'Only Case
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, ·· DECEMBER 28, 1936.
That Ever Kept
Me Awake'-Lord Hewart
MURDER DRAMA
LORD
OF GOLD HIDDEN
IN KNOB OF BED
HEWART, Lord Chief Justice, recently
revealed.
1. The drama behind the cold phrase you read in every murder
trial report-"Counsel for the prosecution."
2. The drama behind a murder trinl of two youths 22 years ago
-"the only case that ever kept me awake."
3. The drama behind the abandonment of the younger boy's appeal against a pénal servitude sentence as an accessOTY after the facts.
of
Baron Speaking as the first Bury, Lancaster, to the Association of Lancastrians at their annual din-
22 YEARS AGO-ner at Hotel Great Central he told
GE
"EORGE BALL, 22 years old, was hanged at Walton Jail, Liverpool, in February 1914, for the murder of Miss Christina Catherine Bradfield, whose body was placed in a suck and thrown into a Liverpool canal.
SAMU
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'AMUE.. A. 'ELTOFT, aged, 18, was sentenced to penal servitude for four years as an accessory after the fact,
Piercing Eyes Are A Myth
Decio, Dec. 15. The belief that eagles are gifted with piercing eyes, and hence with exceptionally, strong eyesight, seems to be a legend.
an
Here's a story which tells why A royal cagle frightened by the rifle shots of alpino game hunters flew down the valley in search of a inute secure refuge.
first of his emotions in the case as
THE CROWN COUNSEL
"TT, was the only case in my life times the first three
in which I wrote out several
my address to the jury.
sentences of
"I knew that sooner or later should have the terrible task of cross- they exumining these two lods 03 gave their story in the witness-box, every word of which
expected
would be true but was being told about some other person when really the actors were themselves,
THE CONVICTION
THOSE Inds were convicted-one
HOS
of the murder, the other of be- ing an accessory after the fact-and Mr. Justice Atkin, as he then was,
passed upon the older boy the only
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WITH OUR APOLOGIES TO THE Y.
Y. MEMBER TO BEWILDERED FRIEND; There goes Jenny,
the cow of our new pantomime.
War-time
Premier
Says We Have Lost
Naval Supremacy
Melbourne, Dec. 21.
MR. W. M. HUGHES, war-time Prime Minister of Australia. and now Minister of Health, said to-day that British naval supremacy had gone and asked how Britain would. feed her
sentence which the law knows in,; such a case, and passed a short term
people. penal servitude upon the younger
of
counsel appearing for
boy carned that second prisoner-learned coun- sel of no little courage--immediately gave notice of appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal in the hope that
he might get rid even of that sen-
tence.
"Then a very strange thing hap- pened. One of the main facts on behalf of the younger prisoner was that, so far as anybody knew, ho had never had any share of the plunder.
"The plunder was £5.
THE APPEAL
DEFORE the case came on in the
Passing over the village of Paina, "B Court of Criminal Appeal -you the bird sighted what she thought
chicken flying above they know, perhaps, that both sides in a proper case may give additional was houses. Scenting a good prey, the evidence there I had the disagree- eagle swooped down with full wing able task of serving upon the solici- and
swift spirals, and began to beak Lor of that young prisoner a, notice furiously at the supposed prey. The of additional evidence. one-sided fight lasted several minutes and ended with the rogalon bird getting groggy, and with barely enough strength loft to seek refuge in a bell-tower situated close to the scene of the fight,
The eagle had mistaken for a live chicken the metal weathercock which for centuries had been revolving on top of the church spire.
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The disappointed bird came to still worse grief shortly thereafter when a hunter, who had witnessed the unequal fight from the street, rush- ed with a shot gun to a roof across the belfry, and from there killed the eagle.
The bird, which had a two metre wing span, is now an exhibit in. the
Desio's museum,
"Aditional evidence which, if li were permitted, would have shown that after the conviction some detective officers visited his house. removed the brass cap from the
pillar at the bottom of his bed- stead, and there found two sovereigns and a half sovereign on the top of the upright pin.
“That notice of additional evidence having been given," added Lord Hewart dramatically, "the appeal to the Court of Appeal was abandoned.”
That was not the speech Lord Hewart had prepared for the dinner
but an earlier speaker, Lord Atkin, now a Lord of Appeal, was judge at the trial, had recalled that it was Declo is the birthplace of Pope one of "Mr. Gordon Hewart's" frat Pius XI.
Treasury briefs.
P. & O. Use £6,000,000 Of Reserves To Write Down Fleet
IMPORTANT changes, which reduce substantially the amount required for depreciation each year, are dis- closed in the accounts of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
A rearrangement of finances within the group, arising from realisation of assets in the winding-up of a subsidiary company and distribution from reserves in another subsidiary, has resulted in the creation of a special reserve of £6,481,494.
The directors have applied £5,-| 031,434 of this sum to writing down
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PROFITS JUMP
the fleet which, exclusive, of pay- The profit and loss account shows ments on account of steamers under that receipts from voyages increased construction, now stands in the books from £1,054,802 to £1284,023, while at £5,895,108.
... dividends from subsidiary companies A year ago the book value of the amounted lo £371,398 against
fleet was £12,802,872.
The notund amount charged against profits for depreciation this year is £880,100, compared with £1,313,944, in the previous 'year. In 1933 £450,000 was transferred from reserve to help meet depra- | dation on the usual
basis.
These
ducing
ctation
nges, in changes,
£283,020.
out
st
The net profit works £228,910, compared with £150,- - 990 in 1935, which sum was arrived `at after including the transfer from
reserve of £450,000.
#chure on to re- are being resumed with a payment i
the annual
have resulted in
for depre- substan-
Brim
"How will our ships get to lain?" he demanded at a Legacy
NOBEL FAMILY Club luncheon in Melbourne.
DENOUNCE PEACE AWARD
BERLIN, Dec. 21. HREE relatives of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prizes, have sent a message to the German Tress denouncing the award of the 1935 peace prize. to Cart Ossietzky, German pacifist.
von
The message mays: We have no influence in the decision, because we do not belong to the committee who distribute the prizes.
"We disapprove most sharply of this award to a man sentenced by German courts for high treason. It is not compatible with the intentions of the founder,-who-wanted--to establish à prize for men who did good service in the Interest of world peace."Reuter.
"How can people talk of Austra- lian troops being sent to Europe in the event of another war in which Tritain might be involved?"
In face of the feverish activity among European nations to streng- then their armaments. the public could not preserve Olymple serenity.
MEN AND TIME
He suggested to Sir Samuel Hoare, First Lord of the Admiralty, that half the trouble arose from the in- out- ability of men to adjust their look to changed conditions.
nir had The conquest of the
yet many
revoluilonised war ersisted
In
defence
experis formplating a policy of defence based on the conditions of 1014. Germany might again
RADIO BROADCAST
Message by H.R.H. The
Duke of Kent
MASSED
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Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of metres (840 k.c's), 31.40 mcirca (0.52 megacycles).
12.30 p.m. Do Groot and His Orchestra.
i p.m. Time and Weather.
1.03 p.m. Huwalian Melodics. 1.10 p.m.
Len Green at the Plano. 1.30 p.m.
Reuter Press, Locol:
Weather Forecast, Time and An-
nouncements.
1.40 p.m. Dance Music.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
8-9 p.m. European Programme. ·
Musle
5 p.m. A Relay of Dance from the Roof-Garden of the Hong- kong Hotel..
6.15 p.m. A Relay of a portion of the Orchestral Concert by the Massed Royal Marine Bonds (Kind permission of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little, K.C.B.) from the China Fleet Club. Under the Direction of Mr. R. E, Compton, L.R.A.M.
7 p.m. London-Big Ben, A Mes- sage by H.R.H, the Duke of Kent, on the Occasion of the centenary of the State of South Australia.
7.05 p.m.
A Planoforte Recital
by Ignaz Friedman.
Mazurko-Op. 24, No. 4, (Chopin). Mazurka-Op. 33, No. 4, (Chopin). Berceuse (Chopin).
7.18 p.m. Three Arlas by Enrico Caruso, (Tenor).
"Xerxes"-Ombra Mal Fu (Han-
del)
Agnus Del (Bizet).
7.30
"Maria"-Like a dream (Flotow). pm Closing Local Stock Quotations and. Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. Variety.
Band → Memories of Horatio Nicholls...Debroy Somers Band; Vocal-Would you?... Greta Keller: Vocal-When the moon hangs high.
The Hill Billies; Orchestra-We've got Rhythm-Fox-Trot Medley.... Murlo Lorenzi and his Rhythmics. 17 All my life: Vocal-Where am
....Leslie Hutchinson,
Local: Time Signal, Wen- ther Report and Announcements.
8,03
A Kelay Chinese Theatre.
8 pm.
p.m.
from
the
Il p.m. Close Down, 8.05-11 p.m. European Program- me From Z. E. K. On a Frequency Of 640 Kilocycles.
8.06 p.m. Vienna Boheme Oc- chestra.
Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), (Kreisler); Liebesfreud (Love's Joy). (Kreisler); Valse Romantique (Heinecke); Die Hochzeit der Winde, Wallz (Hall).
8.18 p.m. Mavis Bennett (So-
(Bass prano) and Peter Dawson Baritone).
Peter Dawson-The Strong go on (Thayer); Good green acres of Home (Kahal and Fain); Mavis Bennett-
Dawson-Covered be the
an and (Freeman Bennett-Pretty- (Bishop); Peter collective
The Doll's 50 Peter
sald Mr. Hughes, and this Japan was her ally. He advo cated the full force of sanctions to avert disaster.
To-day the German air fleet could drop 600 tons of bombs on London in 24 hours, compared with 300 tons
The award is worth about £8,000. during the whole of the great war,
Ancient Fountain
For Vatican
Vatican City, Dec. 10.
A fountain for both embellishment and public use, crected by Pope Pius IX
few years before the occupation
of Rome by the Italian troops in 1870,
United Press.
Free Feeds For 50,000 German Pigs
Berlin, Dec. 20.
THE Berlin city authorities
are to buy 50,000 pigs which
is being dismantled and its pieces they hope to feed for nothing. taken to the Vatican, where it wil House-owners are being asked be assembled again and rise inside the papal gardens in
form.
"
its original to put all kitchen waste in a
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It is estimated that there will be half a pound of waste dally
In each of Berlin's 1,400,000, familles, and that from the waste 350,000 pigs could be fed.
As about 28,000 pigs are caten the additional pork weekly gained by feeding on waste would last for 13 weeks.
Lullaby
Mavis
Bird
Mocking Dawson-Rolling alone (Akst and Richman); Load the covered wagon (Kane and Hunt),
Tintagel" and "Medi. (Bax) by the New Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Eugene Goosens.
8.43 terranean
9 p.m. London-News nouncements.
9.20
p.mt.
Roberto Firpo.
Orquesta
and An-
Tipicn
Pasodoble Bella Espanola; Tango - La Carcajada; Rumba-La Curcaracha; Tango-A media luz; Pasodoble-Por mi morena; Pasodo- ble Curro en el oro,
9.40 p.m. Reginald Dixon at the Cinema Organ.
11 p.m. London-Big Ben. Dance Music.
11 p.m. Close Down...
DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES
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16.140
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680
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21,470
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16.140
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$110
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Transmission
(G.H.D., 0.8.0.)
metres
4. Nig Bar. A Short Recital by James Walker (Australien Finit).
Klen special bin. Every day Nazi The fountain, unpretentious in welfare helpers will collect the size though of elegant conception and bina, take them to the estate fine workmanship, was erected housing the piga. front of the centrot building which bisects the two main thoroughfares, commonly called "borgh!", leading from St. Angel Castle and King Victor Emanuelle Bridge to St. Peter's. was constructed principally for the
which forms the im Plus Square, purpose of beautifying Plazza Pla, or mediate access to the "borghi,"
On October 20 last, Mussolini ave several pick-axe blows to the front of the foregoing building, to mark Its demolition. The pick is be ing now applied extensively also to several other structures back of that building. They constitute a alum sart of fish-bone section, and form in the centre of the
The the "borgh!". clearance of the bone will make room, for a wider and more beautiful ave- nue of access to St. Peter's and to the Vatican, thereby solving a centuries long problem, tackled vainly by sove- ral and by the Italian govern-
Popes ments since 1870. A tablet in Latin to be placed at the foot of the foun- tain in its new place, will record its origin and its subsequent movements,
As already announced, dividends ROMANCE RUDELY JOLTED
of 4 per cent, less tax.
Oakland, Cal, Dec, 15.. The directors summarise
trading
Modern lovers quarrels have flat surplus on depreciation account conditions on the various routes, and passed the old-time stage of “kles Depreciation to date at 8 per cent state that since the close of the and make up." When a boy friend per annum on the cost of the accounts there has been a consider- of Margery Cochen, 19, slapped her
ers would amount to £12,612,- uble diminution in cornings In the steamers
face, the promptly called a pollen 838, whereas no lew than £16,931,-| Straits, China, and Japan trades, a man and signed a complaint for hat- 185 has been written off.
fact which is causing some anxiety; tery.
The money raised from the sale of the pork will be used partly for the winter help fund and partly for the "mother and child” organisation.—Exchange.
36 YEARS TO. CORRECT A MISTAKE
FOR 36 years the motto. Con-
stans Justiliam. Moniti has shone on the crest of the Borough of St. Ponerus. ́`*
And it has defled ali transia- tors, because. It has no meaning. from
It was copied genoem
a book of Latin
Now the council is applying to the College of Heralds for a new motto, L. Sapentia et Audacia (Wisdom and Courago),AWAMI
4.18 pm. Yariety. 448.pm. The ILC. Empire Orebestra. $40 p.m. The News, and "Antonnermenta. Greenwich Tima Bignal xi EAS Dam.
Transmission 2
(0.3.0, 0.8.31.
9.10.
Dig Ben, A Hammaga by H.R.H. the Duke of Keni, at tha mecasion of the Centenary of the Sixie of Beuth Australia, 7.15 p.m. The BBC. Danes Orchestra. 7.30 .t. Empire Exchange,” 745 pm. Haydn Guard and hia_Band, free the Wank End CinemA, Dirmingham. “
7.5% p.m. Grand Christmas Pantomimi 6.55 5.1. The News and Announcements. Grounwich Time Signal AL 235 JANU 9.15 p.m. A Visloncello Recital.
Transmission 3
10.3.0, 0.8.P., (ANL)
is .m. Big Ben. A. Homage by H.RL.IT. the Dukaaf Kent, on Cha mccasion of the Centenary, of-tho Slate of South Australia
19.5 p.m. A Programms of New Danes
Records.
16.30 p.m. A Dallad ConceER,
Il pane Festival of Yvod
11.39, p.m. · Berry Farmer, at the Organ kapal the firunada, Trellugs (2
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