HOW TOPLIS DIED,
RUNNING REVOLVER
FIGHT.
£1,500,000 REFUSED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WILSON MUST GO!
PRESIDENT'S EFFECT ON"
WORLD POLITICS.
papers-
Mr. G. E. Stuart-Burning, Pro- Thousands of workers and their sident of the British Trade Union families have left the port since Congress, writes in a Home the armistice for homes in prac- tically every part of the kingdom.. A few hundred man Tamsin employed, but many of these are under notice.
FOR NAVAL PORT. Invergordon's naval glory and The inquest on the body of commercial aspect during the Francia Percy Toplis aged 23,great war have departed. who was shot by the Penrith police recently was held Penrith Town Hall by Colonel Halton, the East Cumberland coroner. The jury found that! Toplis had been justiñably killed by a revolver bullet at Plumpton by police officers who were attempting to efect his arrest while a fugitive from justice; and they commended the police for their pluck, intelligence, and promptitude.
During wartime millions of money were spent on naval and other works, and millions were earned as wages.
When we landed in America in
October last, the first thing which struck us was the unpopularity
of the President. Good Demo-
rats, who would in no circum stances vote Republican, declared that rather than vote for Wilson they would not vota at all, and to anyone who knows the keenness with which politics are followed in the United States this was an astonishing revelation.
The employment of sueb labour and the circulation of its money The body was identided by were reflected not only in the Mrs. Bowles, of Shoreham, bustle and commercial activity Toplis's sister. and Sergeant of Invergordon, but throughout a
In this country, if the Prime Harry Smith, of the RAS.C., wide ares in the Highlands.
Minister were suddenly stricken Merchants who had been strugby sarious illness, even stationed at Bulford. Superintend
his ent Cor. of the Hampshire Bling all their lives for a decent opponents would be sympathic, Constabulary, related the circum-existence, in a few years made but no one appeared to take stances of the murder of the fortunes. motor-driver Spicer at Thruxton, Men, without experience, whomach notice of Mr. Wilson's sickness, except, xoma croel and declared that the body of the opened shops and traded, have practical jokers who spread a man in the mortuary tallied with cooped in sufficient to keep them
report ata public meeting that the the description of the man wanted comfortable for all time.
|President was dead. Mr. Mar- for the murder.
LUCKY LANDLADY,
Those who kept lodgers had one of the best paying invest
Police-constable Alfred Fulton described his first meeting with Toplis near Low Hesket, 11 miles ments.
One woman, penaliess in 1914, from Penrith, and added that when he returned home he looked but fortunate in securing two up his police information and smallrooms, bas now £800 to her noticed that the description of credit.
shall, the vice president, was one
of the speakers, and asked the meeting to join him in prayer for the departed President and for bimself as the man who had to take up the reins of office.
The report was, of course, quite untrue, and later it
of him.
WAS
Toplis was similar to that of But the scene is now changed. suggested that like Brougham, the man he bad spoken to. Re-Closed houses and shops are to Mr. Wilson himself had circulat- his bicycle, babe seen at every turn; it is now aed the rumour with a view to turning on fourd Toplis in a plantation, and case of all landladies and no learning what the public thought
lodgers. said, Hullo, boy, is this as far as you have got?" The man jump- The streets are deserted, and
WUY IS THE PRESIDENT ed up and, pulling a revolver traffic appears smaller than in
UNPOPULAR? from his pocket, shouted out,pre war times.
Those fortified with plenty of
We, who were accustomed to "Hands up." Fallon obeyed, and Toplis continued: "It is me means are indifferent as to the Wison's idealism, and only kno you are looking for, is it? If future of the burgh: less fortunate his great reputation on this side,
CON- Were extremely puzzled you are, I am Toplis. It was me tradesmen and others are
GIANT DOCK'S DEPARTURE.
to
who shot the policeman and far-cerned about the gloomy pros account for the general dislike -mer, and if you act the same,pects. Houses, garden grounds, of the President. Washington you go too." He compelled Ful and open spaces compulsorily society is not too cbaritable. Mrs. Wilson seems ton to drop his bandents and requisitioned under the Defence and
certain truncheon on the ground. The of the Realm Act are being to have antagonised witness told him not to be silly gradually restored to their lawful sections of it, but Washington is after all a comparatively small and to put the revolver away. owners. He then said, “I will kill or be
place, and serious though it may killed." The witness told him to No. 1 dock, one of the larges: be for the wife of a President to get out of the district altogether. in the world, dropped its moor become unpopular, this did not. He went away, and the witnessings the other day. Its lifting account for people in New York, returned home, changed into capacity was over 30,000 tons. in Buffalo, and in other places was taken in tow by four expressing the opinion that mufti, and went to Penrith for It
Wilson was done for. powerful tugs for Portsmonth. assistance.-
"Ichabod " FD3ST now be Some light was shed upon the Superintent Oldcorn, said that on receiving Fulton's report he inscribed on the gates of the matter by debates in the Senate, ordered Inspector Bertram, and dockyard. The workmen still where Senator Lodge attacked Fulton to go in search of Toplis retained are chielly employed the Treaty with great bitterness. war Lodge was in a motor-car. Knowing that loading and dispatching all kinds Daring the the man
arined WAS
of plant and movable machinery.jaccounted a friend of the Allies, dangerous character, he provided Till now none of the machinery and the coartliness of his box Ritchie and Bertram with a the workshops has been to the Prince of Wales at the Embassy reception was a thing revolver and six rounda
interfered with. ammunition each, telling them It is assumed that it is the to be remembere). Why should
settled policy of the Admiralty to such
have suddenly to use the weapons with great retain the yard in their own developed bostility to the United
hands. It has leaked out that:-Kingdom?
discretion.
and a
in
of
REVOLER FIGHT WITH POLICE.
Inspector Ritchie said that the
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NOTICE.
A deputation from the Inver Why should other prominent for their gordon Town Council which people, well-known police in the motorcar first saw visited Whitehall was shown an friendly feeling to this country. Toplis after passing through offer for the yard of £1,500,000 and their friendship to the Pre- Plumpton. The witness's idea but it had been rejected." sident, adopt a belligerent tone? was to slow up while passing The belief here is that it was The explanation is partly that bim and jump out on top of him. made by the Icelandic Trawling there is an ignorance of world Unfortunately the
When he vetoed prohibition did not pass close enough to accentuated the belief that the people as those of the United Senate was not directed so much Company. That, to some extent, politics surprising in so intelligent the debate which followed in the the man, and the car drove on
Admiralty wish 10 retain States, and partly a feeling that to the merits of prohibition as to 50 or 60 yards, when the police,
the Treaty would draw them into the feeling that the President possession. who were all in plain clothes got The great oil tanks are still all sorts of petty European dis-must not usurp too much power. out, sent the car away, and con- kept to feed the mighty warships putes with which America had no cealed themselves behind some that call at intervals. but the concern, and out of which it could be but one end and that end must To such a struggle there can farm buildings until
Toplis Invergordon of the war is a vision gain no advantage.
be the downfall of the President. approached.
When he got opposite to me and many of them have made up
of the past. Workmen are idle. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE STATES. We are much concerned with its (continued the inspector) I spra05 their minds to emigrate.
effect upon the League of Bebind all this, however, was a Nations, but everywhere in the out and said, “Stop. Pull up." He TOWN'S DEPARTED GLORY. deeper feeling, never expressed States we found that the spirit of apparently noticed me at the Prior to the war the town was publicly but given tongue same moment, as he sprang for in a fairly flourishing condition, private gatherings. Wilson was that when the struggle between in the League was accepted and ward and commenced running Manure mills employed a large accused of baving carefully the people and the President was five yards; then he turned round. staff. At the barbour & consider excluded an American who ended, the United States-would-
was carried on might by any chance differ from take its proper place in still running, and fired direct on Aberdeen and Liverpool steamers him in the slightest degree from League. the police. He pulled the revol called regularly. Coals, manures, the proceedings in Paris ver out immediately he saw tue.
The Coroner.Where was your vessels shipped grain. potatoes, of the United States are extra. were brought in, while The powers of the President
The witness. In my hand. We distributing centre for sea-borne as great a dictator as any Czar ete. Invergordon was a handy ordinary, and in many ways he is knew he was a desperate charac-trame. A that traffic has been of Russia. Wilson, it was said, BLACK MARIA TO DISAPPEAR. ter, so We were ready. After
entirely suspended.
had informed to one of bis policy. The familiar Black Maria is firing the first shot he ran a few One can only hope that the and when be reached Paris, shortly to disappear from the|
The dividend will be payable on The Transfer Books of the yards and again fired a shot, still running. Then the police fired. future is not so black as the expected his
subordinates to London streets and will be re-and after Monday the 9th August, Company will be closed from existing outlook indicates. I fired one shot Bertram two.
follow him in everything, even placed by more up-to-date motor 1920, at the Offices of the Cor- Tuesday the 20th to Wednesday when, as sometimes happened, be vans, accommodating seventeen poration, "where. Shareholders are the 28th July (both days inclusive) The Coroner Was Toplis in aed past his ear. Mr. Norman changed his mind from one day prisoners. two of which are position to take another shat at Parry, son of the Chief Constable, to another. Colonel House had expected to be delivered by the requested to apply for Warrants, during which period no trasfer
towards Penrith. He ran about
revolver?
you?
and he did not get a direct sim.
able trade
etc..
were
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who accompanied the police car followed him loyally until the makers in a few days.
The REGISTER of SHARES of shares can be registered. The witness. Yes, be
of the Corporation will be closed on his motor-cycle, said that be President's gyrations had become laying his revolver dead at us for was certain that if the police had so rapid that he did not know
By order of the Board of from MONDAY the 26lb July to the third time, but I think he was not fired when they did Inspector where be was, and
SATURDAY the 7th August, 1920|
Directore. unsettled, as I was close up to him Ritchie would have been killed. Gu once Wilson and be had An official return under the (both days inclusive) during which Deputy Chief Constable Barron guarrelled. It is the pndoubteAliens Order, 1920, issued re-period, no transfer of abares cáo I was about five yards away and said that in Toplis's possession fact that when Wilson was ill. cently, shows that during the
be registered. was gaining on him rapidly. He was a diary, which gave indica- House was refused access to him, first three months of this year turned his revolver direct at me tions of his movements since the but when the American press 53,885 alien passengers landed in One of our shots took effect, and be beginning of the year, but all the tried to make capital out of this. the United Kingdom, 61,399 em- fell. Before he fell I caught him Hems
abbreviated. The House stood toyally by his oldbarked, and 182 were refused in my arms and laid him down diary.mentioned visits to Bristol chief and declared that he had no leave to sod. The Germans, Then we returned to Penrith. Cardiff, Swansea.
Austrians, and Hungarians who London, grievance. When we examined his revolver Swansea (" robbery "). Bristol Stories were in circulation were not allowed to land were we found four good cartridges and again ("motocle bought, 15."), that while Wilson was principal six men, four women, and oar two spent ones in ft. Toplis never Batb. Chepstow, Salisbury, South of Princeton,any subordinate who foreign born child. At Dover spoke from the first time I shout-ampton, Winchester, Ball, dared to disagree with him did 18,144 aliens landed and 20,485. Freshford · (" with Dorothy"), so the risk of incurring the embarked in this period, and no ENTRIES IN A DIARY. Belford' (on April 3), and so du, undying enmity of the principal, other port a ow such large num- The inspector added that when down to May 24, when there was and never being spoken to again bers. There were 11,739 French The interest and responsibility the body was searched a monocle, written in the diary "Hosting during his term of office. All people landed, and 11,605 en of Mr. Herbert William Looker in a pewa ticket, and three more West Wales. Some hopes."? things were probably exaggerated barked the highest numbers in our Firm ceased on the 30th June cartridges, including a modified The Coroner summed up at and some. possibly, untrue, but the case of any single nationality, 11920. “dum-dum,” were found in the considerable length, and after every where one found the fear The total number of Uer DEACON. LOOKER, DEACON from
[[ three miantes consultation the that. Wilson was setting up a Austrian, and Hungarian-men, Folios sergeant Beriram said jury returned the verdict already dictatorabip entirely foreign to who landed was 539, and 563
& HARSTON. that Toplis's second bullet whizz-stated, cont
the spirit of the United States, jembarked..
Hongkong, 1st July, 1920. –––
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