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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY,

THE CASE OF DR. KNOWLES.

WHY. CONVICTION WAS QUASHED.

LURING OTHERS TO CRIME.

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD BOY WITH

HYPNOTIC POWERS.

A small boy's hypnotic influence over older boys was suggested in an amazing case beurd in a child-

A Privy Council judgment was issued last month giving their reasons for allowing the appeal and quashing the conviction in the case of Dr. Benjamin Knowles, former- ly an official of the Colonial Seren's court at Weymouth when two vice at Kumasi, West. Africa, who was sentenced to death on a charge of murdering his wife, formerly Miss Mudge Clifton, a music-hall

MAY 9, 1930.

WASTED VARSITY YEARS?

1.000 UNIVERSITY MEN JOB- HUNTING.

Throughout the past week com- pany directors and business men in the City have been besieged by Oxford and Cambridge under- graduates looking for jobs, says a bays were charged with stealing a writer in a Home paper. Counting "fairy-cycle" and, a scocter fromaly the two older Universities, there are more than a thousand two other children..

undergraduates at the moment on The smaller of the Boys, who is vacation who will be taking their It is stated that the fatal flaw

8 years of age and only 3ft. 9in.final examinations next term and in the judgment by the acting

in height, was before the court five | who will be wanting to start work circuit judge was that, having set

days ago, with a brother, on a in the early summer. aside Mrs. Enowles's account of

Some fifty of these are consider- the occurrence as an accident (the charge of theft from a hospital, and

on that occasion_his brother wasing careers in the Diplomatis and woman said that the revolver ex-

sept to a honte. In court, however, Civil Services, of whom perhaps ploded when she was attempting to

the 8-years-old boy's headmaster, half this number will be successful remove it from a hair) he at once A. Windust, told the magis Just over a hundred are going to nssumed that the only alternativetrates that he required constant theological colleges to train for the to accident was murder.

supervisiba inu untrol.

miniatry, and a rather smaller pro portion nte, looking for posts as schoolmasters.

actress.

"There is not the slightest in- quiry," proceeds the report, into whether, assuming that the shot was fred by Knowles, the act amounted to manslaughter ard not our- der..

"A conviction of manslaughter might have been a different matter, hut that is not before their lord ships.'

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I am constantly getting com- plaints about him of petty shop thefts," he said.

Do you mean that he is a klep. tomaniae asked Mr. Bartle Fye the presiding magistrate.

Mr. Windust: I do. He uses his brains in the wrong direction, and he has an extraordinary influence over older boys.

The mother of another boy in court said that the child bad come into her house and turned on the gas with the idea of blowing the house up...

Bring him up to the beach," said Mr. Pye."

The magistrates' clerk lifted the child on to a chair and his head just topped the magistrate's desk, He has sharp features and a face of extraordinary intelligence.

There remain more than hundred ready for general business careera

A friend of mine who took a first in history an absurd thing to do, it may be, if you are contemplating a business career-had an introdue tion to the head of a big West End firm. He asked if there was likely to be a job going during the next year.

men into our

"I'm afraid." said the great man. that it is not our policy to tako University kind of business. It takes years to Require all the details of a business like ours, and for our purpose, if you will forgive my saying so, your three years at the University is a complete waste of time."

An Oxford friend was told prac in.tically the same thing.

"He gazed at me with such nocent eyes," said Mr.. Pye after- wards, that I felt like picking him up in my arms."

He looked Mr. Pye straight in the eye and never wavered. In all my 25 years' experience as a magistrate," said Mr. Pye address ing him, I do not ever remember having to deal with such a case,' He went on:

One undergraduate said that his father would have been £1,000 in pocket and he himself would have stood a better chance of a job if he had gone to a night school.

It may be that recent loose 'talk about decadence" at the Univer- sities is influencing business houses. They are afraid to take the risk of engaging University men. Is it to be wondered that many under graduates have their eyes fixed long

To my mind you are amorn) enigma, and the magistrates feel that your infvence is very bad uponingly abroad and that those we can such boys as we have here this morn least afford to lose are leaving the ing and upon the feeble-minded. It country? is a vicious inßuence, and we be lieve you are quite able to hypnotise boys much older than yourself.

To protect the public and par- ents and children, we feel it is most advisable that you should be sent away where you can have proper care and supervision. We shall send you to a home.

The child was then lifted from the chair and handed over to a probation officer. It was revealed during the case that his father is a widower with a daughter of 14 to look after five younger children.

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A negru slave's amazing rise to be King of Hayti, his secret strong hold modelled after Windsor Castle, ad his death by a golden bullet Gred by himself figure in the life story of King Christophe, as told in Sober Truth" by Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell!

King Christophe was an English-

FORCEPS FOUND IN BODY. speaking negro from Jamaica.

After the revolution in Hayti be emerged dictator, and restored the ACTION AGAINST SURGEON, | country to a semblance of order and

prosperity.

WOMAN'S “YEARS OF MISERY."

He was crowned king in 1811, and during the nine years of his reign ruled with an iron hand.

All the workinen employed in building the castle, which had been time by a whole army of black work- run up in an unprecedentedly short men and white slaves, were shot or finished, at the emperor's order, so strangled "wholesale after it was that the secrets of its chambers and

Alleging that a pair of forceps had been left in her body after an operation, Miss Martha Harriet Gordon Crotch, of Place Pers, Venec, near Nice, sued the operat ing surgeon, Mr. Ernest Miles, of Park Crescent, Regent's Park, for ages should never be revealed.

In the preface to the bock the alleged negligence, before the Lord authors recount the story of an Chief Justice and a special jury in American traveller who has visited the King's Bench Division. Mr. the castle and King Christophe's Miles denied that he had left Tree of Justice under which forceps in the body of his patient the monarch used to sit every morn- or that he had been in any waying to sentence delinquents. negligent.

Mr. J. W. Morris, for Missing his enormous and jewelled "Wearing his high crown, hold- Crotch, said that the action was sword of state, here the dusky brought under circumstances as dis- tyrant would stand, surrounded by tressing as they were infrequent. all the greatest nobles of his black What Miss Crotch complained of realm-men of such high-sounding was that after performing an and, no doubt, famous, names as the

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Miss Crotoh, in cross-examine hand crept slowly under the pur-and believed in 60 strongly that tion, said that although many doc ple rug with which he was covered, since that moment, no man had tors an her between 1920 and the sad taking out of it a revolver, visited Christophe's caste since his year that the forceps were discover be fitted into it a golden builet that death until the American travel ed no one suggested that they were he had long carried with him, and ler, referred to above, hribed a there until 1923. After evidence the blew out his brains."

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