1932-11-22 — Page 7

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1932.

Chief Justice Reprimands SOLDIER SENT

Jury Member

· {Continued from Paga 1.)

Sing Sang, the Chinese detective who accompanied accused to the Po Sang Tong medicine shop on the day of the offence, was then called.

Witness:-"The defendant came downstairs and Ho Kiu handed him the packet he had offered to me.”

Air. Fraser:-"When this hap- pened, who was present."

holding the opium. Accused came Shing Street." out to speak to witness, regarding |

THE CHINA MALL

TO GAOL FOR

ACT OF FRAUD

Impersonated Officer To Get Credit.

DRAWS SHARP REBUKE.

done."

To Day's Short Story,

THE

MISANTHROPE

1:

By J. D. Beresford.

INCE I have returned from other visitors; that remunerative, the rock and discussed the recurrent host that this year broke Put Packet In Pocket..

story in all its bearings I have their journey to Bedruthan in Witness:"Only the three of us, A British soldier was sent to begun to wonder if the man made order to stand on Trevone beach After outlining his duties during and after the parcel was handed prison for two months to-day, a fool of me. In the deeps of and stare foolishly, at the justi the day he was closely questioned over, Ho Kiu feft. No words were found guilty of impersonating an my consciousness I fell that he visible hut that stuck like a cubical by Mr. Fraser regarding the events uttered, and the Inspector put the officer and of an act of fraud. did not. Nevertheless, I cannot gall on the landward face of that that took place in the cubicle of packet in his trouser pocket. That "I had a few drinks, sir. I resist the effect of all the laugh humped, desolate island. the Po Sang Tong shop.

was at 1.10 p.m. and after that I am a married man. If I am sent ter that has been evoked by my We all did that; stared. at noth-| After the entry of the accused went to see to my duties and col- to prison, it is not I who will narrative. Here on the mainland ing in particular and meditated into the room, witness said lect money for the street cleansing suffer, but my wife. This inci- the whole thing seems unlikely, enormously; but in what I felt at he saw Ho Klu, the shop foki operations taking place in Fudent preyed on my mind all the grotesque, foolish. On the rock the time was a wi'd spirit of ad• time that I was in detention, the man's confession carried ab venture, I went out one night to "Later, when I was returning to and that was why I made a clean solute conviction. The setting is the point of Gunver Hvad and saw what witness took to be the de- the Police Station, at about 2 p.m. breast of it all yesterday. I am everything; and I am, perhaps, aut; a patch of golden lichen on an actual light within that distant manding of a bribe.

I met the Inspector who was also very sorry, sir, for what I have thankful that toy present the mother parasite. Mr. Fraser:-"What were the returning to the Police Station."

cumstances are so beautifully words the accused used . exact

Mr. Fraser:-"And then?"

Some aspect of humanity I found Private James Dempsey, of conducive to sanity. No one apin that light it was that dnally de when he spoke to you."

Witness: The Inspector took a the R.A.M.C., attached to the preciates the mystery of life Witness:He said $100, or at packet of opium out of his pocket Bowen Road Military Hospital, more than I do; but when the cided me; that and some quality and handed it to me to sell. I re-made this plea when he was mystery involves such a doubt of sympathy perhaps, with the turned to the market but did not charged before. Mr. Wynne-Jones of oneself, I find it pleasanter to hermit mad, criminal, or love Witness: "I said, no, that can sell it then. When I eventually with obtaining a silver cigarette forget. Naturally, I do not want from the pestilent touch of the lornt-who had found sanctuary sold it for $12, I returned to the case from the Windsor Jewellery to believe the story. If I did I Mr. Fraser:Why did you say station and handed the money to Mart, Gloucester Arcade, by pre-should know myself to be some fact, a wildish night, and I stayed encroaching crowd. It was,,. in the Inspector."

tending he was Capt. Burke, of kind of human horror. And the Indian Military Hospital, the terror of it all lies in the fact out and all I could see through the until the little yellow speck went do with it"

Kowloon.

that I may never know precious murk was an occasional canopy of Witness:-"He said 'Oh that's The Magistrate said he felt ly what kind.... all right. You can have it for tea sorry for the accused's wife, but

Before I went we had eliminated curving spray when the elbow of Bir. Fraser:-"From his words money"."

the Trevose Light touched a bare convicted him, nevertheless, the facile and banal explanation could he have meant anything else?" Mr. Fraser:-"And did you take

Outlining the case, Detective that the man was mad, and had corner of that black Gulland. Witness:—“He could not have it."

Sergeant D. C. MacDonald said fallen back upon the two inevitable difficult matter, but while I waited The making of a decision was no been talking of ball, because that

that on November 12 the defen- alternatives: Crime and Disap for the necessary calm that would would be taken in the Charge room."

dant, in plain clothes, went to pointed Love.

least $50 if he has no money."

Mr. Fraser:"And then,"

not be done."

: that?"

Witness: From the words he used. I understood he meant ask ing for a bribe and I said that it wouldn't do."

Warned Chinese, Continuing, witness said that accused had uttered further words to qualify his (witness's') reason- ing.

"Accused said that after Ho Kiu had paid the money 1 could let him go.

Mr. Fraser:-"And what did he

Witness:-"No."

Mr. Fraser-"And what did the Inspector do."

Witness:--"He smiled, and put

the $12 into his pocket."

The witness was then examined by Mr. McNeill.

And he later told accused that FRANCHISE IN

if he was arrested he would be fined several hundreds of dollars," witness stated;

Witness then related how he went with Ho Kia, who attempted to raise | "the money and the subsequent re- turn to the cubicle of the shop after

Ho Kiu's efforts to borrow proved unavailing.

The master of the shop hud managed to borrow the money, and the $50 was handed over to Ho Kiu, he said.

Mr. Fraser"What happened then?"

i

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

the Windsor Jewellery Mart and Once before a man had made the permit the occasional boat to land there requested the attendant same attempt and had built or tried provisions on the island two miles to show him various cigarette to build a house on the Gulland cross-cases and smoking sets. He rock; but he had been defeated ordered a smoking set, and ask-within a fortnight, and what was ed for it to be sent to Capt. left of his building was taken off Burke. Before leaving he him-the Island and turned into a tin self took a cigarette case, valued church. It is there still. We all at $29. Mr. F. D. Windsor, pro-went to Trevone and ruminated prietor of the shop, went to the over and round it, perhaps with Military Hospital the next moin-some faint hope that one of us ing and, on seeing Capt. Burke, might, all-unknowing, have the discovered that he had been abilities of a psychometrist.

INDIA UNDER

DISCUSSION

Lord High Chancellor Presides At Parley.

DETAILED CONSIDERATIONS.

To-morrow's short story. will be "The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipit, the Builder," by George Meredith.

IN 2,

J

the Police and from information slight tricked. A report was made to Nothing came of that visit but a out from the... mainland,

intensification of those suffered qualms of doubt und gathered they went to the theories that were already becomi

And I suffered ¦ nervousness. " We compared them alone, for I had determined Bowen Road Hospital and there ing a little stale. interviewed Dempsey.

the early failure of thirty years that no hint of my adventure ago, the attempt that was balled, should, be given to anyone of our with the present success. For this party until the voyage had been He was detained on November 14. new misanthrope had lived on the made. They might think that I Detailed work of the Third Yesterday afternoon, he was again Gulland through the whole winter had gone fishing an excuse which Indian Round Table Conference clean breast of the whole affair. He of his presence on that awful lump to it by the coming of the boat- questioned by the Police and made aand still lived. Indeed, the fact had all the air of probability given the money in a packet but I refused Degan yesterday at the House of took the Police to the Wing Nam of rock was now accepted by the man to say that the tide and wind |

Witness:-"Ho Kiu offered

to take it."

me

Mr. Fraser:-"Why."! Witness: "Because I knew the

money was a bribe and it is wrong to take bribes."

Witness then related how he took Ho Kiu in search of the accused.

"We went to the Cheung Chun)

the accused.

London, To-day.

Article Recovered.

Lords, under the Chairmanship Jewellery Store where he had dis-country people; to them he of Lord High Chancellor Sankey, posed of the cigarette case for $7. when, in accordance with the

Sergeant MacDonald added that

Burke's name. In the accused's favour, Dealing with provincial legisla it were not for his assistance the the Prosecuting officer said that if Medicine Shop, and I told Ho Kiu to tures, the Lothian Committee cigarette case would never have been wait just inside the front door of reported that adult suffrage was recovered. the shop. I then went to look for tion at the present stage. They in reply to his Worship, said that an impracticable method of elec Major E. F. W. Grellier, R.A.M.C., Mr. Freser:-"Where did you also rejected, after examination, Dempsey's record was not too good. yo?"

modifications of adult suffrage, Twice he had been under Police ob- Witness:--I went to the bottom of including systems of indirect servation, in the past twelve months the stairs and shouted, "Inspector, election, and also franchise based on a charge of larceny he Inspector, there is a man wants, to on a combination of direct and bound over in September, 1990. He indirect election. They recom-mentioned that Dempsey was due to see you."

mended instead the extension of leave for England by either the next the franchise by direct vote. troopship on February 24 or on the

The general opinion of the last troopship, on March 29. Conference on this matter was

Should Know Rules.

ence took up consideration of the Windsor Mart in Capt. provisional agenda, the Confer the accused signed a chit at the report of the Indian Franchise Committee.

Mr. Fraser:-"And then what happened."

MERCHANT "STUNG" BY OLD TRICK.

Duped By Gang In Quest For "Wife."

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was

The accused explained that since

the Franchise Committee should he had been in detention he realised

scarcely a shade madder than the

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My nervousness suffered no de-1 crease as we approached the rock) and saw the authentic' figure of its single inhabitant awaiting our ar rival. I had some consolution in the thought that he would be in Bome way prepared by the sight of {our surprisingly passengered boat; {but my mind shuddered at the ne- cesalty, for using some conventional | form of address if. I would make at fonce my introduction and excuse. The civilised opening was hope- lessly incapable of expressing my aympathy, presenting instead so (unmistakably, it seemed to me, the single solution of common curlo- Įsity. I wondered that he had not as the boatman so clearly aśaurė ed me was the case-had other prying visitors before me..

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