"
EUROPEAN LADIES VICTIMISED
Bag-Snatchers Busy
In Colony
SMART ARRESTS MADE
www.al
Chang Cheung-heung, a 21-year- old unemployed. was this morning charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at the Central Magistracy with the theft of a handbag, con- laining $7, the property of Mrs. E. Draper, of No. 27 Lock Road, in
Connaught Road Central, near the Wing On and Company, on Satur- day afternoon.
Accused was arrested by a Chin- ear detective who was shadowing him.
said
Mrs. Draper. in evidence that her bag was snatched from under her arm and she saw de- fendant attempting to get away when he was caught by the detec- live about three yards from her.
Sentence of six months*
-labour was imposed.
VISITOR RORBED
hard
Mrs. Jose-Pereira Dà Grasca- Contù, of room No. 406, Hong Kong Hotel, a visitor to the Colony, was another victim of a bag-snatcher. She appeared at the Magistracy to- day as the complainant against Chan Lam-kung. unemployed; who was charged with the 'theft of a handbag, and with receiving the stolen property.
Sergeant Gowans stated
that
|_
IN
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1934.
Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight boxing champion, still can draw a crowd, as this picture indicates. He is shown at the Polyclinic Hospital, New York City, being congratulated by young admirers as he arrives to pay a visit to his wife, the for mer Hannah Williams, and his seven-and-a-half-pound daughter.
while complainant walking CORRESPONDENCE.
was
along Queen's Rond Central, near
the Central Market, defendant came
in front of complainant and snatch-
her bug. Accused was
e
Inter
arrested by a Chinese revenue- officer 19 Connaught Road Central.
Accused denied the theft. Com-
recognise the defendant, and owing
K.I.T.C. NOT INVOLVED
To the Editor. "China Mail."] Sir-The hockey notes in your
plainant stated that she could not esteemed paper of the 21st inst to insufficient evidence, accused was by "Sticka" have just been brought
lischarged.
Taxi-Driver Catches Snatcher
to my notice.
reason
DEATH JUMP TO AVOID ARREST Assault In Pitt Street
Has Fatal Result
Attempting to escape from ar rest in connection with the assault noon, Chang Sam, aged 28, of No. (of another woman, yesterday after-
23, Tung On Street, jumped from the second floor of her home, and
subsequently died from her injuries in the Kowloon Hospital.
The statement that K.I.T.C. may not join the Mamak Tourna- The disturbance arose round the ment this senson for which water fountain in Pitt Street, when Chow Ting, of No. 22, Tung On "Sticks" gives the
that Street was attacked by several unemployed, was sentenced to three they are dissatisfied with the other women, and received injuries months' hard labour by Mr. B. I. hundling of the "Radio-K.I.T.C." necessitating her removal to Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Mag-incident by the Istracy this morning for attempting|
Mamak Com-Kowloon Hospital.
Cheng Yung-chan, a 25-year-old
to snatch a handbag from Miss Emittee is, to say the least ridicu
Best, of No. 21 Soares Avenue, nnlous, unauthorative and calculated Sentember 22 at 5 p.m.
Detective-Sergeant Franklin stat-
further embitter feeling Lu
re-
"BACK TO LAND” IN QUEBEC
ed that the complainant was walk-garding an incident which should
ing along Waterloo Road. near the be a thing of the past now.
the defendant
Dogs' Home. when came up from behind and pulled at, her bag.
The incident" referred to was fnot one between Radio and
Mammoth Movement
To-day's Short Story.
The Perfect Crime?
just leaving
By Frank H. Shaw
"Pure routine can't match up
ROCHEST was what Chic with the criminal mind," he assert.
Inspector Herrish came in from ed. "It isn't as if murder were a the Flying Squad ear.
trade to be learnt-there's no rou- |
"Any luck?" Rochester asked. tine in murder, so routine won't Herrish's somewhat stolid face solve this sort of mystery." expressed neither disappointment nor elation.
"Not yet," he admitted. It was always best to be open with this writer. He had friends at court and a considerable reputation. "How many false alarms
does this make, then?" Rochester asked. Thirty-fifth-no, thirty-sixth." "I bee. The perfect crime?" Herrish stared somewhat stonily at the writing man's puckered face. Rochester's eyes always seemed to have a laugh Jurking behind them.
"Don't make any mistake," said the chief inspector. "There isn't such a thing as a perfect crime." Then he unbent and invited Roche- ter into his private office for tea.
"You, being interested in the Yard's work, might as well see all three is to be seen, Mr. Rochester," he said.
"I'm getting stacks of atmos phere for my novel, Rochester admitted.
Over his cup of tea, which he drank in appreciative gulps, Her- rish frowned.
"Deduction's So much gue98.
"It's a hit-or- | work," he stated. miss sort of business. I've never
COMING!
ISAKO'S
GRAND RUSSIAN CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE.
OPPOSITE PENINSULA HOTEL, KOWLOON.
300 Cleverly Trained Animals
50 Highly Trained Horses
come across a deductive sleuth in 200 European Artists my life not one who ever got any where, that is, We work on dif- I've ferent lines, as you've seen, followed thirty-six trails, and got up against a blank wall each time. More tea, Mr. Rochester?"
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be Winegluss," by
"Clean
Sydney Horler.
WAB
48
The Inspector's office official as the tea; plain to the point in his book "Well, if you want it to read like of starkness, but truth," advised the chief inspector, Rochester had put his deductive "you won't put one of those deduc-crime-expert in rather exotic sur tive sleuths into it. Because deduc-roundings, since the reading public tive sleuths don't catch murderers liked that sort of thing. "He could to speak of." Rochester didn't not help but contrast reality with agree with that and said so.
THEFT OF HOUSE
FITTINGS
Epidemic Breaks Out At Shamshuipo
BOGUS "DEALER” CAUGHT
imagination.
"And one day I'll take up a trail that won't land me up against a blank wall," pronounced Herrish solemnly. "Elimination, that's the way we work at the Yard, sir- elimination. We find out who hasn't done it, and that narrows the thing down a good bit." --
to,"
He
"If the man who killed this woman can convince you that he hasn't done it, then you don't get him, that's what it amounts was Rochester's contribution. "This has been going on for awas keenly interested in the Grymes the long time in the Shamshuipo dis- Crescent affair, because to his trict," said Inspector Shaftain, imaginative mind it carried such when prosecuting. Tsol Kit, a 28-qualities of mystery, baffling year-old unemployed, before Mr. mystery, as made it fascinating. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon
A few charred bones in the Magistracy
on two
charges of kitchen cooking-range in a deserted stealing house fittings.
old country house had formed the He stated that the defen- first clue. Undeniably human bones| dant went to No. 204, Fuk Wing-feminine bodies they were.
He Street, second floor, pretending had seen them with his own eyes, that he was a firewood dealer, as a special favour granted by Her- carrying two pieces of wood in rish. He had read with focused his hand. He asked the tenants care the reports of the coroner's If they wanted any wood, and inquest, adjourned and readjourned. when he left them they heard a A young woman's mortal remains,| noise coming from the floor be-those few charred bones were low. They then informed Lam proved to be: the Home. Office K.I.T.& have never question- for the settlement of Canadian on the third floor, and told him No definite Identity attached to the The most ambitious scheme Pak-chuen, the landlord, who lives pathologists were certain of that. ed the decision of the Mamak land by people already in Canada of the noise. He immediately fragments; but the woman had re- Committee and neither are, nor rather than by immigrants from went downstairs and found that cently been alive, go science proved. were, concerned with the
"in-Europe or elsewhere, in the his- the handles of the grill of the And Scotland Yard was intent in Tregunter Path Incident cident" or its outcome more than tory of the country, is being first floor had been broken off. He the first instance on discovering the
launched this autunm by the pro-pursued accused to the hockey enthusiasts in general.
street, identity of the woman. vince of Quebec, according to an and there saw him being chased Mra. Seldon, living at the K.I.T.C. regrets that one of announcement made by Premier by Yu Chung-wo, the landlord of Young Women's Christian Associa-the absentees from
the Mamak L. A. Tashereau. The scheme No. 214 Fuk Wing Street. The ting, was the victim of a anatcher Tournament this season is Radio-calls for the appropriation of defendant was caught and taken yesterday whilst she Tregunter Path.
As she had her thumb through the K.I.T.C. but between Radio and handle the snatcher was unsuccess-the umpires-the former walking ful. so he let go and ran. The off the field in protest to the way incident was seen by a taxi-driver
who immediately left his taxi and in which "the game was umpired.”
chased and caught the defendant.
The bag contained 88 in, cash and many articles, all of which recovered.
were
Planned
TO BE LAUNCHED SOON
Quebec.
*
10 Performing Elephants
5 Caravan Dromederies
Lions, Tigers, Zebras, Orangoutangs, Monkeys, Bears, Crocodiles, etc.
FIRST TIME IN HONG KONG.
RUSSIAN COSSACK'S TROUPE
MID-AERIAL MARVELS.
THE GREAT FLYING TROUPE RUDENKO
DOUBLE JOCKEYS.
PASS-DE-DUEX
DANCING HORSES
GREAT MONKEY RACE
CLOWNS FROMEVERY LAND
etc., etc. Watch For Grand Opening Date
FURNITURE REMOVALS.
with Security & Protection.
Telephone 27761.
HONG KONG
HAVE
*
"We'll get him," said the chief
*YOU
WIS in the pioneers and twice champions. $10,000,000. It will be preceded to the police station where he ad-inspector, not grimly, merely con A handbag containing $18, a pair this letter to remove any misun-
by a "colonization others inter-mitted trying to steal the handles.versationally. This crime-detection I earnestly hope you will publish ested in the "back to the land" Sentence of three months' hard was his trade, and as monotonous as of spectacles and odds and ends
movement. was snatched from her by a Chin-
|derstanding which the article by
labour was imposed:
a man's trade usually proves. "If ese boy, who had approached her
"Sticks" may have created.
we don't run him down, Mr. from behind, unobserved.
Rochester, he'll give himself away, sooner or later. The perfect crime doesn't exist. We find a motive--"
"There might be a dozen different] motives for destroying this 'unfor-
The cuprit escaped. Mrs. Seldon, in a report to the police, says he is aged about 14 or 15 years.
STOWAWAYS FROM SINGAPORE
Surrender On Eve Of Arrival
JAHAN DAD, Hockey Representative.
K.I.T.C.
In conjunction with the coloni- zation scheme, the province will work out plans to make electric power from waterfalls 'cheaply and easily accessible to as many farmers as possible.
FAMOUS STATUE NOW REPAIRED
Smashed During Riots tunate woman."
In Spain
Herrish nodded. "Amarried man's secret intrigue? Blackmall? A spasm of killing-freezy? We can rule out the laat.”
"Oh!" said Rochester, leaning forward curiously. "Why?"
The problem of farmers' sons, [The article referred to is officially living in areas where all the supported by Mr. Mahan Singh, Presl available land is either settled or ment this morning, said that at least dent of the B.I.T.C., who, in a state-held for speculation at prices five members of the team who played which are prohibitive, will be ac last season have refused, to join the tively coped with. Land will be The famous bronze equestrian Tournament this season for the reason purchased from forestry com-statute of King Philip III, of Bo- | given in the article.
panies, in areas where clearing logna which was smashed by the He further stated that the KJ.T.C. the forests will result in making mob on the proclamation of the "Because there's been too much would experience great dificulty in
Republic in April, 1931, has been care taken to hide the clues; that's raising a leam for the Mamak Tour- available suitable farm lands. Two unemployed Indians, Bichlit only members to be representatives. virgin forests, however.
Not all settlement will be on repaired at the cost of £800 by why. A man who kills a woman in nament, as' the rules of the Club per-
There Don Juan Cristobal, and is to be a frenzy hasn't time to cover up his tar Singh and Mit Singh, aged 30 Ed
are large areas in the province, restored to its pedestal in the tracks. He finds he has to get rid settled for many years, which Plaza Mayor in Madrid.
years and 29 years respectively,
were charged before Mr. E. L
Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Ma-
gistracy this morning with stow- ALIEN FAILS TO
ing-away from Singapore to Hong Kong on board the .s. Cape St. Francia, which arrived in port this morning.
REGISTER
Nominal Fine Imposed
would support a much larger po pulation if some financial assis
tance were rendered in getting
the families started.
The province of Quebec has already inauguraged a plan by which the province will contri ibute $300, in three annual instal- tablish himself on vacant land- ments will help his son to-es-
"Reuter.
JAPANESE RADIO. STATIONS
Two Established In Inner Mongolia
of a hundred' and forty pounds: of| a dead human being—a hundred and forty pounds. He panics. He might have thought it all out before- hand; but when he is confronted with the actual disposal of the the remains, he realises that he's up against something big. So be blunders he forgets some little thing, or, oftener, some big thing. Then we got him.”-
They both pleaded that they had offered to pay their fares on the A fine of $20 was this morning "second day out of Singapore but the compradore had refused Imposed on Amado Dailo, da
Japanese military authorities "But if this killer is an intelli- them. Mr. J. Kirk, the third ofilipino, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at
have established two wireless gent man who's made all his, pre- ficer of the ship, stated that the Central Magistracy for failing
atations in Inner Mongolia one at parations in advance and who does the defendants had given them to register as an alien within seven
the Wuchumuhsin "in northern his killing in cold blood?” question- selves up last night and offered days of his arrival In the Colony.
Chahar near Dolonor and the ed. Rochester. He felt he could put to pay, but they had not enough Detective Sergeant Mottram stat
other at a point further north. forward at least three money on them to pay their fares, ed that defendant came to Hong Dr. Carl Gebhardt, a German, The two stations are communtable theories to accou
Both, the defendants were sent Kong from Macao on September 11, has given his well known Spino- cating constantly, with the starime if the chief inspots to the House of Detention, and and did not register until Sator za library to the Spinoza Insti- tions at Dolonor and Chengteh In been so Olerant of expulsion orders are being made a day.
GERMAN'S LIBRARY GIFT
tute In The Hague
Jehok
ued on Pat
SENT IN
YOUR CORRECT INFORMATION?
MOTOR TRANSPORT SERVICE.
1
NOW BEING COMPILED.
DIRECTORY
1935
HONG KONG'S BEST
DOLLAR VALUE
CONTENTS INCLUDE.......
ASSOCIATIONS AND CLUBS, AGENCIES, BUSINES; HOUSEB; -WHO'S WHO, RESIDENTS LIST,
PEAK RESIDENTS, GOVT. OFFICE GENERAL INFORMATION, ETC. ETC.
A Few Copies of 1994 Issue Still Available at:
Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. Ltd. Peak Tram Book Stalls, Star Ferry Book Stalls, Lee Yee Mahan
and the office of the publishers China Mail Bldg.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.