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Shanghai, November 10,-The in- A number of Chinese appeared ternational Commission of Judges at the Kowloon Magistracy yester-investigating the Shanghai uffair} of May 30, has closed its reporti day afternoon. before Mr. E. W. Hamilton and Mr. R. G. Lindsell, which has been forwarded to for breach of the Arms and Ara-Peking and the Commissioners will return home at the earliest op. munition Ordinance..
portunity-Reuter.
As already reported in thu Telegraph, the death occurred suddenly at his home, "Coniston," Watford, on Oel. 9, of Mr. George Benjamin Dodwell, chairman of Dedwell and Co., Ltd.. general merchants, of St. Mary Axe. E.C., art of America, China and The charge against three men,
Mr. Budwell, who was who were arrested in his 74th year, entered busi-city on October 26, was that of ness in 1886, and became chairman unlawful possession of a revolver, of the company which bears his an automatic pistol and eight)
All de- name on its formation in 1899. rounds of ammunition. The „funeral Look place at Watford on. Oct. 1.1. being preceded by an appropriate service at St. Andrew's Church.
Japan.
in
One who knew the inte M. Dodwell well contributes the follow. ing appreciation to the China Express and Telegraph:
Went
ill
Kowloon
fendants pleaded not guilty.
Prisoners Statement.
GOLF.
THE CAPTAIN'S CUP.
J
Sergeant Chester-Woods, in ux- plaining the case to the Court, said
In the November 'qualifying, com- that he had received information on the evening of October 26, to petition for the Captain's Cup at the effect that three men intended Fanling, W. W. Mackenzie qualified committing an armed robbery at with a score of 81-7-74. Other a village in the Kowloon City dis-secres were as follows: Eldon Hot- In the death of Mr. Geo. B.
obtain theirter, triet. They would
88-12=-70: W. Lang, Dodwell there has passed away one arms and ammunition from the 38-12-76; E. J. R. Mitchell, of the "old China hunde" who will hillside at Ma Tau Kok, where 85—6—79;| H. U. Ireland, be mourned by a very wide circle these had been concealed. The 86--7-79; A. Morrison 90-11-79. of friends. Не underwent It
weapons would he conveyed in a serious operation some few months basket to the scene of the pro- ago, but appeared to be well on posed robbery. At 7 pm. that the way to recovery, so that the evening, together with a party of news of his sudden passing has detectives, the Sergeant waited in ing that he did not even know the cone is a great shock to all. Hambusty at the junction of Sa three defendants. was married in January, 1879, 14 Kong and Kowloon, City Roads. Their Worships expressed the Julia Simms, who died in December, On the approach of the three de-opinion that the defendants wero 1909 and he leaves rix children,fendants and the informer, the members of a gang of robbers and five of them married.
police intercepted them and had convicted the first defendant. The late Mr. Dodwell first Them arrested. The first defen They, however, did not disbelieve trat to China 1872. dont was carrying a basket the story, he had told the court. at the age of 20, in the employ which were found the weapons, That made no difference to his of Adamson. Belleaf Co., and when the revolver" being · loaded six
trnce. He would go to prison this firm came to grief in 1891, he chambers and the pistol contain, although it reduced the sen and another employee of the firm, ing two rounds.
with hard labour for two years. MR. A. J. H Carlill, entered into
The other two men would be re- partnership under the style of Dod-
At the conclusion of the evidence manded till Monday morning for well, Carli and Co. In, 1898, it was decided to turn the business for the prosecution, the first de polies investigations, and would. into a limited company, and the fendant elected to make a state-be discharged should no further present frm of Dadwell and Co., ment from the dpek. He said that evidence be produced at the next Ltd., came into existence on Jan. 1, the arms were the property of an-hearing. 1899, and is to-day as well known other man, who had lost the wea- On dis- among the European firms of the pons some time previous. Far East as it is among the Chinese covering that they had been stulen "Teen by the second and third defen under its Chinese name, Cheang." Mr. Dodwell's knowledge dants, who were in league with a of the shipping trade from and to third man, the original owner revolvers and 1,200 rounds of am, China and Japan was unrivalled, guested him (defendant) to re- and he may be rightly termed one deem the weapons for the sum ofed that he was given the contra-
He had only handed over band. by another man, who hud, of the pioneers of the Trans-Pacific $10,
escaped arrest. trade between China, Japan, and the money and received the basket the Pacific Coast of America and containing the arms when he was
Inspector Cashman told the Canada. He possessed to a marked arrested by the police.
Both the secop and third de-court that n party of Revenue degree many of those qualities on which our Overseas trade has been fendants denied knowledge of officers, under R. O. Lonigan, built up: a dogzed determination, the arms, denying that they had boarded the President Grant on bren given to the first accused. Monday afternoon, and proceeded! andaunted by temporary reverses,
The man who was stated to have to a first class cabin which they a scrupulous sense of honour, an attractive personality, and an in-lost the arms was called and he they found locked. The key was refused to admit ownership, say obtained from the No. 2 boy, who satiable appetite for work.
tried to open the door, but owing) to some resistance from within it would not open. After some
AL
What an Optimist is,
h comparatively early
iite, by seizing the op-
Carpenter Sentenced.
A carpenter from the Presiden! Grant, was arraigned on a charge! of unlawful possession of 14 re-
munition.
The defendant plead
portunities that came his way, on which he served with distin-difficulty, the door was opened and
he found himself at the head guished ability, notably the China the defendant rushed out of the the Overseas cabin, to be stopped by the Re- of a business with wide ramifica- Association and
Outside his garden hevenue Officers. He struggled with. tions in China, Japan and America, League.
overpowered. the details of which he kept at his had few hobbies, but most of his the men, but was finger ends almost to the last, for spare time was devoted to the local Another man, in the meanwhile, although bronchial trouble neces- affairs of the town of Watford, had escaped from the cabin and sitated his spending the winters of where he elected to reside on his Bed down the passage..
In reply to Mr. Hamilton, R. O.
board spoke excellently of the de- Hefendant's character and described |
him as a very industrious man,
Sentence of three years hard labour was imposed.
Possession of a Dagger.
Arrested after alighting from #
1023 and 1924 in warmer climates, return from China in 1898, and he never really retired, in the he has left behind him much con- Lanigan said that the officers on strict sense of the term. A con- crete evidence of his deep interest firmed optimist himself, he had no in the welfare of the town.
se for pessimists, and never lost was made a Justice of the Peace an opportunity of impressing on for Hertfordshire a few years ago. his staff his favourite definition of It may be said without fear of the difference between the two, contradiction that in his quiet, "The pessimist is he who sees a unostentatious way George Dodwell difficulty in every opportunity; un deserved well of his fellows; he optimist he who sees an opportuni- was a public-spirited gentleman, ty in every difficulty." He had, who gladly accepted and fulfilled bus at the terminus in Kowloon however, to admit that of late it more than his share of the respon-City, with a dagger and some wire in his possession, a Chinese was By his has not been as easy as in the old sibilities of citizenship. days to discover opportunities in generosity and kindliness of heart sentenced to four years hard the many difficulties surrounding he endeared himself to all who labour. the Bench being of the opinion that the defendant had British trade with China,
came in contact with him in every Iis
with walk of life, and it is indeed to undoubtedly gone out with the in- the inevitable buttonhole. will be deplored that, after making such tention of committing an be missed in BLE P quarters a satisfactory recovery from his of the City: KD, 100, will recent operation, he was not spared his wise counsels at the committee longer to enjoy the leisure he an meetings of the various institutions richly deserved.
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