THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1932,
SURRENDERS
UTILITY MAGNATE'S SON
SON SURRE
NEW INSULL CRASH SENSATION
ILLINOIS SEEKING ARREST OF AGED CHIEF
AT PRESENT IN FRANCE
New York, Oct. 6.
BUSINESS-CIRCLES have been provided with a
sensation by the announcement from Springfield that the Governor of Illinois has requested Mr. H. L. Stimson, Secretary of State, to ask the French Govern. ment to arrest Mr. Samuel Insull, the aged Anglo- American industrial magnate, head of a chain of utility concerns involved recently in one of the biggest financial crashes of the century, second only, probably, to the Kreuger disaster.
Hamuel Insu)]
BANISHEE BACK
AGAIN
PREPARES FOR COLD WEATHER
Wong Hung, who was expelled from the Colony in May of this term for the possession of a forged year, after serving 11 month's
rested' in Queen's Road by a de-i
A provisional warrant has been issued in Toronto for the arrest of Mr. Martin Insull, and latest informa- banknote, was on Wednesday ar tion (from Barrie, Ontario) is to the effect that he has surrendered to the Ontario Provincial Police.
HISTORY OF TRAGIC DOWNFALL
tective on a charge of returning
from banishment before the stip- alated period had expired.
he
In answer to the charge, pleaded that he had been' carning) An honest living as a hawker of fruits in Canton, but was unable Samuel Insuli, a Londoner who, assets of the companies had sproach of cold weather reminded;
to make ends became
meet. The ap one of the wealthiest shrunk that the liabilities of Insull him that he was lacking in sult- electricity magnates in the United Utility Investments could not botable apparel, and as it occurred Staten, was born In Westminster met. In Nov., 1869. He had to leave
to him that a brother who was in school and become an office hoy In April, a receivership was
Hongkong might be able to render at 14, but devoted all his epare granted for that concern and also Assistance, he came down here. time to study. Becoming dissatis for the Middle West Utilities Co..plew at the Central Police Court, fied when 22 with his prospects, in which had a capital of £50,000,000. to-day, was unable to accept it. England, he went to the U.S. and The difficulties were due to the e recorded a conviction and sen- had the good fortune to obtain the failure of numerous holding comtenced the man to nine months' post of private secretary to Edison, panies on which the Middle West hard labour. the famous inventor.
Co. depended largely for income j to pay dividende.
Edison had just developed his in- candescent electric lamp beyond the
Meanwhile, Insul held many Iaboratory stage and was seeking conferences with bankers in un means to produce it ou д com-effort to save the combine. On mercial scale. Seeing signs of May 4, however, four New York) business ability in his young banks had arranged to sell by accretary, he gave him charge of auction uext day securities pledged the commercial side of the inven- with them by Insult Investments tion and Ingull handled the task and another company of the com-! with remarkable success.
bine as security for JoaNS.
THE CRASH.
Mr. Schofield, who heard the
TREE STRIPPER FINED
WANTED BARK AS MEDICINE
The police yesterday surprised a GREAT EXPANSION.
tree-cutter in the plantation on No. Under Insull's management, there!
Ridge, Pokfulam Road. He was came into existence in the next junction postponing the suction on of trees of the species known as But the courts granted an in-engaged in stripping off the bark few years the Edison Machine the ground that a forced sale at Heptapleurum Works, the Edison Lamp Co., the That time would realise nothing when caught was mutilating
octophyllum Edison General Electrical Co. and approaching real values and cause tenth tree.
and the Electrie Tube Co., as well as irreparable damage to the Insull
bis a number of similar concerns. At companies
Asked what he wanted the bark the same time Insull took up other wherens postponement, might re- strate, Mr. Schofield, to-day that und the creditors, for, the prisoner told the Magi- Interests, becoming chairman of sult in there being a balance over he was suffering from a sore foot the Midland Utilities Co., the the amount of the loans. People's Gas Light and Coke Co.,
and using the bark as a medicine. the Chiengo Civic Opera Co., the f
A fine of $50, or six weeks, was
Heptapleurum octopleylluur is a common to Hongkong. It
The collapse of the Insul con-inflicted. Chicago Rapid Transit Co., and cerns is said to be the biggest, many other companies, until inah in history and hundreds of tree Chicago alone he supervised every millions of dollars have been lost. grows to a height of between 10 public utility concern--gas, electric-Bruter and I. B. S. light, power and street railways with a total capital of £400,000,000.
over
He was a great believer in club life as a means of keeping touch with men of various interests and belonged to several of the chief clubs in the U.S. and England- for from the time when he became prosperous he renewed his asso- ciation with his native land by paying frequent visits.
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TWO SOLDIERS NOT GUILTY
FINE IMPOSED ON THIRD MAN
Lance
Corporal Coyney and Private Weeks were both dis- charged and Private Hicks
con-
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nad 16 feet, has compound leaves, and hears white flowers which will be in bloom next month. It was slated in Court that stripping off the bark, as the man charged did, i would kill the tree.
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The following cable at the close
victed by Mr. Schofield at the of the sugar market yesterday
treath and Co.
By 1929 he had crossed the Central Police Court this morning. has been received by Messrs. Pen- Atlantic over 70 times, often, it is when his Worship gave his deel- said, simply to enjoy the plensure alon in the case of the three men in memory of nid times of a walk who were charged with receiving
- which concluded with a visit to a brouch valued at £ which had
one of his clubs and the renewal of British friendships.
Insul became a member of both the British and American Insti-)
been stolen from Miss Bewley, of 362, The Peak on the night of September 8-9.
His Worship said he thought
- London Terminals. March 1933 6/19% no change. May 1938 6/8 no change. August 1933 6/6 no change. Decembar 1933 6/9% down d.
d-d more. Buyera at above prices, sollers
tutes of Electrical Engineers and Weeks had given a reasonable ex- asking has received degrees from the planation of his possession of the the Unlon College, New York, the broogh, and this was confirmed by North-Western University
Notre Dame University.
RESENTED SPEECH.
and independent evidence.
accordingly discharged.
It was
not so
In 1930, Insull attended the Coyney and Hicka,
He WILS
with
there
New York Terminals. December 1932 1.08 up 2 pts. March 1933 1.01 no change. May 19:33 1.04 no-change. July 1993 1.07 no change. September 1933- Cuban 96-Spot N.Y. 1.18 up
It
3 pta.
World Power Conference in Berlin.. ราง 12 conflict or evidence, Mr. Saekett, the American Ambas- On the whole he was din- sador there, who for years had run; posed ta believe Covney, the electric supply of a large area was clear that when he first got of Kentucky, prepared a speech in the brooch he appeared to have which he stated that the charges had no suspicions about it, and, in to consumers of current
ense, he had no knowledge in any America were 15 times the cost that it was stolen, His suspi- of production. On aceing the clons, he said, developed Inter. draft, Insull protested vigorously I Worship was disposed to be- against auch A revointion Inlove him and therefore found he public. After hours of heated had given a sufficiently reasonable discussion, Mr. Sackett agreed not explanation.
to deliver the speech. American
In respect of Hicks, the original
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Venz: Goldfields, $2.90 n. Benguet Exp., 20 cta. b.
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S. China Motors A., $10 a. S. China Motor B.. SB n. Provdents (old), $4.90 b. Previdents (New), $2.80 n. Hongkews, Tis, 220 n. New Englincerings, Tis, 5% a. Shanghal Docks, Tls. 90 n.
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b.
Ewe Cottons, Tls. 14.60 b. S'hal Cottons, Tis. 66% b. Zoony Sings, Tia, 11.50 . Wing On Textiles (S.) 145 n.
Public Utilities- Tramway, $22.10 n. Peak Trams (old), $16.65. 3. Peak Trams (new), $8 n. Star Ferries $91% n. Yaumati Ferries (old), $36 b. Yaumati Ferries (new). $34.25 b China Liglits (old), $18 b. China Lights (new), $17.75 n. H.K. Electrics, $76% b. Marne Electric, $24 n. Sandakan, Lights, $12 n. Telephones (old) $284 n. Telephones (new), $28 n. China Buses, Ts.10 n. Singapore Tracth.ns, 27. a. Singapore Pref. 14 n.
Industrials. Malabon Sugars, $27 Cald: Macy. (Ord.), Tis.14 n. Cald: Macg. (Pref.), Tis.101⁄2 n Canion Ices, $6 n. Cements (Com.), $15 n. Coments (old), $11% n. Cements (new), $3% n. H.K. Ropes, $13% L. Agriculturais, $10% n.
Stores, etc. Dairy Farms, $27.75 b.. Watsona (old), $12.75 n. Watsons (new), $11.80 . Der. A. Wings, $1 n. Sinceres $15.40 b. Lane Crawfords, $5.50 b. Mackintoshs, $21 n. Wm. Powells. $3.35 m. Wing On (H.K.), $240 n.
Miscellaneous, Amusements $17 n. Entertainments, $13% n. S. C. Enterprises, $a n. United Theatres Tis. 6.85 b. Mucas "Greyhounds", $10 n. Construction (old), $5.70 n. Construction (new), $1.45 b. B. Ind. G. Bonds, $66 n. H.K. Govt. Loans, 3% pre, n. Wallace Harpers, $11.75 s: China Sports A
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Paris... Geneva Berlin.. Helsingfors.
Oalo.... Athens, Milan Buenos Aires. Shanghal. New York. Amsterdam. Dublin, Oct. 6.
Vienna. press correspondents, however,
The Prine Minister of the Irish Madrid. Prague. had secured conies and published information of the police led them Free State, Mr. Eamon de Valern Bucharest them. Mr. Sackett therefore made to question him first, apparently, revealed to-day that the British Hongkong the speech aa arranged,
and also there was the evidence of Government yesterday offered to Brussels. Covney. His Worship was not move the duties noninst Ireland Stockholm quite antisfied with
If the Free State would hand ever Copenhagen. Hicks'
Tabon The wave of depression which have tried twice to got rid of the ions but he said he was not pre-
vidence. He thought Hicks must to land annuities, sending negotia-Rie swept over American industries in rooch, and there was.
Rambay.. pared to do this. the next two years hit Insull's big vidence of guilty
Mr. de Valera added question of Montevideo
Yokohama.. concerns very hard. In March,gainst him. He must be convict remaining within the Common- Montreal...
knowledre 1932, a Chicago woman took pro-, but his Worship was gone to wealth was not raised and would Belgrade ceedings for the appointment of aive him the antion of receiver on the ground that the Hicks was fined $26.
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