SHIP'S OFFICER ON SERIOUS CHARGE POSSESSION OF OPIUM AND IMPORTING DRUG ALLEGED
Charges of importing and possession of raw and prepared opium were preferred against James Johnston, 52, Chief Officer of the s.s. Chuen Chow, before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday. The case is attracting considerable attention by reason of the fact that a number of Europeans are appearing as witnesses or are mentioned in connection with the charges brought against the accused.
Defendant had previously been allowed hail in the sum of $5,000, and the hearing will be resumed at 2.30 to-morrow.
The charges against Johnston his evidence was merely corrobor are: (a) importing 72 taels of rawjative. opium on the steamer Chuen Chow,
Cross Examination
(b). possession of 72 taels of raw Mr. Remedios, (in eros3¬CXBITI“ opium; (c), importing, 18 taels of nation): Did Mr. Elliott say to prepared opium; and (d). posses-whom the parcel was to be de- sion of 18 taels of prepared opium¡livered in writing or in conver-
Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios sation?
appeared for defendant, and Mr. Witness: Yes, to the RA.OR M. J. Abbott Assistant Crown So-to be called for by Mr. Bennett or licitor. represented the prosecution. defendant
There is no possibility that you
It was stated that this was not misunderstood the statement a committal, but a summary case. when he said that he would call Outlining the case for the pro-for it himself?-Not the slightest. secution. Mr. Abbott said that The defendant's story is that about 1 pm. on November 11, Mr. this particular parcel which was. F. S. Elliott, of the Colonial Trea-handed by him to Mr. Elliott was sury Department, met Johnston in for the purpose of delivery to Mr. of Chester Bennett. I suggest there the premises of the R.A.O.E. which they were both members. was no question of defendant call- Mrs. Elliott was also present, and ing for it himself?-1 am giving: the three of them adjourned to the exactly what happened. Chuer Chow and went to
defen- Did you expect to find anything| dant's cabin. On board was Ser-incriminating in defendant's geant Davis of the Water Police, bin ?--I would not have been sur- who was pursuing his ordinary prised either way. duties, and he too went to defen- When you cautioned him, did dant's cabin. The ship was due to be elect to make any statement? sail for Macan at 2 pm and just -His first statement was in the before Mr. and Mrs. Elliott went cabin when he said he did noti
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THE CHINA. MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936
This
Mr. Alfred E. Smith, former Governor'" of New York, is here shown in this characteristic pose he delivered his first campaign blast the New Deal at Carnegie Hall in New York last month. was the beginning of a series of speecken, favorting Governor Alf. Landon, made in many cities before the election.
PEOPLE EAT TOO MUCH
And Too Often
Sir Arthur Glyn, Bart, d Ewell, who is an alderman of the Surrey County Council, thinks that many people eat too much and too often.
So he is offering to invite ta dinner, at the end of 12 months, kay person who, within that time, does not have one break. fast.
Some years ago, Sir Arthur made a similar offer, but there was no response.
ashore about 1.45 pm, defendant bring any parcels, and after EEYORE'S
asked Mr. Elliott to take a parcel searching his cabin he said hel
to the RAO.B. club and to aak was continually bringing parcels WEEKLY MISCELLANY the manager of the Club to give to and from Macau.
it to a Mr. Bennett, if he called: Is the opium, mentioned in the
for it. Otherwise, defendant told charges, the opium produced by Mr. Elliott, he would call for Mr. Elliott?—Yes. himself.
Parcel Undone
parcel) and Mr. Elliott then found
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I wonder what Russell would
COURTING IN PUBLIC
Judge Asks: What Harm In Watching?”
QUERY TO SERGEANT SUED FOR SLANDER
Newcastle-on-Tyne. "What harm was be doing if he did look at couples who chose to do their courting in public?" asked Mr. Justice Goddard at Newcastle Assires last month.
The question was put to Serst. CHfford Hedder, of the Newcastle Police, who was sued by Robert Shield, a butcher, of Armstrong-| road, Benwell, Newcastle Shield claimed damages for false im- prisonment and slander.
Sergt. Meddler, in evidence, declared that be honestly believed that Shield was spying on courting couples.
Mr. C. Paley Scott, C. for Shield, said that on the night of
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JUDGE'S COMMENT
Judge Dodson had something to say at the Old Bailey last month about "bucket-shop" frauda clergymen
ed.
After be had left her the ser geant, who was in plain clothes, hurried after him and said. "What are you doing here?"
Shield resented 'the geant's manner and refused to give his name and address. - Meddler took! about." him by the arm and "pushed him
At the police station Shield gave on his name and address to the station
'sergeant.
"Described As A Pest"
They meant great suffering, be; said, to a particularly defenceless section of the community, whose i
On October 11 Shield received a time was spent, not in understand- orderly behaviour, and at the police summons accusing him of dis- ing financial matters, but in trying court the prosecution described him to discharge the obligations of as a pcblic pest" and a "Peeping their calling.
•Tom.”
"It is said that clergymen are easy prey," the judge added. "I missed, and it was not suggested The case against him was dis- is a cruel form of fraud-utterly for a moment that he had {heartless."
18 Months" Sentence
com-
mitted any offence. And all these charges have re say now to our mustard gas, our of 18 months imprisonment on ing duty at 10 pm on October 3, Meddler, giving evidence, said Judge Dodson passed sentence he was returning home after finish- ference to the particular parce' handed by defendant to Mr. El incendiary bombs, our liquid fire Douglas Stanley Hewitt, aged 30,ben he saw a man looking along
liott?
Chester Bennett took delivery of
and the death and destruction now an accountant, whose real name is) Mr. Ellicit agreed to do this, and
being dealt out, with all the re- Lionel Cedric Feldtman
fa hoarding to where two couples. left with his wife and Sergeant On Mr. Abbott's objection. His sources of science behind them, in Davis. The two first-named went Worship ruled that this was not althe Spanish civil war.
He was charged with conspiring The Judge: What if he was
were cuddling about 70ft away. in Des Voeux Road Central, where question witness could answer.
Will there to defraud such people as should be another Russell in afty years' enter into dealings with the Gen-watching couples cudding 23 yards they met Mrs. Elliott's father and
Are the 72 taels and the 18 taels time to give the world his reflec-eral Produce Co, and fraudulently mother and went with them to do of opium in the same parcels which tions on the Spanish slaughter?
away?
Meddler: It might have led to a some shoppingIt was some time were handed to you by Mt. Elott?
converting securities entrusted to before Mr. and Mrs. Elliott return Yes, he handed me it in one parcel. Repartee
the company by the Bev. George breach of the peace. Herbert Jendwine, Church Oakley, your daty to stop any respectable
The Judge: Do you think it is? ed home (he still carrying the I understand that a certain Mr.
B UT to turn to happier parts of near Basingtoke. that the string had broken and the a certain parcel before Mr. Elliott partee" is really delightful. Bean parted
the book: the chapter on "Re- It was said that Mr. Jendwine citizen who stops and looks and covering was torn. He also detect was ́handed another parcel. Did Brummell, the Prince of Dandies $1300 and got nothing, and that Why did you arrest. him and not securities worth arrest him as a disorderly person? eda smell which he thought was Mr. Elliott say to you that he hand and the most insolent of men, we the Rev. Philip Henry Lees, of opiam, so he opened the parcelled over to you the whole of the are told, was once asked by a lady Toxteth. Liverpool, parted with and found the opium.
He contents? I did not ask him that if he would take a cup of tea." £160 worth. then
sire parcel to but I assume 30.
"Thank you, ma'am" be replied, “Il Mr. Buller at the Imports and Did defendant say that a cer-never take anything but physic." Exports Department, and made stain parcel was taken from a ship I beg your pardon," replied the statement to him of the circum- by Mr. Chester Bernett in a taxi hostess, "you also take liberties." stances under which it came into before?--No. his possession.
took
Did he say it was in a bag?—No.
Incident In Cabin
When the New Review was start- On the following day. Mr. Buller
ed, the author recounts, its accom- handed the parcel to Mr. Taylor,
plished Editor designed it to be an Analyst, Mr. Elliott was the next witness inexpensive copy of the Nineteenth Government Monopoly whose certificates would be given called, and he gave evidence bear-Century. It was to cost unly six- in evidence. The value of the rawng out the opening statement. He pence, and was to be written by opium was $216, and of the pre-said it was at defendant's sugges-bearers of famous names-those of pared opium, $144.
Short Acquaintance
Mr. Abbott said he wished to
Mrs. Elliott that defendant asked
with
of
the courting couples?
Meddler: He was arrested be cause be was disorderly.
What Disorder?
The Judge: What was the dis
GERMAN ROAD order? He was not looking at them
CRASH
through glasses or binoculars, was he?.
Meddler: No, my lord.
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English Tourist Killed
The Judge: I will certainly look] out if I go out walking in the evening.
Mr. Paley Scott: The couples were doing nothing to bring a biash Four English people were in-of shame to the cheek of innocence?
Cologne.
tion that they should have a drink the British aristocracy for choice. voived in a serious notor accident
Meddler: I cannot say that. The judge observed that i
The case was adjouzzed.
On the same day. November 12, before the ship sailed, that they He was complaining in society of last month at Koenigsdorf, near Mr. Buller, accompanied by Be took a taxi to the Chuen Chow. On the dimculty of finding a suitable Cologne. Mr. Burkceman, of Ford-man were crawling through the venue Officer Grimmitt, boarded board defendant said. "Mr.. Ben- title, when a vivacious lady said: ham-street, London, E., was kill-grass "spying the Chuen Chow at 11 am when bett should have called for this we have got Cornhill, and Lud-ed and his companions, Mr. and that would
on the couples be a disorderly They Do you mind taking it for me?" she returned from Macan.
gate, and Strand-why not call Mrs. Ernest Dukes, of Croydon,thing. But how could they say cautioned Johnston and told him and asked him to deliver it to Mr.
yours Cheapside?"
and Mrs. Ruth Marcus, of Wood-that a man who was standing in he was suspected of importing Bond, Manager of the Club, with
land-close, NW. were opium to the Colony. Later he was the request that it be given to Mr.
And a final excerpt:
severely the street was, committing dia- injured
jorderly conduct? * charged at the Central Police Bennett if he called for it, other.
The late Lord Coleridge was once- The party was Station, and in reply to all charges wise defendant would collect it him-speaking in the House of Commons in Ostend when Mr. Burkeman, who nothing was said about “spying on on its way to Giving evidence, Shield said that self. said: "I am not guilty."
Sergeant Davis was still on support of Women's Rights. One of board when witness went ahore: his main arguments was that there was driving, attempted to pass a courting couples" when he went During the afternoon, witness car- the masculine, and the femmine -ing a British car with righthand He had not seen any courting coup- was no essential difference between stationary lorry. As he was driv- with. Meddler to the police station. point out that it was less than ried the parcel himself, and there tellect. For example, he said, some drive he could not see round the jles, and the only woman he had anbour after he had met Mr. and was no doubt that it was the same of the most valuable qualities of what lorry and he crashed into an ap-jbeen in the avenue was Miss Smith.
Iparcel given him by defendant. is called the judicial genius-sen-
When he got home and saw that sibility, quickness, delicacy are pecs proaching vehicle. them to deliver an incriminating the parcel was split down one side. Dowse said: "The argument of the liarly feminize. In reply Sergeant parcel to a place where he already been himself the same parcel He took it to his father-dionely stated, amounts to this be
he detected a smell and opened the bon, and learned Member; compen CHARGE AGAINST A morning, and where he apparentlyaw, Mr. Gosting of 54 Village cause some judges are old women, intended to call later,
Boad, who had recently retired from therefore all old women are fit to be, On the charges of possession, the Chinese Maritime Customs, and judges." 'he submitted that Mr. Elliott's who confirmed his suspicions. Wit-So Now You Know evidence of receiving the parcelness then took the parcel to "MP. gride im was abundant, and the Buller, and the following day also fact that it was handed over in took the wrapper which was origin of modesty defendant's cabin entitled the ally round-it.. Court to conclude that he had im This concluded witness's evidence ported the opium-
and Mr. Remedios asked for. Mr. Remedios objected to
Madjournment as be had an in Abbott's comments on the ground ant appointment. Mr. Abbot that they should not be made an-gested that it wEEL
had
til after evidence had been given, examination could but His Worship upheld the As-menced, and Mr sistant Crown Solicitor's conten- that he had.
tion that he was perfectly entitled Court sitting bey
to make his commenting
The first witness called was Mr.
W. J. Buller, Chief Preventive Ufc
ficer, who said he received erf
TO-DAY'S FISH ST
parcel from Mr. Elliott at 7 pm boat Winifred on November, 11 in respect of
which Mr. Elliott made a written a turby of 800 to 9001, statement. He searched defen-entangled in their, net dant's cabin and found nothing Channel They failed to incriminating. In other respects, aboard, and it finally escape
today the Christian viztata UTSIDE the Catholic Church)
COLONEL
Alleged Threat To Murder A Major
THE FORGETFUL EAST
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"The East End is a bad place for memory," said Mr. Registrar White at Whitechapel County Court last month. "The percentage of persons who come before me and who cannot say what is owing Lieut-Colonel George Easton, to them is very high." and simplicity are formerly a member of Hull City rapidly disappearing before all Council and Deputy-Lieut. for the this pagan body-worship this alEast Riding, was remanded for most nauseating beauty craze-aight days at Hull last month. Beauty competitions, beauty par charged with issuing
document ades, beauty queens, beauty, par- in writing threatening to murder lours, faces on every hoarding Major FH Hamilton, another grinning their teeth cat for the well-known East Riding man” sheer rapture of a toothpaste. The The proceedings were held in vogue of the moment is an East-private and Insted only ern allure, consisting apparently minutes in greasy corpse-bize-round the
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Police: Superintendent - Robson eyes, an inch of stuck-on- eyelash, rare evidence of receiving Ident green or pink crystal hand-nails Coloriel Easton from the Folkeston and too-nails, and a reeking Basty police ern perfume to complete the al- lars I prefer the exhaust of 2
"The Very BesFather Owen Dudley, Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, zat the Albert Hall, London,
niffeur padded
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in custody.
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