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"THOSE EYES!

THOSE LIPS!

LOOK AT 'EM I

They turned a house- hold upside down!

stood the town's most jaded swains on their ears ! What do you, think they'll do to you?

HEAR

BAD SISTER

CARL LAEMKLE

prevents

BOOTH TARKINGTON'S ewashing story of the girl who couldn't be good.

NEXT CHANGE

Fearless and Free-

he rode the trail of ad-

venture.

A

George O'Brien in great drama of good shots in bad lands, of a

·lone hero with his horse and dog-and of a girl "he rescued!

FAIR WARNING

Fox Movietone

Outdoor Romance

-directed by ALFRED WERKER

Louise Huntington":

Michell Harris

George Brent

Nat Pendleton

FOX

with GEORGE O'BRIEN

The

Mail

ESTABLISHED 1845.

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931.

RETORT TO DEATH

SENTENCE

"It Ought to Have Been Done 20 Years Ago.”

SCENE IN COURT.

"Thank you, sir; it ought to have been done twenty years ago.".

This extraordinary statement was made by William Shelley, aged fifty-alx, a labourer, to Mr. Justice Swift at the Old Bailey after he and Oliver Newman, aged sixty- one, another labourer, were sen. tenced to death for murdering Herbert William Ayres, whose part ly charred body was found on A | rubbish dump at Edgware.

The case for the prosecution was that Ayres, nicknamed "Sticker," was attacked with sticks or an axe, and that after he had been killed his body was placed on a burning dump,

Nawman said that Ayres was killed in a fight which Ayres had started by pushing him down. No sticks were used, but only ate They were muddled with drink at Shelley, giving evidence, when asked what eort. If man Ayres was, replied, "He was like myself, a bit of a drunkard."

the time.

He added that Ayres was a big man and quarrelsome when upset. It was untrue that he (Shelley) had an axe with him on the night of the tragedy. He and Newman had nine or ten plats of beer aplece

that night.

Mr. Justice Swift, in summing up, pointed out that if the Jury thought that Ayres was killed in a fight, and there was no intention to kill him, they might find the ac- cused guilty of manslaughter.

If they thought that the accused men intended to do Ayres some grievous hurt,, and that he died from their punishment, then they were guilty of murder.

The jury, after an absence of nearly an hour, found Newman and Shelley guilty of murder.

PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL

RESTORATION.

VOLUNTEER CORPS. ALL AILMENTS UNDER.

Orders for the Coming Week.

LECTURE ON MONDAY.

Orders by Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Bird, D.S.0, 0.B.E., commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defenco Corps, are issued as under-

PARADES.

Corps Band,

The Band will parade for Band Practice at Headquarters on Mon- day.

This is very important practice and must be taken advantage of.

Battery,

There will be a lecture by Cap- tein S. E. Gonder, M.C., R.A., on Monday at 6.30 pm, at Headquar- tors. N.CO.'s especially are re quested to attend.

Corps Signals. Parade at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Friday for Signalling Instruction.

Musketry practices will be fired at Peak Range on Sunday, August 30. Firing will commence at 9.80 a.m. Uniform is optional but equip ment must be worn. It is re- quested that all members of the Corps Signals will attend, as these practices are preliminary to classl fication. Rines should be drawn on Friday August 28.

Armoured Car Company. Car Section.-Parade on Monday at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. Those detailed will proceed te Kennedy Road to fire Part I.M.G. Remainder M.G. instruction at Headquarters.

Instructors Class-Parade at Headquarters on Friday, Septem:

ber 4 at 5.30 p.m.

Machine Gun Company. The following will parade on Tuesday at Headquarters:-

"D" Section, No. 2 Platoon under the Adjutant and Captain EJ.. Mitchell,

N.C.O.' Under Sergt. Terry, Recruits under C.S.M. Slattery.

Portuguese Company.

All N.CO's will attend the N.C.O.'e examination at Headquar- ters on Fridays, August 28 and September 4.

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SUN.

Evidence in Serious Charge.

KOWLOON QUARREL.

A charge of manslaughter was brought by the Crown against Chan Kam, a stoker employed by the Gas: Works at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Fraser, for the death of a man named Li Fat, at Nathan Road on August 4 last..

The Public Prosecutor (Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy) appeared for the Crown, whilst Mr. G. S. Hugh Jonéa defended.

Outlining the case Mr. Fitzroy said that the accused and the victim met, and apparently had à contro- veray which resulted in a fight be tween the two. Li Fat received some blows on the head and later died. The accused, when examin- ed, was found to have some marke on his knuckles but whether these marks had any connection with the. fight, he was unable to say:

The Crown might show by evid ence to be given, that the defendant was guilty of manslaughter, or it might show it to be no crime at all. There was a possibility that It was a case of self-defence.

Medical evidence would show that the victim was in a very bad condition. He was suffering from allments of "almost every descrip tion under the sun," and was ap parently one of "those propositions which any insurance company would turn down." The injuries received by the victim,If inflict. ed on a normal person, would not have been serious at all and that was why the Crown had brought a charge of manslaughter against the defendant instead of a charge of murder.ZA

Chang Choi, a youth, "deposed that. he saw two men pushing each other. One fell down and then an Indian constable came on the scene.

Lo Man-so, a' Police Reservist, The Officers commanding the un- said he was passing in a bus when. dermentioned Units

will

issue he saw two men fighting under a The their Orders separately to their verandah in Nathan Road. commands

Indian constable stopped the fight, and then one of the men fell to the ground.

1. Engineer Company...A 2. Machine Gun Troop.

Care Of Arms.

The work of restoring the roof Cases have recently' occurred of of the eastern chapel of Peter-rifice Kaving been returned to Store borough Cathedral is now in pro-with badly corroded barrels due to gress. The damage by the death neglect.

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watch beetle.has been found to be In future any further cases "will of serious character. When the be dealt with under para 20 of lead was stripped from the roof it the Volunteer Ordinance 1920; was discovered

that the main the cost of a new barrel will be beams had been attacked to such borne by the individual concerned. an extent that they might have coli lapsed at any time upon the stone groining. The roof is regarded as one of the most beautiful of its kind in the country; Its fan vault- ing and the gracefulness of its construction have few rivals. The repairs now being undertaken should make the roof safe for many years.

A Chinese, describing himself as

a musician, also testified to seeing the fight.

The case was adjourned until Saturday, August 29.

.No. 1860 Pte. R. A. Bates is trans- ferred from No. 2 to No. 3 Platoon, Machine Gun Company with effect from August 19.

Struck Off The Strength. Permitted to resign-No. 1483 Pte. R. H. D. Wade, No. 1 Platoon, as from 21.8.31.

Rißes And Bayonets.. The' undermentioned have not yet returned their rifles and/or bayonete to Store for annual in- spection, in accordance with Corps Having Left the Colony-No. Orders No. 24/31 of June 6, 1931: 1584 Pte. R. G. Edwardes-Jones,

Corps Signals L/Cpl. A.Tar-No. 1. Platoon as from 29.2.31, No., buck

1535 Pte. J. G. H. Lander, No. 4 Platoon, as from 2.3.31.

Machine Gun Company, Tere. D. B. Evans, G. P. Lammert, R. A. The cast of this restoration is Fawcett, I. G. Allison, D. Weill, éatimated to be £5,500, and with Portuguese Company-Cpl. M. A. other repairs the total will reach Silva, Ptes. B. Xavier, P. M. Britto, £6,000, as some defecta have M. A. Oliveira, J. M. Oliveira, been discovered in the vaulting These must be returned forth- and the battlements. The with.

total amount promised is about

Corps Diary.

(Sgd) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain,

Adjutant, HKV.D.C.

NOTICE.

Promenade Concert«.

A Promenade Concert will take place at H.K.V.D. Corps Headquar

£3,500, so that a further sum of Page --Band Concert 24th. ters at 9 p.io. on Friday, August 28. about £2,500 remains to be secured. August" should read "26th August.....

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war on convention and

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and foibles

*with

JOAN BENNETT

KENNETH "MacKENNA

Directed by..

·HAMILTON MCFADDEN.

WITH THE SAME PROGRAMME

STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY in Brats." TOMORROW

HE GOT A GIRL and

A FORTUNE.!

But he didn't even own the clothes on his back!

William

HAINES

In the

film rlot

from the stage hit

A TAILOR MADE MAN

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