ELUSIVE OPIUM TRAFFICKERS.
GANG BELIEVED TO BE BROKEN UP.
£4,500 SOCIAL SERVICE FRAUD.
HOLIDAY HOMES FOR SERVANTS.
A concern known as Women's Social Services was declared by the Common Serjeant at the Old Batley to have been "a shameful scheme"
Atarted to defraud the public.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1931.
MRS. HEARN FOR TRIAL.
COMMITTED ON TWO MURDER CHARGES.
"OPPORTUNITY ONLY"
Mrs. Sarah Annie Hearn
was
Big olleen were taken, and repre sentatives were advertised for who committed by the Launceston Mag- cern. kenwere required to invest in the con-istrates for trial at Bodmin Assizes
COURT APPEARANCE.
By the arrest of an alleged traйeker in
illicit oplum, the Bavenue Department has broken
p what it believes to be a lucra tive smuggling business, organisation which it has been endeavouring to break up for some time past, and one which was not tracked down until considerable mains had been taken by ofleers who had much difficulty in tracing the source of origin of a large quantity of opium which they had Neized,
Women A
on charges of murdering by poison her sister, Miss Lydia Everard, and her friend, Mrs. Alice Minud Was Thomas, at Lewannick, Cornwall. servants,
Pamphlets mudi it look as if Women's Social Services movement to beneft Holiday homes were to be provided "with bathrooms and hairdressing saloons and a charalahe to run the girls down to the sea."
Mr. Patrick Devlin appeared for the Director of Public Prosecutions, and Mrs. Hearn was represented by Mr. Walter Weat, uolleitor, of Grimsby,
Mr. Went, opening his cross-ex On charges of conspiracy to de-
amination of Dr. Roche Lynch, fraud the jury found Henry Wright Senior Analyst to the Home Once The arrest of two
(45), and Catherine Marguerite they disembarked from the Hong-Richard (25) guilty, and Herbertstioned him concerning his ex- kong Star Ferry Pler yesterday. Samuel West (60)
and David Periments to determine the arsenfe with a large parcel of opium con- | Schaffer (35), not guilty. The Sentent in the soil above and below cented on one of them. was the Common Serjeant said he agreed beginning of a long and tedious with the verdict regarding West
hunt for the guilty party, and If was not until several places had Imen visited that a further arrest wan effected and an even larger package was found.
The facts were disclosed before Mr. Schoheld at the Central Police Court this morning, when itevenue Ofcer Ward charged Chinese, two of them women, with
being in possession of '65 tavla of raw opium.
und Schaffer.
Schaller ta printer) suld be did not receive a penny outside his ac- Pount for printing, and West said he was asked to survey two estates in Essex and Sussex on which it was proposed to build bungalows where the girls could go for holi days. He honestly believed in the
schenie,
A detective
Widaw's La8504,
Mr. Hin-shing Lo appeared for
said Wright's real the second of the women and me was Henry Dunsford. For entured a plea of not guilty on her years he had been a leader of a gang: behalf. The first woman admitted of charity exploiters, obtaining
of the contenband, I thousands of
The amount pite the nun denied all kuns: invested to Women's Social Ser Jedge of it.
Vlees as £4500. In one 140 14 Revenue Officer Ward accepted solicitor's widow invested her say- the plea entered by Mr. Lo, and thes and was rednecď tu penury. scund defendant was accordingly
Wat het SYRA F1:t)ཏྟཱqe!
Mas Everard's coffin.
Dr. Roche Lynch sald: "I quite agree that the ideal experiment would have been to percolate water through 5ft. of soil."
Mr. West--I suggest that if you had done that the result would have Dr. Rocha arsenic. been more Lynch-Slightly more.
Dr. Roche
Further questioned, Lynch said that he put Miss Everard's death under the chronic
type of arsenical poisoning, suggested that there were doses from time to time, which gave rise to arte attacks. Mrs. Thomas's death, he nscribed to sub-neute arsenical poisoning.
WAGES AND PRICE LEVELS.
"MOST DANGEROUS
POSITION."
"Yes, yes" men are not wanted in the Civil Service-according to Sir Josiah Stamp.
Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the Civil Service at Broadway Buildings, Westminster, Sir Josiah was asked for his views as to whether the Service was get- ting the type of men needed to fili the higher responsible positions. He answered Lord Tomlin, the chairman:
"On the whole, I think yes, bat of course it is very difficult to tell how new recruits are going to shape. I have
not the slightest will have the mental doubt you callbre, but so much more is wanted nt the head of a department, than more cleverness or intellect.
"To use an American term we inust not have the "Yes, yes' men. It is absolutely essential in this de meratie age to have a man, who will express his opinion absolutely fearlessly:"
Lord Tomlin: A mind of his own?
man with
35
LONDON TRAFFIC
"POOL."
INCLUSION OF MAIN LINE SUBURBAN SERVICES.
ABOLISH TRAMWAYS.
Mr. Morrison's long expected London Passenger Transport Hill is iRaned:
The B seeks powers to: Set up a Passenger Transport Board for an area 25 miles round Charing
and all
Cross.
Empower the Board to take over and work the Tube railways, the Metropolitan and the District rail- ways, the tramway undertaking, amnibuser, and to make ar rangements for co-ordinating the uburban services of the four main line railways.
Provide new passenger services and, under certain conditions, to abandon tramways.
The Board is to consist of five members to be appointed by the. Minister after consulation with the Treasury.
These are to be "persons whe have had wide experience and have shown empacity in transport, in- dustry, commerce, or finance, or in the conduct of public affaira." They will hold office for seven years and Asked if he would care to fore-be eligible for re-election. Member-
Dangers Ahend,
Co-ordination and Capital.
of pas- Complete consolidation. enger transport service is secured by the taking over of all the under- takings already mentioned.
a disqualification. but the next few yours, in regard to
at the probable trend of things in ship of the House of Commons is Wage levels and price levels. Sir Josiah rald, amid laughter: "If one could with any degree of ne
racy one could make a fortune quite quickly,
*1 feel, of course, that we are in
In regard to the certain sections most ligerous position owing
of the four trunk railway systems, to our lack of resilience.
"Unless we have a greater degree the Bill sets up a Standing Joint Committee for the co-ordination of of response in the way of altering the services of the Board with those
Dr. Roche Lynch said that there might have been one or more doses arsenic after the first in the case of Mic. Thomas, but he could not say how many.
by
in re-examination by Mr. Deylia, both salaries, wages and interest of the companies. It will consist
we are hending for sheer disaster. Dr. Reche Lynch said that he
It may be that we shall learn the of eight members-four appointed 18thought that the amount of colourless and make the changes much the Board and one by each of the four amalgamated companies. discharged. The case against month imprisonment in the seconding matter in a quarter or half
division. Mrs. Richard, who was Kraise of weed-killer would easily be readily than we are at This body may bring about a pool recommended to mercy, was bound disguised in food
Sir Josiah said that boys from of all or part of the truffle receipts over, the Common Serjeant stat-
ranks in the Civil Service of the Board, and of the companies,
or any one of them. ing he had been under Wright's thumb.
the MULH WILA with.
them
proceeded
Parcels Round Waist. Describing the farts of the case, Revenue OfBeer Ward informed his Worship that at about 9.15 am. yesterday the first and second defendants disembarked from the Star Ferry and ns they left the wharf they were arrested, later being taken to the Imports and Exports Office." The first defen-i dant's appearance attracted atten- tion and when asked if she had any opium in her she admitted after hesitating that she had.
WHERE SURNAMES CAME FROM.
(Contimied from Papa 6.)
tavern sign.
That is the case for the pro-
Hution. aanonnced Mr. Devlin.
When Mrs. Heurn was asked if she had anything to say in answer To the charges, she replied in a firm
Voice:
sent.
were tending to rise and atlain high tank. He added:
da not know whether they are
type
going to
have the same
of
As the capital invested in the Landon amounts to something like passenger transport services of
"Only that I am not guilty. You go to the devil' attitude as the £120,000,000, the taking over of these undertakings will be a com- plicated matter.
"No Prima Pacie Cuse.”
Mr. West then submitted that there was no evidence on which the
commit Magistrates could
Airs. Hearn to take her trial.
No prima facle case, he declared, had been rande out on which a jury was likely And Mrs. Hearn guilty.
Lo
fur
old type could have had," he said
Mr. J. C. Mitchell, chairman of
The transfer of ownership of the the Association of Superannuation Underground group will be by and Pension Funda, gave evidence means of an exchange of stock; and concerning the various types of pen-us to the privately owned omni- slona schemes.
either in this way or by buses, Referring to funds dealing with
payments in cash. The tr
tramways female staffs he mentioned the difflare to be transferred on the insis culty created by the numbers of of the Board paying annually the women leaving to be married. The sums necessary to enable the all- Underground group of companies thorities to meet the interest and found that the female staff shower redemption charges of their out- almost an entire "turnover" in seven standing debt. But the
losni authorities. can, if they so prafer, take stock issued by the Board instead of annual cash payment.
An Arbitration Tribunal is to be set. up
to confirm any financial agreements as to transfer that may be arrived at, or, failing agreement. to settle the terms.
years.
DESERT AIR RESCUE.
BRITISH FLIER FINDS A GERMAN WAR ACE.
Boats und Motor Conches. Nairobi, Mar, 18. There is a clause which empowers Captain Campbell Black, a Bri- the Transport Board to exercise, by tish flier, saved the life of Herrarrangement, the powers of the Ernst Udet, the famous German war. London County Council for running ace, who had been reported milasing steamboat services on the Thames. since he left here for Khartoum within the area of the County of some days ago on his return to Londos. Europe.
As regards long-distance motor While returning here from Eng-coaches running into London, the land, Captain Black was passing Board may, in special cases, provide over the dangerous Nile-Sadd coun-services outside the 26 mille area generally sponking, it will try near Malakal when he spotted hut,
One Stephen le Blak in the Normun period was conspicuous for his dark features and is sometimes thought to have been the founder of the Around her waist a searcher Hack family, it is also supposed
"submit," he said, "that it is found parcels of opium, which she that the Blacks received their name your duty to discharge her. I have said had been given to her by the from the blacksmiths, or workers been here for ten days listening second defendant. After further in iron, that the Browns were not patiently. but simply in vain, interrogation, the women told the necessarily dusky hurd in the bene jet or tittle of evidence which offers that they had received theginning, but took their title insuggests definitely or in any other opium from a man in Yaumati. abbreviated form from brown? way that my client was responsible The Arst defendant conducted the smiths, or ropper workers, and that for the death of these two women.
"The police to a house on the mainland, the Whites may have sprung from
prosecution have called but the person for whom they the whitesmiths who controlled the nearly 50 witnesses in order to get were in Fearch was not on the tin and silver industries. But you to commit this woman for trial, premises. A photograph of the Gray was evidently first applied in but what is the net result? Only Jo WILN Rofnied out 10 the respect to physical coloration, and opportunity to do what it is sug- the prosecution Mrs. officers.
Green, as explained, came from agested by
Hearn did do. On returning to Hongkong, the Mony surmanas developed from "If you commit Mrs. Heurn on searchers received further inform individual's place of residence. opportunity only, then I say it will →mation, to the effect that the nohu, for example, to distinguish be a great injustice to put this
would be found in a teahouse in him from a hundred other Johns, woman in peril on such grounds.“ Winglok Street, but on visiting the was referred to as Joha
Mr. at the
Wast then reviewed the promises indicated, the police wood. He was listed thus in the evidence. were informed that he had left Hundred Rolls, or country records, In regard to the case of Miss just prior to their arrival. They of medieval England. Johm at the Everard, he said that Mrs. Hearn's then learned that they would find wood, however, was too cumber-attitude rigat through towards her the man in Lower Lasear Row but some and it was presently contract-sister was that of a devoted woman when they arrived there theyed to John Atwood. Similarly Ed-anxious to do all she could to save an aeroplane on the sandy waste. operate only within it. No one again found that they were ton ward at the ash (tree) became her invalid sister.
Despite the risk to his own life, he other than the Board will, without late, their quarry
In the case of Mrs. Thomas, 31r. landed and found that the aeroplane its written consent, be permitted having been Edward Nash, Thomas of seven there and left.
oaks, Thomas Snooks, Robert in the West suld that the suggestion of was that of the German flier, who to carry any passenger in a stage
the prosecution was that in the had run out of petrol.
carriage or express carriage if that late. Robert Dale, and so on.
short space of time between which Udet was without food or water, passenger enters the vehicle at any place within the London Traffic Sach natnes as Joy, Pride, Vice, she was asked to join the Thomas's and had no means of communica Bliss and Love are traceable not on their trip to Bude on October 18. tion anywhere, Black shared his Aren for the purpose of being set down within that area. Provision necessarily to the qualities of their and when she did join them, she own short rations of biscuits and
mos nitwitation, the Thomas, fact to the miracle plays or mysteries of medieval times. These were al-kind friend to her and her sister
dramas, primarily legorient
glous, and they afforded the foundations of the modern theater. The parts were acted, not by profes sional players, but by citizens of the community. It Adam interpreted the role of Pride on the stage, he was quite apt to be known as Adam Pride for the rest of his days.
Chught at Last. Subsequent information received by the officers was that if they waited at 7, Tung Street they would searching as he was due to take quite possible, but more likely that Mrs. Thomas had been a vondubu, and was able there to cum- can be claimed for loss where exist
delivery of quantity of opium there. After an hour's wait at 7, Tung Street, a man arrived and was about to enter the premises when he apparently saw the officers, He turned to leave, but was - bench in stantly detained. On the shop was a raincont in which was wrapped a parcel containing 80 taels of opium.
The paper around the parcel and a piece of cloth found in the rain cant were indentical to those which had been found on the parcels in the possession of the first defendant.
cer Ward, as the third deferulant,
is
re-
The crusades were also a factor
as the crusaders' standard,
for years.
The Same Risk,
.or 말합니 prohibited minicate with the B.A.F. ating businesses are
power. Khartoum. He informed them of stricted under this
Fares will be subject to revision Udot's whereabouts and they sent out a relief party.
the Railway Rates Tribunal, and Tuy
In order to ensure close contact be- tween the Board and the local au- thorities the London and Home "Many people, having made รว Counties Traffic Advisory Com their minds to that end, have been mittee in to be made a permanent unable to carry out their Inten-body, its constitution extended, and
its duties enlarged.
of
The London Passenger Transport Board will have no State subsidy;
it will pay its own way.
BREACH OF PROMISE CASES.
4
JUDGE AND DIGNITY OF WOMANHOOD.
In the auggestion of the prosecu. tion, she not only said: "Here is my opportunity to kill her," but set about carrying out her intention.
If, as the prosecution suggested, | tlen.' Mrs.
Hearn put poison in the rand
The Inquest Verdict. wiches eaten at Bude on October
Ileferring to her changes in the origin of surames, Jordan, 18, she ran the sante risk as Mr. as the result of thousands of Eng or Mrs. Thonung case either of name, Mr. West said: "Having left
ishun journeying to the Holy suicide or murder.
the village and having left a note Land, began to be applied us a
"Is that not
terrible sugges»
for Mr. Thomas, what good pur- family tille. The design carried Lou?" Mr. West asked.
pose would she have served in going Mrs. Hearn, he continued, pur-about as Mrs. Hearn? She wanted No charge could be brought by a warrior on his shield in the
in 1926, the to lose her identity and start life against anybody in respect of the campaigns against the Saracens closed the word-kler, not for the under another name on account of second parcel, said Revenue Our Grinth has Its source in the purpose of killing weeds, but for the horrid things that man had changed who was the man they had been dragonlike figure on the arms of the purpose of killing Mrs. Thomas, said about her. So she searching for, did not have time some medieval knight, and Cross, and yet they said that she waited her name."
came until October 18, 1930, before she Mr. Wont hold that the magls- to take delivery of It.
trates could not disregard tho ver- Summing up during a breach of put that plan into execution, On being taken back to the Im-into common use as a surname.
who promise action nt Sussex Assizes, It is the element of uncertainty Referring to Mrs. Hearn's de diet of the Coroner's jury, ports and Exports Office the third defendant was immediately accus- thut makes the origin of surnames parture from Lewannick after the having heard all the evidence about Mr. Justice McCardie sald that so
The field a funeral of Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Went Mrs. Thomas, found a fascinating study.
that the far from the womanhood of this so vnst that no one can apenk with said: "Remember she was a lone arsenic was administered by some country being assisted by these ac- undisputed authority; and beyond woman who had lost her sister a person or persons unknown
tions, he considered that the dignity "I submit," he said, "that that of womanhood was lowered. certain point, the doughtlest few months before.
"I think there is no more do- and the verfest tyre are on "People were aceasing her of be person was not Mrs. Hearn. Mrs. equal footing. Where and howing responsible for Mrs. Thomas's Hearn is entitled to justice. My grading occupation for a Judge and
death. She did a thing which per- Inst
words are Quil ye like men: Jury than to estimate damages in surnames originated is of no praehaps in similar circumstances many be strong-strong enough to dis-such a caso as this," he continued. tical consequence; they are no
"This come illustrates a
point longer and expression of character others would have done. She left charge this weman." The many friends et Mr. Wong
tho The magistrates retired and which should be considered by the this country. Kam-fuk will be glad to know that orsonality. But if one sets out the village. Just imagine the serious operation for which he on the trail of a name, he will pre- senndal that was going on and the were absent for a quarter of an wise womanhood of
hour before announcing their deci- Is it desirable for a girl to enter wont to the Johns Hopkins hospital sently find himself in a province of lies that were being told,
"Sho had no one to confer with, aion to commit Mrs. Hearn for into an engagement with a man, in Baltimore has been entirely auc- curious facts and fancles whoso ex-
without setting some limitation to cessful. Mr. Wong is convalescing istence he muy never have, suspect- no one to talk to; and she decided trial.
Mrs. Hearn was then taken back the time during which the engage- d will return shortly, first spending ed before.
by motor-car to Exeter Prison. ment shall fast.
ed by the first defendant as being the inan from whom she had re ceived the opium.
After hearing the evidence, his Worship adjourned the case for the third defendant to call witnesses.
a few weeks in Japan..
scholar
an
F. L., S. Jr.
she would end her life and want off to Looe for the purpose.,
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