THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY
1927.
QUESTION OF
DECREE.
TORTURE" OF THE
CONDEMNED.
GIRL'S TURF LOSSES.
STORY OF A MAN'S OFFER.
The first meeting of creditors was held recently a Bankruptcy Bulldings; Carey-street, W.C., The electrocution of Sacco and under a receiving order made Vanzetti, after they had spent seven years under the shadow of death, has called forth a vigorous protest from the eminent poet It appeared from statements and artist, Mr. Laurence Housman,that had been made by Miss Mac- In the form of a letter, to the anon in a preliminary examina tion that in August or September Daily News.
of last year, when she was 23
against Miss Mavis Mackinnon, of Court-field-gardens, S.W., and lately residing at the Thurloe Hotel, Kensington.
IRISH MAIL BOATS IN COLLISION.
ALARMING-ACCIDENT AT.
'FISHGUARD.
An alarming collision occurred
last month between the Great Western Railway, Company's, vés- sels St. Patrick and St. David off the northern breakwater at Fish- guard Harbour.
The St. Patrick was entering the harbour with 300 passangers from Rosslare, while the St. David was outward bound with over 600 pas-
Mr. Housman attacks the prin-years old, she was introduced to a songers, mostly holiday makers, on man at an hotel in Brighton.board. The weather was rainy ciple of capital punishment, and He took a friendly interest in and dark when the St. Patrick's contends that the system in this country differs in degree only from that of which Sacco and Vanzetti wore the victims.
howe crashed into the St. David's portside forward. The violence of the impact threw the passengers from their bunks and created much alarm among women and children, Lifeboats were served out, but fortunately both vessels renched the quayside unaided. Panic was allayed by timely reassurances by the ship's officers.
her, promised to adopt her, gave her £1,150, and promised to give her more when he returned after an absence of aix months.
Unfortunately she spent the £1. "To the bare sentence of death," 150 very quickly, mainly on the writes Mr. Housman, "circum-cecourse and in hotels, although her mo- stances have added an additional she also contributed to
of ther's support. In and more horrible sentence
December seven years' expectation of death, when she had "come to the end of
The St. David" was at one with all the agonising accompani-her tether." she began to obtain ment of alternate hope and des-loans from friends, while she also ment in grave danger of being pair.
For allowing such an ex-contracted debts to dressmakers heeled over by the force of the tended torture, followed by execu-nd hotelkeepers, and money-lend-St. Patrick's stern, which tion, to be possible, any civilised, ers, anticipating. further money stove in to a distance of over 20ft. community has cause to be asham-from the man. ed, and it is for that rather than She wrote to him but received
for any suspicion that her judges are inefficient or corrupt, that the of America-unconvinced shame of it-stands condemned in the world's eyes to-day.
Capital Punishment.
no reply and had neither seen nor heard of him since he left her in September.
A money-lender eventually petition. Her liabilitics roughly estimated at £1,200, She possessed no assets. meeting was closed.
QUEEN MARY'S AUTOGRAPH.
filed she
The
"But while so many are stirred by this flagrant deformity of justice, it would he well for all to consider the element of horror, similar in kind, inseparable fron all forms of capital punishment. The vast bulk of murders for which we inflict this penalty arg "done in hot blood without pre- meditation, and the victim has not to face the horror of suspense involved in a sentence of death. Even murders, more planned and
The Queen in mail week con- deliberate in character, depeni for their success on the victim'tinued her visits to interesting places in the West Riding of York- ignorance of his impending fate.
shire.
ROYAL RULE WAIVED
FOR A GIRL.
Di
"Were any murderer so to plan Accompanied by Princess Mary his crime, contining his victim for and Viscount Lascelles, she motor- Hall to three weeks beforehand, with the ed from Goldborough date and hour for the murder Plompton Rocks, near Knares carefully arranged and comma-borough, and spent an hour in the nicated, we should cry out on picturesque grounds. as a proof of the most bidéous A pretty incident occurred when mental depravity. But that is Miss Olive Voce, daughter of a
a number what we all do so long as we tenant, collected permit capital punishment.
scarlet and yellow roses and John The only difference between Atkinson, her five-years-old con our normal procedure and that of sin, shyly presented them to the
Queen. 'America in the case recently con-
Miss Voce asked the Queen to Butimated is that we are willing to inflict that kind of torture for sign her autograph album, and her three weeks or a month; America. Majesty, departing from her usual on special occasions. is willingust, signed the book. "Mary 2 30/8/27. Princess, Mary added to prolong it for seven years."
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The prompt closing of the water- tight bulkheads avoided the dan- er of sinking. The St. David's. upper deck was driven some yards by slanting contact of the St. Patrick's bow, and the heavy star- board anchor was broken and left on the deck of the St. Patrick, whose 300 passengers were trans- ferred to an express train which left almost to sigeduled time.
Ce number of Afterwards a
ommodated the passengers wi on board the St.rick. No one was injured, since most of the passengers were in their berths or were reclining in the cabins. com- Meanwhile another of the pany's vessels, the Great Southern. was recalled from Waterford and at 1.30 afternoon she left for Rosslare.
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COMUNISM IN LONDON.
MR. COOK TAKES OFF. HIS COAT IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE,
The Red Flag flew on the plinth of Nelson's Column on Aug. 28 in of the "brutal commemoration murder" of: Sacco and. Vanzetti, bared his arms, and removed his Mr. A. Cook took off his coat, collar and tie to lend force to his eloquence, that was renewed three different sides of the plinth, and young men and maidens from East London applauded every at- tack made on "Premier Baldwin" and Winston Churchill, The dirge of the "International" was feebly droned.
Američa, all and sundry were told, was not the enemy. The capitalist Press had tried to create prejudice on these lines, but the workers were and wanted to be friends of the American people, and only deplored the dastardly murder of two heroes of the Com- munistic movement. The workers of Great Britain should join their international brethren and suffer, if necessary, as bravely as Sacco and Vanzetti had done in the com- mon cause.
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Collections were taken on the various plinths for the families of men in prison.
In the course of the meeting, a man mounted the plinth, unrolled" an American flag, and was about to pour petrol over it and ignite it when officials of the organising body the International Class War Prisoners' Aid-told him he could not destroy the flag on the plat form. He climbed down. Later the Stars and Stripes was torn in half, and other men seized the pieces and tore them to shreds.
SAVED BY CHILD'S CRY.
FATHER WHO CUT CASPIPE
. REPENTS.
A Glasgow man who cut a gas¬: pipe in his house and then repent- ed of it when he realised the dan- ger.to his four young children es- caped with an admonition at Edinburgh High Court last month. The charge stated that in conse- quence of his act the children were partly asphyxiated and their livea endangered.
It was explained that for some time the man, Isaac Workman, aged 40, an electrician, of Govan- road, had complained of his wife's conduct, His wages had been scized for debt and he was dis- missed fre his employment. In July his wife left him and, the children..
Two nights later he cut the gas- pipe with the intention, as he afterwards told the police, of "doing himself and the children in," but when one of the children began to cry Workman came to himself and did his utmost to stop the escape of gas; Twico he fell off a pair of steps while. doing so. 'and ultimately became scious from the gas..
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