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VIRGINIA'S GIFT TO MIDDLE TEMPLE.

INTERESTING CEREMONY.

In the Parliament Chamber of

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QUACKS.

CORONER'S STRIC JRÉS IN SINGAPOR...

ACTION NEEDED.

SKYSCRAPER DRAMA

THREE MEN KILLED BY A CRAZED MAN.

AFFRAY IN LAWYER'S OFFICE.

The death at the Tan Tock Song Three deaths occurred as the the Middle Temple, bahind the an-of a Chinese who had, a few days lawyer's office, which has provid- Hospital, Singapore, on October 21 result of a murderous stray in a

elent hall where Sir Walter previous to, his admission to the ed New York with another "front- Raleigh and his contemporaries hospital, consumed a bottle of page sensation."

"medicine" which he had purchased used to dine a ceremony

According to-the-story pieced enacted recently which served to from a Japanese, was the subject together by the police a crazed recall the centuries-old link be-Hope

of an enquiry by the Coroner. man, obsessed with the idea that ho had been tricked in a petty Falkner, Singapore,

on real estate deal where the sum in tween the American State of November 1.

dispute was only £100, suddenly Virginia and the Middle Temple Medical evidence showed that the opened fire with a revolver during{ through the former's founder.

deceased, at the time of his admisa conference at his lawyer's office Last March the House of Dele-son to hospital, was suffering from in. Forty-Fourth Street on Septem

some form of corrosive poisoning ber 6. gates and the Senate of Virginia and the post mortem examination When he ran out of the office and; passed the following resolution:-confirmed this. The Government escaped a few moments later two

analyst reported that there was a men lay dead, and a third Whereas it has come to the know-small trace of

mercury in the wounded-so badly that he ledge of the General Assembly that

later. the library of the ancient Middle specimens he examined.

Оле In his statement to the Policeman's own lawyer; the other two

of the victims was Temple of the Inns of Court does not contain a set of the Official the Chinese stated that he was

were a real estate broker and his Reports of the Virginia Court of suffering from a stomach ache and legal advisor. Appeals, and that a set of the therefore bought a bottle of some

This strange crime is made even Reporta will be highly ap medicine from a Japanese who was more extraordinary by the fact preciated not only from the stand-selling the medicine on the street, that the lawyer in whose office it point of utility, but of sentiment, He drank the contents of the bot-occurred was found crushed if officially presented by the State tle there and then and at once col- the pavement nine storeys below of Virginia. Now therefore be it lapsed. Somebody took him to the his office window.

It is surmised resolved by the House of Delegates, Tan Tock Seng Hospital.

the State concurring, that the Gov- ernor he authorised and requested

Endless Restrictions.

Was

died

the

оп

by the police that he either jump- ed out of the window in n panic-: stricken attempt to escape the In bringing in a verdict of death slayer's bullets, or crawled out on

corrosive poisoning, the the window ledge and was pushed' off. Two men in the street were

Coroner, said:

to forward a set of the Reporta.." to the ancient Middle Temple of from the Inns of Court, accompanied by a letter from the Governor making formal presentation thereof in the name of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

"With reference to the present struck by the body as it hurled fatality it may be of interest to through the air, and one was taken point out that fully qualified chem- to hospital unconscious with a ista are subjected to endless restric-

fractured spine, The 147 volumes of the law retions and regulations for the pro- ports accompanied by a letter of tection of their customers; while good wishes from the Governor of!

Virginia, Mr. H. F. Byrd, were the majority of the population is

SHOWN IN A LONDON WINDOW.

formally handed over to the keep-left unprotected against a pestilen- DIAMONDS GALORE. ing of the Middle Temple librarian, tial horde of unscrupulous polson Mr. H. A. C. Sturgess, by Mr. Ivor mongers and unqualified "chemists"] Page, representing the State of who are practically free to do na Virginia. Mr. A, Macmorgan, they please. K.C., the master treasurer, prosid.

Heaps of diamonds worth £150,- ed, the other Benchers present be- tributable to the "great unqualified" 000 were lying in an office window ing Mr. Heber Hart. K.C.. Mr. H. come before the Courts; and on recently in Holborn Viaduct. They C. S. Dumas, and Mr. L de Gruy- those rare occasions when the represented part of nine months'

ther, K.C.

Comparatively few fatal cases at-

In presenting the volumes, Mr. police are able to apprehend a male work in the holdings of the United Page introduced himself as an Eng-factor it is notoriously difficult to Diamond Fields of British Guiana,

Limited. lishman born who had been in convict him under existing circum- practice at the Virginia Bar for stances.

These uncut gema, ranging from From one's own profes nearly 42 years. His State in mak- sional knowledge of the paychology stones no bigger than a pinhead to ing the gift had in mind the senti- of Singapore and the activities of one the size of a nut, looked like a few heaps of sugar crystals. ment which bound it to the an-quacks and charlatans, it cient and honourable Society of highly probable that quite a ram was mounted over them.

Despite their value no special guard the Middle Temple, to the hallow-ber of deaths by poisoning are con-

seems

"It would be the most difficult

ed precincts of which he had come cealed by fraudulent death certi- thing in the world to dispose of them with almost a feeling of awe. Virficates or the body of the decene- if anyone tried to steal them,' ginin was enjoying, the protection

now of what the English took with led is otherwise disposed of by those member of the company told a press them to Jamestown in 1607--name-who fear the consequences of a man.

A

"Everyone of them is known by

ly, English law and procedure Coroner's 'inquiry. Many Americans and Virginians This anomalous position leaves size and shape, and could be re- had been called to the Bar at this ignorant impostors free to sell cognised by any diamond cutter in Inn of Court. From the year 1697 druga and poisons through- Amsterdam." when Benjamin Harrison (after-out the Straita Settlements wards Attorney-General of Vir-without any semblance of con-in British Gulana. It is carried on Diamond mining is a new industry ginia) was called to the Bar here, trol; and the following measures under primitive conditions and only until 1785, when Robert Alexander was entered, no fewer than 34 Vir-are respectfully suggested to oppose recently has a system of washing by a serious menace to the population power-driven pans been-introduced ginians were entered or called at the Middle Temple. They includ (1) Asiatic communities should be by this company, which operates ed William Byrd, a lineal ances. warned in this connection be propa- along the Mazurinf. River.

TACITURN SCOTS.

tor of the present Governor. If ganda suitable to their intelligence; there was one outstanding figure in (2) Existing laws should be rigor-i the Middle Temple, to whom Vir-ously enforced and amendments to ginia in particular was indebted meet the situation could be consi- it was Blackstone, whose commen-dered by the Government in confer- taries had been the beginning of ence with the British Medical Ag legal studies in America for many sociation; (3) Certain qualified per generations, The speaker came aons employ what are little better from Virginia, the birthplace of than ignorant coolies-for the dis-The-comparisons recently drawn statesmen, jurists, and soldiers,

NO EMOTION IN AEROPLANE STUNT.

of a scene have moved a corres-

and a land of chivalry, to offer this pensing of drugs. They should be between English and Scottish thea- mark of appreciation to the Middle called on to cease this practice tre audiences in regard to the bad Temple and England for the part forthwith and where they are al-habit of applauding in the middle they had taken in shaping her des ready served by unqualified assis-pondent to send me the following tinies. He came from a State which tants of experience the latter appropriate anecdote of Mrs. was the native land of Washing should be directed to give reason- Siddons' experiences when she was ton, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, able proof of their officiency and be playing Lady Macbeth in Edin- Woodrow Wilson, Robert E. Lec. registered provisionally; (4) After burgh. "Stonewall" Jackson, Thomas Nel-

a given time limit, to be fixed by The first two acts went down in son Page, and many others who had made history, to bring this Government, it should be unlawful dead silence and, when it came to token to be retained in the library for unqualified or unregistered per- the sleep-walking scene the great as a memorial that Virginia was sons to dispense drugs intended for actress put forth all her powers, vowing before she went on that if reaching out her hand both as a internal use. State and

that did not rouse them she would Bar, hoping that it

These people should be given to throw up her engagement: She might be grasped as a pledge of a understand quite clearly what the had her reward. As the curtain closer fraternity.

consequences to them will be if they descended one voice was heard to Mr. Sturgess, the librarian, read are found to possess for the pur- exclaim "That's not bad."

a letter from Lord Phillimore exposes of sale any class of drug' or That reminds me of the taciturn pressing his personal appreciation nostrum whatsoever.

Scot who was taken up in an aero-

of the present to the Inn, and a letter from Mr. Bruce Williamson,

As the scandal has now reached plane with a friend by an airman

the historian of the Temple, sug grave proportions it is to be hoped who wagered that he would make to him speak. A series of hair-rais- gesting that the record of the ad- that the authorities referred mission to the Middle Temple of may be induced to consider that ing stunts failed, however, to move Raleigh should be shown to the half measures are worse than use him, and as they alighted the air- man exclaimed, "Well, you've won." Virginian visitor. The old register less for the protection of an un-"Aye," was the reply, "but when was produced, showing the follow- auspecting public in Singapore and ma friend fell oot I was varra near ing entry:

the Straits Settlements generally,

losin' the bet."-Peter Simple in M.P.

February 27, 1574: Walterus Rawley filius Walteri Rawley Ar- migeri de Budlengo in Comitatu Davoniae admissus est in Societa-

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WHEN HER CHILD IS TEETHING.

There are few more trying times

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KILLED BY WILD PIG.

Mr. Sturgess said that the Inn for the mother than when her child

Kayau, an Igorot realdance possessed the finest collection of is toething. She, herself, is fre- Mountain province, was killed in a American law reports in the whole quently reduced to a state of nery fight with a wild pig near Bontoc of Great Britain, and during the ous exhaustion through her efforts last two years he had been able to to soothe the sufferer and her dis-according to reports received by the fil many gaps, thanks largely to tress at her seeming inability to Manila constabulary, the help of Mr. Barnett Hollander, relieve it of pain.

Kayari is truly a martyr. While

a member of the Inn and of the A simple and ready solution to walking through a camote planta New York Bar, Mr. W. H. Mc-the fretting of both mother and tion a few nights ago. Kayan heard Grann, of the New York Bar, and child is to be found in Baby's Own the hissing of a wild Boar. On in- other American lawyers.

Tablets. Guaranted absolutely free vestigating he found the wild, pig

He was given capital punishment.

Mr. Macmorgan, in acknowledg- from narcotic and other injurious trapped in a pitfall. In attempting ing the gift on behalf of the Inn, Ingredients, these little Tablets can to rescue the pig he fell In the plt. said that the proceedings would be given with perfect safety to Kayan lost the battle... be recorded and reported to the even the youngest and most de The next morning the pig was next Beach Parliament. They relicate infant and they have proved round alive and happy, garded this gift from the State of effective in countless instances in Virginia to the Middle Temple with overcoming the tortures. and the greatest satisfaction not only troubles of the teething period. oa account of. Its value but as a The action of the Tablets in testimony to the cordial relation-thorough yet gentle. They reduce ship between the Inn and Virginia fever, prevent constipation, check and, indeed, between the two coun- diarrhean, sweeten,, and aid the tries.

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