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sainunss were so lite-like chat one had to take special notice to be convinced otherwise. The selections for Clarinet and Piano by Mr. Rivera and Miss Imo- gene Stevens were well received The Municipal Band under its popular leader Mr Fred. Jackson, Jr., rendered some Christmas Selections at intervals that were § truly beautiful, the harmony of the Band was excellent, and added much to the pleasure of the evening. [t is indeed gratifying to know that every- body was pleased all through. It is hoped that a similar entertainment will soon ' be announced. A Merry Christmas’ to all. Com. - s The Murder Case. - et | Praliminary Hearing of People Vil George Jemmott. (Continued from yesterday’s Avis.) At this point the Court asked the Cou sel for defence if he wished to call arn more evidence. Attorney Noll replied ‘‘No’’,but asked to be allowed to suggest to the Court, that if the bullet in question were in evid- ence, it would better be known whether the calibre thereof tallied with that of the weapon produced and thereby would have been obtained more positiv: proof. It was his ovinion that it was not yet be- yond recovery. An X-Ray examinatior would discover it. He asked whether the Court would make an order to recover that bullet. The Judge replied that owing to con- ditions, the Court would hesitate to make such an order and inasmuch as the sur- rounding circumstances are as unfavour- able as they ever wiil be and as there will probably be more evidence coming up later on he wonld leave this question of the - .ery of the u. ok ed l27Gr on should circumstance then so reguire. /l‘he Court stated that if the jbullet had “eengrecovered it would have been clear positive proof, that it had been fired by that particular gun. If he had been pro secuting Attorney, he would have de- manded that the bullet be discovered. % He; fully saw the importance of the point, but as Judge ot the Court, he could not take the responsibility to make that sort of order. Attorney Noll remarked that it was ndeed unfortunate that the People was unrepresented by District Attorney. It was unfortunate hoth for the accused as well as for the people. The Court then addressed the accused in the following words: “‘George Jemmott, dur’ 2 this enquiry lasting three days an< alf-a-night the Court has been seek & to reach facts which will justify a conclusion to an ex- tent to establish your probable guilt or ‘nnocence. 3 1. UhU 1L X A Vi B You have been defended, and your in- terests have be:n fully protected by the ablest lawyers in this island. They have not left a stone unturned in their efforts 1o protect you. In spite of their great interest, their faithfulness, energy and knowledge of the law,—in spite of it all--the witness have given testimony that there is a strong probability of vou having been guilty of shooting your own sister in-law in your own home on :he 14th of the month, in the forenoon of that day. [he orobabilities are exceedingly strong that you firedithat fatal shot. The probability having been establish- ed it is the duty of the Court to ensure the protection of the ,people of this is- land. I shall therefore send you on to the Court above wherein you shall have another chance to establish your inno- ceace, and the people as well will have a further opportunity to establish their case against you.’’ [he Court then issu2d the following order:— “In the name of the People of the Virgin Islands of the United States, to the Warden for the Sub-Judicial Court of Frederiksted, S*. Croix Virgin [slands of the Uaited States of America, GREEI'INGS:— " An order having been made this day by me that Geor.e Jemmntt be held to answer upon a ch. ~ of murder, you are therefore commanus.. ‘o receive him in your custody and detai. him until legally discharged. Dated Dee. 17thL 1921." The Judge then diracted the Sheriff to take charge of the prisoner. [he Churt was then adjourned.— West End News, Dzc. 22nd. TELEGRAMS. SL. ORUIX STATION. isuon, 1) . 20inm, =8 deeree Was . sued to ay, signed by ali the Ministers of ine Portuguese Cabinet, dissolving the Parhament and fixing January Bth as the date for holding a general election. London, Dee. 20th,—The above des- patech 1s the first news of the new political disturbances in Portugal that nas come direct from the Portuguese Capital. Special despatches were re- ceived, late last night, however, from Lisbon, quoting other advices received from Lisbon byway of Paris, to the effect that a new revolution had broken out-in Portugal. London, Dec. 20th —According to a Reuter cable from Calecutta an impor- tant development has taken place in the political situatior in consequence to the Viceroy, Lord Reading’s readi- ness to receive on December 21st a deputation of representatives of the province which will urge the desirabil- ity of a round table conference on the question of Indian unrest and there is the prospect of Gandhi the revolutionary leader attending the Vieeroy’s ceonfer- ence He has been summoned fromDe- lhi to proceed to Calcutta. London, Dee. 20th. —lt is reliably re- ported that the marriage of Princess Mary will take place in Westminster Ab- bey. The ceremony will probably be performed some time between Webruary 20th and April Ist. It is announced that the Earl of Eitham, a nephew of the Que=n, is hetcothed to Dorothy Hastings a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon. The Earl of Eltham was born in October 1895. He is the eldest son of the Marquis of Cambridge. Dublin, Dec. 20th. -It was announced this morning that Arthur Griffith, head of the Sinn Fein delegation which sign- ed the Anglo-Irish treaty, would move in the Dail today for a vote on the gues- tion of approving the treaty and that Eamon De Valera, the republican Presi- dent, would move his disapproval. "To- day’s session of the Dail opened at 11.30 o’clock. Mr. De Valera addressed the Dail at the outset and claimed that there could be no question oferatification of the treaty by the Dail, which he declared could not ratify the ' act in the sense of making ita legal instrument. All the Dail could do was to approve or disap- prove, he asserted. The republican Presi- dent said he would later move that "'in- asmuch as .the articles of agreement of the treaty between Great Brigin and Ireland signed in J.ondon do not reconcile Irish national aspirations and the associ- ation of Ireland with the community of nations known as the Briuish Common- wealth and cannot .establish a lascing peace between the people of the two is- lands, the Dail makes 1o the British the following proposal: ‘‘Mr. De Valera did not read the proposal, nor was it made public at this time, but copies of the do- cument containing it had beer well circu- lated among the members before the mo- tion was made. Mrs. Kate O’Calagnan, the first woman member to speak, op- posed the tr2aty. ‘‘The women of the Dail will vote for principles, not expedi- ents’’, she ‘declared. John Retchinham, deputy for Wicklow and minister of Fish- eries, spoke in opposition to the (rcaty saying ‘‘the people were being stamped. They were not as Mr. Arthur Griffith said, marching into the British Fmpire with heads up, but hands up’’, he insist- ed. Applause was given the declaration of P. Hogan, speaking for the agree ment, when he said ‘‘not a man who votes against this treaty but hopes it will be ratified.”’ Berlin, Dec. 20th. —4O 000 volumes of detective Wild West and Indian stories which had been put in circulation here since the revolution, were piled up ana burned today as a teature of a campagn carried on by the association for the pro- tection of German youths. 7The books were turned in by the youths who pur- chased them and who received classical works in exchange.