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THE CHINA MAIL.
PRAYA MURDER.
VERDICT GUILTY.”
MISDIRECTION OF JURY-
ALLEGED.
PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL POSSIBLE.
to proof. On the other hand, your merely on the ground that he left the verdict of guilty will involve saying rear of the vican S
that the whole of the evidenan The Chief Justice aske? the Fore- put forward for the defence man of the jury to state his question is a conspiracy to defist the enda again.
of justice." If you think Capt. Mar The Foremas: What we were în ́ gan's story cocobonlad na itsin now, doubt about "was auto.whether you by Mr. Lackins and other, witnesses, anid that if we were satisfied, beyond is & truthful story you will find the ) ressonable doubt, that the man who prisoner guilty. If you have any left the mar of the ricsha and who reasonable doghs--a doubt that leads was chased by Capt. Morgan-if ba Incidents which will go towards you to say I shall always hara-it.on is the man in the dock-then we making it one of the most memorable my conscience that I fall stresi doubt were to find him guilty irrespectiva criminal cases in Hongkong's legal | whether the Crown case was proved'; of whether Capt. Morgan saw him history marked the closing seen of) if such a doubt exists in your minds, fire the shot.
The Chief Justice's “Actually sw the Prays murder trial yesterday you will find the prisoner not guilty.} evening.
The Chief Justice's summing up him fire"-in other words, whether The Attorney General (the Hon.veis finished at five minutes past five you are satisfied that Capt. Morgan's | M. J. E. Kamp K. C.) of who end the jury, wem - kway from the evidence is correct that the prisoner address we gave a brief summary yes Court for half an hour. When they is the man whom he chased, whom he terday finished his address at a had returned to their sents in the jury followed up as being the man who quarter to four o'clock yesterday bar the foreman (Mr. H: W. Bird fired. - sitemoon and Chief Justice (Sir asked whether, if they had no reason- William Ross Daries K. C.) began his shis doubt that the man Captain summing up to the jury immediately Morgan saw Imaxing, the rear of the afterwards
riesha was, the prisoner they could find him guilty irrespective of whether Captain Morgan saw him fire
His Lordship began by reminding the jury that it was their duty to decide the case wholly on the the shot or not. evidence, banishing all pre-conceived The Chief Justice said that taking ideas from their minds. It was purely the whole of Captain Morgan's case of identity and the only ques-evidence, if they had no reason to tion for the jury was as to whether doubt the truth of it, they should and
1 intermediate cargo and passenger the Crown established in their minds, him guilty. type, dimensions 485ft. by 55ft 3in. by 36ft., with a gross tonnage of to the exclusion of all doubt, that the
The Jazy held a whispered consulta 6970 and will have two screw turbine Prisoners the Lasazsin. After tion together and then, in reply to the engines of Parsons double reduction emphasising that onus of proof was formal queries of the Clerk, the fore
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the trial trip by Captain Lake, the bulkheads, emergency plant and bilge have bad experience, now, for closing of the Crown C
The Attorney-General:-May I say, Capt. Murgan did not way he saw the shot fired at all
Mr. Jenkin: No; be merely sur- mised that he had fred the shot.
The Chief Justice said that with regard to the first point is to the in- admissibility of Mr. Lachins' avid- ence he might have rejected it but for the fact that Mr. Jenkin had with drawn his objection to it."
Mr. Jenkin answered that he had no option but to withdraw it on. H Lordship's z fasal to entertain it.
The Chief Justice: I objected to
thought it unnecessary to do so. Bad of somewhat boisterous weather, the geared type capable of developing / on the Crown the Chief Justice wont man announced that their unanimous,reverve it for the Fall Court because I);
ses speed of 14 knots. The boilers and on to say that it they were prepared verdict was one of Guilty".
to accept the evidence for the prisoner Mr. F. G. Jestin the prisoner's it gone, as you suggested it should, trials at sea, were ancorsefully accom- bonkers are so arranged that the vessel the case for the Crown failed. If counsel, rose at once to move an and the jury convicted, it would have plished, and a speed of 136 knots on
can work either on coal or oil fuel.
The bulkhead sab-division is in they rejected that evidence it would treat of judgment on three grounds been a loop hole for quashing the a draught of 134 feet was averaged over a course of 40 knots along the accordance with the recommendation involve finding a conspiracy on the and to ask that the point should be conviction. It is quite possible that conviction might have been coast off the mouth of the River Tyne.cf the Bulkhead Committee, and all part of a number of Chinese wit-reserved for legal argument. The first
nesses to defeat the administration ground was misception of the quashed as a result. As you with- Convention requirements, such as
of justice in this Colony. "Gentle evidence of Mr. Larkins after, the drew your objection I do not consider power-operated W.T. doors, fireproof
men," proceeded the Judge,
that is a ground for granting your The Chief Justice: But you agreed application. marine superintendent, and by Mr.
pump. &c., have been embodied so
some years of Chinese witnesses and to it. C. E. Holmes, their superintendent that the vessel is in a position to am perfectly justified in saving this to
As regards the second point-the Mr. Jenkis said that a His Lord Attorney-Gental handing up to the angieer. After the trial runs the obtain the safety certificate when you, that while most Chinamen come ship had refused to re it he was Court some document--I did not ship returned to the River Tyne to
Accommodation is provided for 10s/into the box to speak the truth and | driven into a withdrawal of the read it. Even if I had. I have madel prepare for her vorage to Hongkong
promote the administration of justice, objection because of the fact that the no reference to it whatsoever to the the command of Captain first-class and 41 second-class pas-I am bound to tell you that collusion effect of this aridence had been, to Jary bar did I, in kdy way, reflect
sengers, the Inchcape system of inner The Kutsang has an overall rooms being adopted, so as to give the of witnesses to tell a story having 20 some extent, stated in the hearing of in questions to the witnesses-upon any statement they meals to the length of 434ft, and is 54t. wide and maximum lighting to living spaces rega:d to the truth of that story at the Jury.
The second pint, Mr. Jenkin police, that would have the sightess 31ft deep. She carries 7;500 tons dead-
Large public rooms are provided for all is not, Fregret to say, uncommon.
I have had to find as a fact, that the indicated, was that a certain police bearing on the case. weight, on a draught of 26ft. Sin., and both classes, all public rooms being on
As regards the third pint-mis- has been built to Lloyd's highest the promenade deck, and a special most extraordinary details, carefully statement or report was handed up class. On the bridge deck are quar feature of this deck is the large extent interwoven; ole witness balding the by the Attorney Gentral and read by direction in reply to questions by the
foundation, saother adring the the Bench. t for the officers and engineers, of clear deck space for games and re-
and -structure
third super together with commodious state rooms creation. Cargo arrangements are very
under Liddell
same comes into force.
carrying
A
little it &
and a handsome dining saloon for first- complete, and holds are left clear for until the chain of evidence be-Counsel said that, if His Lordship had was that if they accepted the evidence
Screw
stowage by the adoption of wide spaced pillars and girders.
SHIPPING NOTES.
Jury-I see no mis-direcion har The Chief Justice said he bad not further read it and that he rejected it ever in it. My direction to the Jury comes so condusive that the Court not read it, he would accept that fact of Capt Morgan as a whole they in ordinary circumstances would without a moment's hesitation. He would be entitled to convict beyond be convinced; I have to had to fad was under the impression that His as a fact that such evidence has been Lordship had read it. entirely and absolutely unfounded and built up purely for the purpose.
it
infer the import of it and hence you thought it desirable it should go in if you insisted on your objection 1: might have decided to exclude it. I understood you waived it.
reasonable doubt.
The Chief Justice pointed out to Mr. Jenkin that he had his remedy in
• petition to the Privy Council Ho
the point- saw no reason whatever for reserving
Mr. Jenkin asked that judgment ou the prisoner should be suspended while he made this application.
The Chief Justice: I see no reason I shall "whatever to spend it
certainly pass sentence upon him.
Mr. Jenkia: Certainly my Lord;
if
that is your Lordship's opinion I
shall sit down.
Asked whether he had anything to
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After sentence of death had been passed the prisoner called out that he had done no wrong; that he must say something before he died.
Whatever he wanted to say he wa not permitted to say it. Clinging tenaciously to the bas of the cock he say why judgment should not be fought desperately for a further hear- Mr. Jenkin: I did not waive it. Passed upon him the prisoner pointed ing. Three or four police officers wanted to make his statement there, including a European sergraut grabbed It was admittedly a novel and new point of law. I was driven, The Chief Justice and he could not him and, resisting violently, Leang Wo was jericed below three steps at evidence it was for the jury to say matter of strategy I think you do that. whether his silence when picked up appreciated that--iuto the position I
time. after arrest was reasonabia. Was took up.
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Discasting the point raised as to poop, and a hospital and dispensary
The Bombay Freight Conference are placed above the steering gear
as I house. The sailors &d firemen have bas lowered the freight on tea to In view of that observation, it is for Mr. Larkins evidence the Chief quarters in the forecastle Refrigera Colombe from 19 to Y8. Sugar for you to weigh the evidence on both Justice said: "I offered. ting machinery is installed to keep Bombay has also been reduced from sides. It is not suggested by the told you at the time, to consider the defence that what the European matter and to conter with my learned perishable provisions in good condi-T21 to Y19.
witnesses say is incorrect but that brother, but I quite understood the tium. Part of the cellular double
position when you took. It was that Genos is increasing the area of ite they made a mistake. Inasmuch as bottom of the ship is constructed to "carry oil fuel as well as water ballast. docks and quays to 20.875.000 ag ft. their evidence was taken some days having regard to the fact that the
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Referring to the evidence of Captain being of the four crack quadruple ex-depth.
Morgan His Lordship said the only pansion type, balance on the Yarrow
According to the Associated Press, observation he had to make was that Schlick and Tweedy system to reduce vibration to a minimum. The the Canadian Pacific Company has if the story put forward by the engines are designed to develop about announced that it contemplates no defence was true his vision was mos: 3,300 i.b.p. under normal conditions reduction of the passenger face to the defective. Regarding the prisoner's in ordinary service. Many special East In San Francisco it has been icatures have been embodied in the stated by the Pacific Mail Company
The prisoner began repeating the engine room to effect an economic and and the T.K.K. that they will not re-
Lis statement to the police that he Mr. Jeakin, continging, said that evidence he had given earlier in the efficient working, and the installation drice fares.
W&S "passing the Hongkong and his third point was a mis-direction by trial and was interrupted by the Chief of auxiliary machinery is exception-
Of over thirty foreign ships pur- Shanghai Bank, I do not know His Lordship to the jury when they Justice who told him that unless he Court. The mis- had anything to say in addition is ally complete: There are
How many babies wake up just about
Representatives - single ended boilers 15 feet in chased by Japanese shipowners since what was the matter" a reasonable returned into
The prisoner replied that he did the mother's bed time and keep ber busy Nagasaki, Karsten, Wakansieo, Micle diameter, with a length of 12 feet, the last two or three months of last remark in view of the fact that he direction was that His Lordship had was a waste of time.
year, seven ships have already been himself, said he had been running told them that if they had no reason-
may not see anything app catly the Tokohama Tokyo, Hakodate, MuroFLE working at a pressure of 220 lbs. pdelivered to Japan. The former from Queen's Bquare in company with able doubt that the prisoner was the not know how to say anything else, for a good part of the sight. The mother, Lobe, Osaka, Izuruga, Nagoya, "Itaura" (8,300 tons), which the Kobe others who had run 3 & man with man who left the resnof the rich He must leave the matter in Hisaster with the shid, not she mayo Viadrostock, Pekine, Tlentett depend upon it that when baby is cross Daire. Taingtao, Frankow, Shanghai,
Singapore, and sleepless there is something wrong. Hongkong. and the little one Shosen Kaisha had taken over from clear conscianos would desire to they were to find hire guilty, whether Lordship's hands to; et on reason "
Putting on the black cap the Chief means he has of te ling tug the qni Bydney, Londen. Berlia, Lyona, Paris,
New Rick and “attle. and to have mercy on him. Justice then said to the prisoner:
are just the friend needed. They Lung Wo,-The Jury aftur a very Taber such circumstances Baby's Own patient hearing and after a very able sustain opiates, but sad baby to simply because they remove the Mr. Jankin: The question of defence on your behalf, have found use of his sleeplesssess and make him
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clear himself. "I think," said the Chief Justice that the evidence for the defence is fresh in your memory. I do not propose to read it, unless you desire it t
The Foreman: No, my Lord. Concluding, His Lordship said
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Finally, if you accept the defence,
or not they could find that be fired the shot.
The Chisi Jostics: I said, "taking the cimumstances-ass-whole; the evidence as a whole.".
whether
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