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THE BOMB CASE.

FOUR YEARS SENTENCE

ON ONE WOMAN.

Following on the sentence of five years' hard labour imposed

FRIDAY, APRIL

1926.

Mr. Lindsell: How did he MUSSOLINI'S ESCAPE. know which train to meet?,

Witness By arrangement.

Mr. Lindsell: You had arrang MANY CONGRATULATIONS. ed to come on that particular train ten days previously?

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Witness: Yes We met in Crnton. on ons of the defendants concern-man who met her, witness said he Fürther questioned about the

Roma, April 8 Spooking with undiminished vigour and embellishing his orgu- ments with characteristic pletur.:

ed in the bomb case early in the told her to go en ahend in a re-esque phraseology, Mussolini last proceedings, another defendant was sentenced to four years hardha and ukl not accompany her. labour when the case was continu- ed at the Central Magistracy yes- terday.

night, addressing, the Fascist directory, rejoiced that the battle! had been won in Italy, the old partice had been routed, but the battle had yet to be fought abrond. He recalled the dictum of the his torian Sismond! that the people packet of oatmeal or the hand-who seize the initiative at a given The qucation of the admissi-kerchief.

moment keep the initiative for two bility of the evidence of the first

Cross-examined by Mr. King, centuries. He pointed out that defendant was raised by the de-

(prosecuting);

the French people had kept the fending solicitor, and he asked Did you have any dificulty in Initiative for 150 years. Italy had the Magistrates to state a case getting from Chinese, territory to taken the initiative and spoken to following their decision. This British territory 7

the world in a new voice. "There application was granted.

Witness: No.

fore it is not surprising if the up- Mr. Lindsell:

How did you holders of the immortal come across the border?.

principle of freedom are unit- Witness! I first took a chuir and led against us. The fight is got out at a place where, there becoming flerce and deci+ were strike pickets, and from sive. Scattering the remains of here "worked across after paying the old parties in Italy has been. them money-

a-thankless task, but we are vic toriously enforcing a new princi- ple in the world that will blazon the name of the people on the The Train Starch.

scroll of history." Frantic cheers The third defendant was also punctuated this peroration. "Iy called to give evidence, detailing life's motto is to live dangerously. how she was engaged as aman to If I advance, follow me; if I re- the younger woman, and how, treat, kill me; if I die, avenge me." when she was at the boarding-Reuter. house; she was sent out to buy Congratulations Pour In...

Crossing the Border. Dealing with the incidents in tha boarding house, she said she This was the younger of the two never noticed the amah leave the women, the other one being dis-room, Neither did she notice the charged.

The case concerns the discovery of two bombs in a Hongkong boarding house, and evidence at previous hearing, showed they were intended to be thrown at Happy Valley.

The case, yesterday was again heard by Mr. R. E. Lindsell and' Major C. Willson.

The Defence..

Mr. Armstrong intimated at the opening of the case that he pro- posed to disclose his defence and to put the two defendants in the witness box. He also proposed to address the Magistrates on the admissibility of the evidence of the first defondant.

Mr. King: How much did you pay them?

Witness: $20 for the two of us.

a tin of oatmeal

Mr. Lindsell eaid they were con-

The question of the search on sidering whether there was a case the train was raised at this point; against the third defendant at all. and Mr. King said he had made Last time they had held that there inquiries and found that on the was a case against the second de-morning there was no regular fendant.

police search on the train. Some After consultation, the Mingis-trains had to be missed, the most trates decided that there was n likely ones being taken. case against both women to an

swer.

Mr. Armstrong then outlined his defence and called the second defendant, the younger of the two women, to give evidence.

Mr. Armstrong said this could not be accepted unless evidence was called to prove it,

searched.

Rome, April 8. The news of the attempt on Mussolini has evoked indignation all over the country.

The townspeople in many places paraded the streets, cheering Bussolini. Solemn thanksgiving services and duces for his escape" were held in some towns, and many cities were illuminated and beflagged last night.

Mr. Lindsell: What about the

Thousands of messages of coz- Custom's search at Kowloon?

Mr. King pointed out that pas-gratulation to Mussolini are pour- sengers arriving there were noting in from all over Italy and from

abroad.

The Crown Prince called on Mussolini yesterday evening and congratulated him on behalf of the King and himself.-Reuter.

She said she had been living in Canton recently and had been employed as a singing girl. Owing to slackness of business, she de-no cided to go to Macao, and en- gaged the third defendant as her amah. Her usual amah was em- ployed by other girls and could not go.

Met by a Man. Witness said

Mr. Armstrong.said there was evidence to show that the bombs were ever in the suitcase carried by the second defendant. Mr., Lindsell pointed out that there was the first defendant's evidence.

Mussolini Leaves for Tripoli.

Rome, later. Signor Mussolini passed an ex- cellent night. He left at 8.30 this morning for Fiumicino, and em barked on the battleship Cavour for Tripali.-Reuter.

Question of Evidence, she arrived at This concluded the case for the Shum Chun about four o'clock in defence, and the point wes then the afternoon and stayed the raised of the admissibility of the' night at a boarding house, know-fevidence of the first defendant. ing that she could not eatch the Mr. Armstrong suggested that the Macao bout if she went straight man was competent to give evid- on to Hongkong.

ence, but that no credibility could Coming down in the train, her be attached to it. The whole luggage was inspected. When she case for the prosecution relied on arrived in Hongkong she was met the evidence of the first defend- by a man who told her that theant, and he submitted that nothe incident and express pro- first defendant was staying at the credence ought to be given to it. Globe boarding house and invited her to go and see him.

She had no reason to visit the man, but she went to the boarding house and sat in room 10 with the first defendant. He went out for a few moments, returned.. and went out again.

Witness said that her suitcase contained some male clothing, and explained that it had been left behind by a

man who used to keep her in Canton. She had about $10 in money when she ar- rived in Hongkong.

Previous Arrangement. Mr. Lindsell: Did the man who met you come down on the same train as yourself?

Witness No, he was there to meet the train.

Mr. Lindsell pointed out that they were not debarred from con- victing on that evidence alone.

Mr. Armstrong said the main had been in the box and had denied what he said at the first hearing.

He quoted Archbold on the veracity of witnesses, and further discussion took place on the point raised,

Was

Mr. Lindsell said that as re- gards the third defendant, there was no evidence, and she was ac-

It cordingly discharged. quite possible that she knew nothing whatever about the bombs until she got to the boarding house.

Case to be Stated. He intimated that they accept- ed the original evidence of the first defendant as being substan- Witness: Because he knew I was tially correct, and they proposed coming down.

to convict the second defendant.

Mr. Lindsell: Why?

In reply to further questions, she said she told the man about the middle of February that she was coming to Hongkong.

The Family's Regrets.

London, April B. Lord Ashbourne hus telegraph- ed to Signor Mussolini from Dublin:

"Miss Gibson's family regret

found sympathy."-Reuter.

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Mr. Lindsell said the Magis trates were prepared to sider Mr. Armstrong's appli-| cation and intimated that they proposed to sentence the second. defendant to four years' hard labour, He would make a note that Mr. Armstrong desired to ap- ply for a case to be stated.

Mr. Lindsell then said that they would grant Mr. Armstrong's up- Mr. Armstrong, said he wouldplication and fixed Saturday for ask the Magistrates to state a the case. The sentence Imposed case on the adroissibility of the on the second defendant would man's evidence.

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