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THE CHINA MAIL,

time of the Sacco-Vanzetti proceed-A PSEUDO-HUSBAND. inga, "Times of Ceylon.”

Convicted in 1909.

The agitation in Great Britain for the releasè of Oscar Slater com- menced immediately after his trial in 1909. It will be recalled that on December 21, 1908, Miss Glichrist, who lived with her maid, Helen Lambie, in a seven-roomed flat in Glasgow, was murdered at about 7

A fight at three yards range with a gorilla nearly six feet high was one of the adventures of Lieut. Col. H. F. Fenn, D.S.O., who headed a hunting expedition into the forests. of the Belgian Congo.

STOLE HIS "WIFE'S" MONEY

"AND JEWELLERY,

FALSE REPORT OF DEATH.

Madras, Nov. 12. The story of how a Sanyasi de- ceived a widow by professing to be her husband, and cheated her after looting her money and living with her as man and wife, was related Sessions Judge at

At the trial, which com- menced in May of the following year, in the High Court of Edin

before giant burgh, Slater was convicted on a

majority verdict of the jury of 15 Ramnad. aine jurymen taking the view that the evidence was suficient to

The object of the expedition was to obtain a specimen of gorilla for the British Museum,

With pygmies for guides, Col.

tho

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One morning four Sanyasis call-

Fenn marched for two days into the justify the verdict of guilty, while ed at the house of Mahamayee, and

a

hill country. Then the presence of gorilla was reported, and he set out with a camera, hoping to get a photograph.

After following a path for a few minutes a gorilla barked.

It was close at hand, but the forest was so dense that it was impossible to see more than a few yards jahend.

The pygmies began to cut through the thicket, when suddenly a fiercer bark was heard, and Col. Fean changed his camera for a

rifte.

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In The Tunnel,

Cautiously he entered a gorilla tunnel, which is a run some three to four feet high.

He had not gone many yards when he heard a scream like that of a manine, and a huge gorilla rushed straight down the tunnel at him, its mouth open and its left arm outstretched.

Colonel Fenn fired from the hip at three yards range, and the gorilla, wounded, turned and bolt- .ed.

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ve declared that the case was not proven, and one expressed the view that Slater was not guilty. Slater was condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted two days before the time fixed for his execu tion, and since then he has been in carcerated In Poterhead prison.

Sir A. Conan Doyle's Attack. Since the day of his reprieve from the gallows there have been at fre- quent intervals demands by, certain people for Slater'a release on the grounds that he was wrongly con victed. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the well-known novelist, was one of the leading people who took part in the agitation in favour of Slater's release. In a recent publication | Sir Arthur made a slashing indict. ment of the police of Glasgow, the Lord Advocate of the day (Mr. Alexander Ure, now Lord Strath- clyde), and on the authorities who instituted an enquiry into the case in 1914. The world-wide protest against the execution of Sacco and Tenzetti a few months ago resulted in the intensification of the agita- tion in Great Britain for Slater's

Next day the animal was dis-release. covered at an altitude of 9,000 feet with a number of female gorillas and their young.

The females ran away, but the male stood up and glared defiance. Colonel Fenn ahot him in the chest, but not fatally and the gorilla got nway.

..He was tracked for two hours, then turned on his pursuers. -

He was shot dead and proved to be 5ft 8in. high, with a chest men surement of 62 inches and biceps of 18 inches (41⁄2 inches, bigger than Dempsey's);

Missionaries report that fre- quently natives have been killed by gorillas,

OSCAR SLATER.

SUCCESS OF PROLONGED AGITATION.

London, Nov. 11.

It is officially announced that Oscar Slater, who was sentenced to imprisonment for life for the mur- der. of Miss Gilchrist, aged 80,, in Glasgow, in 1908, has been released, after having served 18 years' im- prisonment.

Slater, who is a German Jew, was convicted on circumstantial evid-

ence.

The prolonged agitation for his release, in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has taken a prominent part, was revived and intensified at the

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.London, Nov. 7. The Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair celebrated their golden wedding at a luncheon in Londen, with their 19 descen- dants-children and grand-children and seven of the eight brides- maids who attended the wedding 50 years ago...

one of them told her that he was her husband, who had proceeded to Singapore 18

years ago and was falsely reported to be dead.

Telling her that she was mistaken in wearing widow's weeds, accused added that if she would pay Rs. 50 to his Guru, who had saved him from a frightful death, he would be willing to live a householder's life once again.

The lady and her relatives agreed and paid the money to one of the other thres Sanyasis, who professed to be the Guru, and prostrated

themselves before him.

Thereafter, the supposed hus- bund lived with Mahamayee as man and wife.

After a few weeks, they went for the Festival of Kartikeya, in a temple in the Madura District, where Mahamayee's "husband," after removing her jewellery and other valuables, decamped.

The "husband" was condemned to three years' rigorous imprison- ' ment.

BOOM FOR P. I.

VIEW OF FORMER AMERICAN AMABASSADOR.

New York, City, Nov. 23. Senate President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate to-day discussed at length the question of Philippine independence in an ad- dress before the Economic Club.

In the course of his speech, Mr. Quezon touched upon the future of At the subsequent reception, the United States in the Pacific and Earl Balfour, who was the Har the prediction that she will need quess of Aberdeen's best man at for some time "a friend in the Far the wedding, made a present on be: East who appreciates the Occidental half of the old friends to the hall- | viewpoint." door attendant "Keddie," who, has Henry Morgenthau, former served the Aberdeen family for 45 United States Ambassador to years, starting as a page boy at Holyrood.

"Keddle" came specially from Dublin, whore, of recent years, he has been running charitable, or- ganisations originated by Marchio- ness of Aberdeen.-""Times of Cey- lon."

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