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"THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.
COLONEL BARKER"
CASE.
RECORDER'S SUMMING UP.
"AN UNPRINCIPLED ADVENTURESS.”
Lillias Irma. Valerie. Arkell-Smith, the woman who for several years masqueraded as a man under the name at Colonel Barker, pleaded "Quilty at the Central Criminal Court recently to a charge of per- jury.
RELIGION IN INDIA.
» MISS MAYO ON HINDU
ABUSES.
Miss Katherine Mayo, the author: of "Mother Indio, interviewed in America, said:
The main point I have against the evils I saw in India and which I have mentioned in my books is that these things have got the sanc- tion of the Hindu religioas verip tures. They are also supported by many conservative orthodox Hindus and even advocated by some of them."
"WIFE" TO TWO MEN.
HUSBAND'S ALLEGED POSE
AS BROTHER.
TRIANGLE IN A HOUSE.
PASSENGERS.
Arrivals.
The following passengers arrived | here yesterday by the R.M.S: Em prese of France:-Mrs. E. B. and Miss M. Donly, Mr. R. G. Evans. Mr. Remarkable ailegations were J. W. and Mrs. de Piro, Mr. O. made against a husband at Read-¦ A. Laird, Mr. H. B. Gledhill, Mr. ing Police Court, when George B. Naver, Miss I. C. Anderson, Ms. Tyre Ottoway, aged forts, of C. F. Alabaster, Mr. I. and Mrs. Chapel Street, Reading,
Anderson, Mr. H. Bignotto, Jr. M. cused of forging an insurance deed G. Brisker, Mr. HD. Browne, of assignment for £50 with intent Mr. S. H. and Mrs. Cullen, Mr.
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Rash Broke Out On Daughter's Face Cuticura Healed
“A rush broke out on my daugh- ter's face and soon spread all over It. It was of a wet nature and the eruptions scaled over. When she got warm in bed at night she would. start to rub her face. She did not get a good night's sleep for a year în account of the irritation.
"I tried all sorts of ointments but nothing seemed to do her say good. I read in advertisement for Cutienra Soap and Ointment and sent for a free sample. I got a further supply after using it, And in two months my daughter's face was completely healed. (Signed) Mr. A. Keilý, 7, Rile C2, Blaydon-on-Tyne, Dur- ham, Eng., Jan. 17, 1928.
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to defraud Mr. Lionel John Simp. L. Cheung, Mr. Y. K. Chen, Me. son. Mr. Violet Beatrice Ottoway W. Liang, Mrs. S. Dunn, Mr. A. The interviewer suggested to Miss or Simpson was accused of aiding Dodd, Miss B. Dribensky, Mr. T, Mayo that it would be possible to and abetting Ottoway.
She was
5. Fan, Mr. D. H. Fong, Dr. K. The Recorder, passing sentence, discover parallels in Chienge and also accused of bigamy with Mr. and Mrs. Huang, Mr. J. Kemp, said it was just as well that the air Glasgow and that these evils were Simpson at Portsmouth in October Mr. S. M. Kwan, Mrs. M. Klatch- should be cleared and that the pot common to the whole of India | 1927
k2. M. C. T. Keisinukov, Mr. T. but to restricted, and small areas, Mr. A. Crompton, prosecuting and Mrs. Looney, Mr. J Li- Y Kwan, Mr. T. C. Lay, Mr. J. prisoner and everybody else should She replied: "While in Europe said that Mr. Simpson. who had ch, Mr. Y.-C. Lee, Mr. S. Y. Liu, understand exactly what offence it
gone through a marriage ceremony ia to which she had pleaded guilty. and America, these evils are con- "You have pleaded guilty to an demne by the religious heads and with Mrs. Ottoway, had taken out. C. Liu, Mr. P. S. and Mrs. Liu, Mr. H. M. Lai, Mr. E. A. offence against the sub-section of 1-by society, the case is reversed in an endowment policy of £100, and MacDonald, Mr. W. C. Ma, Mr. Y the Perjury Act' dealing with falso India. That is the main reason for when the premium became due
Matsuura, Mr. J. S. Parsons. Mr. statements as to any particulars re- my writings in which I am trying Mrs. Ottoway said that she could D. M. Ross. Mr. L. G. E. Ramage, quired by law to be known and re-
to show how the Hindu scriptures not fad the policy. She stated Mfrs, and Miss Ramage, Mrs. E. M. That is what you have done, and
paid the premium.
Wing. Mr. C. C. Young, Mr. H. Shum, Mr. A. Vickers, M. C. S. for that and for that alone I have to award the proper sentence.
Liang, Master. Liu, Mr. J. G. 3. Brugnan, Mr. J. A. Brum, Mr. O.. I. Warren. F. B. Drumm, Mr. E E. Forbes, Rev. A., Mrs. A. and Master D. Hammond, Col. F. J. C.. and Mrs. Wyatt, Mr. G. R. and Mrs. Hutchinson, Mr. D. Alvarez, Mr. Simpson, giving evidence, Matthews, Col. Q. H., Mr. and
Miss S. G. Denny, Mr. F. DONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above- named Vessel are hersoy informed said that Ottoway had been living Miss Nance, Mis E. Rasmussen, Me that their Goods are being landet and with him and the woman since 1927. A. and Mrs. Abadilla, Mrs. E, placed AT THECA HK in the Hong Kong. Mrs. Ottoway haring introduced Carmona, Mrs. P. Ordoveza, Mr. J.
and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Mark by Mark and Delivery can be Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where sock Consignment will be sorted out obtained as the Goods are landed.
gistered relating to any marriage, and orthodox Hindus could and did later that she had found it and Reid, Mr. Seto, Mr. M. C. and Mrs., STEAMER ROSSINGTON COURT."
Tribute to Counsel, "You went to the parish church of Brighton, and there you purport- ed to be married as a man under
support and defend the practices I condemn."
She stated positively that she had no political motives behind her writing.
the name of Victor Barker, describ| POLICE MISTAKE VICTIM. ing yourself as such and describing yourself as a bachelor. By this means you committed the crime of perjury, with which, and with which alone. I am dealing
"You have had the advantage of being defended by one of the most able and eminent advocates at the Bar, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett, and he has made what I may describe as a masterly defence on your be half, and I listened with very great respect, as I always listen to any thing he says, to all his arguments, and I have taken time to consider my judgment,
"Sir Henry's arugment resolved itself into two portions. The first was that which concerns your career up to the year 1923, and I say at once that I'accent in its entirety his argument and I accept the deduc- tions that follow therefrom. I ne-
cent the statement that you were unhappily married and that you [lived unhappily with the other man afterwards by whom you had the two children. I accept everything that Sir Henry Cartis-Bennett said with regard to your war service and all the other matters.
Lived na-Man and Wife,
He then came to the second part of his argument, and that deals with. your conduct from 1923 onwards, particularly with your conduct in relation to the travesty of marriage, He has put to me that you were on the horus of a dilemma,
You took Miss Haward to an hotel at Brighten a month before you contracted this marriage, and there you lived together purporting to be man and wife. He put it also that her father, discovering that these relations had subsisted be tween you, insisted on your marry ing her. Thereby he has argued you were on the horns of a dilemma. In my judgment you were in no such position.
"You had merely to show that I cannot see how it could have put you in any difficulty. It may have disturbed your pride, but it was no such dilemma as it would have been had, you in fact been a man.
you were a woman.
COURT VINDICATION OF A
NAVAL OFFICER.
"I do not propose to call, any evidence and wish to withdraw the prosecution," said Mr. E. B. Knight, for the Commissioner of Police, at when Sub-Lieut. John Hampden Bow Street Police Court, recently, Fordham, R.N., aged twenty-three, of Mill-vale. Bromley, Kent, was charged on remand with being drunk while in charge of a motor-car.
Mr. Knight said that it appeared that a constable saw Lieut. Ford" ham trying to start the engine of the car by the front handle, and in doing so he lost his hold and fell against the car. The constable come to the conclusion that he was
kat actually happened." said Mr. Crompton, was that the mat Ottoway obtained a loan of from moneylenders and assigned the policy to the firm, signing promissory note in the name of L J. Simpson. The woman was pre seat at the time and signed some of the documents,”
him as her brother.
Mrs Ottoway said: "What I did into it. He made me marry Mr. was through Ottoway. He led me Simpson."
for trisi, bail being allowed.
The Ottoways were committed
Mrs. Ottoway was adjourned.
The charge of bigamy against
N.Y.K. PRESIDENT.
A NEW APPOINTMENT.
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The Hong Kong office of the drunk, and therefore took him into Nippon Yusen Kaisha has received custody,
a telegram from the Head Office in Tokyo, to the effect that at the T. Shirani resigned his post as general meeting held on May 2 Mr. President of the Company, and Mr. K. Kagami was elected in his place. Mr. Shirani, however, is remaining as one of the Directors.
Lieut. Fordham was examined half an hour later by the deputy divisional police surgeon, who seem- ed to have some doubt about his condition. He wrote in his certi- ficate: "The motor-driver has been drinking and is excited. In my opinion, he is not drunk now.".
Magistrate's Question, The magistrate (Sir Chartres Biron): And there had been no time for him to become sober. in the meanwhile if he was drunk when arrested?
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and that was why he did not pro- Mr. Knight said that he agreed, pose to proceed with the case.
...
Sir Henry Curtis Bennett, K.C.. for the defence, said his client had always borne the highest character He denied being in the Navy. drunk.
The magistrate said Lieut. Ford- ham seemed to have been the victim of unfortunate circumstances, which led at the time to a mistake, which had now been put right. There was no suggestion of any kind against bis character, and he ordered his immediate discharge.
BOMBS AT: TREGUNTER MANSIONS.
WHAT ACTUALLY WAS FOUND.
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"Unscrupulcus Adventuress." "One word with regard to the position of Miss Haward. She gave her evidence before me, and I was impressed by it. She tells me, she, in fact, although she first regarded you as a woman, believed your state- | ment that you were a man and be- lieved the explanation whereby you
Yesterday morning some excite explained away the children. With ment was caused by the discovery out expressing any view as to the of a number of bombs, arms and truth or falsity of Miss Haward's ammunition at No. 3 Tregunter evidence, I say that that in con- Mansiona, May Road. The police, sidering this case I am assuming in however, attach little importance your favour that Miss Haward be- to the finding, and suggest that fore the alleged marriage must have they are war relics probably left known you were a woman.
by a former tenant,
In Mr. Kagami's younger days, he spent many years in London "in the marine insurance" busiess, and o his return to Japan fostered the Tokyo Marine & Fire Insurance Co. to its present high reputation, he being now the Chairman of its Board of Directors. As a promin- ent member of the Mitsubishi Trust Co. a few years ago, and is group, he established the Mitrabishi
now its President.
As he is a gentleman of such prominence in Japanese business circles, with a thorough grasp of the shipping trade, his election as President of the N.Y,K. will be a welcome addition to the shipping authorities of the world.
THE KENT'S UNWILLING PASSENGER
2:
SAMPAN MAN RESCUED
“CHOP-CHOP."
Mrs. Villaesenor, Miss Lustgarten, and Mrs. Eleazar, Mr. A. and
Pollock, Mr. J. O. Rubien, Mr. C. Rev. V. H. Gowan, Sir Heary,
Rev. P. Cachopero, Rev. Juan F. Sackleton, Mr. C. C. Speyer, Castedo. Mr. C. E. and Mrs. Thursta. Prof. M. Manguerra, Prol. G. T. Suva, Prof. G. Jamias, Mr. J. Schlobolm, Mr. B. Reipnoso, Mr. 31. Carrillo, Mr. M. Gutierrez. Mr. B. Morales. Mr. A. Reyes. Mr. A. Tiongoo, Mr. H. Morales, Mr. C. Olissen, Mr. S. Lozano, Capt. T S. and Mrs. Brand, Mies A. Angium. Mrs. M. R. Carlson, Mrs. L M. Chester, Miss A. F. Cole, Mr. Z. L. Dih, Mr. J. P. and Mrs. Fentzling, Mrs. F. E. Henley, Miss M. Jones, Mr. S., Mrs and Master Kagansky, Miss F. Liang, Miss M. Mrs. B. Verches, Miss R. Verches Laing, Miss 31. Brummitt, Mra. A., Master R. Verches, Master J. Ferches, Master R. Verches. Master P. Varches and infant
There was an unwilling guest" aboard H.M.S. Kent as she steam. ed towards Hankow a few days) ago. He in sainpan mac who was taken on board "the cruiser after his craft had been sunk beneath him in the Whangpoo River.
11 o'clock for her up-river cruise. The Kent weighed anchor about As she neared the Garden Bridge, huge vessel struck her smaller ad a sampan cut across her bow. The versary squarely "amidships" and sheared it in two pieces.
The sampan went under without & flut ter and the sculler was cast into the water.
The Kent's engines were reversed
and she have to for the rescue in record time. A lifeboat and crew
"An argument was addressed to
The premises are at present oc- me with regard to the publicity of these proceedings and as to the cupied by Mr. Van Oyen, of the Netherlands Trading Society, and attention they have attracted ap- Mr. Steinster, formerly Manager parently in the press and among of the same firm, lived at the flat, the public. I tell you again for your satisfaction that I shall miti-A Mr. Smyth occupied the flat up
till 1924. gate your sentence because of the not unnatural if somewhat morbid The list of "arms" found by the interest, that your case has appar- police were- ently aroused.
Mills Hand Grenades loaded understand is part of the punish with amminal, but without detosa-gain went ahead and the Kent
That I can well
ment for your perverted conduct. | teru.
Scathing Comment,
"I have considered, Mrs. Arkell- Smith, and I, have carefully ponder- ed over everything that can be said in your favour, and the result that
I have arrived at is this: That you are an unprincipled, mendacions, and unscrupulous adventuress. You
were lowered to the river.
The sampan man was fished out like a The davita half-drowned rat creaked and the lifeboat was raised The engines gain to the deck. proceeded on her interrupted journey. The sampan man leaned
1 British rifle grenade empty. over the rail wistfully and watch-
1 Foreign rifle grenade empty.ed Shanghai's skyline fade into
3 Dummy Mills Hand Grenades. the distance.
1 British anti-aircraft. bomb
1917, loaded and primed with deaboard a foreign cruiser,
He was an unwilling prisoner
tonater.
2 Milla Bomb adaptors with de tonaters.
have in the case before me profan four metal cylinders. ed the House of God, outraged the
5 rods for rifle grenades, and
decencies of nature, and broken the | m
law of men.""
"You have falsified the marriage prison in the second division. for register and net no evil example nine months," which, were, you to go unpunished,
At one
Mrs. Arkell-Smith was quite-un- others might follow. Bo grave in moved by the sentence. the eyes of the law is the offence period only did she show emotion. you have committed that the This was during the statement of maximum penalty is acven years' the Judge that she was an UD- penalty servitude. In all the cir- scrupulous adventuress and bad pro- cumstances of the case, adopting all faaed the House of God. She then tage
LORDS Becnica to ghrink in At Bar T cast her eyes to the ground. At this sentence, that you be kept in (Continued at foot of next column). this period she was in tears.
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