dayton and I laid down on it for a rest,1)
Assuming that the blood on the mattress came from the deccused, and was on the lower Portion, the bed must have been made by somebody before you arrived P-That is on the