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MURDER TRIAL AT SHANGHAI.
MACFARLANE SENTENCED TO
DEATH.
On the other hand, the jury would realize that it must be affected by some motive more or less potent when a man was giving evidence which might effect his life. The jury, he thought, could safely leave what happened after the time when Macfarlane gave himself up to Mackenzie out of their consideration,
FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING
OPPORTUNITIES.
CANADIAN PATRIOTISM.
SHELL MANUFACTURER'S OFFER
"To-day one of the most reliable mang- facturers of Hamilton offered to squip plant and give the Government his entire manufacturers like this, who are willing shell output at cost price. When we incat to sacrifice everything for the Mother- land, we get some idea of the depth of Canadian Toyalty-Reuter.
It is becoming very evident, says a
TO MR. D. A. THOMAS. neutral countries are going to profit of the British Ministry of Munitions in London
paper, that shipbuilders in hugely from the peculiar position in
Mr. D. A. Thomas, the representative The trial at HM1, Supreme Court, Shanglwi, of John Mactariane, a senior thought Mr. Macleod unwittingly over builders are concentrating their energics Hamilton (Ontario) last month said:
In conclusion, his lordship said that which the British shipbuilding industry Canada and the United States, in st now finds itself. All the fading Britisis interview with Press representatives at warder at the Municipal Gaol, was constated his position because it was not our-
on war work, and the construction of mar cluded a Friday last, the prisoner was
reet, and to prevent the jury being in-chant ships in for the time being held found guilty of the murder of his wife. tion it.
fluenced by it he thought he ought to men up. This check to the
Mr. Macleod rather intime todocoan carriers is serious enough just now production of The prisoner had nothing to say, im that a certain conclusion: had been burne when shipping is in such demand and mediately preceding the death sentence,
apon his mind. more than Mr. Macleod meant to say.
That was, he thought, freights are so good and when, too, The proceedings were before Sir Havit all events it was not a
At wastage has been acoolerated by piration land de Sausmarez, Judge, and a jury conclusion he came to, or what conclusion in the position of having large accumu question of what submarines. Shipowners find themselves consisting of Messrs. E. M. Kirkwood, W. anybody came to except the jury. Armstrong, H. H. Lennox, J. C. Dyer, P.
It lated profite on hand which they are was no business of his lordship's. The waiting to invest in new tonnage, but 7. Heath, R. B. Hurry, F. C. Banham, jury had to look at the facts exactly as cannot do so because British shipbuilders E. Noakes, A. D. Bell, W. H. Rodger, A they had been put before the Court, and t
are unable to guarantee delivery, and are Lester and J. R. Jolly.
devote their attention to one point, viz., booked with anything like reasonable unable even to execute the orders already the condition of the man's mind, and despatch. In such circumstances is it return a verdict either of murder.or manslaughter.
any wonder that foreign shipbuilders have a golden opportunity and are seizing it with both hands?
Mr. R. N. Macleod (Acting Crowu Ad- rocate) and Mr. K. E. Newinan (Legal Adviser to the Police) appeared for the prosecution, the accused being represent- ed by Mr. Francis Ellis.
A VERDICT OF "QUILTY." The jury retired at 12 o'clock, and re- turned go Court forty minutes later, answer to the Clerk of the Court, the foreing up orders. man said they were agreed on their ver- diet, and found that the prisoner was guilty of murder.
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THE JUDGE'S SUMMING UP,
With characteristic promptitude the His lordship summed up at. length. He
United States is taking the sad in book- said in 2 case of murder it was the
American shipbuilders duty of the Crown to place before
of orders for oil tank steamers, many of have of late secured a very large number them all the facts, and from those facts for the jury to come to a conclusion, not only
which under other circumstances would Asked if he had anything to say why have been built in. Great Britain, und as to what happened but as to what was sentence should not be passed upon him. the mutal state of the prisoner.
the latest reports go to show that they aro In the the prisoner replied, firmly: "Nathing." increasing their facilitice to meet the new present case they had, perhaps, the most In passing sentence of death, his lord-demand. Then, in addition to America, difficult set of circumstances which they ship said: John Macfarlane. You have there is Japan, whose yards have never could have, viz., the inquiry as to what been found by the jury, as they were well
been so full of work, though in this case was the extent of the temporary state if entitled to find on the evidence, guilty of
the orders are practically all for Japan- mental aberration. There was no doubt the most serious crime known to our law.
ese account. Finally, to come nearer that the prisoner was drunk. When a There is only one sentence which a British home, Norway, Sweden, and Holland are mon was drunk his faculties were not en Court can pass upon you, and that sen-
all very busy, and have booked up orders- from Scandinavian shipping firms for course the least state of mental aberra- confirmation by His Majesty's Minister, would have been given out to British tion which might result from taking too and that I cannot, consistently with my much alcohol,
builders. The last state was one in duty, do otherwise than warn you that which absolute physical incapacity super- you should not hope for any change in
It would be foolish to ignore this de vened, but before that there was probably that sentence at his hands.
velopment in foreign shipbuilding. a state in which responsibility for his of the Court is, that you, John Mactar-need to be alarmed about it, says the
The sentence though, on the other hand, there is actions had been arrived at, and the ques-lane, be taken from the place where you | Mariner. tion was whether that state had been
We are in no manner of now stand to His Majesty's prison at reached by the prisoner when he did an Shanghai, being the prison in which you their own in normal times against any I doubt that British shipbuilders can hold act which caused the crime for which he were last confined, and that on a date to of the countries mentioned, and will, was charged. The exact condition of be fixed by His Majesty's Consul-General, when the war is over, once again assert ran under the influence of drink, when you shall be taken to the place of exeen their superiority; but in the meantime. that state of intoxication had been reach- tion within the said prison, and there Fe foreign yards are extending their facili- ed as reducing the crime from murder to hanged by the neck until you are dead. ties, and getting an experience which anslaughter had been the ground for Your body shall be buried within the premus, undoubtedly, enable them to com- many decisions, and his lordship quoted cincts of the said prison, and may God
pete in the future with greater success. the latest case tried in the highest Court Almightly have mercy on your soul. dealing with criminal matters in England. The words he wished to draw their atten- tion to were: "The question arises as tu whether a man can show that he did not intend the full consequences of his acts by showing that he was drunk. He can du so by showing his mind to have been s affected by the drink he had taken that he was incapable of knowing that what he was doing was dangerous, that it was like. ly to inflict serious injury. proved, the presumption that he intended this is to do grievous bodily harm is rebutted." The result, of course, was not an acquittal, but, in case of that kind, a verdict of manslaughter. After what had been Jury by counsel, his lordship told them without hesitation that it was their duty
to return one or other of those verdicts.
BRUTAL RELATIONS WITH HIS WIFE"
The
CONSUMPTION..
STARTLING CLAIM BY FRENCH PROFESSOR.
A Paris messago says:-
Professor Renon has caused a sensation
culosis, contrary to the generally accepted in medical circles by his chim that the
chemical treatment and not by serotherapy, opinion, must and can only be cured by The new theory and the proofs thereof formed the subject of a communication te
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TEA A "NECESSITY." The president of the Tea Buyers' Asso- ciation in a letter to the Parliamentary War Savings Committee writes:-
"We submit that tea is a food necessity, and those who follow the Prime Minister in grouping it with tobacco, wine, sugar, and petrol have not taken into account the
of tea as a food stimulant with u more change in the habits of the nation and the gradual but sure recognition of the valuo
especially the woman worker, tea has than momentary effect. To the worker, Pte. replaced other articles of food and drink, and the recent abnormal purchases of ter
by seutrals on German account demen- beverage is thoroughly understood by the strate that the sustaining value of this an animal military authorities of a country where tea is almost unknown to the publie in
explained that this object has been fason chemical substance which would check that been to find the growth of bacilli in of orient injuring the elements
of that organism.
As a beginning the Professor established a list of antiseptics which stop the develop- ment of bacilli in cultures. Among them mercury, and other metals. are the salts of silver, gold, selenium,
mrmal times,"
TRADE IN THE F.M.S. At the Selangor Chamber of Commerc He also sought for a medium in which half-yearly meeting, Mr. Clodd, who lisation and the absence of potassium, the value of imports, but a substantial bacilli dovelop best, and found that alka-presided, said there had been a fall in sulphur, phosphorus, iron, and magnesium increase in the value of exports. was detrimental to their existence.
country was benefitting by the flourishing export trade which was more than double the import trade. The bazaars was in a healthy condition. Business was small but on a satisfactory basis, and credits were reasonable.
He concludes that therapeutic action can be obtained on tuberculosis by adding to the organismo substances which arrest drawing from it by means of dietary sub- the development of bacilli, and by with stances indispensable to the life of bacilli
in culturo.
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TRACHEOTOMY DURING AN AIR RAID.
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performing the operation of tracheotomy During one of the recent air naids on the East Coast a well-known surgeon was at a nursing home when the German air- craft came over the place at night. The towm electric ourrent was at once cut off. All the lights went out suddenly, and this, 100, at the very moment when the surgeon. in question was opening the windpipe.
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His lordship pointed out to the jury the bearing which the evidence of the un happy relations had, and said the evi- dence of the threats was given in order to show that the act was likely to have bee intended. He would not say much about the relations. They were brutal, Bue that was not what the jury was trying. only way they merited consideration, and in that way they did merit the jury's consideration, was the effect that his feel- ings towards his wife were likely to have had upon his action at the time he con mitted the crime, and upon that Mr. Ellis had urged thres considerations. Óne "f the most important points in the case was perhaps that of the man unloading his gun and wishing to leave it behind when he was at the Palace Gardens, so that on
The professor and his collaborators are leaving for home he certainly could not have had in his mind any intention at all therapeutic action of the substances men- now experimenting systematically in the of committing an assault upon his wife
His lordship, then went into the facts of tioned on asan, and important results are the ease, and said that Mrs. Peden's eview path in the treatment of the "white shortly expected in what is considered a dence was extremely well given and it had been corroborated in almost every par
plague." ticular where it was possible to be cor roborated. He thought the jury would eonsider that they had a very fair and accurate account of what setuelly took place if they took her evidence as it was Kiven. His lordship quoted the evidener of Mrs. Peden, and continued by describ ing the accused's assault upon the boy identity of the lady who for many works It would be interesting to know the outrageons. With regard to the reload- GIVE YOUR RAZOR Asip, a cartridge into the breach of a gun merciful endeavours to succour the wound ing of the gun, his lordship said that to our first line trenches in Franco in her past now has been penetrating even into NEW LEASE OF LIFE. and he thought the jury ought not to at-motor ambajantes and presumably is not
was a somewhat wechanical thing, to dv, ed. She is attached to one of the armoured undertaken at night. This precaution Patrol men are reminded that they have Remember we do all kinds of too great an importance to the fact acting in strict conformity with regula
that the prisoner reloaded the gan. It grinding and edge making. We did not require any mental effort to da tions in thus visiting our more advanced
that, and it did not show that the prisoner
lipes. Her face and cheerful voies are sharpen Clippers, Shears, Scissors, planned deliberately to shoot his wife familiar enough to hundreds of our officers The question was not whether he had and men who ate fighting in the trenches; plan, but whether, at the moment when heut none of them seem to know her name, THE DOOM OF LONDON. did actually shoot the gun he intended to know is that this girl-she certainly is not nor do they trouble about it. All they do serivas damage to the person at whom
Professor Flamm, of the Charlotten- CAMPBELL, MOORE & Co., LTD.the gun was pointed. la erder do clear 30 and looks Hittle more than 20 years of burg High School, writes as follows in
himself, the prisoner had got to persuade age-cumes often in the dead of night, an article on the last Zeppelin raid: the jury that he was incapable of forming mud of the trenches to administer first aid
ploughing heavily through the clinging mands an attack on London. There is at
Justice, compensating justice the idea that he was doing a dangerous to the men have been shot down. Though Present no more appropriate object for thing. 8. From No.10 to 5880, at 36, 7 and FRENCH LESSONS that he said so to Mackenzie and Frank: shoro the knees to protect her as much as tected in the marrow streets.
cognize that he had shot his wife, and high Wellington boots fastened securely with their vast quantities of goods col- The fact that the accused did re- she wears short skirts like a school-girl and oh an attack than the City of London, that gigantic maze of old warehouses,. lin, and that he pointed to the body in the possible from the conditions amidst which attacks are systematic, they are bound to room showed that undoubtedly he was con
If such scions of the fact that he had actually she works, she is often blood-stained from succeed, and there will be plenty of Rus- shot her, but his lordship did no thin with mud from head to foot. She would at the injury at last done to England. attending to the wounded, and splashed sians and Frenchmen to rejoice quietly the jury should attach to much import- ance to that as being conclusive, hut probably thank so one for advertising her But even if London were reduced to undoubtedly did show a certain amount but if a woman could win the V.C. she one-thousandth part of the sorrow and name and blazoning her deeds to the world,eshes, that would not be equivalent to of consciousness,
From the accounts the men give of her brought to our East Prussia, to Bel- would have won hers more than once. misery which this English war she seems to be the Florence Nightingalegium, to France, and now recorlly to the
The Ceylon Department of Agriculture- has broken out in provinces of Poland. Are the authors of produced Turkish leaf cigarettes, and new direction. It has. this misery-the insatiable English mer intends to put them on the market. The chant and the English Government-to Board of Agriculture has sampled the go on ajeying undisturbed their luxu- and the verdict is favourable, as was rious life with a view to nothing but that of H. E. the
Governor, their health and their civilization? Are pronounces them excellent, On the paper they at most to be compelled to pay a are the words: Ceylon-Cigantics,
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It had been suggested, and quite right ly, by the Crown that the jury would be well advised to take the evidence given by a man in the position of the prisoner with considerable-caution, aud that his lord- ship was sure they would do. But the prisoner was entitled to give evidenc
It is announced from Berlin that the and they must give what weight to it the notorious Lieutenant Baron van Forstner. thought proper, It could not be waived whose name was often mentioned in con- aside lightly or discredited merely because nection with the disgraceful incidente it was given by a man who was in a peri-involving the German army at Zabern a ous position such as the prisoner stood few years ago, has fallen in battle.
during all operations which had to be that lamps should be kept ready for use to warn his nurses and other assistants
may have saved the small patient's lifa. With but a triffing delay the tracheotomy was completed and the child, we are glad to report, is now doing well
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