Verbal Agreement Unconsidered Judgment for $1,165 and costs was awarded Mr. E. F. Toeg, a real estate agent act ig for Chinese Tandlords, Lil, M.' Supreme Court, on Thurs: Judge P. Grant Jones, day, in an action against Mrs, Abraham:
The plaintitt (represented by Mx HA." Recks) stated that the defendant. was paying off thi by $10 and $20" daily. "Dissat with the practice, the landlord asked her to pay the full amount, The rent due was $1,165.
Mrs. Abraham (represented by Mr. I. Ivanoff) admitted the claim, [scratches on her head and hand." It seemed she had been bitten, After he went to his room, he! heard her walk down the ball and close the coot of his room. The he was awakened by French police, who told limy that there was a woman lying on the Jground in front of the apartment. We thought she must be Dorothy, iekel, but, when he went to Mrs. Christie's room and looked down the [street from the window, he found it was Mrs. Christie.
Witness said that the two women, the to be sober: He believed they must have quarreled after he left them. Mrs, Christie appeared to be de-Spondent at ¢imes, but she never told him the reason why. *To the best of his knowledge, Mrs. Chri never walked in her sleep. fon 28 last by shooting Jeommitted suicide near Kiangwan
himself through the heart while temporarily of unsound mind was the verdict. returned by Mr. C. H. Haines, the Coroner, at the H. Police Court on Thurrday afternoon, lat the conclusion of the inquest.
Tso Kao-chun, office boy employed Messrs. Jardine, Matheson Ca., Ltd., said he saw the deceased Jat 9.45 a.m. in his office on December '28. "The deceased looked as usual, except that he was silent. Mr. K. A. Mason, who went into the deceased's office shortly after the had been informed of - the tragedy, found on a desk a letter addressed to Mr. B.D. F. Beith. The letter which was presented in (Court reads: sorry to have to do bring this trouble on You. happened to. me seem to. have lost ought unless T absolute.
me. things which [present the slightest "ditleulty, letters lost.a. piece out of his eat, ne re-that he did not know but con-lered it quite probable that, the [complainant had either inflicted the jury himself or got his friends to ict it to his person so. ast bring the case up against hi Before passing judgment, the Retrar said that he thought there had been a great deal of exaggeration and embroideries added to the stories of both sides but since he could see no reason for the accused to have bitten out a piece of the complainant's ear, he had no hesitation in passing the sentence of two imprisonment and would stiffer. punishment if of the complainant had been more truthful U.S.
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