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What has happened to the Muggletonians? A curious visitor went to the headquarters of this little-known sect" in a street off Bishopsgate, recently. He found their reading-room turned into a carpet shop and that no one knew where they had gone.

THE PERFECT LEGAL MACHINE

INTIMATE STUDY OF MR.

JUSTICE AVORY

MOST DISCUSSED JUDGE OF HIS GENERATION

ONE

(By Stanley Jackson)

evening sixty years ago] His experience as prosecuting

a young rowing man, just counsel gave him an almost m The Muggletonians, a Crom-))

of down from Cambridge was canny penetration into the wellian sect. were followers Ludowick Muggleton and John among those called to the Bar criminal and There was a Reeve, London tailors, who declar by the Inner Temple.. His name good deal of truth in the remark ed that they were the prophets was Horace Avory and his that Mr. Justice Avory is the death has robbed the English best judge to have if you are in- Imentioned in Revelations xì. $.

They deny the Trinity, and be Bench of its greatest criminal cocent and the very worst if

Fou are guilty." lieve in the sleep of the soul and judge.

His calm, unemotional tem-

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a physical resurrection. They say that Heaven is just beyond the perament was from the first stars, and that Hell will be made peculiarly adapted to the excit Horace Avory, perhaps more on this earth at the Last Judy able atmosphere of the Criminal than any other figure in English legal history, represented the Court Eis Fife is almost en-

lay conception of the perfect tirely the story of some of the greatest trials of the last half legal machine, just, impartial and a little inhuman His century. They regard science as contrary" He may be said to have had faculty of analysis, his complete to Scripture and do not believe in his roots in the Old Bailey, for detachment, and, above all; his the laws of gravity. They

say both his father and his brother great facility in extracting vital successively Clerks of Generalisations were manifest ¡the stars are not far off and that were the son moves round the earth. Arraign at the Central Criminal early in his career.

There was in him a fine sense They were certainly in existence Court. after the war, but as they do not

was of chivalry. Many will recall When Horace Avory

Junior Treasury his tribute to Marshall Hall the proselytise and keep their doc appointed trines to themselves they are hard Counsel in 1889, the Old Bailey day after the great, counsel's was by no means the place it is death and, more recently, hig to-day. Membership of the Old graceful gallantry towards the Bailey Bar was no matter for plaintiff in the Basputin case. self-congratulation. The stan- With his white and shranken. dard of professional conduct was face and trimmed smile he re- low and the proceedings were presented the most impassive As conducted with an appalling personality on the Bench intimates cynicism and lack of dignity. Jone of his

jobserved to me: "Avory can “Na. And what's the use of bother-

Early Days Hong Kong, Friday, July 19, 19 founded if we want to escape ing when we pay a gardener

As Treasury Counsel, Horace sentence a man to death with as from another war or wars thatį

Avory conducted prosecutions little display of emotion as a What He Found... must be even more disastrous.

*Archimedes,” read the schoolboy;;

with a strupulous fairness which magistrate fining a drunk half- The obduracy of Governments aloud, "leaped from his bath shout was in direct contrast to

the la-crown.” has concealed the progress of 3 ing. Eureka! Eureka? Po

brow-beating and bullying: Mr. Justice Avory was a mas- The average man of the world very firm purpose among the One moment interrupted the methods of so

Crownster of the art of simple illus- is terribly afraid of anything peoples, and a growing interest seacher. "What is the meaning of

Counsel of his time. He took tration. He rarely made jokes that looks like sentiment or

in the question: Why has the Eureks

"Eureka means I have found leading part in forming the for the pleasure of hearing idealism, and there can be League so far failed in its prin- said the boy.

Old Bailey Bar Mess which "Laughter in court.” doubt that he, being a majority cipal purpose? It is realised "Very well. What had Archime dealt firmly with irregularities His own wit was dry and in most communities has a that it can do nothing apart found?"

and raised the whole standard literary in flavour. He was The soap. Sirte point of view that has to be from the loyal support of its

of professional conduct.

sharply intolerant of the broad considered. If one allows recol- members and an answer has

Although he was perfectly frest This was illustrated in: lections of the past and observa-to be given to the query Why Rich Widow (joyously);

"Ab fair in his presentment of the famous Crosland libel case. tions of the present to throw has it not had that loyal sup- Bridget, I am going to marry a great case, Avory's cold and searching Ross, the

prosecutor, had an undue weight of disillusion part? All the precedents are painter!”

cross-examination shook many already irritated the judge by on one's shoulders so that one the wrong sort of precedents Bridget (gizzlishly): "Stanke,

On one his debonair manner and fen lags behind the "man of the The first was the solitary action ma'am, O'm goin' to marry Joe Me a hardened offender.

occasion he was cross-examin- world outlook, one is dubbed 3 of Italy in the bombardment of Closkey, the great paper-hanger. cynic; if one runs so far ahead Corfu, to extract an, indemnity in the pursuit of a better world from Greece which should have

The China Mail League for opportunities tuiss

“George, dear, do you remember ed and for clumsiness of struct Wordsworth said about date ture, there is no alternative to air- the principles on which it was

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Union Workers

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"Fa" bicycles," was the repis.

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"Safety ZoneTM The Negro was being examined for as to lose sight of him, one is been the subject of an applica-la driver's license. held to be an idealist, a crank, tion to the Hague Tribunal. And what is the white line in the and all the rest of it What The second was the resignation middle of the road for** he was as then is the attitude of our typi- of Japan, on the top of open ical man of the world to this war defiance, which has ruined the which is so manifestly being reputation of the statesmen prepared and ingeminated by a who accepted it so meekly. The ination which has been lesson has been taken to heart inominal supporter of the by thousands who had not pre League from the beginning viously shown any, interest in against another nation which is peace and war politics." also a member, and also a sig-Public opinion has reached natory of the Kellogg Pact? · point of irritation with the

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Our average man was cer-attitude of excising in powerful tainly horrified by the slaughter States what would not be and waste of the last World tolerated in their poorer neigh- War; but he is not much given bours. Forty years ago the

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"Are you above suspicion?" asked cross-examining counsel. The witness's cocksureness

"Absolutely,” replied "Ross was slowly being stripped by with a smile, "like Caesar's

wife. the ruthless questioning last, exhausted by the implac-| (Continued on Page 3). able prosecutor, he began to weep, and whimpered: "You'll accuse me of a murder next"

Without a flicker of a Horace Avory took up a docm ment which lay before him and said coolly: "Which murder do you refer to? I have before me the details of four which it is said you committed”

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Berlin, To-day. At the Bar, he lacked the touch-and-go manner of a great Some 15 French students......... defender. Jury-shaking adva bers of the "Entente Franco- handy an equal

to thinking of abstract princi-Italian action would have pass- Four new television receiving cacy lay completely outside his Allemande ples; he would say that such led without criticism or even sets were opened here yesterday emotional and rhetorical range number of German students and As Treasury Counsel hejartists will assemble next Sunday war had never happened before, with applause. To-day it wears in different parts of the capital and is never likely to happen the guise of an anachronism easily accessible to the general proved himself the brilliant in a labour and sports camp es- again. A small war fought at That may be lucky, but it is public, where the day's pro-analyst and excelled in unravel-tablished by the German Stu s distance is quite another the sort of thing that a states-gramme may be witnessed by all ling complicated cases which indents Association on a Baltic is thing: his sympathies are with man has to consider. The re-interested every day of the weekvolved figures His mode of land, where they will spend four a white race against a black, fusal to allow any evidence to The object is to enable the pu- expression was perfectly suited weeks- doing manual work and with civilisation against bar be taken on the subject of these to get a clear ides of the pro-to his direct and purposeful devoting themselves to all bran barisma and slavery, so long as boundary by the Commission of gress being made so as to recruit approach to intricate problems. ches of sport as well as artistic someone else has to do the Arbitrators; the claim to have a new subscribers for the service Calon Detachment work The Great War itself mission to suppress slavery in the State provides. -

work by creating artistic designs. from wood, metals and bambooy He had a great flair for the which will subsequently be shown- and all that has followed it has Abyssinia, in face of the fact New experiments aiming at clipped, but decisive phrase in an exhibition. trans-OceaII. given him a contempt for dis that the League has already got expanding the area under obser The calm detachment which Service cassion and paper agreements, that cause in band and could vation and for transmission start contributed to his greatness as and an admiration for the man deal with it much more effered on Thursday at Brocken, the prosecutor prevented him of enterprise and decision tively, the long preparations highest peak in the Harz Moun- from shining as a defending He echoes the words of the which give the impression of tains, when a transportable sta- counsel. Popolo, Italia Mussolini acts action done in cold bloodtion consisting of 12 motor-for- He was,perhaps, seen - to while the rest of the world accordance with the old maxims ries filled with equipment took greatest advantage in the talks Defiance of the League of diplomacy backed by the Big

up its seems to add a spice of sport Stick, above all the choice of

Service. to aggression, criticism orjan aggressive war without first advocacy of League principles trying the alternative all those is either sentimentalism or things will create a feeling of

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disappointment and almost rejare they at

re-to On the other hand, from even seatment which will go a long this point of view, hardly way to defeat any

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