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SIR FREDERICK LUGARD.

"HONOURED BY COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

London, June 30, At the annual reception of the Royal Colonial Institute the Prince of Wales presented the gold medal of the Institute for the best book relating to the Empire to Sir Frederick Lugard, for his book entitled, "The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa." The Prince of Wales paid tribute to Sir Frederick Lugard as a fine governor and a great Colonial

Civil Servant Reuter

FOURTEEN YEARS SENTENCE.

PARTINGS.

THREE VIGNETTES OF LIFE.

She was dancing with the funny little man whom someone had christened the Temtit, because of his curiously birdlike appearance, She was dancing with him, not because she wanted to, but be cause he had asked her and though she had already had two dances with him, she could not refuse; for she knew she had not the heaven-sent ability to be rude to a man without his knowing it. She felt they were looking ridi culous, bis dancing being of the] hop-skip-and-jump order.. Besides, there were someone else, someone who danced beautifully.

A tall, well-shaped young man, withi dark, expressiva eyes, approached them. He stopped them, and gravely placed a lemon in the Tomtit's hand. COLLAPSE IN DOCK.

"It's the lemon dance," he said; "didn't you. know? I'm sorry to Bombardier Ian Ronald Max-deprive you of your partner well Stowart, aged 20, who was placed on trial with John Lincoln for the Trowbridge murder, but was acquitted, was recently sen- tenced to 14 years' penal servitude for Burglary.

A brewer's traveller named

Richards had been shot dead in his gurden by Lincoln.

..

...

Stewart and Lincoln had previously broken into the man's house, and when Stewart was acquitted of murder at Wiltshire Assizes fast January proceedings. wero takon under a count of bur- glary.

An application for the removal of Stewart's trial was refused, and he again appeared at the Wilt shiro 'Assizes recently.

He looked rather pale as he pleaded guilty, but his voice was firm, and there was nothing in his appearance to suggest illness.

Collapse in Dock.

A moment later, however, he put his hand to his head, staggered, and fell back heavily full length in the dock...

It was he. He had exercised his right, the right of the lemon, to take her from the Tomtit; and now he was dancing with her himself, taking the centre of the floor in his masterful way, holding her at just, the right distance with calm,

cool hands, not clutching her like a drowning man clutching a straw, as the Tomtit always did. She was too happy to speak; besides, who wanted to talk when stops fitted so utterly, and two forms swayed in such perfect rhythm? He had wanted her, then, for this dance. He had been looking out for her, watching her; he

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

POLICE CHARGES.

NEW MAN IN THE BIG FIVE.

** Chief-Inspector George Nicholis, it has been decided, is to succeed Superintendent Carin, who refiled recently from his post at Scotland Yard, after 35 years in the police

force.

Inspector Nicholls thus becomes one of the big Five." He is an expert on police administration, and la said to know the regula- tions with their innumerable clauses and subsections-by heart.

pen case at Littlehampton, and it was as a result of his Inquiries that Mrs. Gooding, who had been convicted of writing the lettors, was released from prison and compensated.

He was in charge of the "polson

During the war ho was chiefs".. engaged in combating the activi-, ties of German spies in this coun- try, when his knowledge of French and German was of great servico to him. It was Inspector Nichella: who arrested Monte Carlo Wells on board his yacht at Falmouth.

"Cross Keys" Murder. Inspector Charles Cooper is to fill the place of Chief Inspector Nicholls. He assisted the late Chief Inspector Ward la the" in- vestigations which led to the exe- cution of Seddon for poisoning Miss Barrow.

He was also engaged in the case of Nellie Raultt a girl in the Q.M.A.A.C. who was murdered near Haynes Park Military Camp. Bedford, just after the war. Re- cently he has done valuable work against safebreakers.

"Excuse me anid a chirpy voice at their side, "I'm sorry to deprive you of your partner. . It was the Tomtit, daring to press

The departure of Superinten- back the lemon into the cool, masterful hand that had just dent Carlin remove a well-known given it to him. He put his arra figure from the force. Beginning round her waist and chirruped, his career at Vine-street, the first pleased with his own audacity. spectacular case of which he was "Oh!" she could not help exclaim-in charge was the "Cross Keys" ing, exasperated beyond bearing, murder, in which an elderly wo Then, afraid she had been rude, man was killed in the cellar of a

public-house at Chelsea. she smiled bravely.

"Good-bye!" she cried, with Two warders and

!

doctor forced gaiety, to the tall young attended to him, and the. doctorman.',

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later, reported to Mr. Justice "Good-bye." he replied, and Roche that Stewart had recovered "Damn!" he whispered in her ear sufficiently for the case to proceed. as they parted.

Mr. Goddard, KC, for the Crown mentioned that 'Stewart had been a guest at Richards's house four nights before the murder.

When counsel for the defence proceeded to call evidence as to Stewart's character in the Army, Mr. Justice Roche said this was not a case where Army character was of so much importance. He would rather know of Stewart's upbringing.

"Dope Gang."

For several weeks' Superinton- dent Carlin gave unremitting at- tention to the mystery, but no ar- rest was made.

'It was said that he was per-

atory of the murder, but was un- able to provide the requisite evidence to enable justice to be done.

We stood on the dingy qüay, tosonally satisfied as to the true which we had travelled through neighbourhoods that increased in squalor as we approached the docks, and watched the steamer preparing for her outward voyage.

big.

Possessing an unrivalled know- ledge of the West-end underworld, The man to whom we had come he has been instrumental in th to say good-bye stood silent on arrest of over 200 criminals of the the deck, his hands in his pockets, type which frequents it. He was His quictude made him a curious largely responsible for stamping ly isolated gure among his out the "dope gang," one of the Later the judge remarked: follow-passengers, who waved and heads of which was Brilliant "This is a case where the crime shouted to friends ashore. A itself is of so much greater weight stranger might have thought him Chang. During the British Em- pire Exhibition at Wembley, than the character. In a sense unmoved by the excitement of

Superintendent Carlin succeeded

the crime reveals the character, departure, but one felt the tense in preventing scores of skilled neus beneath his apparent claim. American and Continental swind-

and shows that a good character was not wholly deserved."

*Himself

self to Thank.”·

Mr. Justice. Roche pointed out that after the shooting began Stewart in no way retarded it, and he assisted in the escape of himself and Lincoln..

"Bring us home a parrot!" said

someone.

As the steamer slipped her moor-lers from landing in England to ings, so would the ties that bound him to his old life be loosed. And prey upon the visitors. he was a man to whom those ties meant much; a man with deeply

An underground battle in pitch domestic instincts, asking only his boyhood's friends and the quiet darkness took place early on a hearth.

recent morning between 50 unem- "That seems to distinguish this "Good-bye, good-bye!" we shout-ployed minors and a number of case entirely from what one mighted, forcing a note of cheerfulness. Abertillery policemmen. Police call a very ordinary case of bur-

found a large gang of men, armed with mining tools, whom they sus glary," the judge added.

pected of working coal from the face of the Red Ash Colliery. As two men came out of the mouth of the pit one was arrested, but the other escaped and gave the alarm The police rushed inside, and there was a fierce struggle in mud, and water, but many men escaped through the alrivays and other Eight arrests were made exits, and 62 bags of coal were seized by the police. The eight men were later remanded by the local magis- trates.

Mr. Hutchinson, for the de fence, said he hoped Stewart would not receive such a sentence that afterwards he would be sent out into society with a soured mind.

The judge said Stewart had got "himself to thank for any sentence

that might be passed.

"Don't forget to change at Clap ham Junction!" cried another.

He did not reply or make any movement. It was as if he had The funnels poured not heard. forth their smoke," the great ship began to heave away from the quay.

"

"Good-bye, good-bye!" shouted "I may tell you," he added, the people ashore, and "Good- "that one doubt in my mind has bye" answered the people on the been whether there should be a deck. He alone stood motionless sentence of penal servitude for as the "ship made her slow way down the sluggish river, looking back at something we could not see, his face towards home.

life."

Addressing Stewart, he con tinued: "I am not going to talk to

nine. Their opponents took the you, Stewart. You have heard all

The major had made an excel trick with the ace, then proceed-| that has passed. Everything has been said on your bohalf that lent score. It was the first pro ed to play the king and queen, could be, said by your counsel. Igressive whist he had ever attend- Bless the woman! What on earth

am sure you feel your position: It is a terrible one."

An Appeal.

It was later announced that as

appeal is to be lodged in the case.

cd where he had been even within had she led from? Ha! A short sight of the prize. There were suit, perhaps. But in the third

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"My boy is only 20," she said, greeting."Sweet old lady!" he "and has a blameless record, used to describe her to his wife, Surely these two things will weigh "always pleasant and amiable." with the judges."

Their opponents scored a grand slam. "His card was ruined; no hope of the prize now. Not that he would have minded, but to get Confounded bad so near it....

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Te gazod with dismay at the Mrs. Stewart added that hand that had been dealt him. Only one small trump, and one although a large number of

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