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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1930.

SCIENTISTS AND SAINTS,

EINSTEIN AMONG THE IMMORTALS.

I

DETECTIVE'S 20 YEAR ILLNESS.

HIS STORY OF SYDNEY

STREET SIECE.

Twenty years. after the famous Now York,-Confucius, Buddha and Mahomet, as well as Christ, Battle of Sidney-street," ox-Detor. are among the figures carved intive Sergeant Leeson, who received stone above the main doorway of eleven bullet wounds and narrow the new Riverside Baptist Church, y missed death at the hands of New York, the largest Nonconfor Frite, Svaurs and "Joseph," is still

ist Church in the world, on which wearing bandagen. untold millions of dollars have been Javished.

"I was lucky to escape alive, he said to a Daily Express sentativo, "and I suppose I

must

ISLE-OF-MAN IN TERROR.

A MURDERER AT LARGE.

Ramsey (Isle of Man)-Lonely cottagers in the mountains of the Iain of Man crouched, sicepless, behind bolted doors and shuttered windows all one night last month; a murdered was at largo somewhere outside in the storm.

HONG KONG POLICE · RESERVE.

joaika oy the KOS, MIL & D. C WOLFE C.M.O, INEPLOTOR- GENERAL OF FOLIOR.]

Armistice Day.

Cuticura Healed Awful Disfigurement On Girl and Boy

**My daughter had watery pitaples on her face and when they broke it caused the trouble to spread. The pumplen werd infamed and sore and later scaled over andwers very painful. The disfigurement was awful. She could not go out unless sho was bandaged up. My linio boy had the same trouble, and he also had blis- tets on his neck and fingers. It was detailed for duty on Armistico Day will report at Central Police Sta-heartbreaking to see the little chap. tion at 10.15 a.m., (not, 0.30 nm. as

Members of the Chinese Company

Ceremony..

Late at night armed police, niter previously stated), thence proceed- scouring the hills for hours in driving to the Public Gardens for Polico represing wind and rain, abandoned the duty at the Chiness. War Memorial

search for the murderer of Percy William Braoke,,a retired farmer of Ramsey, who was shot dead the previous afternoon as he entered a cottage on the side of the Snnofell mountain.

The new age of religious tolere tion is strikingly, symbolised in the choice of immortals thus comme- morated in statues, for great ecien-not really complain. tists and philosophora (many of them condemned as heretics in their day) take rank with saints, angels and religious Condors.

Old-fashioned Fundamentalists are aghast to find Charles Darwin, their pot aversion, given a place of honour, and the presence of Eins- tein has afro jarred them. Eina tein, incidentally, is the only liv ing man represented, and I hear that his choice was urged on the Church by leading scientists of America and Europe, who declared he was the greatest living man,

"Yot after all this time I still have trouble with my lungs, which were ponetrated twice, and I am forced to keep the wounds on my legs bound."

Mr. Leeson has emerged from the obscurity of years as a result of the graphic story of the "sloge" which was told by ex-Chief Con- establo Wensley, of Scotland-yard, in his memoire.

Eleven Wounds.

The ex-detective-sergeant was the Other scientists carved over the door are Hippocrates, Euclid, Ar first man to be hit after the houso chimedes. Hipparchus, Galileo,

Members of other units will parade as stated below:---

Indian Company.

Two Sergeants and ten Constabler will report at Central at 9.30 Km. to draw revolvers. Dress: White The search was resumed at day- uniform, helmet, belt and truncheod

to be worn. break:

From His Own Gun.

The cottage ans owned by Mr. Brooke, and it is believed that the shot was fred from his own gun.

Mr. Brooke had been in the habit

of leaving his shotgun and ammu- nition in the cottage, which he used

Flying Squad,

One Sergeant and ten Constables. will parade with their machine ai Central 30 am. to draw revol vets. Dress: Khaki uniform and cap with khaki cover.

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WHATEVER Sharpshooters Company. ASSEMBLY ONE Two members of this Company ENTERS, THE PER-

BONALITY OF will proceed direct to the stations the mountains.

allotted to them at the hour arrang- He was accompanied by a man ed. Dress: Khaki uniform, black SMARTLY DRESSED named William Kinrade when he belt with pouch and holster with MAN IS FELT AND entered the cottage to obtain his revolver, gun.

Kepler, Newton, Dalton, Faraday, in Sidney-street had been surround-as a shooting box when hunting in Pastour and Lister. The philoso ed. phors similarly honoured include several who, in their day, were nt tocked as atheista, the list includ ing Pythagoras, Plato Socrates, Epicurus, Aristotle, Seneca, Epicte tus, Plotinus,

Thomas Saint Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and ending with Emerson, the only American among these in mortals, and himself the victim of { a heresy hunt.

Mr. Leeson to-day is in charge, of the staff of the Regal Cinema at Marble Arch, and although ho wag forced to retire from the Mo tropolitan Police after the "battle" due to his wounds, ho still bears the outward marks of the police. mam.

He had reached the bottom of the stairs when he turned to Kinrade and said, "Somebody is in the house. The door is open."

Mr. Brooke was going up the stairs, followed by Kinrade, when It is natural that Leeson recalls a shot was fired from the landing. vividly each detail of that early Mr. Brooke fell with a wound in the Moses, Confucins, St. Francis,

neck. He was bending forward as morning twenty years ago when In the ranks of religious loaders the first rattle of revolver fire an-ho mounted the stairs. Moses stands shoulder to shoulder rouneed the beginning of the with Confucius, whilst after Bud-kiego" and, at the same time, foll- dha and Mahomet follow Origen, ed him to the street with eleven Saint Francis of Assissi, Dante,parate bullet wounds. Luthor, Calvin, Bunyan and Mil-

It was his last polics job.

hose things are simply luck," top William Carey, the pioneer missionary, and David Livingstone he said. "It might have been some are the only figures of modern times body else; it just happened to be in this group. Christ is the centralne. figure of the whole design, about whom all the rest are ranged,

While Dr. Harry Emerson Fos dick has thus given visible proof of his broad-mindedness, another celebrated leader of liberal thought, Dr. John Haynes Holmes, of the York, Community Church, New has come out with the assertion that the present churches are rapidly disintegrating, and that the chur- chos of the future will represent a synthesis of the great religions of the world.

One Religion?

Kinrade at once ran out for help, and attracted the attention of some the road men who were working way. They returned with him to the coltage, and found Mr. Brooke lying dead at the bottom of the stairs. The house was empty, and the gun and some of the ammumuni- tion were miesing,

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Revolver Practico:-The regular TO BE WELL weekly revolver practice (volun- tary) will take place at the Ken- DRESSED IS A SOCIAL nedy Raad Range on Wednesday, DUTY. AND THIS November 12, at 5.30 p.m. It will

IS EASILY CARRIED

open to all ranks of H.K.P., Special Constables, and Flying OUT AT Squad, Hong Kong Police Reserve.

Flying Squad.

Revolver Practice:-All ranke of the Flying Squad (Hong Kong and Kowloon Section) will attend ht the Kennedy. Road Range on Wed- nesday, November 12, at 5.30 sharn for revolver practice. Members will tion at 5.15 p.m. sharp or at the fall in either at Central Police Sta above range,

The police were notified, and the He has one grief that he did

The weekly Instructional patrol Chief Constable of the Isle of Man not see more of the "scrap."

shed root rushed over from Douglas by ear. of the Hong Kong Section will take "I was hoisted to shortly after, I was struck," he ex- A search was made of the district place on Friday, November 14. Fall Dress Khaki plained, "and Mr. Wonsley fallow-by hurriedly organised parties of in at the Central Police Station at od me. It was the only possible police, and later more than twenty i 3.15 p.m. sharp.

next armed police, equipped with torches, uniform and cap with khaki cover. means of escape into the

(Bgd.) D. L. KING, started to search a wide area among street. ·

D.S.P. (R.). "Bat Fritz and Joseph had climb the mountains. ed to the top of their house, and. they could see us, so they opened fire. again,

.

I rolled off the stretcher, aeros the roof and dropped into a brewery yard, where three chaps looked after me.

Mr. Wensley remained on top and bravely took pot luck.

"I went to hospital," he added," and that ended my career in the police."

GIRL ACTRESS ARRESTED.

INTERRUPTED DASH FOR

"It is not difficult," he said in a recent sermon, "to forecast the future of religion as it will be practised by men when they have shaken off the dogmas of theology and the private interests of socia and denominations. In the future when science has done its work and the new society has come, there will e no Baptiste, or Presbyterians, or Methodists, or Unitarians, no Pro- testants or Catholics,,no Christians, Jews or Buddhiste, but only men united in one spirit of religion.

Carlisle-Miss Beatrix Gwendo- "Churches will be open daily as clinics of healing, schools of culture line Edna Renwick, the 17-year-old and agencies of re form, and will London actress for whom the police have been searching for three-days, be gathering places for people to

was arrested to-day in a motor-car consider questions of public mo- ment. There will be no profession-at Sark Bridge on the way to al ministry as we have it to-day."

PRISON FOR MR. SYME,

GRETNA.

Gretna Green, by detectives who pursued her in another car.

As the detective, entered Sark Bridge, n small villoge, they saw b two-seater car drawing up in front of a house. One of the detectives then arrested Miss Renwick, whe was in the car with a young man. It is believed that Miss Renwick and her companion mistook Sark Bridge for Gretna Green, and were under the belief that the house at which they stopped was the famous Smithy where marriages take place.

EX-INSPECTOR SAYS "1 SHALL GO ON HUNGER STRIKE." Ex-Inspector John Syme, former ly of the Metropolitan Police, was told by the magistrate at Bow-street

There was no charge made against Police Court that he must go to the young man, who was allowed, prison for two months if be refused in the words of the police, "to ga to be bound over and find a surety his own way." for £50.

He was charged with using threatening behaviour likely to cause a breach of the poner.

Tater Misa, Ronwick was brought before & magistrate at Carlisle, and was remanded until the arrival of an escort from Brighton

Miss Renwick lives at Tenterden- drive. Hendon, N.W. A warrant was issued for her arrest after she failed to answer charges of fraud and false protonces at Brighton..

Champagne and Whisky...

An inspector Bald that he saw. Mr. Syma rush across the road to No. 10, Downing-street drawing from his pocket a piece of metal around which was wrapped a letter addressed to the Prime Minister.

Mr. Fry (the magistrate) said: I romanded

you yesterday hoping that you would give me an under

She should have appeared on a taking not to do this sort of thing. charge of obtaining 20 bottles of Mr. Syme: No; I am afraid. I champagne, three bottles of whisky, cannot do that Mr. MacDonald thres bottles of gin, cigars and for over 50 years has asked others other articles valued at £90.19%, by to justice done for me, but now false pretences from Leonard Green after this long time, I have to do and on charges of obtaining credits this unpleasant thing-to-make-the-for-more than £90 by falso pre Homs Office and the Government get tenors She failed to surrender 10-

her bail a move on.

Mr. Fry: If you porsist in this sort of attitude I shati bind you over in the sum of £60, and you will also have to find a surety of £50.

Mr. Syme said that he could not find a surety.

MT: Fry: Then you must go to prison for two months,

hunger strike.. L. kirow

Mr. Brickerton Pratt, who repres sented the girl, epid that the charges wore the outcome of a youthful cacapade concerned with the idea of entertaining friends and giving them a good time..

When the girl's name was called- there was no responne

Her mother said she knew noth- That Ling of her daughter's whereabouts.

have your duty to do. If under- make every effort to assist the police

stand your position.

in tracing the girl.

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