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HONGKONG

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

COOKBINDING

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE,

Tho only office in China having European taught workron, Equal to Home Work FURNITURE WAREHOUSEMEN

CHEE & CO., Established 1859,

Every Household Requisite Depot for Enstman's Kodak Films and Accessories;

17. Queen's Road Central.

JEWELLERS----

MAISON LEVY HERMANOS,

Diamond Merchants and Watchmakers, 40 Watson's Building, Queen's Beai. Alag at Shanghai. Manila, Paris and Toilo

PHOTOGRAPHER

M. MUMEYA, JAPANESE ARTIST.

Bromide and Crayon Enlargements nud dre colouring Photos and relief Photos. Views of China and Manila. Work done for Amateurs; No. 8A, Queen's

Road Central

PRINTING

DAILY PRESS" OFFICE. Proofs rend by Englishmen.

STOREKEEPERS

BLACKHEAD & CO.,

Sary Contractors, cailmakers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Sole Agents for Hartmann Bahtjca's Goanlue. Com

position Red Hd Brand.

BISMARCK & CO.

Navy Contractors, Ship Chandlers, Provision and Coal Merchants, Sail-

makers, de. Fresh Water supplied toʻ

Vessels in the Harbour.

KHONG SANG ắ Common

Spehandlers, Sailmakers, Frorisionere. Coal Merchants, Hardware, Engineer Tools, Brass and Iron Merchants,

144, De Your Tea..

MORE & SEIMUND,

*43 and 45; Des Vous Road. Slipchandlers, Sailmakers, Riggers, Commission Agents and General Storekeepers; Sola Agonts for Shipowners Composition (Groy- hound Brand") and Blundella Spence & Co.'s Composition,

WATCHMAKERS

DROZ & CO.,

14, Queen's Road Central. Repairs of Watches and Clocks by competent European experts at moderate rates.

LADIES' RECREATION CLUB.

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SUBSCRIPTION BALL.

SUBSCRIPTION BALL in it of the funds required for the new full-sized Croquet Lawn will be held at the CITY HALL, on TUESDAY, 911 DECEMBER, fron 9.30 PM. to 12 30 AM.

Transferable Tickets, price $5 each, to be paid for at the time of application. cau be ohtainen hy any persons by applying to the weldersigned or to buy Member of the Com

mittes of the Ladies' Becreation Club..

There will be Late Trata to the Peak and a Late Lanach to Kowloon.

!.

F. A. SAUNDERS,

Hon. See, Ball Committee. Address Kellett Crest," or Care of

Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld. [2982 Hongkong, 26th Novembar, 1902.

JUST PUBLISHED-2ND (REVISED), EDITION.

THE FRENCH IN TONKIN AND SOUTH CHINA, By AFFRED CONNISGHAM, Sixty Illustra tipas and One Map. Pries $3. ON SALE AT LOCAL BOOKSELLERS

VINA PRESS. NOTICES. "This volume places before the English reader the best description of the Southera French colonies in the Far East that has yet appeared."HANGHAI MERCURY,"

Many of ns in the Far East have read. books on Tonki, audient and modera, bat a knowledge of things as they are there today, of what has been accomplished under M. Donmer's ministration is far from common.

The author has written what he set ont lá do, a very readable and accurate sketeli of the colony unitis at present. Altogether, this is a book to real" BANGROK TIMES."

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Hongkong, 17th October, 1902.

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AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

THE Undersigned have received instructions

T

to Sell by Public Anction,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-DAY (SATURDAY),

the 6th DECEMBER, 1902, at £30 PM, at their SALES ROOMя, 29, Den Vaux Road, À QUANTITY OF VALUABLE JEWELLERY.

Comprising: DIAMOND RINGS and BROOCHES.

·GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, BRACH- LETS, SCARF PINS, CHAINS, LOOSE PEARLS, &c. &c., E.

Catalognes will be issued. TERMO-As usual.

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, 3rd Decembor, 1902. [1242

PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned has received listractions L to Sell by Public Auction,

TO-DAY (SATURDAY), the 6th DECEMBRE, 1902, commencing at 2.30 P.m., al bis Sales Roosts, Daddell Broot, A FINE COLLECTION OF JAPANESE CURIOS AND EMBROIDERIES

Comprising

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An Exceptionally Fine Lot of EMBROI DERED SCREENS.

TERMS:-Cash on delivery.

On Viow from Friday, the 5th December. Catalognos will be issued,

GEO. P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer. Hongkong, 29th November, 1902.

--PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undersigned have received instructions

to Bell by Publio Auction,

FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,

+4521

MONDAY,

the 8th DECEMBER, 1002, at b.v.x., at KENNEDY'S STABLES, CAUSEWAY BAY, One AUSTRALIAN HORSE;:

One SET of HARNESS;

One AMERICAN FOUR WHEELED

BUGGY:

One HOODED BUGGY;

TERMS.As anal.

and

One TRAPPING SULKY:

One SADDLE.

HUGHES &1ÕUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong. 3rd December, 1982.

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PUBLIC AUCTION. THE Undersigned have received instructions Tto Sell by Public Auction,

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on...

SATURDAY,

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STRANGE STORIES

FROM THE

she died. The women was consitieved so much | urrest he had muda a profession of murder. His the most guilty of the tires that she was guil- victimg wore all shepherd-boys and girls ne letfned last, that is to say she was forced to prasauts in lonely fields. He killed for killing's look on whilst her husband and his brother sake and travelled op font all over France to were being executed. The strange point about indsige his sang inary purensy A remarcablu FRENCH COURTS, is case was that the conviction of the mur fact that transpired during the trial was the doress was secured mainly owing to the indis. description of the canning methal he had do cretion of the parish priest. Atmost inmediate-vised and practised to esespe pursuit. He, too. ly after the murder, the woman, to so hor can-favorably returned to the scene of his crime, science, wont to confession and detailed i'r but not from the motive or under tuo impulso crime to the horrified past. He was so over-

which criminal

towards the even-

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The temperament of the French is such that inviolable sanctity of the ocofessional, he that ing um quoting his own words in

come, that, forgetting his oath and killed, by TL ve tesed. te rareive orders for their Naw and Ex.

the quarts of no other civilised county-apliyuvenile related what he had heard. The story" and listened away in a given direction. that the word "civilised" should be used bu

revcl the ears of the authorities, and the this connection-afford such bastaavos culprits were arrested. But for the priest's in- depravity in the concepti u of crime and of voluntary betrayal of his sacred trust, impunity horrid ipernity in carrying it out.

was assured to them, for everybo ly kail believe their story that the old woman hul fallen into the fire, as old women often do. The tears of the daughter find baen so convincing.

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mediately at nightfall he doubled back at full speed, passed the spot where he had killed, ant then sträight on in a direction opposite to be one which he had first taken. The marrow morning fout kim miles away from the spat where he and last be seen, and to which the reudarnics, following "is daylight thight hart traced him. By thin svetom," he said, “whí a the polies went in one direction, I went in the other.. The world being roun it is strange that we nower met.”

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The Annals of many countries have been stained with the records of diabolical poisoners,

11aly has not yet outlived thg wd rapat tion which in this respect she got in the Middle

ENDE BERTED CRIMINALS. Ages. But bore also Trungo holde skoonful The French couts, by the way, aford abun- Supremacy Neris roterenes intended thedant proof of the fact that the most atrocious xploits of the notorions Marquise de Brincil-riminals, apparently as dend in fooling sea lior, for it is now fairly well established that jungle tiger, roay be prompted to tears at the that wretched woman was insano and altogether sufferings of others than their selected victims. isresponsible. Hat even if, as her judges at the We still talk today in Paris of Lucenair, the time devided, she had been entirely rational, wet murderer Chongh it is sixty years since his sad her actions had been deliberate and witful, hrad, fell at the Barriere St, Jacques. He was what comparison would be established between guilty of many murders of no deep a dye of her guilt and the infernal wicketpes of Do for turpitude, that to mark his abhorrence of the Comfy de la Pommerais. who was executed in man, ing Louis-Philippe, who by the way was 187, in spite of the fast cations hissing a firm adversary of epilat punishment, prote Eugenie, moved by thesupplications of his young his full name at the top of

death- wife, imp/pred. Napoleon III. to reprieve him? watrast, instead of only initialing the fatni document, as was his invariable custom. Well, The only parallel that one can find to la Pom-it was urged on the prisoner's bibalt at his metais is that English deeter. Palmer, kapwa trial, that he could not possibly be guilty of the gs the hugely murderer. In both cases love Formel crines with which he was charged, that of here was the ignoble incentive; in both be had once fainted on seeing a kitten drown, cases the hellish design upon a coniding victim and that after the warder, passing the scaving was carried out with the most cynical and un- at a boulevard theatre, be had vent copiously releating composurs, but in point of ingerity at the sufferings of the heroine of the plag as well as in point of cruelty, the Frenck cri- Juries in the so days in France were, tainal far exceeded his fellow murderer, Wil-doubt, made of sterner stiff, for now-a-days fium Palmer almost inspires sympathy when one such evidence skilfully put forward might have [3194 contrasts him with Conty de la Pommerais, aved the man's life. A few years ago a mno, Palmer used strzelanine, which, if it tortures, whom I know very well, escaped the richly kills fast; La Pommerais, more cunting, usar drserved death-penoliy on a similar appeal to digitaline, which tortures also but kille so slow the sentimentality of the jury. This was Joseph ly that suspicion of psí-on is hardly prowed. Aubert, of notorious memory. If I refer to his This is Pommerans may ku described as the king sure it is mainly boonuse his story illustrates the f poisoners,He took a delight-in-the sense mysterious power of presontim ut the foro of power which tho possession of lethal drags hiding of danger which is given to ente per- gave him. When, after his arrest, his consulting | sous, and thanks to which a worthy young man room in the rug des Saint-Pores, Paris, way

now living in Paris escaped a eruel death. He searched by the police, no less than thirty-seven was the victim originally selected by Joseph bottles of prison were discovered in a secret Aubert to plander and kill. Like the unfor cupboard. Of digitaline alone a quagity was tonate Delui-f, whom Aubert lared into his found, sufficient to kill a thousand people. The house on the Arenas do Varauities, and there number of his victims was never kunwn, zor in- į treacherously despatched with su oxe; he was s deed closely inquired into. The actual morder philatelist, and possessed a valuable collection. for which he paid the forfeit under the knife of of foreign stamps, Aubert had a mania for the guillotino was abundantly proved. Hering stamps, bot solely for their commercial valas, insired the life of a wretched woman, a Madame He knew that there was money in stamps, and Fauw, for £20,000, be paid one premium og this incited him to get possesion of them at this sung and then began to doctor her with any east of or me. A few days before Delstiet digitalipe, a poison usver used before, by orimi- was murdered. Aubert called on an old friend pals. It produces the symptoms of sente heart of his named Danes at his rooms and almost disease, and his calculation was that her death at once began to ask him about his collection. would be attributed to this. He had taken all At the same time he inquired with friendly soli- his precautions, but in his onaning over-reached eltude about his friend's savings, what amount himself. A batch of letters written by Madame he had accumulated, and how it was i: vested. Pauw, in which she described her malady, and When Dames had told him that the bonds in which she thanked him pathetically for his which represented his "economien" were in the benevolent attendance on her were proved to trunk by his bedside, Aubert expostulated with have been dictated by him to his victim. He him on the imprudence of keeping such valu- had relied on these letters to prove his good ables as a collection of rare stamps and negoti- faith. They were the worst charge against him;able- sogarities in so unenta a place. “Time There were twenty letters, but he could not went on." sald Dames, in relating the incident produce a single envelope to show that they bad to me, and he kept on talking. At last be passed through the post. To save a few peace pulled out his watch, and with a gesture of in postage he had carried home each letter as it irritation, cried out: Why, it's aarly wid- was written. In playing for a stake of £20,000 night. The last omnibus has gone, and I can't he had refused to risk a half-crown, and so lost get home. You most lat me sleep here, old 6 Devecs of DIAMOND RINGS at $15.00 the fortune and his life with it. A peculiar in

fellow. Anything will do for me. I oau paseYOU WISH TO SELECT A PRESENT. VERY WELL JUST LOOK BELOW - terest attaches to the story of his exention, for the night very comfortably in your arm-chair," up to $150.00 each;

if Villiers de Liale-Adam's narrative is correct Now how it was I do not know. I had no A Quantity of DIAMOND BROOCHES an attempt was made, with his co-operation, to suspicion of Aubert, whom I had known and at $25.00 to $300.00 such.

solve the question which has often puzzled looked upon as a friend for many years, scientists? Does the brain retain its faculties hat as he spoke on invincibla feeling came Catalogues will be is nod,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

for any time after the bead has been cat off by orer me urging me to get rid of him at any Auctioneers.

the guillotine?" It was agreed between the cost, on ne account whatever to yield to his Hongkong, 5th December, 1902. [3282 conciot and another doctor that immediately request to pass the night with me. “No, no,

after the knife had fallen, he should, if he could, I cried, 'I can't do that. I can't sleep with wink thrice in obedience to an order. The ex- another person in my room. You must go CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS are

periment was trial and failed. The lids closed home." He protested, argued, bugged, orging warranted to cure, in either sex, all required or

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that it was possible. for him to walk constitional Discharges from the Urinary Organs, Gravel, and Fains in the Back. Fres

home that night with so many bad charac- If La Pommernis may styled the King of ters about. To put a stop to this, I gave him from Mercury. Established upwards of 30 Poisoners, the title of Queen may well be given three francs, and told him to take a cab. After years. In Boxes 4n, td sach, of all Chests

to the Breton woman, Helene Jegado, who was I had looked the door upon him 1 gave a great and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the World. Proprietors, THE LINCOLN AND MID-cated in that town.

triod at the Assize Court of Rennes, and axe sigh of relief. The next day, whilst I wa3 KWAY She was a cook by pre-at my office, he broke into my room and stole LANE COUNTIES DEVO COMPANY, Linepin fession, and killed for sheer love of killing, my trank, and some days later to secure further England.

mixing arsenio in the dishes which she served to plunder he murdered that unfortunate young CARBOLINEUM-AVENARIUS bervarious employers. She went from situation man. I have no doubt whatever as to what my to situation, leaving a trail of desolation and ¦ faja, would have been if I had not been warned USED FOR OVER 25 YEARS. death behind her. Soms forty warders were of the impending danger in the mysterious

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manner which I have described. This affair STOCK BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE. In those days women were still executed in created a great sensation in France because of Franco. Now-a-days sentimentality reigns the means which Aubert took to dispose of bis 2978

34, QUEEN'S RJAD (UPSTAIRS), OPPOSITE POST OFFICE supreme, and women are hardly ever sentenced victim He packed the body in a trunk, travelled to death, however atrocious their, erimes moy | down to astation on the Cherbourg Kne and left bie he. One may except from this charge of seeinistar luggage at the cloakroom there, Natur- fimentality the Versailles jury, which is dreaded ally enough when a week later he came to olsim for its severity. Of this severity a woman now it be found the gendarmes waiting for him, for in prison had the experience last year under in the meanwhile the body bad revealed its curious circumstances. Her came is Madame presence, Criminal psychologists pointed to his Graitzinger, who murdered her husband by shooting him while he slept. She was tried in Faris, and being found guilty on a minor charge only, the verdict being further mitigated by an Throughly reliable preservative for Wood admission of extennating circumstance," she was sentenced but to five years solitary confins- and Stone against White Ants, Domy, Fringement, She considered this sentence much too Rot, and Dompress.

Govere, and appealed. The case was retried at Versailles. The jury here very properly con In removing the body in a trunk he was imi victed her on the capital charge, finding no extating the exploit of Eyrand, the murderer of tenuating circumstances whatever, for indeed Gouffs, the tipstaff, one of the most sensational [1803 | none existed. On this verdict abe wes sen- casus which has ever been tried in the Paris tenced to death. President Loubet, however, Court, Byrand was the inventor of this method. reprieved her, and fixed her sentence at the of disposing of the corpus delictă, and so care. penalty inflicted by the judges of the Paris fully had he taken his precations, that it was Court Appeal in criminal cases a two-edged by a mere chance that the crime was traced bomo sword, a fact which sentimentalists in England to him and bis female asanci te, Gabriella Bou- szem to forget. However, I do not suppose that pard, Chance is after all the best ally of the Madame Graitzinger was ever in terror of death, pelice, and this is exemplified almost every time for it is now nearly sixteen years since a coa that the criminal court sitein Paris, For mach victed murderess was pat to death. This execa- se has been waid about the saperior stateness of tion took place at Romorantin, when three French detectives, the courts afford abundant prisoners suffered, They were three evidence that for sheer luck many crimes

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GRANITE

MONUMENTA

No. 1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST.

Estimates, Designs & Prices on Application

All descriptions of Granite for Export. Hongkong, 17th October, 1999,

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