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INSANE CHINESE.
APPEAL BY THE JOHN G.
KERR HOSPITAL
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1924.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
The Bravo Mystery and Other Cases.
MASTERPIECES IN
MINIATURE.
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25,000 Reproductions in a Dr. N. M. Ross.. Acting!
London Hame. Soperintendent of the John (1, Kerr Hospital for the Insane Cantina: The five causes celebres set out! Arranged in the rooms of a an institution which receives anby Sir John Hall in detail in his private house in Portman-square jannual grant trom the Hongkongbook with the above title, issued is the most complete collection Government, is here, adiressing by Lane, all turn on dramatic in the world of reproductions, of [meetings of the Chinese entnmunity incidents and involve person-the pictures and drawings of
with the object of raising more falities that are out of the com-Western artists.
tombs. In making his appeal hej mot either in being highly placed. This is the Witt Library. "Used gives as the reason for the present or in being governed by unusual by students and critics all over financial difficulties of the institu- motives, and all of them are so the world, it is too little known to tion that disorganisation in Cano told as to make excellent detec-Londoners generally.
has deprived the hospital of the tive stories, less the neat and The library owes its existence nsual payments for eases treutesi complate solution. They are to the devoted work, over a period. on behalf of the Canton authorities. likely to stay by the reader the of 25 years, of Sir Robert sad Dr. Ross acknowledges with longer for being without it. His Lady Witt. Sir Robert, a solicitor ratitle the recently acressol absorption in the detective story by profession, is a trustee of the grant by the Hongkong Govern: Janda "when the detective takes National and Tate Galleries, one ment in respect of local chis call; he cannot conceive him- of the founders and chairman of Įtreated, but the Cantom authorities self as having poisoned the girlfthe National Art Collections chairman of the have far more coses there and non-jor stabbed the sailor,,and he re- Fund, and payment by them his liticults. mains detached. But he closes National Loan Collection. Trust.
In the corse of a printed - appeal these rough-hewn true stories| Lady Witt told a London "Press to Chinese and foreign trends, Dr. with a "There-but-for-the-grace representative that she and Sir of God" feeling. They say in Robert Witt had started collect- This hospital is the only institu- the Navy of a Court-martial, "It ing reproductions of famous: Įtion for the exeinsive case of the is well. my son, you are acquitt-pictures before they were marri-
insane in all Chupa It is wied, but it were better you had ed.
Sonary enterprise established not been tried "; and it turns out! Now theWitt Library" had bow by De Jidenti. Kerr, a from these stories that the cext taken possession of their home. physician under the Ametiaty worst thing to being suspected of "We had, to leave our last Presbyterisa Mission. It has grown a murder you have committed is house because there was no long- padly uns at present there are being suspected of a murder you er room for our priats and photo- Junie 200 patients. Over 6,000hase have not committed. The writer graphs, and we are just fitting up beeg Trented and ed, thus number of fiction is working up to a an extension to the library of our) (abour 20 percent. bave been elimax, and has technical reasons present house.. and this will charged card, and a still larger in addition for eschewing the mean that the whole of the first nomier have been imperverį. irrelevant. Justice has to hot-floor of the house will be devoted!
bie, but she is nat suffered to the collection." to tread an the
De
Main Objects.
toes
STODENTS WELCOMEU. Students are welcome to eon-
of the main obgends of this the sympathetic people -people | tespitill is to inn lust að notke the reater at any rate tut [1.4 of the lost tuntia is of trang hunt. But in the true intstery sult the Witt Library, at 32. Port- [The Insume, wiri the parp se odia story there is nothing irrelevant man-square, from Monday until [vikle ong it into Chai. We hope to as long as the secret is unds Friday, between 10 and 1 o'clock.! ļu may rate with the Clan se Kodern closed. "Will you explain ho. The Witt Library is eventually ogning « such hospitals) 7" demands the counsel, to become a national possession. korder Väliterat eni nuspres, W. and the whole pack are on the, Four permamentibrarians arej thisobject in slow we mardust, dar false seent of the initial, fb with, continually at work, adding to (0235) Chigese New Year in dday-which you tried to conceal your the collection and replacing re-i awi Mental Hygiene/return to the dining-run for productions already filed by still These campaign arelan ther glass of whisky. You better ones which have come to | bell bon fun gran sendiaye dag, vrh have not poisoned the girl, and band. Voluntary workers alsp
beam Puring these the deser the they cannot prove that you have: help
pounds are opened to vides, thebut by the time they have done The collection tells the story of patients, medhwhile, being cup-probing into your mysteries-the Western art from the early By- ded to tie wanis. in vnder to things about which you prefer to zantine school to a recent winner attret lange eroads, turions formsheep your mouth shut--they have of the Prix de Rome.
11
Dur
W. ant
of entertainmitt are paraded made it clear that you are the About 10,000 artists are repre- the wholevis extensively advertisort of person who might stab a seated. So fas there are almost) These campaigns have proved sailor any dag, for twopence.. a quarter of a million reproduc Loessful far begond our expectativitis,
In The Bravo Mystery." toons in the library, but these are The attenditure euch sehr has been Well we tofur and has attested which Sir John gives the chief rowing day by day. The very place la his tank. the crime is not efficient system of classification traced to the culpat, but a num.enables the demands of an inquir ber of reble people possiblyjer to be salified in 30 seconds.
Press The
representative neither better nur worse than the! Ginent, bir dan average emerge from the in try tought he would like to test the shattered. Mr. Bravo died sores of this remarkable) dipistung metal hygiene farts,
afbrary with a not too familiar Her relatia an aghix tartar emetic poisoning ended, põus to msanity: the months after his marr ace in 1876, name, and asked to look at bine He had no motive for killing reproductions of the work of Wil- find the insone rhimself, but one witness main liam Dobson (an English portrait bouleman 2d to erine, and the
tained that he had admitted taking painter of the early seventeenth poison. But as he understood century), prisons he would hardly have The press at site, plon selected a poison so agonizing in filing box was placed before him. its effects. The jury rejected the opened and its contents, prints theory of suicide. The attempt and photographs of braves and to discover a motive which would belles of Dobson's day, lifted out "When disputes about famous induce someone to kill him beings for him to study. out that in some of the things he:
$100,000 Needed.
6 acres date
hoaring over Ti It- umpentive- that bew Hardy
sected to
TECAST new patients about new, case dimittal per sear Recently an additical pht of and
about To Chunese mov
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In the twinkling of an eye a
did and said he appeared mean, pictures are going on we always coarse. and ill-tempered-would have plenty of visitors who are many of us fare much better interested in the question," said This new land bus beet The crime could not be brought! Lady Wist. "For instance, when partially paid for, but a 14t of
home to his wife, but it was Gainsborough's 'Blue Boy was $35,000 remains to be provided for elicited that she was addicted to going to America many people (Over 500 of the Too old patient- bave been berught to is the sherry, and that during per pre-came here to study our reproduc-
viens widewhrod she had beertions of his pictures." Cinton Departen at of Health. We mistress of a Dr. Gully. She died, entraet to care for these patient.thin about a year.
at so much per capita. For some
t me the local travelbient has been
name
DR. GULLY. repercussion
for the horses when in Mrs. Bravo's service; from that falling bebind in payment for these By
Gully service he had been dismissed Įpatients, until at present they wat getting on for seventy--had his for coming into violent collision Eus over $28,000." Exyntus)'), we
removed ** from the with
anotber rebicle on jexpert to be able to colleet, jan at medical societies of which be the day of the Lord Mayor's
present are are compelled to borrow
was a distinguished member. Show "-conduct as professional- in order to carry on. We are also Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Bravo's high y❘ly infamous as that of under contract with the Hongkong paid companion and most poor Dr. Gully; he attributed | Government to receive all crees of intimate friend, had a protive his dismissal to Mr. Bravo, and | Chinese insane deported from that for Mr. Bravo grudged her her point that no writer of fiction. Colony. The Hongkong Govern- salary. It was she who made would have dared to include- ment has just made us an cnusually the statement-disbelieved by had been beard to generous grant of $25,000 As our the
Bravo had the jury-that
day of the Bravo! expavity is greatly overtaxed, we admitted to taking poison. marriage. He won't live four must erect new wards on the newly There [sequired land in order to meet our condemn her, but she left the
contract...
Thus, in order to clear onelves Court the subject of lampoons
evidence was no
say on
to months. But he was merely
being comprehensively abusive.
In three of the four other cases," in this the interest is less in the offence which sets the inquiry on foot than in the people
of debt. to provide funds for run When lovely woman stoops to ning expenses during the time of!
folly
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tube, preventing pus formation and still allowing the skin to Philadelphia: A fabricated ear, have life.
Blow payment by the Canton And finds her husband in them, Sir John employs it to being grown and nourished on the “Our next step will be to con- Government and to provide new WAY.. wanis at once, we must raise about What chart can $100,000.
melancholy, Our Board of Trustees base assigned to me the duty of raising What art can'turn him into clay this fund. Since the disturbed The only means her aims to condition reukes it impossible to do cover anything in Canton at present. And save herself from prison I am going among the friends of our hospital in Hongkong and, will later go abroad to present the needs
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illuminate. The subject of one back of Wilbur Jones, policeman,tinue the origins incision from soothe her is an attempt to assassinate the will shortly be grafted on his head the shoulder unit includes the Dute of Cumberland; another to replace one cut off three years skin and flesh which have noun- explains the scandal that has led sgo. This operation is being car-shed the cartilage This will be to the widespread but erroneous ried out by Dr. G. M. Dorrance at lifted from the back as ons might belief that George IV.. when the Woman's College Hospital. pel a banana. The skin snd- Prince of Wales, was warned off "The first step," said Dr. Dor-fertilage, one end still being Newmarket Heath: a third brrance, was to take a plaster a tached, will be raised from the nes both Alexandre Dumas and mould of the good ear. reverse it back and then the nourishing cartilage fitted to the place where And repossess her ancient laver, Lola Montez into the witness and cast an exact model,
boz The last case involves à "The second was to obtain a tie ear should be. to the Chinese merchants there: Are Burgundy and Mrs. Cox.
man-to-man straggle described piece of cartilage from Jones's "The transplanted cartilage Then there was a coachman, who by Thackeray as beyond in-seventh right rib and shape it to will be grafted to the old, ear BRITISH TENDER PREFERRED. contributes a comic element. But vention, and the end of it-to conform. It was worked on cartilage and the skin covering Although the three lowest it can have been no joke for he quote The Times Correspondent much as a boy might whittle a sewed to the skin where the ear tenders were from 8wiss firms, was examined by the Court for of the day was the tragical piece of wood. An incision we was. Thus the crafting process London County Council is recom-three days on the sort of death of the most impassioned, made in Jones's back near the will continue until it has been mended by the Highways Com-evidence
incriminates enthralled, romantic, demoniacal centre and on a line with the completed and then the skin
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mittee to accept that of a Hartle-some innocent person in the atrocious, and miserable of all shoulder blades. The skin was tube from the shoulder will ba pool firm for the provision of plant fourth chapter of a detective bill-discounters." They appear lifted and the cartilage, to give it gradually out away. The loose for Greenwich Power Station, story. Tartar emetic could be to have bad-good writers on the life, was put under the skin. Then if the ear will be trimmed The cost will be £77,465 18. traced to him he had used it Times in 1861.
a strip of skin running from the and Jones will have a new ear.