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LESSON SERMON;

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG,

* Life" was the “subject of the Lesson Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, July

10.

The Golden Text was:As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself (John 8'; $6.)

MRS. HEARN'S FOUR HOURS IN WITNESS-BOX.

DRAMATIC QUESTIONS BY PROSECUTING COUNSEL

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AT POISON TRIAL.

WHO WAS MR. HEARN?

Mira. Sarah Ana Hearn entered. Among the citations which com.the witness-box on Saturday when two charges of prised the Lesson-Sermon was the her trial, following from the Bible:-"When marder, was resumed before Mr. Justice Roche at Cornwall Assizes, Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with hira Bodmin,

With great emphasis she declar in glory," (Coll, 3; 4.)

The Lesson-Sermon also included that never at any time or in ed the following passage from any form had dake given arsenic to tho Christian Science textbooks, her sister, Lydia Maria Science and Health, with Key to Everard, or to Mrs. Alice Maud the Scriptures by Mary Baker Thomas Eddy This is lifa eternal, says Jesus,-i, pot shall be; and then he defines everlasting life as a present knowledge of his Father and of himself, the knowledge of Love, Truth, and Life. This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent (p. 410.)..

Mrs Heata as in the witness box 4 hours. When she was call: ed, she clutched as she stepped Iron the dock at the arm of the

prison nurse and walked faltering

ly to the witness-box. When she stepped out of the box, however, he walked briskly from the court, showing little trace of the ordeal through which she had passed.

When Mrs. Hearn had finished her evidence Mr. Birkett said that ROMANCE 'BARED IN JAPAN, that was the case for the defence. The trial was adjourned until to day.

MINISTER'S DAUGHTER ELOPES WITH STUDENT.

Tokyo, July 13-A romance, without bencât of parental consent and in defiance of the traditions of Japan, was bared here to-day when Me. Matajiro Koizumi, the Minis ter of Communications in the Im- perial Japanese Government, ad. mitted that a month ago, his daughter, Yoshiye, eloped with a poor and unknown student.

Miss Koizumi and her husband,

Counsel in the case are: For the prosecution: Mr. H. du Pared, KC, and Mr. Patrick Delvin, for the defence: Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., M.P., and Mr. D. M. Foot

In what church church.

-Not:

A register office 1 Yos Don't you know what district 1-

Yes, I think it was not far from

Bedford-square.

Lived Together Only for a Fow DayL

Did you see an announcement in the Harrogate papers just after. wards that your husband had died on June 19-Yes. I did. That was six day after the marriage.

Did you put that advertisement in-No. 1 did not,

Had you been living with your husband at that time 7-Yeo.

How long-Only a few days. Did you leave him or he you Well, we parted.

What was his namel-Leonard Wilmot Hearn.

they.

I was not sure. might arrive at some conclusion which might not be true, and I knew. I was innocent.

The Judge Did Mr. Thomas seem appréhensive about himself 1— I think he was about "himself and

me, too.

Mr. du Pareq: Did it occur to you then that people might be say

"Here is a husband and hare ais another woman, and between them they had wanted to get rid of the wife1-No... Abod If you had put a little of that weed-killer into the sandwich you

had a great deal to fear --Yes; a very great deal

Let me put it quite pininly. Is it not a fact that you did put some weed killar in that sandwich

Mra. Hearn (with great euphin is)-No, it is not a fact.

Is it not a fact that you made up your mind to run away What do you mean by run away?

THE VICTORIAN FATHER.

(Continued from Page 1.)

of uncommon talent, never inter- fored when he suspected they had taken to writing books, and when Jane Eyre" was Anished and

shown, to him be pronounced that it was much better than likely."

This is not what 1031 would call enthusiasm, but there is no ro pression about it.). It was not that Victorian father who was shocked.

The person who instructed the Vic- torians to be shocked, who declared that "If Jane Eyre be the pro- duction of a woman she must be

woman unsexed," was a literary Indy" one of the intellectunla

Take another and a greater Vic-,

torian, Charles Darwin, who was

born in 1800. He remembered his

Not to commit suicide, but to own father as the wisest man he henever know.” One of his daughters run away -No, I did not.

has told us that a characteristic of The Day When She Meant to Die,

his treatment of his own children You did not intend any letter to. be left to anyone to show that you.

་་

What was hoA medical intended to commit suicide? Ex- dent.

cept a letter I sent to Mr. Wenn, In fairness to you I will put it in. It is a letter that reads: "I the event of my death I wish you to conduct a sale of all my posses sions at Trenhorne House, and pay all my accounts, including yours and a debt to Mr. W. H. Thomas of Trenhorne Farm," "and balance to Mr. Thomas,"

Have you any idea who put the announcement of his death in the newspaper on June 12, 1919?—He may have dono.

Was it soon after June 13 that you read the announcement of his death ?-Some time afterwards.

Did you make, any inquiries about it -No

He

Was

"respect for. their liberty and for s their personality, Even as quito "a" little girl," I"remember rejoic- ing in this sense of freedom. Our father "and" mobber" would" not even wish to know what we were doing or thinking unless WO wished to tell. He always made as feel that we were each of us erentures whose opinions and thoughts were valuable to him.”. You You may remark that a

at all Vic- any torians were not mon of genius.

But it is also true that the bring

The Judge-You meant any bang up of children is a matter in lance from the rest of your pro-which family tradition counts for perty. It was to

paid to

as much as the ability of the Thomas, not your brother, or Mrs. parenta Poskitt?

3rs. Hearn-I did not except there would be much.

"

Mr. Birkett naked: Are you

I ask you to mention the name married I regard myself ne a widow," MrB. Hearn replied.

of any person you can think of

Such records can be multiplied "My husband left me in 1919 and who ever saw or spoke to him ex- I have not seen him since."""

cept, you say, your sister and your

without end from biographies and memoirs Those people are singu- Mr. Justico Roche-Nor heard aunt-I was living at that time

[larly unfortunate who have met of him.--No.

! with"

my aunt and nursing my sis Mr. du Fareq-Did it occur to none of them in their own experi- Mrs. Hearn denied emphaticalter, and I do not think anyone else you when you wrote that people nee. The Victorian father was, might talk when your letter was like everybody else since the world began, subject to prejudice and the it is announced, are living quietlyly that she had ever given arsenic saw him at that time.

either to her sister CT to" Mrs. Did you ever have a husband, read at the inquest or in the news-conditions in which he found Mrs. Hearn 1-Only for very papers and say "What was there society. But it was from the homes short time, but I did.

in Tokyo without aid from the parents of either. The bride of the obscure student served formerly as secretary to her father. For a month it had been rumoured that she had mysteriously disappeared. To-day Minister, Koizumi admitted that his daughter had been mar ried but he refused to divulge the identity of her husband. He also refused to give the address of the couplo, who have defied Japaness customa

Thomas.

She stated that her sister, who was known as Minnie, suffered all

her life from inability to digest food and consequent sickness. She also bad neuritis in her feet. She had suffered from pains and ting Jinga for years and years.

"I am Going Out." Mr. Birkett: On November 10

50 on...

between Mr. Thomas and Mrs, Hearn

1

If your sister had got arsenic in- to her body from food, in the After some discussion between ordinary course, it must have been counsel and the Judge on the ques food prepared by you?-It must tion of possible motive, the Judge unless it was food that did not said: I do not know that any need any preparation-apples, and harm would be done if I inferred the motivo. It is that this woman. Did you hear Dr. Gibson say that had conceived a desire to marry He prescribed an effervescent mix-Mr. Thomas if he were free and The new groom, according to you wrote a letter to Mr. Thomasture on May 2, and that from that was under the impression that Mr Minister Koizumi, is an orphan without property and social stand in which you said "Good-bye. data until May 30 he prescribed Thomas was not unwilling You ing but with an abundance of am going out if I can,... I san ambition. The father-in-law, hopes innocent-innocent." When did for 'the' best

you write that letter-I wrote it

Is he wrong ?-He is mistaken. after he had gone to bed on Sun He is wrong somehow. day night, Noveinber 9-

What had you made up your mind to do I had made up my mind to go out of life.

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Mr. Birkett, leaning towards Mrs Hearn, said in a quiet voice: "Do you mean you intended to commit suicide?"

Mra. Hearn, her head downcast, answered in a whisper, "Yes"

When you went to Loco did you try to carry out your intentions - Yes.

Were you able to do so -No.

How was the coat left on the cliffs at Lone?--I had taken it off, and it was dusk when I left the cliffa and I could not find it.

nothing else -Yes, I heard him say that.

understand, of course, that I am expressing no view.

Inside of an hour you made up your mind that you could not com

Then what who the medicine of, mit suicide 1-Yes which she complained?-At the

You did not make up your mind

which he controlled, and the more despotic you fangy, hin, control the more credit to him, that the daugh- tors came with the ideas and re- change in the status of English sources which made the great women between the beginning and the end of Victoria's reign,

Enlightened genius which made so much of the clash between its own ideas and the dark supersti- tions of its fathers had not much sense of history. Fathers always have been out of date to their in- tellectual sons, and always will be.. Before long, our enlightenment will bo superstition, gross and barbar- ous as Victorian orthodoxy, or, for that matter, as Victorian 'ration- aliam is to us.

father being dragged along the In the old Greek story, the

floor by his son cried out; Stop, stop. that is as far as I dragged my father "But whether the son did stop is not recorded. MH. C.

graphs,

same time that Dr. Gibeon pre- all at once-I did not make up cribed that, he said he would send my mind until I got near the edge-Fanly in the London Daily Tele

a bottle of medicine which she of the cliff, might take when she was very

faint.

"He Came to See Both of Us," Your were quite friendly with. Mrs. Thomas, but she did not often come to see you -Yes.

Mr. Thomas was constantly com- ing to see you Yes.

Did he came to see you or your sister or both of you?-Both of us. Did it not occur to you that he took more interest in you than your sister -No, I do not think he did.

Sergeant, Trebilcock hes said that while you were making your state-

There would be no doubt that ment to Superintendent, Pill you

with you providing the sandwiches said to him in an undertone, Mr. and three people-Mr. Thomas, Thomas used to come to our house Mrs. Thomas, and yourself the every day with the newspapers, but sandwichch would be offered first to that was only a blind. Did you Mrs. Thomas? Yes, I should think use any such language I never used any such language at all.

After lunch the cross-examination of Mrs. Hesin began.

BO.

The Judge You offered them to her-Yes, I did, first

Mr. du Pareq-There would no difficulty in seeing that she was the first person to take a particular Wendwi

sandwich t-But I put them on the table.

Are you sure of that 1—I'am cer- tain of it.

Was it your idea to throw your self over the cliff or into the sen ?--- Over the cliff.

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this last question. From first to "I want to be pertectis, peau last in this matter have you sd- with you, Mrs. Hearn," Mr. du ministered or given in any shape Parcy went "Mr. Thomas for form arsenic either to Mrs. knew you as a friend better pro- Thomas or your sister?" bably than he knew any other woman, did he not, or as well?" "No," Mrs. Hearn replied, em phatically.

He was a fairly well-to-do man? He had value. I do not know how much ready money.

Your circumstances were very, ry poor Yes, I was poor. Did it occur to you that if at any time Mrs. Thomas died Mr. Thomas

Me The might have made a match of it with you-No, never,

"No Guilty Passion,”

Mrs Hearn' leant over the real

of the witness-box and looking inta her counsel's eyes, said, "No, I have not "ver "

Mr. Birkett said that this was the ease, for the defence.

The Judge, addressing counsel, said that it was sometimes stated that it was rather unfortunate for

judge to say things for the first time in his summing up. Be there fore wished to mention one or two matters that he would like councel to discuss.

Mr. Birkett then re-examined. First of all the jury would have to make up their minds whether He looked at the clock and then Mrs. Thomas died from arsenica) said emphatically, "Mr. Hearn, poisoning. If they were satished until 20 minute past four on the about that, and ruling out suicide sixth day of this trial has anyone or accident, they must docide one in the world suggested that you of two thing whether arsenic was wanted to warry Mr., Thomas """"" | given her by Mrs. Hearn or hor

No," replied Mrs. Hearn defi-husband,

nitely.

Mr. du Parcq---You said in your evidence that you were married When were you married-Yes. were married in 1019.

Can you tell me of anybody who saw your husband 1-Yes, my sister and my nurt

Anybody else 1-I don't know Does it not look a little curious quite what you mean of course to have put them on the tate other people did, but I can't think What would have been more.

WWENDZA

natural than to say, “Here are the of any one about now.

have one-Yea if they Did you over, haver a marriage sandwiches, have

| had been on a plate, but they were certifikate Yes, I had a paper in a napkin and I could not havn Thomas in order to do that Is order in which they were put they

with the names ont

Have you in certificate now -7. held them out to offer have not got it now

*** Did You Put Weed-killer "T

the paper of your mes

Was it in Ba

By you were znari Londo

Mr. Justice Roche said that the Was there at any time in your other matter was the question of mind the thought that you might the sandwiches. It was i jinssibi marry Mr. Thomas Never hity and even probability that

I want you to understand that it there was only one poisoned sand is now suggested you killed Mra | wish, and having regard to the

there a word of truth in that Not would have to discuss whether, if Ian atom.

Mrs. Thomas took that Bandwid Did you ever conceive a passion, the desired end would be accom-

Malizeddle the dre

-Yen ; ever thers is, they will find out,?! | Thomas?—No, that you did you think Mr. Thomas was Mr. Birkett, speaking. quietly 11-No," in spanking of something which was and very deliberately, "I ank you

Lus—-believe he thought so,” but

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nothing would have happened. IC she had taken a second, sandwich there was another chance, of the desire being accomplished."