SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO LET.
From 1st May, 1016. CRAIGN
HAIGMIN BAST, 160, PRAK FIVE ROOMS, newly renovated Furnished 3115 per month, Unfurnished $100 per month.
Apply
T. K. DEALY, 180, Peak, Hongkong, Sib April, 1916.
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that N°
the FORTY THIRD ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Society will be
hold. at. its Hoad Office, No. Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18th April, 1916, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1915, and of declaring Dividends,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from 8th April to 18th April, 1916, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Boartl,
O. MONTAGUE EDE General Manager.
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Hongkong, 7th April, 1816.
CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY LTD:
·NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DAY TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
MEETING of the Company, will be held at its Head Office, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 18th April, 1916, at 12.15 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Accciunt to 31st December,
and. of deolaring Dividends, do The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th April to 18th April, both days inclusivo.
By Order of the Boned,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, General Manager.
Hongkong, 7th April, 1016.
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CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE, " COMPANY. LTD..
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the CHINA TRADERS'
INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, wil No. 4, Connaught Koach,
in the
INTIMATIONS
ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE SPORTS.
THE RONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1910.
THE MEMBERS of the ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION will be "AT HOME to Parents of Scholars and Friends of the College, at the Race Cour, on the occasion of the SECOND ANNUAL ATHLETIC SPORTS TO-DAY (SATUR- DAY), 8th April, 1916.
Ten: 4-6 P.MAN
EJ. NORONHA
Hon. Secretary.
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Hongkong, 7th April, 1916.
HONGKONG TENNIS LEAGUE 1910.
ENTRIES for above Lengua clase Afficil
TE sufficient entries there will be 1st and 2nd Divisions.
Seerotaries are asked to state which Division they entor for.
DR. F. LINDSAY WOODS, Alexandra Buildings,
Acting Hon Secretary.. Hongkong, 3rd April, 1916,
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THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Ter the Members of the above Club will be held in the Club House, Happy Valley, on MONDAY; the 17th April, 1916, at 6.30 PM, for the following purposes:
To receive the Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1615.
To elect the Officers and Committen for 1910,
To transact any other business
By order
T. W. HILL Acting Hou, Secretary. Hongkong, 8th ap:11, 1916.
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44%, RUSSIAN INTERNAL SHORT TERMED LOAN OF 1918
for Rbls. 2,000,000,000,
(UBSCRIPTION to the above LOAN will be Opened from 28th March till 5th May inclusively.
The Price of issue is 95%.
The Loan is entirely free of Income Tax and of other taxationa
PUBLIC COMPANIES
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
LIMITED.
THE STU ORDINARY ANNUAL the Company will be held at the Offices of MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company, St. George's Buildings, Chater Road Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 10th day of April, 1010, at 11.46 AM for the purpose of receiving & Statement of
31st
INTIMATION
LIKE
Account and the Boport of the Directors for WATSON'S
the year ending
declaring Dividend. Desember, 1916, and The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the let April,
to MONDAY, the 10th April, 1910, both days inclusive.
By Order of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Hongkong, 28th March, 1816. THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU FACTURING CO., LTD.
LATO
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
NTRANSFER BOOKS of the Come
pany will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 5th April, to MONDAY, the 10th Apri 1918, both days inclusive N
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
General Managers, Hongkong, 27th March, 1916. [472 HONGKONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED.
LOST.
TRANSFER RECEIPT Nod. 1917 issued Mr. LAU LO CHUNG for Transfers of 700 Shares in this Company into his name, having been Mislaid, Lost, or Destroyed, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that unless the said Receipt is produced at this Office within 30 days from the date hereof, the Certificates for the said Sharos will be felivered to the said Mr. LAU IU CRUNG, and the Transfer Receipt will thereafter be held by the Company as null and void. For the HONGKONG TRAMWAY Co., LTD.,
WE ROBERTS,
Secretary Hongkong, 24th March, 1916. UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
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SCOTCH
by platitades, because they have had prao- tical experience. The Manila newspapers reflect this outlook. It is, therefore, not surprising to find that the sympathy of the Americans who visit us from Manila is overwhelmingly in favour of the Allies when they discuss the present state of affairs in Europe. They at least, hold no illusions on the subject of the German
MIGNACO,
The forty-third ordinary yearly mosting of the Union Insurance Society of Canton will be held at its Head Office, No. 4 Queen's Buildings, Hongkong, on Tuesday. the 18th April,
A Home Nursing Class will commence on Monday next, of 6 p.m., under the auspicoï of the Catholic Women's Lengue, nt Sa Patrick's Hall, Garden Road. Ladies who wish to attend are invited to send their
Chiefly because of its effect upon the European situation, but also because of the names to Miss Loureiro, Hon Saretary.
The Bandian Company gave a second results in the Philippines, we shall watch the graduat unfolding of the campaign for performance of “The man who stayed at the Presidential election in the Uniset | Home" to a well-filled bouse at the Theatra States with deep interest. The two sub. ↑ Royal last evening. The general theme of jects aro closelig skin. The rival candidates the war play was thoroughly appreciated and Mr. Compton Coutts again scored a will represent rival ideas, At the one ex- treame
we have Mr. ROOSEVELT, who big successTo-night the Company pre
duce The Whirl of the Town.
WHISKY, has no doubts at all about his policy. It
E
The engagement is announced of Julian I. Piggott, A.D.C to G.O.C. 41st Division, younger son of Sir Francis Piggott, late Chief Justice of Hongkong, and Lady Pig gott, Ewhurst, Surrey, and Miss Nancy Howard, second daughter of Ernest Howard and step-daughter of Mrs Ernest Howard, The White House, Heath End, Farnham,
The marriage arranged between Brac Puddicombe of the Chinese Customs, Can tón, only son of the late Francis Morgan Puddicombe Surgeon R.N., and Mrs. Pud dicembe, 10. Regency-mansions, St. Leon grds-on-Sea, and grandson of the late Chas Calzon, C.B, of the Admiralty, and Lydia daughter of the late Hon. David and Mrs. Arnot, of South Africa will take place fo Hongkong during the present month,
can be summed up in his famous expression "Speak softly had carry a big stick.” He believes that both the Army and the Navy of his country should be developed He has no sympathy whatever with the sickly sentimentalism which evades the enll of duty. There is, just now, a mast popular song in the Slates, the burden of which is that a mother constantly repeats **I didn't rear. my son to be a soldier." Ex-President Roosevels retorts that, to be consistent, she should also sing "I didn't reny my daughter to be a mother," For he holds that it is just as much the duty of a man to be ready to endanger his life for the cause which he thinks right as it is for a woman to endanger her's on behalf of posterity: Nor has the ex-President any doubts about the duty of his country at the outbreak of war. The kind of
The fiftieth ordinary yearly taveling of neutrality which seeks to preserve pence
the China Trader's Insurance Co., Ltd., by timidly refusing to live up to our
will be held at its Head Office. No, 4 plighted word and to denounce and take
Queen's Buildinga. Hongkong on Tursday, extraordinary general meeting will follow action against such wrong as that com
the 18th April 1919, at 12.15 p. A "unworthy of an honourable and powerful for the purpose of considering, and, if people." He then relates that Dante rethought fit, passing the fullowing resolu inferno for those base angels who dared changed to British Traders Insurance served a special place of infamy in the tion Thine the name of the Company he
The Loan is redeemable at par on lat Certificate No. 2050 for 20Shares, $100 paid up ALWAYS AT THE FRONT. mitted in the case of Belgium is," he any for the Russian Government to convert it at February 1920, Russian style, without option an earlier date.
numbered 3921/3936 and 0476/0480 Cortificate No. 2980 for 20Shares, $100 paid up numbered 6016/6035 und 9746/9765, Certificate No. 2981 for 20Shares, 9100 paid up,
numbered 6361/8360
be held at the Head Ofice of the Company, Interest on the above loan runs from 1st/14th Certificato No, pour for 20dures, 6100 paid u A. S. WATSON
Coupons are payable half-yearly on the let February and 1st August, Russian style. A February, the interest accrued on date of tion and is to be added to the price of issue. The Russo-AsTATTO BANK in Hongkong is
Colony of Hongkong, on Toczony 18th subscription must be taken into considera Certifie qumbered 6381(8400
No-
CO., LTD.,
&
tide neither with evil nor with good. A the other extreme we have the outlook of
purpose ofdinary Resolution the ready to accept applications for the above GEO. RICHARDSON & COMPANY, LTD. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS Mr. BRYAN, the first colleague to part.com.
day of April, at 12.30 PM, for the and, if thought fit, passing as an following Resolution; that is to say
named Losn the name of the Company be Special favourable rates will be quoted for changed to BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE Russian exchange COMPANY LIMITED."'*:
the above Resolution be passed by .the
he requisite majority, it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resolution to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will he subsequently convened.
Dated this Seventh By Order of the Board of April, 1910.
C. MONTAGUE EDE. General Manager,
Hongkong, 7th April, 1918.
WANTED.
HOUSE STEWARD.
624
App'y to--
THE SECRETARY.
HONGKONG ULUR Hongkong, 8th April, 1918.
537
~WANTED—IMMEDIATELY.
NOMPETENT EUROPEAN First-Class Ship's STEWARD for Pacific Run Good references required as to character and experience in catering.
Apply personally to
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, York Building. Hongkong, 6th April, 1916.
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WANTED.
A FURNISHING DEPARTMENT at MAN capable of taking estiro charge of
our House in TIENTSIN; he must have a thorough Knowledge of the Trade in every Branch, estimating, designing, overseer of Factory, etc. A permanent berth with
agree. font to suitable man.
Apply with full particula
of experience Mr. VINE, Manager, MESSES. HALL & HOLTZ, Lr.,
Shanghai,
in first instance to--:
NOTICE.
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URING ME. Lavrentz's absence Mx.
DFWS. EVANS will be in Charge of the Hongkong Branch of our Business
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co. Hongkong, 6th April, 1915.
NOTICE.
120 (513
WE HAVE This Day admitted Ms.
CLIFFORD EDGCUMBE » Partner in our business of Ship, Freight, Coal Brokers and Commission Agents.
SNOWMAN & Co. Hongkong, 1st April, 1916.
NOTICE.
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HE remainder of
the pawongen baggage from theCHIVO
· MARU has been safely landed on Tam Kan Island. Owing to the very heavy seas, this baggage cannot at present be brought to Hongkong, but same will be landed here as soon as weather conditions permit
Payment may also be made in Roubles. - Applications will be wired to align free telegraphic charges and commission
40% only of the cost of the Bonds may be paid on application, the balance to be paid on receipt of the Bonds.
The Bank is also ready to give every facility to subscribers in the shape of advances against the scrips.
G. TISDALL, Manager, RUSSO-ABIATIC BANK, Hongkong, 30th March, 1916,
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held
the old
2033 for 208hsres, $100 paid up, standing in the Register in the name of numbered 6401/8420 7
given that unless the said Certificates are having been declared LOST, Notice is hereby
produced to the Society on or before the 3rd July, 1916, NEW CERTIFICATES for the cald Shages will be issued Certificates will thereafter be by the Society as null and vold
By Order of the Board of Directors,
CMONTAGUE EDE, General Manager, Hongkong, 3rd April; 1916.
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HONGKONG AND CHINA GAS CO., LIMITED.
NOTION
THE COMPANY regrets that owing to the
THE 6% INTERNAL LOAN OF THE 4THT INCREASED COST of MATERIALS,
YEAR OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC (1913).
THE PUBLIC ARE HEREBY
that the Scoond Faye NOTIFIED Internal Loan of the 4th Year of the Chineso Republic (1915) will fall due as the 12th of April of this year. The detailed regulations governing the payment of interest of the said Loan have been published in the Government Gosite. Pamphlets containing these reguls tions may be obtained on application to the establishments authorised for the payment of interest. The following is the summary of the regulations:
1. Payment of interest commences on 12th
of April, 1916.
2 Organs in China authorised to pay
interest:
All Magistrates' Yamens.
it is compelled to make the following Altera tions in its terms of business:-
The Price of Gas for all purposes will be sized to 52.50 per 1,000 cubic feet as from
Hire of Cookers, Geysers and other Cooking and Heating Apparatus will be continued, but thoCost of Labour and Materials used in fixing these goods will be charged to consumers.
HONGKONG.
TELEPHONE 816.
DEATH PHILLIPS, March 4, Alice Isabel, daugh- ter of late George Phillips, HBM's China Consular Service:
HONGKONG OFFion: 104, Das Vœux Road, O. London Oraton± 181, Franz Grant, E.0.
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, 8TH APRIL, 1918
Co., Ltd.
Various ladies residing on Skamoen
dozen abdominal pads, 1 dez packets of wabs, 27 bags of assorted sizes of plugs, 22 sheets, 7 doz. pillow cases, pairs of knitted socks, etc.
pany with President WILSON sings his and in Canton have been working on be administration was formed. His view ap-half of the Red Cross Hospital in Cairo, pears to practual men as too idealistic for and the following articles have just been this work-a-day world. Despite the recent sent, to Colonel Gordon Hall, RAM.C., a +xamples of the utter disregard of Austrin Abbasin-Oh doz, triangular bandages] for one treaty and Germany for another, doz, many-tailed bandages 26 cys bandages, he continued to spend his time in producing arbitration treaties. After the Belgium tragedy most of us have realised that the just ren must be armed. Even before the war, Mr. Bryan, if he had been a politician in England, would have had a following not much more numerous than the Quakers It is difficult to estimate the number of his In the United States just now supporters because we can quite understand that all the pro-Germans are with him to his efforte
A coole has been sent to hospital, suffers ing from injuries as the result of a stupid attempt to get into Mesara, Gilman & Co.'s lift when in uption. It appears that the lift at Mossra. Gilman and Co.'s had been get in motion from the ground floor and the gate had been closed when a coolie, employ to reduce the fighting power of his owned by Messrs. Gilmau, rushed it, opened the country. It remains to be seen what can lift gate and attempted to get insitle the didates will be nominated for the Pre-lift, with the result that he was caught be... A Few days ago H.E. the GOVERNOR residency. If, as we hope, the fight is a
tween the floor of the lift and the roof of straight one between Dr. WILSON and the hall receiving severe injuries, Mr. ROOSEVELT it will be most
exciting
· OUR" COUSINS.
The Labour und Materials used in fixing Lighting Fittings will also charged to thelated that he had tried to persuado bis gustomer.
GEORGE CURRY,»
family to break the Hongkong habit of Local Secretary, always spending the summer vacation in Hongkung, 31st March, 1916, 70
Japan and to visit instead the health resort of the Philippines His Excellency evidently desired to suggest the advantago to the dweller in the East of as sccssional TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an change of atmosphere" He reminded MEETING of THE HONGKONG BOPE
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU- FACTURING CO., LTD,
We have no doubt as to who is the moro popular of the tire among
our consime! in the Philippines
b. The Head and Branch Offices of the EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL us of our kinship with the citizens of the broker, received a telegram from Singapore
Bank of China and of the Bank of Communications.
c. The reliable agents of the above-
mentioned two Banks.
3. Organs in foreign countries authorised
to pay interest
MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD, United States, and he racchoed the sent will be held at St. George's Building, Chater
ments of all thoughtful people when he Road Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 10th day of April, 1816, expressed the hope that the Stars and at 11.30 o'clock in the forenoon, when the Stripes would continue to flost over the an Extraordinary Resolution at the
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THE YAUMATI MURDERS, DEFENDANT'S ALLEGED
CONFESSION;
The case in which a Chiveso is charged Yesterday Mr. WJ, Carroll share
with robbery with violence at Yaumati was quoting Malakoffs 1.40 buyers, $4.00 red yesterday before Mr. FA,
sellers (Straits currency).
Hazeland,
A Chinese pilot, who said he had known
A Japanese "boy" who was reported missing the defendant for two or three years paty
Consulates, and all Offices of the Subjoined Resolution which was passed Philippine Islands for an indefinite period Vorn was found by the police hanging by and met the defendant in the street and
All Chinese Legations, Chinese Chinese Resident Commissioners -Branch Offices of the Bank of Communications. In foreign towns where no such branches exist, foreign banks are authorised to pay interest.or -All Chinese Chambers of Com
Guilds and Public Organs organised by Chinese. 4 Method of claiming interest.
claiming interest, the bondholder must cut down the m matured present then at any of ons and
merce
mentioned organs.
Wheni
the above- said organg after examining the coupons will then pay interest and keep the coupons O paid. But the holder of $1,000 bonds or $10,000 bonds must not cut down the coupons themselves, as the said bonds miast be examined first by the organs concerned.
The matured coupons can be used as caeli in payment of land tax. The interest of the coupons is expressed in term of “big dollar and if it is required to be converted into taels or copper caah, then the rate of exchange for different districts will be fixed and poster in conspicuous places by the various Financial
Bureaux concerned. (No. 1) of each bond Passengers who have mop yet received
The cancelled coupons their baggage are kindly requested to re-
must be cat down at the time when the port to the Offices of the Toyo KISEN cash or in payment of land tax, and to be coupon No is presented for payment in KAISHA regarding such missing baggage handed over for cancellation together with #furnishing the following particulars ——
coupon
No. The Public are requested to payment of interest which are obtainable at any of the authorised organs above mentioned.
Br Order. THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL LOANS
Description of baggage, Number of packages.
Cabin Number.
Forwarding Destination (if desired).
E DOL Acting Agent Hongkong, April 5th, 1916.
$15
Factre
ordinary General Meeting of the Company With the opening of the Panama Canal, held on the 25th day of March, 1910, will be
on Thursday afternoon from the Jinsen said that he went to Macao some time ago
they both went into an opium divan where
the neck from stree in the Public Gardens,
bmitted for confirmation as a Special Hongkong is brought into more direct com- He had been dead some time when dis
Resolution:
That the Articles of Association of
munication with New York and the cen- covered.
Company be altered in wadze following three of industry in the Eastern States We
the defendant said: Three men boarded the boat. We rowed out for the purpose of robbing a small boat, but the small boat
(a) That after the word "Company" in the are denly becoming increasingly aware of The Hon, Treasurer of the Alice Meme became avere of it, and we did not attack
18th line of Article 110 the following to any advantages which have accrued rial and Affiliated Hospitala acknowledges
orda shall be addled
(b) That the words "Bs or Bonusen
shall be inserted immately word "Dividend" in
Article 110
with thanks the following donations:-Lin read & Davis, 26; Hon, Mr. J. H. Kemp, $10; F. P. Talati, #10; G. Tisdall, $10; J. A. Young, 810 United Asbestos Agency, 10; Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming, $10, Fomer & Komor 3%; Hos, Mr. II. II. J. Gompertz, #5: D. A Lakhmanoff, 65, Wiseman & Co., 85; Lilmann & Co., #5; D. H. Cooper & Co., 85; Dr. Chadwick Kew,
The General Manager may also to the Orient by reason of the American
th the consent of the Consulting
amittee pay such bonus or administration in the Philippines. It is Bonuses as the General Bagers no reflector upon our own Colony to say * think fitne
ms can learn a great deal by a visit One personal experiences enn the relative advantages of the agre health resorts and Paguio, but ef in the Colony that
the
very much more expen- sive than Japan, and it is probabla that | 85. this baker has made many, hesitate to try the experiment mmended by the Governor. It would be particularly in teresting, just now, to spend a few weeks with our cousins in the Philippines Al Atmericans who have resided in the islands
(e) That the words and comites" holl inserted immediately her theo “Dividend" in the first line of Article 116. A Dated this 27th day of March, 1916
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO
General Managora.
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NOTICE
THE NATIONAL BENEFIT LIFE & PROPERTY ASSURANCE CO., LTD. (Established 1800)
16
At an examination iu Home Nursing held recently under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association of the Govern, ment Civil Hospital by Dr WV. M. Koch, honorary lecturer, the following candidates from the Quarry Bay, Clase were
the smaller boat but robbed the boat in which we were. We shoved the girl into the sea he called out to "Save life" and she was hit with an oar. While theo was in the water te olutobed hold of the boat, and then she bank. Then que of us held the other wong and another took from her a pair of gold mounted bangles and a gold finger ring. We then pushed her overboard; she could swim, and while Bank Later we were chased by other the water she was struck with a car and people and bred at, so wo jumped into the water. Then two of us were struck dosd, and I swam back to the boat we were first in rowed to the shore. That, continuel
the witnes, was all the accused said to him. On March 8th, he went back to Macro with the Hongkong police, when accused was
arrested
read the detailed regulations governing the Undersigned, AGENTS for the above govered by the United States seem to successful:-Mrs, J. Dalziel Miss Wint-have been prepared to die, but nothing was
$16
HE against FIRE RISKS at Current Rates on hong, to have the Imperialis ontlook. Mrs, C. Strafford. Surgeon Major G. D. Company are prepared to lasue Policies judge by those who pass through Hong-fred G. McNeill, Miss Jessie MoNeill, and approved Foreign and Chinese Properties in Hongkong and Marany
have no doubt about whist is needed R. Black acted as hon, examiner to the They BOTELHO BROS.,
Alexandra Buildings. Hongkong, 5th April, 1916,
** at Manila. They believe in “the white clue. - All the candidates who entered for [514 -1 man's burder,” and they remain unaffected the examinat on passed.
・ Defcudas, said that his worship had to try the case fairly." Articles sometimes looked alike and so did per oba If the articles had been found on him he would
It was because he owed $3 to the witness found on him. He did not do it, and did ridt tell the witness the story at Maoso. that they had trumped up that chargs against him. "
-Defendant was committed to the ups Criminal Bessions while