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law. Every nation desires to see justice dove. An arrangement should there- fore not be beyond the bounds of possibility. Justice is greater than nationality,
Quite a lot of mild, excitement is noticeable in certain quarters owing to
THE
TRUNK TRAGEDY.
ADSETTS' ARREST.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1907.
us photographs of Adsetts and BLUEJACKETS AND CHINESE.
a woman identified here as Gertrude Dayton,
Excitement at Canton,
(From Our Correspondent.)
CANTON, August 17.
Escape from Gaol. "Adsetts was placed in the lockup of the Consulate, and yesterday, taken from to-day's. "Kwok Sz
The following is a transition of an -- account of the trouble that I reported
at 7 pm. escaped by climb-Po."
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General Memoranda.
WEDNESDAY, August 21:
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toward the earth at the rate of millions of miles a day, though it had, as from,
.
(From Our Special Correspondent.)
CHEFOO, August 16 As briefly announced in previous telegram the accused
་
Ab about one o'clock on the night of the
of this Moon, five Nuropeans, while
window. He ran towards the walking along the Po Shu Street in Honam, get a policeman who was keeping East Beach and entered his watch in that section. The Europeans ut old house, the Bohemian Bar, first laughed and sailed at the policeman, but afterwards they proceeded so far as to and obtained clothing,
Assault lilin.
Consul Fowler signalled for a
The policeman was hurt and fell down on the ground, being unable to get up. "
pistol, but he held it fast and did not let it go.
section heard the trouble and immediately
Daniel, of Princeton University, USA., Home months ago. According to calman Adsetts arrived here from landing party, and a detach-The Europeans then tried to seize his culations the star with a tail is coming Shanghai on the 14th instantment of men was at once sent
on the steamer Hsinming. The from the American warship Fortunately a policeman in another Last zuensurerent, 130 millions to travel steamer reached the port at Galveston. Police and men-of-blow his whistle for, nasistance. For Home considerable time not a single policeman warsmen searched the town me to his help. By that time a great HONGKONG, GITORDAY, AUDUNst 17, 1907, before it can bump this oblate spheroid. 5 o'clock in the morning and
There is not muchcbance of a collision, shortly afterwards Adsetts until 10.30 p.m. and then his many of the people near by were roused though, the byways of the firmament are well supplied with finger posts and
original captors, Constables Mr Comet is not likely to miss the road.
Bellew and Milbank came across
EXTRADITION.
landed,
Visiting the Bars. Upon getting ashore Adsetts the fugitive hiding in a Chinese secured by the decision of the English people understand thoroughly the rela-proceeded direct to the Beach laundry behind the Russian
ALTHOUGH doubtless good law it can bardly be contended that good justice
is
Courta, quoted yesterday, that a British subject having committed a crime on foreign soil could not be extradited if
he sought sanctuary in British territory,
China is a country of pageants. Its
tion of the strikingly spectacular to
abiding mental impressions. As in Hotel, and shortly afterwards Consulate. medieval Europe the populace locked visited the Glenview Bar, where
to witness the miracle plays which in he was first seen af & a.m
the earlier stages of development were
On the Galveston.
trow sleep, and they gathered round and mado a noisy clamour.
-At last a gang of over ton policemen war sont out by the No. 3 Police Station. But the Europeans bad made off to the river water, One of them was a fat man who could
Trout and escaped by jumping into the
hot swim to any long distance. He there. fore, swain to some secluded place and got ahora A certain shopman saw him and
policeman who took him to the Police Station.
The police had not much difht him. He was handed over to a primitive and crude, so in Chian to- He remained at this hostelry ficulty in effecting an arrest When he got to the Station he made a Of the legal aspect we are, of course, day, The play's the thing," and most of the time that he had this time, and it was deemed very great noise there. He was tried by not qualified to speak. Law, as every-the spectacular asserts and maintains one koowa, is not always synonymous the strongest away.
What is now
with justice. Law is a growth of years, at first crude but gradually winning its
bis freedom, occasionally visit-safer by all concerned to have Throughout the prisoner placed on board the taking place in the streets of Canton, and ing other bars.
Police Offices Ma and was afterwards given
to the custody of a certain Customs officer.
It is said that he has since been relensed.
A report has been nude to the Central
probably also in other cities, markets the day he was drinking Galveston. He is now confined Police Department and an investigation
and conditions of the population revel in the show, and probably many are confirmed in their resolve to aid in stamping out opium smoking. The anti-opium processions of living figures
The Arrest.
During the day the authori- ties received information from
Shanghai that the man wanted
there under guard, pending the is now being made into the trouble.
receipt of instructions to the, Consul from Washingtou.
Reward at Shanghai. Shanghai papers of August 12 (Monday
reward for the capture of Adsetts.
CORRESPONDENCE,
THE TRUNK TRAGEDY.
(To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL.). Sm-Referring to the article in your
for the Hongkong murder was last contain advertisements entering 2000 issue of the lath, iar gard to the ex-
on the Hsinming, and a warrant
bolted,
A CITY IN PERIL
Gront Disaster Averted.
"Calzwdiythat_would have had no parallel
subterranean lakes and caverns 14
fner Amaviran.. warrant, ie.. by someone
and villages, illustrates the power of the way towards perfection. The process
pageant. The anti-opium societies have heavily. is, however, vary gradual.
We are
organised processions, the object of justly proud of British jurisprudence which are to stir the spectators to but candour forces us to admit that it united, determined, persistent opposi still leaves much to be desired. The tion to the use of the drug. All classes decision quoted above is a case in point, Ex-Fundamentally law is designed for the punishment cf crime and the protection
tradition of Adsetts, the alleged murderer, the matter rests on the question as to of ecciety. It is an extremely parochial
whether anyone has a right to arrest a and indefensible' view to hold that in bearing illustrative objects is one of the charging him with murder was
criminal in a Treaty Port of China, China. cegard to a crime committed in territory more recent features of the present at once taken out at the Ameri-
has relinquished jurisdiction, within her" boundaries, over foreignors, of the principal marked brown on the map a criminal movement against opium in China. Such
processions indicate on the part of those can Consulate, police officers
powers. The only one who cars arrest a MINNEAPOLIS, July 6. should be protected from the con-who organise and take part in meantime being despatched to
For the last three years, unknown to ita British subject, is a representative of the British Goveinmont, or someone properly sequences of his act if he escapes to them a feeling that now pervades
citizens, the city of Minneapolis has been deputized by him for the purpose; in other scour the town. territory which, on the atlas, is coloured large masses of the population. There
in peril of annihilation. The City Eugi-words, subjects of the so-called "Treaty is to be a fight against the evil, and the ved. Seciety means, or should
With the warrant in their the character of the work that has been of their own national laws. As shown in neer's department to-day made known Powers" are under complete jurisdiction. mean,
brunt of the bettlo mill-ikäamén Zago, alia, vio, acted and agricultural
possession Constables Milbankingress for the purpose of preventing early despatches, Adsatts was arrested un country should be eager to punist classes. They will combine to zeep the and Bellew came upon Adsetts in history. The entire business portion properly deputized by the American Conect offerders against persor. or property field against the foe, and if leaders from about 3 p.m. and arrested him, of the city is built over a series of at Chefoo, and it now remains to be regardless of the nationality of the among the officials fail them they will offender. And, logically, it should be choose others from among themselves. Adsetts inmediately mysterious and baffling as the Mam determined whether the American Consul mtb Care of Kentucky ar Catacombs of has the right to deliver him up. The anxious to afford every assistance to the This is the meaning of what was seen running towards the Kaiping Rome. Tuto these dark caverns the waters Extradition Treaty between the two Gov- MEDICAL
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threatened the stability of the support upon his rihts under this Treaty. It is Guaranteed to contain 20 per country where laws in regard to person rounds. The show was intended to stir
He had scarcely covered one made by the
which the city is built. An invesli
investigation and property have been riolated.
We the imagination and it cannot be said to hundred yards when he spramed under ducted which showed that the poril fugitives on extradition, without authority designedly confine
our attention to have failed of its purpose. We borrow his ankle and was caught by utters affecting life and property. the following description of a procession
from an eye-witness: Headed by a his pursuers. There are domestic laws in many countries the violation of which is noted a scroll-the Emperor's mandate pavilion, inside which was represent-
so that burglars might have worken ng. any question of asylum eu a man-of-war' an offence under British law. It would against opium-the figures that follow-
detected and bored directly into the euters into the problem at all. The man When returning towards the had taken place underneath the Andrus for want of a more secure place, there treasure raults, Another great washout is merely confined on the Galveston be ridiculous, for instance, to surrendered were a beggar of the most forlorn and
of tallest structures in a Britisher to the Chinese Governmerit wretched type, and bemoaning his Consulate Adsetts suddenly then and directly beenth Hicolet boing no American gol in Chefoco. It is
city because he watched the Chinese fallen helpless state. Then a scene to wrenched himself from the grip Avenue, the thoroughfare of which Min- probable that the man may love boen Guaranteed to contain 5 per Emperor waking a formal journey who wastes the substanco aéquired by illustrate the opium-smoking prodigal
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Hongkong, August 17.
PERILS OF THE SEA.
An Oil Steamer in Trouble.
Information has been received locally. that the steamer City of Cathay has met with disaster on her maiden voyago from Philadelphia to Kobe with oil,
The Wils Lost. Mesars Jobsen and Co. to-day received a cable from Kobe stating that the steamer Surgeon-Lieut. C. Forsyth has beon Wik ran ashon somewhere on the Japan promoted Surgeon-Captain in the Hong-coast and land become a total loss. Tho Wil was coming to Hongkong and is thought eq hava grounded between Yoko- hama and Kobe.
on exterritoriality appeared yester garthian. The Rake's Progress was J. Fowler, the Consul-General, day. But the authorities mainly not more powerfully depicted that the still in an unconscious condition, kong Volunteer Corps. concern themselves, with the law as it Opium Sots descent to A vermus. T The is-ùot ne, in our bumbio opinion, it Chinese artists knew what they were Incriminating Evidence. Captain Hardy, H. M. S. Fantome, ought to be, We realise, however, that drawing, and none could, gainsay the moral of the picture. Now that the immense dificulties would have to be time has come to appeal from the overcome before it would be possible to
vantage ground of an Imperial Edict,
The Fido in Trouble. Wo understand that a cable reached the Colony to-day stating that the Norwegian steamer Fido carrying phosphates to Anatralia has gone ashore.
reports the existence of a sand bank with In the presence of the Ameri-four fathoms thereon in latitude 11, 30 S, can and British Consuls
longitude 123 68 E. establish full reciprocity. The punish living pictures are called in to aid the
Adsetts was searched, and on his person O Sanday afternoon, weather per mitting, the Bohemian Ladies' and Gentle ment for crime differs in every country moraliste who lift their volcoe stronu was found a large quantity of men String Band will play a programme and it would be necessary for the only against the popular vice. They feminine jewellery, amongst the of music at the Belle View Hotel.
Captain S. O. Boyd, R.GA, Icit per punishmaata to ho brought into will carry the people with them and collection being a gold watch in-
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