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11th May.
SANTHIA
8,000
22nd Mny
"TALMA
10,000
5th June
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8,000
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19th June 3rd July.
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11th May. Shanghai & Japan,
TALMA
10,000
CORFU
Sirdhana
14,500 8,000
13th May. Shanghal & Japan.
NALDERA
18,000
27th May. Shanghai & Japan.
NANKIN
7,000
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PRISONER'S FATE" HANGS UPON VITAL LEGAL POINT
(Continued from Page 1) calling out. He did not take any steps to find out for certain if the woman was in fact dead beenuse he realized at that time that To Intended to murder her.
to
Further cross-examined, prisoner admitted that the hammer produced in Court, which was found by the police
the middle cubicle, belonged his family. He did not know how it got there, and denied that either he To had used it on the womon.
Mr. Williams: Why didn't you say In
police that your statement to the deceased had been blackmailing you? thought that was under stood by the fact that I wanted to
was frightened at the time.
and one dan Besides,
WHY HE LIED
FRIDAY, APRIL 80,
BAD BREAK ON LONDON EXCHANGE
(Continued from Page 1.)
Is no immediate intention of reising margin requirements, despite Presl
Roosevelt's anti-speculation dent warnings.
A high official of the Commission 10-tiny suld that the SEC. is more concerned over making the market safer for the public, than for "the
dabbling. ittle fellows".
1937.
U.S. GOLD POLICY ATTACKED (Continued from Page 1.) polley a long way. I admit it is halt the influx almost as dangerous of gold at Bonanza" prices as to continue them, but we obviously can- not go on, and come within a gunshot of a balanced budget."
The Republican Senator also chided Government on its silver polley, for paying 27 cents for 13 cents silver which is used for certificates worth $1.29.
"It would make Ponzi, the arch- windler of Boston, turn in his grave," to asserted.
The official agreed wholeheartedly with the President's attitude, but drew attention to the pubile's opera tions in the Stock Market at prescht not comparing with those of 1029:
The S.E.C will shortly make Senator King urged the Banking effective an order prohibiting ex-and Currency Committee to act o change, brokers who trade of the his resolution and to invesilgate the floor from operating through margined situatiEEMENT INVOLVED accounts, in the hope of preventing brokerage houses from taking too
Well.Informed cireles here express
bellet that any change in the guld to endanger ellers-United Press. Puliotion with Great Britain and
would be possible only after irl- Though you were frightened you
infer that thero France shee it involves the
agreement. managed to tell a few lies in that the jury might safely infer that there statement?--I did so because I was was the intention to murder, but in partile
However, they draw attention to ofrald the I.G.P. might get angry this case the Crown had failed to with me for not interfering with To prove the necessary ingredient. The the Administration's pressure for in- I told the lies in order to pacify the proper direction to the jury must be mediate price rises having nearly
this: That there must be evidence vanished, on which account the con I.G.P.
from which to infer the common detinued flow of gold. would cross the But you know you need not say sign to do the particular act which Administration's policy because it anything, if you so desired?--I was never informed of that. I was only To ditt. Besides, if the jury accept tends toward m upward market ed the story of nocused, they must
trend. naked to write what I wanted to be reminded that To had a private
motive of his own.
write,
I
But you read the caution in the charge sheet yourself Though was confronted with that, I thought the police would like to hear some thing from me, otherwise they would think was not doing them any justice.
So you told the lies in order to do Justice to the police? It was not to do justice to them that I told the Hes. I intended them to be a tem- porary camouflage.
I suggest the whole statement was camoutinge? You can see the way how It was recorded. The lying part had one or two corrections, and this showed the state of my mind then.
His Lordship: But that statement
he whole argument could be reduced to this one sentence: "Was
of a conspiracy?"
the net
supOINTS
THR
The United States Treasury De- partment statement for April 27 re- veals that the total gold reserve totalled $11,781,200,018 which is above half of the entire supply of gold to the world's central banks and nearly $2,000,000,000 above European hoards combined-United Press.
His Lordship sald he would put the following three points to the jury: (1) if they believed sccused and To went and killed the woman, they it would be
be murder: (2) 1 found that they combined to get the TELLS OF HORROR AT
it documents at any cost, prepared,
violence and necessary, to
to use Bed the woman, in that violence To accused would be guilty of murder and (3) if they accepted the story of accused in its entirety, then accused would not be guilty.
The jury then returned to Court and Mr. Williams began his
GUERNICA
(Continued from Page 1.)
ment will be able to consider what assistance it can render.
The stalement that the British Navy Anal will assist in the cvacuation
described as premature.
was not written by you?-No,4t was address, a suggested, in the course of |
at my dictation.
Do you suggest that your fear and horror transmitted from you to the Interpreter-No.
A DENIAL
In answer to further questions, accused denied that the plot between himself and Το was to get rid not unly of the documents but also of the woman.
Re-examined by his counsel, Chiu stated that his idea of keeping the jewellery was to prevent To from
Counser
It is known that negotiations be- General Franco and the
his speech, that the whole story for tween "fire" proceeding. Reuter
FORMAL APPROVAL
the demand of $500 was a compicta Basques fabrication. I stood to reason, he Special. submitted, that prisoner must have
London, Apr. 30. considered that it would be no good
Sir John Simon, In a letter, grants to get the documents alone, but to
well.
formal Government approval for get the woman as.
There was no eye-witness as to the evacuation of the children of no 110 what actually happened on the floor, Bilbao. But he stipulates that
but his story more children than the relief workers care for shall be apart from accused, was such that it was beyond belief. have funds to
"How could any one believe," said evacuated. The Committee is pre- children repatriate the do pared to anything when he saw the woman being treated by To in the manner which he has described? Could you imagine that he just stood there do ing nothing, if his purpose was only to make the
running away. As soon as the body Couregi "that accused did not do ventually. It is understood. was disposed of, he intended to hand them back to To.
woman insensioit
This concluded the case for the defence, and the Jury was asked to leave the Court for counsel to argue the question of law of whether o not two persons setting out to com-order to get back the documents? I mit a felony and in the course of cannot imagine that such a thing did commiting it one of them committed
happen."
Counsel then went on to say that
a murder, the other guilty for the crime,
was just 5
Mr. Williams submitted that the which To and accused agreed affonice
commit
stupefying - applying
10
smoke-was
a felony which neces involved violence.
sarily invo
Under the
circumstances, if one of them killed
a person, in the course of commit-
ting
such a felony, the other was
equally guilty of murder.
His Lordship remarked that, ac- cording to accused's story, he had been assured that the drug was harmless. and. therefore, if the Jury accepted his evidence in its en- tirety, he had no intent of committing a felony which necessarily involved violence.
Mr. Williams replied "list" the fact that they intended to rob the woman that of
showed the documents
violence was involved.
1.
DEFENCE POINT Mr. D'Almada opened his argu
of twe illustration ments with an men setting out to commit a felony. the one carrying gun without
the other. If, in the knowledge of
of committing
that felony. course of the one armed with the gun killed man,
the other should not be hel equally guilty, he submitted. "Thre must be common intent. The true proposition of law was that whore several persons were engaged in a common design and another person,
killed by one of them, the other were guilty of murder if the com- mon design was murder or to inflict violence.
said Mr. In the present case, D'Almada, there never had been ans of accused. 1 design on the part commit felonious violence on the wo- man. He had been assured the drug that harmless. Technically
but
was
was would have been a felony, www where was the violence? The neces- sary Ingredient to murder was intent, and if his story, that no violence was intended, were to be accepted, he should be found not guilty. There must be some evidence from which
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