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FAN CAUSES DEATH
CHINESE ELECTROCUTED IN. KITCHEN.
In a cres in which the driver of The recent motor accident in Sitting as Coroner, Mejor 0.. a tractor belonging to the Hong-Chatham Road, when the five-year- Willson yosterday conducted an kong Excavation, Pile Driving and old daughter of Sub-Inspector and enquiry into the death of a Chin Construction Co. was charged be- Mrs. Phillips Was knocked ese who was electrocuted on June fore Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kow-down and injured by a taxicab, 11 when he came in contact with loon Magistracy yesterday after-was again montioned before Mr. en electric fan, noon with driving his vehicle W. Schofold at the Kowloon Ma- The Coroner informed the Jury along Montague Edo Road in agistracy yesterday afternoon, when that the enquiry was of consider manner dangerous to the public, a the driver WAB convicted on able importance to the community. lotter was produced from Mr. C. charges of dangerous driving and and it was their duty to clear up Shank, the manager of the Com-driving a vehicle without two in- what exactly was the cause of pany, pointing out that the road independent and officient brakes. death. It was also necessary, "if question was private property and The defendant, describing the possible, to state what steps, that residents were warned that accident, said that he was about should be taken to ayold accidents permission in writing had to be to pass one of the large buses of this Idad In future. obtained before making use of the which had drawn up on the east. It transpires that the deceased thoroughfare,
alde of the rond, when a young girl and another foki In a shop at 424 When informed of the receipt of ran out from behind the station-1)os. Voeux Road Central went int the letter, Mr. W. Treskin, who ary bus. Witness" had almost together to the kitchen for a bathr appeared as complainant, said that overtaken the bus and was The doceased wanted to bath Arst the Montaguo. Ede Road was the able to stop in time,
so the other foki stopped out of main thoroughfare of Kowloon The girl was picked up and the kitchen. The bath tub was on Teng. There was no notice in-taken to hospital for medical the kitchen floor and deceased fille formed. It through an fron tube; one forming residents that the road treatment.
was private nor bad be personally His Lordship registered a con-end of which was attached to the received any notification of this.viction on each count. On the tap and the other end over the bath His Worship said that he would first charge a fine of $100 was im tub. Deceased was holding this hear the evidence and then ad-nosed and defendant's license or with one hand and with the other jours for the Police to consider dered to be suspended for six ho was seen to touch the fan. their position.
months. On the second count de-Immediately afterwards he shout ed that he was killed by elec Sub-Inspector Phillips, who is in fendant was fined a further $25.
tricity." charge of the district, intimated
Tax Company Summoned. that he frequently passed Mon- tague Ede Road but had never seen any notice to the effect that the road was private.
The foki rushed for assistance The summons against the Hong-but when he returned a few kong und Kowloon Taxicab Co, seconds later the unfortunate man charging the licensee with falling was lying on the floor. The main Mr. Troskin. in the witness box to maintain the vehiclo in proper switch was turned off and the des said that he was driving his car in condition, was adjourned for one ceased was picked up, quite dead, the direction of Prince Edward week for reservice on Mr. A. H. with a big black mark across his Rond from his house No. 39, Kow-|Rowe, the manager.
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loon Tong. On nearing the end When the aumnions. Was first Dr. Cannon gave"-evidence to of the settlement witness saw enfled it was stated that the show that the primary cause of tractor travelling in the same licensee was absent and the case death was electrocution and the direction some distance in front, was put over for an hour, when secondary cauad was shock.. TILES When about to pass the front an employee, appeared in court Mr. A. E. Clarke, Senior Inspece vehicle Mr. Treskin sounded his and atated that ho had not receitor of Works, Electrical Depart horn but without any warning the ed any summons. It transpired ment, P.W.D., stated that he ex tractor turned to the right causing that the wrft was inadvertently amined the wiring in 242. Des witness to suddenly apply his served on the driver of the taxi.Voeux Road Central and found: brakes and swerve to the left to On being asked to plend the everything in order. He was clerk of the Taxi Company said given a fan to examine a few days avoid a collision,
The case was adjourned for fur-that although he was in charge of later and found that the installa ther enquiries.
the Kowloon Depot he was not the tion inside the fan was defective licensee, The License was made in that the winding was in con- out in the name of Mr. Rowe. tact with the frame, causing the The case was adjourned for one whole fan to be "live." Witness week for the summons to be said that the deceased, if his, served on Mr. Rowe..
hands were wet, might have form- ed a circuit from fan to earth through his body. The fan was. an old type.
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The jury returned a verdict of "accidental death.
working in China in normal times, there are only 500 left in thef
New York, June 27. Twelve scientists accompanied Mr. Donald MacMillan, the famous Arctic explorer, when he salled from Wiscasset. Maine, on Junc 25 ол his eventh expedition
Figures showing the complete-stations. Of the remainder, 6,000 northwards, to spend fifteen ness of the evacuation of forelyn are in their home lands, either on months in the interior of Labrador missionaries from their stations furlough or on special leave on and Greenland, specially to study in the interior have recently been account of the impossibility of the ruins on the coast of Labrador made known. These figures show their being at their stations: 1,500 which according to Eskimo legend, that there has bean an almost are lú Shanghai, and 1,000 In other, was built by a curious race which complete departure from towns in ports, including Japan and Korea. reached the shores in open boats the interior of all nationals who These figures aro only aDPKOK- without decks and sails.
The expedition will also ex- enjoy extraterritorial privileges, imate in all instance, constant baustively investigate the meteoro- owing, in most cases, to antichanges making it impossible to foreign progapanda making their compute from day to day the num logical conditions, which ara likely to greatly assist Transat position in their stations unsafe.ber, of missionaries of various lantic aviation-Reuters Ameri-Approximate figures show that denominations who are in differ can Service.
out of 8,000 foreign missionaries end places at one time..
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