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ALBERT

FRENCH PASTRY COOK

22, Queen's Road, Central

-in making his name, better known overy day by his Trouch Cooking, done exelu. sively with fresh butter.

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DINNERS TO ORDER

Tilting and Dinners served from 10-30 a. m.

Ja midnight.

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CONCLUDES.

(Continued from Page 4)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1925.

which ran in the Colony, that some cases of homicido were regarded as boing strictly justifiablo, “and : there was no legal penalty for

thom..

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS,

NO PAPERS FOR TWO DAYS.

London, Dec. 22. published on Christmas day or No English papers are being

Boxing day.-Reuter,

Questions. To the Jury. Have you made any effort to: If an officer fired rashly when bring before this court the three he could have arrested a person women mentioned in this case-without, then it might be a case I have made every possible effort of murder. A police officer was to get any or all of them to come legally entitled to arrest without and give evidence. They sent a warrant anyone he may reason-nett could have effected an ar- deputy to see me. They sent word abiy-suspect to have committed a rust of the men without firing? to me they were afraid of re-felony, It only remained for the

strikura. prisals by the

They

Jury to decide certuin questions of, feared that if they came they

fact. would probably be killed or im- prisoned by the pickets.

Members of Strike Pickel., They live across the border?-- Yes.

The Coroner handed to the jury certain questions, and they re- tired to consider them.

The questions, in part, wore:

(3) Had Inspector Barnett rea- sonable causo to believe that the three men he met on the hillside were robbers, that was to say. fotons who had robbed women?

Replies By the Jury.

The jury were absent for a few minutes and replied to the ques« | tions as follows:

(1) He had reasonable

cause

lo believe they were 'robbers. (2) The two men did flee.. (3) He had cause to think they were armed.

(4) In the circumstances he could not have effected their arrest without violence.

I think you have examined the notebooks and the translations of the contents. What do they con- vey to you? They convey that

..(2) Did the twn men who were they are notebooks of a strike killed flee when he attempted to picket.

Intercept them?

On that evidence the Coroner You are satisfied they must

(3) If they did flee, had he ren-returned a verdict of justifiable have belonged to members of sonable cause to think they were

homicide. strike picket?--Yes,

armed and might shoot him un- He thanked the jury for their less he fired first?

attention and for the time they bad spent in considering a dim- vult ense,

The Coroner, summing up, said that he did not propose to com- ment at any great length because the main facts were clear. Thorel could be no doubt that the two men met their death by shots fired by Inspector Burnett. It was for the jury to decide whe ther to accept his story as a full and true account of the events leading up to the shooting.

It was a straightforward story. At San Uk Ling he received in- formation of a robbery and learn- ed the robbers were in the hills.. He made a tour round the range of hills in order to cut them off on the hillside.

Reasons for Firing.

On the hill he saw three men he suspected of being the three robbers. Ilis suspicions wero confirmed when he heard a shot on the hillside.

The man who apparently fired go clear away and Inspector Barnett went on in pursuit of the other; two. He twlee came face to face with them and ordered them to stop. The second time he fired and struck down both of them.; He fired for two reasons. Firet- 5. because they were probably armed, and secondly, to prevent them from escaping. That story Wils corroborated in certain material points by the villagera, although some of their evidenen was unsatisfactory.

There seemed no reason to doubt their story of a highway robbery. It was unfortunate that none of the three women could be called to give evidence, but it ap- peared they lived across the bor- der and were afraid of reprisals if they came to give evidence. The villagers agreed that before Inspector Barnett's arrival they saw three men they took to be robbers, running towards the hills where the shooting took place.

Points of Law.

They followed him to a point between the hills. Their evid- ence as to what took place later was contradictory and could not be relied on. Two of them denied hearing a shot before the Inspec for fired, and, the jury must give due weight to that, He did not propose to comment on the evid- ence of the Weihaiwel men, us he did not think it carried them any- where.

There was one further point as regards the evidence. That was, it became clear from the evidence of Mr. Gerrard that the]

member of a strike picket. Ile thought that was a matter of interest for the Execu-. tive and not a matter which con- cerned the jury judicially.

men were

They now came to the law. It was clear from the earliest time of the conunл law of England,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

(4) In the circumstances did the jury consider Inspector Bar-

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