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Breach Of Promise

THE DECISION OF JUDGE W. W.

ROGERS

I find in favour of the Plaintiff, to whom damage to the value of one cash will be awarded, without costs," declared Judge W. W. Walton Rogers, thus ending ons of the most sensational and historia breach of promise cases which has ever stirred the Colony. This verdict was followed by an unseemly outburst of mirthand cheers, unprecedented in the annals of the local Courts, and re- sulted from the Jury fading in favour of the Plaintiff by twenty- six votes to twenty-three.

The principal actors in this thril ling domestic drama were "Gertie" R. Selk (who nobly sacrificed his noustache for the occasion) and Mr. F. W. C. Dann, the dejected De fendant. The case was heard in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, on Monday evening, and the facts were as follows:

Plaintiff's Case. ན་ That Gertie Selk did act up to the letter of the Engagement, act ed honourably at all times towards the said Mr. Dann and was at all times the soul of honour etc. and now sues for damages by the break- ing of the Engagement, soiling of her fair name, expenses for trous seau etc.

Defendant's Case,

That the Engagement was broken by Dann because of the said Gertie's † continued ill-temper, association with men other than the Defendant etc. Facts.

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(1) That Parties became engaged

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Lady in the Case Clerk of the Court

Baldwin

Rev. W. W. Rogers- Judge

..Miss Gertie Selk Plaintiff

..Mr. Dann Defendant Plaintif Counsel No. 1...Mr. J. Plaintiff Counsel No. 9 Mr. E.

F. Fincher Defendant Counsel No. 1 ...Mr.

R. Baldwin Defendant Counsel No. 2.Mr. R.

H. Wonk Mr. C. Lim Court Usher Policeman Mr. A. S Bliss

Mrs. N. Le Mr. G. A.

White Witnesses for Prosecution No. 1

Mr. E. H. P. White Witnesses for Prosecution No. 4

Miss R. Mow-Fung Witnesses for Prosecution No. 3

Mr. C. Crofton Witnesses for Defence No. 1

Mr. H. Kew Witnesses for Defence No. 9

Miss. E. Landalt Witnesses for Defence No. 3

Miss M. White Prosecution's Ösze.

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In opening the case for the pro- secution, Mr. J. Baldwin set out to prove to the satisfaction of the Jury that his client was a young woman of unusual integrity and honour. She came of a family ve nowned for its ancient and honour able name and its connections. That

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TRAFFIC" DAY AT

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Yesterday was at Central Police Court, several motor drivers being summond for viotoring offences."

(2) That Dann left the Colony for

Home-leave May 1936 to Novem ber 1030. He returned on the same boat as the "lady in the case" which was the cause of a bitter quarrel with Gertie (3) That during Dann's absence Gertie was repeatedly seen at dances etc. with inen other tha.. it was ancient the gentlemen of the leaded that he had been requested

her relations

(4) That after. Dann's return from leave repeated quarrels took place at various Public Funs

tions:-

St. Andrew's Club Whist,

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St. Andrew's Club Socials St. Andrew's Club Bathing

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St. Andrew's Club Church Olde Englishe Fayre. (6) That the engagement was brok a. by Dann after the Club Visit to Macao, Sunday 26th 1933 due he affirms to Gertie's indiscretions in Macao...

The Leading Figures. The leading figures in the case

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at the po Ating Com

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Jury

subur-

The first case concerned an In Kirk, who was charged with driv dian driver, employed by Dr. E. W. ing at a speed of 38 miles per hour along Hennessy Road. Defendant

by his master to drive fast to the French Hospital. His Worship. (Mr. Schofield) accepted his plea and imposed a nominal fine of $10.

could see for themselves mere- ly by glancing at the Plaintiff. (loud laughter). Up to the time of her acquaintance with the Ds. fendant, she had led the usual quiet

Fines of $25 were imposed on and unostentatious life of ban giri, occasionally going to Sun- several other lorry drivers for dan day School socials and homely gerous driving. In one case Sergt.

Brittain said that defendant, the. dances, under strict chapetonage.

driver of a lorry belonging to M. The beginning of her downfall was when she attended a social func-Y. Sap & Company, out a corner tion at St. Andrew's Church Hall at the junction of Des Voeux Road where she met the Defendant, who West and Morrison Street, causing made himself extremely pleasent and the Sergeant to skid three feet on affable to her always the modus his motor cycle. "The defendant operandi. of professional breakers burst out laughing and thought it af hearts (Cheers and cries of was a great joke," said Sergeant

Brittain. "Order"). They mat frequently after this and theefandant press ed his suit (hore His Lordship made facetious remark for which Counsel reproved him). Towards the end of the social season the couple became engaged and an an nouncement to this effect was pub fished in the local Press. The De- fendant shortly after this had occa. sion to leave the Colony, and dur ing his absence, the Plaintiff be haved herself in as circumspect a manner as possible and endeavour- ed to be like Caesar's wifs, above suspicion." On his return the De- fendant showed a marked, onolaess in his affections and not long after wards calmly told her that he was "through with her.””-

Counse! then concluded. his

For driving at a speed of 20 miles an hour long Bay View Road, a lorry driver was fined $20. It was stated that the thoroughfare was crowded with school children at the time.

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lengthy peroration by claiming that the Defendant had sailed his client's fair name, caused her considerable expense and spoiled her chances of getting married. He therefore de-

It cannot be imagined that the manded that retribution be made by the Defendant on there accounts, Publication of the article would

form on his Council for thres which might act as a warning to give any great satisfaction to the any other male members of the Club ruling circles in Bangkok, but it who were likely to follow the Do- and which has not so, far been solved on his return from his holi

repeats a story: camrent at the time monthe, without effect, and. published here.

fendant's example.

A reasoned and impassioned ap

The article records that the meet- paal followed by the Counsel for the Defence (Mr. R. Baldwin). ings of those concerned in the which visibly affected the Jury, but coup d'etat came to the knowledge for all his eloquence the learned of the police in May last, that the Counsel could not way the feel-police mada a detailed report to ings of the Court, who were put the Minister of the Interior, Prince in such a good humour by the evi Nagar Svarga, now residing in dence of the Plaintiff that their Bandoeng, giving him a complete sides were still shaking with laught list of the persons implicated and er when the Judge delivered bis the date set for the rising, verdict as given above. Unfortun- ately shortage of space prevents us from giving in full the pathetic story, of "Gertie's indiscretions, which included an innocent little visit to Macao.

The Mock Trial was conducted according to the worst traditions of Court procedure, the figures in the case, especially the Judga, Counsel, the Plaintiff and Defan dant, played their parts with skill and much ingenuity. Altogether, it was jolly good fun.

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"It would have been quite casy to arrest them all the article continues, "but like all the higher. Siamese officials, the Prince was supersensitive to foreign opinion, and hesitated to take any action that would he bruited abroad in every newspaper na brutal at tempt to stamp out legitimate dis- content with absolutism, and that might damage Siamese credit at a moment when her finances were adversely affected by the world. crisis,"

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And there is this referense to the Soveron whith it is not mappro piste to quote The King was noverabsolute in the real sense hey had always to carry his Council of Elder Statesmen with him before he could get anything done The Constitution that he had been try ing to persuade them to accept-com. templateda nominated Chamber ITI KOTceffor appointed by himself a form of Government far better suited to a country in which over ninety per cent of the electors, are illiterate, peasants than the new Constitution which was forced upon him. At the end of ten. years when bis people had become

day at Hua Hin, to ofer the Coun cil the choice between accepting

his scheme or accepting his ab dication. The King was far more far sighted than any of them. From an economic point of view;

no doubt there were too many "Fainces in the administration, but at least there was internal peace and individual freedom, which it. not the case "now, Mat

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