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Evidonoo was heard at the Police Court this morning in a summons taken by Sergeant McFall, of the No. 2 Police Station, against Seaman Denniston, of H. M. S. Hawkins, for assault. The complainant depared that Denniston WES seen by him one night at Spring Garden (Lano amusing himself by chasing and bullying ricksha coolios. Te advised Denniston, who was apparently in a drunken con- dition, to go back to the Naval Yard, and to this advice the seaman took exception and as- saulted McFall, who, በፍ a result, had go to Hospital

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2.22.3 2.55.4 3.29.3

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38

1.13.2

1.48

2.19.1

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THE COLONY IN EARLIER DAYS.

XVIII. The First Private Execution.

tion

On the 29th of January 1895 took place the first private execu- the Colony. Much controversy hart takon place over a lengthy period as to the manner in which capital punishment should be carried out, there being

a strom; official opinion that publicity was novessary in order The

to deter native evildoers.

residents, on the other hand, had long wished that these repulsive spectacles should cease 10 De open to the morbid gaze, and in particular objected to the practice of the corpses remaining 0!1 exhibition for some days.

By degrees privacy was reach- od. Prior to 1856 the last ordeal of the law had been carried out on a

piece of ground near the old Naval Stores, but the site became too valuable to be used any longer for such a purpose, and the Magistrasy compound was used, so that the gallows were visible to those passing along Caine Road, which had been used by ladies

A FREE PIGIT.

Marble Tile... Harlequin....

St. Anthony In these robberies the culprits Speckled Mouse adopted the device of tieing the White Tile victims together by their queues Cowichatt while the houses were being loot- Don Carlos ed. When the police appeared By Jingo the burglari, several in number, Javelin used firearms and knives, thereby Siamese Cat causing the death of a Sikh const-Beldorny. & Square

able, Ameer Singh, and a Chinese

coolic. Five of the desperadoes Delight Dahlia were afterwards arrested and tried Empire Dahlia

at the Sessions in January 1895, Fly Wheel & White House with the result that two, Au Chun Givenchy

and Li Pong, wero condemned to Canasson & South death, while the remainder were Don Jua

sentenced to 14 years' imprison Parran ment. Only the Hon. Mr. F. H. Louza May, Captain Superintendent of Honesty Dahlia

Police, and Captain Lethbridge, Phenacetin & King IIarry 1 Superintendent of the Goal, with Brown House & Benenden the Goal staff, were present at Timour the execution. The doomed men Conqueror Dahlia... had to be supported to the Nestor and Leighton scaffold.

Gharran

:

A LANG-DEBATED QUESTION. Public executions at Home had long before been abolished, but the Colony authorities felt that the conditions prevailing here render-

Black Spot & Barley Sugar Dolphin Sovereign Dahlia Black Friar & Grey Friar Seven Dials and Mystic

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ed such a system necessary as Evergroen & Shooting Star the one thing likely to act as a Charing Cross terror to evildoers. In 1875 Mr. Field Child & Valley Child. Deane, the then Captain Superio- tendent of Polico, reported that

and childron as a promenade, it was doubtful whether public

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph".]

not even a screen being placed executions, in the midst of the there. In 1879, with the execu European quarter, had much tion of the" Kate Waters" pirates, effect upon the criminal classes, the extreme penalty was carried who took care to keep away from out within the Gaol walls, but the spot, but the Governor, Sir open to the public. What is Arthur Kennedy, like his pro- described as the last public oxdecessor, Sir Richard Mac ecution took place on April 5, Donnell, was altogether oppased. 1894, when Abdoolah Khan, a to a change. When the lenient private of the Hongkong Regi-Sir John Hennessy

Sir-Your outspokon remarks ment, was hanged for the murder Governor, Mr. Dauno renewed his about the cracker-dring nuisance of a haildar of the same regiment, representations, with which Sir deserve hearty approbation.

but apparently only a detachment of the corps and some Sikh police were present. '

THE GANG ROBBERIES.

The deed for which the first to be hanged privately men undorwent the extreme sentence occurred in connection with the

became

A Noisy City.

Besides tho obnoxious cracker-

awako,

I libellously!

muscular manner, he said, as he I Was picked himself up, "Shure, an' attributed the fitful yells as they was tould that this was a free arose upon the midnight air to counthry." "Yuan," said the the drunken antics of Chinese American, so it is, but your coolies. In many ways this freedom ends where my hose barbarous custom is much more begins." The moral is obvious.jannoying than cracker-firing; for| The large crackers used by the one thing the season is much rich should be taxed to the utmost longer, so I trust that in any limit, and the money obtained contemplated legislation for given, through proper channels, reducing nocturnal noises and to benefit the poor wretches one Frendering Hongkong nights. less; введ No often

in Hongkong hideous, these Red Indian war atreets.

yells will not be overlooked.

Yours, etc., PAX.

BERLIN'S REGIMENT.

John sympathised, remarking that he understood this was

the firing, the continuous bell-clang- only British Colony in which the ing of tramcar drivere, the un- In all fairness, it must be said demoralising scene of a public necessary horn-screeching of that "John Chinaman" is not the execution can be witnessed," but, motor chauffeurs, the incessant only one with a strange asthetic Hongkong, Feb, 14, 1921. having regard to the exceptional ear-splitting music" of hotele sense of sound. More nerve- conditions of the Colony, the and restaurants, the loud and racking, sleep-destroying, bad Governor decided to take the noley conversation of individuale, language-promoting (while equal- opinion of the Judges. There was all prove that in auricular sense ly indicative of peculiar asthetic gang robberies in Winglok Street some difference of opinion between the Celestial is aesthetically auricular sense) is the war-whoop Berlin, which hat for some and the Praya West in October them, some holding that public deficient, or, at any rate, very ing indulged in by certain time been without a garrison, is and November 1994. The executions might be abolished if different from his Western Western people bore when to have a composite regiment perpetrators of the first two raids publicity was given to them such brother, upon whom he has no dancing. The first ocassion I consisting of three battalione of were not discovered, but during as by a beilman or by posting right to inflict peculiarities which was awakened by these Indian infantry, one company of mine the third attack on November 22, notices. The question, however, hurt and annoy. Pat, arriving in war-whoops, I fancied that an throwers, one artillery battery, in Winglok Street, the police ap remained in abeyance for

America, struck in the face the attack by some of Fennimore and one cavalry aquadron, It peared upon the scene and a freenausber of yours until the docision first man be met. Being Cooper's heroes was being made will be known as the "Wach fight ensuod,

in 1895,

romonstrated with in a rather upon the Island. Realising that Regiment, of Berlin.

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