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INSPECTOR'S TIMELY ARRIVAL.

TAKES UP CHABE OF ALLEGED THIEF.

A charge of snatching an car- ring from a woman near the Rail- way bridge at the junction of Chatham and. Gascoigne Roads, was brought against a stoker of

the

According to complainant, an

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO A WOMAN'S FATAL

PRIMATE..

SERVICE TO CHURCH AND

STATE."

FACINATION.

MEN DRIVEN TO SUICIDE.

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1928.

DEATH SENTENCE DRAMA,

MURDERER'S CRY OF "MOTHER.”,

RESIGNATION FROM A

CHARITY.

TOO HIGH COSTS OF ADMINISTRATION.

amah, employed at the Mo' Tauif funds permit, to place in the eyes, who is said to have sent on bank stabbed In the throat As he his name to be used as president

was

Kok Slaughter House, she walking along Chatham Road at 1,40 pm. yesterday when some- body, approaching from behind, suddenly Buntched her ear-ring. She saw a man run on the football feld. He was later caught by a

اسیدی

Police Inspector.

Sub-Inspector McWalter Bald he was travelling along Chatham Rond in Sub-Inspector Nicol's motor car. On reaching the rail way bridge he heard, complainant shouting that she had lost eur-ring. The woman was point-. ing to a man running peross the feld.

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Seeing the man heading for Gascoigne Rond witness went to Intercept him. The tan altered

his course and ran back towards Chatham Road, He was chased and caught.

She was soon enraced to an

Saarbrucken.

a

did it."

sobbing.

A balance sheet has not yet been

issued to the public, but one pre-

An Influential committcohns

There was a dramatic scene activities of the Lloyd Liverpool Recent Investigations into the been formed to organise a tributo

when sentence of death was pass- Unemployed Distress Committee, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, LIFE & FLIRTATION.

ed at Durham Assizes on Norman which would phppear to be an or on the completion of the 20th year

Elliott, aged 22, an asylum atten-ganisation of the collecting class, Berlin, Juno 27. of his Primacy, the attainment of

dant, for the murder of William Irankard Bruns, who appeared Byland Abbey, aged 81, cashier at have brought the affairs of that Star Ferry Company's 80th birthday, and the colo- "Northern Star," at the Kowloon bration of his golden wedding.in a Berlin court to-day to answer the Ferryhill, County Durham, body to a climax.

It is proposed to offer to the number of charges of fraud, 18 branch of Lloyds Bank Magistracy this morning.

a weman of 31, with melting blue

Six Lesile Scott, K.C., M.P., (Ex- Archbishop a sum of money, and,

Mr. Abbey was found in the change, Liverpool), who permitted courtyard of Lambeth Palace madhouse, or to death.

man after another to prison, to the was dylug he said, "A tall man of the organisation in the bellef memorial recording the unique ne-

She was only 17 when her sociation of Dr. and Mrs. Davidson father, a painter and a professor the phrase "should be hanged by tary, a Mr. James Stevens, asking that it was doing useful work in Elliott remained unmoved until Liverpool has written to the seere- with that historie house.

at the Acaderpy of Arts, thought It

that his name should be removed A letter inviting subscriptions is wise, to find her a husband. She the neck" was reached. signed by the Archbishop of York, was married to a rich vinnufac threw up his arms, and collapsed. Sir Leslie, in expressing a dealre Then he gave a loud groan, from the rècords of the committee. the Prime Minister, the Earl of turer, who had to go to the war warders standing on either side of to dissociate himself from the Selborne, Viscount Dunedin, the and died in Flanders, where, Marchioness of Salisbury, the according to some people, he shot him caught him and carried him committee, points out that figures Very Rev. W. Foxley Norris (Denn himself when he learned that his from the dock still moaning and supplied to him show that the ad- of Westminster), Sir Thomas-oung wife was unfaithful.

ministrative expenses are out of Inakin (the Attorney-General),

Ho seemed to be calling, "Mo-all proportion to the amount ex- and the Rev. J. Scott Lidgett officer, who shot himself when she her mother," and his sister and pended on relief.

It is in the following terms: deserted him for somebo else, a girl friend who sat behind the It is well known that the pre- The same month she became en-duck broke down and sobbed bit- sent your is in a very special Eared to another officer, who shot terly. Women, who formed half

pared for the information of the sajtso un annns mirabilis on

himself dead in her presence at the people in court, als wept. the

'committee is understood to show Speech from Dock. of Canterbury. On February 6 he long life of the revered Árchbishop

that last year the income 'derived "I then came back to Berlin,"

Elliott had stood unmoved when from subscriptions was £2,000 and completed the 25th year of his he told the judge this morning. Primacy; on April 7 he renched and again it was just life and he heard the verdict. Ife. was the management expenses £1,181. his 80th birthday; and on Novem-Birtation. I soon got need to asked by Mr. Justice McKinnon Police in Touch with It. her 12 he and Mrs. Davidson wil barrister, but he went to the front if he had anything to say before

The Chief Constable of Liver-i celebrate their Golden Wedding.a few days later and was killed. sentence was passed. The defendat, in a statement. Further, the Archbishop has him. Then I met Major Behn, who had Elliott replied, "My lord, I am pool, Mr. L. D... Everett, speak- said that he went to the football self made it known that he cannot daughters who were older thun quite agreed with the verdlet of ing of the Loyal Liverpool Un- ground to catch grasshoppers for be expected to sustain much long-was. With the third bottle of the jury as regards the judge's employed Distress Committee to a his bird.

er the heavy and increasing burden champagne we got engaged and summing up, but I think you omit-reporter, said:

were married in 1917."

[ted evidence which we depended This is an organisation which His Worship remanded the de-uf his office. There is thus a very

In Waranw, where this husband largely on. That was that I and does more for those who are em- fendant until to-morrow to ancer widespread desire and expectation tain whether he worked on the that this year should be marked was employed, Irangard, who was Mr. Abbey lived close together ployed by it than for the persons "Northern Star" and also whether by the offer to the Archbishop of just 20, was suspected of explonage and that I knew him well and whom it is out to help. It has he kept a bind.

Home tribute expressive of the and sent back to Germany, but her that he knew my name, which is been in the courts once and we gratitude, esteem, ami affection fascination was such that the very important. I have nothing still keep in touch with it.

All those people who are on the which he has won by his personal major contrived to join her. They more to say."

travelled about together and were: Mr. Justice MacKinnon, passing committee should realise their character and by the long and co-arrested and kept in prison for a sentence of death, anid, "I desire responsibilities, and if they do not spicuous services which" ho has rendered to the Church and Na year on charges of cheating hotel by no words of mine to add to the feel happy the whole thing should keepers and espionage, but were poignancy of this moment. Nor is be wound up. The fact that there In order that effect may be given afterwards acquitted by a military it necessary to use any words to has been a previous conviction Under the woman's fatal others in the court. I belleve makes me hesitate very much to ROBBERÝ ON POKFULUM to a desire so matural and general influence the major went from bad there must be very few, if any, recommend it for the support of

ROAD.

4. Committee has been formed re- worse, and was finally sent to a who will need dissuasion from a the charitable publie by reason of presentative of the many-sided in-lunatic asylum.

crime so horrible, ao cruelly calcu-its best history." Footpad appeared on the Pok-terests and activities of the Arch-

In 1919, at the age of 22, Iran-lated." bishop's life.

gard obtained a divorce, and on the day on which it was pro- nounced, she married an author,

A queue bad started to formave it their patronage, Even- but left him on the day of the outside the court soon after mid-tually it became the Loyal Liver- wedding.

night. Three women arrived at pool Unemployed Distress Com- She then took a fancy to a re- a.m., and by 9 o'clock more than

mitice

and people were sent, tired colonel and went with him to 100 people were in the queue.

throughout Lancashire and North house-to-house Mecklenburg, where, it was stated,

Mr. Justice Mackinnon, in his Wales to make

collections. he shot himself.

Her fourth husband was a medi-mming-up, said there was evi-, cal student named Bruns, whose dence that Elliott was short of: career she ruined by teaching him money before the day on which the bank was robbed and that he was the science of living free in the spending lavishly afterwards, and best hotels; and when, in conse- quence, he was sent to prison, she £175 was found in his room at the asylum and in his wallet. All of an elementary went off with school teacher who deserted his it was in Treasury notes, some of school and the girl to whom he was which were proved to have come betrothed, and also got sent to from the bank. It was only £27 short of the total amount taken, And some of the notes were stain- ed with human blood.

Dealing with the moment when One of her Inst victims was the Elliott said he was pulled into the gauler of the prison, who is now bank by a man named Sinclair, The tribute may be offered to serving two years' imprisonment whom he accused of the murder, the Archbishop on the occasion of for yielding to her, enchantment Mr. Justice Mac-Kinnon said: his golden wedding. Many will de- and letting her escape. sire to make liberal contributions, She was sent to prison for zine Returning home yesterday, Mr.but the value of the tribute would months, and a young farmer whom Hughes, who lives at 31, Wongnei-be enhanced in the true she had changed from an honest would have rushed out of the 285,000 SHAKESPEARES UNDER chung Rond, was surprised to findArchbishop himself if it came at man to a thief got a sentence of ten bank, culled to the many people |

FOOTPADS ATTACK

BRICKLAYER.

fulum Road Yesterday, when, ac- cording to a report received by the police, they dispossessed a Chinese pedestrian of a sum of $24.

tion.

Lambeth Prince Memorial. After full consideration

the The victim was a brickdayer ro-Committee has decided that the turning to his home in Telegraph most fitting form of tribute, would Bay. He was walking near

thebe: University Recreation Ground (1) To offer to the Archbishop When two men overtook him, Ja sum of money, which it is hope

One of the men passed ahead of would be considerable, to he used kim, but the other approached by him for much purpose as he snatched the money from his may select, with the express stipur pocket. They then ran down n

lation that he shall-use it primari- path leading to Kennedy Town. ly in such ways as may

Recure The victim went to the No. 7 the greater case and comfort of hin- Police Station to report the case,

self and Mrs. Davidson for their remaining years. and description of the footpin has been circulated amongst the various Police Stations.

UNDER THE BED,

RESIDENT DISCOVERS FORMER SERVANT.

a man hiding under his bed.

(2) If funds permit, which no doubt they will, to place in the | courtyard of Lambeth Palace some memorial worthy of its surround- Ings, of the unique association of the Archbishop and Mrs. David- son with that historic house.

court.

prison.

from multitudes of people who months.

Even the Gaoler,

Midnight Queue.

"If this story were true, can you

imagine it possible but that Elliott

there were about, and assisted in stopping Sinclair, the real assall- ant?"

| The organisation was founded as an anti-Communist society. Many well-known local people

In 1926 a man named Henry, Pitman, who had been associated with the organisation from tho start, was fined £25 for trying to obtain charitable contributions by fraud.

The management committee was reorganised, but according to the statement of the Chief Constable and the figures of income and ex- penditure already quoted it does not appear to have succeeded in carrying out the work it set out to do.

HARVARD'S FORTUNE.

ARMED GUARD.

as much

Now York, June 27. The culprit was Identified as could only afford small subscrip

How Shakespeare. would have chuckled at the thought of two being a servant who was at one time tions. The names (and only the

well-armed American detectives in the employ of Mr. Hughes, names) of all subscribers will be In a case of a returned banshee,

When charged before Mr. R. E' given to the Archbishop,

appearing before Mr. Schofielá

Mr. Vincent Lawson, president carrying editions of his plays from Lindhold, at the Central Police Court

this morrowing defendant dia- this morning, with being in the

The Earl of Selborne and Visagreed with the dates of previous fof the Incorporated Association of New York to Harvard University, Į house for a felonious surpose, the count Dunedin have cansented to

civil engineer, has died at Chelten-care as they would bestow upon

gold specie. man pleaded guilty, and was senet as lon. Treasurers to the convictions and was remanded till Architects and Surveyors and a in Massachusetts, with

hum, aged 67.

Yet this incident occurred when tenecil to two months' hard labour, Fand, and the Dean of

88 small volumes valued at £85,- 000 were transported to Harvard Universlty as a gift to the uni- versity's famous collection of Elizabethan drama.

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ham Palace which awaited the ar- .104 .29.525 rival of people who attended the ...876 King's Investiture recently,

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One was Nana Sir Ofori Attà, 1/5.20/32 paramount chief of the Akimi 2/0% Abuakwa, Tribe, the first African .27.7/10 chief to he knighted.,

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NEW TYPHOON.

To-day's Observatory states:-Pressure İB relatively

The other was a duck from the Hake close by, who had decided to Lake her eight ducklings for an air- ing.

The African chief wore his most important crown, which he normally wears once in three years at the report grant native festival of the Purif

cation, with gold pendants, lockets, high to the north-east of Japan. A bracelets and rings on his neck, depression is shown over North wrists and fingers. Ils richly- Korea and a trough or low pres-coloured robe had been specially Bure from Tangking to the cast made for the occasion,

of Laizon. A typhoon has formed Traffic was held up by the police to the north or north-east of while the duck and her family Guam. The forecast up to noon crossed to the Victoria Memorial, to-morrow is:Light south-west and had a brief reat before going or variable winds; One.

to St. James Park.

to-morrow,

RAMS...

|_ ČIKIR, BY HRA SENNOR, MO,

Mr. Apartment Dweller puts up an aerial.

Dr. Rosenbach chose volumes on request of the heirs of William White, whose Elizabethan Ibrary was world famous. Mr. White died in Brooklyn, New York, last year, and Princeton University has already benefited by the princely gift of the famous Ives copy of Shakespeare first follos.

Harvard's

present priceless contains a 1699 Second Edition of "Romeo and Juliet," of which only 12 copies are known; a 1598 First Edition of "Love's Labour's Lost,"

of which the world bolds only 11 copies; and a 1600 "Much Ado About Nothing,", one of 16 known coplex.

Besides the Shakespeares pro- per, there are First Editions of plays in which he is believed to have been part, author,. plays. which he used as sources, and leo plays wrongly attributed to him.

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Mr. George Robey, the come- dian, will leave. England on August 24 with his revue Bits and Plecos" 1 for a three-months Canadian tour.

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