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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS'

AND SURVEYORS.

-Public Auctions-

TELS Undersigned, have received lusteno- tions to sell by Public Auction,

04 - 1

MONDAY, May 23, 1921.

commencing at 10.30 am

at the Premises of the China Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. LÒWD,

The Flant of the above mentioned Company. Comprising all the Machinery, Tools, Spares, etc.

(To be put up in one Lot. Should the property be not disposed of in this manner, the plant will be sold pieceres).

Terms: Cash on delivery.

N. B. Interling purchasers, cas

travel by the train leaving Kowloon. at

9.15 am and can return by the train

leaving Sum Chuen at 1140 am.

Inspection orders my be had en application to the undersigned.

LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.

Hongkong, April 27. 1921

BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES

MESSIS LAMMENT BROS, are

instructed to sell

..

the S. 8. "KAM MA,"

as she now lies in the Typhoon Refoge, st YAUMATI

by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

ウユ

THURSDAY,

the 26th day of May, 1921, at pa IN ONE LOT

at their Auction Rooms in Duddel

Street.

The Stip is a Wooden ship of ap- proximately 1800 tona capacity with accommodation for about 800 Chinese Passengers now rearing completion. For particulars to view apply to Messrs. LAMMERT BROS, the Auctioneers.

For further particulars

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& MASTER Solicitors, &c, Hongkong, Ox: to

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ROMANCES OF CRIME.

AMAZING DRAMAS OF TAX

COURTS.

MULDER IN THE PUP FRINCESSE,

An Ex-Official of Scotland Yard, writes in Reynolds Newspaper :-

Paris claims to have the cleverest detective force in the world; and cer- tainly many of its feats of detection. of which the following is a good specimen, have never been earpassed. probably never equalled in the gals of

crime.

large feet. There was thus no shadow of doubt that the murdered man was Madame's nephew, Desiré Bodasse of the Rue Dauphine.

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to

interview the concierge of the house to which the courtyard containing the well was attached, from whom be learnt that, among her past lodgers, was a seathstress, a Malle. Dard, THE EXPERT IS PLEASED. who had since gone ba the variety. M. Macé had good canse to pat She worked for half a dozen himself on the back, for he had now people." the old woman informed established the identity of the re- M. Macé. who used to bring the mains, and had also learned much of things to her. One man in particular Bodasse's friend Vorbo, who, he had j came often, and I had fine work with good reason to think, was his mur him. He used to spill the water an derer. From the Morgue he now my stair-the water he carried up went with Madame Bodasse

Bodasse's apartment in the Kae for her from the well,"

Highly pleased with this informa- Dauphine, only to find that it was tion, which tonfirmed his suspicions locked, and that no one appeared in of the man-tailor. M. Macé next made answer to his repeated knocking and Some years ago Paris was thrown incurias at a cheminte shop opposite inquiry. The concierge, however, de- into a state of excitement and alarm the house, and learned from an assist-clared his belief that A. Dodasse was by the discovery of human remains ant that the water-carrying tailor at home. "I saw him this morning in various parts of the city. Now was a man whose Christian name was in the street," he said, "and there it was a thigh-bone picked up in the!"Pierre," and who lived in the Rue was a light in his room last night. He gutter of the Rae Jacob: now, morsels Mazarin. This, and the fact that he frequently shuts himself up for days of human flesh fished out of the Seine frequently brought white waistcoats at a time and refuses to be distarb and the St. Martin Canal; and again, to be made up by Mdle. Dard, was ed." part of a leg, wrapped up in a shawi, all he knew of him. "It was not long, found on the banks of the blame however, before M. Macé had dis- to Mr. Macé; for, if Bodasse was And the climax of this sequence of covered the ex-seamstress, a pretty really alive, all his conclusions mysterious torrors came, with a little madcap, who willingly gave and suspicions were upset. How- ever, refusing to be discouraged, he gruesome discovery in the courtyard him all the information he sought. of a small restaurant

The man who had carried up water next paid a visit to Voirbo's old ad- in the Rue

for her in the Rae Princesse was, she dress in the Rue Mazarin, where he 'Princesse.・・ 2

was told that the man he sought was In a well in the courtyard were said, a Monsieur Youtho, who was found two packages, one of which now living in the Rue Mazarin. He now living in the Rue Lamartine. contained, a human leg. wapped up was a bit of a ne'er-do-well, who spent From his old servant he learned that in a cotb. In the other, which much of his time in drinking, card be 'was a man of dissipated habits, had recently married was ef black, glazed calico, was an playing, and visiting cafes, and who who other leg, encared in a long stocking always seemed to have plenty of a girl with a good dowry. "Yes," of pale drab cotton, over which had

been stitched a fragment of a sock,

bearing the following mark: +B+It

agreed.

This information was a serious blow

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M. Mace's next step was to inter- day before the ceremony," Voirbo room M. Macé found that's secten the frouble to wash the floor.

VOIRBO B DEFER.

M. Mace, now satisfied of Voirbo's

money. His chief friend was a mean- said the servant, in answer to the in the room on fifteen occasions an cofresponded looking little old man whom he called detective's questions. He had a assumption which was confirmed by list of Bodasse's securities Desire," or "Pere. Desire." "I friend called Dears: Bodasse. They the concierge, who said that he had found in his room. Yourbo's old saw this man last about a month ago were very intimate and yet Bodsese noticed a light in the rooth just fifteen servant also volunteered a stafeinent was clear that a murder of a parti onlarly atrocious character had been at a cafe with Voirbo," she added was not present at Voirbo's wedding times during the past six weeks, from that, when she arrived at his apart committed; and its solution was There, was a woman with them a circumstance which caused the 8 to 11 pm-precisely the time one ment early in the morning of the 17th

Madame latter to may, in her hearing The the of candles would burn.

of December, to her astonishment she- entrusted to M-Macé, a young police. Pere Desire's dant, a commiseary who had already made Bodasse, who lives in the Rue des poor fool! I wished him to be my

found her master ready-up and a great reputation as a detective of Nestes, and earns her living by mak principal witness; but he has chosen

On examining the contents of the dressed and the room swept ont and cnusual and almost uncanny skill ing bandages."

garnished "He had actually," she said, Medical experts on examining the

drawer in a bureau had been opened remains declared that they were those view Madame Bodasse, who, in an- really hated his friend, obe added. It was of this drawer, Madame which was still wet. of a woman, and that they had pro-swer to his inquies, said, "But, yes, because he refused, his request for Bodasse fold the detective, that her bably been in the well about a month; I have a nephew Desiré Bodasse, a loan of 10,000 francs to help him nephew had more than once said to but with this verdict T. Tardien, the an eccentric and miserly man who towards his marriage." greatest medicolegist in France, dis lives in the Rae Dauphine on a small- This information was highly satiser, If anything happens to me guilt, before arresting hirs, decided you will find all my papers and value to interview him; and with this object These remains," he said, private income. I have not seen factory to 3. Macé as farishing a bies in there.. I keep them in an old sent him a courteous invitation to are those of a man advanced in him for about a month. But no, I mutive for the crime, bet, before green pocket-book. This pocket call at his office which he years. The instrument used for disan not at all anxious about him, for proceeding farther it was necessary ook was gone

innocently accepted. He proved to be memberment was a cleaver or chopper, he often disappears for weeks to to establish whether Bodasse was, or Was it not possible, the idea formed a short young man, with a round face, and the work has been done skilfully, gether Yer, we were quite good was not still alive Returning to itself in M. Mace's mind, that Bodasse black hair and moustache, and a gener Accepting this decision, M. Mace at friends. The last time saw him No. 50, Rue Dauphine in company had been killed; that his murder had al appearance of energy and strength. to work to solve one of the most was ou Sunday, December 13, when with Madame Rodasse, the lock was then proceeded to his apartment and When, in the course of conversation, baffling, probletus ever presented to Idined with him and his friend Pierre Food and an entry made into the stolen, his papers and valuables; and Bodesse's disappearance was mention- a detective, the only clues to which Voirbo. What was Voirbo like apartment, which he found in perfect then to avert suspicion, had visited ed, Vorbo professed great anxiety were the mysterious mark, and the Well, he was a short man, who usually order. The bed, however, had not the room at intervals, and lit the about him. In fact, he said, “I buct that the victim was an elderly wore an overcoat and a tail hat been slept in, and there was a layer candies, so as to give the impression an so uneasy about my dear When M. Mace next took Madame of dust on the furniture, thus sug-that Bodasse was still alive nad old friend that I was THE SILICH OF A MAN TAILOR. to the Morgue she at once identified geating that the room had not been occupying his apartment. He was not long, however, in dis- the stockings and socks as having occupied for some days

It now became necessary, covering mother and a valuable clue, | belonged to her beptrew the her On the four were the charged ends ladies possible, tajni Tombo's for to his keen eyes the glazed calico self, she declared, had marked, the of seventeen matches, and on the movements after Bodase's Cover of one of the parcels, the peculi socks with the "B" between two mantelpiece were two candic azly knotted, ends, and the zitching crosses in red cotton, and she had one e empty, the other with black cotton pointed to the joined the socks to the stockings, so single ndia cias the bares handiwork of a man-tailor. Follow Desies was chilly and could not easily contained sixteen candles, it was fait to semme that there had been a light ing up this clue, be proceded to find long stockings that would fit his

man

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about to call on you to discuss the matter when I received your invita hom to call on you. I hope you will allow me, as the one who knew and loved him best to help you in solvi the mystery of his disappears

This offer

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