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BRUTAL MURDER.
TWO MEN CHARGED AT
· KOWLOON.
1928.
FIRE FIGHTING.
ANNUAL DEMONSTRATION AT
CENTRAL STATION,
IS IT CATCHING?,
A Theory and Some Proven Facts About Rheumatism.
A now theory of medical science The Identification of the Chinese,
An interesting and spectacular about rheumatism is that It le who was foully murdered near the Insight into the work of the Hong-contagious and may be passed on Kowloon Hospital during the latter kong Fire Brigade was provided by one person to another sleep part of October, having been by the annual drill held within ing in the same room. But this of the Central has not yet been definitely proven. established, Police enquirles led to
the compound the arrest of two former colleagues Police Station yesterday after One of the few certale items of
of the victim and their appearance before Mr. E. W, Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on the capital charge.
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy appear ed for the Crown. The defendants were not represented,
Describing 'the events, Mr. Fitzroy sald that at about 9.30 o'clock on the morning of October 21, All Mohamed, an Indian consta bic, was on duty in Argyle Street when he saw a crowd of Chinese standing at a spot, a couple of hundred yards from the Kowloon Hospital,
On nearing the crowd, the con- stable saw the body of an unknown Chinese who was afterwords ident! fed. The man showed signs of having been foully murdered. The head was badly battered while a piece of tape was tied around, the lower part of his head, passing This piece through the mouth.
Important, con- of tape was tinued Mr. Fitzroy, because it had been identified and traced. The Lapo was passed underneath the man's tongue and tied at the back
of his neck.
noon.
The first phase shown of what knowledge about rheumatism It might happen at a real fire, was that in many thousands of cases the drill in which 24 men partit has been cured by Dr. Williams' cipated in the rescue of Bro via Pink Pills for Pale People, the time, the positions in which the reason being that it le a dieorder Jutter should be carried being de- of the blood and Dr. Williams' monstrated to a large crowd who Fink Pills are a remedy essentially
for blood disorders. assembled within the compound.
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The evidence of Mr. Karl Following this, there was number of competitions between Weinman, manager of the Metro- crews from the various stations politan Hotol, Colombo, Cériqu ag regard the handling of the ex- affords convincing proof in this press dispatch boxca that carry connection. Mr. Woluman states: the canvas hoses, the pitching of
fire excapes, the use of hydrants For ofght months 1 Buffered and the working of the motor- from rheumatism very acutely. pumps, which allowed the jets to The pains were in my muscles ngony at times that I could not be directed at the required prea- and joints and caused mo- such sure on burning objects.
move from my bed. Constipation troubled me, I had no appetite, there was hardly a night that I slept soundly. This state of my health made mo greatly worried and depressed.
The second part of the pro- gramme included a number of de- monstrations, showing how es- cape from burning buildings could be managed by means of the "Jumping sheets," and life
"Acting on the advice of a line and hook-belt. For the first time at these annual drills the doctor I commenced a course of Use of breathing apparatus for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. After the first two bottles there was He, uppeared to have been par- smoky jobs was also shown, two gas-maske being tially strangled. There were other firemen with
my appetito marks on his face which had a placed in a sentry box filled with marked improvement, the pains revived and I was able to sleep parently been inflicted with a point-smoke, to emergo five minutes lat- were much castor,
er, none the worse for their ex-
better. As I continued taking ed weapon.
were perience. At the side of the road
An operation that may be re- the pills the feeling of depression blood stains, showing that the man had been attacked on the road.garded as a purely local phase of vanished and before long all Leading from Argyle Street, to fire-fighting work, was the use of aigne of rheumatism disappeared. two motar-cycles equipped with put my rheumatism down to where the body was found, were
Dr. Williams' "Pink small pools of blood. A big stone small canvas hose for fighting exposure. also bure blood stains and it was small outbreaks that were pre- Pills cured me of it entirely, possible that some of the injuries sumed to have occurred on the thorafore I recommand the pills might have been inflicted with this. Penk and other places hardly nc-
Extraordinary Find.
cessible to heavier, apparatus. The most extraordinary part of Accompanied by a small motor- the gruesome discovery was that the pump, which gave an astonishing metal part of a small axe, which ly big pressure for one of its size, had since been identified, was found these machines gave an impres inside the deceased's trousers. Thesive iden of their utility, as ad- handle which had also been identi-vance "scoute," as it were in out- fed, was pleked up some thirty to breaks of the nature indicated. forty feet away from the body. How the axe-head got inside the tray filled with oil and get man's trousers it was impossible to alight was also extinguished by say. It had been identified as hav. the application of a chemical ex- ing been used in the house where tinguisher carried by the ma- the deceased lived.
tio
chines.
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Motor Pumps at Work.
Proceeding, Mr. Fitzroy said that
The last drill was a vivid pre- there was no sign of robbery. The man had had a small aimount sentation of what followed on the of money, about 25 cents, and some receipt of a call, which for the cigarettes but it did not appear purposes of local fire-fighting that robbery was the motive for the work, has been given three dif- brutal crime., The Crown, at preferent degrees of significance, ne- sent, kad no satisfactory explana cording to the seriousnces or ex-
tent of the outbreak. tlon as to the molive,
Evidence would be produced to
For the purposes of the demon- show that there had been some distration, two motor-pumps tvere at
between the agreement prisoners and the deceased.
Two witnesses would be cailed to Identify the axe. With regard to the tape, this had been identified as part of a cord which had been used for pulling a punka in a shop where the two prisoners and the murdered man worked as barbers. The two prisoners were partnera, and it would appear that the deccaa ed was also a partner, of a barber shop situated it No. 559, Canton Road, which place was cooled by a punka.
It would be given in evidence that the cord which was found round the deceased's neck was the identical cord which was formerly used on the punka.
"We have then two acts of things," continued Mr. Fitzroy, "the axe, the handle and the cord, which cume from the house where the three men lived."
first driven in, and the escapes hav ing been pitched in position, fire- men scaled these and made the necessary connexions with fire hoses, for the "first delivery" of water. Later they were reinfore ed by two other motor-pumps and the "second delivery" followed, eight jets in all working to give a combined flood amounting to sev- cral hundred gullons a minute. Lest it should be regarded by the publie as a wasteful expenditure of the precious fluid in these times of water-shortage, the Chief Of ficer, Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., who was commanding the operation, was careful to any that much of the water in being direct- ed into the dams, was being re- turned to the place from where it came.
Be that as it may, it was a striking display of the efficiency of On October 19, continued Mr. our fire fighting organisation, Fitzroy, there was some dispute which could not have failed to between the parties with regard to
accounts. Nothing serious resulted impress the spectators, amongst from the dispute except that there whom were H. E. Major-General
a certain amount of dis- and Mrs. Luard." agreeableness, .
Was
The following day the deceased decided to speculate in some lottery tickets but before purchasing them he went to a temple and was accom- anted by the two prisoners. Some time between 9 and 10 p.m. the ment left the house, together.
Prizes Presented.
At the conclusion, the prizes were presented to the successful crews by Mrs. B. D. C. Wolfe, M.B,L, wife of the Chief Officer of the Brigade.
The results of the various com- petitions were as follow:
Dispatch-Box competition drill (final).
(a) 8 men drill,-1, Kowloon Station; 2, Wanchal.
(b) 2 men drill,-1, Kennedy Town; 2, Kowloon,
Prisoners Return' Alone, Somewhere about midnight Hоmeone knocked at the door of No. 659, Canton Road, which was open- ed by a woman who asked who was without and received a reply that It was "Ah Tsol," the first defen- dant. The woman recognised his voice. She heard two people talk-
Motor-Escape competition drill ing and recognised the voices of the for Cup-1, Central Station crew, two prisoners, whom she knew 1 min. 1-2/6 seca; 2, Wanchai, 1
well.
(c) 1 man drill,-1, Kennedy Town; 2, Kowloon,
min. 9-3/5 secs,
Motor-Pump competition drill for Shield (firin!).-1, Kowloon Station crew, 1 min. 13 seca; 2,
A boy living on the floor got up at about that time and would tell the Court that he actually saw the two prisoners. From the time that the deceased went out he was Central, 1 min, 28 xecs, not seen alive again. The two
the deceased -KAW Chiese prisoners had gone out with him of but had returned alone,
photographs and identified the man a certain at once. The following day
Medical evidence was given by witness, who would be called, had asked about the deceased and the Dr. J., E. Dovey, who testified that first prisoner made the extraordin death was due to multiple fractures, ary reply, particularly as it was the shock and concussion. Witness, in very next day that he is dead." reply to Mr. Fitzroy, said that any A certain amount of enquiry was injury which might juive been made about the deceased and on caused by the stone, that was pro- October 30 The first defendant told duced, was due to the deceased fall- two different persons that the man ing on it and not, he thought, by had been killed in a motor accident.bolag struck
When the body was found, the Police had photographs taken and cfreulated to 'all stations for Identification. Some of the friends
Sub Inspector Cargill produced photographs of the scene of the crimo and Mr. F. "Neville plans
The case was adjourned,
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