1928-02-29 — Page 11

THE VANISHING VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XXV..

By DOUGLAS NEWTON. Author of "Double Crossed," "Low Collings,"

"Green Ladies," &o,

1them.

He could only

have

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MR.

COOLIDGE ADAMANT.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.

AN ADVERTISER'Sof Mr. Drabble that if he altered

COPYRIGHT.

STATE MERCANTILE MARINE "NOT AN ORIGINAL WORK.”

BILL.

PRESIDENTIAL VETO.

Washington, Feli, 1.

CLAIM DISMISSED.

the advertisements they should; remain the property of the defen- dants; at all events to the extent that they should be entitled as and when they thought fit, to insert them in the newspapers.

Unprecedented Claim.

SOME SHANGHAI TOPICS.

(Continued from Page 7.)

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Ally fell foul of the local Jewish community by bringing out a local There were many advertising edition of the so-called "Protocols agents in this country, but this of the Wise Men of Zion." He Mr. Justice Astbury, in the was the first time that any person has certainly had a most interest-billous attacks and sick headaches, Chancery Division dismissed the in the position of Mr. Drabble, Ing career. action which related to a question neting for an employer as an ad-

Shanghai's Newest Club. Mr. Coolidgo has intimated of copyright claimed by an advertising agent as he had done, broadly that if the Jones Shipping vertising agent in an advertise had ever claimed, still less justi The International Settlement B which passed the Sanato yesment inserted in the Morning Post.ad, such a claim, that he was and French Concession of Shang-Kiangse Road, Shanghai, Have terday is also passed by the House The plaintiffs, Harold Drabble, entitled in drawing or altering anal boast an aggregation of clubs, will "Yes," said Mr. Mainwaring freit the one that the single about this there is some doubt Ltd., of Norfolk-street, Strand, ad-advertisement, by reason of copyboth recreational and social, which, Į "there is the killing of the man cartridge on the way to the Dark he will veto the Bill. The Senate vertising agents, and Mr. Harold right, to restrain.

world, from the 'standpoint of size Dudley to be considered, and perilouse proved. Moreover, that one vote of 53 to 31 shows that the Drabble, the managing director, from using it for the very pur

the Hycolite Manufacturing Co. received instruction to prepare it and population. This is a mani-

His Lordship could not believo Mr. Coolidge's objections to the of Victoria-street, and the Morn-

festation haps it is as well to consider it shot-did not, logically, kill Dudley. Hupporters of the measure cannot sought an injunction to restrain pose for which the agent had equalled by few places in tho of foreign communal for it would have hit him in the repass it over the veto.

back. and not In the front now?"!

But he didn't consider it ut once. First he rose and went toEvidence proves then that Stannard Bill are that it would still keeping Post, Ltd., from publishing that either of the parties at the life which globe-girdlers coming

the Government in the merchant copies of an advertisement of the time the arrangement was made There was a sharp movement shipping business, while he has Hycolite Co., printed in the Morne contemplated that the advertise to Shanghai dincover at an early mont should become the copyright stage of their sojourn under

these skies. the door, spoke to the policeman himself did not kill Dudley,"

There has, however, hitherto THE SEASON'S HITS Mr. Justice Astbury, giving of the agent and that he should outside for a moment, and presently that policeman, a big and inuscular from Otto Rigg and Streach. The vigorously urged that. Governing Post on April 30 last,

sturdy policeman stepped forward. mont-owned vessels altould be the Government should retire

novel character. Mr. Drabble, to prevent the manufacturer us has been somewhat of an anomaly 4680 (Forgive Me man, came into the stolidly took up a position near "Keep your place, please," said sold to private interests, and that judgment, said the action was of have any rights under the statute been lacking a Jewish Club, which

Mainwaring, sharply, and,

bers of that race form an Import- Martin Stanhard, and between him though to enforce lis command, he from the ocean carrying trade as the managing director of the ing his own advertisement for ad-hy reason of the fact that mom-

The Bill, as now. drawn, not plaintiff company, claimed that yertising his own goods,

His Lordship concluded: I am ant element of the social and and Otto Rigg, and Strouch,

brought out the revolver he had quickly as possible. This killing of Mr. Dudley, taken from Otto, and the pistols de

was a document in which he had an original literary work within 'sald Mainwaring conversationally, ing. The facts are that Dudley (that is, Stannard's pistol), and of Government-owned ships, but pared for the Hycolite company of opinion that even if this was cultural life of Shanghai. Thei "apart from its ugliness, in interest had taken from Stroach and Joyce only continues the present policy an advertisement which he pre-

ments so as to modernise the

to remove the 4659 walted for you, Martin Stannard, Franged them on a table before him provides, for extensive replace the copyright, 'because he describ-1the meaning of the Aet the plain-Kap has been felt for some little) vessels, now in operation and make it as an original literary work.tif in the circumstances of his time, and not least by the Jewish copy of an advertisement which dered it impossible for him to and other foreign ships.

their own, to which end deben- con- then stiff competitors of British It was in fact a mere colourable employment has by contract ren-residents themselves, who have The proposal of the Trans-the Hycolite" Company had pre have the right which he claims anomaly by establishing a club of

viously inserted on their own ac under the statute, that the

tract was a perfecly valid one,tures have been taken up and 4715 count. It was in no sense atlantic Corporation

and that the Count has no right quarters already reute authorities. anything apparently I think the action is misconceived Lional Settlement. int in writing or print fell within that and must be dismissed with costs

it might be, because within the to grant the injunction claimed central section of the expression; original 'It was not.

face rather pale,

room and

it

7.

"There is no escaping the deduc- on the Common. ile saw you and and ready to his hand. apparently chased you. There' was an exchange of pistof shots. Three tion, then, that Dudley was shot by

that the shots. Later Dudley was found some other person, running or dying, shot through the back. His standing just about the point where the two empty cases were found. last words can be taken as an ac-That is behind Dudley as that un-Government should advance £18-original literary work. Literary

Be 009,000 to build so-called "four- cusation of you, Stannard."

"Do you want my version of the fortunate man ran. story" said Stannard, evenly, his hind; and the wound was behind! day Atlantic ships is meeting

"There is, then, a second person with considerable opposition

A confederate, you both Houses of Congress. "Not yet. I think that it might in the case. confuse the line of reasoning the are about to say, Mr. Rigg. It seems likely-save' for one fuct. known facts present. Later might confirm that line. Now to The only confederates Martin Stan- get down to the facts. The erasmard could have had were those Of of the matter as I see it was that members of his household who lived three pistol shots were fired. That in the Dark House.. means, logically, that one of youcourse, Mise Alleyn, bere, might be must have fired one and the other coated as one, but she was in the two shots. Of course, one of you house with you, Mr. Rigg, when may have fired the whole three and the shots were fired. Now, no in- quiry on my part can give Mr. that could not have been Dudley, Stannard any other friends but the since he was the victim of one. I think the just supposition is that two women in the Dark House,"

"Was it one of those women who That is one fired two and one one.

fred fatal shot? a paint to bear in mind.

The next point is that Dudley. was running after Martin Stannard. that is definite. I have examined ... Chasing him. Yet, Dudley was the arms in that house. There is one other pistol and a few other How WHH shot in the back.

If Dudley was chasing cartridges there, and they are, as thats you he should have been hitly natural, of the same type as in front-in the breast. The bullet this pistol and these cartridges

these I took from Martin at top speed for twenty-four hours if he had had no other informa a day and not rack itself to tion than that of the Daily Mail, went in at the shoulder blade, and

cart-pieces. They think there would which Mr. Drabble swore was the calibre. The single empty was found lodged against the ribs. Stannard. These weapons are 25

"Of course, it can be argued that ridge-case was 26. That again have to be almost complete over-fact. Dudley had turned and bolted at the makes it definite that the single haul after every voyage to keep Hound of the first shot. Was shut was Stannard's. The two the machinery in condition. ; actually running away from you when you brought him down with other cartridges were 32. one of two more shots that you Alt, that gets home, does it? fired. In fact, this might be held

"It was not. Yes, Otto Rigg,

ficer.

"

or.

Pertinent Questions.

Truth and Honesty. Members say they doubt the

Mr. Drabble was a most feasibility of the scheme and will want further and more complate appropriation. They doubt whe-ahip hesitated to accept his evi- many points further proof before they will vote for the satisfactory witness, and his Lord. ther the vessels can make a sus-dence on

what is well His Lordship compared what were tained speed of 35 knots day after than he was absolutely obliged. the greatest described throughout the ease' 18 day, and point to known, that even liners now afloat, whose highes: the three editions of the advertise- speed is much less than 36 knots, ment which was the subject of the must slow down in a North action, namely, the Daily Mail ad- Allante gale. Any derangement vertisement, certain editoriala in of the schedule, it is emphasised, the. Morning Post, and a tricklet of four-day crossing the defendants. As to the edition would turn a

the Morning Post of January 22, into a five-day crossing at least, of the advertisement inserted in Furthermore, these members 1927, he said that advertisement and perhaps even more. doubt whether any machinery now contained matters which no truth- built or likely to be built in the ful or honest man could possibly immediate future can be driven have inserted in the advertisement

decided how

in the nterna-

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The new organisation will be styled the Maccabean Club, the: membership of which will con4761 prise Jews from all parts of the LEGION PRESIDENT. world-French, German, Russian, Austrian, American, British, etc. It will be run along the accepted. lines of modern clubs and enable the menibers to mix with one an other as well as with members of other communities, to whom mem- 0194 bership privileges will be extend- ed similarily as in the case of other national clubs in Shanghai, whose membership represents al- most every nationality.

Earl Jellicoe, who has been appointed President of the British Legion in succession to the late Earl Halg.

The onus of proof was on the plaintif to satisfy his Lordship that that advertisement was ori- Part of the math street in Millginal, In so far as it contained Hill, Blackburn, suddenly subsid-various statements of fact and of Both Otto Rigg and Stroach haded recently and a hole 20ft, deep language, and, in his opinion he

was left. Several motorists had had not discharged that onus. to be proved by the fact that risen to their feet, Strotch with a

: Nol Original,

Washington, Jan. 27.-The bit- Dudley did not have a pistol."

choking ery. The policeman alert narrow escapes from running

ault of the their cars into the subsidence, All stirred and somebody gasped;

His Lordship said he was of terly-contested Joyce did not see who it was, herly moved close to the rogues.

"You can see what happened," which was apparently caused by eyes were fixed on Mainwaring.

revised and prepared as it was, law of the late Marquess Curzon, Dudley did not have a pistol. Hesain Mainwaring, swiftly, "Some the flood water from heavy rains

was not an original work of Mr.against her brother Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, to oust him as trustee did not fire any shots. He, there-e else fired the fatal shot. Some overstraining the calvert under-opinion that this advertisement, Countess of Suffolk, sister-in

Assum- fore, may well have been rumming one who used weapons of this kind" neath.

--he held up Otto Rigg's revolver

was an original liter-of the estate by their father lut he wasn't When the bullet hit him in the back and Stronch's pistol. "These are the £260,000, and Hugo Shanly the Drabble or his company.

both 32. Sonie uno who was £300,000, which was his share of ing that he must have pitched headlong on anxious to shoot down, shult we say, the loot. There only remains yourary work, and that the plaintif amounting to millions, will, bei

away

+

and

you naturally took the lion's por-

It is interesting to note that the present residence in Shanghal of Sir Elly Kadoorie, "Marble Hall," was originally designed and buill for the purpose of being used as the Shanghai Jewish Club, but the scheme fell through owing to lack of funda..

LETTER GOLF

SOLUTION."

Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

PROVE PRONE PHONE SHONIE STION STOR

E

there were many matters which has been taken and the case will STOR

be retried.

hla face. And I ascertained from Mr. Rigg last night, and also from Standard? Some one who thought picking of the £1,350,000 robbed or his company had some copy-fought anew. The decision was the police-sergeant, that he was he had done it, but in the moonlight from Consolidated Exploitations right in it under the statute, then in favour of Leiter, but an appeal

had made a mistake, and had taken found in this way.. that he must have been running in Dudley for Stannard. There is no the direction of the Dark Housedoubt about it. Dudley was shot when he fell. That is, he was chas-from behind, and the bullet that ing Stannard. He was hit in the killed him was a 32.7

"My Gawd!" cried Strouch, "I back while chasing Stansard, didn't.. .. It's a lie."

To return to the one and two point. I went over the shots

cuses."

Stannard,

"Five hundred and fifty thousand tion." pounds," cried Otto Rigg, with a scornful laugh. "Don't you wish you could get it?"

"Your

"i

case," anarted

required consideration before I could be decides that the paintiff could, in the circumstances, suc- cecil in the action for infringe-

ment.

Hopeless Inference,

It was at first sight somewhat "Make a mistake," said Martin "Self-confessel," snupped Main-Stannard, curtly. "The law will amazing that an agent should have the copyright, in his em Otto. player's advertisement. The lain- ground at dawn. On the ground waring. "It must have been you, get it. My case is fool-proof."

Stroch Otto Rigg, whose weapon between the point where Dudley fell so 32, was in the house at "You and your case! You fool, dein was employed at his own re- and the Dark House-on the line the time. Also his weapon is a re-

you think that a man like me-me, quest to make allerations and improvements in the Hycolite Com- along which Dudley' was chasing volver and a revolver does not will stand by while--".

He stopped with a gulp, and shot pany's advertisements. Prima facie Stannard-I found one empty cart; eject cartridges as they are fired.

remain the defendants advertise- ridge-case. One.

Your pistol is an automatic, which a furtive fearful glance at Main-that must mean that they were to seemed, had only tired one shot.

And also, Strouch, "You were going to say, when you ments, which they were entitled to Anyhow, he had only fired one shot does eject cartridges, and it is a waring. while he was belag pursued-when iss Alleyn here heard you agree to miled yourself up, that a man like use, and that they in no sense be logically he could only have it shoot down Stammurd in self-de- you knew better than to stand wait came the property of the plaintiff! Dudley in the breast.

His Lordship firmly believed it Do you re-ing about until the law came and to be used by him." fence, Stroach. "He might have fired two other member your conversation in the clapped hands on you," said Main-

waring. "Put the idea out of your was intended by both parties that shots, though; for, in another place, yewparlour?" I found two more empty cartridge- Stroach gave u little scream, and head, Otto Rigg. You won't be able the plaintiff should merely act as to bolt from the country. We hold the agent of his principal in assisting him to get his advertise- A deep "Ah!" enme from some-furiously turned an Otto Rigg

devil, what's you" "It's you--you

"You do, do you?" sneered Otto ment Into a popular and useful body, but Mainwaring went on brought me to this! You you

Rigg, "And may I ask if you have form. calmly,

fiend! "That place was a good deal to

He made a stride forward. The a warrant for my detention?"

"No need," said Mainwaring. the rent of where Dudley fell-bly policeman had him tight.

His Lordship doubled very great deal to the rear. A curiousMainwaring called out, two more "We don't hold you for fraud. We fact, I measured it of, and came policemen came. into the room. hold you for being an accessory be much whether the plaintiff ever to the conclusion that Stannard They caught Stroach, and in a tricefore the fact in the murder of Mr. had the slightest notion until

Dudley."

some time after the final quarrel could not possibly have covered the

Otto Rigg sprang up he was an between himself and the Ilycolite distance between the two lots of had him out of the room,

Mainwaring all the time stood empty cartridge-enses, that Is be looking at Otto, Otto's own revolver ugly sight. It was to be seen that Company, that he had any right ween the shots, in the time in daneed significantly in his hand. he was trembling in every limb and or claim in this advertisement at which every witness declares thei Otto Rigg ant cold and sullen, his that fear had captured him com-all. It was perfectly hopeless to draw any inference from the three ahots wore fired. You fol massive body collapsed in upon it pletely.

"You can't do it," he shouted. course of conditet between the How? There is no doubt at all that self. After Stroach had gone he

parties that Mr. Drabble ever between the first and the lust of licked hie lips with his tongue in "It's wrong. It's illegal."

"I'm doing it," snapped Mainwar-obtained any right to produce or an effort to speak. Then he said the three explosiona no more than

ing. This young lady has sworn reproduce advertisements of an- five to ten seconds clapsed. The

hoursely: distance between the empty cart- "Well, what are you going to do information against you. Also we other person, still leas to have the heard Stroach accuse you. You're collateral rights attached to copy- ridge-cases ie, roughly, three hun-

with me?"

right given by the Act. dred and twenty yards, Dudley

Mainwaring looked at Martin under arrest, Otto Rigg..

Otto Rigg made a wild dash for falling about midway between. Stannard. Martin said: "I don't The record time for 300 yards is know that there is any need to do the door. He flung Stannard aside, view, it was held that the plaintif 36 3-5 seconds. That was the anything to you, Otto Rigg, the law turned over a table in his flight, had produced an original literary fastest time made by a runner train will do it now. With the others, it He reached the door at a bound, and work and had some copyright in ed and stripped for the dash, and was different. I was building up Mainwaring stood watching him, it was quite plain that the copy- running on a flat cinder track.

my ease. Also I was anxious that calmly.

He pulled the door wide open. right was only in a portion of it, suffering shareholders without any The police-sergeant stood there and that as regarded its other the Hyeolite Company. On the may have been fit, but he wasn't legal delays or expenses. To that waiting for him. Olto Rigg fell portions the copyright belonged to trained or stripped, and certainly end I offered the others the alter back with a scream, hands up, assumption, however, that he had that rough, hillocky Common is not natives of instant repayment of the mouth gaping.

"Take liim, sergeant," said Main- some sort of copyright in some part of the advertisement then in a cinder track. It must have taken money they had stolen from Con

hfs, Lordship's opinion, he was him over that record time-fndeed, solidated Exploitations or instant waring, coolly." "He's arrosted on probably as much as a minute to exposure. They felt they had no the murder count,"

Before Otto could recover a pair not entitled to maintain this ac- cover the distance.

alternative. They sent the money

of the. from the circumstances "Therefore, as the shots were

once to the Public Trustee of handcuffs had been snapped onion. There must be inferred fired

close 80

together

case a plain consent on the part he Gamlin sent the £80,000 he had his wrists and he was taken away.

(To be continued) could not

all of taken, Maker the £170,000. Fedden

None of these conditions obtained repayment should be made to the

in Martin Stannard's.

have fired

at

If contrary to his Lordship's

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