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THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928.

OLD, OLD STORY.

THE BANKNOTE TRICK AGAIN.

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A WOMAN'S LOSS.

of

''A variation the very elt 'banknote trick was played by two Chinese on an unsuspecting woman

yesterday.

According to a statement made to the police by the credulous female, a widow named Wu Wan-chi, he is stranger in Hong Kong, having come here on a visit, and is putting

LEGITIMACY.

DECLARATIONS FOR CHILDREN OF BARONET,

67 YEARS AGO,

The affidavit concluded by stat- ing that after the marriage their seven children lived with them and were maintained and educat- ed by her husband in accordance with a written agreement.

They were treated in every way as membera of the family, and when their daughters married Mr. Justice Hill, in the Probate her husband attended the wed- and Divorce Division, made de-dings, gave them away, and made clarations under the Legitimacy marriage settlements daughters and a son of the late Act, 1926, in the case of three

in two Sir Henry Percival de Bathe baronet, after an affidavit by their mother, Lady (Charlotte) de Bathe, now 90 years of age, had been read.

Mr. Bayford, K.C., said the cases before the court were the

cases,

marriage Henry Hugo Gerald,

Two sons were born after the in 1871, and Patrick Wynne, in 1876,

Sir Percival died in January, 1907, and was succeeded by Hugo Gerald de Bathe.

Lady Burnham, in the witness-

THE CHINA MAIL,

REVOLVER SHOT.

MOTORIST FIRED AT.

MYSTERY SALOON CAR,

young Teddington motorist nar- A shooting incident in which a rowly escaped injury is being in vestigated by the Ewell police. Waldegrave-road, Teddington, was As Mr. G. Blackwell, jun., of motoring in the Ewell-road, West Ewell, he was suddenly con- fronted with a spotlight of a motorcar which swept the road and finally focused his own car.

He dimmed his lights and slow-

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN THE “MAILAN

To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Tha Unknown," also at all per formances, Miss Chee Toy in popu- lar new numbers.

To-day World Theatre; "Orphans of the Storm."

To-day- Star Theatre: The Runaway,"

O.Y.M.C.A., at 7.30 p.m.

To-day-Dance, at the Cheer

up at the China Bourding House rst four legitimacy declarations box, in reply to Mr. Bayford, salded down, but as he was passing 'O Y.M.C.A., at 7.30 p.m.

Connawght-roud Central.

were without funds,

selves and starvation.

Winifred

several

The landlord and his son at an Inn near by heard the report and rushed out. They were just in time to see a saloon car drive of at a fast pace.

In

an interview, Blackwell, junior, said:--

Mr.

"The spotlight of the car, which was standing at the side of the road, picked me out for some dis-

April 3-4 World Theatre; "Oh What a Nurse." Blindness, 2.30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; April 4-7-Star Theatre; "Love's

The Wilbur Player in "The Sap," at 9.15 p.m.

Sports. March 31-Faning Hunt Steeple- chase (Easter Meeting) 3 p.m.

March 31-Queen's College an- nual athletic sports meeting, Causeway Bay,

March -30-Children's afternoon at Helena May Institute, 5 p.m.

March 30-Dance, at the Cheer 'O Y.M.C.A., at 7.30 p.m.

March 31-Music, at the Chear by four persons who were mem- she lived at Hall Barn, Beacons the other car, which was station- bera of the same family, and field, Bucks, und was born in Novary, a revolver shot rang out. A That Lion,”

April 1-2-World Theatre; "Hold About 3 pm, yeaterday, she children of the same parents. ember, 1861. went out to do some shopping. As The evidence in all four cases was

bullet whizzed by his car and em- She lived with her father and bedded itself in the upholstery at Never Know Women."

April 1-2-Star Theatre; "You, she was passing Sincere's, she was practically identical.

mother, Sir Henry Percival de the back of the car. accosted by two respectably dressed He represented the first three Bathe and Lady Charlotte de

April 1-5 Queen's Theatre; men. They told her that they had petitioners, with Mr. C. L. Bed-Bathe, up to the time of her mar-did not turn and follow him he

He accelerated, but as the car "Flesh and the Devil." just arrived in the Colony, and dington. Mr. Beddington appear-rince.

April 3 Star Theatre; The 'pending the arrival of a remittance ed alone for Mrs.

pulled up. Later he turned back Wilbur Players in "The Sap," The Affidavit of her mother, to investigate, but the other car 9.15 p.m. only (no cinema perform- from their wealthy relatives, they McCalmont.. Mr. G. S. C. Rentoul, which had been read, was accur- had then disappeared,

M.P., appeared for the Attorney-ate. Her mother, now 90 years

(ance); Thank goodness, however, they General, and Mr. Ponsonby was old, was unable to come to court. had some jewellery between them-present watching the proceedings Lady Burnham said she had on behalf of Mrs. Bridget de

brothers and sisters, At this point one of the men pra-Bathe, daughter of Mr. Patrick

namely, Mary Kate, Henry duced a good-sized paper parcel and de Bathe.

Percival, Cecily Winifred, Maxi- permitted the woman to hold it in

The Pelitions.

milian John, Phyllis, Hugo her hand to feel its weight. The The petitions were

those of Gerald, and Patrick Wynne. jewellery in the parcel, the men Lady (Olive) Burnham (wife of

For a time they all lived to- claimed, was worth $1,000,

Lord Burnham), Mr. Maximilian ether at home with their par The jewellery, had been in the John de Bathe, Lady (Phyllis) enta. Winifred, the widow of Mr.tance as I approached, I natural- family so long that the men were Somerleyton and Mrs. Winifred John McCalmont, and Maxi-ly thought it was a signal for me. reluctant to part with them for McCalmont.

milian, her brother, were now in to dim my headlights, but to my goud, they would rather raise a loan Mrs. Bridge de Bathe, who was the South of France, and Phyllis amazement as I passed, I heard on them and redeem them when represented by Mr. Ponsonby, was Lady Somerleyton was in South the report of a revolver and a their remittance arrived.

daughter of Mr. Patrick de Bathe. Africa.

bullet whizzed past me. The woman suggested that the brother of Sir Hugo de Bathe, men take the jewellery to a pawn-who married Mrs. Langtry. shop. This was exactly what the Mr. Patrick de Bathe and Sir men had thought of, but unfortun- Hugo were sons born after the ately they were so hopelessly at a marriage. loss and bewildered in this, big for! Mr. Bayford said that the Act, sign city that they did not even where the parents of an illegitim-Teesdale, solicitor, Old Jewry, a know where to find pawnshop, ate person married one another partner in the firm of solicitors Would the lady be so kind as to before or after the commence who had acted for many years for assist them?

ment of the Act, rendered that Major-General Sir Henry Although she was a stranger in person, if living, legitimate from Percival de Bathe, said he had Hong Kong herself, the woman was the commencement of the Act, or known bath. Sir Henry and Sir proud in the knowledge that at least the date of the marriage, which Henry's father, who lived at Port- she was not so "dumb" that she ever last happened.

man-square and Woodend, could not find

a pawnshop. She! The court needed to be satisfied Chichester. agreed to help the "ynkels" out. of the marriage and the fact that neither was married to a third party at the time of the

Changed Hands

Her father, Sir Henry Percival de Bathe. lived all his life. in Eng- and, as also did Sir Henry's father.

Solicitor's Evidence.. Mr. Edmund Thomas Moore

Sir Henry was domiciled in England all his life. and trented all the children as his own, they living with him and Lady de

Bathe.

"As far as I could see the car was a dark saloon, and the shot must have come from the driver's seat.

"It was fired at not more than two yards distance, and the noise: of the report deafened my right car for several hours.”

CINEMA NOTES.

March 31-Boxing tournament, Lee Theatre, 9.15 p.m..

April 7 & 9-Third extra race meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club, Happy Valley.

April 15-Seventh extra 'race meeting of the International Race & Recreation Club of Macao, Ltd. Lammerts' Auctions, March 80-At Sales Room, house- hold goods, etc., etc., 2.30 p.m.

Bleetings.

March 30-Twenty-eighth annual meeting of Kowloon Bowling Green Club, in Club. House, 6. p.m.

April 2-Annual meeting of Douglas Steamship, Co., P. &. 0.

LON CHANEY'S WEIRD NEW Bldg., 11 a.m.

FILM.

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it would be more satisfactory for all/Clare for some years before theyGeneral) also said he had no ob-guiding brain of an underworld at Exchange-bldg, Des Voeux-rd,, |

were married.

Ct., (2nd floor) noon.

April 2-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hong Kong Electric Lon Chaney has perhaps one of Co., Ltd., at P. & O. Building, 12.30 the strangest roles of his career p.m. The parcel of so-called jewellery birth of the child. accordingly changed hands. Then,

Sir Henry Percival de Bathede

in "The Unknown," the mystery Mr. Talbot Ponsonby, for the film which comes to the Queen's meeting of shareholders of the April 4 Seventeenth annual as the woman was about to depart tioners domiciled in England, as infant daughter of Mr. Patrick Theatre to-day until Saturday. Bank of Canton, Ltd, 6, Des

was the father of the four peți- on her hunt for a pawnshop, one of the Act required, and he lived de Rathe. said he was in favour The story deals with the men politely suggested that with a

a sinister Voeux-rd., Ct., 2.30 p.m. they were strangers after all, and

lady named Charlotte of the petition.

urmless sideshow freak, who, from April 11-Third annual meeting Mr. Rentoul (for the Attorney-his hiding place in a circus, is the of Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd.,. eoncerned if the woman allowed

jection, them to hold some security for the

the Attorney-General The Marriage.

merely considering it his duty to gang of criminals. jewellery.

During the film Lon Chaney dis- They were married on Decom- ensure that all the facts

April 12-Annual meeting of the It never entered the unsuspecting

were plays uncanny skill with his feet, Hong Kong & Shanghal Hotels, Ltd. woman's head to suggest that there er 20. 1870, at the Parish Church brought before the court.

of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. The

eat, drink, smoke, at Exchange-bldg., Des Voeux-rd, The judge found that petition using them to lowing her to the pawnship and go fore was that Sir Henry's father Percival de Bathe and Charlotte Crawford, as the circus girl whom shareholders of the Hong Kong

Other Ct, noon. was nothing to prevent the men fol-reason they were not married hers were the children of Henry shave and throw knives!

members of the cast include Jonn April 13 Yearly meeting of inside themselves and do their own had objected to the marriage.

Clare, and were born before the Instead, he readily parted with March 10, 1870.

Sir Henry's father died on marriage, and that the parents the freak comes to love; Norman Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange-

were subsequently lawfully mar- Kerry as the strong man who also bldg, at noon. : $500 in money and a pair of gold The four petitioners in these ried., He made the declarations | claims her hand, and Nick de Ruiz April 14 General meeting

earrings as security for a parcel cases were then children, all born asked for in each case. the weight of which she had felt before December 20, 1870.

ns-Zanzi, a strange dwarfish figure members of The Prince's Bldg. & In reply to a question by the who knows the freak's amazing Land & Co., Ltd. (in liquidation), but he only had the men's word! Lady Burnham was born on judge about costs, Mr. Rentoul secret. "The Unknown" is a wierd 6, Des Voeux-road Ct., noon. that it contained valuable jewellery. November 20, 1861-her name said in these cases the Attorney-romance, with a thrilling climax. April 20 Annual meeting of Then, after extracting a promise was Olive at Victoria-road. Lon- General made it a practice not to It is a picture that will be remem-members of the Victoria Recreation from the men that they would wait don (now Buckingham Palace-ask for costs. for her exactly at the spot she had road). left them, the woman departed,

business.

: Bide one.

pleasure.

"THE RUNAWAY.”

the

p.m.

of

In

To-day "China"? exhibition, Church Hall and grounds, from 3 to 10 daily.

March 30 Annual dinner of the Institution of Engineers and Ship' builders, 8 p.m.

bered.

Club at V.R.C.; 6 p.m. An added attraction at

Macellaneop", She married on January 2,

ANCIENT HITTITES. Queen's Theatre during the run of Catholic Cathedral; sermon by Rev.

To-day- Lenten Mission She inquired from several people 1884, Mr. Horry Lawson Webster the way to the nearest pawnshop, Lawson, at St. Margaret's, West-

The Unknown" is the return en G. Byrne, S.J., Subject: "The Cry Children of the Hittite race gagement of Miss Chee Toy, the of Empty Heart." Text: "An Alter and eventually found herself out-minster, and her father was one who went to school in Asia Minor charming Chinese singer, who will on which was written: to the Un- She entered and, handing of the witnesses of that mar- about 1000 BC. had to learn dead render popular new song numbers known God" (Acts XVII, 23), 6 up the parcel. proudly told the riage.

languages just as the modern from her repertoire. Miss Chee pawn broker that its contents were worth $1,000, but she wanted to McCalment, was born at Eliza clay tablets found in the capital and her return will give general St. Andrew's

Winifred. who was now Mrs. school boy learns Latin. Baked Toy will appear at all four shows raise only $500 on the jewellery, and beth-square, Eton-square and city of the ancient Hittite Empire that erdy for a couple of days, was baptised on October have been deciphered by scholars,

Piece of Metal.

23, 1863. She married who say that eight languages are her first husband, Mr. William represented on them, written in The pawn broker started to open Atmar Fanning, on January 11, the neat, wedge-shaped charac- the parcel. He peeled off in- 1882, at St. Margaret's Westters known, as cuneiform writing.

The new picture at the Star.

March 31-Prize distribution & numerable sheets of paper until he minster.

The Sumerian language was Theatre to-day, "The Runaway," is Concert of Docksin English School, hal quite a heap beside him. Then Sir Henry de Bathe was a wit- then long. dead, but the Hittites an exciting story of the Kentucky Bonhom-rd. 2 p. finally he unwrapped the last sheetness of that marriage. Mr. Fan-learned it and taught it to their mountains, with a little New York April 14-Eighth annual dinner to reveal a piece of metal which [ning died on September 5, 1896. children, because they believed movie actress hiding from justice of the Q.C.O.B. Assen. at Queen's had been placed in the parcel to She married the second time that charms sung in the old fan- and causing a tremendous conflict College Hall, 8 p.m. give it weight!

Harry McCalmont, on July 5,guage were peculiarly effective, between two powerful clans. The April 17-Annual inspection of Picking up the metal, the pawn 1897, at St. Paul's, Knights-In some of the tablets the Sumer- braker exhibited it to the woman bridge. Her father was a witness ian text is followed by columns mysterious shooting of a wealthy the Hong Kong Police, Marray and informed her that he would not to that marriage.

containing the same text trans- young New Yorker in a Tennessee advance her five cents on that bit of

Mr. Maximilian John de Bathelated into the official Hittite lan city, the girl's fight from the scene scrap iron, let alone $600. She was born in June. 1867, and Lady guage and into Babylonlan, and of the tragedy, her plea to a young must be crazy, and if she did not Somerleyton in 1869, both at 180, also a column pronouncing the mountaineer to shelter her and leave immediately he would send Belgrave-road.

Sumerian words, Babylonian the drama that results when the for the police and have her removed. Lady Somerleyton married Mr. was apparently the language of "dead", man appears in the moun- But the pawn broker might have Saville Brinton Crossley, now diplomacy among the Hittites. tain settlement seeking vengeance, saved his breath. Snatching up the Lord Somerleyton. Her father ·Several thousand tablets were lend suspense to the story.” Clara scrap iron and some of the paper, was a witness of the marriage. discovered in a palace, and a tem- Bow is the girl, Warner Baxter the she flew out of the pawnshop and

An agreement was made on the ple used as a record office, by mountaineer and William Powell,

side which she had left the men.

...

parade ground...

April 27-Laying of foundation i stone. of new. St. Stephen's-bldg. by

E. the Governor, 3.30 pm,

PASSENGER LIST.

¿ARRIVALS.

day before the marriage, in 1870, German archaeologists some the New Yorker. Set in the heart Passengers disembarked at Hong made straight for Smeere's, out of Sir Henry 'Percival de Bathe, re- years ago, but early attempts at of the Kentucky mountains the pic-Kong from the ...a.. "Morea" On arrival she found that they lating to money matters with re-reading them were hampered be-ture is notable for its beautiful arrived on March 29 from London, had disappeared with her money gard to the children.

cause the different languages background. The Runaway" will Marseilles, Colombo, Penang and and earrings. Then she began to An order had been made by Mr. were not sorted out. Writers of be screened at the Star Theatre Singapore.were: ̈ ̈ cry and lament her loss. A sym-Justice Bateson that the evidence pathetic man led her to a policeman of Lady (Charlotte) de Bathe, who took her to the Central Police now an old lady, should be taken Station, where she told her story, by affidavit and that affidavit The men are still at large.

read.

Nearly 100 taxiahb drivers drove,

The Affidavit Read. Mr. Bayford then read the affidavit, sworn on March I last

Lady (Charlotte) de Bathe

until Saturday.

Mr. J. Moss, Mr. and Mrs. G. long records on the baked tablets

Miss L, & the Matre, C. & W. were careful to indicate the sequence from one tablet to the

"ORPHANS OF THE STORM.”.

Evans, Maj. and Mrs. W. Hanna, Nurse Webster, Mr. and Mrs. T. next, and usually at the end of the document the author wrote his name, his profession, and place of ed by Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mr. G. Humphrey, Surg. Capt. Keir, An exceptionally large cast head-Dodders, Mr. and Mrs. AO, Oliver, Mr. J. McKelvie, Capt. J. D. Nares, residence, in modern fashion. Joseph Skildraut, Sheldon Lewis, Maj. W. Christian, Mrs, V. Norris,

An officer

Creighton Hale and Monte Blue is Mr. J. Hawker, Miss E. G. Tate, of the P.

only one feature of "Orphans of Mr. E. Crane, Mr. and Mrs. G. to the funeral at Lambeth Cemetery said she was married on Decem number of, the Royal Marines from the World Theatre to-day and to Barron, Mr. P. Kahn, Mr. W. Hall, "Mantua," which took a large the Storm" which is to be shown at Lamb, Mr. G. Towns, Mias M. of Mr. Lawrence Russell, London ber 20, 1870, to Major-General Shanghai last November, speaks In district secretary of the cab section Sir Henry Percival de Bathe at glowing terms of their general be-morrow. Dealing as it does with Mr. Lokoomal, Mr. P. 8. Owen, of the Transpert and General Chalfont St. Giles. Neither she haviour. They are a splendid te lavish in its settings of that Dehn, Mrs. H Ireland, Mr. R the French revolution, the pictare Miss Pelerim, Mr. and Mrs. H. Workers' Union.

nor Sir Henry Percival de Bathe body of men," he states, and gave had been previously married. not the slightest trouble in any period, while D, W: Griffiths, the Hadley, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Seal, The Shangha! Nationalist Com- Previous to the marringe she way from the time they left Shang- eminent director, has spared no Mr. C. C. Chop, Mr. Mutzenkcher, missioner of Public Safety la re-lived with him for 13 years as his hai til they arrived in England trouble or expense in reproducing Mr. R Rethman Mr.-J. Hunds, ported to have ordered the suppres wife at Hans-place, and various This information, though gratify the atmosphere of the time with the Mr. F. Day, Mr. V. Marus MrG alon In Chinese territory of a West-End addresses, finally at ing, is by no means surprising as most realism.Orphans of the Tirestone, Mre, Chen Bu-Jan, Mis Communist film which has been 130, Belgrave-road, She had the Marines, while they were in Storm" is a picture that can be M. Yuan, Misa Wong, Mr Chang banned by the International Settle seven children, of which he was Shanghai, were second to none in seen again and again, so perfect is Han-you, Mr. Lim Hong-nam *rsomt authorities.

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