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KLAVENESS LINE

(PACIFIC COAST-ASIATIC SERVICE.)

(A. F. KLAVENESS & Co. A/S. OSLO, NORWAY.)

REGULAR TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE,

Hongkong direct for:

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SHANGHAI, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, PORTLAND,

VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, and TACOMA. M.S. BONNEVILLE" Londing H'kong 8th Feb. Also inuing through Bills of Lading for United States, Gulf and Atlantic porte, with transbipment at San Francisco by quickrat route.

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INWARD BOUND: BRONXVILLE”. ... ...due Hongkong 13th Feb. M.8. PLEASANTVILLE" „due Hongkong 22nd Feb. Accepting cargo for Singapore and Java ports.

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Queen's Buildings.

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To San Francisco &

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Pras. Cloveland

*To Seattle &

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Manila

Pros. MeKinley "...Jau. 18,6 p.m

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

PEAK TRAGEDY INQUEST.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1930.

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The Coroner: Was Mrs. Burnett perfectly sane?Yes, Mrs. Burnett was as sound as a bell, and they were, so far as I know, a very af- fectionate couple.

Kowloon during the evening, but she was too ill to attend the on- quiry. She had however, made aatatement which he would read. The statement," which was made The Coroner:-Did he say any-by Mrs. Beran, of Cameron Road, thing to you to make you think Kowloon, stated that Mr. and Mrs. he was contemplating suicide: Burnett visited hor about 6.p.m. ar Not that I can remember.

New Year's day. Mr. Burnett had a brandy diluted with water, and then mended a clock of hers which 7.30 p.m. having visited her had gone wrong. They left about specially to wish her a happy Now Year.

Sound Finances.

(Continued from Pagė 2.). person?-1 regarded him as aber fectly normal person so far 18) a person suffering from a heart in the condition

had such as his. He full control of his senses. When

The next witness was Mr. J. attacks

of angina pectoris oc- Seth of Mesara. Percy Smith, Seth curred, however, it was a known and Fleming, auditors of the fact, that then a person might for China Mail newspaper, who said a varying time, from seconds to hours, lose full possession of his that he had known Mr. Burnett for some 12 years. The newspaper mental powers. wish to make had been through difficult times like that quite clear. A person suffer all other firms since 1925, but it ing from such a complaint was was quite a going concern and its quite capable of carrying out his finances were quite sound. He work as he has warning of the at- knew Mr. and Mrs. Burnett to be tack and he will know when he is

an attached couple, their only getting right again as his head will worry being that they were afraid be thick," probably for a matter of his heart. He had never ex of hours, and as soon as that is pressed intention of suicide to wit -moved he’will be' as fresh as ever and will be able to carry on in quite In normal way.

The Coroner:-Assuming for the moment that Mr. Burnett did shoot his wife first and then himself, Can you form any opinion as to what his mind might have been like at

the

timo? Yes. My opinion, based ba knowledge as a doctor of the patient, is that the excitement and pleasure of New Year's Day had been a considerable strain upon his beart, and that this in turd had resulted in another attack, maybe more severe than before, but certainly 18 Revere, of angina pectoris.

The Coroner mentioned that cer; tain letters,left by the deceased would be handed to the fury, and he asked the doctor if he consider ed it was possible that the attack occurred before he wrote those letters."

Dr. Cannon replied, “Yes.”

The Coroner: Could the attack have taken place in front of his wife, without her noticing (17-Yes,

Duration of Attack.

Dr. Cannon suggested that the attack might have been caused by the extra exertion of walking up the hill to the deceased's office.

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The Coroner: How long would the attack. last. Was he in- capacitated 7-Oh no, aliliough it has been known that these attacks last as long as half-an-hour.

The Coroner pointed out that the letters were written on paper with the "Newspaper Enterprise" head- ing, but none of that paper was found in the house, and it looked possible that Mr. Burnett took, some of the stationary up to his house from the office, or he might have had the attack in the office after he had walked up the hill and that the letters were written in the of fice.

In reply to a further question, Dr. Cannon said that he considered that at the time of the tragedy, Mr. Burnett was temporarily in

Bune.

The Coroner referred to Rome photographs which Mr. Burnett had in his office depicting skulls and usked the doctor if such grim humour could have any bearing on the tragedy, and would it lend towards a morbid tendency?

replied:-If I re- Dr. "Cannon member rightly these photographs were given to me in his office on December 12 and I think Mr. Dobbie was there at the time. Mr. Burnett said in quite a jocular manner "If ever I come to the mortuary I hope you will cut me up, ak Mr. King would like the photographs and they would make a useful anatomy for the students." "It might be of interest," added the witness, "that on the morning of the Hatching piracy, Mr. Burnett asked permission to visit the public mortuary, and he did so."..

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Coolie's Discovery,

Ho Cheung, house coolie in the employ of the late Mr and Mrs. Burnett, said that at about 1020 P. on January 1st. he went up to the drawing room na usual to close the windows. He knew his master and mistress were in at the time, and after ho had closed one window in the drawing room, he noticed his master althing on the sofa. His master always bade him "good-night" and as he did not then, witness became frightened. He looked at him and immediately ran downstairs because he did not know if his master were dead or not, Earlier in the evening he heard a bang as of a cymbal falling on the floor, but he was in the cook-house at the time and he did not take much notice of it. This occurred about 9 p.m. His master returned home at 7.35 pm. that evening and he seemed quite ordinary and was in high spirits. When he first saw Mr. Burnett on the sofa he thought he was read- ing a book, but on closer examina- tion he discovered it was a re- volver, which was in his left hand. He had been with Mr. Burnett for 3 years and 4 months and his master had always been very kind to him in every way.

Radio Operated.

The cook boy employed by Mr. and Mr. Burnett, said he had been with the deceased lady and gentle- man since 1927. They had "tiffin at 1 p.m. on New Year's Day. and then went to bed. They had tea at 4 p.m. and later went out. to return at 7.35 p.m. by the clock. in the hall, Mr. Burnet appeared quite normal and nțe a normal dinner, which was finished by 8.15 p.m. Witness went to his quarters at half-past eighty when he saw his master go upstairs, after he und Mrs. Burnett had had the radio Whilst

in the drawing room, witness was reading a newspaper he heard a noise, about 9 p.m. as though a large fork had fallen to the floor in the dining room, and five or six minutes later he heard a similar noise, but be did not take any, notice of it. The house boy eame and aroused him about 10 p.m. and told him what he had seen. Witness went upstairs and preped through the curtain and saw that his master was dead. He im- mediately went to the polica ata- tion and made a report.

Mr. T. H. King enquired if wit- ness knew that his master had a platoi, and the boy replied that he knew he had, as he had seen it sometimes on top of the drawers in his master's bedroom.

Visit to Kowloon,

The Coroner said that there was to have been a lady witness to say that Mr. and Mrs. Burnett were' in

Mr. King said that he was satis- fed that the clock which she stated Mr. Burnett to have mended, had gone wrong, and that it was pro bably half an hour or an hour fast.

The next witness was Leung' Chau, the night watchman of the China Mail Offices, who said that about 7 pm. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett came into the office, after having walked up Wyndham Street. Mr. Burnett unlocked his office and Mrs. Burnett went in with him. They were there about ten minutes, but he did not know what they were doing. When he came out of his office Mr. Burnett falled to pull the key out of the lock, and he asked witness to help him, which he did without success, and Mr. Burnett decided to leave it in the lock over night, and to send for a locksmith in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett came out to the side door and Mr. Burnett seemed very cheer ful and wished witness a happy New Year. He cleared the latter box of letters and telegrams, and Mrs. Burnett and witness helped to open them, whilst he read them.

The Coroner:-It seems then that the letters were either written between 8.30 and 9 p.m. or the day before.

Mr. Hamilton then adjourned the proceedings until Monday, January 20, xt 2.15 p.m.

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BEER

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5,318 25th Jan. | M’lok, L'don, Hull, F'bg,

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2nd Feb,

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31st Jan

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28th Fob.

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4th Apr...

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