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QUESTION OF JURISDICTION.
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Witness: I can but it was all written down by the Magistrate.” I did not say one third of what I could bave said.
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“Why did you let the fight con- Hinul?il - wäind the serfernb to beat the lime juice out of the fellows To kanck the stuming out of one of them.
Why out of one of them?-Because they had the bar in their hands.
How did you get the other men away? Did you talk to them?No 1 threatened them with imprison-
That is talking, is it not?-1 sup- pose it is. I did talk in a pretty loud voice
What weapons did they have They each had a bamboo pole and one an iron bar. That is why I asked them to go an:
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You carried a revolver? No, the revolver and guns are in a locker.
to Dr. Moore I could say a lot on flesh kas lately beco On this particular day you thought the question of wounds. Yes I could years of stress, whic Wali Dad, Said Golam, and Sarwar it necessary in order to maintain Mortally wounded, the fan went to general went throm Hikas, were indicted before the Chief order that you should take one of hospital. If you or I had the wounds war, and to the desce Justice at the Criminal Sessions this the revolvers out of the locker we would be in hopear for six and the misettled canins that morning for wounding and assaulting Not on your life. On my bath noth- months I have been bandling men have followed in its track The for forty years and I know what temptation of drugs must be exits Gajab Khan, on the "Chung Oning doing. That's a lie.
There's nothing wrong in suggest-) wounds are.
strongest when there are on every when in Chinese waters on July 9th.
Witness next described the wounds band: things which even the least The Hon. Mr.J. H. Kemp, Attorneying that? No. I don't blame the General, prosecuted, and prisoners men for saying that to save their on the body, giving a different con- pessimistic gmang us would be glad there will be a-Qualifying Round of 36, were defended by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, lives. While the fighting was going ception of their gravity from that to forg. In such topsy-turvy bolts, Medal Fiar, to be played af ca which Dr. Moore had given. He world as we inhabit today it is easyth October. Those with lowest 10 instructed by Mr. J. E. Gardiner.
Mr. Jenkin: Before the prisoners
said: You bet the wounds entered to understand, though hard to con- scores will be drawn and play off. plead I wish to point out that no
into the flesh. There were one or done, the fact that many of those Match Play, lat Round on 31st October. who have no hope for the future nor Entry lists and conditions in the event copy of the indictment has been
two knife wounds as well. served either "on the prisoners or
Where were the knife wounds?-courage for the present are ready to of ties in will be found on the Glah Notice Boards. Entries CLOSE on 17th October. their solicitors. What effect that
will not say. I can say a lot about throw that future away in order to obtain by any means they can an will have on the trial I do not know, but I would like to point it out.
alleviation of the troubles of the present. The case already referred to showed what strides this rice had Hagkong. September 16, 1981 taken amongst us and to what dieptbý of degradation it dragged its victima, and demonstrated clearly that it must be stamped out as ruthlessly as
CHLISERGETIC YOUNG BRITISHER, though it were a
-three years rience in East disease. Indeed, in one sense it is a disase; for one effect of drugs desires position as Travelling agent.
The Attorney-General: I am in- could not be served on the prisoners formed that the copy was served. It because they were out on ball. I was served on their solicitors.
Mr. Jenkin: My instructions are that a copy was not served.
The Chief Justice said that the
jsked.
on the ship's crew lay yards away.
Mr. Jenkin: You told these men to fight fair and square like English menYes, I wanted them to drop the iron bar. I told one man to go. ahead because I knew what would happen. The sergeant would have it. knocked the lime juice out of him,: the stuffing: the life out of him.
badly injured otherwise it would So that they could not have be have been inhuman of you to ask them to fight ?--If you went over the top and broke both your legs and a bomb was dropped you you would run off like a deer. (Laughter). ..
I put it to you that you encouraged
You must say. There was a knife wound on the body. I was the man Moore dressed him after. who dressed him and I know Dr.
Really?--Yes, really and truly. Was that one of the wounds from which a cupful of blood was coming? There was more than a cupful of blood. He was covered with it
You know he had no wound on
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Mr. Jenkin said he did not wish Bar 1230, Caixa Mall." to press the point and the matter either of them, otherwise the fight would not have proceeded?-The sergeant was mortally wounded. re suits tell you that.
dropped.
You know what that means?-- Yes, you don't want me to tell too auch, do you
What do you mean by it ?-Do you want me to tell the meaning?
Mr. Jenkin: Yes
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pardon me interrupting you.
I think you are putting the case too high against these men? Nothing
of the sort.
others tread the same downward path as he himself has followed; he seeks to proselytise, and so the plaguespot on society grows. For You were a little distressed by the all these reasons, and for many fight? Was I? I can answer it but more of equal weight which are implicated within them, cases of I do not think it is necessary.” ~..
drugs You are not allowed to take those trafficking unlawfully in views-I will answer then. I re deserve to be treated with the ported the matter to the station. I utmost severity which the law per-[ am not distressed at his death. mits. By no effort of the will can a
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The sergeant then was very mart-
self of the desire for them. Con Witness was further questioned sequently, it becomes the duty of by Mr. Jenkin as to the origin of constitued authority to see that he ally wounded That's too true- The the fight and gave his opinion that has no opportunity of procuring other men cleared out. They were it was the result of smuggling what he wants. It is reassuring to among themselves. They might notice, from the punishments award covered with blood.
have been doing it yet, if they bad ed to those who have recently been had sense; making more dollars charged with this particular offence, instead of being here if they had had that our magistrates are fully alive a little savvy,
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The Attorney-General, in outlining the case, said it was a rather interest ing one from a legal point of view, and the first of its kind that had occurred in the Colony. In the ordinary, way the jurisdiction extend- ed only to cases of crime committed within the Colony or within the waters of the Colony or on British ships at sea. charged with
offence com mitted on a Chinese ship at sea near Lip Ting Island and the jurisdiction to deal with that offence depended on the China Order in Council 1904 article $1, where it provided that a British subject in Hongkong charged with having com mitted any crime or offence within any British or Chinese ship at a distance of not more than 100 miles You were so sore that you let this under the jurisdiction of the Court sergeant who was mortally wounded of China the Supreme Court of Hong. get another hammering?-It would kong could and might exercise have been the other way. He would authority of jurisdiction in respect of have knocked the stuffing out of that That is why I told him to the crime as fully as if the same man. had been committed in Hongkong. fight.
How long did they fight? Half a This order was made under the For elga Jurisdiction Act of 1890: The minute.
You said three minutes just now.— "actual facts of the case were very
simple. The prisoners were steamer I do not know, they were tired. That guards and were employed under the poor fellow who's gone under he was Piracy Prevention Ordinance to pro a marvel to me. I dressed his wounds tect ships, whether British or not, and he fought marvellously. sailing along the West River. TheyHe did not hammer the other man, were employed in the "Chung On" did be?-Any way Mr. Jenkin, any
And you told them to fight like Englishmen?--I was so sore that I would have fought myself.
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and the man they attacked was the way you want. If he did hammer head guard. This assault was alleged or did not, I am with you. They did to have taken place near the island of not fight until they collapsed, Lin Ting when the vessel was coming although the two men were pretty to Hongkong. The threemen attacked well blown out.
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Further questioned as to the use of the knife, witness said one of the wounds was a clean one and when a
he say. wound was a clean cut what could
Mr. Jenkin: You have had ex perience of men and wounds and you made a statement that there was a knife wound on his chest-I da not know if it was caused by a knife
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Do you say it was not there?-If
The Craigengower Club's "kinema give way to every thing you say that would be no good my being soiree" on Saturday night was quite a success. Those responsible are to There was a wound there?Yes be congratulated on giving pleasure that was caused by an iron bar. to a large crowd. The new recon When you told us with emphasis looked down on lawns illumined with
A GOOD SUGGESTION. that this most serious wound was coloured paper lanterns, dotted with done by a knife you were wrong? tables and chairs, at which happy TRY Chamberlain's Tablets, when
biliogs or constipsted. You a family groups took like refreshments YesWell you have mixed me up, and watched the kinema develop retsintäbe much pensed with them Mr. Jenkin asked if Dr. Moorement of Tom Gallon's moral story of They are easy to take and pleasant in wasing, but what I want to know is that would have seen this wound and "Taiterley," while a plinky-plunk effect. For sale by all Chemists, and
Storekeepers tness replied that Dr. Moore could orchestra made the sir throb with
melody Everybody seemed pleased. say what he liked.
Mr. Jenkin-I am going to ask the court to believe that you were mis- taken about this wound. There was
the head guard and they were What you tell us is very interest- arrested. The injured man taken to hospital where he was sub sequently discharged. He later died but it was not as a result of the injuries
Did I say a knife?
when you arrived on the scene there was nothing much more than a row between the watchinen over a squable over "opening a window in the port Dr. W. B. Moore, of the Govern-hole and that the fighting realir ment Civil Hospital, spoke of deceas-commenced under your direction such a wound. ed being brought there. The wounds Not on your life. You are all out, were not serious and were caused by Mr. Jenkin...
a blunt instrument. The man gub That seems to me a very much sequently died of typhoid fever.
more reasonable thing than that you
You do not think you are mis- taken?-There is no mistake, Mr. Jenkin Great Scott I am not caring whether there was a wound or not
Capt. J. P. Somerville, ex-master should come upon them, one mortally I do not care two cents.. of the. Chung Oá," spoke of wounded, and tell them to get on prisoners being employed on the boat with the fight-As I was the only
at the time. He knew their faces observer, my order goes. Of course very well but not their names. On it does.
the day of the incident he was called
aft by his bay. He went up, running"
The proper conduct for you to
up the deck "pretty lively," where have taken as Captain of the ship be saw the sergeant and the three was to have stopped it?-I tried to. men coerved with blood. One had, was angry the same as you would an iron bar and was beating the have been had you been on board,"
I would have stopped the fight sergeant unmercifully and terribly. Witness became angry because three nut asked them to carry on? men were attacking one man that's the question. A Britisher is a and he thought he might tell Britisher all over the world, the Court that those three men would And you say that's the way a have murdered the sergeant if he Britisher stops a fight? Yes, same had not interfered. It was not their as I stopped it. fault that the sergeant had not died.
Did you hear what the doctor said He got two away and wrested the just now?Yes,
bar from the third. He himself was You know he says the wound was covered with blood. He threatened slight heard him but I don't the men with imprisonment... want to make any remarks about
The case is proceeding.
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Mr. Neill explaired to a Press re- presentative that the dotis are only a section of the numerous extitils which are to be taken through the Dominions The was a slight wound on the early next year.
The Attorney-General wished to him? Know who had the iron bar.
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"I know the man," replied the left shoulder?-Ah, Ah! We shall be able to deal with Captain, but I do not like to put There were three slight wounds on exnitis from 500-Arms quite easily." anybody in prison. I cannot say who the scalp? Go on; if you say so, bad it."
that's all right, në His Lordship: Whether anybody And none of the wounds goes to prison or not is a matter for serious? didn't hear the
he said," and the cost to the exhibi- tor is very little, for he can show his goods in the most important towns in three continents for £200.
The jury to decide to cal ** How does that fit in with your The Dominions want British
Witness: Lein not sure. When story of being mortally wounded?
I came to Hongzong I reported the 1- cannot reconcile the two stories matter to the police It was all doe You bet your life I cannot to suggling. There was some talk You agree with Doctor Moore as about smuggling on the previous to the seriousness of the wound?
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