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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936,
Declined To See
To See Human Brains
U.S. WAY
"You hit our boy today. What if he had brou afiec?"
Drivers in a big American transport firm receive this warn Ing when they run over "Jerry." "Jerry" is a dummy, hidden be hind a van and catapulted out in front of approaching vehicles at Thirteen miles an hour, the aver age suced of a boy darting neraxs
The road.
The speed of the vehicle and the time it takes to stop are re- corded,
The lesson is taken to beart. Drivers are shocked at the possi bility of having run over a young- stor. Injuries involving the firm's drivers have fallen hy 73 per cent. since "Jerry" appeared.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR POCKET IS PICKED
Front a Special Correspondent
HAVING your pocket pleked is a
misfortune that may happen to
anyone
COURT OFFER BY DOCTOR TURNED DOWN
AN offer be a doctor to exhibiti
He-Man Of 99 Is Left In The
Lurch
New York, July 21,
specimens of brains in curt wasHARLIE EANNETTE discovered
declined by the King's Bench recently,
Mr. Justice Swift and a sporint he left in the torch." Jury were hearing evidence regarding A man's state of mind when he foc his life.
today that "It's never too late to
Dr. Garland M Holm, seniori physician at Charing Cross Hospital and president of the Internation Nouralogical Congress, snid in his pinion the man when he took his wes not suffering from general
i paralyshe added:
"I have brought in my bag two specimens, one of brain of a mann who died in the early stages of general paralysis and the other part of the brain of a normal person with asdish in exhibit thì tr
wish
Juli
"You won't mind me, I am rum, 18
in Hongkang. Plekpockets | | don't ask you to open your bag" aré sprcíally hung junt, now.
replied Sir Willian Jowitt, K. D..
up:
It happened to me a day or two counsel in the care, after glancing af ngo, and I have just seen the whole | judge and the jury,
tfair wound As a specimen ad- venture, the story may be useful.
les discuvered, 220 pm, Saturday, Chater Road. Due to Jolu party at 20 and wanting sumli change, put hand to inside pocket to get, note to
לין
HOSPITAL
buy cigar with. Shock pocket cup: DONATION BY f. Rapid turnout of other pockets:
no luck. Storm of mixed emotions--
distany, humillation at being "done" MR. AW BOON HAW
time of humunity
after Hongkong lifetime
astonment at eleverness of thief,
Lom; not much money (512 in SAID TO HAVE BEEN notes), vroue
sad cheque total $176, various odimenta fa pocket-back, in- cluding monthly pass for Star Ferry. Plenty of time to stop cheques, banks
MISAPPROPRIATED
He is ninety-nine: lives at Old Forgn, New York.
Charlie arrived at the church to-day for his wedding to widow Ella Manning.
As he awaited her, he confided to) his friends:
"A he-man is not foo old to marry until he's a hundred."
An hour passed. Inquiries were ninde.
Charlie was fuld he had been jilted |
that Mrs, Manning had left Old Forga
"Ah, well," he said, “perhaps we were not suited for each other, 1t may be all for the best.”
Then he eat down, with the brides- mads and groomenien at the break- fant table.
He norded towards the one "empty i chair.
"Likely I'll find some other use far! The ring," he said.
GIRL FOR WHOM
MEN
THREE
WERE DROWNED
Jeeps and catealls from a crowd of
waiting women greeted Miss Eileen
West, aged 22, of Upper Tooting. S. W., as with head bowed the drove
having closed at 1. her yondents of Two Men On Trial Inoff in her motor car after the inquest
unknown.
Not wishing to chat gloom en party, join it and ray nothing till after, Re garded as her
brief
as hero on strength of
Nanking
5.-- Report fern to Police, Police FUNDS of the Central Hospital
en there men who were drowned when went to her rescue when she was
"She doesn't care about the men who drowned for her'', one woman
callaus. The fact is I did not know hd breu drowned until
shouted. Miss West said, "I am not
unconscious contact with erokdam.
BRIN otherr
cer suggests or mislaid. Alisund: spent whole Aw Boon Haw, the wealthy anyone
(paket-lnok dengipedi
in Nanking donated by Mr.
nárning in office. Only possible ex- Singapore merchant, are legedesterday morni
"I am terribly distressed about the planation, theft at Star Ferry, where to have been misappropriated, whole affair, and I was very shocked I may have been jostled in crowd. But no recollection of being "jostled." Po-. The trial began in Nanking re- at the attitude of the women after the fice insist on writing it, down "lass cently of Tao Shi Chi and Wuinquest.
Next (Sunday) morning: Needing Kang Ming, codefendants with There are no notices on the bench They had no right to jver at me. tu refer to passport, suddenly remen La Jui Tang, who is missing. warning bathers of the danger, and her had it in inside pocket day before. Stolen with pocket-book. Páne, Catlining the ease, the Attorney-eis a strong swimmer, I look it
Ring rp Police. CJD, much con- Ceneral said this the defendants bad for granted I would be safe. cerned: Instruct me report to Pass-misappropriated funds entrusted to port Clive.
them by the Central Hospital. Miserable day: Remember pass Tau Jiu Haris, it was alleged, had port photograph shows criminal type ako misuppropriated funds of the of face, very adaptable for “crook" į Sanitary Burras,
5.
"It is terrible now to realise that my mistake past three brave men their liven, but it is worse to think that t
am blamed for as though I deliberately killed them."
At the inquest Miss West had collapsed in her chair and sobber utterly while she listened to a hented protest by Mr. Isane Edwards, who, us the father of one of the men, had given evidence.
Tao Shi Chi sold that the Central STOPPING CHEQUES' Hopital was panced by Mr. A Monday morning: Telephone ull Doon Have's dormations, out that round atopping chequra. Report theff¦ deficits were covered by finds at Passport Offier. Consternation of borrowed from the Sanitary Bureau. officials. Fear sleepless night by Out of this borrowed money. Tao Colonial Secretary, 1 dilate on a continued. certain unspecifica sum | said Mr. Edwards. "A few minutes Kency of business abroad; officials, wow alterated for the patients. The after she said, 'I am alright', got up impressed, promise to do best. In case is continuing.
and walked away. structed call next day.
Tuesday morning Passport Offer again.
Searching cross-examination in private room by courteous official
"Iaw a man bring the girl ashore",
Three lives were last for one girl | and she never said "thank you" to anybody and never apologised to any-.
Who says what hot weather. Official, Girl, Tied To Deadone for lusing their lives."
finally convinced here is Englishman without
Away Happy
guble, grants new passport. Man, Found By Lake
Wednesday morning; Postman de- large "Returard Letter Office"
livery
brook
Berlin, July 21.
The Deputy Coroner Colonel P. s. Toogood: "She must have been very
Mr. D. F. Nash for Miss West, pointed out that when she Was brought ashore
WILS she
very
"contabing minning pocket- A girl, bound back-to-back with a distressed. "She had no idea that punnport, with priated note dend, was found meaning on anyone had been drowned", he said. This enclosure has been found loose the borders of Hohenschenhausen "If she had been so callous as Mr. in Post Ollire," All contents of Lake, near Berlin, at midnight Inst Edwards says she would have been pocket-book intact except notes. Thief night, by a young woman on her way desersing of his strictures, but this is evidently, after taking them, pushed home. She dragged the couple not the case. She is very appreciative rest into pillar-box, Joy. Telephone ashore, culled for help.
of the efforts which resulted in her Passport Offee, Police and cacque-
life being saved". drawers.
ers. Past hark caneciled pass port: by later past, receive new che thes for old.
The man was identified on twenty- six-year-old August Reinhardt, of Berlin.
Affair satisfactorily wound up. Re- The girl, now in hospital, confessed markable example of efficiency on that sho made a suicide pact with everyone's part, especially 12 and Reinhardt, but she would not say whe thief.
I she was.
A verdict of accidental death was returned.
The jury added a' rider advocating that warning notices and lifesaving apparatus should be provided at the scene of the tragedy, Whitsand Bay, near Tregantle.
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