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I don't suppose he will be able matter of form to pay, but as a

SAMPAN SHOOTING CASE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE.

HOW CONSTABLE'S SUSPICIONS

WERE AROUSED.–

SHOTS FIRED.

The constable rent: on to say that the sampan pushed off despite his order to those on board not to do so. He shouted to them about ten times to return to the Praya threatening to fire After blow ing his police whistle he fired three shots The enquiry concerning the death of the in the air. The constable said he was The establishment of a birth control I find him $10,000 or in default six clinic in Salford has drawn a vigorous months rigorous imprisonment, said Chinese pig dealer, Lau Cheung Lan then standing on the conservancy boat and protest, from Dr. Thomas Henshaw, Mr. P AF David at Singapore

in dealing with a Chinese cook frem on who was shot dead while inta sampan the sampan was about twenty yards away Bishop of Salford, in which he condemns board the steamer Takada who admitted on the might of June 18th, by a Chinese at the time. His first shots having no intend contraception and the dissemination of a charge of being concerned in the impofice constable, was continued at the effect, the witness fired two more,

Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon ing to hit the sampan and frighten the sex-knowledge among young people. Portation of well over $20,000 worth of

Chinese chandu: Writing in the Catholic Federationist, be

people or board. He aimed at the stern. MERELY TO FRIGHTEN.

says:-

While it was still dark. Mr. Listerman, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, sitting as Corüner of the Government Monopolies, with with a jury.. Senior Revenue Officer Sedik and a party The hearing occupied from 2.30 until of Revenue Officers, watched the Takada Their attention was at length drawn by after 8.30 and most of the time was taken

Mr. Lindsell: Was there anybody in the

Horrible things which formerly were scarcely ever spoken of by mature men and women are commonplaces now for suspicious movements on the vessel, and up with evidence of the Chinese constern-The Constable: I did not aim at

went on-board, The accused, who boys and girls. Eugenics-that-wonder-held the key of the rice store, was com stable, who committed the shooting and any person on the sampan. I merely ful science which aims at the improve-minded to open the store and a search who gave his version of what happened. Eired with the idea of frightening them."

Mr. Lindsell: Do you say you did not ment of the race by securing its extinction resulted in the discovery, under some He was subjected to lengthy cross-

has taught many to be tolerant of bags of rice, and in the air chute, of a examination and questioning by Mr. Lind aim at any particular spot-Constable,

large quantity of chandu. Altogether, strange filthy things. The powers of evil 3,290 taals of chandu was found, the value sell, the Director of Criminal Intelligence I intended to fire the shots, within a few, have refined their methods and unsavoury subjects are clothed with scientic names.

being estimated at 899.000.

The Chief Officer of the ship was in-

formed of the discovery and he told Mr. Listerman that the accused had sole charge of the key of the rice store.

Mr. G. Mussell, Head of the Prevan- tive Service, conducted the prosecution

CHINESE MARRIAGES, - JUDGES AND CONFLICTING- EVIDENCE

feet across the etern of the sampan into the water. I had no intention of hitting heads of the occupants. Afterwards I anyone. The last shot I-fired over the went to No. 7 Police Station and made my report. I did not know then that i

and the Assistant Crown Solicitor, especi- ally with regard to the nature of the contraband, which he said he suspected certain bags contained.

Divisional Inspector P. Grant, who had

was recalled, and stated, that "at ten or had hit arrone. eleven o'clock at night there were not many boats lying alongside the Praya wall at the point where the sampan was board ed Any boats lving inshore would be easily noticed.

In answer to Mr. T. H. King (Director of Criminal Intelligence) who is watching the case on behalf of the Police, the con stable said that so far as he could see

only two men carried the bags on their

shoulders. The other two carried theirs on a pole.

CONTRABAND OR STOLEN GOODS"

A campaign has been in progress for some time, mainly under the leadership of women, for the instruction of their sisters in the art of thwarting natural laws, defeating God's plans, indulging in sin, and avoiding some of the physical and told His Honour that the vessel a-given evidence at a previous hearing, His Honour convicted the accused un penalties attached-and, incidentally, for rived from Amoy. the initiation of many young persons into vicious practices. The compaign opened the charge of being concerned in the im with the publication of bocks and articles portation of non-Government chandu, and in the daily and weekly press on subjects the above stated penalty was inflicted. which might formerly perhaps, have found a place in medical journals on ac bount of their matter, though they would

CONSTABLE'S REPORT. -probably have-been rejected on account

An interpreter at No. Police Station of their form. But the promoters aim at |

was next called' and said that he was on something more than inculcating wrong principles, and now they proceed to the

The difficulties which face the courts of duty at the station on the night of June opening of centres where practical in- structions may be given.

the Colony in dealing with Chinese 18th from 8.o'clock until 8 o'clock on the One of the centres for the dis marriages were clearly indicated last semination of practical directions-of-this-week-in the Singapore Court of Appeal, morning of June 19th. About 8.30 p.m., kind has been opened recently not far when the decision of the Chief Justion in a Chinese constable came to the station from our Cathedral, and I am told that a case of this description was disputed by and reported that while he was on duty people are flocking to it in great numbers. the plaintiff, ap infant suing through at the Praya, near Centre. Street, he saw The strange features of the whole busi- his next friend ness are: First, that the police are power in this case the plaintiff's father was some persons loading something on to a sampar. The constable, said that be less-to-put these teachers out of harm's alleged to have married two wives, one way For a long time past an English in China and one in Singapore, and the man's home has ceased to be his castle plaintiff, the son of the China wife, proceeded to the spot and saw the sam- pan pushed off. When the sampan people in practice, but the four walls which claimed a declaration that he was guard anything which calls itself a clinic' legitimate son. The defendants, consist- refused to obey his orders to stop and Asked by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg (Assist seem to enclose an area which is sacred-ing of the Singapor wife and her twa more sacred than a convent garden-and sisters, alleged that Singapore cere- return, he blew his whistle, and that fail-ant Crown Solicitor, watching the case the place becomes immune from the inter-mony was a marriage to a principal ing to bring them back, he fired five shots on behalf of the Crown) what he meant ference of the law The second strange wife, that a Chinese could not have two from: his revolver at the sampan. These by contraband, the constable repied that

principal wives, and therefore that the thing is that the fathers and mothers.do

the bags. not rise up in arms against those who deceased would have committed bigamy shots, the constable reported, failed-to-he-suspected-firearms were concealed in dare to defile the minds of the people and had he married the Chinese wife as a stop the craft. principal wife. hound them out of the district.

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The Chief Justice held that a presump

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tion of marriage with the plaintiff's Later that night,' at 12.20 a.m, witness mother arose on the evidence, but that took another report from the accountant that presumption had been rebutted.

Asked by Mr. King" what he suspected the bags or parcels contained, the con- stable said that when he saw the men. carrying them-he suspected that they might contain contraband or stolen goods." " My suspicions, continued witness, increased as I approached them in view. of one of the men calling out.....! polics coming.'"

In answer to a further question by Mr. Hazlerigg, witness said at first he thought it was stolen property being carried,, but when the alarm was given he immediately.

suspected firearms.

Mr. Lindsell Why not opiumi

The Constable: If it had been opium & they would have surely turned back, when

"One would expect a hue and cry to be raised by those most interested in sup- pressing this evil. There are many hun- dreds of good parents in this quarter who deplore the evil in their midst, whose lave The court consisted of Mr. Justice of a Chinese firm, who came to the for the candid souls of their children has Brown (President, Mr. Justice Mc-station and reported that one of his cus made tem over scrapulous in their own Cabe Reay and Mr. Justice Deane.tomers had been shot by the police. language and conduct in their presence, The appellant was represented by Mr..

The accountant's story, continued the who have guarded them carefully from the Roiand Braddell and Mr. J. G. Camp-

I fred my revolver. contamination of the evil influences around bell, the first three defendants by Mr. interpreter, was that the man who had

Mr. Landsell: Surely one is as bad as them, and preserved them from the de M. C. Johannes, the fourth respondent been shot arrived in Hongkong by junk Glements of those who would have sullied by Mr. St. George, and the fith and their purity of mind and body. There sixth respondents (trustees of the estate) from the country at o'clock on the the other. Why should you suspect fre afternoon of the 18th and left his firm's arms rather than opium-Witness: The fore one naturally asks why these are die by Mr. R. Page.

shop to return to his junk about 9 p..bags appeared to be very bulky and long. posed to tolerate this outrageous attempt to persuade to unnatural sin. If the hue

During the course of Mr. Johannes With the deceased were two other men and ery is not raised more generally it address Mr. Justice McCabe Reay point; belonging to the junk, accompanied by is probably owing to the fact that people ed out that concubines in this Colony had are so easily misled by words and appear been exalted to the position of wives by two fokis, the last named carrying pig ance. Give an evil thing a respectable the Six. Widows case. No doubt that meal. The fobis returned to the shop, name and it becomes acceptable. House was wrong according to the old order of stated the accountant, and reported that it well and supply it with spick and-span things-in-China, but it was the position externals and its inner rottenness passes here. Was Mr. Johannes going to tell while putting the tins of meal on a sum- unnoticed. But filthy knowledge is not all these ladies in Singapore that they pac a police constable approached and filthy because it is imparted in a 'clinic were not wives at all, they were only con- the sampan pushed off or centre If an innocent is brought cubines?"

CONCUBINES EXALTED,

to sin and degradation it is little con-r. Johannes pointed out that it very

Questioned by Mr. Lindsell, the inter-

On being pressed, the constable ad- mitted that in his original report to the police station he stated that he intended: to fire into the water to hole the samopan, let water in, and so frighten the occu- pants into returning,

NOT A MARKSMAN-

In answer to Mr. Hazlerigg, the cou

solation to know that the influence which seldom happened that a man went preter said he could not remember that stable admitted that he was very much. misled ber came from someone in the through the ceremony of marriage with the accountant said anything further below the efficiency standard required to uniform of a nurse, and was exerted under a principal wife twice. the patronage of a 'lady '!'

STRANGE AFFAIR. LIFE SENTENCE BASED ON- ALLEGED ERROR.

New Voer, May 20th Raffaello Morello, an Italian, who was imprisoned at Trenton, New Jersey, eight years ago on a life sentence for murder- ing his wife, has been released on parole because it was discovered that the court interpreter mistranslated his plea off

Innocent in Italian for "Guilty." Morello studied English during his im- prisonment, and told his story to welfare workers, who investigated and substan tiated it. Morello, however, still remains in jail, because the United States im- migration, authorities insist on his de portation, since they are unable to ignore the court records which declare him guilty.

The only way to cut the immigration authorities red tape is for the Governor

Mr. Braddell pointed out that the when he made his report. He had inter- quotation from Jameson read by Mr. preted everything the accountant said to Johannes was a translation of the old Inspector Grant. He did not remember code of China and dated back to 1874.

Mr Johannes naked whether the law the accountant saying anything about the i Chins had been altered since that shooting. date. He submitted that it had not, at all events since 1917.

In further argument Mr. Johannes said the cases showed that a Chinese could not have two tsais (principal wives) in one place.

Mr. Justice McCabe Reay agreed that that was a new point. In previous cases the trair had always been separated.

After Mr. Braddell had replied their Lordships reserved judgment.

DEATH OF THE REV. G. P.. BOSTICK.

VETERAN MISSIONARY OF ANHUI

KUEITER, Honan, June 22nd..

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THE CONSTABLE'S STORY.

pass the revolver shooting test for

Chinese constables. i

Mr. Hazlerigg: Did it not occur to- Fou that it was very dangerous for a "marksman like you to fire

The Constable: It did not occur to me at the time."

Mr. Hazlerigg asked if the constable believed it was his duty to fre and that he had authority to fire.

The constable replied that he did not stop to think at the time whether he had authority or not. He felt obliged to fre. because they were attempting to evade

The Chinese constable who fired his revolver, one of the five shots from which killed the pig dealer while in the sampar, was called. Going into the witness-box, he said that he appeared in Court quite voluntarily to give evidence.

Relating his version of the affair, the constable said that on the night of the 18th June, he was on duty from 8 o'clock. Mr. Lindsell: Would you have fired until midnight. About 10 o'clock he in the case of opium-The constable. emerged from Queen Street on to the No.

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arrest.

Praya and patrolled along the Prays, Mr. Lindsell remarked that he failed walking westwards. When he reached to see where the difference came in. Eastern Street he saw four men on the West side of the Ping On Wharf near one of the godowns,

GRAVE SUSPICIONS.

Further questioning took place between. Mr Lindsell and the constable regarding, what authority had been given him to fire his revolver in such cases as this." Tho

We regret to have to record the death by typhus of the Rev. G... Bostick of New Jersey to grant Morello a full of Pochow, in Anhui, saya the ND. Daily News. He contracted this disease pardon, which is expected shortly.

Morello was drafted for the war in 1917, on a journey he had just made to Tientsin and his recently married bride threatened and although he was brought up to

He had grave suspicions of these men, constable replied that he had been told to commit suicide if he went, Morella Kueiteh for medical attention as soon as speaking in the obscure Feggia Italian the illness manifested itself, all efforts and when he got within thirty yards of that he could re on anyone drawing dialect, was unable to convince the draft failed on his behalf and he passed away the Wharf he heard one of

of the men, who arms on him, board that be was not an American on the morning of June 21st after about

was standing on the rays wall, call out, citizen, and was ordered to enlist. a week's illness."

When he told, the news to his bride Thus closes a life of 27 years of mis Police coming. Hurry up and push off" shots were heard in the house, and the sionary service in China, years of hard This caused witness to hasten, and when police found the woman dead and Morello work, often under conditions of great he got nearer he saw asampan lying danger and hardship, for Mr. Bostick was

Mr. Lindsell remarked that this was very different from the present case.

The constable admitted that he had no reason to apprehend violence on the part" injured...

Morello's story was that the bride a worthy member of the old school of alongsie & conservancy boat. Witness of the people in the sampan committed suicide, and that he attempted missionaries and never spared himself in went on to say that previous to this The constable was further questioned suicide when she was dead. His words his efforts to advance the Kingdom of

to the jury were Easa in volute, which God in this land of his love and adoption, he had noticed other man come regarding his ability to read Chinese he meant as "It was her doing, but the He was nearly 70 years of age and was out of Centre Street. Some of them characters, and said he could read a court interpreter translated it," She contemplating retiring to the States next were carrying what looked like bags on little. He was also questioned at length brought it upon herscif year, but his oft expressed thought that

This statement, taken in connection he would like to end his days in China their shoulders, while two were carrying regarding what oral instructions had with a further obscurely phrased explans has been granted and Chinese soil re- their load on a pole. Continuing, the con- been given him in respect to general. tion that Morello considered himself receives him at last. The tears of genuine stable said he saw some bags on the police orders issued from time to time. sponsible for her death when he told her sorrow shed by his Chinese friends and conservancy boat, but as soon as the be had been drafted, caused the jury to their manifestations of love and regard deliver a verdict of Guilty," and the for him show that his labour of many alarm had been given by the man on the judge imposed a sentence of life imprison years of hard work have not been in Praya these bags were pushed into the

I vain.

pampan.

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Mr. Lindaell eventually adjourned the enquiry until next Monday morning at

boncluded. 1130, when it is expected that it will be