EUROPEAN FIREMEN
JAILED.
Theft of Stores on "Empress of France."
Three embers of the crew of the world-tour liner Emprese of France will be left behind when the ship sails on Sunday. Ther are Peter Allan, coal trimmer, and Samuel Bell and Frederick West, fireman. They appeared be.
fore Camdr. Beckwith, at the Marine Court, this morning. charged with embezzling ships stores. Allan received two months' hard labour and the other two three months' each.
Allan WAB charged with feloniously embezzling one bed- spread and seven tins of jam, the property of the ships stores, at Yokohama on March 8th.
Captain E. Griffiths, master of the Empress of France, told the, Court that the matter was report- ed to him.on March 8th. There had been deficiencies in the ships stores before. The Japanese police at Yokohama were called in but "they seemed scared to take the matter up."
The Chief Steward of the Em- press of France gave evidence to the effect that on March 8th, be- tween 11 and 11.15 p.m. he saw de fendant walking alongside a rick- sha on the quay. There was a white bundle inside the rickaba Witness asked defendant what it contained. Allan replied that he had left the ship .and the bundle was his property.
Witness repeated his request to, see what was inside the bundle and as defendant refused witness took him back aboard the ship.. The bundle was opened and found. to contain seven 7 lb. tins of jam and a bedspread.
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Defendant told the Court that the jam was merely an accumu- lation of ships stores which bad been issued out to him.
He was convicted and sentenc
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ed to two months' hard labour. A firm of goldsmiths long Samuel Bell and Frederick established in the Strand bad West were charged with felog-substantial reason to be sorry iously embezzling ten blankets when the dignity of serjeant was and seven hams, the property of abolished. Serjeant Robinson re- the ships stores, Kobe olates in his Reminiscences that March 4th.
TENNIS EX-CHAMPION.
Unable to Play in Hongkong.
Hongkong tennis enthusiasts will regret to hear that Mr. A. W. Gore, the farmer English tennis champion, will be unable to play here this afternoon, as it was hoped he would do.
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when he received the Order of the William Bainbridge, night Coif. he had, in accordance with patrol of the Empress of France, time-honoured custom, to give said on the night in question he this firm an order for 28 gold.
Mr. Gore has arrived in the Eaw a rope hanging from the
rings "to be bestowed by Colony, but owing to the fact that forecastle deck to the quay. He me on persons of different grades, be suffering from a bad arm he went forward and saw the two including the Queen, the Lord will not be able to give any dis defendants bending over bundle, which contained the the Masters of Common Pleas
Chancellor and the judges, and play locally. stolen goods. West was very Her Majesty's ring was a very drunk, but the other was not massive affair, nearly an inch Intoxicated, though he had had thick, with an enamel in the drink.
middle on whicb-as was the case with all of them-was engraved a matto specially chosen for the occasion. The rings for the Ball'a defence was that he was Chancellor and the judges were sent aboard earlier in the evening about a third of an inch brosd, but by his shipmates in a state otluckily for me not very thick." intoxication. He went to ble bunk and did not come up on deck again until the patrolman seat for him to assist West.
Robert Ashby and other mem bers of the cre w also gave evidence.
Both defendants were convicted and were each sectenced to three
months' hard labour.
** LES MISERABLES."
To be Screened in Hongkong..
The ex-Home Secretary, Mr. Edward Shortt, K.C., has received
ROBBED BY DAUGHTERS. For binding their mother to a chair and robbing her of £20 two married sisters, Mabel Matins, 42, and Maud Elston, 32, ware sach sentenced to two months' bard labour at East Ham Police Court. SLEEP TO DEATH.
"It is not very pleasant to
a pleasant testimony to his rela. know that in case of accident or tions with the police. At a meet- leakage (of gas) people can pass ing in Peel House, Westminster,rom sleep to death without being they presented him with an ad-aware of it," said Dr. Edwin dress on vellum testifying to their Smith, recording a verdict of ac appreciation of his work. Acidental death at an inquest at police-coustable handed this gift to Hackney. The case was that of Mr. Shortt on behalf of the Police Sarah Bartlet, widow, aged 80, Federation of England and Wales, of Harcombe-road, Stoke New- declaring that while Sir Robert 0gton, who died from gas poison- Peel founded the Force, Mr. Shortting caused through a fracture in had made it a profession. Sir the fittings in her bedroom.. The greatest writer since William Horwood, Commissioner Shakespeare, according to some of the Metropolitan Police, added ement literary people. was that Mr. Shortt had "stuck up" Victor Hugo-poet, dramatist, and for the police in every possible bulder of romance. He is not way. How grateful the police of France, but of the world. His are for any help is shown, not gniue transconde boundaries," as only by this presentation, but by de critic expressed his eulogy. others made from time to time to And "Les Miserables" is the citizens who have come to their Jupreme achievement of the liter. assistance in rows." On several ary giant. A screen dramatization recent occasions the persons thus of this classic, in which William thanked and honoured in the Foz presents the peerless William London district have been young Farnum in the characterization of and very plucky women, Jean Valjean, will be shown here
at the World Theatre, next week.
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