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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931.

SILENCE QUEST.

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Silene, or more correctly, quiet running, in a problem which iksign-. ers of every type of internal con- busion anulor have had 40 attack. Mysterious features are present-Increased ceióney of operation by the hath of William always seems to have been accom- Frederick Murphy, a commerciadanied by more noise, the sound of traveller, ha'was found at the the exhaust becoming particularly

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| his ear had crashed at Ashopton,

A workman, Bernard Wilson, who heard the ear crash, descended the bank and found Mr. Murphy lying partly in a big ad, the button. Ho had severe throat wounds, and although conscious, was unable to explain what had happened.

DEAN INGE AND SPIRITUALISM.

TWELVE MARKED THE TRIAL OF A. A.

ROUSE. FOR DEATH.

LAMNERTS AUCTIONS

WAR DECLARED IN NEW YORK'S UNDERWORLD.

PRISONER'S STORY TO THE POLICE.

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"CHURCH SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT."

́MISERABLE SUBSTITUTE."

"Spiritualism and necromancy

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Twelve gangsters have been listed The article, which is hendei] "Seeking After a Sign," condemns for death, and will be shot at sight. Rival gangs have declared war, to spiritualism na a miserable sub. stituto. for religious hope, and asks the end, the suggested reason being Mr. Finnemore.~During why the bishop cannot my bluntly the desire of one section to obtain statement he was asked a good

for Jack "Legs"

many questions. Did he appear that the Chinch of England canongeance

Diamond, the gang lender, who was

to you, as I am suggesting he did have nothing to do with it.

Kat in f Manhattan hotel ist

to the other officers, to be giving October.

a fall and frank statement and auxioun to give it? He certainly made a statement, but he did not appear to me to be telling the truth.

You heard Sergeant Skelly Bay he appeared to be extremely frank and, anxious to make a statement? -I did not hear his statement, but I understand he said it.

VENGEANCE FOR DIAMOND. In the course of the trist of A. THE Undersigned have

A. Rouse, before Mr. Justicr Tal- bot at the Northampton Assizes, New York. The police are pre-for the murder of unknown bolong to the barbarous child paring to deal with a savage gang man, whose harred body was found bottom of a steep bank down which pronounced and irritating to the hood of the human race." mite war that appears, imminent in the in the accused's burnt out ear, Dean Inge, of St. Paul's Cathedral, underworld following the revolver Inspector Lawrence anid that Rouse general public. It was a problem in a trencant article appearing in battle between two rections in the was asked at Hammersmith police FRIDAY, FEB. 27, 1981,

station if he would care to make hich caused much debath in the the Church of England Newspaper, (Abbey Club off Broadway","

statement. At first he said, early days of cars, and it was dur

Then ing that period that Mr. S. F. Edge made his famous declaration that silence in cars was really con tinuous noise, a frot which still reenis to hold good when pur ears cars ascending a long grade on The workman was compelled to country road, or passing through

"The semi-regenerate mind era VER enclosun such as leave him while he went for assisten.

a railway for infallible declarations, the weak

Dutch Shultz, controller of the ance, and when police officers arbridge or a stone culting when in faith ding to signa and won-

running industry in the "Super- rivod about an hour Inter they everything else is quiet. It is re-ders," writes the dean. found that Murphy and dragged markable how much noise some of stition is the Nemesis of material-Bronx, went to the Abboy Club to kill Charles Sherman, beachman of grel in these two empiricles of

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Motor cycles also bare en

error. it a tsuit off pyjamas, which he had wrapped | execrated· far and wide for their round his thront.

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The anntor for their quietness.

The police have failed to find any instrument with which the wounds might have in omused."

Stranger Breaks News. Mr. Murphy, who was 18, lived Ramillies hind, Bedford-park. W.

with his wife and 14-year-old son in

fers as the water jacket of ears,

New York's most powerful gangs

tere.

"The Necromancers." "It seems cruel to grudge to the

Shultz opened fire on Sherman, bereaved even the most pitiful of and a battle resulted. Six person

And you probably know that Mr.

his evidence readily, voluntarily, and eagerly 1-1 understand that he did.

Inspector Lawrenes said three of the officers asked

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to finish of his statment, did he not stick to his story that the

had nothing whatever to do with killing a man or burning his ear 7. -Oh, yes, he did, şir.

ycle has been at a great disadvan. consolations. But whns Christian were wounded, among them: Sher Brumby described him as giving thing was an necident and that he tage in this way, as its engine ndo has learned from St. Paul and man, who is now in hospital.

The other five had dimppeared operating parts are practically un-St. John the meaning of the bles covered, such sound absorbent fard hope of everlasting life enn feel before the arrival of police officers, any patience with dabblers in pc and are in biding. Among them a who Shultz who is believed to be dying hedy, and engine bonnet breng cultism, these necromancers

offer to us in place of that hape an. The polios are combing the under- ordinarily efficient, but in the that of Stool or Hanner's Hades, jurity of cases are single, or at the nost twineylinders, and this tends supposed revelation of the habits of

a disembodied ghost.. + towards a more broken exkust sound.

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His parents lived at Leigh-on-Sea absent. The engines niso are extra-existence as poor and shadowy as world for those who took part in questions and Sergeant Skellying at lammersmith police station

The news of the tragedy was broken to Mrs. Murphy by ik

stranger.

He was a young man, and said had come from the Stapleri's Bush Bath," a friend of the family told a reporter.

He told Mrs. Murphy that a boxer friend names Platt, who was

During the past two or three yonte' residents of the fortiores of the harbour have voiced complaints

worte down the answers. At the end of the statement the witness

questions.

:

Inspector, Lawrener said he know that day and that he had been wait that Reuse had been travellingTMail

from 9.30 p.m. until 1 a.m. when he (the inspector) arrived,

Mr. Finnemore. Would «*your

midable ordeal for any ordiniry- man to be four hours with the four. police officers at that time of night and in that place -No. I, do not

ent he had nothing whatever to think so, If it was a pure accid-

fent.

Inspector Lawrence added the not given any food, while the statement, was be ing taken, int he was supplied with two or three cups of ten,

the Abbey Club fight

Mavis King, a red haired viga himself asked Rouse a number of agree that it would be a very for retto seller in the Abbey Club ans If these stories were true they witness of the affray, and when it would add a ne terror to death. | ended it was she who rushed Sher- But as they are not wae, but the man to hospital. She has been de residue เฟ barbarous thought, tained for questioning by the habits which were old before Chris police.

Sherman is not expected to live

Mr. Finneinore. It would pro- hably be fair to call them cross- examination questions-Well, I Buppose it would be so.

Mr. Justice Talbol.-When, you

appearing in a boxing match at the Baths, had erived a telephone directing attention ruperindly to shops say bluntly that the Church as he is wounded by 22 knife Ray he did not appear to be tell. Rouse

message from a Sheffield hoxer, who said he had seen the air's fall, and asked that Mrs. Murphy should be informed.

of the noise made by motor-boats. tianity was young, why cannot the

uthoard motors, which, like the

of England wh have nothing to thrusts and three bullets. engines of motorcycles, have be-

do with this nonsense! come efficient and powerful, Ex-

Spiritualism and neomney, he haust mufling with marine gimsys have had nothing to do with presents its own problems, although Christianity, nor with any other af

**Immediately we received the news a friend and a neighbour set. out by ena for Sheffield." Mrs. Murphy as grief stricken and mathe alike to see #yone

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They are a miserable substitate for the religious hope, which, if we would understand tow truth, night not satisfy our underrate han hering for a mers continuance of of which we may say confidently thng if they are not to be fulfilled it is because God has provided some better thing.

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Inspector Lawrence. It was his manner, my lord, poin

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gns before its final discharge into We are at a lose to explain the the air. With a view to eliminat tragedy," a lative told a reportering the noise enused by the exhausts Mr. Murphy left home on Mont motorboats and stationary in- day on a business four in the Northernal combustion engines a London playing cards, and he seemed to leuf muffler, which is claimed to he in the best of spirits.

very effective. Cooling water from Mr. Murphy had been employed the engine is passed through a. nan- by Messrs. Howse, Mend and Sons, er of slots into the expansion woolen merchants, of St. Paul's chamber, inducing a swirling action For the clergy, to pander to Churchyard, E.C., for the past 25 which causes the gas to absorb the primitive superstitions, which surm yours, and had recently ten pro-water in the form of "rain." This up, powerfully enough sometimes, moted chief traveller. He served forms a sound-deadening medium,

from the unconscious, is to court a abrand throughout the war, and wrile back pressure is eliminated,

4176055 which is worse tian and the gas is reduced in bulk to Failure." was wounded ones.

hout one-third the volume it. oe- cupina before cooling. One of these afercera was tested in a Thames tug

FAILURES."

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FATHER'S LEAP TO DEATH.

"WE MODERN WOMEN ARE with a. 20 h.p. engine. It was found

by a run sentative of the Jatur CHILD FALLS INTO BUSY Hoar, who tested it. io-be1éq "effec- tive that even by leaning over the tide of the heat and Batening with in a few feet of the exhaust outlet it was imposible to detect any We we are not so successful as noise beyond the burble of the ex- we declare, I′ see all about me. Rust uid the rhythmic heat of the women who have gained all manner engine. of honours; they are envied, they are admired. Yet, when you look down fearlessly into their hearts, you can aes that their success has ousted thint, which should have come first in their lives. It is not success at all. It is masquerade, life bub. bling in the carnival spirit, and pretending to be something which in reality it is not.

Great Wives,

PROTEST ACAINST THE

GRAND NATIONAL.

A VERY CRUEL RACE.”.

news.

A fifteen months, all child, wrap- ped in blazing oil-soaked papers, fell from a top floor window above a busy street off. Scotland Road, Liverpool, and on the foot path at the feet of people return- ing from the theatres and cinenins Immediately after a man appeared at the window and dived noft, inte the crowd Man and child were dead when picked up.

The man was' Daniel O'Mara (35),

The National Equine Defence League is to make a protest to the National Hunt Committee against The old-fashioned woman

Grand of The waste running happier. She had not the wild National, ambitions which torture us to-day. Mrs. Matthes, secretary of the a seaman' (who had been unem- Sho knew that he could never get League said: It is a very cruel outside her own home, and her love, race. We decided to take this steployed for nearly five years), of and her little, little life. She train after consulting a veterinary sur-Gay Street, Scotland Rond, who ed men to fit their posts in the world gyon, who expressed the xinion lived with his wife and their two She brought into being very great that it was not possible for the men. Shows the power behind the National Hunt Committee to ut children, Danny and Chris, in a access, and a such she was 'com. forward one point in favour of the tenement building over a shop fae- Metely happy.

Grand National."

ing Scotland Road, Look back upon the pages and soo Percy Woodland, the well-known the truly great wives who have trainer, who has, ridden two Grand mnde hushanda meti Mrs. Glad National winners, said: "The per

Lady Reaconfield, Lady centage of fatalities or injuries to

About ten o'clock O'Mara asked his wife to go downstairs for à glass of water. She went, taking

over the arrival of Mrs. Meyrick, the London night club queen, for is abe, net seriously contemplating the opening up of a new night club in Monte Carlot If she does it will be unique, for it will be a night club for "oid people,"

Mr. Finnemore,-In fact those corrections actually appear in the statement itself, do they not?- No, Sir.

Do you know there are in fact considerable aumber of correc tions which have been initialled by "A.A.R." written in by Sergeant

ever

to

A local Frenchman whose name | Skelly -They were corrected when has not yet been revented recently the statement · was 'read offered Mrs. Meyrick « pagtuorship Rouse. in the prospective night club ven-

ture.

Mrs. Meyrick admitted that she is seriously considering the pro- posa!.

"I think night club business might be adapted to local condi tiens, she said. "For instance, Monte Carlo is chiefly inbabited by pider people, and therefore you must enter for them if you expect to make a success. If I say 'Yes to this Frenchman it is because 1

question of Demeanour.

Mr. Birkett (reexamining). You have bern asked whether it was a formidable ordeal to the prisoner. You had a chines of Did judging of his demeanour. he give you any impression that he was passing through an oral? -No, he did not.

Was he in any way hurried or pressed or forced into saying any thing in any way He was treat-

with the greatest courtesy. Did he give his statement volņin- tarily, readily, and engerly -Yes, with the exception of the entree- tione of which I have spoken,

Mr. Birkett referred to the oor- rections mind by Rouse in his statement. Que was: "I carry roadside the ordinary tools for repairs and I had a wooden mal- le" In this the word "had" had been abstituted for "have.".

Mr. Birkett.-You were asked Then what it comes to is this whether you have ever made mis-

takes in your Ble, Rouse, was be that he was talking a good dealing asked to reel the events of -Oh, yes.

Aud about a number of things which, we understand, in not ap- pear in this statement ?-Well, yes.

Mr. Justice Talbot-Do you mean that in between the state-

ment which was being written down he was saying things which may not have had anything to do with this matter 1

the 8th and 7th in which he had Were tho recently takeal part. corrections that he mande before the spoken word was written down, corrections of mistakes us to places where he had heen-No, they wero orrections to bring the state- ment to look as favourable to him self is possible.

Mr. Justice Talbot-Can you give an example?

Mr. Justice Talbe What he said was that he had seen in the

Inspector Lawrence-One was regarding what he is supposed to' inspector Lawrence That is so, have said to Bairy, and Brown. First he said that he did en' out will have found some new ways

By Lord.

to those two, then he said he had and IBCATE of entertaining the Mr. Finnemore,-For some reason it in the paper. He did not.

it or not. oldder generation in a dignified son, that seems to have impressed ally know then whether he said manner. Just a pure imitation of you unfavourably 1-No What in- the Forty-three Club won't work pressed me that he was not tell-

ing the truth was that he correct-pape that he had said something and that on recollection he thought he had not-That is s down here.

“Another, difficulty is the luxury ed for the third or fourth time. tax on champagne. Although it is something in relation to what he not so heavy here as it is in France, hnd said should be written down give me London and Lord Bying in the statement. There was no any time; up there you have no

need to my mind, if he were tele ing the truth, to correct anything. taxes to worry about.

"Nevertheless I am seriously Replying to further questions, considering this Monte Carlo pro- Inspector. Lawrence said that and I know my good old British. in the, bead during the War, clients from London will stand by and he believed the superintendent me if I start.

Mr. Birkett-He said that he was not sure whether be had said it, and therefore did not want it recorded That is 80,

It has been suggested th

that the qucations at the end of the state- ment wore in the nature of cross- oxamination. Was there anything that you did by way of questioning

Davidson, Mrs. Booth, Mrs. Itam horses competiting in the Grand the five-year-old girl, Chris, with position because I love the climate, Rousa told him that he was wound. to trip-him inta somadrassen

open

bad verified that statement,

stone, Any MacDonald. Look it the great National je much smaller than on mothers of last century standing any other couare and does not.com her. supremely behind all its sucerss. pure with the bunting field, where

While she was getting the water For the power of all women is in-riders of 14 stone to 16 stone are

on the ground floor the window tended to flour through some man carried many miles farther in an

"I shall have to make a quick Mr. Finnemoro. Is it within and not to emerge, direct from average ran. That horses which over Scotland Road was fing decision, however, because I thay your knowledge that one of the re-

have taken part in a National soon

And what seemed to be 23 blazing Tho hand that rocks the cradle recover is beyond dispute. A ense

On the have to return to London in a quils of that wounding is that ho rules the world. Old, trits, clicks. in point is elferay's Belle, second parrel was thrown out.

16 very excitablo 1-Yes, ho in dra but true. The hand of the paid in the race last year. It was able woman proceeding upstairs again week's time to discuss the matter nurse rules the world today for to run second again in the Scottish neighbours tried to persuade her

cribed as such. on my book of memoirs." we are so busy with our individual Grand National within leer than a success that we have no timp to

not to return, she being anaware

With Mrs. Meyrick at Monto rule the world at all. We do not Robert Gore, who has trained of what had occurred, desire that greatest achievement of several Grand National winners,. stid: "I consider Aintree the

O'Mara disappeared into the Carlo is her daughter "Bebly,

innuager of the new Monte Carlo duy that women are in succres-sufest course in Englanal for both room and after glance at the who will probably be the under Tat-look upon server stays and jackes fecare, then Lerond in the street below fell into

Ice midst. He was filled astenuhib although she is not ret reneration of failures, though at cannot take libertice with the moment the failure may not bo fences. In all my long experience Imunediately behind the tenement is twenty-one years of age was

Casino on that account. wholly apparent. It will be in our of the Grand National I have never a club where a dance was proceed recently refused admittance to the

'ing children that the true test comes. hed a horse seriously hurt in it."

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Thus Intween I'o'clock and 5 o'clock in the morning, with four Police officers, ho was being ques tioned about a number of import

art matters —Yes.

i

this

And although police officers were cross-examination, from start antigeration that there was

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None whatever

What was the purpose of any question you put to himi To elicit the frets and to try to sen if what he had slready sald was correct.

It was suggested to you by Mr. Pisacmore that the position of the Testy was making an effort to ge body might indicate that the dead to the offside door--I do not think the body could get in that posi- tion.

Mr. Justice Talbot. By himself, you mean -That is so

Mr. Birkett.What do you may to the suggestion that the man

find that "Pretion" should pet.

or 1 Would you expect to might trying to get to the off-