Manslaughter Finding In
charge room was crowded at the time
What was the earliest time after 6.30 p.in. when you were not busy? About 7 p.m., but I did not make an entry then as I did not think of it
Why was that?-It was an over-
Death Probewight on my part.
Jury Blames Chinese
Detective
European Officer Criticised
the.
A verdict holding a Chinese detee tive responsible in a coolle's death and describing the conduct of a European Sub-Inspector as highly reprehensible was returned at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by the Jury empanelled to inquire into
death, of Chian Sun, 40. According to evidence at previous hearings, Chon was stated to have been assaulted in the Shamshulpo Police Station while being questioned in connection with the larceny of
August
31. sewing machine Brought to the Station at 6.30 p.m. he was found later in the evening in collapsed condition at the steps of the main door and was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital.
on
The Jury also viewed with the gravest concern that, but for the almost accidental fact of the special order in relation to the cholern, epidemie, the cause of Chan's death would never have been revealed.
S. I. Ilynes admitted he knew there was more than one person Implicated in the larceny. The first time ho heard of this was about September ་ or Before that Sergeant Nolan mentioned only Chan and nothing about Wong Lap, the other man im
plicated. Sergeant Nolan spoke to
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
AMERICAN TENSION
Relations With Japan May Be Strained
Washington, Dec. 8.
It is expected that Japanese and American relations will become worse
as a result of the imminent Japanes
him about 8.30 p.m. and Chan was capture of Nanking. The mafority brought the charge room about believe that following occupation of two and a half hours later. During the elty the Japanese will distribute that interval he would have gone feelers for on armistice when Japan down to the detectives office to find will negotiate in the role of a con- out why Chan had not yet been queror. brought up, if he had not been busy with other things. He did not see Wong when Chan left the station, and he knew nothing of him then.
DESCRIPTION varied
Omelas anticipate the real strain
THURSDAY,
PILOT AND CHILD DIE IN CRASH
Strange. Tragedy Of Texas Flight
·
Austin, Texas, Dec. 7. An Army aeroplane, apparently seeking the Austin aleport in a fog, crashed into the rear portion of the home of Rev. L. J. Herrington, smash- but ing that part of the building, without injuring any of the seven occupants of the house.
DECEMBER 9, 1937.
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The plane
then smashed into the in Japanese and American reintions back part of an adjoining house be will come when Japan attempts to longing to Mr. Albright, kliling consolidate her conquest into trade Leonard S. Albright, his two-year- and economic advantages. It is in-old son. Mr. Albright in a tutor of the Mattaching....The Constant Lambert dicated that they will protest vigor- University of TexnA,
String Orchestra Cond: Constant ously against any Japanese attempt to The child was sleeping at the time, Lambert. close the "open door and have drawn with his elder brother, Spencer S.
12 Close Down. the attention of Mr. Cordell Hull,
Albright, who was cut about the ness by cabling the Consuls for fuil
The and exact information and reports in- tentatively identified us Capt. F. A. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES dicating that the Japanese propose to Avelino, a Mexican Army officer and sim. The DBC Military Band, assume control of the Customs be-student of Kelly Field:
Dn A long Debris of the plane and both 8.3 a.m. "Empire Exchange." sides reducing dulles list of Japanese products..
houses were tangled and it required... The People Dance. more than an hour to reach and cut 4.0 am. The News and Announcements. the plane's metal to extricate the mangled pilot.-United Presi.
wrong. What he had just said was who has acted with his usual prompt- facelot was killed. He has been
**
His description to Mr. Marks on September 22 that Chan's body was feet Inside the station was three
correct,
his recollection was better now, than on September 22 because he had discussed the matter with several people. He realised the significance of the difference in the description: If what he had told Mr. Marks was correct, Chan would not have been sent to the Kwong Wah
have been a Hospital, us it would Police case.
Mr. Whyatt: Did you take any Mr. Keen sut as Coroner and the steps to ascertain whether Chan had a wife or relatives after you had Jury comprised Mesars. John Revie
sen ilm to hospital?-No, because (Foreman), William Law, and A. F. dos Remedios. Mr. J. Whyntt, Assist was entirely up to the detectives
to make these enquiries. tant Attorney-General, and Mr. R. H. E. Marks, A.S.P., watched the But surely it was your respon- proceedings on behalf of the Palice. sibility when you sent him to that While agreeing with the Jury the hosplial?--I took it for granted that he was not married when I was in- Coroner expressed the opinion that a verdict of manslaughter against performed he had no fixed abode. Bon or persons unknown suitable.
was more
It is an unusual thing to let tho matter slide, isn't I? Yes.
INSPECTOR'S EVIDENCE
S. I. Hynes said it was an invariable practice of the Kowloon Hospital to The only witness yesterday was Sub-Inspector W. Hynes, He said hold a post-mortem examination of that at 5.30 p.m. on August 31 District any one who died there. In the Kwong Wah Hospital this was not the Watchman 38 brought Chan to be normal practice, but during the questioned in connection with the Larceny of the sewing machine and cholera epidemie a special order was he told Detective C454 to take the made to have post-mortem examina- party to the detectives' office for fur- tion of every dead person there. ther Inquiries, He told Sergeant Nolan to take charge of the inquiries.
At 7 pm. Sergeant Nolan told him that Chun could not be connected with the alleged crime and would be released. Two hours later Chan left In the direction of the main door.
"About four or five minutes later," continued S. I. Hynes, C434 pointed to the steps of the station where I saw Chan lying on the grou
Bround
wealth
· DEATH FROM VIOLENCE In his summing-up, Mr. Keen sald that according to the doctor, a spleen could be ruptured by a slight blow, but violence was necessary to cause broken. Therefore, the ribs to be death
must have been caused by violence.
Omelals decline to indicate or guess the length to which the United States miny proceed in the event of any Ja- panese attempt to close the "open door." However, Mr. Hull has sold that if necessary the United States must and will fight for its treaty rights.
While committed to a policy of peace, he frankly confesses that it is a policy demanding the respect of all nations,-United Press.
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YUNNAN TO HANDI
Eurasia Opens New Line For Weekly Service.
Greenwich Time Signal 'at 1.45 um. 0a.m. Big Ben, Wheels." A feature programme by Jonquil Antony, - Produc- ion by Pascoe Thornton.
10 am. Big Blen. "Food for Thought,” 100 a.m. Light Classical Programme. 11.10 nm. The News and Announcer Ex. Greenwich Time Signai at 11.15 amTİ. 11.30 am. Bongs we used to sing,' 11.50 a.m. 'Getting Ready for Christmas." 4.13 p.m. Big Ben. Jack Payne with his
'Shanghai,, Dec., 0. Following a successful test fight, Dand. the Eurnala Aviation Corporation | 4.30 pm. Food for Thought." formally inaugurated the Yunnan-5-10 pm. The Chamber Music of Schubert 8.35 pm. The News and Announcements. Greenwich. Time Signal at 8.40 pm. 3.33 pm. Wheels.
Onc
1.
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SYMPATHY FOR CHINA Hanoi ne on December
round trip will be made weekly,
Arrangements are also being made to link the service with other ines London Comments On
of the Corporation. When these are off Nanking's Plight completed the planes will take
from Hankow for Yunnanfu, viu Sian and Chengtu, on Wednesdays London, Dec. #.
leave Yunnanfu for Hanoi on Thura- Nanking's tragle position excites days. The same day they will fly the wildest. aympathy and many nor back to Yunnanfu from Hanol, re- mally uninterested in the Far East suming the trip on Fridays to Slán commiserate with the poor Chin- and Hankow-Reuter,
esc."
BUILT BY STUDENTS
The effect of Chiang Kai-shek's canvassed, Ad- departure is much miration for the gallant Chinese cf-
not prevent a general Three Machines Planned For forts does
Aeronautical College feeling that China will get terms by making peace now than by prolonged resistance.
better
In an inquiry of this kind, there
The Times says that Chiang Kai- were three alternate verdicts, natural shek is always a dour man and now death
or manslaughter. he is desperate. death, accidental
It stressed a thou- Judging from the medical evidence, sand difficulties and expenses for the first two could be ruled out, and Japan in consolidating the occupied therefore manslaughter was the only territory, and her long term pros- possible verdict.
pects in China are not reassuring. Witnesses fell into three groups The Dally Matt experts the fall of the uninterested ones such as the Nanking to bring a favourable opper- doctor and ambulance workers, Dis-tunity for making peace. trict Watchman 38 and the com-
A warning is given by the News Chronicle against Japan being al- lowed to borrow abroad to finance capital development in China.
his legs partly on the footpath and partly on the steps. C454 said Chan was suffering from pain in the stomach, suspected to have been caused by oplum. I ordered an ambulance and asked the interpreter to put the man's name in the sick and destitute book. Chan was taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital."
Sub-Inspector Hynes then went on alainant and Chinese and European to say that on September 2 he recely-Police Meers. Being uninteresed, ed n telephone message from the the first group need nut be taken doctor in charge of the Mortuary into consideration, but the evidence that Chan lind died from a ruptured given by the other two was more or spleen and broken ribs,
less contradictory. It was for the Jury to deelde which one of these two groups was responsible for the manslaughter.
JURY'S FINDINGS
Papers in Paris, nervously canvass the results of a Japanese victory. Some warn Japan of the dangers of war attrition-Reuter.
Questioned by Mr. Whyatt, S, I Hynes said that if he knew then that Chan was married and had a fixed abode he would not have sent him to
fact of the special order in relation the Hospital. When the Distric:
to the cholera epidemie, the cause of Watchman brought Chan to the
The Jury retired for about 15, Chan Sun's death would never have charge-room-he-made-an-accusation minutes and returned-the-following-been revealed. We respectfully-sug- against him and his (witness's)
indings:
gest that an order be made to make to object then wan ascertain whether there was any foundation in it. We find C454 guilty of man- it impossible for a body to be buried
slaughter:
without the cause of death being first NOTHING IN BOOK
ascertained and certified,
Mr. Whyrtt: Did you enter the matter in the rough book?---No, I was busy at the time.
We consider a deliberate attempt, The Coroner: 1 gree with all the was made to conceal what actually Jury has said, with the exception accurred and that the conduet of Sub-, that I consider manslaughter against How long do you take to make | Inspector Hynes is highly reprehea~; person o" persons unknown nore such an entry?-Say three minutes.rible; and
suitable.
So at 5.30 pan, you were too inisy We view with the gravest concer')) Detective C454 was brought to the to spare three minuter?--Yes. The that, but for the almust accidental; Court and told of the Jury's findings,
Accep
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London, Dec. 8. Students
the of
College Aeronautical Engineering are about to undertake construction of three light aeroplanes. One is to be bullt to a special design for the Air League of the British Empire. In another case a well-known designer hos ask- ed the College to build a new type of light aircraft for him. The third machine will be that chosen in com- petition for a £100 prize arranged by the College to evoke the best possible design of light aeroplane..
The competition is open to all and has attracted entries from places na for apart as Helland, California, Canada, and South Africa--British wireless.
PHILIPPINES FEARS
Only One of Two Missing Planes Discovered
Manila, Dec. 8.
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'Long-distance Listening.". 650 Am. *Mernortes of Queen Victoria,"
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NEW MEDICAL DISCOVERIES ABOUT
INDIGESTION
Rellef-quick relief—in your one over- whelming necessity when suffering from stomach pains and Indigestiei. That is One of the two aeroplanes which why lending medical authorities-special- set off from Cebu for Manila yeater-Ista doctors hospitals-recommend and day
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There is no news of the other planche latest developments in medical prac
They know (far they are in touch with which was carrying Major-General
Santos, chief of staff of the Philip-tie) that recent medical research and pine Army, and Lieut. William Lee, numerous X-ray photographs of actual of the United States Army. Grave cases of indigestion, have proved Bisur- fears are felt for the occupants ated' Magnesia to be the quickest-acting Reuter Bulletin.
and the most effective stomach remedy known to medical science.
Ble Search Planned
Manila, Dec. 8.
*B❘surated" Magnesia 13 A completa treatment for the prompt reitez ot all stomach troubles. Not only is it a potent Five United States army bombers neutraliser of the harmful acids which will be used on Thursday at a cruis-cause Indiges and stomach ulcers-it ing range permitting a comprehen- also spreads a soothing, protecting nim sive search of Tayabas and Sierra Madre mountain wilderness, in form- er bandit country, which virtually impenetrable and where the fliers will conceivably live undiscovered for weeks.
An organised army of civilians will cover hundreds of square miles in the two provinces nad Pollllo islands in the most extenslye search In local history. It is feared by some that the plane in which Major-Gen. Santos was travelling sank in the Eastern Luzon coast-United Press.
EURASIA PLANĖ
Yesterday's Arrivals By
Air from Hankow -
The following passengers arrived from Hankow yesterday by the Eurasia Aviation Corporation plane:
G. S. Chang, S. P. Chol, Ma Lien- alang, Ma Ru-yao, Ma Llen-mac, Mrs. Ma Deer Sce-yock, Y. H. More. T. C. Yao, Hung Chan-chien, Ma Bow-sin, Mrs. Kel Fon Chun, S. F. Nhok, Ý. T. Họ, I W. Wonki Charlotte Mary MacEwan, John I. MacEwan, C. f. Work. Chi Ting-mua.
BANGKOK SERVICE
Statement By Eden In House of Commons
London, Dec, 0.
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