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"SHE WAS POOR BUT HONEST" Inspector's Opinion Of Woman

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST INTERPRETER

The serious charge of fraudu- 2 sum of lently converting

money, entrusted to him for the purpose of buying a present for! Sanitary Inspector William Terry Bilson, was preferred against Wong On, an interpre-! ter in the Sanitary Department. ! before His Honour Sir Athelli MacGregor at the Criminal Ses- sion this morning.

Mr. M. J. Abbott was for the prosecution. while Mr. Hin- shing Lo, instructed by Mr. J.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936

Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney are in "Fory," which is now being shown at the King's Theatre.

M. Hall. appeared for the de- LUXURIOUS CLUB]

fence. the jury being comprised

of Messrs. O. B. Payne (fore-) man). A. M. Xavier, V. P. San-

tos.

A. J. Brown, Shim Wai- chong. A. Eddy and C. A. Lopes.! In his opening Mr. Abbott said that at about 9 a.m. on the morn ing of May 14, last, house-clean-

RAIDED

£146 In Betting Penalties

sing was going on in the Ma Tau | MACHINES TO BE DESTROYED Wei Road district and Sanitary.

INDUS VALLEY CULTURE

Closely Allied To That Of Greece

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS EXAMINED

CASE OF ALLEGED ASSAULT

Dance Hall Proprietor Summoned

[NOT PREPARED TO APOLOGISE

Charlie Gray: manager of the Majestic Dancing Carabet, was this morning summoned before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy with assaulting Lenag Fung-sang, proprietor of the Silver Dragon Motor-car Garage, at No. 34, Village Road on June &

In answer to the charge, Gray said that he did smack the com- plainant as he had given him provocation, and that the com- plainant and his fokia were 3 source of nuisance. He had quar- ters round that district for his dancing girls, and had warned the complainant several times about

THE ORANGE

Now Most Popular Fruit- In British Isles

People in Britain now consume more oranges per head of the population than any other fruit. Apples come second in favour and bananas third.

Every man, wuman, and child." according to the law of averages, consumes 238 Bbs. of vranges a year. That works out at about 70 to,50 oranges each.

The consumption of apples is put at 233 lbs. a head, and bananas 14.2 lbs. a head.

40-STONË MEN'S PRIVATE BURIAL

Crane Lowers Coffin

the girls sitting in his garage. On To avoid publicity, the funeral. the last occasion he spoke to com-jof Mr. Richard Harrow, the 40-=| plainant he smiled and he then stone man who died at Southend recently, was carried out before lost his temper and hit him.

Humiliated

the cemetery officially opened. Mr. C. A. Russ, for the com- At 7.30 am. the coffin was taken plainant, said that the girls came from the mortuary to the ceme- to the garage and the defendant tery. ordered them out. As they did Behind locked gates the coffin Inspector Bilson and his inter- A police raid on a West End

not go defendant turned round and was lowered into the grave by preter, the accused, were in the club. described as "second only to Karachi Dr. C. L. Fabri, of hit the complainant, who had in- means of a crane. vicinity. seeing that everything the Embassy," had a sequel at the Archaeological Department, curred a doctor's bill of $15 and Two hours later, and again be- in front of for the public was admitted, the was being carried out properly. Marlborough-street last month Government of India, who has had been humiliated

mourners arrived for the funeral} While the cleansing was in pro when penalties totalling £146 were been conducting three months' his staff.

research in Mohen-jo-Daro, ap-¡ He. Mr. Russ, said that he was service, which was conducted by! gress Yip Shing came out of No. imposed.

ad important dis-not satisfied with the excuse the Canon Gowing. 10. Gilles Avenue and. approach Kenneth Sinclair Senton, aged nounced

6ft. long, 3ft ing the accused, asked if he could 46, of Conduit-street, W., secretary covery, namely. that the Su-defendant had given. His client The coffin was persuade the Inspector to give and manager of the Burlington-merian inscriptions in Mohen-had come to court with a genuine wide and 4ft deep. her permission to carry on a small gardens Club, was fined £75, with jo-Daro afforded accurate data grievance and the defendant's ex- business, namely, selling rice pud £10 10s costs. for using the club for fixing the approximate date cuse, if accepted, would make his ding and bean curds.

for betting purposes. Ambrose of the Indus Valley civilisation, client appear to be guilty.

Mr. Ross said that an apology Coghill, of Burlington-gardens, the in the course of a lecture last owner of one gaming machine, was month on "latest discoveries in addition to a bond would per- fined £50, with £10 10s costs, for concerning Indus Valley cul-haps meet the case, but Mr. Gray Mr. Abbott then said the ac-

ture." Lady Graham, wife of said that he was not prepared to cused asked the woman when the a similar offence.

The club was not struck off the the Governor of Sind, was apologise, as he thought he had present would be forthcoming and she replied that she was prepared register. Summonses against Mrs among the large number pre- suficient ground for provocation

when he hit complainant. to get it at once, if the Inspector Florence Solomon, proprietress of sent at the lecture.

The bearing was adjourned till

Money Handed Over

the club, and Gordon Gibbons, of With an array of facts illus-August 10 at 2.30 p.m.

agreed to give the necessary per Finchley-road, N.W., who did not mission.

asked Accused then

appear owing to illness, were ad- the woman to give him the money,

journed. saying that he would buy the pre- sent for her and she then went

Destruction Order

back to the ground floor of No. The magistrate, M. E. C. P. 10 Gilles Avenue, where she bor- Boyd, made an order for the de- rowed $5 from another woman, struction of nine automatic gam- Wong Mui, and gave it to the ac-ing machines found at the club.

Mr. Vernon Gattie, prosecuting, cused.

Mr. Abbott then told the said that the club was started in Court that the Inspector had February, 1933, and had a mem- had occasion 20 tell the wo-bership of over 3,000.

with trated

x

1.

magic lantern slides, Dr. Fabri announced that ALLEGED FORGERY the inscriptions had enabled him to put back the date of the

OF TICKET Indus Valley civilisation by 300

Clerk Charged At or 400 years, namely, 2700 B.C. a theory with which Dr. Mac key concurred.

Magistracy

Similarity In Cultures

Yip Chung Kay, a clerk who Dr. Fabri traced the similar-failed to appear in court yesterday ity between the Grecian and on a charge of failing to pay his Mesopotamian culture of old fare while travelling on tram car man, Yip Shing, that she must Police observation was kept on and that at Mohen-jo-Daro, No. 23 in Queen's Road East o not prepare, for sale, any rice the club in May, and it was found driving one to the conclusion Monday and who had a warrant pudding or bean curds on the pre-that nine automatic machines were that there must have been an for his arrest issued against him, mises as she had no licence to do being continuously operated. A overland caravan route linking appeared before Mr. W. Schofield 50. A week later he returned to warrant was obtained, and on the the West with the East and at the Central Magistracy this the premises, when he found that night of May 29 the club was also flourishing trade.

morning and pleaded guilty to the his warning had been heeded, as entered by Supt Ralph, Sub-Div.

charge, but denied the three addi- The major portion of the tional charges preferred against the woman was then selling bean Inspector Smith and other officers. sprouts only.

Mr. Seaton, Mr. Gattie continu- lecture was devoted to explain-m Continuing, Mr. Abbott said ed, said he accepted full respon- ing the startling similarity be

ma-tween the religious rituals. in that on June 9, Mr. Bilson, while sibility for the use of the

she found the women selling rice

Only Complaint

The other charges were (a) that Jon or about December 1, 1935, in that vicinity. Went to No. 10 chines, which were worked on a Crete and Mohen-jo-Daro. Bull-with intent to defraud he forged

grappling feats in which the Gilles Avenue again, but this time 50-50 basis.

Grecians revelled offering them- certain document purporting to serves as sacrificial fodder for be a monthly ticket issued by the pudding and bean cards. He Insp. Smith stated that the only deities had their parallel in far-Tramway Company, (b) for a sim- went into the kitchen and saw her complaint against the club was off Sind, and frescoes illustrat-ilar offence on July 1 and (c) with) preparing the stuff and when he the continuous use of these auto-ing these rituals resembled each uttering a forged ticket purport- told her that he was going to matic machines, in which £82 was other closely.

ing to a monthly ticket with intent; presecute her, she made a serious found.

Dr. Fabri based his conclu-to defraud. communication to him, as the re- Replying to Mr. Claude Hornby, sions on the interpretation of Mr. W. A. Mackinlay appeared sult of which he took her to the for Mr. Senton and the club, Insp. six important pictographs out for the Hong Kong Tramway Com- Yaumati Sanitary Office in order Smith agreed that the club was of the 300 in his possession. pany and the case was formally that the matter might be brought splendidly appointed and very to the notice of his immediate well run. Between 60 and 70 superior officer. The next day, people were present when the raid Other points in the lecture

End Of Stone Age

adjourned for a week, defendant being allowed bail for $500.-

concluded Mr. Abbott, the woman took place. The members were of were that the Indus Valley DRUNKARD CHOKED

was taken to the Urban Council good class.

people lived at the end of the office, and as a result of a reportį Mr. Hornby said that Mr. Sen-Stone Age, as hardly any me- made there, the proceedings ton had carried on the club for tallic implements were found against the accused were begun. three years without complaint. The while there were a number of rent, rates and taxes amounted to stone implements. These people Mr. Bilson's Evidence nearly £2,000 a year, and

there were not a martial race, but

In the witness box, Sanitary in-was a staff of 38. spector Bilson gave evidence bear-

ing. dit Mr. Abbott's opening ad-

dress and added that when he BOLD BID FOR

told the woman that he was going to take out a summons against her, she asked him why he should do so as she had already given him a present.

Mr. Abbott: How did you find

FREEDOM

Prisoner's Leap From Train

BY COLLAR-BAND

Wife Afraid To Wake Him

| were engaged in the peaceful avocations or potters, fishermen

Medical evidence that he had and traders. Amid the mud been asphyxiated by his tight col- huts of ancient India, and its lar, band and the position of his cluster of villages, Mohen-jo-head when he fell, was given at a Daro was a beautifully planned Hendon inquest recently on Wal- and laid out city, whose lanes ter James Cornish, 64, öf Bell- and perfect brickwork were the lane, Hendon. : .. admiration of present day ar- His widow said that he had chaeologists.

been a drunkard for many years. When he came home one Saturday Dr.

night he fell in the passage.

Fabri's

discoveries,

"I thought he was lying asleep,”

this woman Yip Shu, în your con-} When Reginald Raymond, aged which throw vivid light on up- verations with ber?-I found that 2, an engineer, of Exeter-road, discovered facts and explain said Mrs. Cornish. "I was always she was honest and straightfor- Rayners-lane, Harrow, was Ward. She is so poor that she tenced at Marylebone last month Indus Valley culture, will soon thank God that he was having a zen-many startling phases of the afraid to wake him. I used to cannot be anything else!

to nine months' imprisonment for be published. Yip Shú then went into the box shoplifting, the police, described him. and also gave corroborative evi-las a man of “great determination.” dence.

On one occasion, when under arrest and being taken to London by train, Raymond smashed a window and jumped from the train, which was travelling at 50

The case is proceeding.

WEATHER REPORT

THEFT OF REVOLVER AND -AMMUNITION ALLEGED

Ma Ting, aged 48, unemployed, miles per hour. He was badly in-was this morning charged before MF. W. Schoßeld at the Central

peaceful sleep. Later,. I found he was dead."

A verdict of accidental death was returned.

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