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ABAQUERIA FILIPINA

LEADING TOBAGCONISTS, OPPOSITE QUEEN'S THEATRE

.CONSIGNEES.

HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,

NOTICE

HONGKONG JOCKEY

CLUB..

NOTICE.

MONDAY

BYFIKET CASE ENDS.

Death Sentence on Vaquier.

AUGUST 11, 1924.

étrative onlookers, and excitedly protested to the officers accom- panying him about what hợ called "boing made a 'public or hibition." A g A romarkable scene marked the. In a fow seconds, however, bu close of the trial at Guildford had been burried through a Assizes last month of the French-private passage way on the other man, Jean Pierre Vaqular, who side of the street which led to the was charged with the murder, by County polios station. poisoning. of Alfred George While Vaguler was in tho Poynter. Jonor, the landlord of County Polles buildings an ome the Blue Ancher Hotel, Byfleet, barrassing incident occurred. with whose wife he had an in- The Frenchiman had just stopped triguo..

ovor the thrösbold of the goài

along a corridor escorted by a police ofloor, and before the couple wore aware of each other's pre- once they found themselves at a distance of three yards

Extraordinary General Meeting of the Club will be held in the Board Rooms of Messrs. Jardino Matheson & Co, Ltd, on THURSDAY August 14th, 1924 ut 5.30 p.m. for the purpose of confirming the resolutions passed The jury were away for oud Fbuildings when Mrs Jones onmo

al, an Extraordinary General Meeting held on 22nd July 1924.

By order

C. B. BROWN,

Socretary

HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

NOTICE.

J

to a room.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES TRUE TONE Matheson & Co., Lid, on THURS- why I should not pronounce courthouse to watch the con-

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All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Under-1 signed on or before 20th Aug. i 1924, or they will not be re- cognized.

All broken, chafed and damag- od Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be oxamined on any Tuesdays or Fridays hotween the hours of 10.45 &.in. and Noon within the free storage poriod of one week.

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hour and forty minutes. They returned with

a vurdiot of Guilty," Vaqulor looked a little palo as he stood in the dock bo- woon two wurdure with the Governor and the prison doctor

Vaquior at oned averted. his. behind him. Through the inter-glance, and raising.bla.arm mado preter the prisoner was asked if a pillow of it for his downcast he had anything to say why head as he passed Mrs. Jones sontonce should not be passed who, when realising the situn- upon him. The prisoner pro- tion, hesitated in hor walk until duced a written statement from the prisoner had disappeared in- -A Second Extraordinary General his pocket. Meeting of the Club will be held in

An immonso crowd assembled The Judgo: Tell him I can the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, only listen to any reason in law istor in the evening outside the

DAY, 14th August, 1924, Im-sentence upon him.

domnad man's departure, The mediately at the conclusion of the Vaquier; I can only say that authorities doceived them by irst Extraordinary, General Mect-I am innucent. I swear, on my drawing up a prison van in front mother's and father's graves, that of the building. While interest This Meeting 1 called on the I am innocent of the crime with was concentrated there. Vaquier was removed unobserved oxcopt following regulation:

which I am charged. 28th July, 1924.

Mr. Justice Avory thonas, by a few people by an alloy way To The Stewards of the Hong-sumed the black cap and pro. to a Black Maria in which ho kong Jockey Club. Hongkong. nounced sentence, saying that bo was taken to Wandsworth.

In accordance with Rule 62, could soo, no reason to doubt the of the, vordiet. righteousness We, the undersigned Voting Mem-

Having been so convicted," be bors of the Hongkong Jockey Club,

addod,

it is my duty to pro- request you to convene two Extra-

nauneo, upon you the sentence ordinary General Meetings of the which is proscribed by law for this Club for the purpose of consider-wicked and detestable crime." ing, and if thought fit, passing (in accordance with Article 63) as a Special Resolution, the following Resolution:

ing.

MOTOR RICKSHA.

A good deal of interest was roused in Raffles Square, Singa pore, recently, by the appearance from time to time as the sentence well-known

The prisoner bowed gravely of a motor ricksha, ridden by a membar of tho was translated to him. Then architools" profession there. Tho followed an extraordinary scene.body of the ricksha was of the That the first and second

Vaquior began to speak to the ordinary type-It had probably paragraphs of Rule 39 be struck judge and jury quito calasly, say seen service bohind a puller at out, and in lieu thereof the fol-ing it was an iniquitous verdict one time or another in its history lowing new paragraph sub-but he quickly lost control of-but the human mothod of pro- stituted:

himself and screamed out son-pulsion was displaced by the The Entrance Fee for all toncos in which he repeated the engine and forepart of an ordin- newly elected Ordinary Mem-word" iniquitous,"

ary jap motor cycle. A passeng "bers, as well as for Naval

or was riding in the body of the "and Military Officers on the

rickha. "Active List, shall be $10 "and the Annual Subscription $10."

T. E. Pearce

A. II. Burlow H, B. L. Dowbiggin F. G. Walker W. E. L. Shenton T. W. Doyle LJ. Davies

A. IK. Poita M. T. Johnson F. H. Kew

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By Order,

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G. H. Gibson D. E. Clark

E. S. Abraham

L. G. Bird

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hongkong, 5th Aug., 1924.

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Ho shook his first at the judge, and turning round in a frenzy he raised his arm and struck one of the warders on the cheat, Whion his wrists were seized ho strug gled violently and raised a knoo as if about to kick. Above the commotion dame the judge's command"; “Have him removed," STRUGGLED AND SHOUTED. In a moment Vaquier was lift- ed off the floor of the dock by the warders, and with his head over. their shouldore, and struggling violently he shouted in French, "The witnesses in the case are i all lure and should have beon in! prison long before I was." The K trap door in the cell was raised and he disappeared,

Whilst struggling with the warders, Vaquior exclalmed in this native patols of Southern France that on the next occasion ho would defend himmelf. Iis advisors, he also said, had lot him down. The phrases were so jerkily 'deliverod that their inter-i pretation took some time, but his compatriots in Court, after com- paring notes, agreed upon the moaning of the ejaculations,

Vaquier soon recovered from his bystericni outburst, and ask- ed to be taken into the fresh air. When the Court had been empti- ed, his request was complied with, and he was taken upstairs,, and with policemen alongside, was given a soat bobind the dock in the spacious building where, ton minutes before, he had heard his doom pronouncod.

Preparations wore then made for his romoval to Wandswortli Gaol. He was handcuffed and lakon to the rear of the Court. As he stepped out into the stroot ho.raised his manaoled hands and

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