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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CONDUCTOR'S SPURIOUS COINS,

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1924.

pockets It was not an ordinaty caso of uttering, bat morely a case of passing on what he had recoivall, Io (the Magistrate) was therefore COMPANIES' BAD

inclined to bo lenient, and would} PRACTICE. After the conclusion of the case in give the defendant the option of a Which, a bun conductor in the employ. The fine of 850 with the altoran of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company tive uf eue month's hard labour was was charged with uttering a cona-j

[insposed,

Luc.

manner

in

case in the especially

ALLEGED THEFT.

EUROPEAN ARRESTED IN SINGAPORE.

ALIVE WITHOUT BODY.

Heart That Throba By Itself. Dr. Alexio Carral, of the Rockefeller Instituto, New York, who has kept alive for twelve years a chickon's heart.divorced from the body, has been attend- ing the annual meeting of the

British Medical Association in Bradford.

Dr. Carrel, who is regarded as tho wizard of experimental- aurgery, romoved the heart from. the bird and placed it in s special "oulture." Tho organ haș increased since then by one-fifth ita original size, and is still growing.

terfeit ten cent piece and with boing, Hia Worship highly commended in possession of ten other tencest Sergt. Tyler on the pieces, Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the which ho, conducted the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday after mecs of the Company, TODAL commented on the generalj

Ruel is ditheult ease. practice of the buk companies, in that they always returned any bad; money which conductors might hand in at the end of day's work. HIM Worship suggested that in future the Company should keep all 'the again.

Every two or three years it terfeit coins, given in by the con- Singapore, Oct. 1-A Europend

into afresh. Was heSE. Clayton, arrested is transplanted

on instructions from Hongkong by "oulture," to which is added, from Chief Detective Kenny this time to time, the blood of old and morning. It is stated he is wanted young hons. It has been shown fur larceny in Ilongkong. Ho. way that the blood of the old hens the growth of tho Mr. OA & Russ Appurred for arrested Aboard the S. S. Tairen retards the defendant and the Company was going home, Clayton was charged organism, while that of the young [represented by Mr. R. E. A. Webs before the District Judge and ones acceleratos it.

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changed at the money changers' they should be forwarded to the

Tramurer.

ter.

Bergeant Tyler was the first witnesk to bo called at yesterday's hearing. He stated that on the 1st

Enquiries locally elicited the information that the allegate Finst. ut the offers of the bus rom-

pany in looked into the conductor's against Clayton is of the larceny

by bailes of the sum of $2,000 bag while it WICH stiil on Whilst he Was in the ColuDy he defendant's shoulder, but. took was the head of a construction nothing out. Witness later took company and a vertain Chinees The bag and found in the inside com contractur supposed to have de- partment, among 814 in notes, and posited that sum with the Company, bus tickets, the ten spurious coins with the promise that it would be Altogether there was 220.05, of which returned if the contractor carried the defendant claimed 8 as his own sut certain work. The contractor never saw the money According to the tickets, 811,70 of ons be the money was the property of the, again.

L'ominy.

Witness asked where

the accused's own money was, sund deformant indiented the immer en- partment. The district watchinnul handed witness the 95 conts he hudd received from the conductor, One of the con

bad, although witness could not see which one was

counterfeit. Witnes took notl

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From this soientists daduce the fact that there existe a certain chomical substanco, peculiar to youth, which is not present in the organism of full maturity.

This gives rise to the startling suggestion that there may exist an actual elixir of life which science may eventually sogrogate from the organism and transplant.

The more daring followers of Dr. Carrel's work in the United Statos have proposed that the next few gonerations may witness the actual manufacture of this elixir.

Twelve years ago Dr. Carrel startled his profession by a series of experiments which in- cluded the introduction of organs taken from dead animals into livo, animals which had moro need of them.

Dr. Carrol's experiments so far domastio have been mado on animals, although in one case ho a shoop's attempted to graft

inxunt of the bugs, but handed "THE SHOCK" on the organk of a woman.

just as it was to Inspector Murphy. A Rotten Practier.

bas

Mr. Russ, addressing his Worship said that the rotien practice of thel empty in giving Imek

copainctors suspected eains to the for deducting the mount from their wages was great temptation to the

zier.

The conductor, continued

Mr. Ross, would be justified in It was getting rid of such coins. doubtful whether the defendant! knew the money was bad and höf should be given the benefit of the] Janult.

Mr. Russ contitmed to address the Magistrate and was told by the lat ter the it was very unusual to ad- dress the Bench at that stage.

Mr. Russ then put his client intol the bog

Defendant snid that on) the day of his arrest he had been paid $ of, his wages instead of 80. The other dollar was dedacted on necount of his giving in bad coins tat various times When arrested; he had ten hail 10-cent pieces in his hung. These he kept there with tho intention of changing the money changer's and those

them which the money changer refused to change he would destroy.

Sometimes money reject-

among

nt a

coins

ed by the Company would be ac

De-l cepted by a money danger. fundunt denied that he put his hand in the bag twice when he gave the change to the district watchman. Ho the did not take any money frena insite compartțuent. -

Auswering th Magistrate, de- fondant said that he did not receive the ten counterfeit. coins from the shroff on the morning of his arrest, nar did he receive them all at noe Lime

Mr. Russ: That is our case; we collected them.

His Worship: If that's your caso you will be convicted straight away.! Mr. Huss explained that the coins had been collected from time to bo tipe so that a namber could taken to the money changer's at! once, instead of taking theta singly. Sergeant Commended.

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After the defendant's evidenco Mr. Rum addressed his Worship at & strong somo length saying that point in the defendant's favour wins, that the ten 10-cent pieces found the bag correspond with the amount of deduction of wages that the defendant muffered at the end of the month, Another point was that he had put them all in with his Inmber. Ho could have put them) Thore WAR Logother.

quite a reasonable doubt in the caso.

His Worship said that he had no besitation in convicting. If tho

man had been given the ten cent! pieces that morning there would have been no case. Also, he should not have kopt the monoy in his bag. Ilo should have kept it in hin

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