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GODDESS'S HIDDEN HEAD OF QUEEN'S.

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STRANGE STORY AT CENTRAL MAGISTRACY,

WOMEN WHEEDLED OUT OF $8,0007

Lo Suk Duen, a married woman

MAY NOT RETURN FROM HOME LEAVE.

HONG KONG'S LEADING NATURALIST.

"To do good is his chief delight,

"A very perfect, "gentle knight."" The news that Mr. A. H. Crook, of 10, Banham Road, was the com.A., O.B.E., the popular head plainant yesterday at the Central

master of Queen's College is sailing Magistracy, before Mr. R E..

for long leave.on-the 13th instant Lindsell, when four women were)

by the as. Kalyani and may not charged with defrauding ber of 87,000 to $9,000., Cheung Chau Tak return to the Colony, has been received with very great regret by (38), who claimed certain occult the masters and boys of the school powers, was alleged to be the pria and also by a host of old boys and cipal mover" in the affair, and the other three Shum Ying (38), Lam Yim (45) and Lec Kan Sam (17) were charged with conspiracy to defraud.

friends.

Interviewed by a Daily Prest re- presentative yesterday afternoon, Mr. Crook would not say more than he was going away on leave, and that he might not return to the Colony. It would all depend on how he finds things at home.

Mr Crook who joined the staff of **Queen's" as far back as 1802, bad a brilliant career at Trinity Col

lege, Dublin, where he was a Gold Medalist. He taught in schools at Home for several years before com

Vision of the Goddess. Complainant stated that On August 31, the first defendant, Cheung Chau Yuk, with the third defendant; Lan Yim, came to her They house and begged for alms. were given 81.00 but returned on the second and also the third day to ask for offerings for the Goddess of Mercy. The first défendant said that when she was 10 years old she ing out to China, and ever since his arrival in Hong Kong, had a vision of the goddess whoA.H.C." has been with Queen's asked her to build a temple with her College, except for a short period own hands. She would, in return, in 1917, when he was tai pan at be given a store of very precious Yaumati School. He took over the jewels. The temple, said the woman, was eventually built in a headmastership of Queen's College village adjoining her own and in November 1935 when Mr. Betram number of diamonds were found in Tanner, another of Q.C.'s host of the ground, near the temple, and popular headmasters, left on re- had since been deposited in the tirement. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank."

The Bank, according to defend ant, had testified to the genuiness of

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Defendant explained that she was willing to let complainant have a number of the diamonds. which were valued at $180.000, provided she would pay $3.500 as security. She believed defendant's, story and had since parted with over $7,000. The money was raised from her savings by pawning jewellery and by nortgaging her property. Finally complainant's mother tele graphed to her son-in-law in Shang- Com. hai urging him to return. plainant's husband upon his arrival had had the four defendants ar rested.

Husband Not Told!'

your final Magistrate: When was yod third defendants-March 4, just before they were arrested.

Did you write your husband when he was in Shanghai 1-Yes. But 1

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Mr. Crook represented Hong Kong last year at the Pan Pacific Scien tific Congress in Java, and this year he will represent us at a Botanical Congress at Cambridge. But Mr. Crook has intereats out side Natural History, as one of Q.C.'s poets says about him:

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Salt Lake City, February 29,- The name of Prince Farid of Per- sia," who is at present living in Mysore, India was prominently mentioned in an inquest held here to-day into the murder of Mrs.

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Mrs. Misarmeister's body waa found on a country road. She had

been beaten to death,

At to-day's inquest the husband of Mrs. Moormeister testified that his wife had met Prince Farid in Paris n year ago. Both Dr. and Mrs. Moormeister, liked, the Prince and his son, who was five years of age.

'Dr. Moormeister said that he never suspected the development of a love affair until after the mur- der of his wife, when in examining her personal effects he found and read letters from the Prince in which the latter revealed that in timacy had developed.

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In answer to further questions by the Magistrate, witness said that the second defendant was only in directly connected with the case. She was, however, always at hand when the witness wanted to raise

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nass stated that her only share was that she admitted the frat defend say that this latest one is as popu- ant to the house. His Worship lar and as thoroughly deserved as pointed ou that that was no evi- any." dence of conspiracy against fourth defendant and at a later stage dis- charged her.

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towards the is diamond scheme for which she had under taken to be responsible.

His Worship: The first defend- ant wanted only 83,000, why did you pay her over $7,000 1-She said the more I paid out the more.. I would Mr. Lindsell: I can assure you influence of the Goddess of Mercy get in return, and that through the abe needs your assistance.

Mr. Denays: My instructions my family would become the richest

in the Colony. are to apply for an adjournment., I understand that there is; a pro- missory note, some mortgages and one or two other things involved, and this case may be followed by civil proceedings.

A Gift of Wine;

Can you say how first defendant got this hold on you?-Occasionally she brought, wine to the house and made me drink it.

"Mr. Lindsell said that he was The first defendant on being asked nearly through with the witness and if she wished to question complain- mentioned it would be just as well ant said that the whole story was to finish her evidence first. "As far fabricated. She borrowed 83,500. as the civil side of the case is con- from complainant to help the cerned I am not interested at all," brother of the third defendant and said the Magistrate." It is alleged had promised to repay the mones that the first defendant by repre-five or six months later. senting herself to be inspired by the His Worship (to complainant); · ·I'} Goddess of Love has swindled this put it to you that you loaned, the woman of about $10,000 worth of 83,500 to the first defendant—No! property and goods. The case I paid her all the money as a result against first defendant is one of of the inducement I have described. having obtained this money by I thought I was going to get a lot false pretences. • The case of con-of money later, in return. spiracy is not strong at all. There The second defendant said that she is some evidence that the third de- had nothing to do with the case. fendant was some sort of follower She was consulted on one occasion of the first defendant, and the by complainant who was then in second and fourth are almost mem- need of money. When she came to bera of the complainant's household. the house the first defendant was That in brief is the position at pre already living there. She had no tent. I have heard no evidence fault to find with complainant. except this."

Complainant then declared that

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