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Picture CUTTING OF TREES ARRESTS IN SEVERAL PANTS” OF HONGKONG

Several Chinese came before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday charged with pos- session of tree wood. In one case, from Aberdeen, when Lai Yeung, 66, and Chan Siu-ching, 60, both re- siding at unnumbered matsheds..as Wong Chuk Hang, wore charged with having 60 cutties of pine tree of wild tree wood" and "45`cattier wood respectively, Sub-Inspector D. J. Dredgo said they were members of a large tree-cutting gang. These cut the treas, split them up peoples and returned to colleet opportunity. them at lie carllest Defendants were fined $25 or one month's hard labour enchi.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JULY 6. 1937.

MYSTERY OF ITALIAN

"MEDICAL

WIZARD"

SOLVED AS A RESULT

OF HIS DEATH

MAN WHO CURED ARTHRITIS

WITH STRANGE INJECTION

THE

By Francesco Nea

United Press Staff Correspondent

Rome, June 10.

articular functions to decrease or dis- appear.

HE mystery which for a

The treatment, Lucherini went on, cases, considerable time sur-was efficacious only in light

that is, in the early stage of the illness rounded the activities of but had negative results in cases of Hout or acute rheumatism, and pro- Italy's "medical wizard" has moted an insignifrant improvement been solved almost simul-in other joint diseases. In pleurisy taneously with the secret of his death.

The "wizard,". Dr. Alberto Rinaldi, lived for many years in an eccentric, if not mysterious

und diabetes.

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The children at Monts, were Lucherint concluded suggesting that greatly impressed by the decorations It would be worth while to continue composed of English and American the tests in order that the treatment fons as well as good luck inscrip- might be applied more rationally-tions which were erected on the United Press.

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manner, in the village of Le PADEREWISKI

Piazze, in province of Siena.

There he treated many thousand AS FILM

persons suffering with arthritis

by injecting into their body a

greenish solution which Was STAR

hailed as "miraculous," and the

nature of which he constantly £10,000 For A

refused to reveal.

On account of his mode of living and the secrecy maintained about his: medicine, Dr. Rinaldi was commonly called "the mystery man of Le Plazze," and his compound "the mysterious liquid."

Toscanini Arturo

was one of Rinaldi's more prominent patients. He was treated with some degree of arthritic trouble in his success for

right arm.

Six Weeks Picture

By Hiller Kriechbaum United Press Staff Correspondent Washington.

The earth's core may be a metal One night in September 1935 Dr."sponge" instead of either the flery club liquid or cold solid that some selen- Rinaldi was assassinated by Blows on the head while he was on tists think it is, Father Joseph Lynch his way to visit some of his patients. of Fordham University told the One of the

eccentricities of the "wizard" consisted in visiting by night American Geophysical Union here.

Italy who were unable

houses in Monts on the occasion of the Duke of Winylser's wedding.

BRITISH SAILORS WANT TO SUN BATHE

The passing of the 'ditty box" from the kit of men of the Royal Navy is foreshadowed in Admiralty Flect Orders, which deal with many re quests put forward during the review of Service conditions.

The dilty box is a wooden box in which the sailor keeps his private posions, They

are scrubbed and

stowed nently decks. Most old-lime sailors took an immense in racks on the mess in their

"ty boxes" and adorned them with cunningly fret- worked photograph frames inside the ld, and with carvings outside.

Many of the requests put forward

time those patients from all parts of Long a student of earthquakes, he concerned ditty boxes. In reply, the go to him gained his elue regarding the com- Admiralty announce that when exist- in the evening, when he used to re-position of the earth's core by studying stocks of dilty boxes are ex- ceive at his home those able to walking quake vibrations and then trying hausted ratings will be supplied cases. The He would go about clad in a white to reproduce them in the laboratory instead with attache garment,

tracks in ships of new construction ghostly figure in those a

Father Lynch found out that the nights not brightened by moonlight.

instead of ditty boxes. The villagers called him "the ghost." previous theories of a liquid or solid are being inade to stow attache cases Requests of the lower deck dealt After returning home he used to pre-core did not conform with established pure his solution alone to that nobody information regarding the torsion with in Fleet Orders range over waves or the wrenching motion caused

conceivable subject. Naval every might learn of the nature of his com-

ratings want to be allowed to sun- pound, and then place it in small by a change in the globe's shape.

bathe stripped to the waist on board phials of of different colours in order

Experiments with palladium, a rare.

Admiralty has shelved to detract that attention of any even- tual inqurles. This work would last metal, showed that it was possible to ships. The until daybreak when Dr. Rinaldi reproduce the same general reaction, this request by announcing that such as the torsion waves on the earth facilities must remain at the discre would go abed.

This happened, research showed, tion of Commanders-in-Chief and when the metal had absorbed a large senior omcers.

Some requests seem to bear out

This made, ns amount of gas. Father Lynch explained it, a solution of n gas in a sold."

want men

After painstaking police investiga tion lasting for more than a year three

the theory that the Navy is becoming persons were arrested under the sus

more comfort-loving. Chief petty picion of being Rinald's slayers.

officers have asked for ensy-chairs in They were Leopoldo Moretti and his

The scientist explained that liis new their messes, and this is to be granted. sons, Agenore and Artemio.

central heating Revenge for ruining them financially conception of the earth's core bridges Royal Marines want spring beds. and throwing them into bankruptey the gap between the earlier theories The was according to the police, the and makes it possible for the earth to installed in the Royal Naval Barracks. motive prompting the trio to murder have properties which neither a liquid The Admiralty are asited to provide

nor solid core would have.

counterpages for the beds of naval establish- ratings serving in shore Palladium is capable of absorbing ments. up to 200 times its own volume in gases. It acts as a "sponge" in taking on the gases without undergoing any material change in dimensions.

the doctor.

TRIAL AT AN END

centre

The three have been under trial be- fore the assizes of Brescia for nearly a month. The trial, based largely on circumstantial evidence, has just been

Existence of the earth's core has brought to an end with the sentencing been established by repeated experi

fo twenty-one of Leopoldo Moretti years of imprisonment. Artemto was ments, the Forham expert said, It starts approximately half the way

or 2,000) acquitted on the grounds he had no

down toward the part in the crime, while Agenore was set tree because his complicity had miles from the surface. not been sufciently established.

Measurements of the earth show that it is approximately 5.5 as dense The mystery surrouiding the

cleared as water while the greatest average sassination nearly had been "

with the arrest pl the trio

when it surface density is 2.7 times. Thus was announced that the one shrouding the care of the earth must have a Rinaldi's compound and his medical density of approximately four times

technique had also been solved.

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that of the surface.

of. Comman materials with, such

density are iron and nickel.

a

TOWN TO HAVE STEAM ON TAP

Brussels, June B..

facturing centre, is to be the VERVIERS, the cloth-manu- first Belgian town to have steam), on tap for industrial and domes tie purposes.

The work is being undertaken by Samples of all sorts and blis

private enterprise with the authorlty material capable of leading to the identification of the medicine and It Father Lynch's theory is correct, and under the control of the town statements by Rinaldi's relatives and then the core of the earth would be council, and about one-third of the patients were gathered and given to

pipes "have now ̈ ̈been pregnated with a high volume of experts of the Central Health Bureau composed of heavy elements im- six-anden-half miles of the main

for examination. After in Rome

The task is a dimcult and delicate several months of research the experts gases. Such a mass, he belleves, is laid. came to the conclusion that the nature accessary to explain the various re

one, the pipe being of steel, 3ft. In actions of earthquake waves

diameter, in concrete casing, while of the liquid was no more a mystery recorded on the surface.

it is necessary to displace gns, water, It conflated merely of glycerophos-

electricity, telephone, and other con phate of sodium with a small dose of

dults likely to be affected by the nitrate of strychnine and metharsylate

heat given off by the steam. sodium, which Itinaldi used to Inject The King's Detective hypodermically in high doses.

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SLAYER CAUGHT KILLER OF YOUNG GIRLS CONFESSES TO CRIME

Los Angeles, July 4. Albert Dyer nyot 33, crossing

Administration Progress guard, has been arrested in connec tion with the recent murder of three young girls, whose strangled bodies The District Attorney, Mr. Buron were found in a ravine in Inglewood. Fills, sold that when Dyer was con

his fronted with a rope found in

At the producing station 2,000 home, It being identical with that

Receives Promotion - euble metres of water will be trans- Tests of the medicine then followed. found around the neck of one of the girls, he confessed that after inducing

formed into steam every hour, and entrusted to Professor

Inspector H. J. R. Cameron, the it is considered that the supply for them to go to the ravine he separately They were strengled them and afterwards at-Tommaso Lucherini and Bar to Spirito King's personal detective since 1930, works and factories can be ready by

who carried them out in tacked all three.

Dyer was prominent at the sceno Hospital in Rome. The tests lasted as been promoted to chief inspector, the end of the year.

Early next year, It is hoped, a of the crime when the girls' bodies nine months and consisted princi- Detective Harold Green, formerly

and start will be made with the distribu now Queen Mary's detective, has tion of steam to public buildings and effected through were found. Ho assisted in bringing pally in finding out the right dosage. King George V.'s attendant,

private houses, the girls out and later sold news They were

Girls Govenous Instead of intra-muscular been made a superintendent. papers shouting, "Extra!

injection, as Rinaidi used to do. Professor Lucherini treated

Ng Chung, 46, unemployed, found with 88 cattles of dead tree wood at Kal Sul Wan, Stanley, was fined $20 or one month's hard labour, In Found."United Press.

a similar case, Chan Shing, 20, un- employed, with 00 cattles, was dealt hard labour.

with in the anme way.

Sub-Inspec-

en-

102

he gave an account of them before a

af unnumbered hut above To Fu Street, Shaukivan, was fined $25 or prosecuted. one month's hard. Inbour for pos- Lam Chul, found in Wanchal with Ression of 76 cotiles of pine tree 47 enttles of wild wood, was bound wood at Island Road near Chai Wan. over in 320 for one year and is to For a branch of his bond he was be sent back to the country, Ins- floed another $25 or one month's pector Bakor prosecuted.

Lau Hon 40, unemployed, who patients. After the tests were over had 40 entties of wild wood with him scientific body in which he stated that tor Saboy prosecuted.

With one previous conviction, when arrested in Main Street West, Rinaldi's medicine was anything but a had Wing Pui, 24, unemployed, Ilving at Shaukiwan, was bound over in $20 starting discovery, though it

for

Wright

some one year. Inspector

satisfactory

results In given cases. The "miraculous" recoveries! attributed to it were probably effect of the suggestion exercised by Rinaldi over his patients.

The compound, Lucherin sald,

did not remove Arthritis wholly or partially but only promoted, an im-

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by BENJAMIN WYLIE, provement in the general condition of mt 1 and 8, Wyndham Street in the Cily of Victoria, Hongkong.

the patient by causing the pains in the

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