"PONGO YOU'RE WRONGO."
INTERESTING. EVIDENCE IN NURSE'S ACTION,
MR. LOOKER'S CROSS-EXAMINATION OF MISS HAMILTON,
The caso was continued this so orderly and neat and that you morning before the Paisne Judgo, could not ba?-No.. Mr. Justice Gompertz, in the Did you tell her that you were Summary Court, in which Miss unable to keep things tidy and Emma Sophis Hamilton, a traines word. annoyed boonuse she had lady nurse, is suing Mr. H Wordorly habits 7-No; I am not Looker of Moura, Dançon, Loker absolutely tidy, and Deacon to recover $1,000 for alleged wrongful diemical
Mr Rouler Hattle of Mess: Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for tim plaintiff, while Mr. Loker defended in person..
The case was hourd by a jury of
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Rudeness or Compliment ?. that your authority regarding the Did you not alway's maintain
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1912.
His Lordship saw no legal ob jection, but Mr. Barris urged that it was a breach of etiquette.
His Lordship allowed the leitor
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to rend the correspondonos in his opening,
Mr. Looker: Topoling the let tor incident, do you suggest 1 had any improper jutemion or motive ?-No.
Do you suggest it was done" or accident ?-No.", otherwise than by inadvertence
occasions you had to pay your Now, you told us that on sovoral
own tram furo ?—Yea.
How many I paid my fure] when I wout out to East Point. er took the child and mo down No; before that, when Mrs, Look and custody of the child was to the town to do some shopping. superior to that pl Mrs. Looker ?I paid it when I wout to the -No.
Gymkhana and when I took the child to a christoning, and I paid
the following:-Mesre. F. Mait Did you not constantly tell Mrs. land, A. R Lowe and L. Berindo- right and not fitting and that Lokor that her desires were not
Plaintiff was agtiu in the wit your's ought to be followel re- ness box, and was cross-ox-garding the child?-No.. amine by Mr. Looker.
ague,
Did you not constantly main- trained anrse you know what was tain that because you were a needed better than she did
You told us yesterday that you did not tell Mr. Looker that as soon as you heard sho No. was applying for a go to the East, you determined she should take you; you adhere to that?—Yes.
were
nurse to Did you not maintain that you batter than she and she ought to were older than she and know
acrept what
you said P-No.
told
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Did you tell her that you the Norland Instituto it was no were much older than Mrs. Looker Did you not tell me that you use their patting the application and had more experience and before other nurses because you what you and ought to be were determined to have it? carried out 7-No. No.
You told us yesterday that you the objection that Mr. I ooker won At this point Mr. Harris raised have always received excollont testimonials, did you not ?--Yaising matters of which he had
Is that true?-YON,
You told us it was not usual for employers to write in. tho testimonial book in temporary cases?-No; { sid that was not always the case:
engagement
In accepting the with me dal yon consider y were working with the Norland or not considered I was working with the Norlandi;'
Bet you told Mrs. Looker that you hnd nothing to do with the Norland? No.
child and me down to the park, it when Mrs. Lookor took the
His Lordship-The gardens?
-Yos.
mo.
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Mr. Looker:-Is it not à fact Looker offered you a turse's that, on arrival in Ilongkong, Mrety tlt nothing was wrong with that case again Sir W. B. Pent ticket and you refused it ?-No.
would have difficult decisions to You told us yostorday you were make. perfectly strong and had no The amendment was then put Do you stand thoro and say it herves?I said I was not suffering and lost, and a resolution was is not true ?-Yos.
from nerves but I had nerves in passed for the appointment as the throat and the eyes.
Trustes of Sir W. B, Tent.
pay for your own ticket ?—No.
And you said you proferred to
Did you 'assure Mrs. Looker be-
Yes.
A committeo of inspection was
Fawings, and Mr. Saal Cooper,
I put it to you, you refused to fore sailing, in London, that you appointed, consisting of Mr. thought it derogatory ?—No. have a nurse's ticket because you were perfectly strong and had William Carter, Mr. J. S. Elias, you paid your own fare were
And that these occasions whening the matter with you ?Mr. Willinto Corcish, dir. T.
chiefly occasions when you went with the child. on' your own pleasure?--I went
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Did not ask to be Paid Back. not givna particulars. There
Did you over ask to be paid is no allegation that my alient back the fare?-Under the cir
rated she was older than Mrs. cumstances I could not.
akor; that might be a form of rudeness."
His Lordship-It might be a compliment. (Laughter).
His Lordship eventually decid- el that the questions could be put in cross-examination.
Called Her "Pongo." Mr. Looker:-To you say that Mrs. Looker called you" Pongo against your express wish Yes I put it to you that is untrue ?
You dony that?—Yes. And you confirmed that state-Quito true. ment to me on one occasiox'; do you dony that ?—Yes.
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I ask you, did you or did you not?-Mrs. Looker asked me to bring the money to pay for my
own, faro,
back the tram fares?-No.
Did you ever ask to be paid
muneration was offored hor for the extra work. but she refused
and had nothing the matter with And wore you perfectly well. you all the time you were in Hongkong-I was well except when Dr. Harston cains to see me.
Loss of Sleep and Worry. Were you not at uno time don't know whether you suffering strongly from nervos? would call it norvos, I was suffer- ring from loss of Bloop had
WOLFY.
Did you not say that a person uffering from nerves was not
Referring to the matter of drill-
fit to have the care of the child ing classes, at Mrs. Looker's
is it must have a reactionary se, plaintiff nailed that refeet on the ghild?I meant
hysterical nerves; hystoria.
Continuing, plaintiff donied the she had told her she would have bild went to bed crying because
loaned her tooth after eating toothache because she had not
a chorry.
it.
Why did you tell the jury that the suggestion came from Mrs. I put it to you that the reason Looker and you got no increase Mrs. Looker called you "Forgot salary? Why did you say If you were working 'for the was because she used to refer to that? Your object was to tuke Norland was it not very impor- you as
out that you had been badly tant that you should have a and as "Miss Hamilton" to other treated because you lind not been writton testimonial in the book people, and you said you did not given an incrense?-Not at all; at the end of every year, and, on like it and would prefer she call- tòrmination of any engagement? jod you "Pongo"?-No.
it was one of the many things' --No; at the end of every yeûr,
did willingly. Jos.
Excellent estimonials, Do you always get a testimonial when you leave a situation ?--No.
But you told us you have al- ways had excellent testimonials? -So I have.
Witness was asked as to one engagement with a Mexican lady, whom she left at Now York, and from whom she had obtained. 'no testimonial.
Why did you leave the Mexican lady-1 was obliged to do so by a friend of the Norinal Institute in New York,
Why did you havỏ her ?-- Because it was not safe to go 10 Mexico with a Mexican lady.
Why ?-Thore Was a grout deal of trouble in Mexico at the
time.
twico.
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And I put it to you that Mrs,' Ipoker rarely addressed yout as "Pongo"? Almost invariably in Hongkong, unlo is people were present.
Now as regards myself, you say I referred to you as "Pongo
Yes.
once to my face.
Only once; or more?-Only
Taking plaintiff through the particulas, question ugled
The incident in question was when the child, after having her erth cleaned, ate an olive given her by her mother. Plaintiff said "you have been eating some- thing, I can sell it The child burst out crying and asked ressel to her relating to na in Plaintiff. roosarod her that sho if sho would have toothache cident on a launch. The alleg would not. She denied that she of the child for eating something arts, turnips, inacaroni and tion was that the plaintiff reprovstantly forced the child to cat given her by Mrs. Looker,
this was the cause of friction spinach, or that her persistence
hotween herself and Mrs. Looker. She had never tulil Mrs. Looker
then was not rindo or insolent ?
Do you say that your condue
No..
I put it to you that it was so rude and insolent that it made
On that occasion it was in the borovin ?-Yen,
Aud Mrs. Looker and the child everybody uncomfortable and a dead silence followed; is that true ?-No.
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were thoro ?—Yes.
And I was referred to pa somo little point to decide whether it was advisable for you to taken chair or walk-or some- thing of the dooription 2-That may be so.
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An Interesting Development, Plaintiff doniod that sho over said the agreemont was worthless as she signed it under protest. Miss Hamilton. Plonso, It was also untrue that, at the And I said Pongo you are
same interview, when the above Wrongo?-I enid Mika Hamilton was supposed to be said, she said
that her grievanco was that of be-| No other reason?-She had please,
Plantiff was submitted to a long which Mrs. Looker spoke to her. ing overworked but of the tone in already threatened me twice.
What had she threatened to mentioning as to her indisposi-The conversation took place in do?-She threatened to stab me she contracted
tion at Colombo. She denied that
A meeting of Mr. Horatio Mrs. Looker's badroom. This all 2121 internal Because you wished to have indulgence of a
disarrangement
duo to her apponed after the operation that Bottomley's creditors was held at
Mrs. Looker underwont.
Bankruptcy Buildinge on June your own way over her with tropical fruit, though she ad- development took place in the pointing a trustee of his estate,
liking for regard to the child 2-Not at all.mitted that Mrs. Looker warn-
This afternoon an interesting 20 for the purpose of ap.
"LUETZOW," Did you appeal to the husbanded hor against the fruit. Mrs.
The partics had come
Mr. E. Leadam Hough, Senior having arrod, Consignoes of cargo are when the wife threatened to stab Looker asked her to take some tiffin adjournment when the said that the meeting had become the exception, of Opium, Treasure and
back into court after
Official Receiver, in the clair, hereby informed that their Goods, with the you ?-No.
Witness explained that the rea- boord, but she objected, as she did
tabloida given or by a Indy on solicitors concerned were sum-accessary in consequsace of Mr. Valuables, are being landed and stored son why she did not obtain a not like taking other people's moned to the judgo's room Bottomley having been adjudged at their risk into the hazardous and/or testimonial was because her book medicine. Mrs. Looker said to
by the clerk the court, bankrupt since the conclusion of extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong- kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown was stowed away in her baggage punish her she would not allow After His Lordship and the solici- the public examination
fors had boon in chambers for Mr. Harry Dade, on behalf of Company, Limited, Kowloon, and her to land at Penang, but did about half an hour the plaintiff Mre. Curtis, the largest creditor,
West Point Godowns, whence delivery permit her to do so when they ar- rived at that port.
moved that Sir W. B. Poat, may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on At2.50 p.m. all parties returned, chartered accountant, bo ap-unless intimation is received from the Consignees before noon to-day request- Mr. Bell objected to the ing it to be landed hare. ing was also included.
Then how do you account for
Mr. Looker:-You told, as appointment of Sir W. B. Pent as No claims will be admfited after this I put it to you that you told the friction which existed over all yesterday that you have a good tastes on the ground that he Goods have left the Godowns, and all
memory 7-Yes.
was auditor of Jolin Bull (Limited), goods remaining undelivered after the Mrs. Looker that part of the the time you were in Hongkong?
-I don't attempt to explain it.
Saying one thing one day, and and Mrs. Bull (Limited), and as 31st of July, will be subject to sent. course was drawing. You wero
I put it to you that the friction contradicting it the next? No, such as in an equivocal position All broken, chafed, and damaged I put it to you that you told as regarded the bankrupt s ostate. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, He was also a trustee of another where they will be examined on the 8141 on the other, to show that you
of July, si 9.80 AiM you, what was the matter with creditor of the bankrupt's wore able to tesul, the child, and "A Breach of Etiquette"
All claims must reach`us before the you, and the next day you said namely, the Charing Cross Bank you used to take them home, and Later an interesting point oc- there was nothing wrong with and there would be difficult trace them ? No; there was no curred when Mr. Looker put a you at all?-He did not come to questions arising between the drawing they were pricked letter to the plaintiff, written to neo me on two following dege. and that of the bankrupt. There by the undersigned a COR
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Did you tell Mrs, Troker that Mr. Harris poluted ont that the became nothing to se you WAR every likelihood of ro order wie bij thing, you could letter was written ne from one that there was the matter construction of Jolin Bull (Lad.). ever carry out and that she was friend to another, privately, with you - all 7--I did and Mr Bull (Limited), and in2
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Continuing in reply to ques lions about the training course,
You say you always complied
was sont for.
plaintiff said she took the full with Mrs. Looker's wishes?no settlement.having been arrived pointed trustee of the estate.
course except for music. A month after she left the instituto draw. Yes,
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