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THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

KKANAKY MUKDEK CASE

S.VAN DINE AUTHOR 9 THE BENSON MURDER CASE -

CHARACTERS.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928.

THE SAVIDGE CASE. ·

PEERS AND CONCLUSIONS .. OF INQUIRY.

Westminster, July 27, It was natural that the House of Lords should desire to consider the Savidge affair, but it is un- fortunate that the opportunity has come so late. The blight of was Misi futility that lies in wait for Par when he has had time to pondor who, I understand,

Hamentary discussions that are the matter and concoct an ap-Odell's personal physician?"

Spotswoode was franly puzno longer topical lay heavily on pealin' tale, he'll become down-

Anyhow, zled. "I never heard the name," the debate opened by Lord Arnold JOHN F.-X. MARKHAM, District right garrulous.

Attorney of New York County the evening to over, and you can he answered, "In fact, Mins Odell to-day. MARGARET ODELL (THE meditate on buttercups till the never mentioned any

"CANARY" CHARLES CLEAVER, A man-

about-town

PHILO VANCE

KENNETH SPOTSWOODE,

manufacturer

LOUIS MANNIX, an importer DR. AMBROISE LINDQUIST,

fashionable neurologist

TONY SKEEL, a professional burglar

ELMER

WILLIAM

telephone operator HARRY SPIVELY, telephone op

crator

ERNEST HEATH, Sergeant of the

Homlelde Bureau

morrow."

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me."

doctor fo

"And did you ever hear lier mention the name of Skeel or refer to any one as Tony ?"

"Never." His answer was em- phatic.

Like, a theatre army that marches many times across the stage to hide its smallness, the Socialist Peers talk on and on to atone for their numerical insignifi cance, Lord Arnold used

up

But the evening was not quite ever as far as the Odell case was aconcerned. We had beon back in the lounge-room of the club but a short time when a man walked

sat, Markham lapsed into a diapnearly an hour, as he did last by, the corner in which we and bowed with formal courtesy pointed silence, Spotswoode, too, week when Safeguarding was tho to Markham. Markham, to my was silent: he sat as if in a revery.subject.

"You know, Mr. Markham," he

The King's Garden Party hnd surprise, rose and greeted him, at JESSUP the same time indicating a chair, said, after several minutes, "left him an audience of eighteen, "There's something further ought to be ashamed to admit it, which for one great culminating Lord Arnold's acceptance of wanted to ask you, Mr. Spots but the truth is Icared a good moment swelled to twenty-two.

the girl, I suppose woude," he said, "if you can sparo deal for

you've kept her apartment intact. the minority report issued by Mr. a moment."

At the mention of the name 1..." He hesitated, and a look Lees Smith on the Savidge ense It would, indeed, regarded the man closely, Cor, almost of appeal came into his was not merely cordial, but posi- confess, I was not a little curious eyes. "I'd like to see it again. If tively enger.

have been a painful predicament THE STORY THUS FAR

about the anonymous escort who I could."

Markham regarded him syn-if Lard Arnold's judgment had Spotswoode had gone out with had taken the girl to dinner and

night before.pathetically, but finally shook his obliged him to prefer the other re- port, because he and Mr. Smith the "Canary" the evening of the the theatre the

a typical New head. murder. When, he left, he asked Spotswoode was

"It wouldn't do." You'd be sure share the same house in Hamp- Jessup, on the switchbours, to England aristocraft, inflexible,

. "Mr. Lees Smith is not a fool," call a cal.Then," said Jessup, slow in his movements, reserved, to be recognized by the operatoratead Garden Suburb.

with scorching ve heard Miss Odell scream. We and quietly, but modishly dressed.or there might be a reporter gan to her door and she called its hair and moustache were about-and then I'd be unable to he announced

doubt, keep you out of the case."

emphasis, but what he considers hrough it that everything was slightly grey--which, no Bright." But the next morning enhanced the pinkness of his com-

to be was wrapt up in silence. Sir John Bankes and Mr. Withers Lord Arnold's condemnation of pollee procedure was sharp, and the Public Prosecutor's position, if the Socialist Peer had jurisdic- barrister's first, brief.

and

pro-

Spotswoode laughed softly.

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one

The man appeared disappointed, spoke. Then he

was found strangled. Clea-plexion. He was just under six but did not protest; and for several Ver, known to be an intimate of feet tall, and well proportioned, minutes

but trite angular.

Vance raised himself slightly in the girl, in mestioned but

Markham introdused him to his chair. vides an alibi. He mentions Dr.

"I say, Mr. Spotswooda, du you Lindquist, who ordera Markham Vance and me, and briefly ex- out of his house when the latter plained that we were working happen to remember anything un-tion, would be worth less than a

the case, and that asuni occurring last night during questions him as to his wherewith him on

Majority Findings. abouts the evening of the murder. he had thought It, best to take us the half-hour you remained with

fully into his confidence.

Miss Odell after the theatre?"

The Marquesa of Reading apeko Spotswoode gave him a dubious "Unusual?" The man's manner for everyone when he confessed CHAPTER XIX.

book, but immediately bowed his was eloquent of his astonishment.himself "a little troubled to under- To the contrary. We chatted a

been that have Vaice shook his head in a mock acceptance of the decision.

observations "I'm in your hands, Mr. Mark while, and then, as she seemed stand the purpose of many of the discouragement.

well-bred tired, I said good night and came

made." ham," he replied, in a

Summing up the relevant facts- "Really, y know, Markham, but somewhat high-pitched voice, away, making a luncheon appoint- old thing." he added, "you should and concur, of course, with ment with her for today."

"And yet, it now acems fairly with the facility one would expect study the cranial Indications of whatever you think advisable.” your fellow inen more carefully-le turned to Vance with an certain that some other man was of a former Lord Chief Justice, the majority findings of the tri- Did you, by any chance, note the apologetic smile. "I'm in a rather hiding in the apartment when you Lord Reading pinned his faith to gentleman's wide rectangular anpleasant position, and naturally were there."

"There's little doubt on that banal and to the opinions of a on the forehead, his irregular eyebrows, feel a little sensitive about it." and pale luminous eyes, and his

"I'm something of an antine-point," agreed Spotswoode, with President noted when outstanding ears with their thin

Earl of Birkenhead, upper rims, their pointed tragimian," Vance pleasantly informed the suggestion of a shudder. "And bench for "his judicious fairness

split lobes ?... A clever him. "At any rate, I'm not a her screams would seem to indi- and balance."

ing a few minutes after 1 went." depullsing for the Lord Chan- devil, this Ambroise-but a moral moralist; so my attitude in the cate that he came forth from hid- The

"And you had no suspicion of cellor, had been deeply sunk on imbecile. Beware of those pseudo-matter is quite academic." pyriform faces, Markhom; leave "I wish my family held a sim-the fact when you heard her call the Woolsack and yielding to the obtundity of Lord Arnold's dis- their Apollonian Greck suggestivellar point of view: but I'm afraid for help?"

"I did at Arat-naturally. But course had even put up his foot on "1 wonder what he really they would not be so tolerant of

when she assured me that nothing an adjacent divan. But now cant- knows?" grumbled Markham irri-my foibles."

"It's only fair to tell you, Mr. was the matter, and told me to going off luxuriousness, he advanced interposed Mark-home. I attributed her screams to to the Treasury Box in the Spotswoode,"

highest fettle.

Describing Mr. Lees Smith as "Oh, he knows something-restham, "that there is a hare possi- nightmare.

"I knew she had been tired, and assured of tit! And if only webility I may have to call you as a

I had left her in the wicker chair "the comparatively inexperienced knew it, too, we'd be considerably witness."

the door, from where her minority," Lord Birkenhead re- further along in the investigation.

he The man looked up quickly, his near

as thoroughly as Furthermore, the, information he

naturally concluded she had dozed clusions is hiding is somewhat unpleasantly face clouding over, but he made screams seemed to come; ao 1jected that Commissioner's con-

with himself. His connected

Ao before whom the Hyde Park case If only "The fact is, continued Mark-off and called out in her sleep. endorsed the Magistrate's decision

1. hadn't taken He

was tried.. euphoria is a bit shaken.

and. Miss Sir Leo Money grand ham, "we are about to make an much, for granted!" frightfully overdid the

"It's a harrowin' situation." manner; his vediet'ry fulmina arrest, and your testimony may tion was the true expression of be needed to establish the time of Vance was silent for a while; then Savidge, however, suggested the

Miss Odell's return to her apart- his feeling toward us."

ment, and also to substantiate the he asked: "Did you, by any ex-Lord Chancellor, in defending "Yes," arreed Markham. "That fact that there was presumably chance, notice the door of the liv- the police constables who arrested Atandings by the somewhat un- question about last night acted me one in her rooms after you ing-room closet? Was it open then, had rather invited misunder

Her screams and calls

as if at usual and almost Bohemian cir- like a petard. What prompted you had left.

Spotswoode frowned, to suggest my asking it ?"

for help, which you heard, may

been described. "A number

but the result was a failure. of chings-hisprove vital evidence in obtaining tempting to visualize the picture; cumstances" in which they had

"I supposed it was closed. 1 gratuitous and obviously mendu-jà conviction."

Spotswoode ser med rather a probably would have noticed if cions statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly in-palled at the thought of his rela-it had been open." sincere homily in the sacredness tions with the wirl becoming pub

ness to misunderstood women.".

tably.

no comment.

closed?"

"Then you couldn't say if the "Good Lord, no! I don't even

"I see your point," be neknow- know if it ever had a key."

"Do not delude yourselves," said Lord Birkenhead to a solemn House. "There is no park in Europe in which so much in- decorum can be witnessed nightly, and the police have an incom- parably dimeult and delicate task

of professional confiffences; the lic, and for several minutes heter was in the lock or not?" cautions and Perksulla confessat with averted eyes. sion of his fatherly regard for the

ledged at length. "But it would be The case was discussed for an-in correcting it." girl; his elaborate struggle to re- member when he had st

I think, terrible thing for me if the fact other half-hour; then Spotswoode her this articularly,

become excused himself and left us. my delinquencies made me auspicious; and then, the of psychopathic indicants physognomy."

"Well," admitted

serb

of ha

known."

SHARE PRICES,

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of look? share quotations issued to-day':

Banks.

the

Hongkong Bank, $1200 B.. Chartered Bank, 6221 b. Mercantile A. & B., £36 P. and O £91 n. East As a $77 b.

Insurances.

Canton Ins., $655, n. Union Ins., $354 b. North China, Ins., Tls. 146. b. Yangtaze Ins., $50 n. China Underwriters, $2.50 b.. China Firos, $250 b H. K. Fire Ins., 4750 b.

Shipping.

Douglases, $38) n. H. K. Stormbats, $28 b. H. K. Tugs, $2 n. Indo-Chinas, (Def.) $70 b. Shell Trans., 110/- b Union Waterboats, $201 b. Mining.

Benguets, $2.15 b. Kailans, 65/- Langkats, Tls. 11 e.

n,

S'hai Exploration, Tls. 2.45 n. Raubs, $4.85 b.

Tronoha, 17/6 n.

Docks, etc.

11.

Kowloon Wharvos, $134) b. Whampoa Dooks, $37 China Providents $5.40 n. Hongkows, Tls. 156 n. New Engineeringe, Tle. 5 n. Shanghai Dooke, Tls: 100 n.

Cottona.

Ewo Cottone, Tis. 8.50 b. Orientals, Tie. 2.40 b.

S'hat Cottons, Tio. 514 (old) n Lands, Hotels, etc.

H. and B. Hotels, $8.70 H. K, Lands, $661 6. S'hai Iands Tla. 138 Humphreys, $14.35 b. Realties, $71. 8.

Public Utilities. Tramways, $24.30 b.

8.

b.

Peak Trams, (old: $13 b. Star Forries, $64.50 n;

China Lights, (Old) $11,80 b.

H. K. Electrics, $497

日盘。

Macao Electrics, $261 b.

Telephones $6.80 n. China Busos, Tis. 11 b. Singapore Tractions. 10/6 b. Industrials.

China Sugars, $2 a. Malabona, $18

11.

Canton Icos, $3.50 8. Comenta (Comb.) 39.40 Be Ropas (Old) $6.35 n.

United Anbostos $5.6..

Stores &c. Dairy Farme, '$21.80 b,

b. Watsons, $142 Der A. Wing, .50 . Lane Crawfords, $21 n.

Sinceros, $9.50 Mackintosh, $20.

Wm. Powells, $3.10 b.

Miscellaneous. Amusements, 826). Constructions, $1.49 n.

b.

b

B'que Ind. G. Bonds, 64% b. H. K. G. Loan. 6%

LETTER GOLF SOLUTION.

Here is the solution to the puzzle on another page.

SHADE SHAKE, SLAKE,

FLIES, FRIES, TRIES, TREES.

"Funny thing," ruminated BROADCAST ENGLISH. SLATE, SLATS, SLITS, FLITS, "That contingency may be en- Markham, "how a man of his up- tirely avoided," Markham encour- bringing could be so attracted by that the empty-headed, buttery type." Markham, aged him." promise you

"I'd say it was quite natural," "the question had its effect....

"You're I feel that I shall see this fashion-you will not be called upon unless

an incorrigible moralist, able M. D. again.”

(To Be Continued.)

"You

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it is absolutely necessary....returned Vance. And now what I especially want such will," iterated Vance, ed to ask you la this: do you hap-Markham."

But pen to know a Doctor Lindquist him unawares.

RULES FOR FALLING BIRTH RATE.

"BUILDERS MUST KEEP PACE

WITH BABIES."..

Cardiff, July 27,

|point of view of a new science-

group biology:-

"The falling birth-rate is no surprise to me," he said,

for

"We are too respectable to let them fall," said Dr. Crew amid laughter.

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Sir Thomas Horder laid down of the committee appointed in bo discharged into Holl's Wharf white race culture, but merely the end of a population growth cycle. three rules to stop falling birth-1926 under the chairmanship of Kowloon, where it will lie at Con "When builders fail to keep pace rate, but remarked it would re- Mr. Robert Bridges, the Poct signos's risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. with babies," he added, "the birth-quire public opinion and Govern-Laureate.

com-The Cargo will be ready for delivery It is not suggested, the ment assistance to achieve them. raté will fall.

mittee noint out, that the pronun- from Godown on and after 23rd

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Every married couple were in clations which they give are the little planet, is overcrowded," de- cagerness

duty bound to bring up a minimum only right ones, nor is it suggest-here, unless notice has been given clared Professor W. J. Roberts, potential parents,

a dis

"Children are commodities, aut of three children above the fifth ed that any special degree of au- prior to steamer's arrival, but carried thority attaches to these recom-on from port to port to the final port the Welsh Economist, In

[ mendations. Their object has of call to which the option extends. cussion on the falling birthrate at fect to the law of supply and de- year.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Association

This minimum must be aimed at been to secure some measure of mand, but the Factory Acts have! the British Medical

wage meeting here to-day.

depreciated their value as

whenever the situation of the uniformity in the bronunciation of goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any parents gives expectations of the broadcast English. carners."

In case readers cannot identify Tuesdays and Feldays, between the descendants not falling below a

all the words given above, it hours of 10.45 am, and noon within

the free storage period. Every married couple characshould be mentioned that cow- No claims will be admitted after the minimum standard. necessarily true, declared Dr. Crew. terised by particular virility should chook stands for caoutchouc, dish-Goods have left the steamer's Godown,

have the right to double the "It is far easier for a good man minimum, and should receive for evvl for dishevel, enklays for and ail Goods remaining undelivered bald, wanted to keep up a certain to climb out of the gutter than every child in excess material con- enclave, fawkon for falcon, fotill after the 29th August, will be subject It should be noted also that the All Claims against the Steamer for a socially and biologically un-tributions, which would be exacted for fauteuil, and satter for satyr, to rent standard of life, what was called! "good time," while the pressure worthy scion of an established from the single and from those B.B.C. pronunciation of house must be presented to the undersigned couples which remain below the wifery la huzzifry, that the Syneo or before the 12th September, or of social environment, especially

of Auld Lang Syne is to be pro- they will not be recognised,

No Fire Insurance will be effected. upon women, had its effect in family to descend to its depths.

"Many who float gally in the lowest number.

Sir Thomas added that he felt nounced "sign," and that the first

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, .social life are'

Agents. Dr. F. A. E. Crew, a distinguish mid-stream of biologist of the younger school, buoyed up by efforts of more strongly that the will to improve syllable of constable, except in the

the race must first be aroused.

Scottish family name, rhymes with

Hongkong, 23rd August, 1928. "bun." looked at the question from the worthy associates.

"Our troubles," he continued, "are due to causes I may distin- gulah as political; that is, habits and institutions whose origin and purpose is mastery and privilege and monopoly."

Young married couples to-day, he

family limitation,

The suggestion that the relative ly unfit were more abundant among the socially submerged was

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DANGER OF X-RAYS IN

MAKING. DIAGNOSIS.

The danger of relying too much

on X-rays by surgeons for diagnosis

A radiograph was only a shadow', ' which might be distorted by the angle of exposure.

He quoted the case of a surgeon and radiologist diagnosing a casa.

of internal troubles was emphasis as one of inflamed appendix. Botti.

ed by Mr. H. J. Paterson to a group were wrong, he declared amidst

laughter, for the appendix had been of surgeons and radiologists.

X-rays, he sald, wore a valuable removed three years previously,