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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an

NOTICE BORDINAR GENERAL

MEETING of the above Company will held at the HoxatoNG HOTEL, Fedder Street, Victors in the Colony of Hongkong an WEDNESDAY, the 31ST DAY OF UCTOBER 1923, at 11.30 o'clock in the Fousseur for the purpose of considering and, if thought. Et, passing the following Resointion as an Ex. iraordinary Reaktion, unmely:---

That the name of the Company të changed to "Tus HosOLONG AND SHANG HAI HOTELS, Lamited ", 'SHOULD THE ABOVE RESOLUTION be passed by the requisite majority it will be submitted for confirmation as a Special Resola tion to SECOND EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING to be haid at the HONGKONG HOTEL, Fedder Street, aforesaid, on SATURDAY, the 17TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1923, at ELEVEN O'clock in the ForKNOON, for purpose of considering and, if thought it the

Special confirming such Resolution as Resolution accordingly.

Bated this 18th day of October, 1923.

"By Order of the Board,

WALTER J. HAWKER,

Secretary.

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HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., LTD. (INCORPORATED IN ENGLAND.) TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to Share

holders in the above named Company that the Special Resolusion to Wind up the Company and the Extraordinary Resolution pelding forthe Distriimtion or sale of the Com. bollingent Shares in the HONKONG

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1710, -1828.

GERMAN COUPLE'S TRAGIC

BENITA

CORONER'S, INQUEST.

EVIDENCE" BY A

"FRIEND.

Procceding, witness said that Amburg thẹn "asked him to accompany him to the hospital, saying at the same time, "You will stick to me, won't you?": Witness accutopanied Amburg to the hospital That was about 10:45 am. On arrival at An Inquiry was held at the Magistracy the hospital Amburg went into a small yesterday afternoon into the circumstance receiving room and apoke" to a aurae surrounding the deaths of the late Mr. whilst he (witness) had a talk with Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Amburg, who died under Smalley "I talked to him about may tragic circumstances on Tuesday, the 8th suspicions," added the witness. November, the latter by taking poisonThe Coroner: What suspicions t at the Hongkong Hotel and the former by throwing hiniselt from the first floor verandah at the Central Police Station. Mr. J. R. Wood presided over the Inquiry and the Jurors sworn were Messrs. C. J. Woolhouse (forrman), K. A. James and S. A. Aida

The witness: I was suspicious that he was going to commit suicide, as he had already told me that if the girl dies I am going to join her."

Inspector Pincott (through the Coron err-When you told Sergt. Murphy that Amburg should he kept by the policr did you say anything else -No

Do you recall saying anything to him about the condition of Mrs. Amburg's body -Yes, I told him that the body was badly bruised and that Amburg had con- fexed that he had done it and that be had ill-treated his wife for some time. Amburg was evidently in great distress,

The Coroner: Did you advise the police to detain him because of the ill-treatment to his wife -No, that was not my idea, I didn't want him to commit suicide in the hospital. I must say that his wife was full of remorse at the time that sho had taken poison and whilst she was in hospital she was full of affection for him.

AMBURG'S LAST STATEMENT.

Proceeding, witness said that he left Amburg at the hospital and then went to the Central Police Station where he Mr. B. E. A. Webster. Solicitor, watch-met Mr. Wolfe (the Captain Superinten-

Sergt. Mukpry said that on November. the proceedings on behalf of the dent of Police) just as he was Jeaving Universal Pictures Corporation of New his office. Witness told Mr. Wolfe what eth he went to the Government Civil York, for whom the deceased man was he had already told Dr. Smalley, and Mr. Hospital at about 11 o'clock in the morn- their Far Eastern travelling agent.

Wolfe replied that Mr. Amburg would be taken care of. Witness then rushed backing. He saw Amburg before going to see Dr. Smalley. Amburg then appeared to to the hospital, arriving there about 1330e quite sengible. Whilst he was taking p.m. Amburg was still there.

statement from him" Dr. Smalley called The Coroner: What was the object of witness into his office, and tapped his subjects. Their deaths occurred on the your visit to the Central Police Stationhead meaning to say, witness took it,

The Coroner, in opening the Inquiry, said they hat met to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two persons, Huge Amburg and his wife, who were, as far as they knew, German

6th November Inst and at that time they hail arrived in the Colony only a very. few days previously. They were then Staying at the Hongkong Hotel. On the was discovered that Mrs. 5th instit

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The witness: The position is just this: I was his only friend in Hongkong and I thought it might be advisable to tell the police."

Continuing, witness saith that when he arrived at the hospital the second time He soomed quite all right and was making a statement to the Sergeant Later they came back to the Police Station at about 12.45 p.m. He could not say whether the police had detained Amburg or not. On arrival Ambarg went in one room with Sergt. Murphy and be witness) went into another with Inspector Pincott.

that Amburg was half mad. Dr. Smalley did not tell him that the deceased man was likely to commit suicide but be said that Amburg had been ill-treating-his wife and as he said this he touched his The Coroner: When were you first in-

bend.

mit suicide -Not by anybody.

Continuing, witness said that after he brought him back to the station he told Inspector Pincott that the Doctor had told him that Amburg had been ill-treat ing his wife. I took Amburg into a room by himself. "

pany LIMITED (incorporated in Hong-Auburg bad taken poison. She was sent Aimburg was talking to Sergt. Murphy formed that Ainburg was likely to com| Long), ot

of which Notice has been given to the

to the Government Civil Hospital and she. Shareholders Laving been confrmed and passed survived till the following day. On that REGISTERS OF SHAREHOLDERS day in consequence of certain statements in the above named Company both in London given to the police the deceased. Mr. and in Hongkong WILL REMAIN OPEN Ambury, was detained by the police and UNTIL THE 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER whilst under detention in the afternoon 1923, for the purpose of regulering Transfers he was informed that his wife was dying of Shares after which Date the said Registers and he jumped from the first floor veran- will be Closed suit the Liquidater will proceed dah and was killed. The Inquiry, con- to a Distribution of the Assets of this Concluded the Coroner, was purely formal, pany among the Persons appearing as Share. but there were two points of interest holders upon the said Registers in accordance The first was to find out whether the with their rights and with the said Extraordi

husband was in any way responsible for nary Besolution.

hia wife's death and, secondly, whether the Police Department was in any way to blame for the circumstances surround ing the husband's death.

W. F. SIMMONS".

For and on behalf of EDWARD RITCHIE MORRISH,

Liquidator.

Hongkong, November, 1923.

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DR. MORRISON'S EVIDENCE

with her about it

The Coroner: "What was the object in The Coroner: What did you tell Inspec tor Pincott? Did you tell him that Am- taking him into a room I wanted to got burg had threatened to take his life I a statement out of him about ill-treating his wife. I didn't write down" what he cannot recall, whether I did or not.

said. This would be about 11.45 am. Witness said that he did not finish that The conversation with Amburg in the atatement that day. At 2.20 p.m. it was

room lasted about 10 minutes, who then broken off. He then went out into the volunteered to make a statement. I pro- corridor and saw Amburg, who was walk-duce this statement, ing up and down. Witness joined him.

The Coroner: When you joined him what condition was he in-He seemed

The statement was put in and read out by the Coroner. It threw no fresh light on the tragedy but stated that Amburg bad warned his wife about taking an overdose of a sleeping draft and that she The Coroner: What happened then had done so and then denied that she We were walking up and down the veran had. The statement went on to describe. dah when he asked me to sit down for a haw when Amburg entered his bedroom moment which I did He then asked me at the hotel he found his wife kneeling to give him my note book and pen which on the bed. She then confessed that she I also did. He then wrote down a same had taken an overdose of the draft.

Witness said that it took the deceased and an address. He continued to talk and I gathered that he seemed to think an hour and a half to write the state that he was being detained by the policement, which was quite brief

Up to that time had you heard any The Coroner: Did you tell him he was body tell him that be was detained No. being detained in connection with his ill- He then said to me: If anything hap-treatment of his wife No peas notify the address I have given you and not my parents' address." thought turn,

!"

Dr. John Morrison said he was sum- moned to the Hongkong Hotel at about very nervous He was nervous about his 10 p.m. on November 5th. In conse-wife. quence of a message from the No. 1 boy be went to room No. 400, which he found to be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Amburg. Mr. Amburg explained to him that they haul had a quarrel and that Mrs. Amburg had taken poison. He examined Mrs. Amburg She was conscious and spoke once or twice. Witness asked her if she bad taken poison and she replied that He then asked how many tablets she had taken and she replied that she could not say. The symptoms corresponded with the statement she had

Witness said that after Amburg bad that she had takto poison.

anished the statement witness served him mace wait on to say that"CULT DESK:

#sounding the benche

The Coroner method of treating the case was to en-

an immediate removal of Mrs. Continuing, witness said that it was Jury, explained that a first notice was Amburg to the Government Civil Hos about this time that be overheard thispec printed form used in the case of a serious He telephoned to the hospital to Pincott and Berg Murphy make illness or serioas acuident in which it pital and asked for arrangements to be made statement “About lying depositions. In-

was necessary to call in'a Magistrate to there. Irs. Amburg was despatched to spector Pircutt spoke to Amburg Wit take dying depositions to he used in con- hospital by motor-car in charge of Missness could not hear all that was said, nection with any future action which Baines, the nurse at the hotel..

but he beard the words "dying deposi might crop up. The first notice was u preliminary notice generally served on a The Coroner: Did you notice anything tions and calling a diagistrate, D.- The Coroner. Did you noti

Then Amburg seemed to go to person likely to be the accused in a future! The witness: I noticed she had a large pieces," went on the witness. He turn-action and it told him that arrangements bruise over the right side of her righted to me and said in great distress: My were being made for a Magistrate to take eye, but I did not have my conversation God, boy, she is dying.' Amburg then the dying depositions.

turned to Sergt. Murphy and leaned on

The witness, continuing, said that he Continuing, witness said that he found him. We were then at the end of the wanted legal assistance and Mr. Cheng the small bottles of poison in the room corridor. I then turned to speak to Mr. of the Magistracy staff communicated in a handbag on the dressing table (two Cheng, of the Magistrady staff, and when with Mr. R. E-Webster. When Am- hottles produced). One was labelled I looked round again Amburg was gone burg made this request he was standing four leet away from the witness, who saw "Diamond Antiseptic pellets." As re- I next saw him on the pavement below.

him suddenly leap on to a form and over gards the time of taking the poison; wit

DIL SMALLZY'S EVIDENCE Z

the verandah Witness tried to stop him Dr. Smalley, Medical Officer at the OFFERS will be Received up to the 7raness said at the most it must have been

half an hour before he arrived there. DECEMBER, 1923, for the Purchase or

Asked to describe the busband's state Government Civil Hospital, said that but he was too late the only thing be Imse of a Modern Equipped Nine-room, Fire-

inches. proof, Brick and Concrete Residence at Pix of mind when be visited the room, the death in the case of Mr. Amburg was due managed to do was to touch his coat. witness said he was in a state of most to a fractured skull. He died five minutes The distance be fell was 18 feet four HOOK TONG, CANTON, Irciades three Bath- Tooms equipped with Modern Fixtures, Com-intense excitement and would not, in his after admittance to the bospital He The Coroner at this stage intimated his modious Basement Kitchen and Servants opinion, in such a state be responsible held a postmortem examination in the Quarters, Attractive Location. Excellent Views for all his actions. It was with the case of Mrs. Auburg and found that death intention of adjourning, and inforined. want to know what happened to Dr. Surrounded by about 8 mows of well laid greatest difficulty that he kept control was due to poisoning by chloride of Inspector Pincott that the Jury would out Grounds with Ten year old Trees. Tennis over himself. He spoke in English and mercury.

Dr. Smalley then related the circum-Smalley's report to the inspector on duty.

-in-the-charge-room. Court Owner's family lesving shortly for answered all the questions witness put to Home.

him. He seemed very anxions to get his stances--surrounding the admission of Particulars, Plans and Conditions of Sale wife into hospital and throughout his blrs. Ambarg to hospital. This was at 10 p.m. on the 5th: He was present upon application to BANQUE DE L'INDO QUINE, mind, was working under great emotion.

11558 Mr. R. Dovey, Government Analyst, when Mrs. Amburg was brought in She gave evidence as to analysing the two showed symptoms of acute irritant poi- bottles of poison which had heen sent to soning: Her bushand accompanied her to him. One contained mercury chloride, the hospital and he was very distressed. each tablet containing eight grains. Mrs. Amburg had just a small chance The tablets, wore antiseptic ones, for grow weaker and weaker and nothing Three grains would be absolutely fatal that she might recover, but she gradually external use (washing). The other bottle would be done for her as she had taken contained corrosive sublimate. It was such an enormous dose. Her case was

On hopeless. It was really hopeless, from the labelled poisonous."'

beginning. She died at 2.25 am on the EVIDENCE BY THE DECEASED'S FRIEND. 5th.

Witness then spoke of the visit of Mr. Clarence Darrow Ryan, an Ameri can merchant salesman, living at Carnar: Amburg and Mr. Ryan to the hospital von Buildings, was next called. He said on the morning of the 6th: Amburg bad he knew Mr. and Mrs. Amburg person stayed with his wife most of the night. ally, though he had only at Mrs. Amburg In the morning Mr. Ryan came to nee once for u. fow minutes. After giving him (witness) and said that Mr. Amburg syulence as to the identification of the would probably commit suicide: "I Lodies at the Government Mortuary, Mr. agreed with him entirely," added. Dr. Ryan went on to say that he had known Smalley, "so I rang up Central Police Mr Amburg for some time. He saw him Station about 11.15 am. I spoke to the either on the 2nd or the 3rd of Novem- Inspector on duty in the charge-room and ber, and Amburg then told him that he explained that there was a man in the bad wired on the 1st November. He hospital who wanted to commit suicide.

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all right. Witness, saw him again on the following morning at about 10.15 o'clock. Amburg was then standing at the door of the bar room of the hotel. Amburg said he was in trouble and wished to speak to him. He said "My girl has taken 66/TUT-BITS “intersate and amuses, ronders

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Inspector Pincott: The Captain Super- intendent of Police is enquiring into that.

The Coroner: Well, I will want to know. We have no trace of having received it. what happened to it and the second point

we wish to clear up is the instructions such cases, regarding the detention of issued to the police in connection with Are there abs printed instructions, Inspector l such people in the side, room.

inspector Fincott said that as far as he was aware there were none.

the instructions of the Coroner, Inspector Pincott said that he would

tor of Criminal Intelligence). consult Mr. Ferdue (the Assistant Direc The Inquiry was then adjourned to this morning at 11 o'clock.

YUNNAN

OFFICERS ATTEMPT SUICIDE, GRIEVED OVER AN ACCUSATION BY SUN YAT SEN'S CLERK.

Wa Iu Ping, described as "a clerk in I told him I could not keep him in the Asylum, but I said the man should he kept the Generalissimo's service, at present under some restraint. The Inspector staying, at the Astor House, has reported said there was a side room which was to the police that a sum of $15,000 used by Europeans and he thought that entrusted to him by Dr. Sun Yat Sen would do. This was all the conversa for the purcham of blankets for troops tion." Later on in the morning Bergt. at the front, had been taken away by a Murphy arrived and witness called him colleague, who has absconded.

Hulvequently there was an attempted into his office and told him what he thought of the case, stating that Amburg dolible suicide, near the Harbour Office. was in such a state of mind that he might Chan King Chor and Yeung Kak To, said commit suicide at any moment. Bergt. to be officers in the 3rd division, Murphy subsequently took Amburg and Yuunaness Army, jumped together into the harbour. With commendable pluck, a Mr. Ryan to the Centra) Police Station.

In reply to the Coroner, Dr. Smalley boatman and a Chinese Revenum Officer said he did not offer Amburg anything rescued both of them. Questioned at the Police Station they aid that Wu had no became it was useless.

cused them of complicity in the loss of the $16,000 nad they were so grieved about it that they wanted to end their lives.

Did you tell the police how to treat him -No, I simply warned the police that he meant to commit suicide,

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