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Wing On Co., Ltd.
Sang Lee.
Man Fook Shing.
Wing Tai. Kwong Yuen Mow. Kowloon Store.
Hung Cheong..
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The old fashioned way in still very often the best way.
DON
Whisky is distilled SCOTCH WHISKY in the old fashioned way, which is part- ON ly the secret of its
DON
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SIXTY MEN IN TRIAL
BY ORDEAL..
THE POCKET MAGIC OF AN
INDIAN PLANTER.
"An Ethnologlat,” who writes in the very interesting March num- ber of the Empire Review on "Where Trial by Ordeal Still Flourishes," says that wherever they deem themselves out of reach of the white District Commission- er's penetrating eye the West African blacks of the Comeroons, South Nigeria, and up-country from Calabar stage dramatic trials by poison with the use of noxidus beans of physostigma venenosum which contain a powerful polson affecting the nervous and mus- cular system].
The prisoner, if innocent, eats and is sick nt once; if guilty, ho is not sick and soon dies,
The writer says they have a [safer and more effective way of staging trials by ordeal in India. He tells the following story:
There had been a murder in the neighbouring village, and it was strongly suspected that one of a local English tenplanter's men had done it. The planter, went down to see the new Commissioner of Police and besought him not to hult in very energetically for a few days. "I've got my own no tion how to get to the bottom of this little mystery,
he said, "Not strictly constitutional, but wait and see.....*
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
BABY ELEPHANT AS "BURGLAR."
HOUSEHOLDER ROUSED- FROM HIS BED.
"It's an elephant l'
Such was the shouted reply made at 3 am. by Mr. Way, of Gold- smith-road, Peckham, to his wife, who had declared, "I'm sure there's' someone in the kitchen."
"As I tip-toed along the passtge," Mr. Way told a Daily, Chronicle representative, "I could hear funny noises. They sounded as though the crockery things, one by one, were being deliberately dropped on the floor,
"As I parted the curtains bang- Ing in the kitchen doorway there! came 'snusing at my nose an ele phant's trunk!
Broken Chains.
"My wife hurriedly dressed our five children and rushed into the street.
"I woke some neighbours And then ran into the yard where I knew Debe, the elephant belonging to a show, had been stabled over- night.
"Bebe was welged in the kitchen still breaking the doorway
Sometimes pho put crockery. the cups and saucers in her pieces mouth, apat out the in diagust, and then crush- ed them with her great feet, rattl ing her broken chains.
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"All I could do was to keep cry- ing out 'Come here, Bebel' and at fast she backed out.
A day or two later, a disquieting rumour ran through the planta- "One of her trainers then came tion like wildfire. The sahib had along and took her back into her (called up a magician from Cal-stables, the doors of which she had cutta to find the murderer. The broken down. He said that Rebe police would not have mattered. had turned restive, because she had But a magician was a serious mat-been parted from some ponies with ter. A real pukka magician was a which she performs." mennee. While he was working on this job he might cover other little peccadillces of the past....However, what if he did? There were no very serious sins on the soul of anyone but the mar derer himself.
Magician-and Gallows.
Then came the arrival of the magician, a Lall, well-dressed Hindu, with the piercing eyes of a |fanatic:
The hush of the afternoon heat was. broken by the noise of ham-p mering. The gallows was being erected; the planter look care that all hts: meir knew that.
The following morning, instead of being sent into the fielda, some sixty coolies were brought to the hillside behind the bungalow and told to squnt in four rows. Even two men who were sick were car- ried. thither on their beds. Then. the sahib himself tested the gal- lows, with a heavy sack of sand. A shudder ran through the coolies as the rope jerked, tant, with w heavy thud....
"This famous magician is now going to discover the murderer," announced the sahib, who pro- ceeded to give an account of his infallibility and mentioned that the great man had already, dis- covered scores of murderers. The magician then doled out to each coolio a large spoonful of course pounded rice flour. When the signal was givèn, every man put the flour into his mouth. Three minutes were given for it to be chewed into pulp and ejected on to the piece of banana-pulm leaf in his lap.
"The innocent will have no trou- ble in doing this, but the murderer will not be able to. He will fail, and on yonder gallows will be die!" explained the magician.
"Behold the Murderer,"
Two and a half minules of chew- ing and "only another minute!" called the sahib:
half
Then we noticed a poor wretch who was in obvious difficulties. His face was contorted, livid; and horror dilated his eyes so that they were the eyes of an animal in a trap.
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.Time" called the sahib. Fifty-nine pellets of doughy rico pulp were withdrawn from fifty- nire months. The sixtieth man was nearly choking. The maxi- cian strode to him; pulled open hia jaws, as one ppens the jaws. of a dog, and showed the rice powder-hardly damped.
"Behold the murderer?" he shouted.
The Police Commissioner and his clerk left their chairs and came forward, to ply the trembling coolie with insistant questions, In five minutes, he had made a clean breast of it and was being led away to the local lock-up. | (The gallows, of course, WAB 1 mere bluff, to add to the culprit's fears).
"Very simple, you see," explain- Fed the young planter, as we went indoora, after dispersing the ga- thering. "The guilty man gets. the wind up-and blue funk stops the flow of the saliva." A very nice little bit of pocket magle, that might usefully be added to the private stock-in-trade of some of our District Commissionera in West Africa, to show the indigon- ous bean merchants that we know atrick worth two-and-a-half of theirs!
Bebe is a docile, playful Burmese elephant, 11 years old, and weighs
ton and three-quarters.
Evidence that he had had his boots repaired in 1860 was pro- duced by a claimant for the old- age pension, states a Ministry of Health report.
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