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Batavin, May 15. An armed robbery, which was

The case was continued yester- at the Government Civil Hospital

Soven thousand oruptions have supposed to have been planned for day afternoon in which Mr. J. H. sometime during the past few days, Witchell, manager, of the King formed the subject of a Coroner's Inquiry held by Mr. It. E. Lindsell been recorded during the past 24 was smartly frustrated by a party Edward Hotel, was sued for $1,000 at the Central Magistracy yester-hours on the laland volcane Krak of detectives under Inspector Fal-by the Bank de l'Indo Chinc.

toa. Through steam resembling lon, when the alleged robbers The case is one in which the day afternoon.

white surf the boiling stream were arrested and dispersed at Bank His Worship, addressing the spouted sometimes to the height of No. 617, Shanghai Street. After mortgagees of Budres Villa, as jury, stated that the Inquiry con- 1,200 feet Router immi a.search, two revolvers and 12 mesne profits, and concerns a cerned a Chinese ntale, 26 years

rounds of ammunition were dis-tenancy agreement come to be of age, who met his death by 100 Killed in Japan.

[covered.

tween Mr. Witchell and the mort- throwing himself from the yer-

Manchester, N.H., May 16. The Police, who were acting angagor (the landlord), without the

Mr. Wit The chief secret of keeping well andah of his ward and falling on

The amateur wireless enthusiast, information received. visited the consent of the Bank. his head. There was no doubt.ns to the visible causes of death and Mr. Davis, who first learnt of the house at 5.15 am, on Saturday and chell claims to have spent a large in the hot season is daily regular. medical evidence would be called Bremen's arrival at Greenly Island in anticipation of resistance from sum of money in repairing the fity. Pinkettes, taken when need- in regard to the malady from has picked up a sensational message the inmates, admission was gain-house against which the rent of ed, ensure this, keep the liver ac recording an earthquake in the cd through climbing over the $125 a month should be set off, tive, the system clean, dispel sick which he was suffering.

from the adjoining according to agreement. "Mishifutano district" of Japan, verandah

headscho and billous attacks, Laid declaring that a hundred people house. Before the occupants of Replying to Mr. Watson Mr. were killed.--Reuter - American No. 517 had time to realise the Witchell said he occupied the digestion. Of chemists, or post Service.

presence of a party of Police on premises in March, 1927 bat rent free, 60 cants the vial, from The the floor they were all covered by became due in April. The money Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 60, the raiders.

he had advanced to the landlord, Kiangse Road, Shanghai. The house was searched and in in different sums, amounted to the cockloft a detective found a $350. Mr. Witchell denied that it

It was for the jury to determine and say whether death was caused by auicide, or whether, possibly, It was a case of misadventure.

It would be further in their province to determine whether any blame would be attached to the administration of the Government

this fatality. But his Worship thought that after hearing the evidence they would probably be satisfied that this casualty could not possibly have been avoided.

Another in Ecuador.

New York, May 15.

would

A violent earthquake has oc- Civil Hospital in connexion with surred in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The task box which none of the six- was $280. Hr NEW MUSIC streets were littered with masonry tecu men present on the floor the landlord's receipt for $150 but claim. Four of the in-he was not able to trace the re-. wreached from the buildings. No ensualtica have been reported.mates who were in the cockloft at ceipts in connexion with the other

the time were arrested and charg-$200. Reuler's American Service.

ed with the possession of the arms. Mr. Watson explained that the After being duly cautioned" the landlord had written to the bank second defendant took the respon- telling them that he had only sibility for the presence of the received advances amounting to weapons..

$280.

After an Operation.

DESPONDENT APES.

WHOLESALE RAZZIAS IN

SUMATRA,

London, May 18.

Dr. G. H. Thomas, Assistant Medical Officer at the Government: Civil Hospital, who examined the decensed on the day following an operation for atomach trouble, atated that the man was restless and was breathing heavily, but

Sir Hesketh Boll, in a letter to gave no reply to an enquiry as to how he was feeling. He was not the Times roforring to the sudden apparently delirious, but his largo. influx of orang-utens into temperature was rather high, and Europe, says that the apparent de witness left him after instructing/joetion of those he saw at the 200 fendants denied all knowledge of the first half of the bill. Mr. Wit-

session of arms and ammunition

Five Years Hard,

Contractor's Claim. Mr. Witchell said the bill for All four men were charged be-

repairs was mixed up, when Mr. fore Mr. W. Schofield and Majoratson pointed out that about C. Wilson at the Kowloon Magis- $1,000 was spent in painting and tracy yesterday with being in pos- white-washing. Defendant said without a permit from the Captain he agreed with the bill. He ad mitted that the contractor had Superintendent of Police,

The first, third and fourth de-brought an action against him (defendant) for $750 in respect of the nurse to give the patient an in Riviera filled him with pity. He

aska whether the Dutch authorities the arms and ammunition but the injection as soon as possible,

in the Far Enet are going to son-second accused said that, a friend choll added that he had since paid This was at about 8 o'clock.

instalments. He still, however, Returning from dinner to go on his tinue to permit wholesale razzias in Have them to him to sell in the that amount off by four or five

Sumatra merely to enable a few country. usual rounds, about an hour later,

Accepting this plen as one of owed about $800 odd to the

When he (defendant) tractor. persone to make grent pecuniary he received a report, as the rosult profits in a similar manner to the guilty to unlawful possession, sen- of which he immediately went to former slave raiders-Reuter.

tence, of five years hard labour had the interview with the mana- was imposed, it being stated byger of the plaintiff bank he the receiving room where he found the deceased lying dead on a stret-

Colonial Civil Service since 1881 and on the information that an arm-

(Sir Hesketh Bell has bean in the the Police that they were acting (defendant) was then able to the cher...

Mr. Watson further questioned has served in the West Indies, the ed robbery had been planned.

Coast, Uganda, Gold

Northern Niguria, the Looward Islands and Mauritius. In Uganda ho devised measures for the suppression of the Sleeping Sickness and for special

was created norvices rendered K.C.M.G.]

"It was possible from what he

saw of the man's condition that he could only throw himself from that verandah while delirious, not knowing what he was doing,

Nurse's Evidence.'

A European nursing sister, In charge of the block in which the deceased

Boat Owners Charged.

contractor.

Mr.

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Witcholl with regard to the

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repatre and suggested that he had enused certain repairs to be effect- The case against the master of ed of his own accord. a cargo boat and two boat women

His Lordship remarked that as was started but owing to the ab-the landlord and Mr. Witchell had sence of Mr. C. A. S. Russ the case agreed to the bill and to the work was adjourned after evidence of done it did not matter whether the arrest was taken.

work should fall on the landlord The man was charged with pos- or not. His Lordship added ho was accommodated. highly toxic condition, which stated that when she, saw the possibly produced some delirium session of one Mauser pistol eight understood from both solicitors deceased the same evening he and led him to jump over the yer-magazines and spare parts of that both the bill and the work WAR not particularly restless; there was no great change in his andah. He did not have the pati-pistol together with 654 rounds of done was mutually agreed.

Mr. Watson explained his point! condition; and she was not partient specially watched, because ammunition. The second defendant drainage faving been established was charged with possession of one cularly. anxious. It. was not. necessary to give further morphia he thought that such delirium was automatic pistol magazine and 222 was that if the contractor found rounds of ammunition while the out that the work was done for the in the afternoon, but in the even-not likely to occur.

charge against the third defendant landlord and not for Mr. Witchell, ing Dr. Thomas gave an order that Witness was in his quarters was possession of six automatic according to law he could claim this was to be administered. He when he was informed of the ac-pistol magazines and 87 rounds of from the former as an undisclosed

principal, did not specify the time when the Leident, and found, on an examina-ammunition. injection was to be made, andtion of the body as it lay on a stret- Pleas of not guilty were entered | she did not think it necessary to cher in the receiving room; that on behalf of the defendants, who

The bill itself was then discuss- do this on the spot.

death was due to fracture of the were informed that their solicitor, On returning from dinner, she skull. At a post-mortem examina-who was absent from the Colony, ed when it was stated that it noticed that the condition of the tion witness, in investigating into would be given an opportunity amounted to $1,541 while the rent deceased was about the same. He the man's mandy, found that cross examino at the next hear-for the 12 months during which TORTOISE SHELL BOXES AND

timo Mr. Witchell had occupied { did not appear to be restless. She death would have occurred in any ing. went out to instruct the assistant case, as no other operation could. Inspector Ogg, prosecuting, said the house would be $1,600. Those

That: nurse to prepare the morphia in- be performed without killing the that the male defendant and the amounts left the sum of $41 in

action. The latter returned and man.

second accused were husband and favour of Mr. Witchell.

had to be added the $350 wife while the third defendant was reported that the deceased had

Nurse Commended. thrown himself over the verandah.

the man's mother. On May. 10, which Mr. Witchell said he had The assistant nurse, Miss Lily Revenue Officer Watt and a party advanced to the landlord, leaving previous evening, the deceased Foon, who was Instructed to pre boarded the first defendant's boala bainage of $391 in favour of Mr. at Laichikok. Both husband and Witchell. According to the aT- was admitted into the Hospital pare the morphla injection, stated wife were on board. The second rangements $400 of the repairs bill suffering from acute abdominal that, as she entered the room, the trouble, which suggested obstruc-man was already in the act or/defendant was seen holding a par was to be paid by Mr. Witchell aо tlon of the system. Owing to the jumping over the balustrade of the cel which she was in the act of that he really owed the landlord

Dr. J. R. Craig, said that on the

Particulars of Bill

the sum of $9. patient's internal condition, only a verandah. She rushed towards.

dumping overboard. Inside the

The case was adjourned, unt!! parcel was found the arms men- draining operation was possible him with the view to frustrating toned against her in the charge. next Tuesday afternoon. and this was done to give the man the act, but her fingers could only

The party then went on board temporary relief.

touch his clothing as he dropped to the mother's boat and found the The deceased stood the opera- the ground.

contraband which formed the tion well, and the next morning

The jury returned a verdict of charge agafast her. On the in- when witness again examined him, death from misadventure, in that formation of the first defendant he was as well as could be expect the deceased throw himself over the remainder of the arms and ed. Draining was going on fairly the verandah, in a fit of acute pain, ammunition were found. freely. Witness ordered an in without knowing what he was do-

The case was adjourned, fection of morphin and thought ing.

that that was sufficient for him to carry on for the day,

Death Inevitable.

Replying, to his Worship, wit ness stated that the man was in a

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