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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927.
A DEBTOR BUILDER. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
WARRANT ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST.
man
TO-DAY'S BANKRUPTCY.
Detailing the events which led up
OBITUARY.
COOLIE FATALLY INJURED INC.P.O. A. A. STÉPHENS OF H.M.S.
KOWLOON.
"CARLISLE”
Mr. Stephena had made many friends in Hong Kong whilst the "Carlisle" was stationed here and was well-known at the European Y.M.C.A. Kowloon. He was also a member of the Hong Kong Lodge, the Theosophical Society.
Deceased (who was 24 years of age) leaves & mother at his home in Kant,
."
Quite a crop of motor accidents From Shanghai intimation has occurred in the Colony yesterday. been received of the death thera A tramear collided with a taxi in of C.P.O. Archibald Alexander A warrant was issued this morn-Des Voeux Road Central amashing Stephens, of H.M.S. "Carlisla" after ing, in the course of hearing of a the rear mud guards. The taxi an illness of nine days. The cause Bankruptcy Court case, for the swerved to avoid a ricsha coming of death was pneumonia. arrest of the principal partner in out of the lane next to Powell's shop the Chick Wah arm (Chung Cheuk-and got in the way of the oncoming wah
traina The Ocial Receiver, Mr., E L.. While turning up Garden Rond d Agassiz, said that vary considerable motor car ran into a Chinese school allegations were made against the boy who received injuries which
had to be treated in hospital,
Another. Chine boy received to the application for the warrant, injuries to the head when he was the Official Receiver said that the knocked down by a motor car in Arst, meeting of creditors of the Connaught Road near the Western fem was to have been heldi on Market.
A motor truck skidded near the December 9 The day before the meeting, the debtor came to witness Wanchai Cap School and collided and produced a medical certificate with a gas lamp standard which
Til noon to-morrow, the weather was. broken.
also signed by a European doctor stat badly damaged.
forecast for Hong Kong, the adja-
On December 13 the debtor again his car near the Naval Yard flafresh N,E winds, overcast at While MF, Dodson was driving cent const and Formosa Channel came to the Official Receiver and Canton Road, Kowloon, his
first, finer later. cor produced a telegram purporting to struck a coolle who was fatally From 2 p.m. yesterday till 6 4.m. come from Canton stating that injured and died soon after admis-to-day, the temperature dropped 7 debtor's uncle was dead and he wassion to the Kwong Wah Hospital
degrees and the humidity fell 24 to come to Canton immediately to
Meteorological observa- Carrying two buckets of water points. see to his estate: As debtor could cown Pedder Street a Chinese slip- tions at 8 a. to-day-barometer have gone to Canton without ask-ped and Zell. A motor car which 30.08; temperature 54; humidity ing, the feial Receiver had no was just turning the junction of 70; wind N. force weather over- option but to concur and the debtor Des Voeux Road Central ran into cast. left his address behind.
the man. He was taken to the hos-: pital badly injured,
ing that he was not fit to attend
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letter, said the 'Official Receiver, as
The car
WGB
FORGED NOTE CHARGE.
of the 7th inst, was preferred;
· WEATHER FORECAST.
-57
At 11.20 a.m. to-day the Observa- tory reported:-
Pressure has
inches.
increased con-
Extraordinary Accounts.. When the Official Receiver went into the accounts he found them in
siderably over 3. China,' moderately an extraordinary way, no dates be
over E China and slightly from ing given when the debts were con- The Chinese charged with the un-Formosa to Luzon. The anti- tracted or what they were for. So lawful possession of a forged $10 cyclone, has spread southward. the OMeinl Receiver wrote to debtur note of the Hong Kong, and Shang-The Indo-China depression bas l in a registered envelope asking himhal Bank and attempting to pass itted up. Fresh monsoon may be ex-
coast
of to come and give a correct account it a Gage Street stall was again be-pected aidhg the S.E.. o the state of affairs. This was fore Major Willson this morning, China over the N. China Sea. nat replied to, neither was another when a further charge of possession
Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 registered letter directing debtor to of another forged note and passing hours ending at 10 a.m,to-day, 0.63 attend the public examination. it at the same stall on the night inch Total since January 15.55 Debtor evidently had received the Accused, who was represented by inches, against an average of 4.24 he had written to another partner Mr. F. E. Nash, pleaded not guilty. The stallholder said accused pass- asking him to represent him at theed one bad note at his stallion the public examination. But this man, aight of March 7 and received Fang Lck-chin, knew practically change for it. On the night of the theft of 120 feet of chain cable The Naval Authorities report the nothing of the business. He was 11th he came again and tried to the smallest of all the partners and pass another bad note,
worth $150 from Tsing-1 Island and re- had no money.
cognising the accused witness gave The cable was used to suspend
some targets. On this man being called and him in charge. having, deposed to the letter in After cross-examination by Mr. LIST OF SHIPS EXPECTED TO BE IN WIRELESS
question, His Lordship (Mr. Nash in which witness said he had After a quarrel with her hus COMMUNICATION WITH HONG KONG TO-DAY
Justice Wood) ordered a warrant to no doubt accused was the man who band, a Chinese woman is alleged President Grant. President Van Buren, Amazon Maru, Taikwa be issued for the arrest of Chung passed the first note at his stall, the to had attempted suicide by swal Maru, Taiyo Maru. Nyanza, Genera Metzinger, Nagpore, Sandviken, Cheuk-wah:
case was remanded until' to-morrow lowing some oplum. She is now in Yacht Warrior: Tjikembang, Tjimanpek, Sirdhana, Shantung, Kalyan, The Official Receiver indicated morning,
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In reply to questions witness said that the firm was one of building contractors and they also dealt Wit- Hargely in property shares. Enese had had only $500 shares in!
it. Chung Cheuk-wah had put :| $3,500 into the firm and four other partners had also put. considerable" sums of money into It. All the partners with the exception of him." self had left the Colony and could not be traded.
Asked if Cheung Cheuk-wah was a rich man, witnese said that he believed he was. He was interest ed largely in property dealings. The total debts of the Arm were $62,000 (including "some personal debts of Cheung Cheuk-wah) and the only assets were in connection with payment for the extension of workshops contract carried out for the Kowloon-Cunten railway. Thiel had been paid in after the Bark ruptcy.
Witness was questioned as to his personal expenditure and income as a schoolmastor and also by Mr. C. A. S. Russ and Mr. dl Arculli, for creditors) as to other businesses | in which it was alleged that Chung) 8.30 p.m. Cheuk-wah was interested.
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