1938-07-27 — Page 19

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, · JULY 27,

1935.

Personalities of Old Hongkong

FROM WEALTH TO A PAUPER'S GRAVE

One Of Our Early-Day Adventurers

SEL

By T. Paul Gregory

ELDOM has a man come out to the Far East better prepared to build for himself a succoss- ful career than Mr. Percy Caulincourt Mc- Swyney, an Irishman of brilliant intellectual attainments, a keen classical scholar, and a lawyer of some eminence. But in spite of all these attributes he sank in a few years to ignominy and tragedy.

Mr. Percy

were the harbour

His

Me-Station. The money was alleged to Caulincourt

A good have been stelen by Chinese whom Swyncy was born of

it was believed would be certain to by about 1810. family in Ireland

altempt to make a "get-away"

Accordingly, the He was educated at the Univer-bout to Marno.

it would be sity of Dublin, and studied for sall-maker thought it

the Bar. After runt idea if the Chinese craft in

searched. admission to graduation, he was paid to have theme won the approbation of gone out to Australia in order Inspector, and the sail-maker set out a Police As they to seek his fortune; but failing on his quest accompanied by a

ney Constable named Jenkins, there, he decided to come to the

were sailing about the harbour in newly-opened Colony of Hong- kong.

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TALL TALE TROPHY

And now they're offering a prize for "the one that got away Pretty Virginia Ann Switzer holds the trophy to be given the angler catching the greatest number of torpor and timerli- ately releasing the fish unharmed, in the St. Petersburg, Florida. Anglers' Club annual roundup. Each contestant will be taken at

his word.

the vicinity of West Point they en- countered large Chinese Junk.

of the that of a certain Mr. Robertson who Whether Th approach forebunes

the Itis sojourn in the Antipodes earn-

Chinese was sued by Mr. McSwyney for costs frightened

20 alleged to be due Jim. Mr. Robert- but see ed for him a reputation of being an

abourd is not known, but

was the user Fund sperat some and son adventurer, and he was classed upon

or 30 men jumped overboard July

Afteen monta in gaol, ari enum out in his arrival in the Colony

the shore

smarting for revenge against the man some vessel, 1843, as "another one of those Syd-struck out for

arriving at the

wronged him.

13

ney durks" who seemned at that day himise were foul aboard, together who had so greatly

to have been present here in con- siderable numbers,

STARTED NEWSPAPER

11

with

were

JAPANESE ROUTED IN SHANSI

Shansi, the

ME RADIO

BROADCAST

"Gert and Daisy" Take A "Zoo 'Oliday"

A STUDIO RECITAL

Radio Programme

Broadcast by

Z.D.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. ond on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. and 8-11

sceond.

p.m.

on 0.52 m.d's. per

6.00 Dance Musio and Variety. Fox-Trots-Taln't No Use; When

A Lady Meets n Gentleman Down South....Teddy Foster

and His Kings of Swing (Vocal refrain by Teddy Foster); Vocal-Was It Rain? (From "The Hit Parade'); Sweet Heartache (From The Hit Parade') Frances Longford with Victor Young and His Orchestra; Fox-Trots-Who Loves You; Foolish Heart....Ronnie Orchestra; Munro and His Danco Vocal-South Sea Island Magic.... Bing Crosby with Dick McIntire and Is Harmony Hawallans; Me And The Moon....Bing Crosby with Vie- for Young and Ilis Orchestra; Fux- Trots--Let Me Dream Of Havana; I Dream Of San Marino.....Ronnie Munro and His Organ Solo Parade Of

Dince

Tin

Selection; Intro:-Parade of the Soldiers; The Mosquitoes Parade: My Love Parade; Match Parade; Easter Parade of the Sunbeams; Parade....Quentin M. Maclean (Or Kan); Fax-Trots--Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (From 'Shall we Dance'); They Can't Take That Away From Me (From 'Shall we Dance) Roy Fox and is Orchestra with "Me vocal refrain; Plano Solo-Let Play-by Vivian Ellis (fn which the Composer introduces Ofteen of his best known It was such tactles as these which

tunes).

... Vivian Ellis him- of knives, swords, a quantity

nd won for him universal hatred in thei

(Plano) (Soloist: Vivian Ellis, and other weapons. Duncan and

The Colony and hastened his own down-

Chengelow, July 7. self); Waltz-Love Live For Ever Jenkins minediately jumped to the fall. His conduct as a barrister fed

Between 300 and 400 Japanese And Rule My Heart; Fox-Trot

And Kiss lais rebriusirm that these men, the whole than cald stor visiters to Mr. Miley ney, Chilewen, suntives of Anyl, cru the

his disbornens in but soldiers attempted to surround Girls Were Made Tu Love And

....Jack Hylton and His Orchestra Mr McSwyney, shortly after establish

12. Upon bringing them 10 The

south arrival, proceeded to

for he took up opium dealing, and

with vocal refrain by Bert Yarlett. newspaper Magistracy, the Magistrate. Mr. Was son credited with a comfortable Tungpu Ratiway in

7.00 Gilbert and Sullivan Excerpts. "borrowed capital

nonce-Overture This Huber, entered into this singular fortune.

hyesterday, but were routed by Globe.

ine. About this Eastern

"Pirates Of Penzance" thune, tou, he Chinese defenders. called the

"The drame, by sentencing four of the became acquainted with Chinese

Light Opera Orchestra; enterprise which at first seemed to

50 be so full of promise was in reality men (all residents of Victoria) to

The Japanese enveloping move Yeomen Of The Guard"; A Man Who

Mald... ment was staged early in the murn-Would Woo A Fair

Derck an nugury of what was in the future strokes of the rattan and ordering woman, by mune, A-ho. She repre-

Nellu the entre them to be turned over in the Man sented herself to be the widow of a for the man that was

ing.

Chinese forces inside and out. Oldham, Winifred wealthy Fukienese merchant, darin at Kowloon. The other nine promised slaiked from the

that if Mr. McSwyney

simultaneous Briercliffe; When A Weoer Gues A- preneur, Pallure

Winifred

N. Lawson, "folded

up" were sent to prison for three months would marry her, she would make side the city launched start, and the paper

with hard labour.

life, D. after putting out but six

ever to him all her property alleged attacks and challenged the Japanese Wooing..

Oldham and G. Baker, Issues,

D. Gill and P. secured a

Rapture! Rapture The Pre Evidence in the Mr. McSwyney then

This proved

Chinese

Pretty

Young position as Clerk to the Magistrate,

retreated,

Bride (Finale, Act 2 Full Com- Major Cuine, and continued in that strong. It was simply the word of consisting of a considerable amount band-to-hand combat.

Onc pany; Leonard, My Loved post until the opening of the Supreme the two foreigners and the additional quite un Inducement to the disbarred onslaught, the Japanese

int larms, and that some of her crew had lawyer, and he at once went up with leaving over 200 dead on the field.-

property. Central News.

(Finale, Act 2)....Winifred Lawson, a large house

which

Derek Oldham, George Baker and Chorus, ment was that of Deputy-Registrar jumped overboard at their approach. A-ho pointed ou

harmless me, and that of the Court, but this was likewise it was afterwards affirmed that the the stated to be hers, and introduced him to a man whom she declared was afraid of the her brother-in-law. This Individual short-lived; for he resigned "under vessel was a ha

T+ It was were so

was pressure" on May 1, 1845.

their ten export firm and was stated to given out, however, that the reason

foreigners that they fled for

were have been delighted to meet his pro- ! Ilves. Of these for his resignation was his desire to

bodies, spective European relative. He fur- practice law; but it appears that the drowned and four of their Assumption of the legal vocation was

were washed up on the island the ther promised Mr. McSwyncy that he Chick following day,

would take him into full partnership, In reality a forced decision.

hate-

and let him manage the export por Justice John Walter Hulme,

McSwynev

tion of his flourishing business. Mr. ever, felt sorry for Mr.

McSwyney wns, of course, delighted and admitted him to practice in the

and could hardly wait for his retur cieto the Colony in order to marry the

was case

Court on October 1, 1844, when he facts that the vessel carried became Clerk.

His next

next appoint-

Caulincourt

press

nat

Jy

of real estate in Canton.

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the woman to look over

ver the

and

Unable to withstand the

Dawson; Comes

Lawson,

7.25 Closing Local Stock Quota-

the men attitude of the armed was supposedly the master of a large THIRTEEN HELD INon Variety with Sandy Powell,

men,

five

woman by Chinese custom.

HAPPINESS SHORT.LIVED

MURDER PLOT

worn

are

The Muls Brothers and Josephine Bakker.

Jungle Fever (From 'Spy 13'); Sleepy Head (From 'Spy 13')....The boys with a Mills Brothers (four Guitar); Suppose (B. Dixen and J. Dimon); Pretty Little Baby (Silvers, Josephine

Baker and Bernie) Sandy Goes

Baker with Orchestra;

to Courting-Humorous

07-

Sketch

Sandy

And Company; Shoe Shine Boy (Chaplin, Cahn); Rhythm Saved The World (Cohn, Chaplin).

The Mills Brothers (Four boys and Guitar); Dis-Mol Josephine? Vornn, Cab and Bela); Nous De La Canne A Suere? (Lelievre, Varna and Paddy)..... Josephine Baker with Melodic Jazz Du Casino De Paris conducted by Edmond Mahieux.

Sun Juan, Porto Rico, July 26. Thirteen arrests have been made following the attempted aзenssination ENTER McSWYNEY

of Governor Winship yesterday. Tegal

Mr. McSwyney as the Coroner

Two of the arrested men Court. Mr. McSwyney's

appeared on the scene of this

alleged

10 have confessed advertisement in the local

From

participation in the plot.-Reuter, (lawyers were permitted to advertise druma as a principal actor.

November 2, the follows: October 20 14

A United Press message states that at that time) reads

one of the shuts McSwyncy, Coroner's inquest was held, and if "Perry

ctually pierced the we are to believe the contemporary

by the barrister-at-law, attorney, solicitor,

thoroughly muddled.

In the exuberance of his joy at leg of the trousers

made #1 Governor, who, however, proctor, and notury public.

Counts, it was can be consulted at his offices, corner Mr. McSwyney's Incompetency man-being the husband of a wealthy wife,

on he gave the new Mrs. McSwyncy half-hour ceremonial speech,

many valuable trinkets. of Wellington and Cochrane Streets." fested at the previous inquest

Alas, how-parently unmover by the affair. this July 15, was on

occasion A

Six persons were injured in the be short- to be is unneces-ever, his happiness was thousand-fold worse.

Found scule with the gunmen. came rounci sary to go into ull the details of how lived. When the time

the rentals sup- colicet the the matter was AD Mr. McSwyncy seemed

30 thoroughly bia

his wife's ex- accruing from posedly bungled, but Mr. McSwyney, some friends remaining in influential positions in the colonini administra other capacity of

legal practitioner

ertensive holdings, he thought it best tu!

the trip personally. He there- tion; for in the middle of the follow-

nine prisoners who neted for the tag year, he secured the post had been sent to gaol, and secured fore went up to Canton, and his ex- for be Coroner. His appointment was duly their release on n habens corpus on perience dashed his hopes;

These nine Chinese found out that he had been swindled, in the

November 18, Gazette on June 13, 1848 as effective having been proven innotent, there Nothing was known of the brother- from May 20. If he could have re- yet remained the case of the four in-law, and the property holdings of tained this new post, it would have been a very good thing for him, ne who had been forged and sent to his wife were proven absolutely non- Front, where, in the last year of the Theme By Haydn

the Mandarin at Kowloon. Further existent. he had in addition his private legal

amore, there were the five men who practice, which was beginning to had been drowned in the harbour. develop favourably. Fate, however, On this latter count, the soil-maker

MADE CORONER

to

announced

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his

have

Government

on

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in

for him to

day ve very

WIFE DISCHARGED

THE QUEEN'S EDINBURGH

(Continued from Page 6.)

Royal Scots went to the

Western

war, the 4th joined it, though they were not brigaded together.

War Renown

One can imagine his anger and held otherwise, and in an inquest on and the constable were held on a disappointment. He hurriedly re-

charge

manalaughter. The turned to Hongkong, and vented his After the Armistice reduction of Chinese girl on July 15, he mattorney for the accused Englishmen wrath upon the

first serious blunder.

woman. It must our Forces was the fashion, so the 4th had wornun was a prostitute who been turned out to die, her mistress was Mr. Edward Farmcomb, a elever have been a dreadful scene, as she and 50: were télescoped and became

who Inwyer,

was turned out of the house. A few Giving as an excuse for her cruel (November 18) that Mr. McSwynty days later, he laid charges against his but Royal Scots (Queen's Exin- action that she fears! "Jest her house had soured the release of the nine wife of theft, and when the case was

burgh.)

Now the combined battalion has be deft d by the girl remaining men, also managed to turn the tables brought before the Magistrate. Mr. C. been givers (as mentioned above) an there." The Door woman was on him and have his clients

interesting and Im Accordingly driven out upon the hill-on the

charge of man. Hillier, the latter apparently was exceedingly

nonplussed as to how to deal with the portant task, to man the searchlights side, where she shortly died from This was in fact

to Mr. Mc case

e in law. He accordingly decided belonging to the anti-aircraft forec hunger and exposure.

having confused Swyney deliberate from beginning to end, first with his to remand the woman to answer for the defence of Edinburgh and Its ense of

any charge that might be brought vicinity,

More recruits are wanted, and the reper, Chue A-kwei, but Mr. Mc-In fact, when the Chief Justice. Mr. The Attorney-General, Mr. Paul Ivy writer would suggest that any on Syncy stated that the unfortunate Hulme, delivered his judgment, he Sterling in dealing with the matter young man who may be cogitating on

stated that the whole crenture "died by visitation of God."

eventually decided that there was no irregular, and! Such a statement by the

the la lives in) cannot do better

city men had been

dog Mr. McSwyney's wife, and had never than visit the Queen's Edinburgh drowned, thirteen men but been nog been divorced, so consequently the e Mc-ged, and

Headquarters, Forrest Road, and have nine

more- was discharged.

talls with the authorities there, Mr. McSwyney

his Less and inefficient handling of the care-

On the very day that he was em- He will receive cordial welcome.

It seemed a

the

case

murder on the part of the brothel inquest in his capnelty as Coco angeunst her by the Attorney General."

Coroner

8.00 Local Time, Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 Joseph Sziget (Violin). Sonata In D Major (Handel); Ron-

Major" do (From "Sonata in D Schubert Op. 53-arr, Friedberg),

8.20 Brahms-Variations On A

Antoni

("St.

Chorale") Op. 58A,

Played by the Philharmonic Sym- phony Orchestra of New York com- ducted by Arturo Tosennini.

8.37

Studio-A Reeltal by Mrs. Nell Mathieson (Contralto) necom-

by

Lafford panted

Lindsay A, (Piano).

Songs by Charles Villers Stanford. 1. (a) John Kelly; (b) The City Child. Mrs. Neil Mathieson;

New Irish Rhapsody (Herbert)...... Light Symphony Orchestra: 3, Three rom 'An Irish Idyll'; (a) The Songs From Fairy Lough; (b) Guttin' Hushes; (c) Johneen...Mrs. Nell Mathieson. 9.07 London Symphony Orchestra. "Crown Of India" Suite, Op. (Elgar); 1. Introduction and Dance of Nautch Girls; 2. Minuet; Warriors' Dance;

Janec: 4. March of the

No. 6 (Elgnr); Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F (Liszt-Doppler).

9.30 London Relay-The News. 0.50

B.B.C. itecording "Zoo

Light 'OHJay"---A

Entertainment with Gert und Dalsy' (Elsie and Doris Waters).

3.

under the clrcumstances was bound/void. "Five innoc procece on case at all; for the women was shit how he can serve his country (and Mogul Emperors! Pomp And Cir-

not to passed, and the

populace was

the

for n

Wat

Mr.

imp ad in

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subsequently | less and matter so utterly con- barking for Singapore to buy opium and if he decides to join up he will

J. It. Lesile Gray

cumstance

March

Swyney had "bungled," and although the mistress

discharged with ease arrested, sho was the payment of a small fine. Such trary to all legal principles that the he was sued for damages in Une Court have the satisfaction of feeling that he an action on the part of the official affair turned out to be on awkward by the man, whom as was mentioned is learning to help in the direct de-

Book by Elsie and Doris Waters Caroner was neither forgotten nor meas that was a shame on court pro- fteen months over a debt in costs. fellow-citizens, against a most brutal before, was thrown into uol for fence of his own family, and of la

and Ashley Sterne: Lyrics by Elaje Sterno populace wha

Waters, Music by Ashley wns leedure and the administration of Jus forgiven, and the anxious that he should be speedily lee in the Colony. Bitterly did the Mr. McSwyney realised that, he was form of attack.

Produced by-Charles Brewer, relieved of his post. The adminis- Chief Justice lash Mr. McSwyncy, going to fare

to fare badly if his ex-ellent

10,44 Dance Records,

Life (From Fox-Trois-All My tration, however, whilst highly in- and the Government now took action won his case: for local opinion regard

twelve Laughing Irish Eyes'); Laughing censed at bla incapacity decided to and on November 24, 1816, he was re-ed him more or less us a parinis.

The Film)... season, until more moved from the office of Coroner. bide its time

Consequently, he attempted to find this, he was sentenced to

Irish Eyca (From sumetent reasons should occur for his

loophole, by taking advantage of the months in tas). After his release

Johnny Johnson and His Orchestra; subirie award of permanent conge. It did

Insolvent Act. His wealth which now from Imprisonment, his downfall was

Hard Nearly Died....The B.B.C. not inve long to walt; for on Octo-

After his dismissal from offee, Mr. amounted to a considerable sum, he rapid, In vain, did he attempt to make Comedy Fox-Trol-1 Loughed So

attempted to

to put away in other hands, a living as a pettifogging agent in the

Dance Orchestra directed by. Henry ber 27, 1840 occurred an

McSwyney continued in his vocation and in fact, so thoroughly did he do mall debt court. Shunned by every which was to bring about his dis-ng a barrister for a time, but he seeing that he could never subsequently jone, he contracted dysentery, and Hall with vocal chorun: Slow Fox-

to have made himself such a thorough

'Coreless "wolf" that he earned for himself recover it. When his plea for brak-pileously begged for ntimission to the Trol--It's A Sin To Tell A Lic; Waltz Rapture')....The B.D.C. Dance Or- the condemnation of all the other ruptcy was heard on September 14, Seamen's Ilospital. Here he died-Music In May (From legal practitionera then in the Colony. 1840, it was naturally opposed, and without a friend to comfort him on On this date, a certain pail-maker, He appears to have acted with great he was, moreover, proven stulty of December 27, 1850, at the early age ehestra directed by Henry Hail, with

and mak-of forty, and was buried in a pauper's vocal chorus,

11.00 Close Down. For grave in the Happy Valley Cemetery. Duncan by name, reported the loss benrtlessness in a number of cases suppression of property

One was lug a fraudulent declaration. the Central Poilee involvingt his own climts. £200 to of

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