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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925.
KOWLOON DOCK TRAGEDY., it would be in the way.
ENQUIRY INTO ENGINEER'S DEATH.
An Unaccountable Accident.
It would be in the way, but a not usual?-No, It is not usual. They have no chains along the I'raya.
SHANGHAI SHOOTING.
COMMISSIONER AND INSPECTOR RESIGN,
There are no chains on the edzó | of the Praya because of the carga.
Shanghai, Dec. 25. being continually loaded on stips,
The Municipal Council, in a That also applies with docks"—letter to the Senior Consul, dated
Sitting as Coroner at the Kow. Yes. loon Magistracy yesterday after-
Asked if he could account for
noon, Mr. E. W. Hamilton conduct the accident, witness replied in the
ed
Win
the 21st inst., saya that notwith. standing the fact that the majority. of the judges on the Commission of
An enquiry into the circum-negative. remarking that the place Inquiry exonerate the police from Istances of the death of Mr. D. A. was beautifully illuminated by blame, Mr. McEuen, Commissioner i
of Police and Mr. Everson, Morris, late third engineer of the large lamp. Witness was inclined
to think that the deceased ad inspector in charge of the Louzn s.s. Mausank, whose body
Biation, have tendered their re- found floating in the No. 1, Dock walked straight into the dock,
The Coroner: Can you account signations. at Kowloon on the night of Decem
The jury summoned to en-for his walking straight into the ber 5. quire into the deceased's dent was composed of Messrs. W. J. Edwards foreman), G. Weber arc Tung Shiu-lun.
dock ?—No.
ታህ
The Verdict. Mr. N. Stephenson gave evidence of having dined with the deceased medical at the Kowloon Hotel on the Salar According to the
Tday night. He had had no drinks evidence given by Dr. J. Smalley, there was an abrasion on and returned to his ship alone.
Sub-Inspector Clack stated that the deceased's forehead, nose and ikhin. The clavicle was fractured when taken out of the water hel
of the lungs, was convinced that the deceased and the condition heart and the contents of he was dead. There was a sum of stomach were all consistent with money in his pockets and the holy
showed no signs of violence. drowning.
Mr. W. J. Lawrence said that b
Asked if the abrasion on the
shin might have been caused by had been shipmates with the de- censed on the 8.8. Yuen Sang last He was of a very cheerful tripping over some wire, witnes replied that it was possible. I was also possible that the wourdature and never quarrelled with
bis shipmates. on the forehead caused the de-i
The Coroner, summing up, point- censed to be in a state of concus ad out to the jury that there were sion and it would be likely that he obviously three possibilities before would be drowned without making them. The first was that deceased the least effort to save himself.
was pushed over the edge, and if Ilis organs were in a condition
the jury considered that was what suggestive of having been rendered had occurred they were to retur unconscious before falling into the
a verdiet of wilful murder. The water. The fractured collar bonCoroner pointed out that a sum of would be a hindrance to hint and money was found on the deceased render him less able to maintain and the motive therefore could not
his balance should he fall.
There was nothing abnormal the contents of the stomach and there were no signs of alcohol.
The Discovery.
have been one of robbery.
In the second place if the jury found he had committed sulette they would return their verdle accordingly and make any re- ference they desired regarding his einentality.
The third possibility was that by some accident or other lia hud fallen into the dock, and stunned, was unable to save himself. If that be their opinion they would
adventure.
The Coroner then read do jury a statement made by a Portu- uese sailor of the gunboat Patria who discovered the body floating in the duck. The man stated that he was waiting to return to his ship when he saw the body of return a verdict of death by rais man in the No. 1 Duck. Not seeing a policeman on the spot he im-
the
nearest mediately went to house and tried to explain to the tare. inmates that there was someone in the dock.
The next wllness called was Mr. H. Wylie, who stated that he was dining with Mr. Buncan at the jenst of the No. 1 Duck, when at about 11 p.m. two Portuguese) sailors' took him and Mr. Duncan to the Dock, where they found the ody of a European floating in the water. Witness was asked by Mr. Duncan to summon the police and on his return, Mr. Wylie found that the body had flualed to the side of the dock. It was later removed by the police.
Mr. W. Sanderson, assistant: superintendent engineer of the China, Stoam Navigation Company. said that the deceased was employ-
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Recovery of Body,
Mr. G. Duncan corroborated Mr. Wylie's evidence and added that after asking the latter to call the, police he went away and obtained a life boat, as the body was ther Ün in the middle of the dock. returning, however, the body had drifted to the side and was taken; fout by Inspector Clark,
Continuing witness said the-de- ceased might have fallen over the steps where the body was found as his hat was discovered near the: corpse. He might have tripped over the pipe on the side of the dock.
The Coroner: Assuming that the deceased was returning from the
Kowloon Hotel and going back to the ship, would he pass by the dock?
Witness: I am inclined to think that the deconsed was taken by his ricksha coalie to the entrance near the New Quartors, in which case he must pass that way, but not otherwise.
Witness said he had met the de- ceased previously when he had
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recovered from his injury. Hu was perfectly sober.
The Coroner: In mereantile docks, is it usual to put guerd chains pround the sides?
Witness: Only at the hend of the dock, but where the stops are I do not think it le necessary and
al- The Council, preferring as ways, to take action likely to promote the settlement of the questions at issue, has decidell to accept the resignations with an ex- pression of apprecintion of meri- torious services these offleurs have rendered in the past.
"The Council further desires 'to renew its expressions of regres at the loss of life on May 30, and as muk of sympathy to the wound- ed and the relatives of the killed, enclose a cheque of $75,000, which the Council asks you to transmit to the Chinese Foreign Commis
among sioner for distribution
48 3 compas- those concerned sionate grant."
The Senior Consul on the 21st the transmitted the above to Foreign Commissioner, adding that be felt sure the Commissioner would appreciate the spirit which inspired the Council's action.--Renter.
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Report Being Released.
Shangani, Dec, 23. The Judicial Commission's reporti
is being released from Peking this afternoon. Owing to inter- ruption of communications it is not expected to reach Shanghai before December 25. The Council is in possessions of #1 summary, which it has not given out.-
Reuter.
A pien that the Cenotaph should he crowned with a per- petua! lame, as was origially planned by Sir Edwin Lutyens, After retiring. the jury found is mudo by Mr. E. V. Lucas in a that death was due to misadven-letter to the Editor of the Daily
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