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Bumption that the blood came from the decossed. There was no blood or mark on the mheets.

Had she band round her neck when you

bor ?--Yes.

What sort of a band?- The band on exhibition.

THE "ONGKONG DAILY PRE B, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24ra 1907.

Would you have any trouble in convincing the Court that you slept at a Japancas brothel -I do not know which brothel I was in.

Why did you want to leave the country and lose yourself P-Becansa my name was mixed up in the affair. I decided the best thing for me to do w a.to go away, and stay away for over.

You won't say, sir, because you had been Did that band belong to her?-I think it did.

guilty of a foul murder, and to escape justias? Had she one like it--Something similar. Was she wearing it the night before-I-No, sir (emphatically.) can't say. I don't notice women's apparel so Your conduct when arrested at Chefoo was not that of an innocent wau ?--I did not want my name mixed up in it. When you saw the body were there any rings spent your time in a ornthel P-I was asked for Why did you not stat: when arrested that you

a statement.

much as that,

The bairbrush, was that there ?—Yes.

on the fingers ?--I did not notice.

There were no rings found on the fingers when the body was discovered in the box - don't know.

She had rings on the night before-Yes,

sir. Que or two,

What did you do, take them off?-No, What do you suggest became of the rings I have no suggestion to maks.

When you put the body into the trunk the hands must have come in contact with yours

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I put it to you that the whole of your story from beginning to end is a subterfuge, a pure cononation -No, sir. It is nothing but the truth; the Gospel truth. When I returned to Hongkong tire witnesses failed to identify me why should I not now have trouble in getting witnessos in my favour?

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prisoner may be perfectly innocent and yet must have taken off when undressing, Yon afraid to stand the charge, and so he fled. It will remember that I put the qga stion to is of course equally to be considered in fair- Dooter Macfarlar, and "be acquiosced in my new to the prisoner that after he fled hematoment that it was the opinion of medion? subsequently volunteered to take his trial jurists in any question such as this that ■ jury duly defend have to decide between homicidal strangulation in Hongkong if he were ed. I say, and it cannot be contradict and suicidal strangulation. When the body is ed, that there was no law by which found to have heen, strangled with any

artiole prisoner could have been forcibly taken from of apparel belonging to it in life, and there are Chefoo to Manila, and it is only in common no flagermarks to indicate throttling, the fairness to the prisoner that when you consider melillegal-presumption is in favour of that he fled that you also give him such credit suicide, The body is found in a box with the the as he may be entitled to from the fact that waistband round its neck but no marka on Gentlemen, in every prosecution for murdered for by the highly decomposed state of the ultimately he was willing to take his trial body showing violenes. That might be account. it is the duty of the prosaution to prove two body at the time. That was the opinion of things. Ons is the identity of the person Doctor Muesfarlane, but you have to and from accused of the crime and the second is the the facts and not on the opinion of Doctor identity of the corpse as the person whom the Macfarlane. According prisoner is alleged to have murdered. It the Crown the woma must have bled very is the duty of the cosas defending to populonte side of which was a lot of copiously. Gentlemon, you saw the mattress nee

blood.

That would dome from the ears and nostrils and month, I

pat it to you that if a women were being strangled by & man, woman of Miss Daylon's paysique, 5ft. 8 ins in height, struggle, and not only would there have been blood on the mattress but on the chemise. Gentlemen, surely it is an extravagant proposal to put to you that strangulation could bave taken place by violence and there be no blood upon the chemise. Now we come to the Doctor's evidence. I asked him it there were any marks of violence on the No. body? No. Any blood on the chemise? Is it a caso for the presumption which arises from strangulation where there are no macks of violence and no marks of blood, that it is snicide? Yes. Then i took him on the question of the absence of marks and he said that might be theacomated for

the decomposition of the body. Gentlemen, what about the shemise There is no drcomposition of the chemise. It was seen within three days of the body being put in the

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Didn't you notice whether she had rings.on eine here at all. Now you admit the whole to suggest that the prisoner could be prejudice that there would have been a terrible lantial evidenon and afterwards found to be

them ?I did not notice.

Now, Sir, when you found the corpse as you allega, why didn't you at one call up the hotel People?-I

thongst of the embarrassing and awkward

position I was in, and could not re member whether I returned before going to the Japanese brothel.

If you had been at the Japanese brothel as `you suggest, it would be very easy for you to demonstrate your innocence —No, zir.

You do not know the number of the house is Ship Street where you slept -No, they all look alike.

It ought to be very easy for you to find out the number when your life is concerned ?-I do not Boo why that should be. I thought at the time of the box, and the oirénmstances all pointed against me.

How did you rotura to the hotel By riesha. It ought to be easy for you to get hold of the Boolia P-I did not see, and could not identify

him.

You were rather doubtful whether you raturn ed to the hotel that night I was not doubtful, but I could not remember anything, and tried to collect my thoughts.

You've just sworn positively that you did not return to the hotel ?Yes.

And when you saw the body you tried to think whether you returned to the hotel before going to Ship Street P-Yes, I tried to make myself think whether I returned to the hotel, and came to the conclusion that I could not have returned and left again in the condition I was when I went

Ship Street.

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And one of the thousand thought that

WAB whather peased through your mind you returned to the hotel before you went to Ship Street P-I tried to think, but in the condition I was it was impossible.

Why should it be of any consequedos to you whether you returned to the hotel I was the last one seen in her company,

that the strictest proof is given of the fanl.

ロロー It is monstrous, na I one question in cross-er- The jury for the last two days have been derstand from investigating the question as to whether you awiaation by the learned Attorney-General, story, all bat the ma dor, and I am putting it in any defence which his counsel might pat to you, your story from beginning to ond is a forward, merely because luis defence, either in concoction. You dislayed some ingenuity in whole or in part, had been sketched on its lines the matter -No, Sir. I have given my state of the oross-examination. I did not wish to neut, and am being cross-examined, and iforoze-examine in order to satablish the identity, there are any lies they certainly would come and as far as I can see, had the prisoner pleased out

to make no statement, the identity of the corpae, Your wife was living at Ulefos when you with that of the body of Gertrude Dayton, bad not been suficiently proved to the jury. I put went thore ?—No, sir.

Has she not been Bring at the Beach Hotel it to you that there has at boon suffisient

identification of the corpse. The Attorney at Cheloo-No, sir.

General has strangely overlooked another part cross-examination. At the only time my when I had an opportunity of asking a question shadowing that defence, namely, the question I put to the doctor with ropost to presumption of suicide. The question I put to bim wis as to when a person we found strangled, would the fasts as a rale point to the

Where has she been living -My wife is in l'hiladelphia.

At the time -She has been there for years. My instructions are that your wife was living at the Beach Hotel, Chefoo, was living with a woman and was in partnership with her.

Was the woman there when you arrived No, sir. She left the night previous to my arrival.

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innocent. Gentlemen, I do not say that in no stantial evidence. In some cases it was right that a man should be convicted on circumstantial evidence, but I put it to you that the prisoner cannot be convicted because the evidenca does not exclude a reasonable hypothesis of his Innocence, Everything he did was consist ent with his fading the body as he states, Gentleman, of the Jury, I ask you for your verdict.

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She heard you were coming ?-I don't know presumption of suicide, or would the facts lay trunk, and it had not a jot of blood upon it, ever submitted for the consideration of a jury.

From Chefoo you went to Shanghai-From Shanghai I went to Chefoo.

Did you pawn a lady's ring at Shanghai

No, sir..

You were in Suanghai on the morning of the 10th August-I cannot remember the date.

You pledged a diamond ring for $180 with a firm of jewellers in Nanking Road ?—No, sir.

You swear that ?--Yes, sir.

Positively swear that F-Positively. Did you go to Ullman and Company 2-No. You know where Ullmann and Company is ! I don't know. I am not acquainted with Shanghai.

Did you pawn there any property?—No sir.. This is a representaties made to the Consul General of the United States, your own consul, from the Captain Superintendent of Police, in which it states that adeotte, who is now dotain ed on a charge of murder, arrived in Chefoo on the 10th August and pledged a ring with a firm af jewellers bere. You deny the whole of that Did you consider the fact of your staying-Yes sir,

At those houses which you visited that night at Hongkong with the decensed as man and wife suficient to justify yon in what you did with the deceased woman did you see any other Partly,

--some men in one of the other bouses,

Did you see her have any conversation with any other man?-No, sir.

Min Dayton was a known prostitute, and wanted in Mauila for taking insurance money, was that an element sufficient? It would bring everything up against me, and I did not want it known at home.

You thought that justified you in getting rid of the body the way you did Partly.

Being up the street with her and drinking heavily, that surely was not 80 terrible as to

knowledge. yon in the eyes of the world ?-It was dingr nothing in my favour to drink with a known prostitute.

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started away with her op niy from Manile, and took her to a room at the Hong kong Hotel On the understanding that I was leaving her here to never see her mors.

Yon formed a blessed opinion against the Hongkong police. A good many other people have done that, haven't they 'P-I had occasion to, siz,

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med friend has put up, I submit to you that all the circumstances are against say such theory. In the first place what was the motive of the woman for committing suicide? According to the evilence she had some monetary disputes with a woman in Manila but there were no sufficient grounds for supposing that she deliber ately strangled herself. She was according to prisoner's own statement in a perfect merry condition after dinner. and asked him to go road to see a lady and gentleman, Mr. and Mrs. was at this house in a drunken condition soð Feist, with a view to going up the street. She far as any motive is concerned the evidence rebutait. Regarding the avidongs that she was deank, it is extremely in probable that she com- mitted suicide in that way, that she would deliberately pat her waistband round her neck and insert her brash so as to esse stran- gulation.

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The Attorney-General-I propose to conflue y observations in the remarks which it is now my duty to address to you in very small compass. The facts are fully before and I think abell have your sanctions for this is

saying certainly one of the most extraordinary cases day that advisedly because my learned friend to the presumption of homicide. Now, gentle-Is it suggested that Adsette was calm and

seemed to imagine from his remarks that I men, I put it to you that upea thevidence pool and that he dressed the body in before you you will not be justified in finding clean chemise after he cleaned it? Is theshed to criticis the conduct of the case put before you by the defence. Gentlexien, I that the prisoner murdered the woman Dayton. any evidence to warrant such an extrargest had no intention of doing anything of the Whatever your private foaling may be, you

that? In your duty Dopolusion

kind. It would be presumptuous to oriticiso not be justified in coming to any other gan the prisoner you will find that the chemis in cision than that the woman Dayton committed which the body was found was the chemisa alio the condust of any case which is entrusted to suicide. Gentlemen, in all criminal car and on at the time if ber strangulation. We may friend, Sir Henry Berkeley. But I ar while it is not at any time essential to the now come to the case where a woman in the entitled to point out that the case is, in my prosecution to prove motive, it is always well atste of

of mind in which she was might very well opinion, of an extraordinary character, becanee that they should be able to do so, and in all have committed suicide. Coming now to the you have been invited to consider alternative "As I said in orosa ex- defences throughoat. bloodstains on the bel, there was no blood on amination of the prisoner we were engaged criminal cases where the dafence can show a

What blood on the pillow. lack of motive it is always extremely valuable the sheets and

this does this involve? It involved that whoever yosterday in investigating as to whether

or Ben Was was not the man who osme for the defence to do so. I submit to you gentlemen, there is no evidence before us. which killed the woman was calm and deliberate enough

visited this particular to Hongkong and will warrant us in saying that the prisoner, to remove the sheets. But in that reason-

house.

himself practically ad- Adsetis, had any motive for the murder of the able? The prosecution overlooked that. If the woman Dayton. The motire suggested by the woman was strangled by violence on the bel the mite all the circumstances short of murder is the robbery of her money, block that issued from her would pass through and short of the sampan incident. As of suicide hich my evidence of that the shoote frat, and the evidence is that when

regards the theory Crown and bere there is except the death of the woman, so that they were seen by O'Sullivan they were only th Crown is arguing in a circle. I as when occupied by the prisoner and the wo say there is no motive, and I am going mean, I put it to you that you would not be to give you the evidence of the Crown to warranted in saying that the bloodstains on assist me in showing a lack of motive. The that he came from the deceased. The explan Crown says he murdered her, took possession of ation is obvious in view of the fact that the but her money and her jewels; but the evidence for had been previously occupied. All that the Crows was that the woman had votrusted Doctor could say was that the blood was human these to him for safe keepiny, There is the blood. He could not say how fresh it was. Ent evidence of Mr. Hempstead, who said that the why should the man go to the trouble of So far as your recollection goes, until you woman Dayton, when at her house, asked the removing the sheets. I put it to you, following became intoxicated and lost your sense, she prisoner to give her money, and he took out the principle I have enunciated, that a man is was not in the company of any other mana bai dle of forty or fify notes. You cannot not to be convicted on circumstantial evidence that night? No, sir.

gel-away from the fact that this is evidenco unless the evidence excludes any bypothesis of

· csaɛssion | inposeace. So far so I ba e gone it is Did you see her have any conversation of the fact that the prisoner had with any men exerpt yourself Not to my of the money with the consent of the woman impossible for you to say he must be guilty If you refuse to accept that, there is no According to the theory of the Crown the At Miss Hempstead's bouss you and deceased use in giving any

all. prisoner left the body in the ber, and he were drank together. Anybody eles f the There is no evidence given by the Crown that off the room at six calook to buy a box to replace the man murdered her for her money. Gentle the trunk in which he had put the ody. Is house? Was it the same at Miss Leavitt's house?

I don't remember being at Miss Leavitt's men, I say he had that money with her consent, that act, a rash act like that, to run the risk of and that fret oorroborates the statement of the dissovery of the body during his absence, house.

You never saw the deceased woman have any prisoner when he says that the money and the consistent with the copluess and calmnes conversation with any other man that night? jewellery had been enti usted to bim by Dayton an deliberation of the man who removed subsequently found on the woman's body.

for safe keeping. When a witness is found the sheets from the bed before he commits a matter of fact we have no evidence upon that We have évidence from the ship's Not to my knowledge.

speaking the truth in Court, he hes a right to the murder and who dresses the body in point. You did not ses bor No. This concluded the cross-examination and ask you to accept the other part as being true, fresh garmente after he has committed the officer that b'ood was flowing from the box, or some other fluid, and it was unlikely that and it is not inconsistent with reason that murder? Gentlemen, the prosecution must not the chemise would not be stained. My learn- prisoner returned to the dook.

eir Henry Berkeley, who spoke for 55 minutes, woman who would entrust him with 81500 blew hot and cold. It must not say in omo

would have been blood stains on the sheet then commenced his address.

gold, would entrust him with the jewellery, the breath that he was a 30l and calculating ed friend also points out that there

a stupid He said.-Gentlemen of the jury, the charge value of which is not proved. The two things murderer,-and-in-the-sext that he is

these articles from the bed and took the against the prisoner in the wilful murder of

are absolutely consistent, sed so far prisoner's fellow who does unnecessary things. The and bed. In all probability prisoner stripped Gertrude Dayton, and the oath you have taken story i, corroborated by the prosecution. The police in evidence admitted under my cross

elothes away before he committed the set. is that

according to the eridence Gentlemen,

woman gave him the money, and that is a a iamphorwood box within a stone's threw of in reporting the matter to the hotel and the I feel impelled to thus address you, as it may reason which you must take into considers the hotel, and there was nothing to take the and the theory, that the prosecution pats before

On the 23rd at 11.55 a.m.-The barometer because it may betion in coming to your emolusion. police authorities-Everything lookett black si unecessarily,

The prisoner so far away. It might be said that you is that before he committed the sol con siderable force, was used, iu strangulation your age *and reason Was that this woman Dayton he desired to cover up his tracks, but he blood would come from the Goss and month, and has risen quickly ever Central China and the against me.

from Manila with a large sum of would be just as much unnoticed in s aide experienos are aware that jurits en only facing

The depression passed to the North of afterwards.-Yes, sir. Almost,

find a verdict according to the evidnos: bat | money, and she gave it to him because street in the centre of the city. Gentlemen, if the ant had been committed by the roman sha E. coast, and fallen moderately in W. Japan. I I put it to you that if your story is truo you gentlemen, believe me that the warning I have she was afraid of arrest. That is en ported by if you come to the reclusion that it is could not have exercised a great force and in all

that the box as probability there would not have been the Shanghai last night, and has reached the neighbourhood of S. Keras this morning. It is must have been mid-must have been a lunatic? respectfully ventared to bring before you is not the Crown witness, Josie Marshall, ani we may

bong'at amount of blood of which the analyst epror followed by an area of high pressure which by the prosecution was ---Not necessarily. I was the only one in the impertinent, is not unnecessary in the particular take if that the prisoner is agais speaking the alleged for the purpose of putting in my learned friend relies on the theory of rcom when the box arrived, and that would co under consideration, for gentlemen, I truth. Gentlemen, the motive for this murder

Yangtze. have bien erid-nec enough in itself to have me venture to say that there is hardly a man in has not been shown, and the only motiva which clothes, why should he bare gone all the way to suicide his elitent does not. He mentions the appears to be central to the North of the Upper arrested,

this colony, hardly except one even in this court, has been suggested has no foundation in reason. Wanchai? There is the explanation of the thousand thoughts which he tells us about. At any rate you were unable, notwithstanding who has not disonseed this question at a time The woman Dayton has been proved to have prisoner himself that Le bought the box at One of his thoughts was B. Booth-in other the fact that the defence was carefully when it was never assumed that the man Adsetts bean's fugitive from Manila with a large sam Wenchai because he happened to be down there words implying that some one had intentionally taken place with B. Booth, Court to speak of your movements that night? trial. I will vestare to go further and to say zaspt that suggestion from me Pardon my of the world that s-young-cess after a debauch He also tells us that he would not slary in the considered for you to bring a single witness to would come before a Hongkong jury to take his of money in her poes ssion. I don't ask you to and see it. It is the common experience of men murdered that woman owing to the dispute

On my arrival in Hongkong. I spoke to my that there are very few, if any, of those who speaking peremptorily, but I think that you would wake up in a house of ill-fame and not

room that night, not because his

Paramour had solicitor, Mr. Harding, and told him where I diseased the case who had not already found will find vertict of not guilty unless you think remember how he got there. Now about the box. had been, but he said it was no good, as I could the man guilty before he arrived in Hongkong. the case is proved. In an English court of jos Did he buy it on his way from the brothel for committed suicide but because I was afraid

whoever did that dood might wreak their var not be identified in a place like that. He naked Now gentlemen, that circumstance, together tice with the system of criminal procedure whick the purpose of making a peace offering, or did

giance on me". You are asked to consider is in force here, there are only two verdicta on a by bay it for the purpose of putting the slothes

what the prisoner's motive is? I repeat from the

the Colony in night.

mendar that

endeavoured to tho my Bootland there is the verdict of not proven, but I have

beat of You told me before that the murder was in did, that circumstance renders

one of plunder. Do you bellove the proven my ability to put thin

before cane connection with the Booth matter -Every task herculean unless you will find a verdict in English courts where a verdict of not

woman banded all her jewellery to him? Formosa Channel.. thing flashed through my mind, and Miss Booth only according to the evidence; unless you will would be passed, the verdict is not guilty. There--you argumentatively, and I ask you not staff the primer that this unfortunate. came up first because Miss Dayton had stolen remember that no one saw prisoner commit the fore I put it to you that you have no option to be carried away by the fluent language of

Do you

believe the story for a single South coast of China between Į five or six thousand, and Miss Rooth made the act the Crown charges against him. That he can but to find the obarge not proved, and bring in the Attorney-General, who himself may be

moment that he was at this house and married

Hongkong and Lamooks. remark in Manils that she would get even with only be found guilty upon what is known 14 cits verdict of not guilty Gentleman 1 tell you, carried away, though 5-tuote this country the woman's jewellery about in bis pocket? 1 Jouth coast of China between

my Lord, that in a cass enmatantial evidence must be the logical result upon correction

the feeling which is provalent in this country anbmit the story is so absolutely unreasonable ber. I am not here to accuse anybody.

in order

Hongkong and Asian..} that it will be a most unsatisfactory termina- How long were you in the room after you got there, before yon proceeded to pack the body in the trunk -Three, four or fivô minute.

Did you sit down and think it over before you did this No. I stood by the bed..

Aud within five minutes you jammed the bady in the trank the way it was discovered ? placed the body in the trank; I did not jam it in. I Lupicas you know at that time that your conduct, if found out, was fatal to your life

Or that you were doing at any rate, an act

That is the only explanation you have got to givo? Yes.

Do you think decossed killed herself!I do not know,-----

You've no opinion at all as to who did it No.

Do you mean to suggest that if you were an

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innocent man you would not be perfectly safe guilty will fad a verdict of guilty or not prisoner, however, gives evidence why the eximination that the prisoner could have got bed was found in sa ordinary condition

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me when I was there, and I told bita Baturday with the unwise sot of the prisoner in finele charge of murder, guilty or not guilty. In in after he killed the woman? Gentleman, that the motive in the case for the Crown

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And you did not tell the police or anybody, in order to save your good name; is that what you suggest? Yes.

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Strong monsoon is expected to set in agaiu over the Formoss Channel, and the Northern Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours, ending shores of the China Sea.

at 10 am, to-day, 0.05 inches.

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tion to this trial if the prisoner at the bar be as to divest it of the slightest credit. In oir- you. But it must be a cool, osim and independ-sufficient to justify the verdict of guilty, the

no termination of scumstantial evidence there must be an unbroken

A great sensation has been caused in the ent judgment, a judgment free from all fear of avidance must be such as to exclude every quilted. what the public may say if you find a verdict of rossonable bypothesis of innocence. In other cal est be unsatisfactory in the trues use of chain. Is there any broken link in this chain ? which the pablic will disapprove, the unthink

to the movement of the accused. We have the Empress Dowager's favourite dog which circumstantial facts, that the prisoner may have given before the jury. ing public, the public that did not hear the virumasinatial tossible upon the same set of the word, which is founded upon the evidence We have put before you abundant evidenos as Imperial Palace by the sudden disappearance of Gentlemen, the traosd him from Mauila, to the Hongkong wont by the usme of Telang Ern" or Savey evidence, and the publio (bat baving heard the murdered the woman, or the women may have woman Dayton is dead, and the

question for

and search made in all directions for the you is did the prisoner kill her, or did Hotel. We have traced the morements of the Son." It is said to have rau out of the I Ho evidence are incapable of giving the proper committed aniside, you must and the case not

woman and bim throughout the day missing animal has proved of no avail. Notices legal weight to the evidence. Gentlenen, the proved. Gentlemen, you can only find the the strangle herself? The prisoner is not here

say. gentlemen, if the story of the pri care for the Crows is that the prisoner arrived prisoner guilty unless you say it is not in before you in answer to the obarge of stealingsoner is to be believed, it he is not a murderer of the lors are now posted in Feking and a here with this won an and went to the Hongkong reason that the woman could have committed her money. He is not here to answer the charge

could possibly have been Hotel, and for the which would render you lisble to the gravest¦ of her money and pose of getting possession suicide. Let us examine the facts the Crown of erimically disposing of the dead body. He he is a lanaila, for no man with aby sanity reward is being offered. It is to be feared the

her jewellery did her to death places before you. Before doing so I will just is not here to answer for any of the sets sub-

He asks you to of the Empress Dowager it would fetch a good believe that when he arrived that night he price,-"F. &. T. Times." suspicion --I did not stop to think of those and dispcsed of her body. That is the case for mind you of the evidence to which I adveried sequent to the death of that woman. These Indicrous conduct as he has guilty of such dog has been stolen, as being the personal pet things. Belf-preservation was what I thought the Crown in a few words. If i took to the end before my last parenthetical remark, and that acts can only be considered by you as showing thought he would be disgraced. He posed as a

of the day and the Attorney-General follows me is that the woman Dayton

In accordance with a recent Edict, the agect was fleeing guilty knowledge in his mind, but these are for hours he could say nothing more than I from justice; a fugitive from Manila. She very slight evidence of guilt. Circumstantial Simon Pare, that his reputation would be gone

a state of mental excitement evidence is at all times very dangerone. It is because, forsooth, the woman in the hotel conservative and bigoted Governor Chang

with whom he was in have told you in these words. The case for the was in

company was not Teng yang of Chekiang, whose transfer to a And afterwards you were afraid to stay in the zer is that he came into the Hongkong | on the night of her death: The Crown are still more so when the princips, the only black his wife, JE the woman had strangled herself similar post at Soochow was bitterly opposed by

found the woman lying on the bed and proved that she was tipay. We have it on the act against the man is that he did not stand hotel. Why should the persons who did the deed disposed of her body to save himself from the prisoner's evidence that she was mentally excited to meet the charge. Gentlemen, if you convict there would not have been any marks on the natives of Kiangan como time back, has been you will, I respectfully the table cloth adjoining. Gentlemen. I transferred to the Governorship of Shansi vie wish to wreak their vengeance on you I don't charge that he could not bat feel must be laid and naturally so. All the way from Manile she the prisoner know.

sgainst him, against which he did not feel was on pins and nestles last she should be submit, de ge because the evidenco points to his could address you for another hoar, but I de En Bbou transferred to Shéuni on account of not think any good would be served by it. My To Hung-hran's transferenes to Feking It What do you mean by that?-I was in the courageons enough at the moment to stand. recognised. There was the man who had corn having strangled the woman and not because he company of the murdered woman.

And he fled. Now, gentlemen, I say there is a her, and she would fear that he might telegraph ran away and tried to dispose of her body. It was learned friend breappealed to you to give his is stated that the people at Taiyuan are not alient evory possible fair play. That I am sure satisfied with Chang's appointment and will also. great mystory which you have to solve, and the to Manila. Then there was the drink. This foolish and unwise to run away as he did, but I pat you will do. That is the pleasing duty of every protest to the Government for his removal to solution of that yeters is not to be in any way man and woman were drinking whisky in their it to you that you must not convict this man British jury. My learned friend has hinted to some other provines in consequence of bis recent you in the course of his speech more than once action in or tering the decapitation of the female assisted but rather obscured and prevented room. There is no reason to doubt that. Than because he did not stand up to take his trial. The deed was done in your absence. How by inflammatory speeches to you and to which we have the evidence of Miss Leavitt, who Gentlemen, I have done. I only give you one that if your verdict was in favour of his client tenoher Chiu Chin at Shaohsing without

trust you will not be subjected, The

that Miss Daylon was drank there. All last word of warning as to would the person who did it know anything

the danger of about you? How would anyose know Miss only solution is by the prosess to which I will this is calculated to prove that the woman cosviption in criminal cases on circumstantial it would be su anpopuler verdirk Gentle sufficient evidence to convict her as a revola- Dayton was staying at the hotel?

ask your attention for a few minutes, that is was in state of tension in which she eridenes only. It is only quite recently the men, by intuendo, it would be suggested that tionary and his opposition to modern education Instead of spending that night at the hotel to say a careful review, cahn and logical, of might have

Havlag public in England have been shocked by the you are wreaking vengeance on the prisoner. It in Chekiang province. you slept at the Young Men's Christian the foots that have been proved. Ex post facto thes for you would not be violating any case of a young Jewish barrister, Fdalji, who is not within your provines to avenge. Association-That is what I call it. It ina sots are most dangerous in arriving at a principles of logio if you were to find that she was, convicted on circumstantial evidence of goages if the prerogative only of a higher power How To BE BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com- higher plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Crime Charmante. Lait sailors' home..!

conclusion. One of the things that no doubt was in a state of mind in which sho might very maiming horses and cattle After strenuus of the Divine power. There is Have you any

ovidence as

to this I have makes the public condemn the prisoner; well have taken her life. Let us now see what efforts on the part of his friends he was released. quality that vengeance and that is justice. Charmant and Special Skin Tonio, and Ponder not, but I believe if the man and woman who one of the things which is spparently on evidence there is to support the theory of That is only one of several caser. My learned That quality you are here to bestow That Charment will enable you to do it. Her

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Specialities for the Skin are the study of a are in the pisos could come here and hear me sidered must damning is the fact of his saloide. Gentlemen, the corpse is found with a friend, the Attorney General, will bear me out

Hifetime. A.8, is Watson & Co., Ltd., Bols Agents describe the general run of the place they would fight. Gentleman, that is merely an incident waistband round its neck, the waistband that when I say that the law books teem with testify that I slept there that night

to which no weight should be attacked. The she was wearing the same night, which she instances of persons convicted spon circum-

Then because some other person or perscus murdered the woman, you thought they might come and murder you? Yes.

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