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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ELROD SHOOTING TRIAL.

(Continued from Page 1.j language before their child. On July 3, he might have had a drink but was not drunk. The District Attorney thon questioned the witnoas at length in regard to her

statements to him and asked why the witness had told an entirely different story at interviews in the prosence of Mr. Porter, the U. S. Marshal.

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Witness replied that she did not think she had changed her story. She was very ill at the previous interviews at the hospital and was under the influence of drugs. She, therefore, could not remember exactly what she told the District Attornoy. Pressed on this point, witness broke down and went coplously.

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The District Attorney then ald that on July 3 he had seen Porter and she had said that for years she had had quarrels with her husband and that fighting had occurred.

On one ocension, so she had told him, the prisoner had given hör a gun and told her to shoot,her- self. She had put the gun to her chest and pulled the trigger but fund that the pistol Joadeil.

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Accident Theory Ridiculed.

His Honour: Has she told different story since?

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1928.

NEW COAL FIELD DISCOVERED.

IMPORTANT FIND IN

MOROCCCO.

Casablanca, Aug 14, Important coal deposits have been discovered to the south of the Oudjda 'Geld. They have been prospected and are estimated to cover about 1,172 square miles, with a stratum' 44 feet thick at a shallow depth.

SCOTLAND YARD'S METHODS.

(Continued from Pago 1.)

son making the statement express- ly requests that no woman shall be present. Unless she expressly requests it no statement will bo taken from a woman of anything approaching an intimate charac tor unleas another woman is pre- sent.

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The Police Defended,

During a recent Parliamentary debate, Sir W. Joynson-Hicks said The discovery is most important he was prepared do go so far as he In view of the proposed construc-possibly could in the provisional instructions. He could very well tion of the trans-Sahara Railway. have taken refuge by saying that Large quantities of manganese'a Royal Commission was to be ap axperienced men to consider the have also been found between pointed, and that he was asking Taza and Oudjða,—Router.

whole of these matters, and ad- vine as to the rules which should be made, but he had not done

POLICE ENQUIRY.

Lard Lee of Fareham, the chairman of the Royal Com- mission to enquire into Police methods. Forty years ago he was Adjutant of the Hongkong Volunteers,

BRITISH TRADE RETURNS.

Counsel:-She repeated Elio story to me on another, occasion, about a week after the shooting. The District Attorney proceeded Elrod. eross-examine Mrs. Counsel then went over her story told on July 3, and on the next occasion, and asked was it not true that she had told him that Elrod was going to kill her. The witness refused to give direct janewers but made rambling re- plies, whereupon his Honour told

London, Aug. 13. her she must answer the question

British exports for July amount

being "yes" or no." Witness again brokeed to £60,885,000, down and said "she did not re member." She was very ill and upset at the time.

"What I want to know is, why. you have changed your story? repeated the District Attorney,

Witness: don't think I have changed my story. -

Witness went on to any that her

EXPORTS RISE WHILST IMPORTS DECLINE.

140,

It was now auggested that the Director of Public Prosecutions should have a quasi-police staff of his own to deal with inquiries in which the police themselves were concerned. That, of course, was very serious implication that the police themselves were so imbued with the spirit of esprit de corps. -to put it at the highest "point" rather than the lowest-that they could not be trusted to inventi- ate a case in which one of their men was concerned. Since he had been Home Secretary there had been scores of cases in which police elicers had committed various offences which had been detected, prosecuted, and dealt with on the evidence of their own superiors and colleagues. There had been no suggestion in any one of these! rases brought before his notice in which the police had tried to screen one of their own'members who had committed an offence of any kind.

He would say a word with regard to the action of the police in their ordinary duty. The Savidge case was a very exceptional case..

The Task of the Police, They had a police force of 20,- 000 men, who were constantly at war with a more than an equal num- ber of the criminal classes of the metropolis.

In 1926 there' were 133,000 of the major offences, of which there were 16,000 in London. There were 154 murders, of which 28 were committed in London. In the four years since he had been Home Secretary, the only know of two or possibly three cases of murder un- accounted for by the police.

In connexion with the Gutteridge else over 1,000 people had to be in- terviewed by the police before the case, could be proceeded with an against the accused persons. increase of £1,412,000 compared Every known criminal in the dis- with the previous month and antrict and every known burglar wAS Increase of £4,703,000 compared interviewed. That was the way in with July last year.

which the police had to get to work.

In the first seven months of this year, exports have increased by over £7,500,000 compared with the same period of 1927.

He asked the House to note the enormous ramifentions of the case and the enormous efforts that the The imports for July amounted polico must make if they were to husband never drank during the to £95,468,000, showing a decline protect society and delect the criminal. So long as the police day but occasionally had a drink of £3,901,000 compared with June, did not descend to the methods of lafter office hours. He was not For the seven months of this the third degree-nobody wanted drunk on the day in question but year the imports show a decrease them to do that, and least of all looked very sick.

of nearly $10,000,000 compared the Home Secretary-they should

Counsel Would you be sur-with the corresponding period of not be unduly restricted in their prised to learn that when he was last year-British Wireless. brought to this Court he showed

signs of Intoxication?--I don't know.

This ended the District At- torney's examinatión.

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P. AND O, STEAMER BLAZE.

(Continued froni Page 1.)

FOR THE CANADIAN HARVEST.

OVER 4,000 BRITISH WORKERS DEPART.

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investigation. They must bear in mind and he had no doubt that the Commission would bear in mind, the police- primary object of the namely, to unravel crime and to bring to justice the person who had committed the crime.

Public Prosecutor Criticised,

The Law Journal, in a recent issue, strongly criticises Sir A. London, Aug. 13.

Bodkin, the Director of Public The Ministry of Labour an- Prosecutions, for what Mr. Lees nounces that the Canadian Govern- Smith has called the "singularly ment authorities have now accepted unfortunato letter," written by Sir 10,000 men under the scheme where Archibald to Mesars, Byrett and by that number of unemployed was Sons, who were acting for Sir Leo to be assisted to go to Cunnda for Money. harvest work.

the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf |with orders to stand by in case of

an emergency.

After the arrival of the vessel

"It is not," says the journal, "too nt the wharf more water was No fewer than 4,000 men have al-

sion read pumped into the hatches from the ready sailed for Canada. This re- much to say that the legal profes- the lettor with Installation and at the time of sult has been achieved in the short incredulous amazement, which was going to press the firat was report-space of a week by the close co intensifled when Sir Archibald, ed to be virtually out.

operation of the Canadian author- The Kalyan lett Hongkong for itles, the steamship companies and in his evidence, asserted that, when his Department is engaged in an this city four days ago and carried their agents, and the Employment investigation, as a matter of law more than a score of passengers exchanges. British Wireless.

It is the duty of (a) person frankly and fully to give the responsible people who are making inquiries ....a frank statement do that

bound for Shanghal. None of the passengers, it is understood, left the vessel at Woosung but were content to remain aboard until the ahip reached Shanghai, there being no danger.

Cause Not Ascertained.

NANKING INCIDENT

AGREEMENT.

THE "DAILY TELEGRAPH'S"

OPINION.

I may consider the position In all its bearings." ".

A Threat.

"No one" (continues the Law Juornal) "questions Sir Archibald The cause of the fire was not.

Bodkin's complote good faith, but ascertained last night. The Kal-

London, Aug. 14. we find it difficult to agree with yan is well-known in local ship

The Daily Telegraph expresses the closing words of his letter ping circles and is a vessel of be- tween 8,000 and 9,000 tons. She the view that the Sino-British that, if Sir Leo Money refused to L .. he must carries a crow of white officers and settlement of the Nanking Incl-give a statement Lascar seamen, all of whom are redent is not unsatisfactory, and saya take other atops. The phrase fa ported to have given a good the way is now open for the re- really almost common form for a account of themselves when the newal of normal relations between threat that, if necessary, com- fire broke out,

the British and the Chinese pulsion will be applied, and it le,. The Arc-boat dispatched to the Nationalist Government. Reuter, of course, well understood that it ahould not be used by a lawyer vessel was the Huning, which was

except in cases in which a claim, accompanied by a Custains launch. According to officials of the

Rev. C. H. K. Boughton, one of which can be justified at law, in company the Kalyan was due to the principal secretaries of the being made."

The Majority Report makes no arrive here yesterday evening British and Foreign, Bible Society, with 31 passengers, more than 200 hae accepted the living of St. comment on his letter, and ther bags of mail and nearly 8,000 John's, Knighton with St. Michael, Law Journal thinks this reticence

is unfortunate. tons of cargo-Shanghai Timer." Clarendon Park, Leleester.

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