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DEATH INQUIRY ON POLICE SERGT.

DYERSON.

DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE OF BRAIN DISEASE,

MUST HAVE CARRIED ON WHILE IN GREAT PÄIN.

TRIBUTES TO A CAPABLE · AND ·

STEADY OFFICER. »

The inquiry into the death of Sergt. John Dyerson, of the Hong Kong Police, on September 7, was held yesterday, Mr. E. W. Hamilton sitting as Coroner,

The jury, Messrs. V. F. d'Azevedo (foreman), A. E. Carvalho and D. F. Lopes, returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily in- sane. They expressed their sympathy with the relatives of the deceased, with which verdict the Coroner associated himself,

It was disclosed in the course of the inquiry that Sergt. Dyer. son was suffering from brain disease which must have given great pain and which, would have caused his death, within a week or so, had he not taken his own life on September 7.

ROUND THE COURTS. THE WATER SUPPLY.

ANJOU'S ASSISTANT COM- PRADORE AND HIS OPIUM,

60 M.G. FROM STREAMS LAST WEEK.

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THE HONG KONG RESERVOIRS,

A Chinese, described 4.5 (2 assistant compradore of the as. Anjou was yesterday, fined 8730 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton for trafficking in non-Government opium.

Giving evidence a woman searcher said he found the drug in the pockets of a small girl. The girl took the Revenue Officers to a house in Bonham Strand Enst, where a weman, implicated by the child's. statement was put under arrest. Aed to 57,90 million gallons. visit was next paid to the Anjou which had arrived from Wuchow

KOWLOON WATER SUPPLY. and the girl took the Revenue Officers to the Compradore's Office, where no assistant was pointed out at the man who gave the opium to the girl.

The total storage in the island; reservoirs on the morning of Mon- day, September 50, amounted to 1,884.24 million gallons shewing a increase of 3.23 million gallons during the past week; the amount collected from streams being 00.4. million gallons,

For the defence, Mr. F. C. E. Rendall claimed that the opium was for the consumption of the accused,

The week's consumption amount-

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The total storage in the main land reservoirs on the "morning of Monday, September 30, amounted to 513.80 million gallons shewing an increase of 12.48 million gallops during the past week,

The week's consumption amcunt.

That the deceased was a capable officer, who liked his work, and was a reserved and temperate man highly esteemed by all were some of the tributes paid bybrother officers who gave evidenco at the inquiry.

On the morning of "September 7 at 7.45 a.mu. Byerson was reading

t witness. He appeared still to be intended to leave the ship for perfectly normal. The deceased was seen to shave and afterwards wit-ensong of health and when the girl ness went to the bath-house, Don came on board to ask for money his return at 8.45 a.m. he met Dyer on behalf of the accused's wife, the son going to the bath-house. That necused had given her the parcel was the last he saw of the deceased, to take home. The parcel contain Deceased was fully dressed excepted a small quantity of opium, which for his jacket..

who was on his first trip. Accuseded to 29.08 million gallons (not in Addressing the jury, Mr. Hamil

had immediately admitted owner- cluding tal million gallons supplied ton said: "The subject of inquiry a newspaper and read some extracts ship of the drug. The man" had to shipping through Lai Chi Kok). The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week is 43.38 million gallons.

this afternoon is the death of a European Police Sergeant, named Dyerson, It occurred on September 7. A considerable time has elapsed since then, Gentlemen, bi that is ts a certain extent, my adult, be- cause I have been very busy. It is

now over three weeks since the death. The statements of the wit

nesses reached me, on about Sept. 20, but I was foll up with work and this is the fret free afternoon I have had.

Sergt. Davis stated that at 8.3 p.m. he went to the European

He heard lavatory.

noise like someone groaning, but at the time he took no notice. Later while he was washing his hands he heard the sound again and looking to- wards the compartment from which it came he saw blood running from

was for his own consumption.

The prosecution told the Court that the defendant's house had been visited and no paraphernalia for smoking opium had been found:

ALLEGED SQUEEZING."

Two Chinese constables appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yerter

on a charge of accepting bribes while on duty. Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the defendants and the date of the case has been" pro In imposing the fine, his Worsionally fixed for next Tuesday Bail of 8750 for each man WAI ship observed that he should have granted.

the defendant had made a ready admission as to ownership, he

Mr. Hall in asking for a reduc thought your Worship said the other day that you still had hopes in human nature."

I may say frankly that there was misunderstanding between the Police officers and the representa-underneath the door. Witness then imposed a maximum fine, but aineetion of this amount said: "1 tives of the local Preas. Suffice it lost no time in sending for Sergt. to say that there was never any Nolan. other intention in my mind but to hold the inquiry. I think the papers in question have already given prominence to this fact.

Dr. T. W. Ware, medical officer in charge of the Government Civil Hospital, said that on September 7 he saw Sergt. Dyersop on stretcher in the receiving room of the G.C.H. He found that Dyerton had apparently just died. Deceas ed had a bullet wound in his head. At a post mortem examination held later in the day, witness discover ed that the bullet had entered in the region of the right temple and had gone clean through the head. Witness was of the opinion that the shot was fired from very close range, that was to say, within a few inches of the temple, and was the type of wound one would expect to find if a person had shot himself.

Brain Disasse.

Continuing, Dr. Ware" said that the shot did not immediately cause death but it would certainly have caused unconsciousness, though the person would probably live some hours.

for

Witnes opened the "skuli and examined the brain and found that in addition to injuries to the brain caused by the bullet the deceased and inflamation of the brain which witaces diagnosed to be of a tuber- cular nature. He was very much surprised at the discovery as Sergt.

Dyerson must have carried on with his work while suffering from very severe headaches. The condition of the brain, in witness' opinion would cause intense depression.

Mr. Hamilton: Is it possible that such a condition can affect & man's sanity 1

Witness: Definitely, while the condition is on. If the man had not died from this injury he would 'un- doubtedly have died from this dis-

earc.

How noon 1-He might have gone on for a week or 80,

1. j.

After the Shot Was Fired,

would reduce it to 8750.

A BLASTING ACCIDENT.

Sergt. Nolan said that on being called he went to the lavatory and found there was apparently some- body lying against the door. He got into the adjoining cubicle and

On September 25, Mr. A. A. climbed over the top. He saw de- Olnes of Messrs. Jardine Matheson reased lying on the ground, doubled & Company was hit on the forehead up with his right shoulder against by a piece of rock during blasting the door, and facing downward. A revolver was loose in his right operations on the Hong Kong, Hotel hand. He did not appear to be site. A sequel to this accident was conscious, Witness told the mess the appearance before Mr. A. W. and then rushed downstairs to in- form the Inspector-on-Duty and to H. Grantham of Mr. A. E' send for the ambulance

Greenway who was summoned for careless blasting.

Answering a question by the jury, witness said that European mem- revolvers and it was not uncommon bers of the Force kept their own for them to carry a revolver even when off duty.

Mr. Hamilton: Not in a case where a constables is charged with extorting bribes from hawkern.

DUMPING REFUSE IN THE STREET.

An amah employed at No. 3 Obervatory Villas appeared befors rubbish in the alleyway at the rear Mr Whyte Smith for dumping of Armend Buildings.

Sanitary Inspector Roylance said watch was kept on Armend Build- that for several nights close

ings and Observatory Villas com- Mr. Olaes said that he was work-plaints having been made by log on the second foor in the residents including Drs. Dovey and middle of a room when something dumping house

Ozorio, that servants had been refuse in the struck him sharply on the forehead streets. The accused was actually Chief" Detective Inspector Rey-causing him to bleed profusely and caught depositing the refuse in the nolds gave corroborative evidence he almost fainted.

His Worship imposed a fine of of finding the body. The revolver

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was of the Service type and had Mr. Greenway expressed his re- been issued to the deceased. Dyer-gret at the occurrence and informed son was wearing a belt with a the Court that he was always very holster attached.

Witness said that he found that careful in regard to charges of one round of the revolver had been dynamite, which were covered with fired and a round of 38 bullet was bags of earth to serve as shields. found outside the passage of the On that day one of a series of lavatory later. On entering the lavatory, witness lifted up. Sergt. charges of dynamite, which were Dyerson so as to enable the door covered with bags of earth to serve to be opened and the latter was as shields blew up and shattered carried out and laid on a blanket. the covering. Then

In the meantime, Dr. A. Cannon

the other'

arrived and first aid was applied charges exploded and caused according to the doctor's instruc- certain amount of stone to ay into tion. Dyerson was carried down the air.. the compound on the arrival of the ambulance and was rushed off to hospital. Even at that stage, Dr." Cannon had indicated that the de- ceased was "practically hopeleas."

A fiue of 850 was imposed.

A BAD CHARACTER. -

Witness said that from the in- quiries which he had made, he was Sentences totalling a year's im satisfied that Dyerson had comprisonment was passed on a Chinese mitted suicide. Deceased was 31

lane.

OPIUM AT KOWLOON TONG.

The young Chinese housboy em- played at 236, Kowloon Tong who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith for being in possession of 115 taels of raw opium, was ordered to re- stive sight strokes of the cane.

It was stated by the defendant that he was sent to the railway station by his master to collect the opium. Although the police made three visits to the premises the master could not be found, the house being locked up and unten anted.

MACAO'S GREAT

FIRE."

HOW A MATSHED AREA

WAS CLEARED.

STONE AND BRICK HOUSES NOW.

Almost a year ago a serious fire destroyed the matshed homes of thousands of the poorest classes at Масло Where these huts pre- viously stood there may now be seen hundreds of respectable, clean houses of brick and stone.

The transformation, has been brought about by the energy of the authorities at Macno,

The Government handed over the sites" for the new house; after rais- ing the level of the land by several feet, providing suitable drainage. and contributing 840,000 to a fund for the new buildings. Other con- tributions were received mainly Tamagnini Barbosa, wife of H. E. through the efforts of Madame the Governor, and a number of willing helpers among the Chinese residents of the Colony.

The shacks that had occupied the site had been put mainly by Chin- ese refugees from districts close to Macao-victims of bandits and Red persecution. There were also refugees who had lost their homes in a fire which had broken out some years previously on the slopes of a hill behind the ruins of St. Paul's Church, and others whose dwellings had to be removed when it became necessary to fill in the land on which the Macno Race Course stands to-day. Thus thous- ands of Chinese people were hud- dled together in the matsheds die- trict. All that the authorities could do was to maintain some semblance of order among the huts and make some attempt at cleaning the place.

A Drastic Remedy.

The problem was always a dif- cult one expecially as the site war round reclaimed from the sea in close to the Barrier Gate сп

connection with the Macao Port Works developments in the Innor Harbour.

On Oct. 2, 1928, the carelessness. of an old woman, while performing her devotions before a shrine, pro- vided a drastic but effective remedy. She set her own hut alight and the flames spead rapidly among the losely and irregularly built hovels, and in less than an hour almost one thousand homes were complete. ly destroyed.

The charitable institutions of Macua did all within their power to relieve distress, the Government. contributing liberally.

A few days later a meeting was held at instance of Her Excellen- y Madame Barbosa at Govern- ment House when the whole colony was invited to co-operate in the building of brick and stone houses on the site.

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The Magistrate remarked that if the defendant had been older he Not long ago a pretty ceremony" would have been fined $2,870 or took place when the Chinese com sentenced to eleven months' hardmunity presented to His Excellency labour.

ANOTHER OPIUM CASE.

the Acting Governor of the colony, Dr.

Joao de Magalhães, their thanks to the Portuguese authori- tion of the Portuguese was consi Convicted of possession of sixties for their solicitude. The ac- dered an excellent example of the. friendship that has prevailed for nearly four hundred years between. Portugal and China."

years of age and joined the force on who was charged before Mr. E. W. October 26, 1993. He went Home in Hamilton yesterday on five differ-tacle of opium and 96 false opium October last year and returned on ent counts. It was stated that he labels at 472 Reclamation Street, a September 17this year. Witness added that Dyerson was a very re-

stubbed a coolie employed at King's Chinese was fined $480 or two

months' imprisonment served man and was seldom with College, that he had stolen anyone. He was quite temperate.

blanket and a mah jongg, set from two different houses in Pokfulum

Witness added that cases of this disease never recovered. No eure was known. The diseases was not common in adults but was found more often in children.

Dr. Ware added that Sergt. Dyerson was otherwise a remark. ably healthy and powerful man in very good condition. He examined Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., stated Road and that he was carrying im

that the deceased was a capable plements considered to be burg-live convictions for returning from the left lung, found that there was and energetic Police officer and larious, namely, three lengths of banishment within a years waa seemed to take a great interest in bamboo with wire hooks attached. his childhood days. Dyerson had a his work. He had never given any

the man's lung and on the top of

a tiny patch which showed that in

small tuberculous infection. It had completely healed when witnessS BAW it and the lung was normal for a man of Dyerson's age. There might have been an injury to that patch and the blood stream might have got to the brain.

Not in Any Trouble.

AN OLD OFFENDER

A Chinese whose age was given

trouble and witness said that as far as he could ascertain after examin- ing the deceased's effects there was no financial or domestic trouble. "I can assign no motive for this officer taking bis life," added Mr. Murphy, who concluded by saying as 72, was charged before Mr. E. that Dyerson had never reported W. Hamilton yesterday with posses- illness and that if he had been sick, sion of a quantity of Macao lottery

the poor chap must have been

tickets. suffering in silence.'

The jury returned a verdict to

Records were produced which

the effect that the deceased met his slowed that the defendant was

A PERSISTENT VISITOR.

A Chinese whose record showed

again charged with this offence and

sentenced to one years hard labour and 15 strokes of the birch.

His Worship remarked that the defendant looked very much as if he had no objection to being in prison.

PIRATES 1

SEPTEMBER'S RAIN,

AN END-OF-MONTH DOWN-

/ POUR.

Last month's rainfall, as measur- ed at the Botanic Gardens, totalled. 0.41 inches of which 3.63 inches fell on Sept. 29 and 1.18 on Sept. 30. There were 1.46 inches on the let and 1.22 inches on the 8th.

An appreciable amount of rain. fell on twelve days.

Last year 0.34 inches fell during- September.

1.

WEEK.

Answering the Coroner, witness said that he felt certain that Dyer won must have known that there

Three Chinese were also before was something seriously wrong with his brain, though he would probably

Mr.Whyte Smith in connection with "a piracy which occured two not have known its nature. The prin must have been intolerable. death from a revolver abot fired by fined for a similar offence fifteen years ago. On December 2, 1927, SIX ENTERIC CASES LAST

fishing junk was attacked by himself during temporary insanity. years ago. The Magistrate asked if pirates outside the waters of the Normal on Morning of Death, They expressed their sympathy with the old man recalled that occasion Colony, and the pirates escaped. but he replied that he could only During the week-end a report was Bergt. C. Mottram who lived in the relatives of the deceased, the same room as Dyerson in the

The Coroner added that he agreed remember having been fined many made to the police that a number THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. Central Police Station, said that with the jury and associated himself bath ago on a charge of possession of the pirates had been recognised

by 11.30 pm, on September 6, the with the jury's expression of sym- of illicit opium.

by the crew of a fishing boat which six cases of enteric, 3 British, 1 The prosecuting police officer:- deceased was in bed and he appear-pathy. Mr. Hamilton further add-He told me that 20 years ago, he had arrived in the Colony. Three Japanese and 2 Chinese, were nati- ed to have slept well. He was ed that he wished to express his

men were craested and taken to the fied. There were 3 fatalities from normal in every way. On one 06. own sincere regret that the Hong was fined for aplum Of course we

Water Police Station where an this complaint. One case of small- casion he complained that he had Konk Police Force should have can't trace it as far back as that.

identification parade was held. 'Defendant was fined $5.

pox, Chinese, and "one fatality: one sent the boy out for aspirin and had suffered the loss of such a capable

The accused were formally re case of diphtheria and one "death been brought the wrong kind. officer.

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