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THE GAOL SENSATION.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919.
DAY BY DAY:
THE MORE YOU ARE TALKED ABOUT THE LESS POWERFUL YOU ARE,-. ísraeli,,
1st.
The only cassef communicable disease notified yesterday was one non-fatal occurrence cerebro-spinal fever.
of
Readers are reminded of the
children's lantern lecture, "From London to Weihaiwel," to be given at 5.30 p.m. to-morrow by Mrs. F. C. Hall at the Heleda May Institute.
GAOL SENSATION.
EVIDENCE AT THE ENQUIRY.
MACAO CURRENCY.
NOTES OF SMALL DENOMINATIONS.
NATIVE CLUBS-
“BOY”, WHO SAID HE WAS *FORCED TO JOIN. -
The enquiry into the deaths of
Macao will soon be another of The existence of native clubs Warder Speed and Indian Guard the communities out East to have whose membership is obtained in Victoria Gaol early on Monday amounts. We learn that there has often mentioned by the Police Harnam Singh, who were killed paper notes representing arall by compulsory methods has been morning by four prisoners who recently been printed in Hong- lately. What was said to be the escaped from the gaol, was kong, to the order of the Macan latest attempt of this character adjourned yesterday afternoon Government, small paper notes took place on Sunday when two until to-day..
of.5 cents, 10 cents and 50 cents men approached a "boy" who The following formed the jury: denominations to the total value has-been-in the employ Messrs. C. F. Starkey (foreman), of $750,000.
of Sergt. Major Thorne, of F. A. Wells" and J. C. dos Remedios.
When one hears of tragedies such as that which has just oc- curred at the Victoria Gaol, result- ing in the death of two warders, the natural inclinat on is to back in Hongkong on February F. M. S. Hawkins is expected raise the question whether all possible precautions for the prevention of such dire happen- ings are taken. So long as that attitude is taken up, not in any carping spirit, but with an obvious desire to offer useful suggestions, nobody can complain. We can quite understand the possibility of convicts getting possession of, and secreting, crudely-made instru- ments with which to aid them in their escape. Such things happen in the best regulated gaols in the world. It might not be such "an extraordinarily difficult matter, either, for Chinese prisoners to get hold of sufficient clothing to replace their prison garments, for a Chinese does not need any thing much more than a pair of
he died in the afternoon of and night.
"boy" should proceed with the trousers and a singlet to be con-
the same day, death resulting | from abock following
Witness added that he went arrangements he had come to the injuries. Witness could not say and, in an inner room he found come off, as the men did not come into the Reserve Guard Room with the men. The plan did not to arouse auspicion. But what
how many instruments were of precautions against an out- break of this character? Are the
We are asked to state that the used in the inflicting of the the Indian guard lying on a bed to the barber's shop. Inspector
with his face dashed open and Kent then gave the collecting tins and wounds, but the nature of present arrangements adequate 7 pansies,
"boy whistle with instructions In this case,
the ringleader baskets for Pansy Day will be the wounds were more or less his whole person covered with s
is given out at the City Hall to alike. One of the wounds must the guard replied indistinctly and further interfered with. Yester
blood. To witness's enquiries that he should blow it if he was? is said to have secured freed on: by cutting through the morrow (Thursday) between noon have been caused by a abar and from his words witness under day, it was alleged that the two wooden door of his cell and thus and one o'clock and from 2.30 to Pointed instrument-probably a stood that a prisoner from Cell men again accosted the "boy".
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We further understand that the Soldiers' Club, and ware after the Chinese New Year these alleged to have attempted to forme After we had gone to press small notes will be put into cir-him to join the club after paying yesterday. Dr. McKenny, the culation and that the present entrance fee of $15. A barber's Superintendent of the Govern- nickel small money will be called shop at the Prays East was fixed ment Civil Hospital, gave his in. The new notes are extremely as the place of payment of the evidence. He deposed to having well printed and artistically money. In the meantime the admitted Harnam Singh, the designed.
"boy" informed Mr. Thorne, and deceased Indian warder, at 7 a.m.
the latter formed & plan of trapping the alleged black- mailers. The Police at No:2 Police Station were also informed,
on the 15th instant. There were
B number of wounds on the
The master of s.s. Chibli report that at 3 pm: on the 5th instan' in latitude 27-23 N. longtitudean's face, arms and body, and continuously at their door day and it was arranged that the
121.24 E, Le passed a small half submerged junk dismasted. There
were no signs of life.
getting at the lock. If wooden p.m. doors are necessary, could they not be protected on the inside by, say, a steel gate to each cell difficulty jo filling the vacancy on It looks is if there will be Then,
also, it would
seem the Licensing Board caused by the eminently advisable that all resignation of Mr. Shelton warders, whether Europeans or Hooper. The Justices of the BALEAN-At Brighton, on 12th December, Sarah, aged 80 Indians, should be armed whilst Peace were asked to elect one of
on duty.
Their business is to their number, and nominations prevent escapes and tragic out-close at 4 p.m. to-day. Up to breaks of the nature just record-o'clock ed. Surely they would be all the forthcoming.
nominations were better fitted for their tasks if they carried arme. These are import- ant points, and we trust that they will be considered as being some means by which experience may be gained from this grim tragedy,
WAR TROPHIES.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919.
REMOVING A BARRIER.
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The successful conclusion by Lieutentant Ross Smith of the flight from England to Australia has very justifiably brought forth a budget of world-wide comment, for it marks a practical develop-
Hongkong friends of Mr. R. C. Faithfull, formerly a well-known solicitor here, will be pleased to learn that he Was recently appointed as Police Legal Advis- er and Legal Assistant to the We are gratified to know that Secretariat of the Shanghai Hongkong is to be remembered Municipal Council, under a three in the distribution of trophies of years agreement. In a letter to war seized from the Germans. a friend Mr. Faithfull reports At Home, even the smallest himself as being in extremely towns are being presented with gool health. mementoes of this kind. They are also receiving, many of them,
aša vám však morty the over-
a1
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chisel. It looked as if the deceas
ed received the wounds while in No. 24 had attacked him. a standing position. His body At this stage, Mr. J. R. Wood warders of the Gaol. was identified by some Indian adjourned the enjuiry until this
morning.
"Dr. W. J. Woodman, Medical Officer of the Victoris Gaol, in
in Wyndham Street whilst he was on his way to the Dairy Farm. The question of the entrance fee was again mentioned, and the "boy" arranged to pay it TO-DAY'S EVIDENCE.
outside the gates of. the When the enquiry was resumed Naval Yard after he had
his evidence said that he was this morning, Dr. W. J. Wood-finished his business at the Dairy summoned to the gaol at 4.55 a.m. man, who was recalled, said that Farm. At the Naval Dockyard on the morning in question. On arrival he saw the body of War he saw Ayab Khan, the Indian gates, the "boy" blew his whistle der Speed lying in the gast hospit-guard, at 6.20 a.m. The man had and one of the men was arrested. al He dressed the wounds of the a cut on his left hand and several This Chinese was charged at the Police Court this morning, but is there was not sufficient evidence to support the charge of black- mail which had been brought against him, he was released.
bruises.
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Mr. Franks (to his Worship) He told me that he rang the alarm bells after the prisoners had gone.
fight that I rang the bells.
Witness: It was during the
Resursinghisstatement, witness
ment in the conquest of the air that is of undoubted signing the throw of the enemies of civilis-morrow, when the Misses Woorde the deceased's throat was appar- said that together with others said the prisoners were all armed
our
these WAT im-
at
were forced to give them up. In the alternative one month's Indian guard, whom he had men. Warder's Office came out.
of being in possession of the drosa. In his evidence regarding the men who went into the Chief
stuff.
Indian guard, and had bim sept to the Government. Serain Singh, an Indian con- Civil Hospital in an ambulante. stable, who on that day was At a post-mortem examination on duty at the Covernment which he held on the body of Civil Hospital, deposed that he Warder Speed he discovered no acted interpreter when fewer than 27 wounds. There was Haram Singh (the deceased a cut four inches long which warder) was questioned by Dr. extended from the back of the McKenny. Haram Singh said he head to the right ear, and several was on duty at 4.30 a.m. at. the stab wounds on the right ear condemned cells of the gaol, when and face. One of these extend. Chinese came up and started to ed from the ear to the steb him with dagger. The jaw. Below the eye was one dying man stated that he could large wound. On the right side not identify his assailant, and did British tanks which have done before Curtshasis turtake place great depth. An attempt to en
The last of the tea dansants of the back there was a wound of not see any others.
Ayab. Khan, Guard No. · 8,. the Hongkong Hotel to- But a few years, Would have been possible, especially under tion. Some small-minded people such circumstances. Without practically any organisation or at Home, we notice, have been will again appear. The public long, across the front of the Wards
ent in the wound, four inches he relieved the guard
with deggers, and wore clothing preparation at all, one machine has been safely piloted from the objecting to the display of Ger will be interested to learn that neck. Another wound on the 3, which were on the ground
-No. F. 1, 2,
of a dark colour. and centre of the Empire to its uttermost limit-a distance approxima-man guns; on the ground that these taleated entertainers have neck penetrated the left lung. floor. He himself was patrolling the Jury (Mr. Starkey), witness Questioned by the foreman of ting to half way round the world, and over tracts of see and country they want nothing Hunnish "in Christmas dances at the Hotel severed by a wound penetrating two Chinese coming down the to his assistance during the
been engaged for that were full of dangers to any aeronaut. The previous flights their midst.
the three Some of the intestines were F 1, when, at 4.14 a.m., he saw replied that one guard came across the Atlantic and the American continent fully established reason to advance why
But that is a poor (on the 24th, 25th and 20th the abdomen. Four other wounds corridor towards the modern aeroplane as a safe carrying agency of wonderful people should not be reminded of instant). Tois sb uld prove en were discovered on the abdomen. Warder's Office. He followed and blew his whistle, Witness the Chief struggle, from No. 1 Ward, potentiality, and this latest success by Lieut. Ross Smith is a the defeat of the Germans by the
additional attraction. conclusive confirmation of it.
The back showed three more them. Whilst he was doing so two was not certain whether this One must not look at the fact that the fight took over three our gallant men captured from display of war material which
wounds of great depth. The other men came ap from guard cams during the fight, but weeks to accomplish. The point to notice is that the actual flying them.
A Chinese passenger of the 5.8. zavealed that they had
nature of some of the wounds bebind and act That is what
upon him. he saw him only when the fight time was but 124 hours and the average speed seventy-five miles guns
been He engaged in a struggle with was over. Witness also blow his Quinnebang was yesterday caught inflicted by and other an hour. The fact that it took over three weeks is entirely due to plemente
B long sharp one man, while the other went whistle after ringing the alarm by the Police with 47 taels of pre-instrument like the knife pro- towards Haram Singh the circumstances under which the flight was made. If at every be a lasting remembrance, not Pared opium and dross. The drug duced in Court. In witness's deceased warder) who was or
are for-they will
(the bells. stopping place the aviator had found a properly equipped establish of the losses which some of them and various tins. The prisoner multiple wounds.
was concealed in medicinal pills
Mr. J. W. Franks, the Superin- ment for supplying him with all that was required; new machines: inflicted on our troops, but of the was to-day fined $100 on the count
death resulted from dury at the condemned cells. tendent of the Gaol, in resuming opinion spares-in fact & complete chain of zero stations, the time taken complete defeat of those who
Immediately after this, the two his evidence, stated that the Chief would have been very materially less. In addition to a long fight i
Warder's office bore marks of blood was a struggle against conditions, and if those adverse conditions a place like Hongkong, with its hard labour is to be undergone tiened in the earlier part of his of them made for him, while back, as if in a struggle. He did Ois and three chairs had been pushed- were removed, then flight to Australia would be a possible thing for big native population, it is well the majority of aviators. The establishment of a chain of perman that we should have some tan-onths for having the prepared Hospital, the witness said that he who
consecutively with another six evidence as
being sent to the other helped the mea not make a minute examination, ent stations so that the tourney could be done by relays of aviators gible evidences of the Allied!
was attacking Harnam of the room but ordered the roll and machines, would very easily bring Australia within a week of victory.
found injuries On the Chinese mind,!
oa the man's Singh. Prisoner No. 24, who call, and it being repartel to him London. And it is this fact that has very rightly been drawn the sight of such trophies will
shoulder.
witness could recognise as one of that a rope had been found attention to by the journals at Home, because it spells for the world make the doing away of the disability of distance. These are very early Incidentally, might
lasting impression.
Mr. J. W. Franke, assistant the men who entered the Chief attached to the iron bars of a B The demand for the Premium Superintendent of the Gaol,
Warder's office, inflicted a cut Window, he went there and ex- days for aviation as known by the heavier-than-air machines, and, effort be made to get a British Government has been fairly good, whilst sleeping in bis quarters by
not some Bands issued by the French deposed that he was awakened with a dagger on his band. amined it Returning to the if in so short & space of time since their first appearance and now, tank as well!
In reply to His Worship witness main building, it was such fights as we are now witnessing are possible, it takes
as far as Hongkong is concerned, the sound of whistles being blown, said that he saw Warder Speed zeported to him that four but very little imagination to conjure up the days when aerial travel THE SHANTUNG QUESTION. The application closed at the Ban- and he went to the verandah to at 4 a.m. following one of the prisoners were missing from F. will be as common to all parts of the world as railways are now, But there is a great amount of work to be done first. Dealing only with Captain Yamamoto, ope of triele de Chine. on Monday last prisoners bed made their escape that
In the interview which we had que de L' Indo-Chine on the 11th see what was proceeding. Being prisoners.
Ward. He proceeded to the ward instant and at the Banque Indus informed by a servant that some with the British Empire, one sees that in all the Empire's passes
Continuing, the witness said and examined the cells of the sions there has to be set up a great system of air stations, constitu- Peace Conference, we could get applied for in Hongkong is not down, and,
the Japanese delegates to the The exact amount of the sums from
he pressed the bell escaped prisoners. They were the Gaol, be ting stopping places, where pilots and machines can be changed, very little out of him regarding, knows, as the two French banks several officers, he unlocked with his watch lamp be struck back of the lock had been cut went which communicated with the Nos. 63, 62 and 50. In Cell 63, accompanied where the passengers or mail can be transferred from one machine the Shantung question. Captain are reluctant to make a statement, the prison doors and went inside his man a blow. He saw Warder away and the interior of the lock by Superintendent's Office, and he found that the wool at the to another and immediately carried on to the next stage-in short Yamamoto there will have to be inaugurated a complete network of airways, it rather a pity that so much
Going up the staircase to the Speed fall at some distance from broken. A piece of wood was fully and efficiently equipped. To some people, who look at the trouble had arisen
maip building, he unlocked the the reserve guard room. The shown to him which he found to things of to-day-only, that picture may seem a great way off, but one issue. But, after all, whose Hongkong Police Force will hold Ayub Khan lying on the verandah witness by this time, went out o
Tc-night at the City Hall the corridors and came across Guard four prisonere, who bad left be part of the lock of the cell- can confidently assert that in the next ten years or less there will fault is that but Japan's? If their Krst Ball since the outbreak wounded. His furban had fallen the gate which was opposite to prisoners were 791, 850, 24, and The numbers of the escaped scarcely be a spot on the earth to which one will not be able to the Japanese Government had of war, when it is expected that of and his patrol-lamp was the Chiaf Warder's office. Wit 1785. Certain instruments which travel by air, if so desirous. And in this great coming development not temporised so the British Empire has to take its place. There is already talk of the matter but securing the supremacy of the air, but in the ordinary acceptance back the territory instead of Hongkong Hotel band, and the and as far as he could made out, saw Harnam Singh being at- banded Music, will be supplied by the He questioned the wounded man alarm bells he sounded. Wimesa
ded about 300 guests will be present. lying on the ground broken nesa was not certain how many were not of the prison stock, were found in the cell. They of that phrase we are not very keenly concerned. The object to constantly talking about
were a tool, three, chisels," "a strive for is that Britain, with its vast dependencies and Colonies, intention to do so, things would catering is also being carriel bus was a policeman in plain clothes shouted out the warning. He of wool, two langths of w
out the latfer kept repeating that it tacked by the prisoners and hej screw driver, two should be more closely and effectively bound together by a girdle of have been straightened out long been attractively decorated, St. who attacked him
pieces
The fact that Australia was reached is not, after all, the begun immediately the Armisitice dancing and St. Andrews' Hall one of the jurymen (Mr. F. Wells), p
since. Or even if negotiations had George's Hell being used for the
was not sure what Harnam and a bottle of paint. In cell No. chief value of the fight under notice. It is that four continents was signed, Japan would have for the supper room.
In reply to a question put by Singh did. When he
63; were found ons peice of stone, were bridged and that each stage of the journey might be developed appeared in a far more favour.
Warder Speed, Chinese brush-pen, a piece of into a self-supporting link in a great chain. Extend the idea to all able
witnees said that the corriders he attempted to lift him up but wood, a chisel blade, two sheets- the countries of the world and one at once sees with what ease it will doubted Japan's intentions to light. We have never
were only dimly lighted.
could not succeed. Warder of white paper painted green, and be that the great handicap of distance will be removed from the return the territory to China-
Proceeding witness deposed he was unable to speak. By this of the escaped man. A quantity Speed's condition, was such that also a badge bearing the number peoples of the earth. By distance nations now seem isolated and it on conditions. But there's the THE"
that the guard was in a very time Mr. Franks and other officers of prison uniform which had is that isolation that has in great measure been the cause of so much rub. What will those conditions
excited state, and he sent the
been discarded was also found. past misunderstanding. Peoples are strangers and no-one likes bo? It is very nice for Captain'
officers round to see, if any,
In cell No. 50, witness found a strangers at first sight. When an Englishman can visit Poland or Yamamoto to say that the best
prisoners were missing. He was In reply to a question, witness key lying on the floor which Italy with as much ease and in as short a time as he can now travel method of arriving at a solution
next led to the scene of the said that the last time he saw fitted with Ward F5. A quantity from London to Newcastle, he will have gone a great way to feeling of the issue is for an amicable
murder of Warder Speed and Warder Speed before the fight of clothing was also in the room. Jess a stranger. And so the procese will inevitably go on. With conference to be held between
found bim lying The s.s. Phranang, which has in the corridor some distance saw him in the Office writing at tinsmith shop were allowed two lifeless was at 4.20 a.m., when witness Sonie prisoners employed at the the development of quick travel and the consequent freer interming the two nations, without inter-been aground on the Adamastor away from the reserve guard a table. ling of the world's peoples, misunderstanding and prejudices will ference from other Powers, but Rock, off Dumbell Island, was room. Witness want to the Chief
suits of prison, uniforing an vanish. The English only fought the Scots. becades they did not the amicability of the con-successfully got off last evening Wardess' Office and on the way his evidence that he saw Warder the call owned
Mr. Franke:-Witness said in was likely that the occupan know them because they were strangers from the north with mis ference would necessarily depend and towed into harbour. She is made, the discovery that there Speed following one of the inen siits of cniform which understood differences in manner. It is the breaking down of terri- on the attitude taken up by now in Taikoo Decks, torial barriers that gives aviation its greatest value, and dosense Japan, when the gathering is Not much damage was sustain condemned prisoners,
was no officer in charge of the When I questioned bim he said found, there. In Cell Na 62 aviation has such a value the British Empire must see that it convened. There has been quite ed, a few plates under the water The Coroner How many
Warder Speed, pushed bim out. found a quantity of clath takes its proper share in the development of it. There Viking enough quibbling on this matter.line being dislodged, and she will condemned prisoners are there Witness-Waider It makes e difference.
uniform. factors in aviation; it is heralding a new era; and there short-sighted reticence or parsimony displayed in the tres
Japan disclosed be fit for sex, again in a short in the Gaol? (Witness Two hands were on the the time boot A
Speed's The enquiry time, as the job is not a big one. in one cell A guard kept soner and he was pushing him. the
air routes.
seemned to think
had
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