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POISON TRIAL ENDS.
PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH. daliborations
A
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1924,
The Crown's Reply.
Summing Up.
it
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A loading beauty specialist lately said that the number of her child clients had increased
a now
able to have a medical expert at merely sorvaa to illustrate how his elbow, added Mr. Prosser. the use of inako-up among chil-
Dealing with the events on the dron is on the increase. day of the death, Mr. Prosser sald Not so many years ago the After
they did not know whether the man schoolgirl wall in her toens was nearly
lastad a meal that day or not, and reprimanded if sho dared to dust two tel. a half
her pretty girlish skin with If he did have one, what he did eat? hours, the jury hast evening
powder. returned a verdict of Guiltye dut have one, did she rock-babies-arerade up for special To-day the veriost against Cheung Kit thed she go home at mid-day that occasions. Little girls of five or Lantao woman indicted for the day? Inspy. Earner had said that six years of ago have their own murder of her husband. Inthe weat there on three different powder bowls and pulls of sorts, recommended her to merey. The days at mid-day and found it and can show righteous indigna- Puisne Judge later passed son-Ceserted. Counsel concluded his tion if some carelessly minded tence of donth
speech by saying that if they had person selects the wrong shade Addressing the fury for the any reasonable doubt, the prisoner of powder to be used on the defence Mr. Campbell Prusser re- was entitled to her dne--her particular baby skin. marked on the fact that despite ati liberty. its recourses, the Crown had not But into the witness box anyone who could say that death was due to
In his final remarks the Attorney 80 much during the last coupleof poisoning. Dr. Minnett had said General said it was not part of his years, that she was seriously quite frankly that he coukl not duty to And a victim for this man's thinking of starting a child's swear that death was not due to death, but to see that justice was beauty parlour. The idea appar natural causes. The only man done. He thought that the juryly already has been put into competent to say that this man could have no doubt from
being in America, where painted died from the nikaloid found in his Dorey's evidence that
Mrbables are by no means stomach was a physiologist, and alkaloid of úrlscmiam, elegans that there is
notion. But, oven in suggestion, Dr. Minast was S physiogolist. was found in the stomach of the about the thought.
something repellent Mr. Dovey was not competent to deceased, and he thought there was for an opinion. Even if he had enough evidence to show that de-
and that there was poischa in the fcensed
CAREFUL MOTHERS. died from grisrmino stomach he couldn't say that death feleguns.' He also copiatented 'on}
Massage, to help the formation was due to that cause. "The ease the fact that leaves of the plant of wellshaped face and figure; I have got to meet," said Counsel. were found in prisoner's purse.
manicuro, to encourage pretty in wrak one, the weakest ease;
hands and fingers: hair culture, ffom a medical standpoint it woul
to make the bost of whatever by passible to find in records,” In his summing-up is Honour|fccks Nature has bestowed those
Dr. Minnett took out the stomach sand he had to tell the jury that-iffure three forms of beauty help, the day after the death, knowing the end of their deliberations they which have always been practised | at that time it was L suspected bud any reasonable doubt, then the among children by long-sighted, lease of poisoning. His duty, as prisoner was entitled to the bencmothers with means to pay for prted counsel, was to shed all the Bt of that doubt. There were two them. Today's development is Evini organs straight to the issues and they analyst. To say that all the man The first was of what did decease! took her small girl to a leading!
were connected quite another story.
Take this instance. A mother teek would be in the stomach, bede? and secondly if he did die of hairdresser, not many weeks ago. ewuse the man died after 24 hours; poisoning was it administered She was disappointed because the de rated the common-sense, of, the prisoner! He then went on child had flaxen hair she wanted nise without any medel know-review the evidence. They knew tender at all. It wa of foremost little of the plant, but from the evid-was sure that red hair would it a. Titian-headed daughter, and importaper to get the important one of the Chinese witness it was in better with the child's person organs to the analyst, for him to well-known take each one and extract from itmother took a
theality. The hairdresser advised police officer to in vain, and the small girl is now! what poison, might be there, where they grow. The prisoner red-headed. This is only one ex- tabulate what was found and give had said that she had used the amplo from many similar cases: the result. Then it woatd he leaves for nose Bleeding and that baby girls, not yet in double possible for a smund ipinion to be he didn't know ho-man-tang, but figures, have their hair tinted or firmed.
when certain leaves were put to her actually dyed, to say nothing of Why the Delay?
In the box she had said. "Those tho permanent waving, curling, "Twenty-five days passed.--1 are not ho-mau-tung." The finding and shampooing which are mat- wonder why" asked Counsel, the of the leaves in the purse at the [ters of habit. fore they asked for the organs. Police Court Was ! remarkable Rotige, too, is being used far ond then find no traces of mison."cross-examination of the prosecutoo much on tiny children. One He challenge Dr. Minnett to find tion's story.
mother, "touching up hor. little. one's cheeks before going to u party, excused it on the ground that the child was too pulo by did aut return till 7.25 p.m. after batter for Miss Seven Years Old. The jury retired at 5 p... and nature, and that it was really eaull have quoted to them. any
deliberation of almost 24 hours.to be made to look bright, and report of a poison trial, so that
In reply to the Clerk, the fore-happy. Other mothers inay they could see with what eare the man said they found prisoner share these feelings, but they are scientific parts of the case weritiity, but recommended her to terribly wrong. Just as wrong as are the mothers, who make a
a vase for the past 4 years in England, where all the argans had not been seat ni
the
once tu
analyst. He wished time had been
importance. that
earried through.
il
ARemy.
to them anel
The Verdiet.
He did not crifieize Dr. Minnet His Honour: I will see that your to free and unwise use of personally, who had said that a recommendation is-forwarded to powder in their baby girls. that day he had 14 post mortem, the proper quarter.
and one-emuld say he could do The Judge then, assumed the bi post mortears in a day,"and" da black cap, "and passed sentence of them competently Boetuse death.
man is overworked" said Counsel.! Asked if she had anything to say "afe rots going to find against this before sentence was passed, pri- woman charged with murder becaner said, "What have I to say? cause of something that should My husband has died, I don't know have been done, but was not why he died, and I am arrested." Are you going to say Well never { His Honour to the interpreter): theless we think that there is Tel her that after very careful suspicion, and had 1. heen carried consideration the jury have found el protuerly poison, might, have her guilty. Hera Damul "=
Prisoner: I did not murder him.
They were fititied to have 18:11e died himself. periments carried out a proper E way.
Dr. Minnett admitted that made a full defence, which has His Honour: Tell her she has he did not examine the spinal been at to the jury. cord. There was videoses of
wht this ma took. There was no Prisoner: He committed suicide evidence that the symptoms shown himself. It is nothing to do with The him were not consistent with me. The reason of his death was Thalf a dozen other things. Alaka-that his parents scolded hin day but was not a rare thing. It be-and night, and he omniitteil came of first importance to see salcie
that the stomach and the orgay's that might be affected should have the dock, weeping. been sent so it might have been
Prisuner was then taken from
cpnirmatory, of anything found in His Honour thanked the jury for. the stomach. Dr. Mimett. could their services, and excused them nut swear to natural enuses.
service for two years...
Mr. Dovey's Tests.
No doubt Mr. Dovey carried out eareful tests, and took this impure! alkaloid. There was an admission that he knew nothing of the alka
PAINTED BABIES.
oid, lidn't know its effect, only Modern Fashion Discussed. how it was poison. They were ex- ploring a new field
far as
mediral evidence was
SU
4 warnan
"What little angels of heavon!" exclaimed concerned, and one would have thought everywho was visiting an exclusive step that was known to a skilled children as she watched the tiny Wast-end dancing clans for! man would have been taken. Mr. Dovey when he did not receive the tots mastoring the intricacies of other organs, should have asked for
the latest dance atops.
them. They had it from Mr. Wilson "Painted angels!" said her that an alkaloid, if it had broken tempt, and a very little close ob
companian, with à touch of con- down, could not be extracted. Te sorvation proved the truth of hor had also said that if poison was words. At least half of the small in the organs the alkaloid-would girls who wore having a danong not have been broken down and all lesson that day word made up its-taxle properties gone after 25 some wore actually painted and days.
had thoir cheoks touched up with Counsel wont on to remark that rouge, while othors showed a con- the defence had no medical export sidorablo uso of powder and present at the time the experiments sundry artificial beauty aids, were made. Not that he did not writes Mary Ashton in the Daily believe what had, been sold, but Chronicle." doctors, like lawyers, did not Those wore all childron of always agree,
"quite nico" parents, some of He didn't think the trini would them wore kiddies" with" woll- have lasted two days had he been Inown names, and the incident
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