1934-09-12 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

VAN IN SHOP

Men Disappear After Amazing Accident

BUT TWO DETAINED

Toating police were

recently

searching for a number of men who were involved in an amazing crash

WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 12, 1934.

OUR

BIG DIAMONDS IN SON'S MISTAKE

DEMAND

SYNDICATE.HOLDS

UP SUPPLIES

London, Sept. G.

flatton Garden diamond mer:

iti Colliers Wood fligh Street, be-chants complain bitterly that the tween Colliers Wood and Tooling demand for big stones has grown

to auch dimensions that they can Broadway tube station.-

People living in the vicinity and not meet the demand. As far as nearly half a mile away before three were aroused Ju'clock

by the and a tremendous crash.

Hundreds of people ran into the streat to see what had happened, and found a Bght green-grocer's - ና 44 22 embedded. the front of

in groen-grocer's shop.

A number of men were seen to make off.

Two men,

who could not get away from the van, were later taken to Tooting Police Station by the police.

"The big-stopes are being doted

org of wheels out too, slowly!" says

Man Wrongly Identified as His Father

BURIED IN FAMILY GRAVE

A remarkable orror of indentifica- tion which led to a-body being buried in the name of a living man was disclosed at ford Coroner's Court recently.

The identification was made by Henry Robert Baldwin, a son,

The son, who gave his address AS Castleview Gardens, iford, toll tho Coroner (Dr. P. B. Skools) that he found he had rande a mistake, as a week after the inquest his mother received a letter from his father, who was working at Colchester

On May 18, the body of a man one mer-was found in Barking Creek in a chant, interviwed by a London decomposed condition, and an in- evening newspaper The policy queat was held, the body being of the Diamond Syndicate s, of identified us that of Harry Thomas course, to hold supplies of the Baldwin, who had been missing for market until demand revives, but several weeks," our experience indicates that the demand has been reviving for the past several months and it is actually difficult to-day to orders for exceptional, diamonds. "And I am inclined to think, The van. It appears, got out of too, that the Diamond Syndicate the tide by a lought in catch control at Longley Road Bridge. It crashed into an island in the judicious lowering the price. Montal Hospital. middle of the road where the trams That would stimulete demand Mr. Baldwin agreed that he overy, thought at the time that he had change from overhead trolleys to considerably. However, road tracks, knocked over a tram body has been saying that to the identified the body correctly, be- standard, a lamp-post, and a second Diamond Syndicate ever since the cause of a malformation of a big trumway standard on the island, crash of 1929 without converting toe, such as his father had, and picked up a bin in which the tram them, apparently, so I don't look also because of tattoo marks.

The Coroner Notwithstanding: way apparatus was stored and for any change which weighed over six cwt, and

"But with business picking up your honest belief that the body carried it along in front of IL. nicely in London, it seems strange was that of your father, you were

jentirely wrong?—Yes. then crashed across the road on to to reat of Kimberley being still

Baldwin ackled that his mother the pavement, ran between a lamp-prostrateno prostrate that the

at post and the shops and finished up South African Government is set had identified her husband half-way inside n Kreengrocer's ting up

new industries in that Colchester, and he identified two shop. The whole of the shop front to take care of the unemploy letters received by his mother us was demolished.

ed diamond miners. Seems to the being in his father's handwriting. "I shall faste certificate to the The van contained a party, it is that the stamp in the markets for effect that the man you believed to understood, of eight or ten men diamonds is definitely over and who were returning to East Ham, that production vn i modest seuls be your father was not your father RODY ON RAILWAY in a first-class curriage intending articles of clothing, chiefly hats might asefully start in Kimberley, and is still an unknown man," said

Mice Doris E, Hond, a popular Shanghai girl, became the brida of Mr. John Kinloch, son and heir of Sir George Kinloch, Bart.. of Kinloch. Perthshire, at Holy Trinity Cathedral recently, at what proved to be one of the most attractive weddings of the year. The the Cathedral bride and bridegroom, were photographed in

porch after the ceremony,

LINE

to get out at Bford. They

were

After the crash 24 number of

and conts, which had apparently

alone and sat facing each other, been abandoned, were found lying Winess fell asleep, and when the on the van and on the pavement train was near Liverpool Street, a and in the shop.

Inquest on Football Club guard got into his carriage, and

Secretary

told him the train had been pulled up because the offside door of Fis Carriage had been found open.

.

KEPT A SECRET

The death of Mr. Edgar Charles

Witness went on to Liverpoo! ; Porter, hon, accretary of Ilford Football Chib, who was found dead Street, and on his way back to

worried Ilford was much

as to Cunarder's Name to Be on the railway line between Forest what had become of Mr. Porter. Announced by the Queen Gate and Stratford recently, was At Ilford he telephoned to two inquired into by the West Ham friends, and they eventually learn. led that a body had been found on Mr. Porter was returning home the line 100 yards or so on the

Forest Gate side of Marylands from Southend.

Coroner.

CEREMONY PLANS

the Coroner. "That will enable the "Trade is still theteating some register to be rectified."

The Coroner Asked Baldwin what, but each taonth sees an im

fact that his provement on the month before."whether it was a

mother had the body interred in -United Press.

the family grave at St. Mary's Cemetery, Hord.

NEW USE FOR FINGERPRINTS

TO AID WAR ON DISEASE

London, Sept. 6. Fingerprints may come to the aid of the medical profession in its war on disease.

"Yes, it remain there," replied Baldwin.

FRENZIED FARMER !

Suicide After Boing Repulsed In Love

46-year- His love unrequited, old farmer at Ramsey, New Jersey, ahot and killed his three horses,

The name of the giant Cunarder to remain a close secret until | Puini Station.

disclosed by Her Majesty the Witness added that when he and Queen at the launching ceremony One of the best-known figures in

Porter left, Southend they on September 26. the amateur football world, Mr. Mr.

What was regarded as the most Porter, had played for Ilford for were bath sober, and he could only

Dr. Heinrich Poll, of Berlin, told burned down his barn, made n bon- 25 years, been chairman of the think that Mr. Porter might have appropriate name was chosen re Club for eight years, and hon opened the door of his carriage,cently out of hundreds of sugges the delegates to the Anthropolo-fire of his savings, and burned him-

more self to death, He was thinking it was a corridor train.tions which have flowed in from gient Congress that much secretary for 14 years.

The man (anys Reuter) was also a member of the London Foot- or it might be that he opened the all quarters during the building of information could be obtained from

door thinking the train was at the leviathan.

Anger markings than the records William Storins. He had long hal Association.

counted on marrying a neighbour. Ilford.

Elaborate preparations are

on police-files provided.

she Jennle Quackenbush, though FRACTURED SKULL. ing made for the launching cere

During an outbreak of Infantile had always discouraged his ad. mony, and it is estimated that it

found that the frances. The evidence of the rafhway will be witnessed by at least 100 novalysis it was

One night Storms appeared at oficials was that the train was not 000 persons. It is understood, victims belonged to one group, all a corridor train, and that the off however, that no record crowd is possessing the same characteristic her house and renewed his suit. Mr. Herbert Porter salt! his side door, which was found open. likely-to-witness-the-launch from features in their fingerprints Milso Quackenbush refused him, father was 61, and appeared all could only be opened by a person inside the yard of Mosara, John Similar results had been obtained emphasising that her decision, was

putting his hand outside right when he saw him on the carriage. Efforts had been made be allowed only down the Rothestyy diseasen.

the Brown & Co., as spectators are to in cases of people affected by other final. But, the farmer was again at her door at seven o'clock the afternoon of his death at the wed by a porter who saw the door open Dock side of the vessel.

dis-next morning, eager to know ding reception of another aon.

cricket He captained fiford at during 15 seasons, was a member of the Essex County Cricket Club,

and was also prominent as a bowls

player.

be-

It had

been possible to

R

.

to stop the train near Maryland In view of the fact that the day tinguishinmates of mental whether she had changed her In the evening his father exught point, but it was not stopped until will mark the most important event asylum from sane persons by mind.

Refused once more, Storms, to train for Southend where his it got to Bethnal Green, where the in the annals of Clyde ship means of their finger markings, bowling club was playing. He guard spoke to Mr. Seymour.

building for many years, Septem-claimed Dr. Poll, while racial and the woman's astonishment, drew from his was a heavy sleeper, and it was his Deceased's body was found face her 26 may be declared a public ancestral information are also absome currency notes custom to sleep on train journeys. downwards between the up and holiday locally. It is expected that tainable by expert study of the pocket and set fire to them. He

Eric Clydebank Town Council will con- fingers.

turned and left her without an down main ne, and Dr.

other word. As soon as the banks ASLEEP IN CARRIAGE. Grogono, the police surgeon, said sider the question this week.

the injuries, which included a The London Midland and Professor Cummins of New opened, Storms withdrew his entire Thomas Seymour, a cable com fracture of the skull, were consist-Scottish Railway Company are Orleans, commenting on Dr. Poll's deposit, about £500, and, hurrying ny's sales manager, of 12 Queen's

making arrangements for the con-discoveries, stated There Is per-home, added £200, the rest of his Road, Ilford, eald he was a great eot with a fall from a train.

that we might savings, to the sum. Then he The jury Buid they

all veyance of launch spectators to the haps some hope were friend of Mr. Porter, whom he

have a shot his horses, set fire to the barn, mot at Southend, after wituesa had agreed that the death of deceased Renfrew side of the river, Cheap isolate individuals who

with his pinyed a game of bowls there re was due to misadventure, and the tickets will be issued on September predilection for infantile paralysis und, seating himself

where Infection hus money on'a hayrick, act fire to the Jury and Mr. Daybell, solicitor for 26 from all stations within a wide in an presenting the ford Club

hoy. Mr.

Seymour, expressed con-radius of Glasgow, and speelal begun to sprend,

All his clothes had been burned, Witness and decensed left South-dolences with the relatives of the excurisons will be run from a

"If we can isolate them we may and he was unconscious, when Inumber of centres. end together at 10:19, and travelled įdeceased.

prevent their acquiring the disease, found by a friend, who rushed him It is too early yet to build up large to the nearest hospital. Next day hopes, but it is a possibility."-Storms died. United PresN,

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We consider we have the last show

of Ties in Hong Kong. st hy not call and see them?

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Such a conspicuous part of your attire suggeste the.. wisdom of selecting a quality that complimenta "both your taste and your knowledge of values.

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