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Tokyo, Yesterday. At lae, in the solemn setting of a giant cryptomeria grove, and to the plaintive wailing of ancient music, with the darkness broken only by the flickering light of At the Central Magistracy, yes- pise torches, the Sacred Mirror was terday afternoon, Mr. E. W. Hamil transferred this evening to the newton, and a Coroner's jury compris Imperial shrine, where it will re-ing Messrs, V. F. d'Azevedo (fore- main undisturbed till 1949, when a man), A. B. Carvalho, and D. F. similar ceremony will again take Lopes, held an inquiry into the death of Detective-Sergeant John place.

Dyerson, of the Hong Kong Police, who shot himself at Headquarters on September 7.

Though only a few hundred pri- vileged spectators were permitted to witness the solemn procession of Shinto priests and Court ritualists,

The first witness was Dr. T. W.

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Peking, Yesterday. Mr. B. C. Hale, the British

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of Mesars. Thos. Cook's Peking office, was this afternoon badly beaten up by risha pullers, who invaded his office in the Peking Hotel and dragged him out to the street.

It appears that the trouble arose through one of Messrs. Cook's guides decamping with the money with which he should have paid the pullers for carrying a party of tourists, whereupon the coolies revenged themselves upon the innocent Mr. Hale, who is suffering

He was finally rescued from about

garbed in flowing robes of archaicWare, medical officer in charge of most from severe kicks on the body. design, tess of thousands of pil- the Government Civil Hospital. He grims from all parts of the country said that when he saw Sergt. Dyer twenty coolles by the hotel manager gathered in the neighbouring town at the hospital he had an parently just died. There was a bullet wound in his head,

in the past few days for the purpose of praying before the shrine to the

Later in the day, witness held e Sun Goddess, which is the mecca of post mortem examination and dis- all good Japanese, while thirty-five covered that the bullet had entered warships assembled in the neigh-in the region of the right temple bouring bay.

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Central Police Station, said that by 11.30 p.m. on September 6, the deceased was in bed and he appear- ed to have slept well. He was and had gone clean through the normal in every way. On one oc- hend. His opinion was that the casion he had complained to wit- Though the original mirror,shot was fired from very closeness that he had sent the "boy" out; which is here enshrined, is reputed range, within a few inches of the to have a history of thousands of temple. years, the ceremony of replacing the resting place and removing the mirror every twenty years originated about twelve hundred years ago. This evening's core- mony marks the fifty-eighth re- moval.

The wound was of the type one would expect to find if a person had shot himself,

Diseased Brain

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. Dr. Ware added that the shot did not immediately cause death but it would certainly have caused un- consciousness. though the person would probably live for some hours. On examining the brain witness found that in addition to injuries caused by the bullet the deceased had inflamation of the brain which witness diagnosed to be of a tuber- cular nature.

While the ceremony was taking pince at Ise, the Emperor, as spiritual and temporal head of the nation, simultaneously performed an ast of "distant worship." facing towards Ise, making obeisance to the progenatrix of Japan'd un- bruken line of sovereigns. The He was very much surprised at mirror, a replica of which is kept the discovery as with such a condi- permanently in the Imperial Palace tion of the brain Sergt. Dyerson in Tokyo, except on the occasion of must have carried on his work while an enthronement, when it accom- suffering from very severe head- panies. the

to Kyoto,aches. This condition of the brain, Emperor symbolises purity and is supposed in witness' opinion would cause in to reflect the spirit of the Suntense depression. Goddess. It la regarded 118 too sacred to be seen by human eyes, and is always covered. Not even the Emperor is permitted to gaze upon it.

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By the Coroner: Definitely, while the condition was on, it could affect the sufferer's sanity. If the man had not died from his injury he would undoubtedly have died from He might have gone the disease.

this disease never recovered. on for a week or so, but cases of No cure was known. The disease was at common in adults but was found more often in children.

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for aspirin and had been brought the wrong kind.

Perfectly Normal Speaking about the, morning of September 7 witness sald that at *7,45 a.m.

Dyerson was reading a newspaper and read aome extracts to witness. He appeared still to be perfectly normal. The deceased

ved and then at 8.45 a.m., he went to the bath-house.

He was fully dressed except for his cont.

Sergt. Davis stated that at 8.55 Pm. he went to the European lavatory. He heard a sound like someone groaning, and looking to- wardrer the compartment. for which it came he saw blood running from. underneath the door. Witness then lost no time in sending for Sergt.

Nolan.

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Sergt. Nolan said that when he got to the lavatory, he found there was apparently somebody lying He entered the against the door. adjoining cubicle and climbed over the top. Then he saw deceased on the ground, doubled up with his right shoulder against the door, and facing downward. A revolver was loose in his right hand. He did not appear to be conscious. Witness told the mess and then rushed down- stairs to inform the Inspector-on- Duty, and to send for the ambul-

ance.

By the Jury: European menî- hers of the Force kept their own revolvera and it was not uncommon for them to carry a revolver even when off duty,

Rushed to Hospital

A Powerful Man Witness added that Sergt. Dyer was otherwise a remarkably According to orthodox belief, the healthy and powerful man in very San Goddess presented the mirror good condition. On the top of the to her grandson. whose

great-left lung, there was a tiny patch

Chief Detective Inspector Rey- grandson, Jimma Tenno, was the

which showed that in his child.nolds also gave evidence of finding Brat Emperor of Japan. Hence the hood days, Dyerson had a small the body. The revolver was of the ceremony of transferring the sacred tuberculous infection. It had com-Service type and had been issued to emblem once in twenty years in re- garded as an important national pletely healed when Witness saw it the deceased. Dyerson was wear event, requiring the attendance of and the lung was normal for a maning a belt with a holster attached. the Premier and other bigh off- [of Dyerson's age. There might clale.]

have been an injury, to that patch and the blood stream might have got to the brain.-Witness felt cer tain that Dyerson must have known that there was something seriously wrong with his brain, though he

Dyerson was carried out of the would probably not have known its lavatory and laid on a blanket. Dr. nature. The pain must have beenA. Cannon then. arrived and first Intolerable,

aid was applied according to the doctor's instruction. On the arri (Continued on Next Columu.)

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val of the ambulance Dyerson was after examining the deceased's rushed off to hospital. Even at effects there was no financial or that stage, Dr. Cannon had ridicat domestic trouble

ed that the deceased was “practic-}", "I can assign no motive for this -Foffoer taking his life,” added Mr. ally hopeless."

Witness said that from the fa- Murphy, who concluded by saying. quiries which he had made, he was that Dyerson had never reported satisfied that Dyerson had com illness and that if he had been sick mitted suicide. Deceased was 81 the poor chap must have been suf- years of age and joined the force fering in allence. on October 26, 1923. He went Home in October Inst year and returned on September 1 this year. Witness added, that, Derson was a very re- served man and was seldom seen with anyone. He was quite temper

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The Jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased met bis death from a revolver shot fred by himself during temporary insanity... They expressed their sympathy with Dyerson's relative,

The Coronor agrood with, the Jury's verdict, and associated him. Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., stated that self with their expression of Rym the deceased was a capable and pathy. Mr. Hamilton hdded, that energetic Police officer who took he wished to express his own sip

interest in his work, He had cere regret that the Hong Hong glyen any trouble and Police Force should have surrered as far as witness could ascertain | the loss of such a capable omsér..