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ARMED ROBBERY,
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_TAUMATI HOLD-UP,
FRIDAY, MAY 6* 1921..
SHANGHAI SENSATION.
BATTLE WITH ROBBERS.
TWO DETECTIVES KILLED.
BRIGAND BOASTS 48 MURDERS,
HARD LUCK IF TRUE,
AN OPIUM STORY,
POSSESSION COSTS $1,800.
has to guess what the public $45,000 FORGERY CASE. really wants. Representations by two such Associations, unitedly made, would save the Government from some unprofitable guessing, and as from some of the" minor irks that, in the aggregate, lead us to dream of a different Constitution
Chinese youth was charged be under which, as we fancy, they
The master of a Yaumatt funk,
fare lagistrate Örme this morning The hearing of a case presenting used for weddings, was wallding along would be impossible. But for them,
The long immunity of foreign mem-with the unlawful possession in Con- !! we should not be so dissatisfied many interesting and unusual fes-Pitt Street last night returning to bers of the Shanghai Polos Force naught Road West yesterday, of 91 with the present constitution. If tures, was begun at the Magistracy the Constitutional Reformers are resterday afternoon, when Magistrate his vessel, when he was accosted from serious assault by Chinese was thels of prepared non-Goverment fighting for a principle, and desire Lindsell heard evidence against a near the old steam laundry wharf gain broken on April 28 when, opium found concealed in his girdle. dramatic affair at a Chinese lodging-The defendant said that he was engag to see us devoted to the principle, Chinese named Pan Kan, ales Pan by three men, two of whom had house. Detective Sub-Inspector J. Wed by a travelling trader on board the then they had better not work for Yik-cho, charged on remand with daggers While the two armed Prince of West Hongkew Station, reform in detail, either alone ar having forged the name of his brother, men held him under threat of death received a buliet wound, fortunately 5. Kwongchow," from Wuchow, with the K.RA. Other things Pan Ho, on a second deed of mortgage if he offered resistence, the other not very dangeroce Bad as this was to carry the drug for him. The man being equal as regants content dated February, 2, 1907, and uttering removed from his wrist a jade bangle it was, unfortunately, the least seri-followed him at a distance, and when ment, a people cannot be induced
valued at $20. They then made him ous part of the affair, for a Chinese he saw the police intervene be made to rebel against a Government the same,
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by take off a silk cont valued at $3 and detective was killed in the house and off The defendant added that had thowever unprincipled that does not annoy it. So that it might be Mr. G. R. Haywood) appeared for the stole from the pocket of an inner two others wounded, one so badly that he known that the parcel contained. better, as a matter of tactics or prosecution, and G. Alabaster cost twe $10 bills, $2.70 in small he died in the evening, whilst a men- opium, he would not have undertaken strategy, for the C.R.A. to let the (instructed by Me N: C. Macnamara) colas, a silver whistle and three keys.ber of the gang the police were after the job. A fine of $1,800, or, in de
Having threw him to the ground was also killed.
fault, six months" hard labour - WAK itlereased House Rates, alone, be-for the defenca...
imposed. AN UNLUCKY JEST. canse bey de annoy the people,
Momen ran away in the direction of
Prince, 'vào is the well known gez
When charged before Magistrate, and make it feel more aware that
the Allside,
shot and billiard player; was shot One this morning with the unlawful our system of administration is not
several years ago in another affray possession of 41 tsels of prepared good. All depends, you see, on
with-armed robbers, his injuries them hon-Government opium found come. what the C.R.A. is really after.
being considerably more serious and sealed in his girdle when searched' it is a curious fact that, only on the yesterday while boarding the seams Wednesday night, some friends were launch. Sanlee," a Chinese wha joking with him in a club about the recently arrived from Singapore, said affair and he said: "Well, anyway, that he picked up the drug on board they won't get me again. I learnt the ship on which be was travelling. Ho, as tenants in common. The first
enough then to see that no other Chi The Magistrate imposed a fine of $60, was the present defendant. A mort- gage which formed the subject of the
or six weeks' hard labour, and ordered In order to better handle the ese gets a shot at me. present charge was executed .on February 2nd, 1907. One of the Trans-Pacific ships under the mana- our doing has to hospiced the confiscation of the drug
wounded by a bullet that tenants in common, "viz., Pan Ho, sement of the ̃ Admiral Line, and the base of his spine by a fraction. purported to mortgage, his moiety or share of the property, to the present complainant, Chan Pai Chi, for $4,000 at interest of 11 per cent. per month, Chinese computation. The case for the complainant was that the deed
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Outhizing the facts of sie vase, M. Jenkin said that the property men tioned as security in the deed. No. 227, Queen's Road Central--was held on a term of 999 years from the Crown from December. 2nd, 1844. “On September 9th, 1903, the property was assigned by the then holders to the two brothers Pan Kon and Pan
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A cordial invitation is extended A Chinese woman living at No.Was not executed, in fact, by Pan Ho, 47A, Caine Road, was yesterday after but by the other tenant in common, the public to inspect the office. The boon admitted to the Government who represented himself to the premises have been remodelled Civil Hospital suffering from opium mortgagor to be Fan Ho, executed throughout, the location is a central poisoning. She is alleged to have the deed as Pan Ho, and signed Pane and the additional transportation administered the drug herself. She Ho's name. The interest under the service offered should find favour. is progressing favourably.
mortgage was paid for three months, and the present defendant then dis- appeared
The Shanghai SV.C. Church Parade, which usually takes place on the Last Sunday in April, following the annual inspection, will probably be held during the visit of the G.O.C. from Hoogkong, who was expected
quiries.
THE SIDNEY STREET PROTOTYPE. The story of the outrage recalls the anions. Sidney Street Fair in Lon- don, of which it was a reproduction
A NEEDLESS ALARM
RECKLESS USE_OF POLICE WHISTLE.
The trouble and inconvenience
on a small scale. The many gang of caused by the indiscriminate blowing desperadoes, armed.. and otherwise, of police whistles by irresponsible who commit felonies and escape ar-persons was brought to the notice of rest do not foof the police quite so Magistrate Orme this morning, when much as many people may be inclined Inspector Willis charged a Chinese Mr. H. K. Holmes, Land Officer,) to think, The majority are well with disorderly conduct by blowing a produced the memo relating to the known and can be identified, the real police whistle in Queen's Road West mortgage of No. 225 Queen's Road trouble being to find them when they nest No. 7, Station, after midnight. Central in February 1907, also the get into hiding in the rabbit warrens The defendant said that he engaged off the side streets of the Settlement. a couple of ricshas for two Lady mortgage. Through. Mr. F. X. memos of assignment of the property For a long time the police of every friends. The coolies refused to take
in 1908 and 1916, respectively,
Replying to Mr. Alabaster, the station have been following clues for them When he remonstrated with wanted for many crimes and the lines assault him. That was why he blew were being drawn close in.
The complainant was a retired Californian merchant and he had been in the habit of employing his capital in lending money on leaseholds on
Almada the loan was arranged in 1907. Counsel -was-instructed that
to arrive there, to-morrow.
Japanese Army authorities hope to encourage horse breeding by con- the signatures on the deed, and the witness said that he was not Land the capture of a notorious them, the coolies threatened to ferring cash prizes upon the best memorial signed at the same tube, horse at race meetings. For that were forgeries, and that the real purpose the authorities have accured | signature of Pan Ho could be seen on about Y395,955
Officer in 1907. The Ordinance re- quired, excepting in some cases, that someone or other of the parties to
- À NEAT ARREST, Prince received reliable informa-
in the current | the original assignment to the broth the execution of a mortgage to signtion that a 950ut or head of the gang
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the mêmo. In this particular case The witness could say from experience he memos to be signed at the same that it was the invariable practice for the as the deeds.
Suffac
THE REST OF THE GẠNG.
the whistle
Inspector Willis said that the de- fendant assaulted a richa coolie and
The defendant said that had he been assaulting the coolie, he certainly would not have blown the whistle to get himself into trouble...
A Chinese constable who was roused by the four long blasts blown by the defendant said that the latter was under the finence of liquor
The defendant was ordered to pay
a fine of $3 and sign a bond in the sum of $100 to be of good behaviour for twelve months.
budget,, and distribution of the in 1903. Another specimen of the memo had only one signature was living in a house in Canton Road Then the latter ran away, chased him whistle. Although money will commence next month, handwriting would be found on
It was out of his district, but the blowing a police wh
had bsd 薅 few drinks ia press, the Diplomatic Body in Peking perty in 1916. In March 3rd, of that
so Prince set out early yesterday him at the time. Every man in the According to the Hankow native subsequent assignment of the pro-
police do not waste time on little the defendant was notdrank he niceties of etiquette in such matters, has sent a formal warning to De year, 1916, the two brothers assigned
morning with Detective Sergeant station turned out in answer to the Sun Yat-sen, mentioning that his the whole property to a third party: election to the presidency is creating Pan Ken was stul absent feed the
support Clerk of the Robertson, and a number of Chinese whistle.
everything favoured the police and the a stoppage of commerce in the South-nent and acted as his brother's deed relating to the case. and that it by is recognise such a attomey.
The complainant, Chan Pui-chi, wanted man found himself handcuffed presidency.
I shall have some difficulty in ment. He said that the interest on pening
bore out Mr. Jenkin's opening state before he quite knew, what was hap proving this case, continued the mortgage was $60 per month. While the inmates of a matshed Jenkin, though I hope to do so to the He went with the defendant to Thought making but a solitary cap 11.59 p.m., yesterday, ten robbers, reason, that the man whose signature his connection with it. He had never of the gang were living at a lodging in Chaiwan Gap were asleep about satisfaction of the Court; for this inspect the house, but did not inquire tire, Prince gained valuable additional three of whom were armed with is forged is the brother of the forgerseen Pan Ho until he brought a house, No. 49 Pakhoi Road, to which information to the effect dat more) knives, entered. After threatening to and he has also gone bail for his action against him. Kill anyone who attempted to give brother in the present proceedings. the alarm, they asked for money, and when none was forthcoming, stale Therefore, I gather he is friendly dis- by Mr. Alabaster as to transactions than likely that a warning was trans After the witness had been examined place they hastened. In view of what subsequently happened, it is more clothing to the value of $13.50.
posed to his brother who, it is our with the defendant previous to Feb-mitted by one of the mysterious case, one time forged his name. I have requested that a pena beruary 1907, and he had admitted memods of communication of which under pressure that his concubine had the Chinese are mesters, for the issued for the attendance of Pan Ho, whom I shall call as a witness, and by lent the defendant $150 on the day police, instead of taking the gang at that means I shall be able to establish of the mortgage, further hearing of the a disadvantage, were themselves sur-
case was adjourned until Tuesday prised. that the signatures on the first assign afternoon.
Leaving the captive in the charge The same "Easter, which is in ment of the property, and on the lest,
of Robertson and two or three Chi-use only among English and German are his and that the signatures on the
QUESTION OF BAIL.
nese detectives, Prince entered the speaking peoples, is derived; strange mortgage and memorial are not his. On the question of bail, defendant's house with the rest, about 6.30 am. as it may seem, from the name of He will be precluded from saying that ponsel said the amount of the bail--Built in the rambling style of all pagan goddess of the heathen (and writing in water. Nothing Your washing may coet you the signatures on the challenged $15,000-seemed excessive in viewChinese houses, it offered every of Saxons a deity variously known as venture, nothing win, still holds more, a Shanghai paper informs its documents are his, because, in 1909, of the amount involved in the charge stacie the police could have hoped to Ostara, Osterr or Eastre. She wat DORFMAN-Oo April 29, 1921, at true, of course. Those who never readers. The Chinese prese learns he, in an original action, had that deed
Shanghai, P. Dorman, brother try never achieve. But it is a bard that the laundry business is in a bad set aside of his own volition, when he with obtaining money but with forging room where the suspects were, the of the morning. of the east where Mr. Jenkin: He is charged, not avoid. However, they located the the personification of the spring, thing to kick against the pricks way, and the masters have decided
the sun rises, and it is from her plaintiff against the a deed, which, under the Ordinance, door of which was fastened... upon a cut in wages. On the other appeared as a and an official "no can" is enough hand, about 1,000 washerimen have present complainant. The deed was, is treated as a much more serious FUSILLADE OF PISTOL SHOTS. iname that we get the word east for most of us, used to the serene
- It is not quite clear whether one as applied to one of the cardinal immobility and wooden resistance made application for an increase in by order of Mr. Justice Gompertz, offence.
BIRTHS.
MOODIE-On April 28, 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Moodie, a daughter. FABIAN-On April 29, 1921,
Chefno, to Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
„Fabian, a son.
DEATH.
of Mrs. G. Dietrich,
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rhem to be. The refusal was en-
A concert party headed by phatic and unhesitant: we have Madame Lottie Gordon performs for small faith that the House of Cons charity at Macao on Saturday even mous, pre-occupied with ruatters of ing under the patronage of HE. the nearer interest, can be induced to Governor and Lady Correa de Silva. at sbow practical or effective interest The young Spanish singer. Mis in such a petition as the one pro-Ampara Rosello, makes her first posed. We fear that our local public appearance at this concert. champions are ploughing in sand
between masters and men has been
WHY
IS FASTER SO CALIND.
The China Mail. of the very official majority which wages to meet the high cost of in 1910, set aside, the register was Mr. Alabaster: It seems to me the of the police burst the door open, or points of the compass. The month *TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIO SERVICE solutions. Let us look at the sitoa they decided to go on strike if their and is now produced from the custody way the evidence has been given. It den there came a fusillade of shots, among the Saxons and Angles, and
is the occasion of these piods re-ig. At a meeting recently held rectified and the deed was impounded bail is excessive, particularly after the whether it was suddenly unbolted of April was dedicated to this god"
from inside. At any rate, of a suddess, being led Eastermanath tion in the light of a homely illus-demand is not met. One conference of the Supreme Court.
shows that this witness is absolutely to which Prince replied.
He was is still known in Germany as GREGEDEG, WZONEIDAY, MAY 8, 1991. tration, in order to define the China held without result.
As to the complainant, Mr. Jenkin unreliable.
wounded, but he managed to shoot Ostermonat. Her worldp, wax Mail position in this matter. It is
remarked that his position was that| The Magistrate: I don't see how and kill the man who brought him popular one in Northern Germany as though our pony has been enter In connection with the Sino been cancelled, his security was gone: deed itself.
he had lent $4,000; tite dood having this evidence overthrows the mortgage down. Then one of the Chinese do- and was carried to Eharted by the ed: We have made up our minds Portuguese dispute in Matao about
tectives did a very plucky thing I Saxons, still surviving in, occasional that it should not be scratched; but Green Island. Dr. Wu Ting-fang, and, unfortunately for him, he had Mr. Alabaster When I come to is a maxim of the pokce that, on raids ceremonies to connection with - the we feel that it has no chance. The Master of Foreign Affairs of the to pay the costs of the proceedings in it, perhaps you will. Our case is that the Erst man into a room shall im approach of spring, race in a suip for Wooden Immo-Canton Government, has informed the etion when the deed-was set we never signed the dead.
mediately get to the farther side of Nations whose language is not Some admiration is compelled bility, which is in much better the Portuguese authorities that the aside a matter of $1,500, so he was The Magate: Did you sign minate there is another way of derived from the Teutonic, cling to By the pluck and pertinacity of training. We are inclined to pin Kangtang Government not only considerably out of pocket. He re-promissory note, which is not forth exit. This man had only been trang turn from the Aramaic pesoch, to the Sémetic word which comes in those who, after a definite and our hopes of winning something to opposes any extension of Portuguese oently became aware that the man coming
Terred to the detective branch this pass by, tramaizted Into English as week and had not passed, the tests
Passover." Thus the Spanish call
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official non possumus from the the Off Day. to, in short, the re territory in Macao, but also desires whom he believed to have been absent Mr. Alabaster: What promesoshich permit of à detective being arm Easter Pascua, the French speak Secretary of State for the Colonies, solution which looks rather like an that any territory mis-appropriated from the Colony for fourteen years, note is in his possession. dsze to propose afresh (1) that after thought, to that one which by the Portuguese without the had returned, and he had had him Mr. Jenkin: In the circumstances ed, so he did not carry a pistol, but ofFaques, and the Italian word is all non-Chinese members of the invites the meeting to consider, previous consent of the Chinese arrested on the present charge, Legislative Council be elected, in conjunction with the Members authorities should be restored. – De
which I have outlined to you, that he rushed across the room as he had Pasqua tems raminding us of (2) That a larger electoral body be of the Kowloon Residents' Associs Wa further demands that all work the first witness called He said that Fan Ho, who is now bailing out the
Mr. Balmer Johnson (soliciter) was this mortgage deed was set selde byl been hught and was chot dead by the fact that the Christian Easter is adopted in the case of all such non- tion, any resolution which may be proceeding on Green Island should he had been summoned to the Court man who is alleged to have forged the
the robbers.
the successor to the Hebrew Passover, AGA PIERCE MELEE, Chinese members, with the excep moved in regard to the increase of be suspended at once..
|though the English word carries us tion of the Bepresentative of the Hongkong Rates, and any other.
Meanwhile detectives had grappled back to festivals in bonour of a pagas by Mr. Haywood under extraordinary deed, Lenggert the bail is not ex with men who fired from their beds. deity. Hongkong General Chamber of Municipal matters." Unless the Commerce; (8) That there be an going is very heavy, we have stands that an action will shortly be
Two other Chinese detectives were Shipping and Engineering under circumstances. He wrote a letter to ceive Mr. Haywood on Wednesday, de The
wounded, one so seriously, that from Unofficial majority on the Legisla chance there. So long as it is not instituted in which the owners of the manding to know what did he expect sentence, is it pot. tive Council with such safeguards something which threatens
the first his life was despaired of, to na. “Arratoon Apcar" will be plaintiffs of him and had not received a reply. Mr. Jenlan: No, it is a life sent are provided in the Constitution diminish its powers or lower and Messe The China Navigation The deed of assignment was executedence, of Ceylon; and (4) That a petition its prestige, officialdom is epen Company, Ltd. will be defendants. before his arrival in the Colony and he Mr. Alabaster Your Worship be sent to the House of Commons to argument and amenable to nay. The action arises from the collision could not say anything about, ik granted very low bail in a forgery case officer and hold, whilst two others gang, and when taken into custody, asking for the support of the Mouging. The Kowloon Residents in the Whangpoo on February 17 Mr. Jenkin said he had no need to recently $250, I think it was were caught by defectives outside boasted that he had been a Shigand Gers in securing the shove change Association has got things done, between the Arratcon Apcer and detam Mr. Johnson He spologised
in the Legislative Council. By joining forces with them and the China Navigation Co.'s sing to Mr. Johnson for the inconvenie
There in every likelihood that the attacking details instead of gen-thow in which the Arration to which he had been subj meeting of the Constitutional Reeral principles; the LA of BK Apar kustained serious damage to intended to ask Mr. form Apociation called for next ought to more than justify its exist her port: bows, which were stove in, Waheeday will decide, by an over-ence, after its none too successful and the Yingchow received cam could at the prosecution to prov
helming majority, that these season. The Government is in oke to he ows and a broken baase, Things ought to be but sorely somewhat similar position to that pipe.
mount of the claim none that the resolvers will expost occupied by nesespaper publishers, said to le Mex, § 10,000; --
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After the first volleys the men in the price of $1,000 on his head, "offered room made a rush for the street, "dur" by the Chinese authorities. This man
ing which one was clubbed by-an is the most desperate character of the
Mr. Jenkin. And in that case low. It cannot be said for, certain how Leince he was 18 years of sgo, and in stified, as circumstatices many men there were in the room that time, had killed 40 men. His
bur 1
sticast attitude is quite nonchalant and philo-
the is reported when his dead fody suid vandeOne" munity, more, ór. less 2124 makes no diference to me not when connecthe Chine
In that case
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