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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931.
EXTRADITION CASE OF MRS. JENG SHEE.
ARRIVAL OF PRESIDENT HOOVER'S WARRANT,
A TALK ON, F. W. H. MYERS.
LECTURE BEFORE ENGLISH
ASSOCIATION.
CHARGED WITH AN ASSAULT ON GIRL.
WOMAN FINED FOR HEATING DAUGHTER-IN-LAW.
A warrant signed by the Preal- Biographical notes on the life of Evidence for the defence was dent of the United States and that interesting personality of the called at, the resumed hearing, be- F. W. H. fore Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon other papers comprising the nineteenth century. dossier in support of the case Myers, were incorporated into a Police Court yesterday, of the three against the accused, have been very instructive lecture which was charges brought against Ld Yat, a hunded over to Crown' offeinls by delivered by Mr. A. H. Fenwick Chinese woman in connexion with Inspector
J. J. Gannon, of the San before the monthly meeting of the the treatment of a young girl. Francisco Poilce, taperi hin arrival Hongkong Branch of the English Li Yut-aim, whom the prosecution here, in pursuance of extradition Association, held in the hall of alleged was a mai trai.
The defendant was charged with proceedings against the woman.St. John's Cathedral yesterday Mrs. Jeng Shee, who is wanted" evening, wit
with Sir William Hornell keeping an unregistered mni Isai.
with ill-treating a
amni tani and, in the States for grand larceny in the chair.
The lecturer waid that he had Involving a want of G.$25,000.
thirdly, with assault.
Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen (As- Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Scho-chosen F. W. 11. Myers as the sub- field, before whom the application Ject of the paper because it had fistant Secretary for Chinese Af- for Mrs. Jeng Shee's surrender is seemed to him that he was one of fairs) prosecuted and Mr. Leo being heard, took formal evidence the most interesting men living D'Almada represented the defen-
the liter part of the dant. admitting the documents into the during
nineteenth century. The second A female friend of the defendant ClXt.
tidteer
of that century was In some gave evidence of a celebration In Inspector Gannon testified that
a member of the San respects one of the most curious connexion with the narriage of the he was Francisco Police, in the State of periods in the history of the lustgirl, Li Yut-sim, to the defendant's California. He handed in a ava-thousan
thousand years. The blaze 91 son about two years ago. The girl hey of documents, and, speaking genius which had ushered in the was then 1 and the boy 16. Wit- had burned ness khew both parties well and. as to their validity, said that one seventeenth century
a warrant signed by Presk-Steadily through the eighteenth under cross-examination, said the dent Houver authorising him to but it flickered out about the mid-girl was not a mui tani but the wife bring back the acensed, whiir the deaf the aineteenth and the last of the defendant's ROB, others were declarations signed half of that century seemed to be one of the dullest and at the enme in his presence.
time one of the aus! perplexing he Prior to the present
and difficult periods in the history thr
having fugitive, ha{5a**2}
it was the of Europera thought. (known ber na n Mrs. Phyllis Jun.
His Worship accepted the evi- pertod of the scientist who was She lived near his offer and he also an engineer, and it produced denes of the defence and dismissed bast seen her riding about in a lot of very good engineering of the first two charges but convicted "Studebaker automobile."
11 kind the world haul never seen
the defendant of assault. In view before but philosophy and literaof the fact that the defendant had ture were at a low cbb,
WLA
Pame
Replying to Mr. 1. H. Lageby tappearing for Mrs. Jeng Shce), witness said he knew the warrant He the fugitive, referred to admitted that he had not known thai
had committed
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the
it on the case being assigned to him.
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Corroborativè evidence was given by the bridegroom who said that the girl was his wife. It was cus- tomary in his village for people to marry young,
Myers was born in 1843 at Kes-already served one month in gaol. on remand, his Worship imposed wick, in Cumberland and was the the nominal fine of $5. He remark- son of the Rev. Frederic Myered that had he convicted on the
wick. In 1876 he went in school
at
ne mind to another without the agency of the recognised organs
olence before he was loh! about perpetual çarate of St. John's, Kes-rst day of the trinl the sentence
at Cheltenham, where his great would have been $50 or one month. ability and particularly his poetic. The Pubile Prosecutor (Mr. powers were at once recognised, Somerset Fitzroy having intimate had a distinguished career at invoked the agency of discartate minds,or spirits upon the smallest ed that the case for the Crown had school and University.
provocation. Not so Myers! He closed there. Mr. Losrby applies
Superstition or Fraud.
seemed more 'concerned to show for permission to go through the
Mr. Fenwick then went on to Pthat such an hypothesis was rarely thereuments in Court before profer to Myers essay
on "Greck
necessary, and that in large ceding with his case. As taking Oracles" which traced the history the docutouts out of sight would of Greek orcalar shrines from majority of cases it was not neces- sary, to suppose any agency other dangerous procedure, Mr. Hlumerle times down to 300 A..thau telepathy or "the transmis Fitzroy had told him not to sug-We have become so accustomed toxion of ideas and sensations from Rust laughter).
Remarking that he would make decision after having one through the documeats, Mr. Loseby said a short adjournment at that stage would be convenient, with the fugitive ing retained in police custody for forty-eight hours. The point to be considered next was whether the woman would go back of her own accord or in the custody Inspector Gannion. Although such fi provedure would save time, Mr. Loshy said that in the in- terests of his dient, he was not prepared to waive what were her rights, and further hearing might he necessary,
The case was then adjourned Fuatil to-morrow afternoon
THIRTY-THREE YEARS IS THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE. Many in the Colody will restret to learn of the death of Mr. T. M. Perpetuo of the General Pont flier, who died suddenly in the Government Civil Hospital yester- day evening. His passing removes faithful Government servant of thirty-three years standing, and one of whom his superiors spoke must highly in the wards of one of them. "I have never known harder working man."
Supposing that anything in the tan- tare of an oracle can be, at best. merely a superstition and, worst, frauds practised by priests upon a credulous people, added the speaker. But Myers made it clear that the Greek oracles could not be dismissed in that way, that they did represent a genuine religious experience of the Greeks which it was impossible to explain away on any simple assumption of super- stition or fraud.
of sense."
"Telepathy" was a word with which we were all familiar and it was perhaps interesting to note that that
word was coined by Myors and first used by him in 1884. in the first volume of his work Myers discussed the not very unusual conditions of hysteria, genius, sleep and hypnotism. He From his essay on Greek oracles took the view that human per was easy to see that Myers wassonality was as he says "profound- greatly interested in those strange unitary and almost infinitely
complex." occurrences and it was not sur-
Myers disagreed with and object. prising that he turned his atten-
to the views 01 those tion very definitely in that direc- cal tion. 121 1882
he was one of the anthropologists who classed several groups of men who found of genius with criminals and ed the Seriety for Psychical Re-lunities, it being in their view
and
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4esemena, baum-believed that the distinguishing
was a great
OLD RESIDENT DIES. ch whose obiect was to co-merely an accident whether a man of was a genius or a lunatic. Myers duetstematic investigation those hyrure ings
hypo- characteristic of the man of genius utterances towards was that he was able to include in Hism, traseu which the attitude of the ordinary his conscious out-put a great deal been person was either frank disbelief of thinking which had not
one unconsciously, which for unreasoning credulity.
"Human Personality."
dinary people were not able to do One of the first things that to any noticeable extent.
or reading "Human After giving an example of struck are
how critically telepathy Mr. Fenwick closed his Personality" was Myers selected his evidence-in lecture by saying that "Human book. striking contrast to a number Personality"
on spiritualism. ine thought it was undoubtedly one other Imoka
elaborate theories were of the great books of the last which
It was a courageous at- based upon evidence which led century. the lecturer, at any rate, with the tempt to reduce to some sort of order a mass of obscure and per- from the very deepest distrust beginning. The cases selected by plexing phenomen, nud in that it was successful, for it did reduce Myers for discussion were for the
and clearly them to some sort of order. And most part simply narrated in such a way that one! It was not equally successful felt very little inclination to dis- in providing those phenomena with miss them entirely as not being a satisfactory explanation it was worthy of dernasion. On the wiat least successful in indicating trary one felt that they were the the general direction in which simple straight forward statement such explanation must be sought.
The late Mr. Perpetuo was born on January 3, 1882, and he joined the Government as a clerk in 1898. AL the time of his death he had risen to the position of Assistant Superintendent of Mails.
Promoted steadily through years of excellent service, he was made Assistant Superintendent of Mails in 1925. and treted as Superinten-of truthful and honest persons anal dent in 1926-27 for a period of ten while we might not be able to ex- months, meanwhile, entering the plain then we caghi at least to senior clerical and accounting grade, consider them
The greatest sympathy will be extended to his family in their bereavement.
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Mr. G. P. de Martin, Mrs. Southern and Prof. R. K. M. Simp son took part in the discussion at the conclusion of the fecture. The last named pointed out that Myers was well-known as the writer of the biography of Wordsworth. A hearty, vote of thanks accorded Mr. Fenwick for
The second thing the lectarer thought one tited in Myers was a refreshing distaste for super- So many natural explanations. writers on that difficult subject lecture.
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