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No. 22375 號捌拾柒百叁仟式萬式第日叁拾叁年午庚
ESTABLISHED 1857.
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930.
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Shatin...Dep 6.56
Taipo...Dep 7.10
Taipo
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Fanling Dep. 7.25
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CHINESE COFFIN OPENED TO EXPLAIN WOMAN'S DEATH.
HONOLULU, April 9.
[UNITED PRESS.]
on.
The Sherif finally decided to perniit Shainwald to be present, The death of Marion D. Serior,ased on elaborate studies of pos- poison in the death of Mrs. Sevier | wife of a prominent army colonelsible poisons, made, by Shainwald.. who died in August, 198, has been This in turn drew the filing of a behalf of Colonel the subject of increasing interest petition
restrain the Sevier, seeking to in local army circles and the Sheriff from holding an autopsy. territory generally as delay after delay has arisen to hinder the in- vestigation which officials launched to determine, if possible," the cause of death.
Sheriff from holding the autopsy, it was cited that suspicions of were nothing but the halucinations. of Shainwald, who, the petition Shainwald alleged, was insane. has been demanding thorough investigation ever since. his sister's death. He went to the War De In the Coffth of a Chinese,
partment and the Justice Depart While this further delay was ment in Washington. It was from holding up the Sheriff, Attorney Washington that the first unofficial Frank Thompson, who represented autopsy was arranged. Colonel Sevier, filed on behalf of a Chinese, | Sevier gave his permission for this, Wong On, a 820,000 suit for and experts representing Sevier damages against Shaiawald. During and Shainwald, in addition the course of Shainwald's investiga army and navy physicians, were tions. employees at the undertaking present. parlour told him, he said, that Mrs Serior's viscera were destroyed by placing then in the foot of the.
of a coffin
Chinese who
lo
Ralph Shainwald, member of prominent New Rochelle family. and brother of Mrs. Sevier, has been in Honolulu a year seeking an inquest over the body of his sister, because, he believes, there is
Nothing Suspicious Found. possibility that she was poisoned.
No ora found anything to in Shainwald set forth this belief in
dicate poison, it was asserted. Such spurt proceedings which attended
his demands for an inquest,
cremated.
reports as have been available from Eighteen months after the wo-
Shainwald looked up health de- medical men present agreed that man's death certain doctors agreed partient records and found oaothing suspicious was found. The that the history over her illness, Chinese had been cremated froes report of Dr. Alex Gettler, New and the facts revealed at an un- the undertaking paridag at the tin York toxicologist, who was retain official autopsy last year, east doubt of his sister's death. However, be ed by Shainwald, has never been on the full accuracy of the diag found that a Chinese named Woagande public. Shainwald said, how- nosis of attending physicians, who Kam had been baried from the ever, that another autopsy would be gave heart trouble and arterio-undertaking parlour."
necessary to further the investiga- slerosis as among the causes. This So Shainwald obtained permis-tions of Dr. Gettler,
The case has attracted widespread enused Sheriff and Coroner Patrick |sion of a Chinese society to which Gleason to call an inquest.
Wong Kam belonged, of his friends interest because of the persons in- ense diheult is the absence of the of the woman who. Shainwald was Shainwald, who died in New York One of the factors making the who arranged for his burial, and volved. Shaiawald and his sister were children of Mra Rictto E. viscera from Mrs. Sevier's body.informed, WAS the common-law The urtaker who handled the wife of Wong Kam, for the exon August 30, 1993, leaving a large ease, am Borthwick, said the amination of Wong Kam's remains fortune. Colonel Sevier comes from viscerere removed because a
No stray vital organs was found in an old Tennessee family. He has hurried embalming was demanded, the coffin and Wang Kam's reraains been in the army service most of his making it necessary. The Sheriff were again interred.
life, including duty in Washington, first issued a call for the inquest The suit of Wang On, who claim-Manila, Seattle, Hawaii oa February 7. Colonel Sevier coped to be the cousin and only re-various mainland posts. sented to the examination of his lative of Wong Kam, came almost Sevier desired to take the body wife's remains, until he learned a year after the latter's remains of his wife back to his family home that the Sheriff planned to permit were disturbed. Wong On asserted in Tennessee when his present tour Shainwald to witness the body and it was the age-old Chinese custom of duty here is ended. attend the autopsy' and inquest.
to bury relatives and protect their reasons friends Sevier then withdrew his per mission, and the Sheriff decided, in order to comply with the wishes of the colonel, to bar Shainwald from the proceedings.
On the morning of the autopsy Shainwald filed a petition for an injunction preventing the Sheriff from bolding the autopsy without his presence. A delay ensued in court, whereafter Judge Alva E. Steadman ruled the court had no right to interfere with the executive privileges of the Coroner on the showing made. In the petition, however, Shainwald cited his be lief that possibly his sister had been poisoned, and demonstrated that he was an expert on the subject of poisons by virtue of an M.A. degree in chemistry earned at Columbia University.
and
For that
who made the
remains against desecration and funeral arrangements for him in- violation. Wong On said because aisted on a thorough job of embalm- his cousin's remains had been disg
Ee..could not work,
interred and befouled, he suffered The undertaker, said he received body and mental anguish, so that the body early on a Monday morn ing, and was obliged to have the Funeral 02 Tuesday afternoon. Death of Chinese.
Ordinarily, he said, the vitals are Shaiwald and his associates saw not removed for embalming, but Wong On, and sought to draw from because of the short time which be him a statement that he was not was given to do the job, and because really a relative of the dead Wong, of the long time which the body They were not successful in this, would have to remain in a vault in so far as could be learned, Hov Honolulu before shipment to Ten- ever, the suit became void in lessnessee, it was decided that removal than 10 days after it was filed of the viscera was necessary. when Wong On, 67, died of heart Doctors say that several weeks failure. Members of his family will he consumed after the autopsy said he had worried considerably before findings will be obtained. The absence of the vital organs about the case.
In the petition filed on behalf of makes the autopsy and the findings Sevier seeking to restrain the thereof extremely difficult.
Diary of Coming Events,
To-day.
(April 11.)
Christian Fellowship Meeting,
Cricket.-1st Div. League: I.R.C. Tea Dance: Repulse Bay Hotel, v. 0.0.0., 2nd Div. Friendly: 6 p.m. H.K.C.C. v. D.B.S.
Football: Div. L: Chinese t
Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m. Somerseta. Junior Shield Re-play: で。 Chinese Ath- Lammerts Auction: Household Fur-Eastern F.C. niture, 4, Granville Road, Kowloon,letic "B." 11 s.m. Property (128, Caine Road) Sales Rooms, 3 p.m.
Lawn Tennis:Open Doublea: C. A. Pumjahn and J.-A. E. Cas sunibhoy . S. A. and H. D. Rum jabu.
Homersets,
Hockey: Club v. King's Park, 5 pm
Lecture by Prof. C. A. M. Smith, M.S.C. "Modern Methods of Mes- surement, Institute of Shipbuil- ders and Engineers, 5 p.m.
Dramatic Entertainment, St. Au- drews Church Hall, Kowloon, 0 p.m.
B. B. Salisbury presents "Jour ney's Ead," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Queen's Theatre: "The Duke Steps Out."
World Theatre: "The Awaken ing."
Star Theatre: "Black Diamond Express."
Whiteway Circus, Praya East 2.15 p.m.
Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 4.30 p.m.
Dinner Dances: HK. Hotel and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
European Mails:Inward: Europe vid Siberia (President Lincoln)..
Saturday. (April 12). Oxford and Cambridge Society, Annual 'Diznės.
Boxing, City Hall, 9.15 p.m.
Monday. (April 14.), Club 1. 'King's Park, b.p.m.
R. B. Salisbury presents
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R. 3. Salisbury presents "Journey's End;" Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
lncy's End," Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "The Duke Steps Out."
World Theatre: "The Awaken
ing
Star Theatre: "Black Diamond Express."
Whiteway Circus, Praya East, 9.15 p.m.
Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 6 p.m.
Dinner Dances: Hong Kong, Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, 1.30 p.m.
Europe vid Marseilles (Malws). European Mails:-Outward: 10.30 a.m.; Europe vid Biberia (Beltaan), 6 p.m.
"Bundsy. (April 13.)
Palm Sunday. Sermon and Discussion "The Cross of Christ and Modern Life preacher the Dean, St. John's Cathedral, 6,30 p.m.
Kranti Steeplechase, 3 p.z. Cricket:-Lugard Hall v. IN dians, 11 a.m.
B. B. Salisbury presents "Jour ney's End," Star Theatre, 9.15 pm
Queen's Theatre Trial of 9" World Theatro: The Eagle." Star Theatre Borseman of the Plains."
Queen's Theatre: "Trial of 28." World Theatre: The Eagle." Star Theatre: "Horseman of the Plains."
Whiteway Circus, Praya East, 9.15 p.m.
Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 6 p.m.
Dinner Dances; Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 6.30 p.m.
European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Biberia (Pres. Grant), p.m.; Inward Parcels only Lon- don, March 13 (Adrastur).
Tuesday. (April 15)
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Lecture on "Voltaire" by Mr. R. G. Birch, Union Assembly Room, The University, 8.30 p.m.
Queen's Theatre: "Trial of 98." World Theatre: "Lover" Star Theatre "Road House." Tea Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, 4.30 p.m.
Kong. Dinner Dances: Hong and Repulse Bay Hotels, 8.30 p.m. European Mails:-Outward: Europe vid Marseilles (Sarpedon) 15 p.m.
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