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TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1930.

EUROPEAN LADY MURDERED.

· ́(Continued from Page

Graphic Story,

Sergeant Madgwick 'will' «re« ceive the sympathy of the whole community in his tragic bereave ment.

The

funeral of Mrs. Madgwick

will take place this afternoon,

o'clock...

An enjoyable evening. was spent at Whitfield Barracks last night, being the occasion of a Whist Drive About

80 persons were present." Prizes were iven by the follow ing-Ladles prize-Mrs. Murray; Genta' prize Mr. "Matheson; Consolation prize-Mrs. Freeman.

It appears that after taking Passing the fonament at about B Another of these énjoyable func-

charge of the armoury unknown to tions will be held on Monday next. others at the station, the mad. In.

A Capable Constable. dian posted himself on the veran-killed by the amok" as he gal The Sikh constable who was dah with rifles, revolvers and alantly rushed at him in an attempt Signaller Wild, of Wellington machine gun. and awaited the re-to disarm hits was named Chaji! Barracks, the holder of a learner'a turn of the European, officers." licence, was yesterday charged be fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, at the Madgwick he sniped at him with age and had been in the Force

As soon as he saw Sergeant Kowloon Magistracy, with riding a rifle. Sergeant Madgwick, who native of Jandi village, Hoshiar Singh. He was only 26 years of his motor cycle on the Castle Peak was armed - only

since June 18, 1926. He was a Road, which is a prohibited area revolver, returned the fire, at the with a service for learner drivers, and also for same time taking cover. The re- November 3, 1929, and was a keen, pure. Chajji Singh had been sta- rounding a corner without keeping volver

tloned at Lok Ma Chau since as far as possible to the left hand Then the murdered Indian con-officer, who was well regarded by Ineffective intelligent and capable young side of the road: The Magistrate stable, who imposed fines of $5 on each charge. Madgwick. broke cover an at-

was with Sergeant his.. superior officers, Europeans

shots

were

of

tempted to rush into the station, well as Indians. Several prominent travellers Bullno doubt with the intention

The Assailant. ed from San Francisco aboard the tackling his mad compatriot. Heles 26 years of age.

Dalip Singh, the "amok," was Chichibu Maru, amongst others Mr. Was allowed to reach as far as from Birk village, Ludhiana, and and Mrs. H. S. Patten, and their the entrance before he was shot had been in the Police Force sinc

He came two daughters Miss Mary and dead. Elizabeth Patten, and their son,

At the first sound of firing, Mrs. r duty at Lok Ma Chau ten days September 4, 1925. He was sent Ceorge,

of " Alhambra,

Madgwick came out of her quar after Lane Sergeant Madgwick, California. Mr. H. L. Andreeters to see what was happening, on May 15 of this year.

and this caused her life. Had she been a lady, of longer rest will also

The funeral of the two Indian's take place this after- neon. The bodies will be taken

اله

of London, known

among commercial circles throughour

the Orient, also sailed for dence here and more experienced. Hong Kong, returning to London Police Officer told a China to the Sikh Temple at Morrison after a trip around the world by a man this morning, she would Gap Road for cremation. way of the United States.

have locked herself in her room. as the Chinese women in the sta

A Previous Tragedy. tion did, and would have escaped tragically, occurred at the Tai- A similar affair; which also end-

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SOUTHERN CROSS.

CO-PILOTS OF KINGSFORD. SMITH TO TAKE HELM.

Among the passengers

to leave ed with her life. Up to the timeo Follec Station. also in the New the Chichibu

Mara at Shanghai that Mrs. Madgwick made-her ap- Territories, in 1917 when an In- were seven college students of the pearance, the mad Indian's attendian constable third annual "Hands Across the tion was concentrated on the out- Pacific Tour," led by Carroll Mside of the station, and he had aphe had killed Sergeant Glendin- went amok and finkly committed Powers, Professor of Economics at parently not given

suleide after Modesto Junior College, who is ac- those inside.

a thought toning. brother of Mr. companied by his wife. The party

W. S. Riddled with Bullets.

Glendinning, traffic superintendent will visit Peking and Mukden be- As soon as he saw

of the Hong Kong Tramways. fore returning to Japan by the way however, the Indian made up his the lady, of Korea. The group was met by mind to kill her. soon be calmed. True, the Im-Mr. Egbert Hayes, student secre- his machine gun round, he fire

and, swinging perial Airways disaster to the tary of the Y.M.C.A. at Shanghal into the interior of City of Ottawa in July last year

and adviser to Dr. David Yui.

Sergean Madgwick's quarter, making seemed to be preceded and suc-

wide awoop with the fire-spitting ceeded by many reports of flying gambling debt.

Stated to have been due to which Mrs. Madgwick was,

weapon. The door of the room in fatalities but most of these were occurred at Yaumati yesterday: many of the bullets found marks

a stabbing affair riddled with bullet holes under extraordinary

The wounded man is a coolie named on the walls inside the room. circum-

Santa Maria, Cal., July 17. stances, as distinct from ordinary West Point.

Chan Hing, living in North Street,

The trimotored Fokker monoplane passenger carrying circumstances. Kwong Wah Hospital with tr but appeared to have lost

He is now in the the room door against the Indian over Arctic

The lady succeeded in locking Southern Cross, which has flown What is more, it should be re-serious wounds in the left side and presence of mind after that, for, fornia

wastes, which has: her spanned the Pacific, from Call- me bored that we are now at the taken out a warrant for his assall bathroom, where she would have England, which has soared from

one in the head. The Police have instead of taking refuge

tà Austraffe, which has very height of the flying season ant's arrest.

in the droned from the Antipodes to in Europe, especially the stunt-the West Point coalie was doing in tried to find shelter in the room crossed the United States, is about

It is not clear what been safe from

the bullets, she Ireland to New York, and which has flying and record attacking sea-Yaumati, but it is believed that he itself, and she was hit by one of to make another spectacular flight. son, and that the number of me-from San Mui and was attacked.

went over to collect a gambling dest the bullets from the sweeping chines in commission all the year

Captain Charles Kingsford-Smith, machine gun,

When found, her famed Australian airman who cir body as huddled on the floor cled the globe in two years in the

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round is increasing by leaps and Mr. H. L. Andree, who represents against the wall on the far side Southern Cross, announced to-day. bounds. We feel sure that statis- Mesars. Carsons Ltd., the tics of ratio, did they exist, would

weli- from the door through which the that the Southern Cress is to under- known Chocolate Manufacturers rain of bullets had entered the re-assure the public that even-al-don, arrived

of Bristol, Glasgow, and

take a flight from Harbour Grace, Lon-room. though the number of fatalities by

here last evening

Newfoundland, to Amsterdam, Hol- the.

Sergeant at Bay, New

land, Motor seems to be increasing the mean Chichibu Maru from San Francisco machine gun sent

Ship

The sweeping motion of the a few shot:

materially.

Assurance

News in Brief,

route.

There was

shot

some excitement on

on to the back of the taxi and thus

sea.

prevented It, from toppling Into the weapons, in caso

even to be eareful how. they fred their Subsequently a break-down

some innocent gang arrived and, with the assis-wait until, weary of holding out. person be hit. Thus they had to tance of a lighter, succeeded in lift the Indian committed suicide by ing the taxt back to the road. Not shooting himself. much damage was done.

not be aboard.. He is salling for But Captain Kingsford-Smith will Australia soon, to be "done with

LISBON PLOT.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "Chine Mail;" July 22, 1920.)

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risk of dying is diminishing most Mr. Andree, who has been through over the verandah also, into the perilous adventuring."

several States of America where open, where Sergeant Madgwick As a general rule it may be said found things utterly hopeless with effect of keeping him at bay radioman on the recent flight of Messrs. Carsons are doing business. was under cover, and this had the Saul, Navigator and J. W. Strange, Evert Van Dick, co-pilot, J. P. that a machine flying well within the inauguration of the new tariff whilst Hong Kong. Tuesday, July 22, 1930. its capacity, over

a properly possible In

which he says makes business imout his foul intention to murder nock, Ireland, to Roosevelt Field, the Indian was carrying the Southern Cross from Port Mar- established route and with the re- From Hong Kong Mr. Andree yoes

the United States, the lady. quisite ground cervice, is indeed on to Singapore, Fenang. Bangkok into the room for nearly a minute, flight to Amsterdam.

After firing the machine gun at Harbour Graco are to attempt the New York, with a refuelling stop as safe as the flying people insist. Rangoon and other Indian Ports, the Indian returned his full atten- date for Moreover, in considering the risk

returning to London, by the Suez tion to the outside and sniped at been definitely set-United Press.

As yet no Aviation circles in particular of travelling by air the passenger

the proposed fight bas everything within sight, and a and all who are "air-minded" in should not remember only the ab-

few passing motor general will learn with intense solute risk to his life but should the water front shortly before 3 tunately no one was hit.

cars had bullets rent after them, but for- sorrow the tidings of another also take into account the net risk p.m. yesterday, when a taxicab sud- the cars containing the rescuers When disaster to an air liner, with its between flight and other trans. denly shot out of its place on the arrived, they were also subjected toll of prominent British

parking stand near the Star ferry

Lisbon, Yesterday. pas-port by which he must undertake wharf and headed for the seawall case also, it was fortunate that to a rain of bullets; and. In their

A Government communique states sengers. There is no need to a necessary journey. In the case, The driver was not at the wheel, he none of the bullets found a mark.three journalists, who were charged

that twelve minimise the grave number of for instance, of the French rail. having left the vehicle on account in the station it would not have conspiracy to overthrow the Gov persona, including aerial fatalities. By giving them ways, the net risk would turn under the

Had the mad Indian been alone with belag, implicated in the recent of the heat to stand in the shade been so difficult to fish him, but snment, have been deported to the all reasonable prominence

aout to be a very different thing to brakes became disengaged is not was in the station and it was not

verandah, How the greater spur will be applied to the the gross risk.

the knowledge that Mrs. Madgwick Evolution of safety devices, while people are not really so-mathema- but the rear part held on the edge wife and the amah, it was impos But perhaps clear. The front wheels of the taxi known whether she was alive or

Azores-Reuter

such is the spirit of man that tical about such matters. They and the vehicle swung dangerously sible for those outside to throw r over the praya wall, dead, besides the interpreter,. his there is no need to apprehend leave auch calculation, possibly, Several coolies dashed up and held bomb, and they had that he may be daunted no matter mainly to the life how many setbacks may be en-actuary's type of mind. countered in course of the quest for safe flying. In point of fact, the wonder is that the fatal casualties are as few as they are, considering the youth of flying as a science and the almost in credible progress that has been made since the days of the Wright Brothers and the other early pioneers. It is safe to say that if fatal flying accidents were ten times as frequent as they actual Tong Ho (16); described as ly are there would be no lack of married woman, Hring at 7, Cheung men to carry on the crusade of day taken to the Kwong Wah Hos in Northern Rhodesia, reports an- Lok Street, first floor, was yester

Bulawayo, June 12. conquest of the air, although, of pital suffering from injuries. re- other occasion of a lion climbing loagh. Her husband preceded her

A correspondent at Chigamba, course, fewer people would trustceived when the accidentally fell a tree. themselves in the air as passen where she was engaged in putting maize to batch wild pigs, caught at was only about six weeks ago

Into the street from the verandab, gers for the ordinary purposes of out clothes to dry,

A wire trap, set In growing leave on January 2 this year, and transportation.

young lion which, in panic at finde that Mrs. Madgwick arrived here The No. f typhoon cignal was Unfortunately there are

Sentenced to death for murder in the poles and rushed away, the el with him at Lok Ma Chau the new spirit of co-operation bo Ing its head in the trap uprooted to join her husband, and had liv hoisted at 8.85 p.m. Thanks to statistics, as far as we are aware, 128, a Chinese named Fung Tini, noose tightening as he ran Claw since her arrival, p giving flying accidents through Governor, the sentence being re-the lion climbed 15ft. Into the tree who is a native, of Gresmore. Co published four special editions

who was reprieved by H.E. the marks on the branches show that

tween the observatory authorities aut the world in relation to the duced to one of life imprisonment, and then either fell or jumped. Louth, Ireland, was formerly an giving the public the latest officini Lance Sergeant C. S. Madgwick, and the Press, the China Mail number of machine in flying Jall yesterday. The inquest was the fork of the branches, and the taining his discharge here, hehe Inst of the tramcars, which died in the hospital at the Victoria The aty pole was firmly wedged In ERA. In the Royal Navy. Obnows of the typhoon's movement. conmission. If there were we to have been held by Mr. H. R. Hon was suspended in mid-air and Joined the Police Force on Augu have served the Colony for so feel sure that any feeling now Butters in the afternoon, but on was found dead the next morning 1, 1928. On his return from many years, has disappeared. inclined to gain ground that air account of the Indisposition of the At a farmhouse in the same dis-Home leave in January this year. The Tramways Company Intend to Are again, betontin medical officer who had held the trict Hon entered a bedroom and he was stationed for some time in change their name to the Hong post mortem examination, the in- killed a dog.under the bed in which Shamshulpe, and was transferred Kong, Kowloon; and New Terri

postponed for a week, the farm manager was sleeping. to Lok Ma Chau on May B torles Motor Bus Company,

no

Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magis.. Luk Man-po appeared before Mr. tracy this morning en a charge of ton years from August 8 last year. disobeying his banishment order of TREE-CLIMBING LION He pleaded that he came here bo-

cause his wife had been kidnapped. FA. MANAGER'S NARROW He was sentenced to eight months' hard labour.

ESCAPE.

THE VICTIMS. Mrs. Madgwick Only Six Weeks Here.

troops of the Garrison, there is a Correspondence: - Amongst the constant demand For Tennla racquets and balls, owing to the heavy prices which have to be pald for them, smaller unita especially find it hard to keep themselves supplied. Perhaps some of your. Mrs. Madgwick, formerly Miss have no further use, but which readers have some for which they Dora Winifred Fry, daughter of etill could be used. If so I should Mr. V. C. Fry, of 128, Somers be extremely grateful if they Road, Southsea, was only 25 years would entrust them to me of age at the time of her death. disposal-M. W. SHEWELL, Chap-

She was married to Lance Ser-lain to the Forces.

for

1929, whilst he was Home on fur- geant Madgwick at St. Peter's Church, Southsea, on October 28.

to Hong Kong, returning from

Ten Years Hence.

From the "China Mail" of

July 22, 1940,3