1930-05-07 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930.

'Phone 20022

FOR

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Twenty-five Words three Inser. Llona prepaid $1. Every addi- tional word four cents for three insertions.

All replies under this heading must be called for.

TO LET

TO LET No. 5, Dragon Terrace. Causeway Bay, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Raors. Each flat has three bed rooms, dining room, servants' quarters, kit- chen, bath room, and water closets, Suitable for Europeans. Apply Clark & Iu, 10, Des Voeux Road G

GODOWN TO LET.

A GODOWN at Whitfield Road con- sisting about 2,500 sq. ft. next to Kwong Sang Hong Glass Factory. Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong, Ltd.

SALE

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road Jumble Sale on Friday, May 9, at 2.20. Contritions of old clothing thankfully received, at Church

elt Hall

WANTED.

WANTED.-The United Directory of Canton, Hong Kong & Macao for the

year 1930-1931 will be issued soon. Those who wish to advertise in the said Directory are requested to apply Sze Hing & Co., China Building.

TUITION

COMPANY MEETINGS

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE FORTY-NINTH ORDIN-

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOVERNMENT NOTICES

G.

R

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT.

TARY GENERAL MEETING NO. S. 181-IT IS HEREBY

of Shareholders will be held at

NOTIFIED that SEALED

be clearly

NEWSVENDOR'S DEATH.

MRS. HADLEY BEFORE H.B.M. CONSULAR COURT.

ני

1

ENTIRE

FAMILY

KILLED.

FIENDISH CRIME IN SHANGHAI.

A VENDETTA,

The most diabolical crime in Settlement police history was com

A KNIFE PRODUCED.

Tientsin, April 26. the Offices of the undersigned on TENDERS in triplicate, which FRIDAY, the 16th May, 1930, at should

At H.B.M. Consular Court yes. marked Noon, for the purpose of receiv-TENDER FOR QUARRY", will be terday morning before Mr. A. Gitted in a small Chinese house off Avenue Road last week. Using an ing the Report of the General received at the Colonial Secretary's N. Ogden (Consul), Mrs. Caordinary kitchen chopper and an Agents, together with a Statement Office until Noon of MONDAY, the therina Hadley was brought axe, a Chinese slaughtered a com- | cupation for a period from 5th connection with the death of A during their sleep, hacking their The SHARE REGISTER and June, 1930 to 31st December, 1931, Russian newsvendor named Pro-heads from their bodies. An elderly |

of Accounts for the year ended 19th day of May, 1930, for the oc-on preliminary examination in the 31st December, 1920.

TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 16th May, 1930, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, 26th April, 1930.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE

the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and the Statements of Account to 31st December, 1929, and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the

Society will be CLOSED from 12th MAY to 30th MAY, Both Days inclusive.

plete household of seven persons

Chinese

woman, her

married

of the piece or parcel of ground at koptehik at Tientsin on April 22,

The accused, a woman of slight Ma Tau Kok and known as Kow. loon Quarry Lot No. 3, containing build and evidently labouring under daughter, two tiny children, a nurse about 4.13 acres, as shown coloured great emotion, was accommodated mah, a slave girl and a man ser- red on plan, signed by the Director with a chair in the dock.

vant were butchered in deliberate of Public Works and dated, 4th! The Registrar (Major G. A. Her-manner as the murderer went from April, 1930, at an upset annual feebert, M.C.) said that after evidence bedroom to bedroom, wielding, the of $1,200, but subject to certain had been given of the manner in

horrible kitchen implement. conditions which can be ascertain which the prisoner was handed into ed at the office of the Director of the custody of that Court and Public Works.

evidence had been given, as to her disappeared from the scene of the Each tender must be accom-identity he proposed to ask for

terrible erime, together with a slave panied by a receipt to the effect week's remand to enable the neces-girl with whom he is supposed to that the Tenderer has deposited sary evidence to be collected. in the Colonial Treasury a sum a pledge of the boxe (of $100 as

idcs of his offer, which sum shall

The Government does not bind itself to accept the highest or any tender.

HAROLD T. CREASY,

2nd May, 1930.

Photo on Passport.

4

1

The police have so far been un- able to trace the murderer who

have been in love.

The crime is unequalled for ferocity and cold-blooded delitern- tion. The motive is believed to

Sleeplessness

لا

Your

Jour sleeplessness is dueto the weakened condition of

your nerves, but once they are restored to a state of quiet health and strength by just a few wechs' use of Sanat- ogen, sleepless hours will soon be banished.

*Insomnia of lang daration had produced great debility. Sanat- egan come prescribed and at the end of a fortnight the improve- ment was marked and sleep inas normal,'* wrica physician in the "General" Practitioner,"

Strengthen your nerves and body by a few weeks' courte of Sanatogen and ga back to sound, healthy sleep.

3

SANATOGEN

The True Tonic-Food

Obtainable at all Chemists and Stores,

have been revenge on the part of refused permission from his em the household cook for having been

ployer to marry one of the slave girls in the house. This girl has not been found, but whether shoones, one of the latter being used coolie. The little fellow explained

awilling witness remains a mys- was a party to the crime or an as a store room.

Disappeared With Slave Girl. tery.

Living in the house Small Boy, Only Survivor,

were Mr. Kwoh Zau-leong, father or grand- But for the fortunate escape of father of the majority of the vic- one of the small children in the tims. He was in hospital when the house, who had been spared er over terrible crime was committed. Mr. looked by the man with the axe, the Kwoh Jr. is a student at one of the crime might have remained undis- Chinese colleges and was also away covered for some considerable time. on Thursday night, it being his cus The only surviver from the death tom to sleep at the college except house was a four-year-old boy who during week-ends. Mrs. Kwoh Sr. made his way into the alley shortly and Mrs. Kwoh Jr. both resided in attention of a refuse coolie by his three infant children, two slave the house, together with the latter's

house and, receiving no answer to cries. The coolfe proceeded to the girls, an amah and two cooks.

In his baby language that "Mummio is cold." The coolie investigated and made the gruesome discovery of the dead assistant cook.

the

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

Major Herbert said in the daily that the FIFTY-SEVENTH be forfeited to the Crown, if the issue of the Peking and Ticntain ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING Tenderer refuses to carry out his Times of the 23rd inst. it was of the Society will be held at the tender and comply with the condi-alleged that a woman of the name HEAD OFFICE, Union Building. tions, should the tender be accept of "Yekaterina Khadler"" had mur-

30th ed.

dered a Russian newsvendor named Uong Kong, on FRIDAY, MAY, 1930, at 11 o'clock A.M., for

Form of tender and further Prokuplchik the night before. On particulara can be obtained from the afternoon of the 23rd, Mra the office of the Director of Public J. R. Watson informed him that she Works.

was of the opinion that the "Yeka. terina Khudlei" referred to in the was in fact a Mrs. daily paper Catherina Hadley. On receipt of this information witness was in Director of Public Works. structed by H.B.M. Consul-General to proceed to No. 1 Special Bureau Ito enquire whether the Mrs Catherina Hadley whose photograph GENERAL NOTICES

appeared on her passport was in fact the person who was alleged to HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

have committed the murder report and witness that the person charged was

fore they were removed to the mor- The family retired before mid-tuary in the Fire Brigade rescue FIFTH and SIXTH EXTRA RACE appeared on the passport. A letter fronted with the ghastly sight of that the murders were committed

his knocking,.cntered. He was con- night on Thursday and it is believed van. MEETINGS to be held on SATUR was accordingly written to the headless body just inside the first

The senior Mr. Kwoh and his son DAY, 17th May and on SATUR-Chinese authorities stating that the

shortly before ono o'clock. The wore summoned, the former coming room on the ground floor. The NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN DAY, 7th June and MONDAY: person arrested was a British sub-ceolie waited no longer to investi-police believe that the man respon from a sick bed in the hospital, and

the SIXTY - FIRST 9th June, 1930. (weather perject and requesting that she be

mitting) may be obtained at the handed over to that Court. At 2 sate, but ran to Avenue Road and for the killings is the No. 1 the latter from his college. It was Race Course, Hong Kong Club and pra, on the 24th inst. she was hand-reported the discovery to à patrol-cook who has disappeared together through them that a possible motive Causeway Bay Stables.

ling policeman. ed over to witness by the Chinese Entries to CLOSE at Noon on authorities and he handed her over

CANTONESE

AND MANDARIN LANGUAGE and characters TAUGIIT by Mr. SHIU. Special rates and books, Twenty-three years' experience. Rapid7 progress ensured.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,.

General Manager. Hong Kong, 5th May, 1930.

COMPANY, LTD.

ed.

The Commissioner informed

(Incorporated in Hong Kong). DRAFTRYPROGRAM? for 'the in fact the person whose photograph

Specihl explana. THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE tions in English given to beginners. Particular coaching in pronunciation. Terms moderate. First class refer. ences. Numerous successes at examinations. No. 16, Wyndham Street, Top Floor,

SPECIAL PHYSICAL CULTURE CLASS.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its MME. BARONELLI. Special atten- HEAD OFFICE, Union Building, tion given to stout and stiff Indies who desire to regain their youthful Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 30th MAY, figure.

cfter daylight, and attracted the

When the police arrived and pro-

with the elder of the slave girls.

Used Axe And Chopper. The two cooks slept on the ground

As soon as detectives from Bub- bling Well Road Station ascertained the extent of the tragedy high police officials proceeded to scene, among whom was the Com- missioner of Police, Major F. W Gerrard, and members of the Special Branch. During the morning, the Chief Procurator of the Shanghai premises and viewed the bodies be- Special District Court inspected the

for the crima was obtained.

Special treatment given to 1930, at 11.15 AM, for the purpose | THURSDAY, 8th May and at noon to the Constable of the Court. Hoceeded from the first floor to the floor in the small room adjoining the elder of the two slave girls, but per- elderly ladies for renewing the youth-of receiving the Report of the Direc-or. THURSDAY, 29th May, 1980, did not know whether accused wish. rooms above, they saw a. shambles. kitchen. It is the theory of the ful appearance of the face. This tors and the Statements of Account treatment can be accomplished in six days. Peking Bilg., 270, Nathan to 31st December, 1929, and of de- Road, Kowloon.

claring Dividends, etc.

HOME TUITION.

WESTOVER-STEVENAGE. Within en hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood. SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention. For Particulars apply tag

MISS RUTH CULLEY

(Camb. Higher Local). Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER

(National Frodel Higher Certificate.)

ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE

For the best Permanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Fedder Bldg. Ist floor. Room 5 Tel. 25169. Opposite entrance H.K. Hotel.

JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE

Fine Assortment of

LOOSE - LEAF STAMP ALBUMS with spring back and potent stops from $2. to $22 (ench.

GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Post Cards, Garden Seeds, Toya, etc., etc

10, WYNDHAM STREET,

P.O. Bax No. 620... HONG KONG.

PHOTO - SUPPLIES

Kodaks and Cameras,

Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enterging, ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES Price Moderate.

"A Trial Order is Bolicited,

A SEK & CO. Tel, No. 23469.

26 A Des Voeur Road C Boobarde Hond Kozz

ed to ask him any question but

No less than six

dead bodies, police that the senior of the two, was purely formal evidence and she some in their horrible mutila evidentally with his plans well made, tion, were found in various positions could always cross-examine at any

was slippery with blood. There represented by counsel.

was not a living thing in the house

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the LAMMERT BROS. time during the trial. She was not, three different rooms. The floor crept to the kitchen whilst the rest

Company will be CLOSED from 12th MAY to 30th MAY, Both Days Inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 5th May, 1930,

!

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS,

– Public Auctions-

Accused said the ad not wish

to ask the witness any questions.

Major Herbert: I propose to call Mr. Watson to prove the identity of

the accused.

except the police. In one room was found a heavy bloodstained axe. In other room the police came across the other murderous implement used in the killing a small kitchen chopper with a razor edge. It had HE Undersigned have received Mr. J. R. Watson said he knew been thrown on the floor beside the

Auction

Evidence of Identity.

cf the household wore asleep and secured the sharp chopper and an be with which he set about his foul

purpose.

BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE I instructions to Ball by Cubileuccured wife knew beer thrusen on der birderer upstairs.

COMPANY, LTD. (Incorporated in Hong Kong).

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

NOTICE

ON

FRIDAY, the 9th May, 1930 commencing at 2.30 pm,

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE.

Comprising:-

He first proceeded to his own on and, with one slash, severed head of the assistant cook. Not satisfied with that, he drove the axe into the skull. He then proceeded

In the small room under the part (produced) belonged to her and made his escape into the night.

drying stage he found the nurse- was in her possession. It was hand. The only evidence of robbery was amah fast asleep with the five-year cd over to witness and he kept it, the fact that a small suitcase had

old boy, Creeping noiselessly into Mr. E. McVeigh, Constable of the been opened and some of the con- the room he attacked the two steep Court, said on the afternoon of the tents, believed to have been money ing figures. With one swing of the 24th inst. he received the prisoner had been taken.

Heads' Severed From Bodies. Clutching his two bloody instru-

It appears that some time ago tho No. 1 cook had wished to marry the

mission had been refused. Threats had been made at the time, but were disregarded. It was well known

anxious to marry, and their joint that both the girl and cook were disappearance lends colour to the belief that both were implicated in the killing. Whether the girl was

unwilling witness to the crimes or, whether she was an accessory, remains to be proven.

The Kwoh family were natives of Kwangsi and the elder man was, at one time, a prominent official in the Yuan Shih-kai government. He has shice been living in comparative retirement.

crime became known to the neigh- As soon as the knowledge of the hours and other residents in the TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the SIXTY-FOURTH

into custody on instructions received The police were staggered at the chopper he severed the child's head, vicinity, a large crowd of curious and with the axe made a horrible Chinese crowded outside the alley ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

from the Registrar of the Court terrible scene. Hardened as they attack on the amah. of the Company will be held at its

Both were in Avenue Road and there was a He warned the prisoner that any are to the callous crimes of kidnap in the same bed, and had been collection of the morbidly curious HEAD OFFICE, Union Building,

thing she might say could be used pers, armed robbers and other killed whilst asleep as there was no in the vicinity during the whole Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 30th MAY,

as evidence and she simply replied Chinese criminals, they had never

algn of struggle.. 1930, at 11.20 AM., for the purpose Tenk and Glass Cabinets, Glass that she had received ill-treatment been confronted with a succession of

day-Shanghai Times. of receiving the Report of the Direc- Bookcases, Cottage Planos, Gramo- in the hands of the Chinese Police murders, as deliberate and 'fiendish tora and the Statements of Account phones, Records, Desks, Chester-Authorities and that she had reas those committed in the house off ments the murderer then made his to 31st December, 1929, and of de-field Couches and Armchairs, peatedly asked them to communi Avenue Road. At first it appeared way to the next bedroom which was cinring Dividends, etc..

Xylophone, Typewriters, Wardrobe cate with that Consulate-General to be the work of a frenzied mad at the head of a small fight of The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Trunks, Electric Table Lamps, Pic- which they refused to do.

man, but the fact that, with two stairs. Here, he found the senior Company will be CLOSED from 12th tures, Carpets, Water Colours, Major Herbert: With reference to exceptions, no evidences of struggle Mrs. Kwok in bed and a young slave MAY to 30th MAY, Both Days Curios, etc., etc.

what the Constable says was said could be found, indicated that tho incluaive.

Teak and Iron Bedsteads with to him by the accused, accused was seven killings had been committed girl, 13 years of age, sleeping on a By Order of the Board, mattresses, Teak. Double Ward interviewed by Dr. Grice and she with deadly cunning and uncamy killed first is not known. Both camp bed Which of the two ho

PAUL LAUDER,

robes, with Mirrors, Chests of made no complaint to the doctor of precision, which was not the work were found with their heads almost General Manager.

Drawers, Dressing tables, Toilet being ill-treated at all and the of a person labouring under stress severed from the body, the slave girl Hong Kong, 6th May, 1930.

Crockery, Linen, Curtains, Wash doctor found no evidence of her cf emotion, stande, Hatstands, etc., etc.

A pair that will win any hand

SHEAFFER'S

PENS AND PENCILS

Solé Distributor

THE SUN CO., LTD.

A return to the actor-manager system is the declared object of an organisation formed under the title of the Famoirs Players' Guild.

one killed when a Glasgow tram Sixty persons were injured and car left the rails, and overturned, crashing into a building.

A woman passenger in an gero-

having been ill-treated. I under- The killer must have crept from lying with her hand behind her head Teak Dining Tables, Dining stand that the doctor asked her one victim to another, slashing their as though stili sleeping. The elder Chairs, Ice Chests, Teak Side The doctor certainly found no trace throats with the axe or chopper, and woman was found lying on the floor plane which crashed from a height boarde, Dinner Waggons, Dinner of her having been 10-treated and stifling their death screams with bed where, it is presumed, she rolled of 2,000ft, near Manchester escap Crockery, Glass Ware, Electric she made no complaint.

from the bed when left by theed with facial injuries. murderer. Tables Fans, Ceiling Fans, Vases,

Meaning of Ill-Treatment.

killed beside their guardians, but A door led from this room into Cameras, Violin, Mandoline, Sew- The witness: Pardon me, Your whether before or after the older that-occupied by the mother of the ing Machine, Books, etc., etc.

Honour. Prisoner did not say she people, it may never be known. It ALAD

1 Kelvinator

2 New Carpets

7 Rugs

and

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE including:

Joss Tables, Chairs,`Jardinieres, Cabinets, Tenpoys, 'Opium Stools, Overmantel, etc., etc.

On View from THURSDAY, the 8th May, 1080.

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong 5th May, 1980.

The ORIENTAL BOOKS of LOVE

TM KAMA SUTRA, of Valiyayi.

ANANGA RANGA, The Hindu'

Art of Love,

Fricus & Dollars

TW PERFUMED GARDEN,

Frices Dollars",\"

Edkrest ordaza to? JASNE LIBRAIRÍN “ASTRÁ”;

$1$, Ra* GAME » PARIS (te)

clothing. The two children were

had been beaten but by ill-treatment is almost inconceivable that one man children, who was sleeping with one she meant she had not been giver could carry out his mission of of her infant sons in a double bed slaughter from one room to another, been taken from the cot and was with a cot alongside. The child had food to eat for two days.i

Major Herbert: I would like to in a small house, without disturbing found dead in the bed, killed by the apply for a week's remand at this sume of the inmates before their stage to enable the evidence to be collected.

His Honour: This hearing will be resumed on May 2nd.

bench...

tura came for death. The evidence, same deadly Instrument, the head however, indicates that such a thing lying apart from the body.

Mother Made Struggle. happened.

The mother must have been

Behind Majestic Hotel.

At this juncture a small brown It appears that, usually, there are awakened, for her body was found paper package was brought into the eight or nine persons residing in the a few feet from the bed with the Court and placed on His Honour's house, which is one of a number of marks of the murderer's chopper on typically Chinese constructed Chin- the neck and head. Evidently she bad made some sort of struggle for, Major Herbert said he understood ose buldings situated at M 1169 In addition to slashing the throat, that what had just been brought in Teen Tuck Li Alley, off Avenue the murderer had cut off one of the was the knife with which this crime Road, at the rear of the Majestic was committed and asked that. It Hotel. It lies some distance off the

The young mother was the last be taken into the custody of the main road and at the end of the lane victim. But, there was still another Entrance is effected through two

Court, at once.

His Honour: Where, has it come

from? Inspector Lawless: From the Chin esa Court in the City, Your Honour. The Commissioner of No. 1 Special Area gent for it

The Court then adjournedP. & T. Times.

"

hands.

The Holiday Season

is now with us. To enjoy it to

the full, and to avert ill effects from strange or badly cooked foods, ship amells, train travel, be sure and carry with you a vial of

PINKETTES

heavy wooden barred doors into the person alive in the horse. The usual small reception and dining third son of the Mrs. Kwoh Jnr., for room on the ground floor. A malome unaccountable reason, escaped courtyard gives off the entrance. To the fury of the killer. It is sur- mised that he had been spared, duó the left of the dining room there is

Dainty little laxative and liver another larger room of the type to the fact that he had been a used by Chinese for entertaining. favourite of the elder slave girl in regulators, Pinkettes quickly dis- whose care he had always been left pel constipation, biliousness, At the rear is another small room where he had been sleeping at the nausea, sick headaches, keep the In which the cook and assistant time of the killings may never be skin clear, the breath sweet, en cook were accustomed to sleep. ̈ Thế

kitchen opens off this room known. But he made his way into sure daily regularity. At chem It is claimed that recent develop feet away the alley the same morning when ists everywhere at 360 cents por

daylight came, mente in the construction of giant. On the next floor there, is a small was the crying of the infant an

viul Pinkettes

aircraft five solved:

blém room under the drying stage, kad 17 bodied down this, sha

te

of the big gun aeroplane.

tve large bedrooms and two small

"the attent

KEEP YOU WELL.