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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE ARMSTRONG TRIAL WINE AND LITERATURE. NO SIAMESE TWINS.”
Jury Foreman's Impressions.
A Reply to “Q”.
A Problem for Science.
After a lengthy trial, Harberi Whatbar a total abstainer is The death of Ross and Josafa Rowse Armstrong, 5 Welsh capable of appreciating the real Blazek, the "Siamese Twins,' solicitar and an MA of Com-height and depth of great liters has left the Cook County (U.S.) bridge, was last month found ture has lately been debated by probate court with a legal problem guilty of murdering his wife by Sir Arthur Quillər-Conch (*Q.") which apparently is unprecedent- poison, sad sentenced to the and the President of the Wesleyanted. In disposing of the $100,000) capital penalty. In many re-Conference (the Rev. J. Alfred estate of the swins the court must spects, but not in the result of the Sharp). The Rt. Hon. Leif Jones decids if 11-year-old Frans is trial, the case resembled the (President of the United Kingdom the son of one or both of the Greenwood tragedy of eighteen Alliance) dealt with the subject twins.
arsenic.
months ago, in which also at A temperance gathering A scientific controversy, which Welsh solicitor was charged with recently.
began even before the death of causing his wife's death by "'Q's" remarks on the mental the sisters has resolved itself into
effects of alcoholbavonaturally in- the question. The Court of Criminal Appeal,terested me," he said. “We ware "Were Rosa and Josefz Blazek on the 15th inst, rejected Arm- at Oxford together, bath scholars one individual personality, or strong's appeal. An attempt is of Trinity College. Ihave been a did they constituta separate reing made to take the case to the teatotaller for 36 years. "Q.'s" pro-entities?" House of Lords.
nouncement on the relation of If they were one personality, The following impressious of alcoholic drink to the critical, the son will inherit the entire the trial were given by Mr. T. imaginative, andcreative faculties fortune which was accumulated Hopkine, the foreman of the jury, of man was that a total abstainer by the twiss during their ex- to the representative of a London was imperfectly equipped hibition tours of the world. If| paper. Though they were absent for high literature because it they were two distinct personali- from the Court for three-quarters demanded total manhood. He bad ties, Ross being the mother and of an hour, the jury reached their plucked out from himself, because | Josefa the aunt, only Ross's verdict in three minutes
it offended, and cast from bim half of the estals would go to the
We first of all had tox the said), the human equipment. How did lad, whila Josefa's closest re- Then we went to another table, "Q" know? How could he speak|latives would be entitled to her where 12 chairs had been placed of the abstainer's feelings? At half.
Tan
are
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and
for us, and I tore a sheet of paper college he and I both drank Physicians
gay there into 12 pieces for a ballot. Each alcoholic drinka. Afterwards physiological facts to was asked to write either grew wiser and gave them up. part. each contention. Guilty or Not proven." The He has continued to drink. Ha
altorneys agree that papers were folded and passed to claims that as to the influence of legal opiniou must be based me. When I opened them I found alcobol on him the only person on a scientific analysis of the
entitled to know is myself. It is bodies.
11 marked Guilty" and one Nat proven. I announced this result, and the man who had written. "Not proven said: "You can guess whose the 'Not proven is. I really believe the man is guilty. This referred to some thing he had previously said to
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a matter for individual @X-. So for a post-mortem has been perience." The teetotaller might opposed by the brother. Frank reply in the same terms. So, if Blazek. "Q.'s" premises were accepted.
Dr. C. E. Briggs, one surgeon he Was incapacitated from who had examined the twins, in- judging.
[sista that it was a case of dual More truth might be gathered motherhood, while Dr. Banjamin effect of alcohol E. Breakstone, chief of the Upon that I asked whether we
mind by watebing surgical staff of the hospital were all agreed, and it was evid its operation on others than where they died, contends that ent we were. Then I said: "Welby attempting to inter Ross was the mother and Josefa have board enough of the case, pret one's own sensations after the aunt. and need not discuss it any more.drinking, for the interpreter itself
ITI.
23 to the On the
Decision concerning disposition
Let's have a quiet smoke before (the brain) was affected by the of the bodies has been deferred we go back into Court."
dose. Must we all, like Falstaff, panding & reply to a cablegram There were 10 farmers and two consume two gallons of sack tolent to the father in Czecho-j professional men on the jury, anda ha'porth of bread Must one Slovakia. If the father does not Mr. Hopkins states that they be proflizate in order to appre-desire to have the bodies returned found the trial very monotonous, ciate Inewriters "Q" bad to the home land, the brother an the jury box about as uncoin-named. 412-8 ane be pro-ays be is willing that some fortable a place to sit in as could aoanced without taste because university be given
-do
be devised. We were big fellows, one loathed *te filthiness of portunity to make an examina- and they are narrow seats (be pirts of Rabelais and Swift?tion to learn, if possible, the
truth sar, so that we had to siz side | Was _ not, the
that it mystery of their dual existence. wags and crosslegged, and turn was not Falstaff's drooked. abcu: from time to time to prevent gees Or profligacy that ourselves getting stiff. If requir-one liked, bat his humanity, ed a big effort to keep one's mind his wit, the glimpses of the Divine concentrated on what was passing that shone out amid the drunken and on the very long speeches. sensuality and grossness of bis
life?
ARMSTRONG'S WORST DAY. Armstrong's worst day (Mr. Hopkins continued) was that on which the Home ffice experts Rasa evidence. I don't think there was ever any chance of a
did men
when we were undergraduates 10-tber, he would have been. above putting me such a question (in & college debate. I may, and perhaps do, "think things more TRAGEDY BEHIND COMEDY
brilliant than they are," and drunken
Descriptions of the follies of "live in a world of illusion": not erik-and yet, pathetically. I cling to teetotallers as particularly funny. the belief that, in those days, They saw too plainly the tragedy intellectual respect bad behind the grinning mask. "Q"share in our liking. It had no asserted that poetry and all small share in mine for him. arsenic must have been taken
imaginative literature is so Buffas within 24 hours of death, sad thered with drink, so inspired with through his rhetoric. I will come And so, without tracing him was no getting round that fac.drink, tha a teetotaller could to his summary of his precious whatever else was disputed.
neither understand nor create it.Board of Control's propaganda, We were shown the bureau and in his own words:
The whole sop of quack-science that
verdict of Not guilty after that. They made it clear that the
SOCIO
the place where it was said the of the glorious enchantmen: wo der any son of Trinity re- packet of white arsenic was found
bangs on the magic of the purple membering what standards of but we considered that the pres-cup." It sounded like a plea for judgment we were taught in that ence of this packet in Aristong's
·POREBSHION Was a very strong point against bim.
As a witness Armstrong croated a good impression up to a certain poia. But he had such pat a swers for everything that it was impossible to believe he was a innocent man, and he came badly out of the Judge's questioning The story about using 10 separat packets of arsenic to kill 19 dan
delions was too thin.
perpetual intoxication.
house of learning, dares to quote
Ia 1918 the Control Board the farrage in face of brothar. issued a book called "Alcohol egun at this distance of time. It and Its Action on the Human seeing-beaven help us that Organism." The first results of the first resals of a glass or so of drinking were sommed up as wine (of which I recommend the follow:-(1) Uncritical self-temperate use) are six, viz. :— satisfaction of the subject with (1)-L méritical self-satisfaction
his own performances: (2) die of the subject with his own per regard of occurrences and conformances.
dicas normally evoking csation (2) Disregard of occurrences
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My first is that, our literature ings of some of the medical terms derstand some of the world's that were used in Court. One highest literature. Grant meg one of our chief national of the jury received a business release before I am compelled to glories (perhaps our vary first), it is not only permissible to a mav letter from a man who wrote a wonder if a Prohibitionist can holding my office, however un lot about the case. The con-understand words at all. sequence was that the latter was For now comes in my old friend, wor bily-it actually be boves him delayed a day for censorship and Mr. Leif Jones, announcing that raise a warning when be see only the business portion of it he has been a teetotaller for 36 deems that he sees, the con- was shown to the recipient. We years, and solemnly "wanting to tinuance of a grand tradition in were allowed to see newspapers. ask, 'Q' must one be drunk. derer of impairment by raw For the first couple of days the like Falstaff, to understand counsels, however respectable in
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