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CHARGE.

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on the night of the accident when Mr. Western, the driver of motor. cycle 646, mada. a report of an accident at Causeway Bay involv-|

THURSDAY MAY 13, 1926.

THE POLAR FLIGHT,

AMUNDSEN. ALSO SUCCEEDS.

Proceeding to Alaska,

Oslo, May. 12. ing injuries to a Chinese and Mr North Pole at two this morning.

The airship Norge crossed the Squire..

Sergeant Roberts of the TrafficRouter.

Flying conditions were excellent, Department gavo detalls of the damage done to the machine which i

Nome, Alaska, May 12. Amundsen has wirelessed to the ran into the tramway shelter. He Norwegian Consul asking him to said the rim of the front wheel have a hundred men ready to haul was buckled in two places, twa down the Norge, as he intends to spokes were broken and several others bent. The front mudguards Polár flight, and send her deflato the airship after and number plate were also boat,

to the United States by stemmer. -Reuter's American Service,"

Other Damage.

"

The front lamp was badly dented and was hanging by a thread of the cable. The right part of the handlebar was bent inwards about six inches, and two leads of the switch-box were broken off."

OBITUARY.

TWO AMERICAN POLITICIANS.

The gear lever at the right of the petrol tank was slightly bent, and was very difficult to move. It.

New York, May-12. was in the top gear position. The deaths are announced of The left foot rest was about four Mr. Alton B. Parker, who Was inches out of ine, and the bulb Democratic nominee for the Pre- horn was hanging loose on the sidency in 1904; and the ex handlebar. The rear lamp. was Governor of New York, Mr. also loose, both tyres were punc Benjamin Odell-Reuter's "Ameri- tured and partly off the rimis,

can Service.

Witness said he had measured the road at the point where the accident occurred and found it was 42 feet 9 inches ncross. The width of the path outside the tem way shelter, was 6 feet 8 inches.

- Ridden At Excessive Speed, Questioned by Mr. Leask wit nesa said he had been driving motor cycles. for ten years.

"Mr. Lensk: Would you guy that the machine must have been rid- den" at an excessive speed?

Witness: Yes, to cause the damage.

In reply to further questions, witness said he could not say whe ther there was any damage before the accident,

Mr. Lensk: Could

anyone have tampered with the machine in the meantime?

Witness: The man at the post had instructions to see that no one interfered with it.

Afr. Leask: You saw the machine at 8-45 am. on the Monday. Who look it into the trathway shelter?

Witness: I don't know.

He was also asked if pushing the eyele with deflated tyres was likely to cause more buckling of the wheel and replied that it was not.

ROWDYISM.

London, May 12,

A large crowd in Limehouse this

lorry loaded with fish. morning tried to interfere with a

Stones and bottles were thrown, foot and mounted police, and the crowd was dispersed by

A man was arrested, and sen- tenced to three months' hard in- bour. Reuter.

Comedy is about the last thing one would expect to find in a holdup, but there is a touch of mirth in the circumstances of the theft in a Delancey street laundry, bandits said to the stenographer, One of the two flashily dressed

Where's the coin, sweetheart?" "In that drawur there," she re- pliod, pointing to a table. The answer made the bandit in- dignant.. Don't kid me," he ratorted. "Do I look dumb, huh ?”. He atrode to the unlocked safo, pulled out the cash drawer und appropriated the $35 it contained. In the drawor, huh?" he snsered as he took his departure, "If I'wasn't so busy I'd sock you. His superciliousness' WAS Mr. Lensk: Do you know that somewhat costly. In the drawer: when the machine was taken from he disdained to open was $200, the bramway shelter to No. 2 On the way out he or his com- Police Station a European came appanion shot and killed a watch- and put the gear level into man. It was no comedy, after

all.

Machine Left In Shelter.

neutral?

Witness: I saw it being lan away myself. Coolies put' a pole through the handlebar and it was wheeled on the back wheel. I did not sed a Europeail.

Mr. Leask: Could the machine have been tampered with in the sheher?

Witness: I don't think so.

Mr. Luusk: You know that a

large number of people use the shelter and that people are curious and seeing a cycle there are likely to play about with it?

Witness: It is possible.

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witness. Further questioned, said the damage to the handlebar could have been enused by the he machine falling over, and

Me thought this was the case. had not scen Mr. Western's machine.

Sub Inspector Alexauder aid that, when Mr. Squire was cau- tioned and charged he replied "I prefer to say nothing."

Mr. Leask: I understood, quité informally from Chief Inspector Mr. Leask: When you saw it on Kent, that the Chinese made, Monday morning in you Sty whether it was just as it was on Saturday night?

Witness: No. I can't say that,

Machine to be Inspected.

declaration before he died?

Chief Inspector Kent. No, the man died almost immediately after admission to hospital.

Mr. Leask: I must have mis- understood.

Mr. Leask: Could the damage to i This closed the case for the the number plate have been done prosecution and the hearing was before the accident? *

adjourned until today. Is Wer- Witness: Yes. The corner was ship intimated that he would like turned over and flattened.

to see the damaged machine.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

EX-LORD MAYOR

CHARGED.

during his ordinary working The Daily Express says that hours.

That from time to time various for the House of Lords have been sweeping proposals for the roform household articles, the property of

ACCUSED OF THEFT. the Baths Department, have boon prosented to the Government by sent to my residence on my in-the Cabinet Committed, of which Formerly Lord Mayor of Bradstructions and have been used in Viscount Cave is the hond, If ford, ex-Alderman H. M. Trotter my house.","

was, at tho local police-court, That various sums of money adopted, they will destroy the charged on six summonses with flent to me from time to time by ancient Upper Chamber, and will property of the corporation. stealing money and goods the the baths superintendent for oly replace it by a moro densooratio personal use have not been repaid body. The recommendations in- Mr. R. P. Pashley, for the pro- by me, but subsequently wrongly olude that the House of Lords, at accution, said the following state entered in the disbursement books presont numbering 742, should be ment had beon signed by Trotter and passed for payment by the drastically reduced in size; that. during the last four years, had my

I horoby admit that I have, Baths Committed. residence and the shop promises cabs employed for other than cor- blood royale, hereditary peers, Sums paid for the hire of taxi-ing 150, composed of peors of the thero shall be a nucleus, number. occupied by my older daughter poration purposes have boon high rank, legal and ecclesiastical painted internally without eust to similarly dealt with, Baths Department of the Bradford

bodies from among present peers. myself by an employee of the

by clection by various electoral poers; that those be supplemented, Corporation, who used paint

It is pointed out that the House paid for by the Bradford Corpora- tion and he did the work mainly

of Lords is one of the weakest Upper Chambors in the world.

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that these, things which I now Lexpress my very doup regret know to bo wrong should have occurred.

The hearing was adjourned..

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