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MARRIAGE.
power
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1926.
THREE YEARS.
SENTENCE IN WING ON.
CASE
"ENORMOUS EXPENSE.”
Defence To Pay Up To $3,000 Costs.
had been the same offence, '.
Hi Lordship But there are the very considerable costs. I do not propose to make an order for the payment of all of them by the dema fence. I propose to limit them to faxed costs botwoon party and party, the amount not to exceed $2,000.-
Mr. Jankin: Does that apply to each prisoner?
His Lordship: I do not mean that $8000 is to be paid in alk. The order for $8,000 is made jointly.
"Clearing Any Stigma."
Mr. Jankin: Before Your Lord-
ings.
the replacement of coal by elec- tricity and other mediums for light and power may not come sooner than many Imagined Although the harnessing of Eng land's waterways. for the pur“ pose of providing electricity on n large scale and at moderate charges involves a Rnancial strain which the country cant dll afford to bear in the present state of her
"After patient and prolonged finances It is open to question hearing sold the Chief Justice this whether such expenditure would morning to the two prisoners found not eventually repay her more guilty yesterday of criminal 'con- than the subsidising of an indus-spiracy to defraud the Wing Onship rises I beg leave to make try, which may or not in the Banking Company, "the jury found reference to the mention at the future be put on a paying basis, the first prisoner guilty on all earlier stages of the case of the If, as many experts assure us, counts of the indictment and the name of Mr. La! Im-to, a gentle- second prisoper has been convicted man of some standing in the there will have to be absorption on three counts of the indictment. Colony, in order that I might do eventually from the ranks of the The facts which were proved at the anything I can to clear any stigma: miners to those engaged on otherria are common to all counts of which might, attach by reason or
medium production it the indictment and therefore I pro with these unfortunate proceed
his association, however alight, would obviously be more desirable pose to deal with them as if they to spend money on facilitating "The sentence on the first. pri- Mr. Lat's name appeared on the that absorption than in financing soner is that he be imprisoned for $75,000 cheque drawn on the one idustry at the expense of 3 years with hard labour on each Man Fat out of which $50,000 trustworthy man has been found!
another. Although it would be count, sentences to run concur- found its way to the Wing On out: There may be other regues too sweeping to state that the rently. The sentence on the second banking department. in commercial circles in the coal industry is doomed, there can prisoner is that he be imprisoned member of a well-known Chinese Colony, but it would be defama- be no doubt that even allowing for for three years with hard labour club and in 1924-5 was treasurer tory to insinuate such until the general trade depression which the three counts, sentences to of that club, it being obvious,
įrun concurrently. [day of reckoning arrives for them, has affected employment in all Mr. Jenkin Might. I refer Your considerable esteem by a body of too, and they find themselves in industries, that of coat has been Lordship's attention to section 22 Chinese gentlemen in this Colony. of the Criminal Procedure · Or- At all material times, he was em the unenviable position of hearing by far the most seriously hit as dinance which gives the Court ployed by Thomas W. Simmons sentence for their "misdeeds regards the possibility of employ-power to award costs against per and Co. of which Fok Chung-yuen solemnly pronounced by one ofment for the thousands who have sons convicted on indictable offences and his brother His Majesty's Judges.
been unemployed, many of them, in the same manner as in a civil They had subsidiary companies, since the last big strike five years action. Proceedings in this case the Man Fat bring but one of Any comparisons of crime in
ago. Many reasons have been undertaken by "the Wing On Com-these. For the convenience of this Colony with that at Home
put forward for the acute, depres-pany have been very prolonged and having three signatories for the must be rigidly ruled out, for con-
have entailed enormous expense to use of the Bank of East Asia, Mr. ditions are entirely different and on in the industry. At first it thenu Might I ask that Your Lord-Lai was directed by the owners of was the payment of Ruhr coal to ship adds to the sentence you have the business to be an alternative the class of offenders here is like France which was keeping down ready passed an order for the pay signatory if either of the Fok wise utterly at variance with that the demand for British coal, then ment of part of the costs and ex-brothers should at any time be in the Old Country.
absent.. The S There it was the adverse effect of the penses of the prosecution?
This was Mr. Las only asso- have just been published "Crimin depreciated exchange of other costs of the Wing On Company al Statistics for 1924," in the countries when it came to trans- which have already been paid have ciation with the case, said Mr. Jenkin, although at the earlier. course of which it is stated that, lating British currency in relation
"Unprecedented."
stage of the proceedings it had as regards fraud, there appears to the price of exported coal Mr. Alabaster Counsel for the been sufficient to attach a certain "I have to be a decay of commercial probl-More recently, the return to the prosecution and the defence have amount of suspicion.
personally investigated his a950-
exceeded $10,000,
4
case
He is a o
therefore, that he was held in
were owners,
Instructions given to him. I hope.
Final Direction.
by which may have its origin in gold standard has been blamed been here for a number of years Tiation with the case," continued the opportunities for getting rich / But it may be that the cause lies and such an application is entirely Mr. Jenkin, "and am satisfied that
unprecedented.. deeper as: the British coal indus quickly afforded in certain".quar-
try is not the only one affected.power provided. Surely a
His Lordship But there is the he knew nothing as to the pur- pose for which the cheque was ATTERBURY—On April 28, atters in the Great War. Here, any In the gradual change from coal where you have parties of a certain drawn or even that the money was Maternity Hospital Penang. increase in commercial probity bunkering to oil spraying and position in life with apparent means of the Wang On Company, to Stella, wife of E. F. Atter-would probably be set down by a motor propulsion in ships one has is one in which they should be made He signed merely on the general bury of Krian Estate. Nebony criminologist to the abnormal de- but one of the many signs of the pay expenses incurred by reason that this statement of mine will Tebal, a daughter. SINCLAIR-On May 1, 1926, at pression in trade in South China advance which is being made in of their conduct.
the Maternity Home, Penang, generally since the strike and boy- the discovery and adaptation of of the Crown have not undertaken by reason of his name appearing Mr. Alabaster: The law officers clear him of any possible stigma which might otherwise attach to cott. commenced last year and the new raw materials to take the their usual functions in this case. A on the cheque, insensate desire of aoine to get place of coal. Then there is the civil action has been turned into a rich as other people's expense by campaign started by influential criminal procedure enormous ex-
In directing the jury im- hook on by crook. If this should Journals and supported by sciea penses. have been incurred by the
lific men for the abolition of the Osecation which very fact has put mediately prior to their retire be the explanation the pheno-smoke nuisance which consti- they have not the unlimited re said: "This is a very complicated the defence into difficulties because ment yesterday. His Lordship meron will pass in due course. SMITH VINGENT.-On May 1,
tutes such a grave menace to the scurces to draw on, naturally, that case, and I have therefore read It is also asserted in the health of the population of our the prosecution has had. Such a a large portion of the evidence.. 1926, at Wesley Church, Fort Criminal Statistics for 1924 crowded cities. Claims have been procedure sa is asked for would be The real material evidence" is, Canning, by the Rev. Edwin Lee, John H. Smith to Mina that the proportion of persone put forward which, if substan- be borne in mind that defendants and can be referred to in a very quite unprecedented and it should however, not very complicated,
Vincent..
practised and skilled enough to tiated, may see the general use in this Colony have not auch re few words. It seems to me that avoid detection is growing." The of materials which will do away medies as are possessed by defen- your verdict in this case must to official view is that this may be with the smoke belching chim-dants in England. Our machinery a large extent depend on the due in part to the fact that per-neys and enable city dwellers to has not been brought into line with evidence of Chan Sam and Tam BRAUN-On April 30, 1926, at sous of this type when convicted live under more hygienic condithe machinery in England which Lay. In justice to the defence would allow us to go further with you must consider the evidence Singapore, Edward
Ben-receive nowadays more lenient tions than are at present possible the case.
of these two witnesses very care- jamin Braun, aged 64 years. sentences than formerly, and re-to them. The development of
fully. You have always to re- "The prosecution have chosen in member that the onus of bringing CAMPBELL. On April 30, 1926, turn
sooner to practise. their such inventions which it is claim the conduct of the case," continued, the charges home resis on at the General Hospital, criminal habits.”
the ed will dispense with the neces-counsel; "to incur the enormous Crown, and, in deciding on your Singapore, William S. I,
sity for the use of coal may be, expense mentioned in order that verdict you must be satisfied be Campbell, late Captain of se
passed this morning on and probably is, a matter of con- they might arm themselves with yond reasonable doubt.". "Will o' the Wisp." Aged 64 two Chinese convicted of considerable time yet but in the con-more counsel than aither defendants The jury retired at 8.85 p.m. spiracy to defraud the Wing Onsideration of schemes for the can afford and now they ask for and returned to the court after Company Bank there should be future of the coal industry it is is certainly the power but so rarely They found the first prisoner,
this unprecedented order. There 35 minutes.. absolute agreement. They are to be hoped that it will not en is it used that in neither of our Au Rim-lui, guilty on all six: not vindictive, but they are salu-tirely be lost sight of by the Gov-memories has it been."
counts, conspiracy, two charges of tary and just. As a deterrent ernment which at present is-seek- Mr. Zeitlyn: Any order that uttering a forged document with this species of, crime againet coming to And the best way out of Your Lordship might feel pleased intent to defraud, of endeavour- mercial probity they ought to what is at present a national dif- Scant sympathy will be shown exercise a wholesome effect. The ficulty but which contains the to the two Chinese who were sen- prisoners are not of the class to elements of a world-wide problem, tenced at the Criminal Sessions whom a term of imprisonment to-day on a charge of conspiracy for three years is a bagatelle; it
years,
DEATHS...
Hongkong, Wednesday, May 12, 1926.
BANK SWINDLERS.
tences
With the sen- the
"BLACK MARIA" OUT
YESTERDAY.'.
to defraud the Wing On Company means ignominy and disgrace in BEGGAR NUISANCE Bank. The trial, in spite of its the eyes of their compatriots; it abnormally protracted nature, has implies perpetual banishment created quite a stir in commercial from commercial dealings in this circles, the newspaper reports Colony. That will be hard to throughout the whole fifteen days bear.
A DECADENT INDUSTRY?
FOURTEEN CAPTURES.
to make against the first prisoner ing to get $50,000 paid into the would be nothing but useless as Industrial and Commercial Bank he is a poor man but if Your Lord on a forged document, and two ship deems it to make auch an or- counts of perjury. der to serve as a precedent...NA think it would be a departure Fook-chu was found guilty on the The second prisoner Lam which would be regretted in subse- counts of conspiracy and two quent years and I do think a demand counts of uttering a forged docu made at this stage of the proceed ment with intent to defraud. He ings is not one which should be acceded to.
was found not guilty on the fourth His Lordship: There is no doubt count. The counts of perjury did
not refer to him. but that the Court has the power to make an order. I assume that would reserve judgment and de- His Lordahip stated that he when the legislature gave its sanc liver it this morning. He thanke, tion it must have had in mind the ed the jury for the attention they existence of certain cases in which had given to the case and excused the making of the order would be them from further service for a right and proper: In this particu- period of three yer service lar case it is quite clear that the Mr. F. C. Jenkin, appeared with accused have at some time been in Mr. H. G. Sheldon for the prose- possesion of means, Mr Zeitlyn cation (both instructed by Mr. has said that any order made Bulmer Johnson, of Messrs. would bear no fruit."
en les
f
"Evil Fruit."
Hastings, Dennys and Bowley). Mr. C G. Alabaster and Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed by Mr. G. K Hall Brutton and Mr. Leo Almada) were for the respective. prisoners.:
being followed with extremely The Jury by their verdict "and | The begging fraternity received "great interest by non-Chinese as the Chief Justice by his sentences a shock yesterday when they were well as Chinese." The code of have done all that the law.re taken, unawares in various streets commercial morality amongst the quires to rid the community of a pomly ushered into the local
police van.A Chinese has always been reputed couple of swindlers who have Some of the "captives (alto ly high. Yet, in this as in every blackened the fair name of the gether fourteen were secured) fall ed to understand this action of the other section of the community, it Colony for commercial probity.
police, but they have still to learn is only natural-in fact, inevit-
that this is part of routine proce- able to find lapses from grace, as
dure for ridding the Colony of a witness the Atherley affair of a
nuisanco.
Mr. Zeitlyn: Except in ao far as One among them was Identified as an old hand. He had it may bear very evil fruit to those few months ago. An isolated case
been sent away about a dozen dependent on the man. here and there, however, need not How long it will be before coal times, but found himself back by His Lordship: A man who com be taken as any evidence that is entirely superseded by other the quickest route, emits an offence of this kind ought Commercial morality generally light and power mediume is a Time was when shiploads of to consider that before he embarks leaves very much to be desired or question which has exercised the beggars were sent to Canton, but on a scheme of this kind. A case
RUBBER MARKET. the nuisance has now abated to a in which people of a certain stand- that the average man who dabbles minds of the far seeing ever since considerable extent. At presenting engage in an attempt to de- largely in banking or share trans- the subject of the Imitations of about twenty are sent away each fraud seems to me to be partlou Messrs. Carroll Bros. hevo actions is a wolf in sheep's cloth the present world supplies en week. Since the refusal of the larly one in which an order of this favoured us with a cable, they have gaged the attention of the ex-strike pickets to permit landing in kind should be made received from Singapore advising ing. Circumstances and the Operts. The unpromising financial Canton, the beggars, are now taken Mr. Zeltlyn: If I might anti them of the following salke on portunites for swindling appear state of the industry as disclosed by police launch and landed in cipate the next sentence which I Rubber shares to be the predominant factors in
Chinese territory at Deep Bay.. Asuse trembling on Your Lordship's Alor Gajahs $8.20, Bassetts: 21:55 by 2
to all relative books and some of those sent away find their that the Wing On Company has in Serendahe $5.10 and, of course, the most important was advised by both sides, gives way back to Hongkong, walking part curred no lose as the money has fact that an apparently honest and cause for wonder as to whether of the way.
not been; paid, outjes
criminal breaches of this type accession which had full is proved by the record of capturea, lips I would remind Your Lordship cum rights, Jerami 82,00, New
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