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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1928.

DEATH AFTER ARREST.

„DRINK_CHARGE AGAINST

TEETOTALLER.

DOCTORS FIND NO ALCOHOL.

ton.

"An dirgest ou a man who died, after being arrested on a charge ət- drunkenness, from a stroke which a doctor said might have given him the appearance of being drunk was haled by Mr. H. R. Oswald the West Lention coroner, at Kering The man, was Mr. William Birk beck Harris, aged 60, an insurance broker, of The White House, Hayes, near Bromley, Kent, and Mr. Oswald told the jury that the police wanted a public inquiry for fear that any allegations might be made against them. Mr. Harris died in St. Mary Abbott's Hospital, Ken- sington.

MURDERER AS HERO. GERMANY IN 1928.

AMERICAN JURY ACQUITS

WIFE KILLER

INSANE FOR THE DURATION OF THE MURDER.

WASHINGTON.

THE SHADOW OF REPARATIONS,

PRUSSIA AND THE REICH.”

BERLIN, Dee.. 28th. Germaus, occupied just now in drawi_iny ted eituilameneftuct are fairly unarimous - in the

Lawicas-America continues to maintain her reputation, and juries and Courts continue to opinion that marked progress has been made during the year. But shield the criminal and make a the problems which have to be travesty of the law. Last summer fared in 1913 east heavy shallows George Ramus, who forsook the before them. It will be the arst normal year of the Dawes scheme, Chicago Bar and became the bead and Gomang will be required to of a gigantic bootlegging ning, shut pay 125 millions sterling in repara- and killed in Cincinnati his es

tions to the Allies. ranged wife, who was on her way to Court to testify in the suit for divorce she had brought against her husband. It was deliberate and premeditated murder.

Remus dragged woman from Mr. Harold Lowther Carey,' aber taxi-cab, then, thading her at Colonist broker, of Brecon-place, arm's length while she pleaded for South Kensington, said that Mr. her life. poured four bullets into Harris, his brother-in-law, and her body. His only defense was been in bad health and had had a insanity, although he miraculously stroke some years ago. On doctor's recovered his sanity & moment after order he had been à fotal abstainer his wife's death.`• for three years.

Visits To The Cell.

He left his office at 5.30 pm on Thursday, and as he did not arrive at Bromley station, where his daughter had gone to meet him with a car, she communicated with the police. Later she was told he was at Nothing Hill Gate poler

station,

Police evidence was given that Mr. Harris was seen in Bayswater; road at 6.30 p.m. being supported by several people. As he appeared to be drunk and his breath" smelt strongly of drink he was taken to the police station is an ambulance. When charged with being drunk and incapable he made no reply He was visited in the cell every half-hour and on each occasion said he was all right.

At midnight he was found to be ill, and the police surgeon ordered his removal to the hospital. Mr. Harris had been in the station for six hours.

examination hemorrhage.

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The accused man conducted his own case and alleged that while he was in prison after his conviction for bootlegging his wife became the mistress of the Prohibition agent whose testimony led to his convic on. The two, he said, then roo- bed trim of a large amount of money and valuable securities. It was their actions that unbiaged his mind and drove him to murder.

The trial lasted eleven weeks and, as usual in an American mur der trial, much irrelevant matter was introduced. Two sentimental women and ten equally sentimental men on the jury, wept as they heard Remus recite his wrongs, and after deliberating only airteen minutes, acquitted him on the ground of insanity, although alienists had sworn the man was perfectly sane at the time of the murder.

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Mr. Parker Gilbert's warning to Germany in regard to foreign bor- rowing will, it may be presumed, prove a handicap to the industrial developméart necessary for produc ng part of this sum, and the di vulty of transferringTM 40 cuormous an amount of German marks into foreign currencies is without a presdent in economie "history." These two factors are so vital that they must be considered the basis for the belief of most responsible Germans strengthened by 31. Poincaré's sudday opening of the question at the end of the old year that another voice will be heard from America before many months, or even weeks, have passed..

A discussion between America, as creditor,

France. and Bad Britain, as debtors, is expected long before September. If Britain, as has been definitely stated moro than once in responsible quarters, is satisfied with a return from Ger many of what she herself owes America, and France with a speci fied indemnity equal to her Ameri- can debt, the reparations problem WOMAN WHO VANISHED. “ is still an inter-Allied one, and the question of the immediate produc tion of the required sum is still one dependent upon what America herself claims from France.

The Political Situation, Beside this tremendous problem Germany's political perplexities Remus was the hero of the hour, appear trifflog. They are, none Jurors, and spectators joined in the leas, far more interesting to giving him a great ovation. Que outsidera than they have been for Dr. R. Hoobs, medical superin- of the male jurors told him he had some time, for elcations are due tendent, St. Mary Abbott's Hos- said in the jury room "Let's go either in the spring or carly sum: pital; said Mr. Harris when admit-out and give him his Christmas mer. The battle has already be ted was unconscious and in a con- present.

Let's make him happy gun. The Nationalists are accused dition of collapse A postmortem this Christmas One of the wo of delaying the elections in order revealed cerebral men jurors added "We were with to keep in offer as long as possible, you from the start." Remus took but it is an open secret that Ger- his vindication modestly. "Imany experts the French elections wanted American justice and got to bring victory to the Left, and it," he said to the throng about would be her own to take place him. Then turning to the jurors, immediately after them. Success- Burgos graciously added, "I thankful co-operation and a free Rhine- you folks." "

land would make a potent appeal Charles F. Tai son of Chief | to tunggotain voters. Justice Tas of the United States Supreme Court, prosecuted Remus. Taft characterised the verdict as a gross miscarriage of justice. The Chief Justive, who more than twenty years ago denounced the American criminal law as a dis- grace to civilisation, must be more than ever convinced of the correct- ness of his judgment,

Death From Stroke. There was no amefl of alcohol either on the man's clothes or in the internal organs. Three doctors, besides himself, could detect noth ing. If the man had taken a sal quantity of liquor the smell might have evaporated. The cause of death was a stroke.

Mr. Oswald (the coroner): Would be possible for this to be induced by akohol 1-It, is just possible.

Do you think the hemorrhage showing itself about soven o'clock would have the effect of simulating alcohol-That is quite possible.

Addressing the jury, Mr. Oswald said death had been proved to be due to an entirely natural cause.

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LONDON Dec.. 27th. A secret romance between. Mr.ed Laurence Gresley, nephew of the eighth Duke of Marlborough, and son of Sir Rut Gresley, whose forefathers came over with the Conqueror, and Miss Margery Lancaster, a former chorus girl at Daly's Theatre, was revealed yer terday.

German Unification.

body of the German constitution- has lately declared that the psycho- logical moment for Prussia to sink her administrative identity into that of the Reich appears to have

The undication of Germany, once declared impossible, is no longer the issue of Me. Parker Gilbert's regarded as a Utopian scheme singe memorandum, which pointed to the PARIS, Dec. 26th, "Teissier the Tattooed,”

waste of money in separate ad-f ministrations and declared the modern prototype of Robin Hood, Mr. Gresley was a pŝoncer among

A com- who for nearly a month has been pre-war aviators. Misa Lancaster necessity of economy.

ference of the Premiers of Ger- reaming the Forest of Gurey, wrig has been on the stage four years.many's eighteen federal States will gling out of one trap after another,

She understudied Miss Phyllis de salied early in January, and it and making the police the laugh Dare The Street Singer." on

g-stock of the countryside, was tour, and win play the lead in is expected that some definite plan captured this morning. He was

when the show will be formulate No less an The Blue Train

authority than Dr. Nobda, Prus- shaving before a noker mirror in starts in Grashy on Monday next. ife kitchen of a farm labourer who

sia's representative in the Reich's "It is quite true that we are

Committee--the chief consultative had given him anotuary.

going to be married," said Mr. The poacher who turned outlaw Gresley to a press representative was so surprised to see the policey Sancée and I met at a party that he let the razor drop to the two or three years ago, and we are floor. A struggle ensued, and now engaged" Taissier was eventually handcuffed Mr. Gresley was one of the dial

arrived and led away, to prison.

figures in a remarkable love drama

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Mies Kidaton's mother did not sing a more speedy ridge in each barrel of his gun-

Anschluss prove of the match, however, as than would otherwise be the case. one for his wife and the other for her consent to it was not obtain The prospect of a historically-bated. his rival.

Prussia disappearing, as an entity, from the economic, if not the pol dical, will do much to convince. Germany's internal enemies that co-operation at home is the only means of paying the reparations debt and securing peace abroad.

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Teinier wounded Dorrier in an early morning duol outside the facrums where the lovers were living, and took to the dense forest. For four week he led the life of an

In "The Merry Widow."

THERAPION NO. 1 outlaw, hunted by hadreds of

THERAPION No. 2 Mise Mongery Lancaster 18 police. He was watered and fed twenty three years old. She ob-

Berlin's Housing Problem. THERAPION No. 3 by the local population, with whoso tained her first work on the stage There are other matters, less im- | 19 1100 Madder Omers). Ka » fie Blood à Perta Da No. & tam Chronie WsaknasYOR. – NÕUG AT nid he was dbk: to escape the traps at Daly's Theatre when she was portant in themselves, but just as

· PEKE OF MPESAT, 16. Dečka Czaso laid for him, ad bring down ridi-nineteen years old, and has been vital to the well-being of the wa cule on his purauers.

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~Wpar Bourke SAN FRANC So exasperated did the police be- since that timě:"", "She played a is still a shortage of 600,000 housca come that they would enter villages small

The Merry in Berlin. Practigally no progress pant

at the end of might loaded revol- Widow," and bad now received a ar all was made during the past vers, and carrying electric torches, leading part to play on bour. year. New tenement houses cannot Germany's birth-rate is falling Mr. Grealey served in the be built until the rente of the old is proportion" to the shortage, se R.N.A.S. and the Household ones, still controlled, have been young people-cannot-face-the- Cavalry in the war. He is con- raised in proportion to those re-prospect of raising a family in nected with the motor industry, quired; in now buildings to cover furnished rooms. It is in matters and is thirty-one years of age. His increased costs of production since like this that those who have grown fruter, Sir Robert Gresley, marri | the war. This cannot be done up anos, the war. are silido to.

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