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·CALLED AS WITNESSES.

A sickly looking Chinese woman reclining on a bench in, the dock at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon was the defendant to charges of receiving stolen property, The woman said she was too ill to follow the evidence given by wit nesses and was reproved by the Magistrate, Mr. R. E. Lindsell.

The property in respect of which she was charged composed the loot taken at two armed robberies for which two men, Cau-Cho and Hung Yau, were each sentenced at the Supreme Court last week to five years' hard labour. It transpired from the evidence that at the time the police raided No, 142, Hollywood Road, the first prisoner was found in the front cubicle with the woman defendant," while the other was ar rested in a rear cubicle,

A Police Raid.,,

A Chinese detective stated in evidence that he accompanied Sub Inspector O'Connor to the third floor of the house in question. The defendant and a man were sleeping! on a bed in the front cubicle and had to be roused. A general search of the floor was carried out. In the smaller of two boxes in the defend. ant's cubicle was a ̈pawn ticket for a gold chain bracelet. The woman claimed the ticket as her property and said she pawned the article in order to pay rent. Four men were taken to the Police Station for in vestigation. The following day the woman was taken into custody. On this occasion witness found that blue silk jacket which on the previous day was lying on the bed, and was claimed by the defendant as her property, was now inside the large box."

Among the property recovered from the pawnshops was the brace lot covered by the pawn ticket, an. other bracelet, two blankets, one of which had been cut into two pieces and pawned at different shops, and a" quantity of women's clothing,

Evidence Of Robbery Victims. A married woman residing at No. 31, Hay Wong Terrace, identified the jewellery, two silk quilt covers, and the blankets as the property stolen by four robbers who raided her flat on July 21st Witness said that at the Supreme Court she identified Lau Cho, the convicted prisoner, as gang.

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Another married woman gave evi dence that her flat at No. 363, Des Vœux Road West, was raided by three men, one of whom was the convicted prisoner (Hung Yau). Witness identified the blue silk jacket as her property stolen by the robbers.

MARKET.

RATS CAUSE FIRE IN BIG also on Are. The caretaker, and othor qecupants of the house man- aged to escape, but we could' not save the building. Now it is in ruins.

GNAWING MATCHES.

ENCLOSURE AND SIXTY

STALLS DESTROYED.

"People rushed out of houses at the rear of the market as soon as the alarm was given. Many of them wore only in their night clothes, and carried as much as pos Rats ganwing matches at

sible of their belongings into the cigarette stall are believed to haveyards behind their houses. been responsible for a fire which destroyed Smethwick Market last month,

Families had to be removed from adjacent houses, and Bremen suffer- ed barns. The damage is estimated at several thousand pounds..

"We poured hundreds of gallons of water on the market from three turbines and two engines, but no thing could be done to save the Atalls."

A heap of asher and bent girders are all that remain of the market building.

sixty stalls pitched inside a cor The market was formed by some

rugated iron and steal dome-shaped Three members of the Smethwick building. As the iron roof fell, in fire brigade had to be treated at patches it struck the blazing stalls Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, beneath and sent up masses of Sections of glake in the för burns. A description of the fire sparks. was given to a reporter by Chief roof were melted by the heat and Officer Arnold. We received the hung down like spiders webs. call shortly before six o'clock this morning, and within a few seconds we were on the spot," he said, "The blaze could be seen from a The outbreak was discovered by considerable distance, and when we newspaper-van drivers. The care- arrived the market was a roaring, taker tried to save the place at the furnace. Flames were leaping up outset, but was besten back by the into the sky, and big showers of flames. She was in night clothes, sparks shot into the air. The beat and got back to her house, which was terrific. In fact, it was so in- was at the corner. of the building, tense that the outside of a public-, only just in time to rescue her four house on the opposite side of the children who, also in their night- road was scorched and the windows clothes, were rushing about for were broken.

safety. A neighbour befrianded them, but they had to move soon again as the neighgour's house was involved.

"So far as I could see, the whole of the market was alight. Stalls of clothing, crockery ware, sweets, and footstuffs were burning Bercely, The Mayor visited the scene, and and the caretaker's house at the a relief scheme for those temporari- back of the market at one end was ly homeless was organised.

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Mr. J. F. Cramer, wife and three cripple for life. I tried them children of 431, Virginia Avenue, off and on for the last eight years, Modesto, Cal., U.S.A. suffered with but I gradually grew worse. My la grippe and bronchial-pneumonia. right side from head to foot was Neighbours all said they had the paralysed, I could not use my left fu. Mr. Cramer's testimony is as eye, it stuck to one side and seem: follows: "My boy: David 14 years ed dead. My fingers had no feel old took down with fever, chills ing. If I picked up a nail I did and ache all over the body, cough not know if I had one or three and bronchial-pneumonia and was My right leg was also paralysed, sick at his stomach. I had heard when I walked I had to drag my of the Poo On Chinese Herbs foot. I could not bend my knees curing the flu so quickly. I call- or my ankles. Then I came outed and got some herbs right away. to Modesto, California. Here I The boy took only three peckages had the second stroke nearly a year and was cured in three days. My ago, Then my mind gradually wife also took down with the same grew weaker. Six weeks ago. I trouble. After taking some herbs could not remember from one day from Poo On Herb Co. she speedily. to the next and was unable to talk recovered. much because I could not think. I was paralysed and could not do any work at all. In fact I was never able to do real labour after the first

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my right as on my left foot. he recognised at the identification could bend both knees and ankles, expert flu nurse in our neighbour- parade held by the police. Articles and I would move it and now after bronchial and lung trouble, throat, ly right foot got so much better

Thousand suffering from catarrh, pawned were the two gold barcelets, taking the Poo On Chinese Herbs cough, asthma, hay fever, malaria, quilt covers and one-half of a for six weeks I can see to file & stomach trouble, indigestion, con-

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as in the left. I can work with paralysis, tumors, ulcers, pimples, pick and shovel now, and I could dizziness, headaches and many other not do that for eight years. I can chronic diseases, have been restored remember things now and my head

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the Poo On Chinese Herbs. In answer to the charges, defend and on during these eight years I ant stated between her tears that have had fainting and dizzy spelle several men rented her cubicle to and small strokes and paralysis play mahjongg.. She was then Now this is gone and I have gain suffering from heart trouble and was ed 9 pounds already. Recently pressed by one of the men to pawn through some of his friends we the articles which were given to her learned he had returned to his home one at a time. Once when she re- in Oklahoma six years later. Re fused she was struck.,

ports say he is in excellent health, and feeling perfectly normal in every respect.

This concluded the evidence for the prosecution, which was conduct ed by Mr. T. Murphy (A.D.C.I.)..

Defendant's Story,

His Worship: How did it came about that one of the armed robbers sentenced to five years was sleeping on the same bed.

Defendant: I was sick and in

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In 1919 during the epidemic of great pain, and this man prepared the Spanish Influenza (Flu) phy- ten and a pipe "of opium for me. sicians all over America .consider- The woman further asked that the ed it very difficult to cure, but Poo prisoners be questioned as to whe-On Chinese Herba cured thousands ther she had anything to do with of people with this disease rapidly, the stolen property.

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His Worship directed Mr. Murphy. to arrange for the two prisoners to be brought to Court next Friday. The case was adjourned, until noon of that day.

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