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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
·DRUG TRAFFICKERS' DODGES.
REPORT TO LEAGUE OF NATIONS,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24,"
1927.
LIBEL SUIT OVER Å SPANIEL.
ALLEGED SUBSTITUTION AT TRIALS.
In its report on the traffic is Mr. William Humphrey, of Wal- opium and other dangerous drugs | lop Hall, Shrewsbury, founder of which has been submitted to the the English Springer Spaniel League of Nations, the British Club, was the plaintiff in an action Government states that from in- for damages for libel against Mrs. formation received during the year Lorna, Quintin Dick, of 28, St. 1026, the Illeit traffic in drugs James's-place, S.W., before the continues on a large scale, The King's Bench in mail: week. The value of International co-opera- defence was that the words com- tional in its suppression is shown plained of were true, were publish- In particulars which are given of ed on a privileged occasion and some of the most noteworthy not malice, and did not refer to
Mr. Humphrey.
спаса,
In one case information зири Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., fur plied to the Government concern-Mr. Humphrey, explained that ed, in regard to the suspicious his client carried on the business. character of a shipment, to the of training, breeding and dealing Far East. was followed by in in the English springer spaniel, quiries which not only confirmed an animal which, when properly the suspicious, but resulted in the trained, had intelligence little discovery of no less than 13 illicit short of miraculous, shipments which had taken place previously.
1.
In another case, in which a seizure was effected at Hongkong of the huge amounts of 8,200 ounces of heroin in the possession of a passenger on a steamer com- ing from Europe, particulars ob- tained from the documents found upon him showed that the trunks qontaining the heroin had been dispatched from Switzerland to Marseilles..
Forged Labels.
Mrs. Quintin Dick also bred and trained springer spaniels and had been a member of the English Springer Spaniel Club. Following a dispute in which she evinced much hostility to Mr. Humphrey, she resigned from the club..
1923 a dor named Horsford. Hap
Mr. Humphrey bred in April hazard that achieved great suc cess, won valuable prizes and be- came a first ranker.
The suggestion had been made that Horsford Samson, an older Bottles or tins of cocaine have dog, had been substituted for been repeatedly seized Bri-Horsford Hanhazard at the meet- tish territory-usually on boardings.
on
com-
vessels arriving from the Far Harsford Haphazard was sold to East-bearing sometimes forged a person in America for £200 for European labels, sometimes labels exhibition at the New York Show. of brands of which the origin is and shortly afterwards a kennel- unknown. Of the latter class, the man named Gaunt made label of a brand called "Jujitsuru"plaints to the Kennel Club that has been mostly frequently met Mr. Humphrey had registered with:
Horsford Haphazard with a false pedigree and had run the animal in numpy stakes at two trial meetings of the club for which the dog was not eligible. Those com- plaints were dismissed by the club
All available particulars of every seizure of this brand have been.communicated to the Japan- ese Government, but up to the pre- sent the Japanese authorities have not been able to discover the ori-as not being proved. gin of the cocaine which bears. these labels.
No information has been recely. ed that any firm in Great Britain has been engaged in smuggling drugs abroad.
Letter to Breeder
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In June 1925 Mra. Quintin Dick wrote the libel complained of in a letter to a Mr. Endore Chevrier,
a dog breeder, of Winnipeg. She
During the year à seizure was said: "It is time something was made at Southampton of ship-done as the fraudulent practices ment of a substance called that have gone or have been a dis- "ubrinole," which on analysisgrace." proved to be a mixtures of mor- phia and some unctuous substance which was on its way from France to the Far East, via Canada.
This seizure indicates that drug traffickers are now adopting, the expedient of mixing dangerous drugs with other substances from which they could easily to re- covered for the purpose of con- cealment.
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An Arrest in London.
Those words, said Mr. Patrick, meant that Mr. Humphrey had been guilty of fraudulent, prac- tices in his business and hall sub- stituted one dog for another in sporting meetings with the object. af deceiving the judges and ob- taining prizes and honours to which he was not entitled,
Giving évidence, Mr. Humphrey said Horsford Haphazard was a first-class animal from the begin- In March 1926 an Englishmanning. Horsford Samson, known named Richard Cacbury Butler as Sam, was a heavy animal full was arrested in London in pos-of defects from the show point session of a tin containing one of view, and in the end he (Mr. to des. pound of cocaine, which he was Humphrey) told his man trying to sell in a low neighbour-troy it.
hood in the West End of London. That happened some months be- At his lodgings were later dis- fore Haphazard was sold to Me covered 12 tins, cach containing Cifford in Oshkosh, United States.
b. of cocaine, and 12 smaller tins It had since died, also containing cocaine. It was Mr. Humphrey said he was re- found that Butler had obtained presented at the Kennel Club in- the cocaine from a German named quiry by a solicitor who offered Karl Murhard, and that he had to try to get Horsford Haphazard been smuggling it into England by brought back from the United means of a water-proof coat under States if Mr. Gaùnt would pay the his clothing. This information expenses supposing he was found was forwarded to the German auto be wrong in his allegations. thorities, who discovered that Mr. Birkett, K.C., (for the "de- Murhard had for some time been
fence) When the Kennel Clus illicitly supplying cocaine, which asked to have the dog produced he had obtained from an apothe-vour kennelman went to America, enry named Wilhelm Schiefer. And when he reached there the dog German national named Lang, and died?-Yes, and I recognised how two Austrians named Biemann snl disastrous it was for me, because Brancker, were implicated. Muz I had produced the anima! this hard, Schiefer, and Lang were all
case would be finished in my judicially punished for breach of
favour. the German law. Brancker, the provider of the cocaine in Austria, shot himself.
THE CHEQUE BOOK WOMAN.
AN ENORMOUS INCREASE.
The cheque habit is spreading i Great Britain. In 1919 275,760,- '000 cheques were passed through
This is in spite of the im- position of the 2d. stamp duty, which falls impartially upon the ques of all denominations from 1d. to a million pounds. In the United States there is no, stump duty,
Lord Hewart: You could have
had the dog stuffed.
Replying to Lord Hewart, "Mr. Humphrey said that to register a dog with the Kennel Club it was necessary to fill up a form giving particulars of the animal's pedi- gree and the like.
Lord Hewart:. There is no in spection and, indeed, there never need be a dog at all?-No,
The hearing was adjourned.
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"ILLWISHED.”
£500 PAYMENT TO GIPSY. A story of an old man's creduli- ty was told at Truro, when Mary Hearn, a gipsy, was charged with demanding £171 10s, with menaces from Richard Harris Paddy, aged 75, a gardener, of St. Mawes.
It was stated that the women, who is 64, told Paddy that he had been "illwished," and he handed the various clearing-houses, while few or numerous, are factors to over to her about £500 in all in the in 1926 the total was no less than raise or lower the average cost" belief that she could remove the 410,602,000.
said one City banker, who claimed effect of the "illwishing." that any true. estimate must in- She used to place what she call- clude the salaries of the staff, ed an electric compass in his rent of buildings, and rates and hand, strike it and say "Jupiter," taxation, divided by the total num-Venus," or something like it. On ber of cheques drawn annually. one occasion she ordered him to Another eminent director of a draw £10 from the bank. He did prominent bank said: "It would ao and gave it to her, and next One reason is the growing habit be as reasonable to divide the week successfully demanded a of women to have their own bankbank's salaries bill by the thou-similar sum. She had money al- deposits for dress allowances and sand or so times I sneeze annually, most weekly, and once told him it the payment of household bills. and to say the result shows how was difficult to remove the ill- Yet no banker in London can muct it costs the bank every time wish" because it was so bad and s. say exactly how much it costs to I aneeze, as. to juggle similarly long ago. His health failed and clear a cheque.
with the total number of cheques under pressure he told his Many different replies, ranging drawn by depositors. The clear-ployer what was the matter. The from a few pençe tu le. Gd., were ing of cheques represents only a police afterwards hid themselves given to a Daily Mail reporter in fraction of a bank's work, and who and latened to a conversation be tent on ascertaining a precise can say how big the fraction is?"tween the couple, and jumping figure, but no finality could be It is a fact, however, that dur- over a hedge arrested the woman. reached, as each bank's estimate ing the war one firm of military as she was receiving £2 from was based on varying factors. bankers debited officer clients with Paddy. *
"The nature of a bank's 6d. in expenses for each cheque The woman, was committed for clientele, whether cheques are drawn against current account. trial.
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HONGKONG, CANTON
MACAO STEAMERS.
THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD,
CANTON LINE.
Ballings from Hongkong-Daily at I am. Sailings from Hongkong-s.s. "KINSHAN"-Monday,
Wednesday and Friday at 8 a.m. Sailings from Canton-Daily at 4 p.m. Sailings from Canton-e.8. "KINSHAN"-Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday at 8 a.m. S.S. "TAISHAN", berths on arrival in Hongkong on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at Company's Wing Lok Stroot Wharf. All Steamers will, as usual, leave for Canton from the Hongkong Wharf.
MACAO LINE.
FROM HONGKONG:-/
8 A.M. and 2 P.M.
(Weekdays only).
FROM MACAO
8 A.M. and 2 P.M. (Wockdays only).
SUNDAY EXCURSION.
On Sunday, the 28th August, ss. “SUI AN"' wil depart from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 A.M. and from Macao at 3.30 F.ML Return Saloon Passage Fare:-$5.00..
SPECIAL TIFFIN-$1,50.
Above Bailings are subjected to Weather Conditions and Intending Passengers are requested to communicate with the Office, whonever any of the Typhoon Signala are. hoisted.
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