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Sydney Howard THE MAYOR'S NEST
A POT OF CLEAN HEARTY HORSENGE
with CLAUDE HULBERT.......
MUSIC BY LEW STONE AND HIS 'BAND.. A British & Dominions Production.
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPII. MONDAY, MARCH-27, 1933.
FIRE DANGER IN BROTHEL
EXITS LOCKED WITH GRILLES
The case of a Chinese woman charged with being the keeper of
a disorderly house at Vanchal was investigated by Mr. Schofield | »
DR. HODGKIN'S DEATH
LEADING CHỈNA
MISSIONARY,
-(Special to "Telagraph”)
it the Central Police to-day, from repes Orgia 111. Beceived, March {By Telogro STE Copyright, Taguashie) the more serious, viewpoint of 17, full son) Are dangers.
London, Mar. 26.
PICKPOCKETS ON WHARF
RAZOR BLADE TRICK
EXPLOITED
A number of Canton passengera on the Yuet On Wharf last night were the victims of pickpockets and as a result of a report to the Police an arrest was made.
Appearing before Mr. Wynne Jones at the Cential Police" Court this morning the man was charged
with larceny of $10 in Canton cur-
The prosecuting Police Officer The death had occurred of Dr. stated that when he raided the Henry Theodore Hodgkin, who was premises this morning, he found at one time Secretary of the cy from the person of an un- both front and rear exits blocked by locked iron grilles. The in- mates, warned of the police visit,
National Christian Council China
known man; possession of a razor in blads described as an instrument fit for an unlawful purpose and bad cleared from the floor, leaving Director of Study of Feadle Hill, away goods which had been unlaw- The late Dr. Hodgkin was preventing seizure by throwing three bluejackets Inside whe were the Quaker Graduate School og fully obtained. asleep, unaware that they were Social and Religious Study, of locked in.
Inspector A. E. Carey sald three The same floor had been raided Wallingford, Pa., U.S.A. Born in passengers for Canton reported to five times within a month, and 1877, he was a nephew of the late wharf constables that they had had always the police had found their Dr. Thomas Hodgkin, the historian, their pockets cat and picked.
Educated in England, he was | A stricter search was then made way barred by the locked grilles. Chairman of the Student Volun- by the police. When a constable
The Police Officer asked the Court to deal severely with the teer Missionary Union from 1902 went to search defendant, he threw offence, particularly in view of to 1905, and went to Chengtu, something into the harbour. On his the possibility of these men being West China, as a medical mis person were a roll of Chinese coins trapped in case of fire.
onary in the latter year. Later and the razor blade,
The officer remarked that the In fining the woman, $150 with the returned to England and took
months up the position of Secretary of the but there was no evidence to prove three victims were now destitute the alternative of two imprisonment, the Magistrate ex-Friends' Foreign Mission Associn- the defendant had robbed them plained to her the reason for this tion, which he held from 1910 to It was not known from whom the heavy penalty.
1920, during which period he was also Secretary of the Board of $10 had been stolen but as it was Governors of the West China in a roll it was presumed to have
been taken from one man, Union University,"
JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF H.K. GOLF CLUB
Sentencing the defendant to nine months' hard labour, his
Worship ordered that the money found on the defendant be divided among the three victims.
It was alleged by the prosecution
He made extensive tours of India, Madagascar, Syria and America, lecturing on industrial, THE SEMI-FINALISTS
international and religious que Third round results in the tions. From 1922 to 1929, he has Royal Hongkong Golf Club cham-Secretary of the National Christian pionships played during the week-Council of China, with headquar- before Mr. Schofield at the Central ters at Shanghai. He was winner Police Court this morning. that a H. of the Walker Prize (University of shop foki who admitted the theft of of a small quantity of peanut oil, had a St. Andrew's) for his essay Social Reconstruction, and was the specially made tin, containing the oll, author of numerous publications.affixed to his girdle. Defendant, who was employed at 177. Third Street, Renter.
was bound over.
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