1927-07-18 — Page 7

MONDAY, JULY 18, 1927.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

CAPTAIN COURTNEY'S TRIAL TRIJ.

LONDON CRASH.

BUILDING OFF REGENT ST. COLLAPSES.

MAN AND WOMAN KILLED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SACCO & VANZETTI. by a friend a few days before the

HISTORY OF THE 7-YEAR-OLD CRIME.

SEEKING THRILL.

BIG GAME WITH BOW AND ARROWS,

WOMAN EXPLORER'S PLAN,

trial that the accused, were thought to be innocent, replied, "Dama | them, they ought to hang anyway."

That appears to have been

tho opinion of the Judge and the pro- secutor also, and that opinion seems LONG POSTPONED SENTENCE to have been maintained to the end - DEPARTURE THIS WEEK?

by the Supreme Court of Mass sachusetts. London, July 16,

It is now just over seven years

To seek relief from the boredom Rugby, July 17. The date of departure from While the lower storeys of build- since a crime was committed for from start to finish has now been teus," Dr. Cora F. Best, of Minnes

The injustice of the whole cade of bridge parties and afternoon in A side atreet off Regent England of Captain Courtney, on linge his attempt to fly to New York Street were being reconditioned, which two Italians, Saeco and fully exposed in a small book by polis, salted aboard the "Empress of Professor Felix Frankfurter, of Russia" to hunt wild boars in Man- and back, is indefinite. but he the premises collapsed and a num- Vanzetti, are sentenced to be exe-Harvard University, He is Profes- churia with bow and arrows, now hopes to leave at the end of ber of persons were buried undercuted on July 10 next. The crime far of Administrative Law in the Dr. Best has had an extraordin-

the ruins. next week. He made a trial trip Several were injured and one wo at Calshot near Southampton yes-man and one man were killed. terday afternoon, to test the en- Owing to the disturbance caused gine.

to an adjoining house it was found The machine is a Dornier necessary to demolish British Sapler, whale flying boat, and Wireless Service,

itself was simple.

Low Department there, and during ary career. She has practised has published 'n át 3 pm, on April 15, 1920, two the war was Assistant Secretary medicine. She men, named Parmentar and Frar-1 for War in Washington. His mind volume of poems and works of 'n delli, employed by a shoe factory has been trained in law, and he is scientific nature. She has climbed in South Braintree, Massachusetts, neither a Communist nor a pacifist. some of the most formidable moun- were driving down the main street Yet his treatise is a conclusive tains in the world, breaking moun- condemnation of the methods by taineering records on Mount Rob from the firm's office to the factors which the accused, whether guilty son several years ago. She has with two boxes containing wages

hunted Kodiak Island grizzlies, and mounting to nearly £4,000, when innocent, were tried and con- tigers in the tropics. And she in touch with passing vessels IN THE DOCKYARD. they were shot dead by two men demned to death.

started that crusade against the The main issue in the case was house cat as a destroyer of bird who at once sprang into a car with while crossing the Atlantic.-Bri-

several other men and were driven the question of identity, and Pro-life and as a menace to child life rapidly away, taking the pay-boxes fessor Frankfurter shows how through its disease-carrying pre-| with them. Two days afterwards wretched the evidence for the pro-. pensities.

since its arrival at Calshot has been fitted with. a wireless instal-

lation, which will enable it to keep

Lish Wireless Service..

American Aviators.

Washington, July 16.

+

CHINESE FINED FOR TRESPASS.

Chinese watchman.

from it.

that car was found abandoned in secution was upon that point. In And now Dr. Beat is crossing the It is announced that Lieutenant

the woods, but there were tracks the first place, the defence had 99 Pacific on a journey that will take Noville, as well as Commander A coolie was this morning charge of a smaller car. leading away witnesses to disprove identity na her thousands of miles away from Byrd will be recommended fored before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with

against 50 for the rosecution. In home to the most remote regions of trespass at the Naval Dockyard on! the Distinguished Flying Cross.

There had been a similar hold the second place, the evidence of Manchuria to shoot wild boars with Saturday morning. Mr. Davis Wilbur is on his way The accused's story was that he " in the neighbouring town of the eye-witnesses of the crime was bow and arrow.

Bridge-water, and the chief of hopelessly uncertain and confused, There are two reasons-she was to New York to greet the airmen went there to look for work and did police there suspected an Italian, as was likely when the sight Insted bored by a recent interlude of on their return. Reuter's Amer-not know it was unlawful to enter named Bods, who had put his car only two or three seconde, under bridge and tea parties and could ican Service.

the place without a pass. When Friendly Warning. the No. 1 to whom he applied for into a garage for repairs. Twenty the influence of surprise and per- not resist the urge to seek adven-

ture once more: and she could not. Washington, July 17.

work told him that he was not days after the Braintree crime Boda sonai terror.

about to called for his car with three other.

Fine Defence.

bear to hear of other people bag-| A friendly warning to airmen allowed there, he was

Italiana. The car was reported as

ging big game with bow and arrows' fying across ocean to be care-ave when he was arrested by

"not being ready, and Boda disap-fact that one of the witnesses at self.

Worst of all, to my mind, is the without trying it, at least once, her- ful with regard to broadcast- | The watchman said he found the peared upon a motor-cycle and was least was called to identify one of She chose Manchuria because she ing S. O. S. calls was given by accused loitering near the latrine,j not heard ́of again.

the accused nots among a lot of has never been there before and Mr. Wilbur, Secretary for the and when he saw witness accused! One of the other three Italian other men but when the man was wants a few specimens of the Man- the result of distress inside. The witness followed proved that he had been at work brought alone before her into an churian snow tiger for her collec- Navy as signals sent out by Smith and and arrested accused as he was on the days of both crimes. The empty room. Of course she identition of big game trophies. But Bronte. Mr. Wilbur pointed out getting out of the other entrance other two Italians were Sacro, who fed him as the man she had seen. she will not hunt the snow tiger that, a number of vessels of the The chase disturbed eight or nine had been a steady worker in a shoe

But the evidence on this point with bow and arrows. The wild United States Navy, as well as men who were gambling in the factory but had taken a day off

was so flimsy that even Judge boar, she thinks, is quite wild Pacific liners, responded to the latrine and they all dashed out. the day of the Braintree crime, and Thayer abandoned it. He went on enough for that sort of diversion.

This led the witness to suspect that, Vanzetti, a fish pedlar in Plymouth to Iny chief stress upon "concious- Dr. Best is serompanied by Mrs. call of the airmen, who as they the accused was posted outside as Mass, and his own employer. They ness of guilt," by which he meant Audrey Fourfar Shippan, lecturer! discovered subsequently, were in a scout for the gamblers. When were arrested in a tram as they the behaviour of the accused after no immediate danger.-Reuter's American Service.

Airmen Safe.

Honolulu, July 16. The aviator Smith and Bronte, rien into police custody. the navigator, were brought here. Sergt. Coles of the Dockyard

Pullee toid the Magistrate that all;

in an Army aeroplane.-Reuter's

American Service.

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New York, July 17. The Shipping Hoard will short-

ly investigate the possibilities of

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The plan will probably be tried first from the "Leviathan." Reuter's American Service.

MORE 'QUAKES.

YET ANOTHER SCARE FOR

PALESTINE.

Jerusalem, July 17.

PODOLSKY AND MIROVA COMING.

M.

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be searched the accused, however, went away, and their trial began the murder. As a matter of fact, The did not have a pass which was in May. 1921. Fissured to all coolies working in the were condemned to death.

On July 14 they between the time of the murder and their arrest both men went about

Little Courage Needed. Dockyard. Accused was then

their work as usual. They did notį "Twisted Evidence."

One might reasonably expect wo- hide. They did not abscond with men who could set forth on such an From the first it was held by "the swag" (no money was ever idventure to be of the big, strong, workmen had asses. Casual work many in America that the nerused found upon them), and they made maanish and manifestly courageous- ers were admitted at 7 am, and had not been given a fair trial no attempt to escape.

looking type. But neither is that. When arrested they thought it Rather are they small in stature, those ha secured work were given From the first it was asserted that passes while others were collected the Judge, Mr. Webster Thayer, hnd was on a charge of Socialism, and quiet, low-voiced and essentially and again marched out of the gate shown himself violently prejudiced because they were Socialists they feminine in appearance and man- Somehow the accused had manag-against them, and that the District carried "guns" (revalvers), know ner.

Attorney. who prosecuted, had ing the violently hostile feeling! In none of their adventurous ex- an iliary acroplane service to to dodge the police.

The Magistrate imposed a fine of wilfully twisted the evidence from against Socialists at the time. It ploits have the two women had the expedite the landing of passen-

even was in attempting to establish protection of their husbands. Mrs. gers and mails to and from ships. or, in default, seven days' hard its natural meaning and

suborned at least one important"consciousness of guilt that the Best insists on leading her expedi Such a service is being discussedar.

witness by an arrangement before prosecution over-stepped the limits tions alone, whether they between Commander Byrd, Chan-

his evidence was given, Petitions of evidence and justice by raising scale some difficult mountain peak berlin and Commotiore Harley of

were signed by men of high posi- hostile atmosphere against the or to hunt the fierce creatures the "Leviathan" en route to New TALENTED COUPLE. tion in the law and public service. accused as being Sociallats. Com- tropical jungles,

Appeal followed-appeal. But-on-munists and shirkers of military tish Columbia, not long ago, Dr. On her Just hunting_trip in Bri- April 9 last, the Supreme Court of service. Massachusetts refused to grant the

Best returned from the wilds to Sacco answered in his broken Prince Rupert with two grizzlies, final appeal for a new trial, and English with a fine defence that three black bear and consequently, the two

one brown men Professor Frankfurter quotes. Leo Podolsky and Vera Mirova, will at last be executed on the 10th I could see the said) the best the talented couple who delighted of July, unless the Governor of men. intelligent, education, they much courage to ince grizzlies or Hong Kong audiences a few Massachusetts intervenes to prohibeen arrested and sent to prison tigers with a good gun in one's years ago. will be back in the hit the execution. One might and died in prison for years and hands-or even to hunt wild boars Colony early next month and will have thought that an execution years without getting them out, and in Manchuria with bow and arrows. appear at the Queen's Theatre on suyen years after the alleged Dehs, one of the great men in his "It takes no particular courage," the evening of August 8.

crime would be impossible on the country, he is in prison, still away she contended in the course of a Podolsky is a pianist of the first ground of common humanity, es- in prison, because he is a Socialist. chat with "The Colonist," before

pecially as the accused have been Two slight earthquakes were order and MMe. Alirova an accom-in prison all the time. But such We no want fight by the gun, the "Ruesta" sailed. "It really re- felt in the morning. There was plished dancer.

considerations appear not to count and we don't want to destroy young quires as much courage to cross 4 men. The mother been suffering traffic-crowded street in any big no damage. Reuter,

Before leaving the East, in American law.

for building the young, man... city, Two Years' Work Ahead. Podolsky was offered a professor-In estimating the justice or in-I have been working with the Ger- Dr. Best is an implacable enemy Jerusalem, July 16. ship in the Imperial Academy of justice of the trial and sentence man fellow, with the French, many of domestic cats-not because she It is officially stated that the music in Tokyo, but declined it one must recall the state of mind other peoples. I love them people but, because of what they are--des- dislikes them personally, so to speak, earthquake resulted in 192 deaths because of his wish to return to then prevailing. I was in New just as I could love my wife, and in Palestine, 68. in Trans-Europe, After eight years' ab-York at the date of the murder and my people for that did receive me troyers of bird life and carriers of Jordania and nearly a thousand sence, he returned to Berlin in for some weeks afterwards (writes Why should I go kill them men? disease, germs. She quotes her other casualties in both terri- October, 1922. to fill a professor-Henry W. Nevinson in the "Man What he done to me?

husband, professor of pediatrics at He never the Chicago Medical Institute, as tories.

ship at the Neues Konservatorium cheater Guardian"). It was a time of

done anything, so I don't believe in saying: "When I win Half of Ramleh and Lydda and (fur Musik. As the unsettled con-munism, and even about what extraordinary panic about Com-

my fight a third of Nablus must be rebuilt. ditions of the reconstruction Americans call "Radicalism," which part of the evidence against the America." And Dr. Best says she But perhaps the most shameful against the household cat, I'll win

the fight to save the children Two years will be required to period matte residence there not we might translate "left-wing repair the havoc. A general entirely enjoyable, he eventually Liberalism," or perhaps "gradual accused was the prearrangement agrees with her husband in this re- relief fund has been opened.-save up this connection, and after Socialism. The Attorney-General of Captain Proctor's statement that

Lard Reuter,

a four months' visit with his old of the Department of Justice in was "consistent with" its having take will be used solely for the a bullet found in one of the bodies The pictures Mrs. Shippan will teacher, Lalewicz, in Buenos Washington had lately instituted a been fired from Sacco's pistol. pleasure of the two adventurers and Ares, South America, he made a violent campaign for the wholesale Upon appeal both Captain Proctor. for educational purposes. ALLEGED BRIBERY. recital tour through Germany, arrest and deportation of "Reds,"

Holland, Belgium, France, and and the campaign was being car-who was Chief of the State Police, had never tried to make one cent Spain. In the course of his four ried on with brutality and lawless- and the District Attorney, who out of the 15,000 feet of moving pic. this ture film shot" on various expedi- prosecuted, admitted that through Spain, it was his honour ress.

To anyone suspected of "Radi-Yague answer had been arranged tions, they said. Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared. be- to appear before the King and calism" it was a reign of terror. between them before the trial be- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morn-Queen of that country. The criti- very early in May (I think on the n ing to defend two Chinese charged cal notices of his recitals. unani- 3rd) a New York "Radical" an Syd Placer In Cell, with offering a bribe to a constable. mously accorded him a place acquaintance of Sacco and Van- It is also significant that a spy On the application of Sub-Inspector among the world's great pianist. zetti, named Salsedo was found was placed in a cell close to Lane, his Worship gave a week's Upon going to America in the dashed to pieces on the pavement Sacco's in the hope of entangling COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED formal remand.

fall of 1926, Mme. Mirova was at the foot of New York sky-him unawares, and that another Replying to Mr. Russ applien- immediately engaged by Artolph scraper, in which he had been "held prisoner named Madeiros. more tion for ball, Mr. Lindsell said that Bolm as a guest-artist for a series incomunicado" (shut off from all than five years after the murders as the money involved was $670, mil would have to be very sub-of dance productions in Chicago, Intercourse), and it was doubtful being in a cell near Sacco and pity- stantial, and accordingly fixed it in beginning in October of 1926, Her Whether he had been thrown out in the sight of Succo's wife and the sum of $10,000 each.

success was so pronounced that by the police or had been driven to child, wrote a confession that he What A Nurse."

suicide by the torture of the "third himself had been concerned in the she was re-engaged for a second

degree."

Everyone of advanced murders, and that neither Sacco tion Seckers." series, beinning in December. On political views lived in fear of a now Vanzetti had anything to do November 14, Mme. Mirova had similar fate, and foreigners were with them.

TWO CHINESE CHARGED.

LITTLE GIRL'S FALL..

no war.

A 6-year-old Chinese girl is now the honour of dancing for Her especially suspected, for the wave Following up that confession, in the Government Civil Hospital in Majesty, the Quen of Roumanin. of militarist patriotism still ran Professor Franfurter goes on to

serious condition as the result of After completing these engage- high as a result of the war. falling from the fifth floor verandah ments, Mme. Mirova began a tour

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July 18—-Queen's Theatre; ""ON

July 18-World Theatre; "Sensa-

July 18-Ster Theatre, Kowloon; "Black Cyclone."

July 18 Ten Dance Cafe Res taurant Partslen, 4.30 p.m.

July 18-Isako's Circus, New Re- clamation Ground, Wanchai, 9.15

Lammert's Auctions. July 20-Miscellaneous goods, Sales Room, 11 a.m.

July 20-A valuable collection of curios, etc., Sales Room, Duddell St.. 2.30 p.m.

July 20-About 2,000 postage stamps comprising Old China, Hong Kong, etc., at Sales Room, Duddell St., 5.15 p.m.

July 21-Household furniture, 205 Wanchai Road, 2,45 p.m.

Meetings. July 20-Meeting of Portuguese Co, of the H.K.D.C., at Club Lusi tano, 5.30 p.m.

prove that the murders were almost certainly committed by a profes- of her home No. 6 Tai Wong Street, of the largest American cities, in-

sional gang of bandits known as pm. East. She was attended 07 the eluding Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, But Sacco and Vanzetti were not the Morelli Gang, of which spot by Dr. L. S. Shin, and then Birmingham, and others; subse- only

extreme "Radicals:" they' Madeiros was a member. taken to the hospital in the bulance.

ant-quently embarking, in the sum- were foreigners and, what was As to Judge Thayer's prolonged mer of 1927, on the world tour worse, they were pacifists and had defence of his judgment in refus- with which she is now engaged.

succeeded in avoiding the conscrip- ing an appeal, Professor Frankfur- tion drafts. The feeling of the ter sums up with the words:- average citizen would run violently I assert with deep regret, but While motor ear No. 411 was

against them, and it was in self-without the slightest fear of dis- turning into Shanghal Street from the Mongkok Rond yesterday, it

Knocked down by a motor dast protection that they applied for proof, that certainly in modern opinion knocked down a 4-year-old Chinese truck in Shanghai Street; a Chinese Boda's car in the hope of getting times. Judge Thaver's

Communist standa unmatched, happily, for dis their Socialist boy who suddenly ran out from the yesterday taken to the Kwong, literature away in it. Their poli-crepancies between what the record foot path. Luckily the youngster Wah Hospital suffering from in- tical opinions, their nationality, discloses and what the opinion con- was knocked clear of the wheels juries to fa feet and mouth.

BOY KNOCKED DOWN.

and sufferett only slight injuries to his head. He was taken to

Kwong Wah Hospital.

the

Some unserviceable cordite will be burnt at Stonecutters Rife) Range on Tuesday morning, July 19.

Two cases of enteric fever (one British and one Chinese) were reported in the Colony over the week end.

POLAR CAKE

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or

and their pacifism had nothing veys. whatever to do with the question of After reading the evidence re- their participation In the murder, éorded in this book and the but both the prosecutor and the opinions forced upon the jury by July 21-Meeting of Scottish Co.. Judge dwelt neralstently upon the Judge and the District Attorney of the H.K.D.C. at Corps Head- those points, with the apparent in- I canalder that statement a very quarters: 5.30 p.m. tention, of working upon the con- moderate and restrained manner of July 29-Annual meeting of mem- servative, nationalist, and mill-putting the conclusion of every bers of the Peak Club, at the Club, tarist prejudices of a well-to-do fair-minded man. Yet, as things 0 p.m. Jury in a suburb of Boston.. stand, it is upon Judge Thayer's

Miscellaneots.

In this they were entirely suc- decision that Sacco and Vanzetti July 19-Staff of Prison Depart-i cessful. The foreman of the jury: are to be executed on. July 10, ment hold whist drive at Lane, a former chief of police, when told after seven years' imprisonment.

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