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that letter she saw Hyndman and spoke to him with regard to the contents of that letter. She told him that she was going out the next day but not with him.
The Crown Advocate read the letter as follows:-
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Hotel Metropole Co., Ld.
31st August, 1906 DARLING WINNIE,-I am sending you by, the risksha coolie the articles requested. I will be home later. Don't wait for me for dinner, I will be home soon after. Darling, be good and true to me for once, Dollie.
Yours all in a sweat and busy, with loving kisses. Yours only,
PETER.
Go to bed and rest youself and to-morrow we shall have a good day's outing."
Cross-examined by Mr. Andrews-At the time this letter was written witness was engaged to marry Hyndman. They were engaged before she went to Wubu. The letter produced, dated | August 18th, was written by witness to Hyod-
She also wrote the other letter, produced, | to Mr. Hyndman on his birthday in August.
Mr. Andrews proceeded to read the letters :-
August 18th, 1906. Darling Peter,
man.
Thanks very much for the present you 80 kindly sent Charlie; be is awfull pleased with it. All the morning he has been asking for you and watching for you. I have still got the pain but not very bad. Hoping to see you soon. Yours for ever.
WINNIE ROSE.
P. S. All this space meaus kisses, take one at a time, Dolly, (Don't mind pencil.)' "PETER DEAR,
Bince every circumstance which associates itself with you finds interest in my eyes, I cannot allow the anniversary of your birth to pass without hailing it as the auspicious day which, by giving you to the world, indirectly becomes to me also the advent of a bright and happy existence.
My heart is too full to congratulate you in appropriate terms, but what is wanting in eloquence I will endeavour to convey in earnestness. May you live to see many of these occasions; and may each succeeding anniversary find you happier than the last and leave you still entering upon the threshold of new joys!
I have enclosed a trifling memento of the event which you will greatly please me by accepting and wearing. It is accompanied by every wish which affection and solicitude can dictate. And with repeated assurances of my deep and abiding regard,
Believe me,
Dear Peter, Yours ever affectionately and devotedly,
WINNIE DOROTHY MOLLIE ROSE.
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Witness said "Charlie" was her four-years old son. In further reply to Mr. Andrewshe said that she did not think she was in Wuhu & month. She lived there with her brother! who held a position in the Customs there. The ring produced witness gave to Peter Hyndman after she was betrothed to him.
警官
It was a
Mizpah ring. The ring meant The Lord watch between me and thee while we are absent from one another." After witness came back to Shanghai from Wubu they were still betrothed as man and wife. Hyndman was living in the city then. Afterwards he went to live in Dent Road with witness's brother. Witness asked him to go there. He was to pay board there. Hyndman went to live in Dent Road with witness, her brother John, her brother Markie, her sister Katie and witness's two little children. Witness had been to Smith's house before Sept. 1st. It was one afternoon. She had known Smith some time. The idea was to go there to tea. Sometimes they had a drink. Smith tried to drug her ouce. The first time witness went to Smith's house she went with her sister Katie. That was in the afternoon. Witness's sister Katie was fourteen years of age. The next time she went her sister Katie and her own two children went with her. That was also in the afternoon. The next time she went the shooting took place. Mr. Smith invited witness to his house the first time. Her brother Markie had gone round to get a situation and be told witness that Mr. Smith might call round. He did so. That was how she met him. Witness did not know whether she told Hyndman the first
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time she want round to Smith's, but she told him the second time. That was the time there was some trouble about drugging. The next time she visited the hous War on the afternoon of September 1st. On the afternoon of the second visit Smith
gav. witness a bottle of bear and it made her sick. Witness lay on the bel for a little time and then she went home. On that occasion her sister was with her. Hyndman told her that she was not to go to Smith's house. Smith, when she told him, said Don't be afraid of him. Winnie, because I will put an ounce of lead into him." He told her that the second time she went and also the last time. She had told Smith that Hyndman was jealous, also that she was engaged to Hyndman. She also told Smith that Hyndman threatened what he would do if he caught them together and Smith said : "Don't be afraid. Winnie, for I will put an ounce of lead into him." Cn the afternoon of Septem. her ist. Smith went out of the room. She did not know how far he weat as he shut the door behind him. He came back and said Look out. Winnie, it's Hyndman." Witness went out on to the verandah to get away. She did not see what happened. The two men were struggling in the doorway together. Witness ran to try to get downstairs as she was very frightened,
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violent vengeance on the man. I cannot feel that you are in that position and, though I do not consider your crime one of great enormity, I must pass upon you a sentence which will let the community know that the foolish and reck- less carrying of firearms is not to be encouraged, and that when a man does put himself in the position in which you pat yourself he must take the consequences of his own acts. I sentence you to be kept in prison for eighteen calendar months with hard labour.
The public receiv›l the sentencs with cheers which were continued after His Lordship had hurriedly left the Court.
THE SIKH TROUBLE AT
SHANGHAI,
BRITISH BLUEJACKETS NECESSARY.
A Daily Press telegram dated Shanghai, Oct her 1st said:
Eight ringleaders of the Sikh police who refused duty, as reported in previous telegram, demanding higher pay, were charged this morn. ing before Sir Havilland de Susmarez. The charge was that they by refusing duty thereby endangered the lives and property of the com
They were escorted to the Court by
munity.
Counsel bere produced the latter from Hyndman to his father with reference to his bluejackets, and were accompanied by many marriage to witness.
sympathisers. Witness said Hyndman read this letter to
The Judg appealed to their loyalty, promis. her two days before the tragedy. He read thing that an investigation of their grievances whole letter. The marked paragraph referred
would be made after they had done a mouth s to witness.
duty.
Couusel read the letter which
was dited August 30th. It commenced My Dear Father." After referring to certain private matters it went on Father, I amx still single, but I may safely say that by the end of this year or at least the beginning of next I shall have a home of my own and I may with some prido say that she is Irish and pretty." The letter was sigued:
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P. SIDNEY HYNDMAN, Mr. Andrews explained that the letter was found in Mr. Hyndman's pocket after his arrest. Mr. McNeill asked witness a question and
instead of replying to it she said "It is all my own fault this what I have got." She admitted that in addition to Smith there was "one other gentleman who had given prisoner cause for jealousy.
John Vincent Murphy, tidewaiter, brother of Mrs. Rose, said that she and Hyndman quarrelled over Smith, but remained friendly, and their engagement was not broken off. Smith wrote asking Mrs. Rus to go to Japan with him. Smith was about 10; she was 28.
In view of the provocation, the jury decided that prisoner was guilty of manslaughter only. He got off with the light penalty already
mentioned.
The Judge's address to the jury in the Shanghai shooting case was strongly in favour of the prisoner,
Sir Havilland de Saumarez spoke at great length on the points of self-defence and provocation. The most significant pa sage was as follows: All the different facts had been placed before them in evidence, and undoubtedly a great many of them were consistent with the fact of this mau baring gone out with the intention of redeeming his sweetheart rather than punishing his rival, and when he met them together he was so transported with rage by what he saw that he shot his rival. If they thought this was the case they could find à verdict of manslaughter."
Addressing the prisoner his Lordship said:- Peter Sydney Hyndman, you have been convicted of the crime of manslaughter. The jury have taken, I am glad to say, a lenient view of your conduct on this occasion. They thought that the provocation which you were subjected to so wrought on your emotions and your feelings that for the moment your will was suspended and that the intent which would be presumed from your acts did not exist. At the same time I cannot bat help feeling that you you were more rash in this matter than you were justified in being. The case of a husband who finds a wife whom he believes to be faithful to him in a position of that kind is one which might excuse him almost from receiving any punishment at all for taking such sudden and
Subsequently His Lordship addressed thi general body of Sikhs in the Consular com. pound to a similar effect.
The bluejackets were dismissel. The crowd of Sikhs marched off, but many of them cou- ducted themselves in a disorderly manner, and all were grumbling.
THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.
Indian Engineering says:-It seems to us a bare dozen years since Captain Nathan, R.E., was a familiar figure at Simla as one of the
younger lions of the Defence Committee. Since then he has been at the Horse Guards, later on became a Political on the Gold Coast, and is now Sir Matthew Nathan, the capable and, we under- We are very glad, if only for the sake of his old staud, very popular Governor of Hongkong. association with Engineering in India, to learu that Sir Matthew is busy making things ham in the matter of railway communications. Tha information that Hongkong is going to spend already chronicled in these pages. two millions sterling on railways has been high time that British interests in China It is very began as they now seem to have done to look out for themselves instead of waiting for more German and Belgian initiatives. Sir Matthew Nathau every success in this We wish
project and shall look out with interest for further and more techuical details.
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THE DUTIES AT NEWCHWANG.
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.
The Japan Chronicle recently reported that the Japanese Military Administration Office at Newchwang had abolished a likin duty (5 per cant. ad valorem) on white peas (daizn) and oilcake exported by Chinese marchants. It now states that the abolition of the duty was effected under instructions from the Governor-General of Kwantung.
Since Russia retrocaded the Liaosi district to China in October 1902, the Chinese Govern- ment has established likin offices at Tienshautai aud the Hopei station, on the shore opposite Newchwang, and has haan collecting likin on the goods brought to Newchwang by the Liao River and the Liaopsi Railway. When the duty is imposed by the Newchwang Customs, the Chinese have had to pay double duties on the same goods. Recently the Chinese merchants addressed a petition to the Mukden General, asking that the likin duty imposed by the Newchwang Customs be abolished. The Mukden General roferred the petition to the Governor-General of Kwangting, with the result stated.
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