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LONDON GUNMAN

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SERGEANT UNDETERRED BY PISTOL SHOT.

ATMOSPHERE AND CITY HALL CONCERT.

SPEECH.

CORRECTING THE EFFECTS LAST NIGHT'S ENJOYABLE]

FUNCTION. OF CLIMATE.

A conference organised by the With the praiseworthy object of That sergeant is a sticker. Ho followed me in the garden. I fired Manchester and district branch of raising funds for the Hong Kong paintblank at him, but he stuck it.

the Verse-speaking Fellowship to auxiliary of the Chinese Mission to These remarks were attributed to give members an opportunity of Lepers, a concert was held at the Arthur John Cox, aged twenty-meeting Miss Marjorie Gullan, the Theatre Royal last evening. The eight, a homeless shoemaker, when chairman of the fellowship, was organizers spared no pains in on- he appeared on remand at Green-held in the Onward Hall, Manches-suring the audience of a pleasant wich Police Court on the charge after, last month. The branch is new evening's entertainment, and in attempting to murder Police Serly formed, but already has fifty-this connection are to be congratu- geant Frederick Muggridge and four members. The committee it lated on bringing together, a num- Police Constable John Bertram with London have offered to supplement her of artistes, who have appeared a six-chambered revolver at Birch-any fund, that may be in hand to with success on the Hong Kong

an amount which the Manchester stage on previous occasions. grove, Lee.

He was also necused of being branch think will be adequate for found with housebreaking imple-its needs.

ments.

Open Window.

Togna and Dizi.

Mr. Li Chor Chi (tenor) oponed the programme and delighted with two of his favourites, "Arioso de Benvenute (Diaz)," and "Pensee d'Automne " (Massenot), Other

Mr. Vincent Evans, prosecuting, Miss Gullan spoke on "Somo, re- said that Miss Burr, who lived in cent experiments in speech train.vocat numbers by Mr. Houston Birch Road, Lec, was awakened ating and verse speaking in schools."

Bailey, Mrs. R. Sanger, Mrs. Bruce 3 a.m. on October 4, by a noise,In our industrial town, she said Wilson and Mrs. Lui Man Shing and noticed a light coming into her

in the course of her address, we

were cleverly interporeed with bed-room from the garden.

were all very lacking in oral raviolin solos by dra. Balan, musica! sonance. The combination of dirt items by Chinese string instrument- She rose, switched on the light, and ineistare seemed to get into alists and and members of the band and saw that a window was open, our throats and noses, and to clog of the Argyll & Sutherland High- and that a man was disappearing up the nasal passages and the paolanders. through the garden gato. She tele.sages at the back of the throat, so that our children were continually phoned to the police at Lec.

Sergeant Muggridge went in a suffering from adenoids and nasol police enr driven by Police Constable catarrh. In training speech in the Bertram to Birch-grove, and when schools, she said, they had to da he arrived he saw Cox walking along all sorts of exercises to use the nasal the rond. The sergeant left the car passages and give the soft palate

some excerise. and followed him.

Seigeant Muggridge giving evi dence, stated that Cox said, "Stand back or I fire."

More Breath Wanted. Miss Gullan gave demonstrations "There was a flash," added the of the methods emaplayed in. train- sergeant," and, the man ran swaying speech so that "the words full I gave chase, and he got behind a

tree in a front garden in Newstead like cleanly printed coins fresh from Road. As I approached 1 saw the the Mint." People in the ordinary man crouching behind a tree, and way, she said, hardly ever breathed three moro shots rang out."

The Magistrate: What did you do when he fired three shots at you I went towards him closer then.

Sergeant Muggridge said that, be climbed a fence, after the man, and then sa Police Constable Bertram struggling with him. They succeed. ed in overpowering the mai, and other police arrived.

Magistrale's Tribute,

or spoke with a suficient storage of breath behind their voices, Child- ren wore taught to go down on their knees, and in that relaxed position to blow the fire, or to in- hale the scent of an herbaceous order, because in that position they could not raise the shoulders and use the upper chest. The speaker did not spare herself in demonstrating exactly what she meant, even to rolling two shoulders and neck. "Any kind of nice little wriggle," she called it.

Wis

The Magistrate; I commend you, Sergeant Muggridge, highly on your brave action while doing your duty, I am glad to think that action such

Bpeaking, of the value of using. as yours are fairly common in the good literature for instruction, she Metropolitan Police Force.

Polier Constable John Bertram said, that one of the best lessons said that he say put his haud the examined Last summer

ruined because the tencher-who in his pocket and, suspecting what otherwise knew her job-chose senti was going to happen, he ducked his mental trash to teach the children. "There was a click, and I closed The girls did not mind it so much, with him," he added, and Serut some of the little boys were geant Muggridge. Who had been bored, even insted It was chasing him, eaine to my assistance.mushy stuff and they had no use While on the ground Cox said to for it." me, When I come out my one ob- icct will be to kill policemen.'”

hend.

The Magistrate, addressing Ber- tram, said: "I commend you on a very brave action, because you knew you were running into dan-

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number "A Yorkshire Philosopher," songs, and Mr. W. J. Geall in his added much variety' to the pro-

gramine,

The Programme. The programme was as follows: 1.-Songs:

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Diaz.

(a)" Arioso do Benvenuto! (b) "Fensee d'Automne "

Massonet

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(Mr. Li Chor Chi-) 2.-Violin Solo: "Jat Polonais

Brilliante"

Wienianski. (Mire. Balean.) 3-Song: "The Demon's Song "... H. Oliver. (Mr. Houston. Bailey.) 4-Chinese String Trio: "The

Curtain,"

Messrs. Pun In Tat, Lui Man Shing and Ma Ping Lit.

5. Song: "Songs My Mother

Taught Mo'

Dvorak. (Mrs. R. Sangor:} 4.-Dick Barty at the Piano. 7.-Song: "Red Rose of Eng

land"

H. Oliver. (Mra. Bruce Wilson.)

Interval. 8.-Cantonese Song: "The Flower Girl"... Mra, Lui Man Shing. 0. Song: "Up From Someraet"... Banderson. (Mr. W. Houston Bailey.) 10.-A Yorkishiro Philosopher..... Mr. W. J. Goall. 17.-Song: "Anke "

H G. Pelissier. (Mrs. Bruce Wilson.)

OFFICE BOY TO MANAGER. 12-Violin Solo: "Caprice Vien-

THEN CHARGED WITH FRAUD.

An office boy who became a man-

-nois

F. Kreisler. (Mrs. Balean.)" 13.-Song: Mattinats "

Leoncavallo. (Mrs. R. Sanger.) ; 14.-Band Selodien: Members of

the A, and 8. H. Band.

Police Constable. Harris said that Cox remarked at the police station, referring to Sergeant Muggridge,gen at the age of twenty was com There were five live ones, and initted for trial at the Marylebone

It is interesting to note that the Police Court last month on a sum meant them all for him."

mons alleging that he fraudulently Hong Kong auxiliary of the Chi- Cox, who had nothing to say and

made a false entry in two cash- reserved his defence, was committed for trial at the Central Criminal books of Fullotone Gramophones nose Minion to Lepers has under. (1920), Limited, The defendant, taken to pay the salary of the Alfred J. Thomas Carter, describ-medical officer of the Tai Kam ed as of Marmion Avenue, South Lepers Hospital, near Canton, and A THOUSAND MEN ON ONE Chingford, Essex, pleaded not guil it also supplies the Institution' with

ty, and said that, he was prepared drugs to offer a full explanation of the. matter.

Court.

BUILDING.

RACE AGAINST TIME.

Mr. J. D. Roberts, prosecuting, said that. Carter had been manager 61. the Liverpool branch of the com. *The thirteen

firms ereatingpany, and it was his duty to send Thames House, London, Europe'a returns to the head office in London largest office building, have been and pay the nonfys, received into employing no fewer than one thous the bank. It was alleged that on. and mon on the site. This number three dates in Juy, Carter, having is lielieved to be a record for any received sums amounting to £133, sent lips to London purporting single commercial bailding opera tion in Britain, and represente the to show that those sums had been gibat

paid into the bank at Liverpool, race against time the architeli, Sir Frank Baines, when in fact they had not been. the Ho had therefore caused false en

books

KOVO, FR.I.B.A., and

by

His Excellency Bir William Peel and Lady Poel were among the audience last night.

THE LAW AND AN ASS.

JUDGE ORAWFORD'S 'STORY TOVA JUŘY.

Judge Crawford told the jury at Edmonton County Court a story.

of the law of negligence, Tho story was based on, a decision a

law to-day..

huilders to have the building com- tries to be made in the London cash-century ago, and it remains the ploted by October, 1931.

Some one tied the legs of donkey and left it lying on the road at night.

A horse and van came along and ran over the donkey, causing in-

Albort Charles McDougall, man In its progress to the halfway stage, which was reached during dging director of the company, said July, Thames Hoase shattered that Carier had never accounted for: nany British constructional re the three sums referred to. He had cords. During the erection of the stated that the moneys had been steel framework, by Dorman, Long used to pay expenses incurred by & Co., the unprecedented rate, ofthe brench, but he had never pro-jurica from which it died. 500 tons of steel per week was duced receipta d

The lonkey ownar sutsuquently Cross-examined, Mr. McDougall recovered damages, not from the maintained from the beginning, and there was a

wook of said that Carter enterod the coar person who tied up the donkey but we criou wels-pany-service as an office boy whon 1:080 tons. The two

from the driver of the horse and beneath the foundations were sunk fifteen. When ninoteen he was van, for he was held to be guilty to a depth of 500 feet at a record sent to Glasgow to manage a aland of the final set of negligence, rate of nearly fifty feet per day. at an exhibition, and when twenty- The case before the court on the The men responsible for setting up he was appointed manager of a day in question was a claim by Mr. the granite which faces the base of new branch at Liverpool. In the the building colipsed all previous first year the takings were £18,000, Arthur Bruce, of Baker-street, En- British efforts in this direction by and the next year £22,000. Carter lild, suing the North Metropolitan Elootric Power Supply Company setting up 317 feet in a singa week,receivedl £3 10s. a week and 1 per

Most of the Thames House font conmission on sales Every for damages to his notorcar in measurements are made in milts, effort had been made to trace the collision which he said was caused And many of them are records. monoy, but, they find only succeeded by the company leaving ruts In the There are, for instance, thirty-four in regard to five guiness,

He road.

Sudan qaytar hul sugrosted. The lury found that Mr. Bruce:

of electric light ennie, digmy miffed the fever tall buy aged

of heat piping in the beating panels of a balance of account, and that alone, arid three-miles of corridors. the balance was in his favour,

serving the ruts, and.judgment was. given for the coinpiny..

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