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He scratched her tender

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The heroine of this story "the other

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ANN HARDING

LESLIE HOWARD

The star of Pur Barry's sensational sloge success, together with a cast of stars never equalled on the stage, in

The ANIMAL KINGDOM

Low or no low, living things must love That's the way it is in "The Animal King: dom"...where we are only human, aller all With MYRNA LOY WILLIAM GARGAN Neil Hamilton, Henry Stephenson,ilkaChase Screen play by Horace Jackson Directed by Edward H. Griffith David O.Selznick, Executive Producer AnRKO-RADIO Picture of courcel

TO-MORROW

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL OF THE

"SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES.

LYN HARDING-RAYMOND MASSEY

ATHOLE STEWART

in

car,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933.

WOMAN'S DEATH

JURY'S VERDICT OF MISADVENTURE

sure whether he had his head- lights on or whether he had dim-į med them.

MARCH TO KALGAN,

Witness also bore out Sub-In-

GENERAL SUNG PUSHES spector Saunders in that it was

TOWARDS GOAL. almost impossible to see a person) A verdict of "denth by mlund dressed in dark clothes at a dis-

Peking, Aug. 9. Chiang Po-cheng, resident repte- venture" was roturned by the jury tance while driving at night on at the Coroner's enquiry hold by this road. He suggested that it sentative here General Chinng Mr. Schofield into the death of an would be better lighted if the Kai-shek, returning from Suiyuan unknown woman, who was killed lamps were to be placed in the by train, reports that up to this after being knocked down by a centre of the road. The bulb of morning General Feng Yu-helang

driven by Yuen Chil-sum the right head light of the car had not left Kaigan. along Causeway Bay Road on the was missing when he examined it, night of July 12.

though the plug was in the socket. However, this morning two re giments of General Sung Chch- The jury also censured the drive |

Driver's Evidence.

yuan's troops left Sunnhua for er for having taken car out Yuen Chi-sum, the driver of tho Kalgan, to take over the adminis- that did not conform to the re- car, said that he first noticed the tration there. If Feng leaver gulations, in that the bulb of the approach of Dr. Shin's car when Kolgan, Sung is expected to enter front right hond-lamp was ap- it was about twelve feet in front the city to-morrow.—Router, parently missing, and that it had of him. He switched off his head only a foot brake. They further Hghts and put on the alde lights. suggested that the lighting of this stretch of Causeway Bay Road, if possible, be improved.

Coroner Sums Up.

The head-lights of Dr. Shin's car ground, which according to the were on. He did not notice any Coroner' is nearly 500 feet away body on the road, but suddenly from the tram terminus.

run at an oblique | Mr. C. W. Langley was the foresaw a person man of the jury and the others angle across the road towards his. were Mr. E. Allen and Mr, D. F. car. The person was then only

about five feet away. He applied field outlined the chief aspects of Addressing the jury, Mr. Scho- Lopes.

the footbrake and swerved to the the case, and said that the evi- Sub-Inspector Saunders testified right, but the right mudguard dence of the driver was far from that the car was a Hupmobile struck the person, about the legs, reliable. No doubt he was in a touring car about four years old, She fell backward, her head strik-nervous state when he had made and in fair mechanical conditioning the right head lamp and his statement to the police, and The glass of the front right head breaking the glass. The accident he was naturally worried about lamp was missing, and there was occurred when both cars

were the case.

a small dent on the top of the side lamp. At 16 miles an hour the foot broke stopped the car in ten feet. Witness made no mention of a handbrake.

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person

Witness admitted that he was a private driver to Mr. Telley of the Naval Yard, but said that he occasionally drove for the Fly Garage at night. He also said that there was no bulb in the right head lamp after the accident, but the pieces were sticking to the plug,

nearly level with each other. The car had four-wheel footbrakes In his opinion, it was certainly only,

not advisable for a driver of a car to run two jobs at once. The question, however, for the jury to decide was whether the driver was keeping a proper lookout at the time. In considering that question, Mr. Schofield asked the jury to keep in mind the fact that the driver had not seen the other car until it was ten feet away, in spite of the fact that his head- lights were on. Concluding, he said that he was inclined to think that the deceased had contribut ed to the accident by her own neg-

Describing this stretch rond, witness Gald that there were many places where it was very difeult to вес и dressed in dark clothes.

After Traffic Sergeant Clarke had given evidence of the identi- Under cross examination, wit- fication of the deceased and the news explained the reason for his arrest of the driver, Sub-Inspec not having seen the other car un- tor Rogers, attached to Bay Viewtil it was ten feet away by saying Police Station, testified that when that it must have turned the cor- Dr. Shin, the driver of another car ner near the East Point garage.ligence.. going in the opposite, direction, He admitted, however, that the The jury roturned their verdict made his report, he was not quite | accident occurred near the polo and riders as stated above.

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