INSANITY PLEA FAILS.
CRIME AND THE CAR.
DEATH SENTENCE IN THE NEW PROBLEM FOR POLICE
HEATH CRIME.
MOTHER'S STORY.
Without displaying the slightest emotion, Albert Edward Mar- Jeram, aged 23, stood rigidly at attention while Mr. Justice Hum- phreys, at the Old Balley. pro- nounced sentence of death on him for the murder of Edith May Par-
ker on Dartford Henath,
The jury were absent nearly an hour.
Mrs. Marjeram, his mother, said that at the age of five he suffered from abscesses on the brain, and Els agony was so great that he had to be strapped down.
TO SOLVE.
EASY ESCAPE.
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"Taking all kinds of offences into consideration. there is no clear evi- dence of a general increase in criminality."
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This is the hopeful statement contained in the Criminal Statistics for England and Wales for 1928,
issued as a Blue Book.
"The relatively higher Incidence of convictions for certain crimes among the young, however, calls for attention," it is added..
"It is too early to judge whether it is A purely temporary phenomenon, due to war and post- During the last two or three war conditions, or whether it in- years he was constantly looking dicates that the younger generation at knives and pretending to draw tends to transfer its more wayward them across his throat. On one activities from the older fields of occasion he chased the other chil-drunkenness, vagrancy and so on dren with a jam-stained knife and into other, spheres." put jam on his throat, pretending
it was blood.
an
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New Methods Needed? "Two years ago he attacked me with the tongs and pointed
The community's efforts to deal knife within inch of my with offenders leniently and with breast," said Mrs. Marjeram.
discrimination had succeeded with the older generation, but whether the same methods would hold good other matter. with the new generation was an-
Moody.
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to
and
Mrs. Marjeram related other in- cidents when her son tried strangle his little brother stuck a fork into the cat. He locked himself in a room and turned on the gas, and she bad to get the police to break in.
He had only done Ove.week work since he left school · ten years ago, she said.. He тря
moody, and she never left him
alone with the other children för fear he might do something to
them.
"The natural gulf between old and young has been widened by the removal during the war of many in the prime of their lives, and also by the changed outlook caused by the very fact of the war. It may be that now methods are needed."
The incoming of the motor age
and the rise in crime of "breaking
in" is discussed.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930.
NATIVES IN GOVT. SERVICE,
(Continued from Page 1.)
sir, to take this matter into Your 'Excellency's serious considera- *tion."
Official's Reply.
Replying, the Hon. Mr. Strachan, General Manager F.M.S. Railways, reiterated that it was the policy;
GREAT ESTATES
A-BEGGING.
GREAT MANSIONS FALLING TO RUIN.
NO PURCHASERS.
What is to become of the stately homes of England?
High taxation and heavy death of the railways to employ Malays duties are making it more and wherever possible. The instructain the great mansions which more impossible for people to main. tions were to give first considera- have been so distinguishing a fea- tion to Malays, next to the locally ture of English country life. born and locally educated and after that to the foreign born and educated.
The speaker went on to quote a recent experience in which five Malays among others were called for an interview and only Malay turned up, and since he re- fused to sit for the examination in arithmetic he was not accepted.
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Until fairly recently many es- tates of 500 acres. or more hold by impoverished landowners were bought by institutions of various kinds, but this demand is How practically satisfied.
Mansions are coming into the market as fast as ever, but there are no buyers.
NEW SOCIETY IN
SOCIETY...
GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND JOINS.
THE CRADLE ROCKERS, A new society for child-lovers, the Cradle Rockers, has been formed in London.
The house for the first meeting Governor of the Bank of England, was lent by Mr. Montagu Norman, who is himself one of the first
Cradle Rockers.
The badge of the society la i white cradle on a dark blue back ground.
"All child-lovers, men as well as women, are welcome as mem- bers," Mrs. Francis Rodd told a Daily Chronicle representative. "There is no age limit. Even babies may join."
Cradle Rockers are divided into districts called Rockerles, each under the "eare of a "Rockery Ruler." Cradle Rockers who en- list 25 new members are called "Little Cradlers," when they en
From the end of the war until Rome months ago perhaps 400 or 500 Important estates had been After quoting other cases, Mr. offered for sale. Nearly all found Strachan anid he was rather dis-buyers, providing the chief build-list 60 they become Cradlers, when turbed at the criticism on this ings were in good repair. subject, since in 1927 when he Great schools, like Stowe, were came to the railways he had tried founded in some, orphanages took the experiment of staffing whole the opportunity of moving out of stations with Malaya and he had town at a reasonable cost, monas had very good reports of them. teries and nunneries were estab-
in others country clubs. lished in certain country seats, and
to come to his office he would con- If the Undang of Rembau cared duct him over every department and let him put any questions he almost ceased, and it is computed But this type of business has liked to the officera reaponsible that already more than 200 of for making the appointments. ifthese great 50 and 100-roomed the leading Malays thought the houses, miles from stations and railway was not making enough towns, are standing empty without In the Metropolitan Police dis-effort to employ their countrymen buyers or hope of buyers. trict these crimes have risen by 10.6 he could only suggest that one be per cent. since 1911, but in the appointed to the Board. He con- "Already" commented an estate The defence was insanity. Dr. Higson, medical officer ofter Home Counties the rise was cluded with the assurance that he agent "many of them are half
437.8 per cent. In the boroughs took the greatest personal interest ruinous. Maidstone Prison, said that Mar- and cities they had risen by 87.0 in this question and he was sorry jeram showed no signs of insani- per cent., but in the counties the in- that what he had done had not ty or epilepsy while under his
crease was 137,9 per cent,
been appreciated. care, and Dr. Watson. Fenior "The metor-car enables the crimi- medical officer of Brixton Prison,nally-minded in the great towns to also said that he found no evi-travel faster and farther afield into dence of insanity.
regions where they are not known and the chances of arrest aro fewer."
Judge and Counsel.
In the early part of the trial the judge criticised Mr. S. T. James, defending counsel, who was inte.
Mr. James apologised. He had been informed, he said, that the ense was second on the list, and had arranged for someone to pe present him at 10:30.
Mr. Justice Humphreys: Do you regard it as proper to leave the conduct of the defence of a man charged with murder to somebody who has not read the papers, in order that counsel who is instruc- ted may go to another court?
Mr. James: No, my lord, but should have been here soon after 11.30.
Mr. Justice Humphreys: I have heard your statement. The trial will now proceed.
PRATAS ISLAND
SEIZURES.
PROCEEDS FOR CANTON
SOCIETY.
Canton, July S.
The question of education and crime is discussed, and the con- clusion reached is that "figures do not support but refute the sugges- tion that education caused more crime, and in particular more crimes of dishonesty."
"Among them are splendid Nor. man castles, timbered Tudor houses, magnificent classical-style seats and Georgian manors. They mostly need from 15 to 20 indoor servants and £100 a week to main-
tain them.
The Acting Director of Public Works, Mr. F. G. Finch,, said that while the P.W.D. Technical School had accommodation for 80 students only seven werd Malays, and in
"When we do 'dispose of such a the case of Malays they made re-seat the price is amazing. laxations in the educational re- {quirements and accepted the Junior Cambridge instead of the Senior Cambridge standard as in the
of other applicants. Every senior officer of the P.W.D. was in entire sympathy with the employment of as many Malays a possible.
case
·
Chief Secretary's Speech. Winding up the debate for the
Crime Among Women. The average annual number of proceedings against women for non indictable offences in 1910-14 was 104,077, but in 1928 only 68,165, a fall of no less than 34.5 per cent. in Government, the Chief Secretary, 17 years, during which the number Mr. C W. H. Cochrane, said of women and girls of all ages had Government was in sympathy with rise by 11 per cent.
the idea of employing more: "One of the most pleasing fea-Malays in the administration of tures," it is added, "was that pro- the country and was doing all seedings against women for cruelty that could be done to carry out to or neglect of children fell from that policy. The process was a 1,424 to 362.
very gradual one, however, and he thought the Undang of Rembau and many others were in too great
"The figures go to show that the increasing activities of women have been accompanied by a great fall in less serious or petty offences."
COMPANY DIRECTORS
FINED.
they enlist 100 they are' promoted to "Queen Cradlers" and can look forward to being "Grand Cradle Rockers" in 10 years if they enlist 100 members every year.
The Marchioness of Hartington, who is the mother of four chil- dren, is the Cradle. Rocker-in- Chief, and patron Cradle, Rockers' Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, the includo the Viscountess Allendale, Marchioness of Cambridge, the Countess Spencer and Miss G. B Stern, the authoress.
Cradles which rock, and cradle- rocking generally, is, of course, regarded with great disfavour by modern experts in child welfare as being detrimental to the health and mental well-being of the child.
Hence the warning note in the instructions issued to every poten-.. tial Cradle Rocker that the title of the society is purely symbolical.
The society aims at collecting" some of the £100,000 ́needed by the Royal Free Hospital for the rebuilding of the Children's Ad mission Wards and the Materni ty and Gynecological Wards.
In Dorset. Huge houe, 15 bed rooms, 35 acres park-£6,000, -*
Cradle Rockers pay 2s. for life Near Maidstone.
membership, which entitles them Queen Anne
to a badge and a book of good ad- mansion, 200 acres, 25 bed rooms,vice upon the upbringing of small market price £36.600. After being childre resold it fetched £9,000.
In Norfolk a landowner offered to let his big house. with 15 bed rooms, for £2 a week if the tenant would pay overheads!
is seldom found.
"Even at prices like that a buyer
WATER LEVELS.
ON WEST, NORTH AND
EAST RIVERS. -
The following table, issued by
a hurry. Great patience must be the Kwangtung River Conservancy exercised to see that the right Commission, shows in English feet material was obtained and absorb. the water levels on, the West ed and that in 'the
North River and East process River, efficiency would not be sacrificed River, on the dates named: to sentiment.
July 2, July 3.
15.2
12.8
It was sometimes forgotten that the Government was responsible for the efficient] administration of the country as
Regarding the recent acquisition. FIVE GROUPS FAIL TO HOLD well as the Malays. He was not
of marine products by the late leasce and certain Japanese fisher-
-MEETINGS..
Shiuhing
Tsingyuen Samshub Sheklung
:
6.7
8.8
.7.4 7.8 1.0
suggesting that the Malays were The highest levels on record are: inefficient but every Malay was not Shishing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, men from the Pratas Islands, Five cases under the Companies efficient, and while the Govern-29.2 feet; Samahui, 27.3 feet; ago, the Kwangtung Provincial Act, for failure to hold general ment was prepared to do its share Sheklung 15.5 feet. Council passed a resolution at its meetings, were heard in London the Malay also must be prepared 92nd Meeting held here on the 1st police courts four at the Guild- to qualify himself for service and
which was reported a short time
eflect that the
hall.
instant, to the whole of the proceeds of the V.C., of Staines, director of Anglo- Major Richard Raymond Willis, goods seized during the raid con- ducted on the islands by the Pro-Scottish Securities, Ltd., appeared vincial Authorities would be turned on adjourned summonses at the over to the Kwangtung Co-opera-Guildhall, Mr. H. D. Roome, pro- tive Progressive Society,
secuting, said the other directors Thone present at the meetingman Sir Percy Vincent now fined had been dealt with, and Alder- which. passed this resolution in Major Willis £20. cluded his Excellency General Chan Ming-shu, Civil Governor of Ernest Mortimer and Sir William Summonses against Mr. James Kwangtung, Mr. Fan Kee-mo, Com- Martin Conway. (directors missioner of Finance, GeneralBolivia Tang Ying-wah, Commissioner of Reconstruction, Mr. Lam Wen-koi, that both were in a serious state Mayor of Canton, Mr. Hau Sung-of health. ching, Mr. Sun Hi-man, Mr. Lo Man-cheong and Mr. Kam Tsung-of Maidenhead, Mr. Eric Woll Mr. Ralph Gordon Hall Gaino,
ching.
Trading were withdrawn.
of
Corporation) It was stated
of
Heim, of Walton-on-Thames, and The resolution reads: "That Mr. H. Scott-Dennington, White- with reference to the application hall-court, directors of the Department of Reconstruc- Dominion Gramophones (Foreign the tion for the amount of $10,000 to and Colonial), Ltd., were sum- be granted to the Kwangtung Co- moned for failing to lay before a operative Progressive Society as meeting of shareholders a profit running expenses, the whole and Iosa account with 18 months amount of the proceeds realised of its incorporation. from the sale of sen products Mr. Kenelm Preedy said the seized from the Japanese mer-delay had been unavoidable. chants who were found to have Sir Percy Vincent said the de- been stealthily exploiting thefendants were liable to a penalty Pratas Islands, be turned over to the Society for the purpose in stead."-Our Own Correspondent.
of £200, or six months' imprison- ment. He imposed a fine of £50 and five guineas costs on each de- fendant.
Mr. William Watson Arnott, Mr. A request that his infant Henry Higgins and Mr. John children "shall not be instructed Wilkie Bell, directors of the
in, or have any connexion with, Tacouba (British * Guiana)
Diamond Company, were
ench
the tenets, doctrines, beliefs, or fined £10 and three guiness costs pracises of any sect or party prac for being parties to a default in
ing or upholding spiritualism, in any form whatsoever," appears not holding the annual general in the will of Dr. Frederick Hall meeting. It was said that there Dr. Hall, who lived at Louth, left are only 33 shareholders, $ £5,821 grosa. He bequeathed in summons against the company wireless set to a friend.
was dismissed.
be ready to undertake It.
The lowest levål on record ́at Samshui is minus 5 feet and at Sheklung minus 2.7 feet.
That's Mrs. Weiriche off for Paris; and her husband
Just come in from the coast this morning.
"
CHICAGO JUDGE ON GUNMEN.
VALUE OF DEATH PENALTY: BUT NOT WOMEN.
Judge Kavanagh, of Chicago, giving evidence before the special committee on capital punishment at the House of Commons said he favoured the retention of the
capital penalty in certain cases, but it was not a mattter which could be generalised.
He told of crimé terror in Chi- cago: "In 1920," he said, "we were, overwhelmed with persons awaiting trial for homicide.. It was my duty to assign the cases to other judges. It was
a..horrible ordeal. My comparatively small room was crowded with men and women who had taken life."
"Fourteen," he added, "were executed, and the murder rate in Chicago dropped from 308 to 190." Judge Kavanagh continued:
Every time the death sentence
is, not carried out the murder rate goes up, and every time there is an exécution the murder rate goes down.,
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62 to Prove Alibi.
Judge Kavanagh told of the fol- lowing caso in his experience:-
A father and son were appoint- ed by a secret society to kill two men. They were accompanied by a committee of five. They met the men and fatally wounded one of them. The other man escaped, and most unusually came forward to testify. The other man made a' dying declaration.
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The father and son who were appointed to commit the murder were arrested, 'but they brought into my court sixty-two witnesses Ito prove an alibi, which cross-
examination" showed to be "frame" alibi. I convicted the father and son. They appealed to the Supreme Court, who said to me, "What do you mean by con- victing against the testimony of sixty-two witnesses?" and the two- men were set free. What would your police do in circumstances of that kind?***
Judge Kavanagh cited the case of William Coffee, who decided to kill his bigamous wife. He took her from the State of Iowa, where canital punishment existed, into Wisconsin, where Ilfe Imprison- ment provided the extreme retri- bution, and killed her.
In reply to Dr Ethel Bentham, who asked, "Would you make any difference in the punishment of men and women?" Judge Kavanazh said, "Yes, would hesitate to Impose the death penalty on a wo man, though I cannot tell you why. It is a matter of feeling."
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