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KILLER FIGHTS

WOULD RATHER BE SENT TO GALLOWS

State Awaits Rule Before Executing

Wethersfield, Conn., Mar. 25.

While John Siemborski, condemned slayer frets in his state prison cell, the Supreme Court deliberates, ironically, whether he will be the last person to walk to the gallows, or the first to die in the new electric chair,

The electric chair, as the legal Connecticut's nystem of banging mesus of execution, was adopted by had been considered for many years the last session of the legislature, į as humane and "fool-proof." to, repinee the noone, which in its years of use at the prison sent 61 murderers to their death. From the early days of the colony until 1894, executions were carried out at the county jails.

42 Led into the small, tan-coloured death chamber, the condemned person literally was pinced "on the spot. An “X marked on the floor indicated the proper place for the prisons in stand while the around his he was adjusted

When Connecticut became the gird slate to approve, electrocution, the chuir was ordered and preparations. mand for its installation.

Victim jerked Upward Differing from methods of other states, thu enlenmed person ՆԱՐՀՈՒ not dropped first, but jerked upward. This unique hanging machine was desired to break the victim's neck; twige. It operated by use of weights and pulleys, The ropo passen! feugh a partition, where it was nusfed with a 300-pound weight,

THE HONGKONG | TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

APRIL 9,

1936.

ELECTROCUTION LAW

AUSTRALIAN GRAPES FOR H,K. "THIRSTYS"

The Australian Orienta! liner Changte is not due in Hongkong until April 14, but the new air mail service between Hongkong and Penang, linking with the Australian service has made it possible to publish this photograph of the ship loading a consignment of Australian grapes at Sydney. The luscious fruit in des.

thed for Hongkong.

Photo, courterg A, U. Line,

BRIDE WAS SLAVE BY CHOICE

Warsaw, Apr. 1.

Technical Point Argued Attorneys for Siembarski, however. anlard the question of whether he should be hanged, eletroented or go free. They argued he was sentene ed to hang after the legislature passed the electrocution law; that sentence could rat les passed twice for the same A rachet wheel held the weight, in crime, and that he shoudd be faberated. | place. The operating mechanism was

The chases of his escaping pain a pedal. ishment, however, appena ~ remote, Instead of springing the trap en But But the court delivers its

ordinary gallows, the pedal opinion, the chair will

unsolensed the weight and the condeme erated,

el person was jerked upward, then Idroppent. This operation was design. end to rear in the reel bring teen Atwier

Connectiont

banering

annehina alwng- worked a monthly. There is of the Vanishing Bride, The report of any execution i (Dongled,

It lind been noted that when went to the cellars. the husband

absent; the ¦ bride was never seen, The, hus and was absent now in Cencow.

"Zero" As Height Of Ambition

"COLDEST EVER" STILL

A SECRET

"Nobody, kanter,

Tiddly-per

Hoy, too,

How cold my toes, Tihily-jenn

Are growing.

The cast of carrying out the ex

to the warden,

or

Gerald Chapman, potoringy Pank Polher and gunminas, oppled bis traff

using enveer in the Connerticul death house,

Executed Chapman in 1926 The modern ende Jatues," in con -tant brush with the law for It years, was entwieled as the clayer of a New Britain policeman during a cafe-blow- April, 1926.

apprehended nt

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were hunt on solving the Riddle palice found nothing. Then they him. But he is jealous. I love

The doors gave way. The police Then drew herself up haughtily. POLICE armed with axes broke dashed in. A wolfhound sprang "What are you doing here?"

Into the home of a newly at the throat of one. He shot she demanded.

The palice were nonplussed. married couple in the village of dead. Krystinos, near Craenw. They

So she explained, The search began. At first they husband loves me.

chains me up whenever he goes away.

Because I love him, } submit willingly."

So they left her in chains.

was

Turpin's Ghost Is Homeless

So said Mr. A. A. Milne zone Mane, Ind., as he waked along the DOES anyone feel inclined to

years ago in the wonderland of free, but was overpowered and takeit

Street He tried to shout his way! offer a home Pooh.

to like hotel room, whose wuthoriti mannered ghost?

So said Sir William Bragg last, Goud a quart of nitrogfrevriue and mouth in the wonderland of $9pm in romerament outs, jewels. science.

scentioner,

to a well-

Guaranteed. quiet and Ling Idous not gevan, moan, rattle his chains, 01' leave bloristains

...

The job of carrying out "the exe "I resembler well," Sir Wilhant stated, "The vivid impression made ruf ons brought the first demand for about. upon me when Bet 1 learned that a vlectric chair and professional there was such a thing as

Dik Turpiu į un where paid

For the ghost of degren af cold. It was startling foj There

no opposition in the the famous highwayman, is about think that a body neght how every cislature and the bill was reported to be evicted froth the Old Marion after one publie hearing. Bonge at Hornchoreis, Exam.

Trace of a heat so tint no fejlentally, the stare R not have, which he is said to have à outer

drop in its semperature was possible,”

Sir William, was opening thi "Verg, to pay for the execution of the first (for the last 200 years, Low Temperaturis" exhibition at 12 kt portion to die in the chair. Its con-f

Science Museum, Saath Kensington. tract with the company installing the This house was the home of the *11 is not an easy matter to put down apparatos provided that the concern highwayman's mother, and

if it goes off snoothly, then the

I places.

was!

to this natural zera" hexplained play the executioner for the first one of his Tavouritewing? "Heat is stored up in all our surround- jefret reenton, Ings. To rad a selectiel body of all as heat is rather like emptying a bucket at the bottom of the sm."

Hubber at such terperatures Joxes its spring and berumes as fragile us! porcelaing mercury becomes as solid as a hammer: and an electric current, ogee it has started running round a circuit, forgets to stop in apparent defiance of the ban placed by "Seiener i nu perpetful motion,

state will pay for the chair. This) Four hundred years old, ami urvancement has been called bit of now used as a cafe, it is shortly Yankee batning United Beran la e denulish.d.

Freezing Helium

Looking round. The exhibition, one coubi see a liquid air plant in opera, tion; instructions for liquefying, nud} even freezing, helium, the most obstinately gasemas of all gases; and all the varied shades, of colour which esn be obtained by passing an electric | discharge through the rate which can be obtained from atinsphere by boiling liquid air.

Industry has benefited much from the long quest of science to reach the absolute zero--the coldest possible

temperature,

14/2

ynes

What if it were reach-

Earthquake Every Day

For Six Years

ONLY. ONE WOMAN IN BRITAIN

KNOWS THEM · ALL

DURING the last six years paper had been developed it was

there has been an earth-impossible to determine the ex quake every day according to tent of the disturbance or locate Miss Ethel F. Bellamy, assistant

it.

"It was a particularly strom!

to the director of the University disturbance In South America,

"The Lask." Sir William confessed, | Observatory at Oxford. "can never be quite completel, But

It has so fascinated experimenters

"The same thing occurred in

bride There they found the chuined to the wall by one wrist.

She looked at them, astunished.

SAW AUSTRALIA

This young lady, Miss Grace Puttula of Edmonton, Canada, won trip to Australia with a prize- -winning essay about, the southern Commonwealth. She travelled In the dominion for five months, and is here seen returning to her native fand, loaded down with presents and souvenirs whlch' were presented to her there. Among them i sulphur-crested rockatoo seen her arms as she disembarks Vancouver.

Woman

Doctor's

Miss Bellamy is the only woman the cast of the Quetta Carte Sacrifice

that time, labour, ul ones have seismologist in England.

heen spent on it without stint?"

The end, therefore, is as the begin.

ning.

"Nobody knows, Tiddly-pom,

Hoe cold my tocs,

Tiddly-pom (Pivier),

Are growing."

Bat the toes of science, like the toes of Pool, can never, in practice, be made so cold that they cannot mnde colder.

be

PEACE PACT WITH

I was rain changing the paper,

She has been connected with the when the light glowed. That Oxford University Observatory earthquake devastated an area of for thirty years. Her uncle, the India

the size of (late Mr. F. A. Bellamy, who died / Povonshire.

suddenly Inst month, was the chief

assistant.

She has contributed at least a dozen large volumes an astrodomy

to the gefentific literature of the work. She and her uncle' maji- ped more than a million stars.

Twu.years ago Oxford Univer- (sity conferred the honorwry de- gree of Master of Arts on Mas Bolkamy

very nearly

DELICATE INSTRUMENT

The seismograph in use here is in u specially constructed room, and so delicate un instru- ment is it that even a person walking in the room where it is housed affects it.

"WORKING ROUND THE WORLD"

ECAUSE "SHE WANTS TO SEE THE WORLD" YOUTHFUL DR. MARY SAUNDERS HAS TURNED DOWN SEVERAL

He

RADIO BROADCAST

Planoforte Recital by Tony Lorena From Studio

Z. E. K. PROGRAMME

From 2.3.W. on a wavedeorth of 355 meters (845 kilocycles)!

3-6 p.m. Dance Muric from the Hongkong Hotel Roof Garden,

G p.m. Children's Studio Concert. 6,30 p.m. Dance Mude.

p.m. Songs by Rose Bampton i (Contralto).

1. When 1,tring to you coleta'd Toys: 2. Light my put 3. Swans (Kramer); 4. Do not go my love (Hageman).

7.13 p.m. The Scottish Coun- iry Dance Orchestrn.

Skye Eightsume Reel; Meg Mer- | vileos -(ure:-Dinck):-The-Haymakers- (Traditional); Triumph (Traditional). 7.30 p.m. Three Songs from "Lullaby of Broadway" sung by Dick Powell (Tenor).

I.

2.

The Words are in my heart; Lullaby of Broadway; 3. I'm goin' Shoppin' with you.

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7.40 p.m. From the Studio.

A Planoforte Recital by Tony. Lorena.

1.

Programme

Duet Mendelssohn; Adagio ...Mendelssohn; 2. Nocturne in G ...Chopin: The Spinning

Wheel...Raft.

Minor

in

t

8 p.m.

Time Signal, Weather Re- port, Stock Quotations and An- nouncements.

8.95 p.m. Chinese Studio Convert.- 11 p.m. Close Down.

i'ro-

8.05-10 p.m. European gramme from Z.E.K. on a Fre. quency of 640 kllocycles.

8.05 p.m. Orchestral Music. Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2 (Liszt);. Bungarian Rhapsody No. 13 (Liszt); Cossack Dance (from "Mazeppa"} (Tschaikovsky); Perpetuum Mobile,

J. Strauss).

8.30

Songs by Derek Old-

O Mistress Mine (Roger 1. (a) |Guilter); (b) Blow Blow thou winter Wind (Roger Quilter); 2 Come Away Death (Quilter): 3. Homing (Del Riego); 4. Stillis the Night (Bohm),

8.43 p.m. A Jazz Piano' Recital by Rafe da Costa.

1. Jazz Goblins; 2. Stand Up and Sing Medley; 3. King of Jazz Med-

\lery » POSTS

IN LONDON AND IS NOW WORKING HER WAY ROUND THE WORLD,

"Many, people do not appreciate the value of recording earth- WILD MEN

quakes. 3,664 'QUAKES

"Some years ago our

Instru-

At present she is assisting Now she is the observatory's inents showed a large disturbance

suburban official seismologist, and receives in a remote part of China. It was Western Australin, but she does doctor at Perth. Anthropologist's Lone

reports from three hundred ob-not reported in the newspapers. Mission

servatorica senttered throughout "Months later nows was re- not intend to stay, After having travelled 500 miles the world, from which she, com- | ceived that a missionary badi on fool, 400 miles on horsebackpiles a record of the world's earth-visited the spot and found it a

She is out to see the world i in two years. and 90 miles by native canoe Dr. quakes.

wilderness of desolation, Donald Thompson, an anthropolo- During the past six years she "Not a single house Was

After a spell in. Western Ants gist, who, seven months ago was has recorded no fewer than standing, and there was not tralla, she will visit the Eastern living soul in the locality, States and from there go to the appointed by the Australian Federa]} 3,664 earthquakes. Government as special peace Her latest work is a catalogue covering many thousands of East. Before returning to Britain making commissioner in the dia-of earthquakes dating from, the

square miles,

she will eroga the Amerienn "The earthquake has simply continent. turbed out back areas of Arnhen your 1918, September To the

blotted everything out, and Land in the north of the continent, month during which most earth- has returned to civilisation with the quakes occur.

there was no one left to tell the report that pence now reigns and Miss Bellamy Bald to n Sunday

story. "The Miss Bollamy confessed that Dr. Saunders is a specialist in that the country is safe for white Express representative:

first day. I took over my duties In |éver, since she was child obstetrics and graduated

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from 1918 1 was changing the photo-stronny and the study of earth- King's - College, London. After He lived alone with wild tribes graphic recording paper on the quakes but been a passion with serving in several London hos- for months, and made a pact with instrument when suddenly

the hor

pitals she worked in the slums. In the most powerful chief by which light began to glow.".

"I think tho science of Leeda.

men.

the latter is to maintain peace. I knew that an earthquake was astronomy must run in my

Worked In Slums

It was the toughest time I ever taking place somewhere in the family" bho weld. "Three of my She is depending solely on her had he told Austral Newa, world, but until the photographie luncies were noted astronomersil learnlugs,

9 p.m. Daventry News Bulletin. 9.15 p.m. Excerpts from "JI!} Darling.

Let's Lay our Heads together; 1'd do the most extraordinary things............ Frances Day and Arthur Riscoe; Nonny Nonny No; I'm on a See-Saw

..Louise Browne and John Kills. 9.30 p.m. Old Dance Favourites. 10 p.m. Big Ben: Close Down.

DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES The following wave-lengths, and frequencies are observed by Davanter.

Call Bizn Frequency Wavelength

4,050 k.. GUE 9.510 .. GIC

. GBA

489

49.59 Matze 31.53 metim

3,355 2.4.

31.20 Intres

Can

GSE

11,780 kc. 35.23 mutnes 11.885 k.. 25.38 mitres

$8.140 k.e. 19,8Z

17.700 *.4.

18.14 mstred

GSEI

21.470, her '1357

C&I

15,740...

10.31

CAJ

11.540 Ave.

18.03

T

cst..

GITO ke. 40.10

metron

Transmission 1

(0.8N 0.8.D.)

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2.45 p.m. Big Bari, Chamber Muste. A Programme of. VienNIKO Music. The New London Trier Dasid Wine Violin)

Nerina Bemino

- (Violanerife) | Jekn. Paver (Plans

forte):

*A Countryman's "„Dlary,"_ Groomwich Tase Signal at 8,15 þak.

3.33. pan. - The B.B.C.. Empire Orchestra,

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7 m. Sig Ben, The Composer at the

Pianoforte-192 Thomas F. Dun htit. A rectial of Thomas Dan- Bill'n matigy. 7.25 p.m. A Short Probe. Brading. 7.20 p.m. An Organ Recital by

Taylor. Greenwich Time Signal at p.m.

Alberi

13 p.m. Talk: "Foreign Affairs” 520 p.m." "Qeens for Beng.” “An Empire,

Promenade. * p.m. The Nawa.. 9.15, pim. Chamber Musle from the Besttish National Academy of Male. Members of the Chamber Male National

Clan of the Betish Academy of Muse,

9.15 p.m. Cima durn.

Transmission 3.

(0.9.0.. (1.8.E.)

10 p.m. Tig ·"Her,

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