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UNDUE CUNNING

OF MADMEN.

DR. CANNON RECALLED ON INSANITY ISSUE.

POSSIBLE MOTIVES 'IN, THE HARBOUR CRIME.

DEFENCE CONTENTION

When the case in which, Chau Kau, a junk foki, is charged with the murder of a seventeen

Cannon

THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1929.

NEW CRUISERS FOR PERSUASIONS OF

AMERICA.

CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR THREE MORE.

"CHESTER” LAUNCHED.

Washington, July 20

The Navy Secretary announces that contracts for the .construc-i tion of three light cruisers have beon awarded. They will be built at New York, Camden and Philadelphia.

The construction of the next five will not be asked for until next

year."

NO AVAIL

MARSHAL YEN STILL OBDURATE.

GOVERNMENT ASKS HIM TO MAKE SACRIFICE.

LOYALTY TO FENG.

Poking, July 3.

It is understood that the condi- tion of Marshal Yen Hel-shan has

your old Chinese girl was resum It was announced on Saturday considerably improved and accord- ed at the Criminal Sessions this that contracts for the constructioning to medical opinion he should be morning, His Lordship the Pulsne of the first two of the 15 light able to leave the German Hospital Judge recalled Dr. Alexander cruisers authorised by Congress in one or two day's time.

have been awarded to the Puget who yesterday gave' ovidence to the effect that the Sound Navy Yard, which sent the prisoner was on the border lins of lowest mary yard, tender

G$8,898,000,0 sanity and insanity.

Addressing Dr. Cannon his Lordahip pointed out that two girls were killed and said it appeared that both of them were wearing jewellery. The body of the girl of whose murder accused stood charged was found in the bottom of the boat and the body of the second girl was recovered later from the harbour.

The medical evidence hs rogards the second, body was to the effect that the girl was alive whop she entered the water. Jewellery was missing from both bodies, that was to say, the bangles on the wrist and the finger ring.

Two Purposes? Evidence was that that girl whose, body was found In the hor- bour was stunned and then the other girl was killed. The email boy was either' pushed or feil. off the boat.

WAS

It is established that despite the pressure and persuasions of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Yen is still very determined to leave Other bids were sent by the China. He has reiterated both to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpora Chiang Kai-shek and other Non- tion. The lowest private yard king loaders now in Peking that The whatever he is going to do muat bo tender was G$10,753,000. Bethlehem Corporation guarantees for the good of the people, and, at delivery within 36 months, and the same time, must not embarrass the Puget Sound Navy Yard within Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang to whom

he must be faithful to the end. 40 months.

The new cruisers will be of ten thousand tons, slx hundred feet long, and will carry main batteries of eight-inchers, being engined to a hundred thousand horsepower.

A message from Cameden, New Jersey, states that the latest Ameri- can 10,000-ton cruiser Chester was launched to-day. She is the third of the Wasington Conference type of warship to take the water.-- Reuter's American Service,

AVIATION RECORDS

BROKEN.

ACROSS U.S.A.

Presumably, if accused had com- mitted the homicides, he must have taken the jewellery from the CAPT, HAWKS' FINE FLIGHTS Recond woman while she When the waz still alive. second body

recovered there were eight atab wounds on it. It would seem that the accused, he was responsible, was diverted from the purpose of killing to the purpose of theft. His Lordship asked witness if he wan prepared to draw an inference from that fact as regards the state of mind of the accused.

Dr. Cannon replied that there may have been a motive for the murder of the first woman and no motive for the murder of the second. He added that uncontrol- lable impulses assumed different characters as they went along.

He agreed with his Lordship who said that it was a fair in- ference that the assault on the first woman was not likely to have been due to an uncontrollable fafluence but was due to a motive which did not operate in the case of the sec and woman.

New York, July 3. In his solo flight from New York to Los Angeles and back, Captain Frank M. Hawks, flying plane Texaco No. 5, broke the east to wast trans-continental record by hours and 41 minutes, and also his own went to east record by

40 minutes.

The speed was 140 miles per hour.

The time taken from east to wost was 19 hours, 10 minutes, 32 seconds and from west to cast 17 hours, 38 minutes, 16 seconds.

The total miles flown were 5,012.

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MORE QUAKE SHOCKS IN NEW ZEALAND.

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE DONE

ད ་ TO ROADS.

Wellington, July 3. Further heavy earthquake shocka have been experienced at Wesport. Reports from Karamea, which has

From an official source it is un-i derstood that Yon has dispatched a cable to Feng at Taiyuanfu to the effect that his sudden illness had neopssitated his admittance the Gorman Hospital, Into

hopes. to recover but he in the near futuro.

To Go to Japan.

Yen goes on to state that he has had to postpone his intention to leavo Tientsin on Friday for he |Japan, and adds that

han chartered another stonmer

leave which will

the

BINE port on the 11th instant for Japan. Yen concludes by saying that he will not change his plans, but will leave for Japan with Feng. Marshal Chiang, unaccompanied by bodyguards, visited the German Hospital and enquired after the progress of Yen this morning.

A Government Edict. The National Government at Nanking yeateday dispatched a cable to Yen acknowledging the re celpt of his telegram announcing his retirement,

The cable asks why, if Yen is pre- pared to go as far as to relinquish all interests in Shansi, he should not go further and assume the the Kuominchuh: troops and re- stupendous task of demobilising habilitating North-Western China. It is significant that Marshal Chiang has at last consented to cancel the order for the arrest of Feng and this to a certain extent may "comfort" Yen,

left Peking for A train has Shihchlachwung to convey Mar- shal Feng to Peking in order that he may participate in the con- ferences with Chiang and Yen. Heavy armed guards have been sent out to protect the line from Shihchinchwang to Peking.

Yen's Reasons,

1

Undue Cunning. Putting further questions to Dr. Cannon, Mr. Justice Wood said that after the incident, assuming the accused to be the person con cerned,, he took the sampan ashore

In reply to a dispatch from the and prepared to leave It been practically isolated since June Assuming that he was the only 17th, state that enormous damage Nanking Disbandment Commis living person present at the time has been done to roads. A twenty-sion, Marshal Yes has explicitly he must have rowed the sampan mile section of the main highway declared that even if Feng under- back to the shore and then has been completely obliterated.-stands his

shipped the oars inboard.

Reuter.

LOCAL SHOWERS.

Apparently there had been some kind of a struggle and in the course of it a dleeve was forn from a jacket. Both the sleeve and the jacket were left behind in the boat. When the Police found

The Royal Observatory reports the sampan there was a knife, that pressure remains highest In with a bright blade, placed be the vicinity of the Boning and Is tween the two oara. The infer relatively low over China. ence was that the knife was put forecast till noon to-morrow is: there so that it might not get soiled South winds, moderate; fair gen- with the blood in the bottom of erally with local showers, the boat. Assuming that accused shipped the oars, left the jacket and sleeve behind and left the

The

The

knife between the ears, was wit with those on the sampan. ness prepared to assume anything Crown had falled miserably in its regarding the state of mind of the attempts to find a motive for the

crime and the absence of motive accused?

Dr. Cannon said he had no was strong evidence that if the hesitation in saying that such crime was committed by the c actions were far too nont. In cubed then he, was, insane at the

time, border line cases there was cún. ning to a degree and he thought these actions indicated unduo-cun- ning.. He suggested that no per- son perfectly sane would have bothered to ship the cara inboard,

Insanity Plea.

Mr. d'Almada went on to trace the development of the law of criminality, quoting from numerous text books and citing cases where the defence of irresistible impulse had been put up. He pointed out that Dr. Cannon's evidence was to the effect that when a man acted on 'an Irresistible impulse he did not know what he was doing. That would account for the fact that the accused ran away. The man was

(Yen's) embarrassed position and reasons for not going abroad, it is not certain that the numerous subordinatts of the "Christian" General would be willing to serve under himself (Yen), whom they would suspect of carrying on intrigues with the Nanking Government for the downfall of Feng.

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Fine weather favoured the poll- ing, but the announcement of the result will be delayed by Proportio- al Representation.

There are from twenty to thirty Parties, and voting is compulsory.

Reasonable Doubt.. Addressing the jury on behalf of the accused, Mr. Leo D'Almada juntor said that on the evidence put forward by the Crown there was not only reasonable doubt, but very strong doubt, that accused commit- ted the crime. He pointed out that on the border line of insanity and the Crown relied largely on the there was no other conclusion to The suffrage is universal at the age evidence of the small boy who on draw but that, if he was responalble of 25 years. the first day said that he saw every for the crime, then he was mad at thing that happened on the sampan the time. In conclusion counsel re- and on the second day said that he minded the jury that their duty was was rendered unconscious early on to see that justice was done and in the struggle. He had also made asked them to say, if they found a mistake with regard to the plank the man responsible, that he was which he said was first used by the insane when it occurred.' accused. There was no explanation to show why the sampan took two hours to cover less than a mile,

Counsel auggested that another boat might have come alongalde and the men in that engaged in a fight

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, addressed the Jury on behalf of the Crown, dealing with the law on insanity and reviewing the evidence given by witnesses for the prosecution...

His Lordship's summing-up will be delivered this afternoon.:

An impression prevails that the Social Democrats have slightly ad vanced that the Catholica are stat- ionary, and that the Right parties have received a set-back.Reuter,

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