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THE DAYTON MORDER:

THE JURY'S VERDICT.

ADSETTS BENTENCED TO DEATH.

William Hall Adsetts, the alleged vinyer of the Dayton woman, having told h's story of what he knew of Gertrude D„yton's death to

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You didn't sleep in the hotel the following

Did you hear the conversation ?---No. The man was talking to her excitedly?—Yes. | night?—No.- And you did not hear?No.

"Aod you walked sway so as not to hear the conversation between your lover and another mas?My wh 1?

Your lover, She was not my lover. Then wil call 1 er your companion?~Yes.

a Jewish face?—Yes.

You were afraid that the person who killed the woman might wreak his vengeance on you. Why did you think so? Because I was in her

company,

Instead of returning to the hotel y u slept

the Y.M.C,4,?—Yes.

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It does not matter where you slept. But

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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 1907.

In this, case no evidence had been so far að- duced to show a motivo; The motive of the Crown was that the woman had been murdered for her money and jewels. Sie Hepry main tained that the Crown was arguing le a circle. The Crown said the prisoner murdered the man for her money and jewels-the evidence for the Crown, and which they must go by, was

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Mr. Justice, Wise and the jury, at the Criminal. And all you know of this 'man is that he had] have you evidence to show that you were and money for ante keeping. They could not tional Selenca Review, upon is subject. Sessions yesterday alternand; mounted the stand this morning to submit to the cross- examination of the Attarany-Gonéral,

There was n look of worry stamped on bis pale face when he answered bis same and rose to go to the witness-box. Those who saw Adrette when he landed in this Colony-a tal, well built, muscular fellow-saw him to-day wearing away gredu lly.

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“There was the gralitest rush to get scala ́at' the trial to-day that the Court officials had to Galend with since the case opened in the upreme Court, Trie Court room was taxed sfore the hour set for the hearing.

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Would you k ow him again if you saw bim ?-Noj Sr.

And you think "Miss Dayton was murdered because she robbed Miss Booth-1 don't know, ✨

Can you not rffor any opinion ?--I can't, Now, come; who do you think killed her 7-t don't know.

But who do you think?—I think it was done through Moss Booth.

You need have no compunction of saying what you think of somebody else?-I don't koow. All I say is that my thoughts went to Miss Booth,

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How long did you stay at Miss Hematond's? About three or four hours.

The Attorney General, Mr. W. Rees wler, who was instructed by Mr. G. E. rrell, of the "Crown Solicitor's office, was kharge-of-the.case for the Crown, while Sir hry Berkeley, c., inducted by Mr. Re-session? Ye gild Harding, was in command of the de- for.

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six minutes after ten his Honour Mr. A. G. 'ise took his seat and Adsells was called 10 bx. Immediately the Attorney-General operd fire.

Inderstand you to admit all the evidence of th prosecution, except the murder and put ̧ ting te box overboard?-Some things I don'; *admit.

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Wha is that?—That i was seen in the hotêl- You admit staying af'the hatel?-1 did, Sin You admit going to the house of Miss Leavitt?-1 recollect going to Miss Hemstead's. You admit taking the Trùnk to Messrs. But- terfeld and Swire and removing it again?-1 do.

u admit taking it aboard the 3 stengfei- |- -You

You admit pawning the diamond-?—Yes. Yo admit leaving the Calons?—Yor. You a mắt all these things although your

Isarned Counsel tried to prove you were not the man I'do.

. What was your business -I was returning home to the State,

What do you do, for a living? Tinmich or plumber.

And you had alt her jewellery in your pos-

Were you not afraid of being in possession of them? No.

Miss Dayton went to these gay houses to see her old friends and she allowed you to carry all her jewellery?—Yes.

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What was she wearing at the time?-A few rios and a couple of pins, which were mine,

And she allowed you to carry her jewellery in your trousers' pockets while she wore a few?

She couldn't wear them all.

When did you leave those gay houses? don't know.

And you suggest that you were so dreak that you did not know when you left the house? |—Yes.

You said you left Ship Street at seven o'clock ?-No.

You were seen, Sir, at the hotel'at six o'clock that morning?—No, Sir.

What time did you say you bought that box the peace-offering-About seven o'clock. Mty watch had stopped.

I put it to you you were in the Hongkong Hotel at six o'clock that moraing before you bought the trunk.-I was not.

Do you swear to thắt ?-Solemnly.

"these? —No," -

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You went away because you were guilty of a foul murder?-No, Siry No, Sir!

Your behaviour at Cheloo was got that of an innocent man 2-1 did not want to be connected

with the affair.

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I put it you, Sir, that your whole story is a subterfuge --Nó, Siri

You have displayed some ingenuity in the matter?—No, Sir. I have told the true story

lies a would come out. and I am cross-examined and if there are any

Your wife was at Chefoo when you were there --No, Sir. She left the night before I arrived.

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She heard you were coming?—I don't know. Did you'communicate with her? No, Sir. Did you pawn a ring at Shanghai ?-No, Sr. Did you gaio_Vilmann & Co. ?---No, Sır. You arrived at Shanghai on 11th Augun — I can't remember.

And you pledged a diamond ring with Ullmann & Co., of Nanking Road, at Shanghai, for $1807-No, Sir.

Do you know Ullmann and Co.2---No, Sir. Where is Ullmann and Co. ?—I don't know. The Shanghai pulice say that you pledged a ring with Ullmann and Co, which firm have had to answer a criminal charge, brought by you. Do you deny all that? Yes.

Did Miss Dayton have any conversation with a man that night?--No..

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getaway from that fact. He had the money with her consent, and if the jury refused to accept that then the pridence was not true: That fact corroborated the prisoner's statement when he said that Gertrude Dayton's money and jewellery ware entrusted to him. When man spoke the truth in part he had a right to ask them to believe the other part. Further, the prisoner gave reasons why the deceased woman entrusted him with her jewellery: She had fled from Manila with a large sum of money which she had misappropriated. That was the reason, and that was supported by Crown witness, Josie Marshall, who was also in't

Home way implicated in the affair, although she said she had not. Then where was the motive? The motive suggested had no found ation in reason, la an English Court of Justice there was only one verdict that could be brought in to such a cafe-guilty or act guilty. In the Scotch Court there was the verdict of "Not proven." In an English Court the verdict of Not proven" is not guilty, In this case the charge had not been proved and they must bing in a verdict of "Not proven." They would violate their oath if they found him guilty.

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You said that you left the house le Ship What weva vhu.doing in Manila, in the so- Street quickly and quietly so as not to be seen. ciety of this woman: I was way home. Why did you not want to be seen? Because I didn't want to be seen consing out of a house ike that, when I was staying at one of the ing 10 the evidence. le felt impelled to expected every moment to ʻbs arrested, and with Germany-Bank TiTia..................2.12 lending hoteli in towni

How long were you in Manila? Fourteen days.

How long have you known. Miss Dayton ? About a year ago at the house at Calle Alejan dro,

So that I may like it you only met her once before meeting her this time -Yes, Sir."

And your acquaintance with her was quite

catur ?—Yes.

You then said, you bought her a trunk as a peace-nffering? Yes.

Why should you, hava purchased such a trunk in offer her as n peace-offering when you say you were not intimate with beri-She sato she wanted it to put la cúrios,

You were there with the thres, women when the discusion was on?-Yes.

And you were acting as a shot of intermeof her rebuke?-1 was pot. diary ?-No, Sir.

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Why did you buy that ugly box when you were not intimate with her? You were afraid I was my own

You said you met Miss Booth out riding and she miked you to get Miss Dayton to see ber alone 7-Yes

Why should she single you out to get Miss

4 put it to you that you purchased this trunk first with the idea of putting her body into this

bux?—No, Sir.

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Sir Henry then proceeded to review the evidence; and proceeded to state that when Gertrude Daytop left Manila she was in a great state of mental excitement, and in a state of brała excitement from drink when | That concluded the cross-examination,

in longkon. Toe Crown admitted she SIR HENRY'S ADDRESI.

was "lipay, and they can't deny it. A Sir Henry Berkeley, not wishing to re-ex-

woman, who drank "twelve boitles of that kind of champagne that one gets at those amine the prisoner, opened his address to the jury. He spoke tor-exactly-fifty-five-minutes-places would.be.ina_state_of mental excite during which time he balanced himself in the heights of eloquence. The figures of speech that he used were few, but every word of sincerity, and he held the crowded court appeared to carry with it the conviction

from beginning to ent in an atication that paver failed for ал instant, said, briefly, that the prisoner was charged with the wilful murder of Gertrude Dayton. The oath the jury had taken was to bring is a verdict of guilty or not guilty accord. address them because, it may be assumed, that men, of their age and experience were aware that juries should find their verdict with the evidence placed before them for he ventured to explain that there was hardly a min in this Colony-except one man in the Court-list

•had not discussed the question at the time when no one dreamed that the inn would have been brought back here for trial. Further, there were very few men in Hongkong who. had not found him guilty. It was a very un wise act of the prisoner in Gesing, but that cir- cumstance rendered his task Herculean unless the jury would had their verdict on the evidance. No one saw the prisoner commit the act. That he can only bef and guilty on

on circumstantial evidence must be the logical results of reasoning from the facts placed before them. And it must be a calm and cool judgment. Toe case for the Crown, Sir Henry explained, was that the prisoner arrived here from Manifa with Gertrude Dayton and went to the Hongkong Holel, and it was for the pur is Lordship then charged the jury. Hu pose of getting her money and jewellery that he reviewed the evidence most clearly for fifteen did her to death and disposed of her body.minutes, and asked them to consider their If he talked to the end of the day the Attorney verdict.. General could say no more. All that the Crown could say was that the prisoner disposed of the body to avoid the charge/ Tas pri soner did not ieel courageous to stand his trial, and flet. There was a great mystery

ment, he Attorney-General, Sir Henry ob-ness man and the financier. served, thought it remarkable when the pri 10ger stated that Gertrude Dayton appeared

at Manila and the other in Hongkong. A excited when she saw the two Chinamien-one"

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individual who stopped her outside the Hong-|Do. demand... kong Hel on the night she was going to meet the Mr. and Mrs. Feist "to go up the street. On arrival here her fear was increased as she

heavy drinking it calculated to bring that woman to a high state of tension. She was then in such a condition as to have committed suicide. There were no marks on her body to show violence or any signs of being throttled. ba doctor said that that could have been accounted for by decomposition ; but sir Henry upheld that that was only an opinion. Sir Henry concluded that no man should be con victed on circumstantial evidence of this nature, and asked for the jury's verdict.

Dayton to meet her alone?--Because we were had would not ?-That i don't know. Perhaps. circumstantial evidente, the verdict founded

seen together outside and at the theatre.

You were living with Miss Dayton ?—No, Sir, I was not,

You were living in the same hotel P-Yes.. You say this man O'Brien wax & lawyer'in Manila Yes.

And he as her lawyer, fier arranging some monetary transactions for her, advised her to leave the Colony?—Yes.

You were living a chaste te in Manila?--- Yes, Sir.

And how did you come to Hongkong, being only a case, acquaintance with her?Because I was coming to Hongkong..

And she asked you to come with her to Hongkong ?—I was on my way to the Stater. I was leaving on the Minnesula, When they heard I was leaving Miss Dayton induced me la stay and accompany her ta llongkong.

You were a willipg victim 7-Yee,

Do you attach any importance to the Chin:-) man conversing with Miss ↑ ayton'ou board- ship?—Not necessarily. I was giving the facts of what occurred."

What is, there what importance do you attach to that fact?-1 don't attach any im- portance to it.

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All her jewelle y you say was entrusted ta you?—Yes,

And she remained on deck watching for the police ?—I remained on deck.

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And what were you coming to Hajking for?-To catch the steamer for home Who paid the passage?—! did. Was that ant'a generous offer ?—No, 'Did it -strike: you as remarkable when Miss Daytos met & Chinese hay in Hongkong ?-No, You told us about Mir Dayton meeting a Chinese "boy" in Manila and seeing one whom she recognised here. What was the reason for your telling this to the Court seeing you attached to importance to it ?-She appear. ed excited

A box like that would flost; while the one you'

And easy to put overboard ?—1 never tried to pul one overboard.

"When you found Miss Dayton's body you were surprised? Yes,

Wai she dead?-She appeared so. Why did you not report the matter if you doubted the woman was not dead?-She was dead...

Was the bed made - Yes.

And the mattress turned ?—I don't know. Assuming that the mattress,Wai "turned it must have been turned by somebɔ̃dy?—On that assumptiño, yds,

Was the band round her neck? —Vetis What sort of a brad?-The hand was op exhibition here.

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You picked the body up with your owp „hands? -Yes.

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You took a ricksh? to return to the hotel, couldn't identify him. Couldn't you have got the rickshs coolie?-1

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He thought that the only thing that condemned the various entrance of the building, scores the prisoner was his fight, which was a mere of people on their way. home for tiffin incident and may be of no weight. A man stopping to hear the decision-in Queen's Roid might have been innocent, and hava fled not as further admittance to the court-room wan Now, Sir, why did you not report the matter

to stand a charge. The prisoner fled, but he stepped, when you found the body?-All was against me, subsequently volunteered to take his trial in Now, you slept in Ship Street the night be- Hongkong if he was duly defended. "I say,” fore. Could you not have got the woman with, went on Sir Keary, "and it cannot be contra- whom you slept to come and speak for you?-dicted, that there is po law under which the No, I did not remember the number of the prisoner could be furcibly removed from Cha

foo, to Manila. One credit on his part was that he ultimately became willing to take his irial In every prosecution-cspecially in the case of murder-the duty of the prosecution was to prove two things: firstly, the identifica tinn of the murderer; and, secondly, the identification of the corpse. I was their bounden duty to prove the essentials, and it became the duty of the prisoner's Counsel to see the strictest proof given of those façır. It was monstrous to suggest that the prisoner way prejudiced in any defence put forward: If it had pleased him not to make any statement the identification of Gettrade Dayton could not have been established. She could not

You returned to the hotel with Miss Dayton aker leaving Miss Heinstead's house? I can't

remember.

One of the thousand thoughts that ran through your mind was whether you returned to the hotel with the woman that night?—Yes, And why did you not notify the police? Because I did not want the affair to get home

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You said you had formed a biassed opinion against the Hongkong police. Many other

reason to,

Why did she appear excited ?—I am no mind people have, formed.such an opinion ?—I had a | be identified by her clothing she could not reader.

"The whole thingʻira put of your narrative, an important part, is it not ?--Yes.

Having regard to the fact that the woman was murdered, her seeing those boys" pointed to-something strange- something on the war-

· path ?—Yes.'

You' had two bottles of brandy and two bottles of whisky in the hotel ?—Yes.

Where did you buy the brandy?-10 Chefoo,

I put it to you that brandy was not found?-

I don't know what was found.

Do you kaow Mr. and Mrs. Feist? - I don't. Have you seen them since?—No,

And what was the uppermost thought in your mind. Who did you think killed her? i couldn't say.

Did you think she killed herself}_Yes.' And you. sat down thinking over it ?--I was standing near the bad,'

Then you jimmed the body into the trunk -I placed it in.

Did you go to sleep on the couch before you did it?)d what?

I suppose you knew at the time that your conduct, il found out, was against your life? My conduct? No, Sir.

And the story you told is simply to save your fame?-Yes, Sir.

brident fied by her fingers...and...leetb.. The Attorney-General strangely overlooked his cross examination of the doctor, during the earlier pait of the case, relativa' to the pra sumption of suicides and suicidal strangulation. Ha'pil it to the jury that there was no evidence before them in "which they would be justified

THE JURY'S VERDICT. In a few moments it became apparent that lie jurors were coming is. Tan whispered conversations which were being conducted by the crowd ceased. All eyes rested on the prisoner. A little group of Court officials there at the entrances to the Court. At four minutes after one o'clock the jury filed in, headed by Foreman Ram. Every eye in the box. By this time the lawyers had returned to room was fixed upon them as they entered the

their respective places at the Counsel's table. Anxiety was clearly cut on his features, which Adsetts, all this time,, was looking restless.

were white, the result of mach strain. chambers while everyone in Court acere.

Then Acting Justice Wise entered from his

When the jury bad settled dawo, the Re gistrar stand up,

"Gentlemen of the jury," he opened, "have you agreed on your verdict? *

**We have," ́answered ibe Foreman.TM

! Are you unanimous ?" "We are!"

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* Do you find the prisoner at the bar guilty' or not guilty?"

"Guilt."

Admits' head dropped.

in finding the prisoner guilty of the muris Lordship-Have you anything farther, to der of Gertrude Dayton. There was no sky

THE SENTENCE.

His Lordship adjusted the black cap and passed sentence of death,

other evidence before them to justify them Adsetts raised his head steadily and looked coming to, aby other conclusion than that the in the direction of the Court. "No," he replied.. women, committed suicide. He would show that that was the only logical conclusion that

Then he bowed his head once more!

could be arrived at: The woman was found dead to a box with a waist bind ravad. ber neck. In all criminal cases, while it was not essential for the prosecution to prove And the doomed man, looking the picture of Who was the man who met Miss Dayton

motive it waviwall to do so. But in all misery, bis check drawn, and shaking in every and spoke to har in a escile!_teas—1—put it to you that you did not sea the_cimiost cases especially one of murder limb, was removed to the Victoria Gaol and What was ha ke?-He appeared to be lost,ogle in the bay. She could not ba seed?”, -where the prisoner could show lack of placed in the condemned call to await the a jaw. "I could not'sng him sisarly,

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