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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22nd, 1927.

ROUND THE POLICE MYSTERY OF LONELY INN. BEST-OF-ALL-TIME U.S. XV. SENSIBLE MODERN

COURTS.

TELEPHONE" COMPANY'S WIRE STOLEN.

MAGISTRATE'S STOLEN

CLOTHES.

As a sequel to the recent theft of Mr. R. E. Lindsell's dress clothes, a Chinese pawnbroker was charged at the Central Magistracy yesterday with accepting stolen property.

Mr. D. McCallum appeared for the defence and Sergt. Baker was for the prosecution,

WOMAN FOUND· WITH THROAT CUT.

AN ARREST.

Hayfield, Nov. 19th.

PLAYERS WHO WOULD MAKE UP A WONDERFUL TEAM.

[BY LIGHT BLUE]

Going back twenty years we im Mr. Amy Collinson, aged 36,mediately think of G. E. D'O. wife of the licensee of the New Lyon, one of the greatest full-backs Inn, Little Hayfield, situated on who ever played, and about whom the moorland road between this stories (quite true), are told of his place and Glossop, was last night being brought nahere by a destroyer found dead in the kitchen of the to play for England. in with the blade of a email

carving knife still buried in her one to enr.

throus, which had been cut from

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MOTHERS.

A TILT AT THE SELFISH

VICTORIANS.).

[BY ONE WHO REMEMBERS THEM, ]

The Victorians have become a cult. How frequently are their. manifold virtues expounded to the Bright Young Things of to-day! Yet among their failings the most prominent was, nelñakness-a solid," self-antisfied, double-plated "war ranted to wear" sort of selfishness,. no doubt fostered by the long yuara of peace and plenty which preced-

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Who Had The Best Rooms? That highly praised Victorian demanded the vote, that young matron, that housewife who never mother who did not jazz, shingle,

He gained a cap in 1908 and again in 1908, and was most dif- cutt man to get past. He was built on bigger lines than the pre- The discovery was made by her seat Services full-back, K. A. Soled the Boer War, husband about 5.30 last night, onlar, but if duck goes his way the his return from his day's work at latter will be just as good-and Glossop. "When Mr. Collinson "ar. | better. rived at home he could not gain. Mr. Lindsell, in the witness-box, trance to the house, all the doors said that he recognised the jacket apparently being locked. Ho and waistcoat and that they bad who reate a stable at the inn for

therefore, went to Mr. Dawson, been stolen from a rattan basket the purpose of keeping poultry, placed in his car outside the Ferryd he had a key fitting ace of

Wharf. The clothes were fairly new and would, in his opinion, fetch £1 if sold to an old clothes dealer at Home.

For the defence Mr. McCallum argued that the pawnbroker could not have known that they were stolen property. It was not an uncommon thing for European clothing to be" pawned. Major Willson laposed a fine of $25.

The Chinese who stole the cloth -ing, it will be remembered, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour in few days ago, but his sentence was reduced to one month yesterday.

WIRES CUT AT THE

PENINSULA HOTEL.

the doors of the inn.

Head Battered With Blant Instrument.

The two inen entered together and made the discovery. Neigh bours, e doctor, and the police Examination showed that Mrs. were immediately summoned. Collinson's head had been battered as with some blunt dnstrument, as

Of course, if we look back so far, most of the big names will be found to belong to the Navy, sinos in very far ahead of the Army in those days the Senior Service was

Rugger. But yet there were famous Army men, one of whom was Captain Basil Maclear, the Irish international, who started his football career as a forward, and then became a household word as a three-quarter, winning eleven caps for his country

or drink cocktails-did be of a householdt We are so used to truth "consider the ways of her hearing her virtues sung that we forget to rentine that the best rooms were always the drawing-room and "mother's bedroom," that it was the rule rather than the exception to have the nurseries at the top of the house in spite of the fact that this made them very hot in sum- mer and exceedingly cold in win- ter, and all the nursery meals had to be carried up several flights of stairs, probably by a young maid whose own growing days were not

over.

West Country Idola, ï A fine Navy three-quarter about then was W. N. Lapage, who play ed in all four international Well as ber throat cut. Death had matches for England in 1908. He was a most elusive runner, and taken place some hours before. Inquiry showed that the last per

scored very many tries.

Then the schoolroom for the elder son who saw Mrs. Collinson alive

Perhaps the most famous three-children, more often than not, was quarters a few years before this dark and gloomy, too dark and was a youth who delivered milk about 8,30 in the morning. Trades-

were S. F. Coopper and J. C. Mat gloomy in fact to be wanted by men who called later could motters The latter only got one cap anyone else as a place to sit in, gain admittance, and when a cask

for England, when he played in while the less said about the ser- of port wine was brought for de-

1989, against Scotland, but he has vants' sleeping quarters the better. been described to me by one who livery at the inn it was taken charge of by Mr. Dawson.

has good reason to know as the position." best contre who ever played in that

Although the inn was not open ed for custom at the usual hours yesterday this attracted no saben- tion dn the lonely neighbourhood. A Dumber of Treasury notes was Before Mr. W. Schofield at the missing from the house, and rot Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday,bery is therefore suspected as the Mr. D. Tolian, of the Telephone motive of Mrs. Collinson's asters.

sailant The Chief Constable of Company, said he must press the case against a Chinese employee who was charged with the theft of two coils of wire from the Peninsula Hotel building, which was recently evacuated by troops.

The work of installing telephone wires in the building had stopped when the military took it over and the coils of wire were left secured to bamboo poles in the service room on each floor. In order to take the coila-away it was necessary to cut them.

Derbyshire (Major Auley), the De- puty Chief Constable, and two and spent some hours to-day in superintendenta visited Hayfield vestigating the case: Later on the police detained a man for inquiries. The High Peak Coroner (Mr. Sydney Taylor), formally opened the inquest at Hayfield this after- moon and adjourned it.

CHARGE AGAINST BANK CASHIER,"

A cashier of the Ho Hong Bank was charged at the Central Magis tency with the embezzlement of $1,080 From his employers. offence was alleged to have extend The ed over a period from December, 1998,

Mr. Tollan told the Magistrate that besides the two coils. which the defendant was seen to carry away, about a dozen other edila had been taken away, and it would cost the Telephone Company thousands of dollars to replace them. The de- fendant, added Mr. Tolian, was a

The defendant, Su Yeung Sang. member of the party which had in-pleaded guilty, and Mr. M. K. Lo stalled the wires and knew per- appeared for him. fectly well how essential it was that the wires should be all in one piece from the rooms to the terminus.

The defendant's story was that

he heard that certain wires had been cut in the building and he went there to inspect. He found two coils of wire on the floor and was taking them back to the Com pany when arrested. Against this it was stated that no employes of the Telephone Company could law. fully enter the Hotel without first

• obtaining permission.

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The case was adjourned until this morning for the defendant to call a Chinese who was alleged to have been asked to go with him to the Company to make a report.

CANTON LOOTER IN COURT.

For failing to give a satisfactory explanation for 'having 82,500 in his possession, a Chinese appeared be Ore Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday. The man confessed that he took part in the footing of the Provincial Treasury at Canton by the "Reds" 'during the recent troubles.

The defendant with twenty other suspects arriving by a Canton boat was questioned by the local police as to where he got such a large sum "of, "money", and replied that the money was given to him by his uncle to take away from Canton to prevent it from getting into the hands of the Communists. Later he told a different story.

A sentence of four weeks' hard labour was passed by the Magie trate.

ASSAULTING A SHIP'S GUARD.

Major Willson gave "a remand until Wednesday morning.

O OFFENSIVE TRADES.

Nor did it strike the Victorian mistress to make any attempt at introducing brightness or comfort in the furnishingú

Charlie Mattera and the "young-) We Reap WhatÏVictorians Sowed. ster, as S. F. Coopper was known, were the idols of Devon Rugger,yellow chest of drawers with ita "Servants furniture-the ugly but there were those who did not tiny looking-glass, and the hideous know that the "youngster" was older by a month or so than Mat was as much a part of her recog cotton quilt on the hard iron bed

nised order of things as servanta' food"; those inferior brands of she regularly ordered for the ten, augar, meat and butter, which

Holidays and spare time for daily manual workers of her household.

fresh air were doled out very frugally indeed.

Ccopper is better known as the To present-day players, S. F. Rugby Union secretary, but pre- wonderful wing three-quarter who war players know him best as the made a hobby of jumping clean over the full-back.

Listening To His Play. From a Combined Service point of view, could one do much better than Louis Greig and B. O'H. Livesay! Many are the tales told and retold of people going to listen to Louis Groig play Rugger, but ; he was well worth watching, and though he was some years later have played together, would have than Livesay, the two, could they been great.

England, each time against Wales, The latter was twice capped for while L. Greig got five caps for

Sectland.

Following later came two famous serum halves, both of whom played (Navy), 1913-14, and J. A. Pym for England-F. E. Qakley

1912. Pym was in the Army, and it would have been a very difficult job indeed to choose which of the two should represent a Combined Service XV. as scrum half-se

The

The tenants of the first and second floors of No. 20, How Won) Street, Wanchai, appeared before

No one can ever forget Pym: the Senior Magistrate on summons Every time he emerged from be taken out by the Sanitary Depart wards his round cheerful face was

neath a mass of struggling for ment under the Offensive Trades Ordinance for making soap and lard always wreathed in smiles. on the premises without a permit. more he was kicked and rolled in

A Sanitary Inspector stated that the mud, the more he smiled. A verandah, in addition to the kitchens, was used for boiling pur poses. The fat supplied was thought to be from a market pork dealer, btt the Inspector said that probably

this was mixed with other fats.

Fines of 820 and 295 were im posed by the Magistrate.

ARMS IN PACKING CASE..

A Chinese constable who was charged with the unlawful posses- sion of 40 Smith and Wesson re- valvers and 1,089 rounds of am- munitions, was yesterday discharged by Mr. R. E, Lindsell at the Central Magistracy.

Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the defendant, and sharply criticised the prosecution's evidence. It will be remembered that the defendant was arrested on the evidence of two Chinese coolies who were originally arrested at the waterfront when they were carrying a packing case containing the arms. These two men said that they were asked by the constable to carry the case They were released and the defend- and arrested in their place,

The arms and ammunition wero ordered to be confiscated.

INDIANS GET THE GOAT.

To pick a scrum of forwards drawn from the Army and Navy of pre-war days would be well-nigh impossible and I shall be content with recalling the names of some

of the best.

Many mes I myself have felt the force of Lieutenant C. H. Aber- crombie's boot, that great forward who represented the Navy and Scotland from 1910 to 1913.`

The present Navy selector, E. W.. Roberts, needs no introduction. Very much to the fore as a for- ward when he played for Devon, the Navy and England, he is now still in the forefront of Rugger life.

Played For Both Services.

When I hear people bewailing the independence and fightiness" of servants to-day, I feel they are merely reaping the aceds of révolt which the Victorian mistresses sowed.

Modern Women More Sympathetic. I. like",to' think, too, that the young woman of today is not a domestics are acarce and therelore better

employer. "just because

better able to insist on their rights, able of realising other women's but rather because she is more cap- needs of rest and recreation.

which enables us to put ourselves Imagination that magic robe in our neighbour's place was fack- wardrobe. ing in the Victorian's mental

tions of affection

Behind her outward demonstra. or discipline, resolve not to be worried or dis there was always the same placid turbed, not to have the gently flow- ing stream of her daily life alter-

low), they were never the centre incidents (frequent incidents, I al ed. Her children were her only,

of existence as the modern only child so often is to-day.

The Children's Hour That Was".

Never Prolonged. There was a good deal of porti cal talk about the children's hour," but the hour was seldom prolonged. There is no **chil- dren's bour" nowadays because the modern child has the run of house or flat from morn till eve, and is in the constant company of its modern parents. . While this state of affairs may not promote awe and reverence, it does make for good fellowship and under- standing.

Evasion: Of Problems,

The average mother of to-day takes pains to understand, and somehow finds time to study, all I do not know in which Service subjects concerning the Various to place the one and only" Dread difficult phases of infancy, child- nought," H. C. Harrison, because hood, and adolescence.

The Vic- did he not play for both Navy ‘and | torian mother evaded and ignored Army. In whichever Service you all such difficult problems, often place him, he would have been a to the bodily and mental detriment certainty for a Combined Service of her offspring. She was content- side.:

edly ignorant, and prettily called her ignorance innocence.

She gave her children, rhubarb. and senna in the spring, and taught them hymns on Sundays, paying little heed to individual stomachs or characters.

The modern mother dances and plays games with her children as a matter of course, and finds it the most natural thing in the world to discuss freely all sorts of sub-

One could go on for ages "writ ing about Army, and Navy ... for- wards, but what sort of a scrum would the following haver made: N. A. Wodehouse (Navy) (leader), G. H. Abercrombie, (Navy). E. W Roberts (Navy), H. C. Harrison (Army), C. A. Bolton (Army), C M. Daher (Army), A. H A Chinese banker was brought The long drawn out case in whichMellwaine (Army), and F. Burges before the Kowloon Magistrate on an Indian warder summonsed three Watson 1 a charge of assaulting an Indian Indian police constables for the I doubt if anyone would disagree | jects with them." She knows their guard on board the as. Linan. It larceny of his goat was settled at with me that Lieutenant N. A friends, their tastes and habits was stated that after, he had been the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Wodehouse was one of the finest, very intimately so that her life ordered off with his pots of conges, Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask appear it not the Anest, leader of forwards is most closely entwined with he came back and assaulted the ed for the complainant and the de- that ever played, and, in my theirs; húfishehas only achieved guard with a chopper. NAJ fendants were represented by Mr, opinion, C. M. Unber was one of this and by many sacrifices of The defendant alleged. that the L, R. Andrewex. The defendants the best forwards who ever took money, leisure, and inclination guard demanded #1 before he would story was that they had sold the be allowed to hawk. On refusing gont to the warder for 355, and had part in a serum. Would that we Modernity eens maternity at it to pay the money he was sent back only received a dollar on account and more of his type to-day. bestauntal manage

then took the goat

As reserves for that serum

If it were possible to pick the

to his sampan, but the guard later They waited for some time before might put down Basil Hill, G. O threw pieces of coal into his boat pressing for the balance of the Liddell, and J. S. Wilson, through best team from those I have men-

his utensils. and broke ligne of $35, the money, but the warder refused to. I don't quite know why they should tioned, and put them together, ench

pay... They. Magistrate ordered the defendant and left it in the care of another not be in the selected side. Per at the top of their form, what a to pay 85 to the injured man, and watchman.

shaken lace haps the reason is that there is time s present Combined Services Hi Worship decided that there only room for eight forwards, inside would haval I do not think it could hope to stand up to the was not sufficient evidence to conserummage. As vict and discharged the defendants. (Continued at foot of next column.)!" old togers" at the best

also sign a personal bond to be of good behaviour for one year.

(Continued on next Column.)

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