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MILLIONAIRE'S END

SIR MORTIMER SINGER'S DRUG

OVERDOSE

Dramatic letten left by Sir A. Mortimer Singer, aged sixty-five, the millionaire "sportsman, were read by the corner, Sir Walter Schroder, at the resumed inquest at Hampstead on July 13.

A verdict of "Suicide while of un- sound mind" was recorded.

Sir Mortimer died in a Hamp-

stead nursing home, where he had

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10 YEARS FOR RAPE VOLUNTEERS' CLERK

--FILIPINO SENTENCED AT SESSIONS

JUDGE'S SUMMING-UP

After retiring for 40 minutes, the Jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty" at the September Criminal Sessious yesterday on all three counts in the indictment against Luis Oliva, the Filipino barber, of rape and in decent assault on Natividåd Frailadora a Filipino woman of 18), and common assault on her husband, at No 6, King's terrace, Kowloon, on July 20,

The Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) passed sentence as follows: For rape, 10 years' hard labour and 24 strokes with the birch; för inde- cent assault, two years' hard labour, for common assault, one year's hard labour; the sentences to run concur rently, that is, 10 years in all in addi- tion to the corporal punishment.

If, said his Lordship in his summing up, the story told for the Crown was false, then one had to find that the conspiracy included a number of wit.

esses. If that were so, then it was A very elaborate conspiracy. The story told for the Crown was curicus, but it had been told in a straightfor ward manner.

Deterrent to Others Addressing accused, his Lordship said that while the jury had been in retirement he had been considering the evidence very carefully and he would have brought in the same verdict him self... Accused had behaved in a most brutal manner to the woman and it was his Lordship's duty to protect wamen in the Colony. He proposed to inflict a sentence which acaused had fully earned for himself and which, he haped, would act

deterrent to ather men who might be thinking of acting in the same way.

Mr. H. K. Holmes, C.B.E. (Crown Solicitor). prosecuted. Detective Ser- geant Fitches was in charge of the Prisoner did not have legal as

case.

sistance.

ACTRESS'S LOSS

MISS HEATHER ANGEL FINDS MONEY GONE

MISLAID OR ROBBED ?

CHARGE OF ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT

EFFORT TO ESCAPE

UNEMPLOYMENT

DEFECTS IN PRESENT INSURANCE ACTS

QUESTIONS OF BENEFIT

So Chung-man, the Chinese clerk Miss Margaret Bondfield, the employed at the Volunteer Head-Minister of Labour, has made to the quarters, who in charged with the alleg Press a statement, which we give ed embezzlement and misappropriation

of Volunteer Funds, appeared before below, on the administration of the Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Unemployment Insurance Acts. Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, when ¦ Among the issues dealt with by his Worship heard the case for com- the Minister were the intention to mittal.

introduce new legislation to anfe- Mr. F. H. Loschy appeared for the guard work-people against indus- accused who had hitherto been repre- trial Auctuations over which sented by Mr. M. K. Lo.

they have

control, no

the

Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant Director bridging of the gap bie- of Criminal Inteligence, prosceuted. He said that the accused was employed tween the school-leaving and the as a derk in the Volunteer Head Insuraale age, the speedy relief of quarters and among other things, his person in the distressed areas who duty included the preparation of ac- are no longer entitled to unemploy- counts and the filling in of the body of cheques

All Wills exceeding $10 were paid by cheque In the early part of this year, several cheques which formed the sub-.

ject of one of the charges, by some means or other get into the possession of the accused.

ment benefit through lack of the necessary contributions, and the work of the committee presided over by Sir Harold Morris, which is in- quiring into the working of the present Acts, with special reference to qualifications for benent.

that

Major Wolfe Murray, Adjutant of: "The difficulties and tragedies the H.K.V.D.C., would explain, in evid. of uremployment are essentially ence, how the caques got into a human, while the machine of Unem- cused's possession. The cheques which ployment Insurance, as a machine, were on the Hong Kong and Shanghai

Ja necessarily scientific and Bank were drawn by someone other mechanical," said Miss Bondfield. than the representatives of the firms #That is the nature of machinery, who were the payees. The cheques were quite genuine but the endorse, but a good engineer knows ments on them were forgeries.

there may be flaws both in the Th Police on August 30, paid a visit mechanism and in the working. The to the Colonial Treasury and there ob- Labour Party and I myself were tained some receipts which purported convinced, and had constantly stated, to be in acknowledgment of moneys that the Unemployment Insurance paid by the Hong Kong Volunteer De machine was faulty in both parti- fence Corps. A visit to the alleged re- cipients disclosed the fact that the re- culars, and the first task that I have reipts were false and that the signa- set myself is to attempt a remedy ture and chops on them were false. in both regards.

Safeguarding the Worker

Presumably, added Mr. Murray, these receipts were faked, sent to the "I was convinced that some of the Treasury and filed. The firms con- major defects could only be remedied earned did not pres for payment as by some reconstruction work, ie, by they were satisfied they would be paid legislative amendment. I have,

sooner or later.

Proceeding, Mr. Murray stated that therefore, closely studied the gen- the Wing Sun Company wrote to the eral scope of the Acts, and shall hope Volunteers on August 28 and as a re.at an early date to introduce legisla- sult the Police visited the Treasury tion which, while maintaining sound and the Volunteer Headquarters 'where principles of insurance, will reiter the accused was still in hie office.

ate by statutory authority that Accused was called by one of the the object of the Unemployment Police officers, but made an attempt to Insurance Scheme is to safeguard escape. He was chased and caught the worker against industrial fuc- near St. John's Cathedral. He was

In a report to the Police yesterday, Miss Heather Angel, of the Forbes, Russell Comedy Co., reported that she either lost, or was robbed of on Tues day night, from her bag, a consider. able sum in rupees and Straits dollars The bag was left at the Theatre Royaled payment." during the performance and then, with- out looking at its contents, she took it away with her. Yesterday morning when she opened the bag she found that a envelope containing the money, all in notes, had been removed.

TWICE DEAD.

DIES EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER OWN FUNERAL

PHYSICIANS' MISTAKE

Eighteen years after his funeral, Gustav Stocker, a m-rine carpen- ter. died at Munich ac the age of 40. At 22 he was badly injured by a piece of lumber falling on him and given up for dead by physi- cians. He was placed in a coffin, and a wake was held for him, with [solemn funeral services, of which he was aware, but unable to voice an objection.

*

After he had been placed in mortuary chapel in a cemetery prior

then tator to his house at N. 10, Kong tuations over which he has no Ning Street, Wanchai, where a search control and from which ke con- revealed a quantity of rubber stamps, tinually suffers. There will be no chops, impressions of different firms delay in pressing this part of my and a chop bearing the words "Receiv. programme forward. I could do nothing till I had fully surveyed the ground, but that survey once comm- Speaking on another charge, Mr.pleted, the Labour Government will Murphy said that in November last year curtain bills due to the Pharrancy act at once. I ask those who are appeared to have been paid twice. A impatient to realise the materials of a later date atter was received from the problem and to suspend judg- the Pharmacy reporting the mistake ment for the moment

Another Charge

and inviting the Volunteer Department "But there are some things which to collect $21 odd overpaid. On August can be and are being done at once. 14 before his arrest, the Accused They may sound comparatively smali received the amount and signed for it points but I assure you that these The telul amount of money involved in rectifications will have far-reaching the various charges was just under $400.

and inmediate results. One of the By the Magistrate:

No suspicion most distressing class of cases is was aroused at all and the authorities that of unemployed persons in the first hard about it through certain depressed areas, who, through lack firms who were supposed to have been of the necessary contribution, are no paid but who, in fact, were not paid. longer entitled to benefit. I am After some evidence had been taken, doing two things for these sufferers the c was adjourned until this

from industrial depression. I am, afternur.

on the one hand, having intensive efforts made to find suitable employ. ment for them. On the other hand, I have instituted new, and I hope fruitful, arrangements for offering training in suitable cases at Train- ing Centres of the Ministry of Labour.

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W.

ON 350 METRES

"Genuinely Seeking Work" to being interred. Stocker regained The following programme will

"Again, I have particularly son- |control of his limbs and voice. His be broadcast to-day from the Gov-cerned myself with that condition cottin was discovered empty and ernment Broadcast Station Z.R.W. for the receipt of barefit which re- Stocker himself not far away, still on 350 metres.

quires that the applicant is 'gen- suffering from terrible injuries, but alive.

Stocker, who became a

well known character in Munich, because of this adventure, was very fond of telling the story.

came

5.30-6.80 p.m.-Programme ofuinely seeking work.' This con- European Music (H.M.V. Records dition has been widely and persis- supplied through the courtesy of tently criticised, and I do not S. Mertrie & Co., Ltd.).

Beethoven..

(No.

"The Choral Symphony" 9 in D Minor, Op. 125) played by

pretend that there is not much! weight in the criticism. It is true, of course, and it is inevitable that! there should be some test of the genuiness of the claimant's search for work, but there are tests and

tests.

"I lay stratched rigid on my bed, unable to say a word or even groan, but I was able to hear everything The Symphony Orchestra and that was going on," he would re-

The Philharmonie Choir. late. "A horrible feeling

Soloist-Elsie Siddaby (Soprano).

Nellie Walker (Contralto), "At any rate, without prejudicing over me when I heard the nursos

Walter Widdop (Tenor), the issue, I have lost no time 101 say that I was dead and the doc-

Stuart Robertson (Bass). setting up a Committee under the tors eonfirm this diagnosis.

Condu ed by...Albert Coates. chairmanship of Sir Harold Morris, "All through the funeral services lat MovementAllegro men tropps.

End Movement Scherzo.

and procedure of statutory au President of the Industrial Court,

thorities performing the functions 7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather Beto report to me upon the constitution

I lay there taut and horrified, while 3rd Movement Adagio and Andante.

I heard then talk about my ended 4th Movement-Presto, Finale. life and pray for me. They had lighted candles about me. They port. crossed my hands and put a rosary

of Insurance Officers and Courts of

8 pm Evening Programme of Referees under the Unemployment!

in them. My family and friends Chinese Music relayed from Sin-Insurance Acts, and the nature of talked about my death, some weep cere Co., Ltd. ing and some saying that it was best for me to die, since I had been

so badly injured.

been undergoing treatment for in-veronal poisoning taken in the form move. ternal trouble and sleeplesEDERS.

The inquest had been adjourned to enable Sir Bernard Splsbury, the pathologist, to analysis.

of medinal.

"I wanted to shout out that I was not dead, but my lips would not Minutes seemed hours to me, and any agony grew worse and Sir Mortimer, he added, had worse as I thought of the grave I at least fifty grains, and was soon to be put into by people takel probably more, of veronal...

whom I could not tell I was alive. He expressed the opinion that They transferred me to the gleeplessness from which Sir Marmortuary Still wide awake notwithstand, time suffered might lead to an unwere several corpses. I looked

hinging of mental power.

conduct 20

The coroner read a letter left by Sir Mortimer, which read:

་་་

ing all the drugs I have taken.

I cannot stand it any longer.

Vereal..

...

chapel,

sists of music and singings given fulfilment of the conditions, or the Programme con- the evidence to be required as to the by the well-known amateur musi-absence of qualifications for the re- cians of Chung Sing Charitable Society and the staffs of Sincere ceipt of unemployment benefits

Company.

10.30 pm-Close Down,

NELSON DAY

under the Acts.

"I am sure that the Committee will promptly give me the benefit of their considered. recommendations. I have, however, pending the report, arranged that in all doubtful cases of this class, the first step taken

decision is taken, for the advice of local accessors chiployers and Service Den, their families and workers. friends will have the opportunity of

In this way knowledge of local conditions and local under- hearing a first-class variety concert on

MEN

Dr. Gerald Rotte Lynch, senior pressed thanks for the "loving kind send a cross weighing 100 pounds Nelson Day, October 21, at the, Lee standing will be brought to play in

to the shrine of the Virgin at Altot-Theatre, at a remarkably low charge, a mater where they are essential}

wher there CONCERT FOR LOCAL SERVICE shall be to refer the case, before any

fixedly at the cross at the foot of Sir Walter Schroder said that a my bier. I vowed inwardly that I note which Sir Mortimer left ex could lift on my feet I would official analyst to the Home Office, ness for saving my life.”

Dr. R. T. Bakewell, of Hampstead, ting stated that he examined the con- said that he thought this referred tents of the stomach and other to lady Singer, who had nurseded to come into the chapel. Finding the Theatre, will be issued. These can "Soon afterwards doctors happen- the corest and tram trip to and from

Tickets 20 cents per head, to include factors parts of Sir Mortimer's body, and her husband during various illy bier empty, they were startled later be obtained among Service de had found veronal in every organ

·Mr. Sung Kwok Law, Interpreter Dr. Loche Lynch added that Sir

and rushed around until they tails id units and will also be on sale Magistrate's Court, Ipoh, is under Mortimer died from an overdose of

found me on the other side of the at the Cheer Q (Y.M.C.A.) and the orders to proceed on transfer to the verona) taken to the form of

Two Abertillery brothers, Charles place. I was still partly paralyzed Seamen's Institute

Chiness Secretariat, Kuala Lem-] medins).

and Ernest Walker, working at and unable to speak. But the doc-| The oncert is being arranged by the pur. He will be succeeded by Mr. different collieries, were both intors massaged me and succeeded in local branch of the Navy League, and Low Wah-heng, Interpreter. Magia. jured at the same time,

bringing me back to life entirely there will also be $2 and $1 seats. trate's Court, Kampar.

Sir Bernard Sylsbury said that death was due to coma due to

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