him.
THE VANISHING VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XXVI,
driven home to the hilt. "
By DOUGLAS NEWTON,
Author of "Double Cronnod." "Low Ceilings," ""Green Ladlos," &o.
Marlin came out not only with a name cleared of any suggestion of guilt, but with public fame as a map of great and berole qualities, and a brilliant one to boot.
"One can only be loyal to people who deserve it," she replied. "Your other knew because she is your mother. I knew because be cause," she blushed deliciously, "that is-I knew from the first moment I saw you."
"By the gate of Gamlin's place?" "Just there," she smiled, tremulously.
"Yes," he cried. There is where it happened to me, too.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THE JOCKEY CLUB PROSECUTION.
(Continued from Pape 1.).
analogous authority at Home In which a man who gave out short weight on meat supplies to a military camp was convicted of
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928.
CORRESPONDENCE,
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL.
1+
To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.1
'OUR DAILY: TALK ON HEALTH.
THE MENTAL ASPECTS OF GOLF
Sir Will you allow me to draw REASON AND AUTOMATISM. attempted larceny of the differ- the attention of your readers to
Dr. Theodore B. Hyslop, the ence, it being held, against then society which was formed last contention of the accused, that the year in the Mother Country-The well-known British neurologist, overt act necessary to the convic-Friends of Canterbury Cathedral." lists practice, automatism, and tion on attempted larceny was pro. It is a society of those who reason, as the three montat fac- cherish the history, the beauty and tors necessary to produce par sent.
golf.
No Evidence.
Mr. Hugh-Jones replied that there was no evidence that the second defendant saw people come in with half-tickets. He further
pointed out that one witness for
*
Its
to face and fight. Most men would Mr. Wadeson argued that the the spiritual associations of Can- have felt that the case was hope- same overt act was present in the terbury Cathedral and who de
Automátism is reached only by The warrant against Martin for less from the first, with all those case now before the Court, the prosire to show their love for it-to- the murder of Dudley being in directors and their ruining ranged cess of larceny in his view being day and to help to preserve it for practice. When automatism be
comes perfect, reason can assert. To many of us, Canterbury is itself without cacumbrances. operative, the sixth director of against them. You refused to give complete up till the point of tak posterity. Consolidated Exploitations follow-in. Most men would have remained Ing the money away. Ho sub- the most noble and lovely of all
He defines golf as a mental and cd out Mainwaring's suggcation hidden and safe in South America. mitted that the defendants were and went up to see the Pubilc You didn't, you risked your free-only waiting for the close of the the Cathedrals, but it has a special physical #complex in which the 1
appeal to all Britons in the fact Trustee before the old warrant of dom to return and fight. Most men day'a racing to accomplish that that it was here that St. Augus-complicated mechanism should 19 was put into force against would have lost heart and grip and unlawful purpose.
run perfectly, freely, smoothly, They would tine, over thirteen centuries ago, patience through the long, slow benefit to the extent of $75 on first preached to the English and and automatically, while the mind What followed is public history. fight you made gathering facts such surplus funds as were per-replanted the Christian faith in should be free to exercise Stroach and Otto Rigg escaped the while hiding from the law-and mitted on the actual number of Britain. It is thus the cradle of higher functions of control and charge of murder, but Strunch was your enemies. But you didn't, you whole tickets issued.
English Christianity and the Mo-guidance. for never flinched. You went on and condemned to a long term
Mr. Wadeson submitted that (ther Church of our Communion. manslaughter and complicity, and won. You cleared your own name, although the second defendant More and more during "recent
Fatigue Hurts Game. Otto Rigg for a term that practi- you restored comfort and hope to might not have had the actual years it has become a centre for cally meant his whole life for man-hundreds of people who thought handling of the tickets, he was an English-speaking people Overseas Fatigue of mind or of body is slaughter and fraud.
they were ruined. You did à great accessory to the attempted larceny. and for all those who are in fol.: not conducive to good golf. Mon- tal stability varios according to le made something of a fight on work."
On that point, there was a case lowship with us. Every ten years the physical condition of the per- the latter count, but, as Martin "You are the most loyal cham-for the second defendant to members of the Pan-Anglican Con- Stannard had said, his case against pion a man ever had, Joyce, you answer.
ference join hore in worship under son concerned. him was fool proof. Thanks to ant my mother," he said.
the Presidency of the Archbishop When we are. very tired we be Martin's brilliant and faultless pre-
of Canterbury sitting in the an come irritable and slightly unbal sentation of all the facts, the guilt
Aanced. When the golf profes of Otto Rigg as the chief thief and
cient chair of St. Augustine. moving spirit of one of the greatest
month rarely passes during the stonal is very tired during match and cruellest crimes of our time was
Spring and Summer in which some play he "blows up" or "cracks." within its walls.
The tendency of the nerve colla Overseas Bishop does not preach
At the foundation of our society to recover rapidly from fatigue is the prosecution had also given an article by the Dean of Canter-great, and it is possible for the evidence that one man was, not
bury was published in Tho. Timca golfer to recover his poise, but as able to cope with the rush.
and was reprinted in The Times has been noted by many great Mr. Wadeson said it was the Weekly Edition. From all parts of players, the interval period be Aa Martin walked with Joyce in
second defendant's duty to have the world, where this article thus tween "blow up" or "cracks" tends the pleasant lanes of Greenhayle, They looked at each other and examined the tickets, at all events. penetrated, we received letters ex-to become shorter and shorter as
laughed, and walked on again. Had he done so, the gate would pressing the affection in which our the match goes on,
see you are right about the-have been blocked, thereby draw- Cathedral is held among all, Eng ing attention to the first defendant fish-speaking peoples Overseas and compelling him to issue pro-and we have found many supporters. per tickets. As it was, quite a in Canada, Australia, South Africa, large number of Improper tickets the West Indies, Egypt, India, the Sinn States of Burma, Irak, Fijl must have been issued over fairly long period to have aggre- as well as in the United States of "And even here," she smiled at
gated to the amount in respect of America. him, trying to hide-what her blush
which defendants were charged.
Many among your readers are could not her pleasure at his last
Quoting farther authorities, now perhaps making plans for a word, "even here there is no escape.
Mr. Wateson said a coal-miner visit to the Mother Country during We've had pressmen by the score, cern very much on the lines of the had been convicted for using the the.coming year. May I be allow- old Consolidated Exploitations. tally system to credit himself ed to suggest to them that their each demanding newer and more
Dr. Hyslop recommends a con- romantic details of your hidden life. They have offered me the maunging with more work than he actually plans should include a visit to dition of cheerful, optimism as I'm sure they hoped your mother directorship of it. That will give aid. Both defendants had a case Canterbury Cathedral, if possible less harmful than one of extreme would invent something attractive position and an income, things, to answer, and if they had an on the occasion of the first An- timidity. Unfortunately there are
rather lacking up to this."
ual Festival of its "Friends" which many golfers who let their men- 'and fresh for them. "They were thoroughly disappointed with me
"I'm glad," cried Joyce. "It is explanation to offer, the onus was
has been fixed for May 19th, 19287 tal states become clearly apparent The first "Friend" on the Roll to other members of their four- when they learnt I had only been at only just after all you have suffer on them to do so, right away. the Dark House since you went out built to de well.
ed. And you will do well, you are
is H.R.H. the Prince of Wales; the some. And-In of hiding. As for Tho photo graphers, they have come by the your new office-will you need a dozen, all anxious to tal flashlight photos of the hidden room. And most of them seem to think your mother neglected, her public duty
"Oh," he said. "Are you asking when she did not take photographs for that job?" of you working on the great Con you haven't filled it 7" she asked, Balidated Case in that room."
"I'm afraid the Dark House isn't
"I was going to offer it to poor quite the secure hiding-place it was, Joyce, he amiled. "But Annie Purvis," he said, "We have love it for other things, and I don't obtained her release from prison." "Oh," she gasped, and then, want to leave it."
she cried. Don't leave it warmly, generously, "Of course
be talked of this with a touch of ruefulness,
"They are making rather a noise about it all," he said: "They are the publicity all this has gained making, in fact, rather A-a public me," he said in a minute or two. "There is another result from that character of me. I was glad to geli away to pretty Greenhayle, the publicity, more practical, more use- countryside and perce and rest to me-us. There are people who are good enough to say they and you."
are impressed by the financial and administrative ability I have shown in this ease. They have come to- Kether and formed a trading con-
secretary?
"Undoubtedly," he smiled, myself," she said.
"ain something of a secretary
quickly.
Second Defendant Discharged.
|
President of our society is the
Jones Learns Lesson.
Bobby Jones wrote recently that he used to walk rapidly up to the green after approaching once. Nowadays he and putt at delays after his arrival on tho the green, studying the line of putt, but also recovering his breath, because he is a rapid walker.
Mr. Hugh-Jones argued that the Archbishop of Canterbury and The wise player will not permit duties of the second defendant were foremost among the names follow the pessimism of his partner or of confined to seeing that people paid for entry to the Course, and then are the Prime Minister and the his opponents to destroy his own American Ambassador. The so-confidence. "A good sportsman," proof that money was paid by the ciety has a Carnell of which the says the British, authority, "will production of the tickets, irrespec-Dean of Canterbury is Chairman, never be found guilty of assum tive of the form which these and the Council has decided that ing a mental attitude calculated tickets would take. The second the subscriptions of the society to influence the mental stance of defendant, at least, had not shall be devoted to specifle ob- his partner." committed any act which might jects: the first of these will be the
construed 18 "overt."
reparation of the beautiful Water this had been a civil action, it Tower (at one time known as the was possible that the second defend- Baptistry), which is one of the exuberant as to produce an actual Of course, optimism may be so ant might have been brought in on most individual architectural fea-egomania, or as the golfer would the first defendant.
be
If
The Golden Menn.
-never leave it. It's a place of course, there could be no one else, the ground of a liability shared with [tures of the' Cathedral, and which phrase it, & "plus four" attitude.
hallowed memory."!
"To both of us, Joyce?" he said. softly.
"To both of us, Martin," she answered, gently.
n
They walked on in silence, Silence intensely, dearly companion- able to them both.
"Sul, I wish they would not make so much of what I have done, of me," he said, presently. "It's hard
. It could be no one else. Perhaps you could think of some- thing else for me.' ".
in the opinion of the Cathedral On the other hand pessimism or Architect is in a precarious condi- self-depreciation may extend to tion.
actual melancholia, with a devil- wild swinging. may-care attitude that results in
it
His Worship agreed that the evid- ence did not more than raise nus- had-long before I even thought ant,
"I have," he smiled at her. "Ipicions against the second defend-
It was evidence which was visit England this year but who To those who are not able to about Annie Purvis for this not sufficient to justify a convic cherish recollections of Canter secretaryship."
tion. Therefore the second defend-ary Cathedral may I say that I
Each of the circumstances that He looked at her, she met his ant, Lowe, would be discharged.
In his submissions for the first culars of our society and express comes. Such a philosophic atti-
shall be glad to send them full parti- arises should be taken as eyes, dropped her own, blushed.
"How long before, Martin?" she defendant, Mr. Ingh-Jones re the hope that we may be allowed to tude is good advice not only for marked, with relation to the point enrol them as members? Yours golf but for mental hygiene in whispered.
"As long ago as the day when of the commission of an "overt etc.,
general... "Not hard," she smiled at him Gamlin's drive,
I met you at the foot of Seward act," that it was difficult to nasena you've already lived up to it.answered. "I thought of you then it as a matter of degree, taken on dear," be the Intention, and one must regard They are praising you not for whats the one perfect being for the the merits of the case when that you're going to be, but for what one perfect job in the world. I alleged act was not carried out or you have been, for what you are have always thought of you for completed, There was no evi- Martin. It is only zulural that it. I hesitated Intely- they should make much of it all, my dear. You've done a big thing that
to live up to that status."
is also a noble thing."
"I did what I had to do, Joyce,
that's all."
my
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"To have one's equilibrium dis- No. 81B, Top Floor, Wyndham St. turbed by events of the past, cir- cumstances of the present, or pos- sibilities of the future is a tacit acknowledgment of weak-minded- Sir Miles Lampson paid a secondness which bodes 1 for the visit to the New Territories yester effectiveness of immediate day, having tiffin at the Royal tion." Hongkong Golf Club. At night he attended a dinner party at Govern-
dence in the present case to show did you hesitate?"
Oh, Martin," she cried, "why what the intention was when the first defendant issued those half wondering whether it was wisest to the tickets were issued in a hurry.ment House,
"Because," he smiled, "I was tickets. It might have been that
excited about us, or whether to wait be married while people were so in the crush. Putting it as high as the prosecution would have it,
"Yes, but so few do what they have to do. And fewer do it until the present uproar blows over it might be that, having issued completely, so well. That's why so that we can have our wedding to these lekets in a hurry, the de- fregards his duties. He id sce they are halling you up as a public ourselves." example-you. are a public example "Oh, Marlin," cried Joyce, in of what the truest and straightest Martin's arms, "does it matter
Just as if I'll notice uproar and Her tone was light, but it cloak-people and things in the excitement
of marrying you!”
kind of man should be."
ed a real tenderness and feeling.
"Most men would have given in before the gigantic forces you had'
a woman
A special verdiet was recorded
by Dr. E.. J. Waldo, the City Coroner, after he had heard medical evidence that
died from starvation. Dr. Waldo
siid that it could not be regarded! as a natural death when a person died from want, of food, so he would record a special verdict in accordance with the doctor's evi- dence that "Death, was due to syncope, bronchitis, and want of food-starvation, but not an treme case." The woman-nald age prisoner-was Margaret Ann Spencer, aged. 79, who died in a room she rented in Vine-street, Minories, E.C.
ex
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[THE END.]
LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.
Hore is the solution to the puzzle on another page.
POE POR T
PART PARE PALE TALE
also
semo persons without tickets,: fendants later formed the idea of misappropriating the surplus, in whom he promptly turned back.
Evidence regarding the removal which event, they could not be charged with larceny, because the of the defendant and Lowe from intention was not formed until the public entrance was
given. the action Was half-completed, There was not sufficient evidence in this case to support a charge of larceny. The onus was on the prosecution to prove that defen- dant had that defimile Intention.
Defendant's Story,
On his Worship holding that de- fendant had a case to answer on all the three remaining counts defendant went Into the witness- box to make his statement. He said this was the first occasion he
had formed up quickest way
It was stated in Court that the defendant had an excellent Army recond and was due to leave the Colony in two days.
At the conclusion of the evi- Mr. Hugh-Joncs argued dence, that there was no evidence of false pretences.
Consequent upon legal argument, his Worship discharged defendant on the fourth charge.
Fined $100.
Regarding the first two charges, had been on the job of selling Mr. Lindsell asked Mr. Wadeson tickets at the Race Course, and whether he would be satisfied if he was unable to cope efficiently one conviction were recorded, to with the rush. At one time there which Mr. Wadeson replied that were as many as five neraons he would be amply satisfied. Mr. alongside the box, and a queue Wadeson added that he had no
I'wish to press the case at all. He then thought that the
His Worship-On charges "A" deal with and "B", the defendant is con- the situation *Waa to tcar victed. In view of his excellent the tickets in half. It seemed to record, and, in fact, I understand him that people did not care he is due to leave the Colony in whether they had tickets for their two days' time, I propose to punish money so long as they could get in. him by imposing a fine of $100. The money was in a heap In the The alternative is six weeks' hard ticket-box when he was. celleved.labour.
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