GIRL REFUSES TO GO IN HOME.
INTRICATE PROBLEM IN A KOWLOON CASE.
BOY FINDS FATHER DEAD.
"THE TRAGEDY OF AN
EX-OFFICER.
A story of tragedy and domestic unhappiness was told at an inquest WANTS GRANDMOTHER at Ashcott, near Bridgwater, on James Duncan Irvine, aged 59, a retired captain, formerly of the
The appearance to-day of a representative of the Salvation Army with an undertaking to
provide for the maintenance of a small girl, who pleaded guilty before Mr. Whyte Smith yesterday
to stealing a quantity of jewellery, provided but a partial solution to
Canadian Army, who shot himself in a bungalow in which he had
realded at Ashcott,
Irvine should have appeared be fore the magistrates to give evid- ence against a brother-in-law, Frank Williams, of the Mumbles, Swansea, who had been charged the difficulty confronting the
with inflicting bodily, harm upon Magistrate who expressed doubt him. as to how he should deal with Mrs. Florence Mary Irvine, the such a youthful offender who had widow, said at the inquest that a previous conviction for a similar her husband had recently been drinking heavily, and that he Sub-Inspector C. Evans intimat-turned her out of doors for two ed, when the case was again days and two nights. mentioned this morning, that the Evidence was given by Ivan Salvation Army were prepared to Balfour Irvine, the nine-year-old take the girl into their Home, son of Captain levine, to the effect provided the grandmother of the that he and his brother were going child gave her consent.
to bed about midnight when their father told them they would never see him again.
offence.
His Worship told the grand mother that the girl would be given a chance of being sent to school by the Salvation Army and asked if she agreed that the child be given into their charge.
The woman consented.
His Worship remarked, that it was very fortunate for the small girl to have such an opportunity after she had committed two larcenies.
The girl's grandmother, after further consideration, remarked that she would rather that the child be sent back to the country, His Worship replied that as the girl had been previously cautioned she could not be let off again and unless she went to the Salvation Army home she would have to serve 蟲 term of imprisonment first.
The woman intimated that the girl should serve her term of imprisonment and then be taken back to the country.
His Worship-Well, you must be an extraordinary woman.
Miss Raines, of the Salvation Army, intimated that she would
to know
"The qext morning," said the boy, "I tried to open the dining room door, and found it locked. In the evening I gave the door a big push and it opened.
"I saw daddy lying on the floor with a gun by his side. I thought to myself; 'He is dead,' and I went and told someone that daddy had shot himself."
Police evidence showed that a single-barrel shot gun which con- tained an empty cartridge was found on the dead man's chest. The gun had been fixed in the back of a dining room chair.
Dr. Eglinton said the muzzle of the gun must have been only two or three inches away from Irvine's head.
Irvine, the witness added, had shown signs of mental instability, land he considered his action was caused by a brain storm, or dur- ing a fit of temporary insanity.
A verdiet was returned of sui- cide while of unsound mind.
GRASS.
rather see the girl taken into the KILLED BY GAS FROM Home as, if she were sent prison, she would get to more about crime than she did already. She hoped that the Home would, by love and help, train her i to be a better girl.
In reply to his Worship. Miss
THREE DEAD IN A FARM TANK.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1930.
RUTHLESS WAR IN RUBBER PRODUCTION MR. H. D. ROOME
CHICAGO.
GANG LEADERS BELIEVED TO BE DEAD.
RESTRICTION.
NEW PROPOSALS DISCUSSED
KILLED.
TREASURY COUNSEL IN MOTOR CRASH.
HIS WIFE INJURED.
Mr. Henry Delacombe Roome,
the Treasury counsel, died in hos pital at Retford, Notts, after a car crash during a Whitsun höll- day tour.
Mr. Roome was driving his own
IN LONDON.
Amsterdam, July 7. The Handelsblad learns that s CREMATION THEORY. meeting of rubber planters in London to-day discussed the pro- The latest victim of the ruth-posal to restrict production by less war between Chicago's gang twenty-five par cent, and the basic leaders is Frank R. Thompson, price of ninepence per pound. who used to sell machine guns The journal adds that if this is the gangsters.
adopted the Dutch Committee will
His wife was seriously injured. Thompson drove up in a motor-be prepared to submit the pro-
Singapore, July 7. car. Apparently as a result of car to a petrol station at Now Posal to Dutch producers-Reuter
with blood Milford, Illinois, streaming from a wound near the The Malacca Planters Associa- a burst tyre he and airs, Roome heart. His injury is so severe tien has decided to ask the Plan- were thrown into the roadway. that it is likely to have fatal con-tera Association of Malays to re- The car was found overturned
quest the Government to alter the some distance away. sequences.
legislation governing wage rates passing motorist found Mr. He, however, refused to give of Indian labourers, in order. to and Mrs. Roome unconscious by any information as to how he had enable a reduction in rates of pay the roadside, and at once inform- at to be made during the presented the police. An ambulance was been injured. He asked the tendants to fetch a doctor, and depression.
sent from Retford Hospital, about six miles away. when Sheriff Harry Baldwin at- tempted to question him, his rep's was:
The Malacea planters also
A specialist was brought from passed a resolution favouring the introduction of a modified form Leeds, and an operation was suc- of the Stevenson scheme or other cessfully performed on Mr. Roome. compulsory restriction of produc- However, he grew weaker, and tion, conditional on legislation | died, and simultaneously to enforce a similar scheme in the Dutch East Indies and Ceylon.
seen
"1. Will Not Talk."
"Listen, Harry, I have everything, done everything got everything, and you are smart
OBITUARY.
The late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose death occurred
yesterday.
Another gang leader, "Red" MacLaughlin, has been murdered,
missing.
At a meeting of Asiatic plan- ters it was stated that several thousand small holders in Malacca unanimously favoured Government legislation, with Dutch and Ceylon co-operation.-Reuter.
MUNICIPAL CHANGE IN CANTON.
A REVERSION TO FORMER STATUS.
Mr. Roome, who was 18 years of age, was educated at Winches ter and Merton College, Oxford, where he distinguished himself in history. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1907, and seven years later became Crown counsel at Middlesek Sessions. He was appointed Junior Counsel to the Crown at the Central Criminal Court in 1920, being promoted to the senior list some two years ago.
He appeared for the prosecu- tion in the trial of Vacquier, and he was also prominent in the Police-constable Gutteridge mur- der trial two years ago, and in the trial of Hatry.
Canton, July 7. The Canton Municipality, which for some time past had been work-
Mr. Roome was said to be the ing as a special Municipality tallest man at the Bar. He was directly controlling its own affairs the author of "James Edward, the. under the personal supervision of Old Pretender," and also of a book the Mayor, Mr. Lam Wen-koi, has on Criminal Offences in Bank- been ordered to return to its for- ruptcy. He married in 1909 the mer status under the Kwangtung only daughter of Commander E. W. Provincial Government as from Lloyd C.B. the 15th instant.
CINEMA NOTES.
YOUTH TO FORE IN FOX SUPER SHOW.
Raines remarked that air, who Death overtook three men who had been sent to home after entered a haymaking silo at Manor and six other gang leaders are and Police Department.. Neyer-ly is this true in a sequence that |
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a conviction, at the Court some House Farm., Stretton-under- time, was getting on very well Fosse, near Rugby.
Sad was giving the staff no trouble dioxide fumes, set up by the fer- They were kassed by carbon whatever.
His Worship reverting to the mentation of cut grass in the silo, present case remarked that he large tank standing about 50 to
60 feet high on girders. blamed the girl's grandparents
The victims were: for her behaviour and intimated
W. P. Crofts, farmer, that he had already sentenced the
George Jackson and Ernest grandfather to two months' impri-
Brain, farm hands. sonment.
Brain lost his life in trying to Miss Raines pleaded with the save Jackson; Crofts went to the grandmother to allow the girl to be taken to the Home and pointed rescue of Brain and Jackon and
paid for his gallantry. out the advantages the child would Jackson entered the silo to derive in receiving proper train-trample the green crops. As no- ing and education.
thing was heard from him, Brain
It is reported that the Shanghai Municipality has also returned to its former status under the Pro- vincial Government of Kiangsu
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fact the matter of Special Municipalities had been working rather well and a great
Youth is the predominating note enough to know I will not talk, many improvements had been
in "Happy Days," Fox Movietone even if I am dying."
effected here in certain depart-all talking, all singing, all dancing ments directly under the Munici- and all joking romance, in L pality, such as the Fire Brigade mistrel show background. Especial- theless General Chan Ming-shu, presents 20 or more babies in a Civil Governor of Kwangtung, huge baby buggy and Walter The police believe that the had been working for some time Catlett and Luclen Littlefield sing- missing men have all been mur- to get the Municipality back undering a parody on Janet Gaynor's and dered and their bodies reduced his supervision and it is reported Charles Farrell's quaint number, to ashes in what is believed to int there has been some i feel-"We'll Build a Little World of Our be a privato crematorium oring between him and other officials Own.” ganised by Chicago's gangmen on this matter.Our Own Correa- for the disposal of victims. The body of "Red" McLaughlin'
been was found, after he had
with "missing" since May 20, bullet wounds in the head and tightly bound with wire weighted
down by several pieces of railway sleepers and rails, at the bottom of a drainage' canal.
pondent.
"Happy Days" is now playing at the Queen's Theatre where it has been drawing unprecedented crowds. It is a most lavishly CROWN LAND SALE. staged and gorgeously costumed production that introduces per- TWO LOTS DISPOSED OF sonalities of Will Rogers, Janet AT UPSET PRICES. Gaynor, Charles. Farrell, Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Walter Two lots of Grown land were sold Catlett, Williams Collier, Sr., at upset prices yesterday afternoon George Jeasel, El Brendel, Mar-
put up for publie when they were The missing men are: George
jorie White, James J. Corbett, J. His Worship intimated to the went to investigate, and was heard "Bugs" Moran, North Side gang
auction at the offices of the P.W.D.
Pat- Inland Lots No. 2,918 and 2,919, Harold Murray, Ann Pennington, grandmother that it would be crying for help by another farm leader, and bitter enemy of Scar-situated at North Point, were sold in George MacFarlane, Tom absolutely wicked of her to send hand, George Smith. Smith found
Mick Stuart, the girl to prison when she could both men unconscious inside the face Al Capone; Leo Mongovan, one lot, fetching $63,350. The former ricela, 'Whispering Jack Smith, be sent where she would be tank and, with the fumes begin-Private bodyguard of Moran; Ben- has an area of 102,700 square feet and Warner Baxter, treated kindly and be trained.
ning to act upon him, he crawled nit Bennett, who came from New the latter 24,000 square feet, Messrs. David Rollins, Charles E. Evans, York to join Moran; Robert Bang How nd Cheu Shang-wang were Richard Keene and other stars in After the. situation was outside to summon Mr. Crofts.
addition to George Olsen's band. "Dutch" Schmidt, an intimate of the purchasers. further explained the
Telling Smith to go for a rope "Red" McLaughlin; Ted New-
"The Cocoanuts” Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2,356, ad- the position Mr. Crofts dashed into the allo, berry, a Chicago night club im- Kowloon Tong, was sold to Mr. W. F. joining Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2,176,
As on the stage BO on the consented, but when was put to the girl herself she only to fall almost at once beside presario, and lieutenant of Moran: Fincher for 39,250. The property has screen, the Four Mark Bre to dram pointedly refused and indicated the men he meant to rescue.
and Willie Higgins, a gangster an
ares of approximately 18,500 The Cocoanuta" continue First Time in History.
crowded houses to that she wanted to return to her
the Central Theatre, and those who have not grandmother.
Smith returned and got a second from St. Paul.
witnessed the picture are advised dose of the fumes.
to see it on either to-day or to- morrow, these being the last two days on which, this picture will be shown.
woman
Misa Raines spoke to the girl but but was unable to make her under- atand and his Worship adjourned the case again for the parties to communicate with the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs with whom the matter could be discussed more thoroughly and more informally.
ASSAULT CHARGE,
A WATER POLICEMAN IN TROUBLE.
Dr. Allott, who helped to re- cover the bodies, stated in an in- terview that when he went up the iramediately silo ladder he was overcome by the fumes. It was not possible for life to have existed in the tower for more than 30 seconds. Death was due to carbon dioxide poisoning of a remarkably acute character.
"This is the first time in the history of agriculture that any thing of this sort has happened.", he said,
"The experience of farmers with long experience of silo tanks is
A seaman attached to the Water that gases have never been gene-
Police appeared before Mr. Whyte rated in sufficient quantities to Smith, together with an un-cause discomfort to the men work-
employed Chinese, at the Kowlooning in them."
Magistracy this morning on a
charge of assaulting another man
in Parkes Street.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, jr., appear- ed for the two defendants.
Detective Inspector C. P. Fallon, who prosecuted, applied for a short remand as it was possible that further charges would be brought against the unemployed defendant. The police, on
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account, opposed bail in his case, to-day resulted as follows:
but were prepared to acept $25
ball from the Water Policeman."
In reply to his Worship, the St. Louis
National.
5 Pittsburg
officer remarked that the defen- Philadelphia 12 New York
danta were alleged to have struck Cincinnati
the complainant with hammers. Brooklyn
After going to the Station the com
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The defendants were remanded || Chiengo for forty-eight hours.
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These bridal outäts almost make me wish I hadn't broken of with Jimmie."
With a musical comedy plot, a Florida background and 48-dan- cing girls, the new show at the Central Theatre provides fine en. tertainment.
The fun burden is carried as usual by Groucho Marx with Harpo and Chico adding more fun and delightful music.
Mary Eaton, who can sing, dance and be beautiful, and Oscar Shaw," as a young handsome, are sub-starred in a plentiful cast, which includes Katherine Francis who again is good in a vampish role. Morris Ryakind adapted "The Cocoanuts" for the sound screen and did a first class job of it...
"The Lady Lles."
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