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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1936.

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New York, Mar. 1. A well-known author and adventurer, whose stories are popular with readers of British magazines, has been murdered by a 'boy of 16 in a lonely mountain cabin.

Mr. Carl Taylor, aged 30, crept to a hilltop "temple" in New. Mexico two nights'ago to obtaini information about secret riles of the "Brothers of the Blood of Christ," an Indian sect. of self- torturers..

As he was at a desk writing an account of the weird ceremony of flagellation which he had seen inj this "forbidden" territory, he was shot.

AT FIRST BELIEVED Soon afterwards Modesto Tru-

A joint advertising contract with the "South China Morning Post" and "The jillo, a 16-year-old Spaniard living Hongkong Telegraph' into the home of the Justice of the guarantees the largest morn- Peace, Faustin Chavez, and declared ing and afternoon

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near the cabin, burst breathlessly

he hind seen two men, their faces

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İNG HONGKONG

Charlie Chaplin, as he was when he visited Hongkong with his bro ther Syd. two years ago. Photograph shows Chaplin, surrounded by pressmen, vastly amused at a reference to himself in one of the local papers. He arrived here again this morning by the Dollar liner Pre

ident Coolidge.

SECRET INQUESTS circula-hidden with rags, enter the cabin WOULD SIMPLIFY

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and kill Mr. Taylor with ritles.

Under the ordeal of question-

ing by the police, which lasted all night, the boy broke down this morning and confessed thal he had murdered Mr. Taylor to rob him.

The ritual of fingellation prac- tised by the "Brothers of the Blood

pre-of Christ" is said to be based on an No Indian conception of the doctrine of penance preached by early missionaries

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A German visitor to England re- turned to Germany after a short stay in December last.

While in London a tram conduc- tor had asked the young man to take back with him phoice and some papers relating to the Iron Cross which he, the tram conductor, had taken from a German prisoner of war on the Somme in 1918.

MURDERS

-Former Coroner Says

IF newspapers are no longer allowed to report inquest evidence in suicide cases, as the Home Secretary's com mittee of inquiry into the powers of coroners recommends, murder will be made several degrees safer in Britain.

This opinion was expressed by Mr. R. H. Oswald, who was a London coroner for more than a quarter of a century. He retired in 1930.

"Whatever the committee's findings," he said, "I am con- vinced that there are cases where evidence at inquests on people believed to have committed suicide should not be suppressed.

tho "I remember a particular in- that which would abolish quest many yeara ago. Every-"Suicide while of unsound mind" thing pointed to the dead man verdict and replace it with n having taken his own life.

simple record that the individual "Certain prople read the news-concerned "died by his own hand." At present, if man is found to paper reports of the inquest evi- dence. They made certain state- have taken his own life while of ments.

sound mind, insurance companies may refuse to pay out on an In- surance policy.

"What appeared to be a straightforward case of suicide became at once more complex.

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It was established that the man' If it is found at the inquest that had been murdered,

he took his life "while of unsound

"If newspapers had been for-mind," while the companies are bidden to publish a report of this not bound by that verdict, in most Inquest, a murderer would have cases they will pay. gone undetected."

The classic example of a mur derer being detected through newspaper reports of an inquest was that of George Smith, the "Drides in the Bath" murderer.

LANDLADY'S CLUE The tram conductor had heard of

Verdicts of "Accidental death" Relschssender Cologne'a radio pro-had already been returned on two gramme, "Where are you,. Com of Smith's victims. rade?" which has brought many

Then a Blackpool landlady read former world war combatants to- Kether, and hoped by this means it newspaper account of an inquest would be possible to find the on a woman found drowned in a original owner of the papers and bath at lodgings in Highgate.

The circumstances were 50 return them to him.

similar those in the case of n

If the committee's suggestion is adopted, the great insurance companies will consider revising the terms of all future Hife policies.

"We should have no guidance whatever in deciding the merits of a case," said one high insurance oficial in London recently.

"In the past we have had the (advantage of knowing offcially whether the person was of right mind or insane at the time of sui-

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