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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1921.

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SHANGHAI OFFICIAL'S TRAGIC END.

Verdict at the Inquest.

The trazic circumstances attending the death of Mr. H.R.C. Adam, assistant clerk of H. M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, ware inquired inte by II. M. Coroner. Mr. G. W. King, on the 21st, inst. Miss H. L. Lissad, resident at Vancouver Lodge. Sinza Road. stated tha: she occupied a TOOIT next to that of Mr. Adams. At about 145 on Sonday morning ebe was awakened by a noise in deceased's room. He was raving. and carrying on an animated con- versation, apparently talking to people who were lacking in brough the window at him. He said he would kill them if they did not stop looking in. Half an hour later witness called oat to him to be quiet and go to sleep. He made no reply, and soon after. wards be broke into a fit of sob- hing and cried for a quarter of an bour."

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About 3 o'clock he jumped up and yelled that the people were looking in at the window again. He then loaded his revolver and fired through the window. "I sold you I'd kill you if you looked at me through the window again," be said. Witness beard him cock the trigger of the revolver, and walk round the room two or three timea.

She then heard him sit down on the bed, and at five minutes pas: three be fired the last shot. "That's all right, you see, that's all right," he said.

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had been resident there for near- It three years. Witness spent the evening with him on Satur- day, leaving him in his room at about 10:30. He was then in quite good spirits, but he had! been in bed for four days.

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TIT Singapore...

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TIT Japan

115

T/T India.

197

Demand, India

METEOROLOGICAL

Witness:-OL

Occasion Barometer when he was sick he remarked that he could soon ead it if it be Temperature.. came too bad. Occasionally de- Humility...... ceased bad suffered terrible pain. Wind Direction Witness did not hear the shots Wind Force fired, but on being called by his

Weather wife he went to deceased's room and found him lying on the floor, Rain..... with a bullet wound in his head. Highest He was still alive. The room door was unlocked and the win- dows were wide open. Witnees telephoned for a doctor and the police.

Det. Sgt. Baer, who reached the house at 3.50, said he found deccased lying on bis back on the floor, with a revolver against his left side. It appeared that he bad shot himself while sitting on the bed, the bullet passing through his head from the right temple, and striking the wall. He was taken to the General Hospits!! and died there at 6.15 without re- gaining consciousness. It was impossible for anyone to have climbed up to his window.

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A RESULT OF THE WAR. Dr. W. E. O'Hara 'stated that he found deceased in a dying con- dition on arriving at the house shortly after 3 o'clock. Every-33 thing pointed to the wound having been self-inflicted, with & Sat, 24m 5 43 5.0 &.45 revolver.

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The Coroner said it had been a Jan. 25 m painful task for him thus to in con.26 quire into the death of a colleague and a friend. There could be no doubt that Mr. Adams's death

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THE ALARM RABBED. The Coroner:He spoke after he had fired the shot i

Wituees:-Yes. I then heard bim drop from the bed, and I rang she bell for assistance. Mrs. Obion came along and said 'Why was the direct result of the bare you rang the bell?", and I wounds, and particularly the Thu, 31 Bowered: "I want to tell you gassing, he received in the great

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sbat Mr. Adams has shot him-war. He found that death was Pr£ 30 m 11 5 45m 43 self."

due to a bullet wound inflicted

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SATURDAYS.

EXTRA CAR 22,00 midalgon

SUNDAYS.

7.30 am to 7,46 km.

21.30 m., ko 12.80 sove

12.09 some le 100 92. 1.00 pm 10 4.00 JUL 4.30.10 8.30 p.m.

Every 6 mis

I mi

30 min

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Fresh monsoon may be expect ed along the S.E. coast of Cbins and over the N. China Sea.

at 10a.m. only,

The ball is hoisted half mastat the 55th minute and fuil mast at

the 57th minute. Should the bell

Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day, fail to drop at the correct time, it 0.01 inches. Total since January will be lowered at five minutes 1st. 97.34 inches, against an past the hour and the ordinary average of 83 06 inches.

routine repeated at the following hour, if possible.

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FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.

District.

Forecast.

Should the time ball be out of N.E. winds, order the above routine will be fresh;

Fearried out with the flag" Z", on

the storm signal mast,

1 Hongkong to Osp Ane,

Rock

colder.

N.E. winds

2 Formosa Channal strong.

3 South coast of)

Chios between> H.K. & Lamocks.)

Time sigusi are also given st night by means of three white lamps mounted vertically on the Observatory wireless mast. From 8b. 56m. Os. to. 9h. 0m. 0. p.m. the lampe are extinguished 1-momentarily at the even seconds, except at the 2nd, 28th, 50th, 52nd, and 34th of each minute.

The same

as No.

4 South coast of The same

Okina between>

HK. & Halaca.} us No. 1.

Z. F. CLÁZTON, Director. £E. Observatory, Dec, 29, 1921,

The hours refer to Hongkong" Standard Time (8 hours of east Greenwich).

Printed and Published for the Proprietor, by Alfred Morley is

11, Low House Birbet," in the City of Victoria Hongkong.