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Indo-Ceylon Railway, The "Bingapore Froe Press " states that the Indo-Ceylon Rail- way is making good hoadway: Good progress has been made on the bridge over Bandom and the piors at Dhaniskodi are being pushed forward.

Acquitted....

The man named Roche, who was alloged to have killed one British soldier and wounded an- other with u revolver, some two months ago, in a drinking saloon in Bristow-road, l'ientsin, has been tried at Saigon in the French Court of Appeal and acquitted.

THE ROSENTHAL MURDER,

Killed by the System!!

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912.

in our house. The arrangement was a very common one. Becker know that Herman's game had boon a profitableonesohe declared himself in because he wasn't over- policeman, he onldn't be iu n looking any day money. Being gambling house all the time, and see that the money was split so that he wouldn't miss his share, but he put Jnok Reso in.

Well, that was all right. Her man wouldn't have kioked about that. He was getting hin monoy's worth in protection, he had been paying policemen for years, and it was all part of the game. But Herman couldn't stand for Rose. lore is one grasping man. Ho was not only taking Booker's 20 per cent, out of the game, but be wasn't forgotting himself.

Rosenthal murder is yet to come, a Tho final clearing up of the says the "Outlook." But one thing is as clear now as it ever can be that Herman Rosenthal was killed by the "System." His death was a by-product of that hideous combination of vice and orime with politics and misgovernment which is próbab ly the most powerful force in New York City. As one who has been in close touch with police conditions in New York has said, Rosenthal's death was ascertain, as soon as he had done what he did, as that of any man stricken with a mortal disease. As NOON Business was getting bad. The Raw silk has been one of the as Rosenthal squealed he had game wouldn't stand that much

Herman had been few articles for export from Binn- become infected with the discaso of a drain. tung. But owing to the conserva- which would inevitably take him sorrying around for a bankroll tive way of manufacturing silk off. And his killing was only a boforo, and he didn't want to go they lost their place in the trado. singleexample, clumsily and stup-begging again if he could help It is now proposed that a serioul-idly managed, of what is happen- it. So he did the only thing he tural school bo established ning all the time. In the other cases, could when the cut got too heavy. Tainantu for the purpose of in- however, the work is done skill- Ho put Rose out." proving our silk industry, fully and adroitly, and publicity

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TO LET. MORENAGH, 21 The Peat, for six nths from 1st Norom ie avoided." Nearly a dozen men to the story told by Mrs. Rober. Apply Properly. Office, Jardize, are already in custody, sither sonthal's friends, Becker told this Matheson & Co, Ltd. charged with complicity in the gambler that Police Commissioner engray. Sed Segr., 1718 A Labour Party is in the process crime itself or wanted as material Waldo had ordered his house to bo of formation at Tainunfu, tlie witnesses. The police have issu- raided, and it must be done. She Capital of Shuntang Provinco. The ed circulars calling for the arrest said of Bocker: promoter is You Chan-chih, a of the four men whom they charge" Before he left the horse he teacher in the Government Seliool with the actual commission of the came to me again and he said: of Political Science. All persons crime. Witnesses, among them know this is pretty hard on ovor 10 years of age, irrospective some of those who have already Herman; but he must understand of their sex, are admitted. The been arrested, are appearing my position in the matter. object of the party, says tho before the Grand Jury. The havon't any choice at all. You "Poxing Daily News," in to police, the District Attorney's tell Herman that he can forget develop and improve allindustries offico, and a private firm of detec-the $1,500 I lent him and I will and to enlighten tho labouring tivos, whose hand in the famous see to it that the mortgage is class.

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had Soon conducting a disorderly there which we recently published. against Booker of Laving police graft, which he has turned house for the purpose of trapping Instead of 4,000 caroasos lying been a partner in his gam- over to District Attorney Whit the police, it was reported that a about, the number was 11,000. bling-house which brought about mun for use in connection with detective agoney had been opera- Equally disquioting figuros como the death ofthe gambler; Becker's the investigation of corruption.

ting a gambling house for the from up-country, in fact, it is said friend and associato Jack." among high police officials that purpose. If this is so, it is the outbreak there is even worse. Rose was the ma who hired the has grown out of the murder of nowa to Whitman, who has ra

automobile which earriod the Herman Rosenthal.

ceived no reports on the realt Mr. Pennell's Panama Canal

murderers to and from the scene While Stare J. Murphy, Rocke that may have boon obtained. of the crime; Becker, in his own feller's attorney, denied today corned, it is learned that the The United States Govornmont | automobile, was not far from tho the published report that the has just made an important ac- soene at about the time the mur-millionaire's son had been con- young millionoita 16 propared fo quisition in the purchase of the ouder was committed a man who ducting a disorderly house for furnish all the funds necessary to tire collection of Joseph Pennell's came up town with Becker in his the purpose of obtaining ovi- enable the District Attorney to Panama Canal drawing for the car as far as Forty-third Street, dence of blackmail against the conduct a sweeping, investigation print room of the Library of Con when he left the car, went directly polico, be let it be known that designed to wipe out the alleged grossat Washington. Inthe August to the gambling-house which is Rockefeller, who, about a year corrupt alliance between the pol-

Contury" reproductions of eight said to have boon the ren lozvous ago was foreman of the Grau 1 lies and disorderly.elements.

And yat Jury that investigate the white.

Whitman suid today that he of Mr. Ponnell's Canal lithographs of the murderera. appear. These drawings, par Becker has not even been sus- slavo traffis, had plaesi in the hid baun informed that a police ticularly those showing the locks | ponded. The detection and hands of the District Attorney inspector lud received $800 a and lock gatos, give a remarkably punishment of the actual per- information "bouring on the p-This house, it is adoratood, was andershirts.

a month from a disorderly house. vivid impression of the originals,petratora of the murder are im-lice situation." roprosenting botter than any pho portant. No crime should go "Mr. Rackefeller, having bo tographe the gigantic proportions unpunished, though it must be come interested in white slave by Rockefeller's representative. confessed that inny similar mattera while foreman of thespeci- Whitman said also that one of his nasietante, Jaines Reynolds, crimes committed in New York at Grand Jury, has since been) City have gono napunishot. But scouring statistics with regard to had been working with the Rockefollor agents for the last vastly more important is the the social ovil," roads Murphy's

Whatovor inform - fow months. With regard to the question of uncovering of the machinery of the statement, raising a regiment for Eurasians, System: Vastly more important is tion was socurod bearing on the a Simla paper says: Wo would it to find out to what extent vice police situation has been placed remind our contemporaries that and erime are protected by the at the disposition of the District so far as we know the Govern- police, to what extent. police Attorney. The statements that Mr ment of India are no more em- officers and other mon either in Rockefeller, or his representative powered under prosent enactments the city government or outside of has been conducting disorderly to raise a regiment of Eurasiansit, profit from that protection. house is entirely without founda than they are

to declare war The Commissioner of Police and tion." against China. The preamble of the Mayor of the city have no an Act of Parliament passed in duty so important ns that either 1859 (23 and 24 Vic. Cap. C) of proving that there is no Syalem, states that it is not expedient that assparate European force should be continued for the local service of Her Majesty in Indin, and proceeds to take away the powers authorising the Soerotary of State to raise such a forco.

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Funds Ready for Inquiry. The information will be pro conted to the Grand Jury in that vice is not protooted, that no conjunction with the mass of 'men higher up" profit from an similar evidence which the Dia alliance between vieo and the trict Attorney and his assistants police, or of smashing the System have unearthed since "Bald Jack" ending the protection of vice, aud bringing not only the guilty police officers, but the "men higher up" to justice: If there is any official in the Police Department or any other department of the city, no

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