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KOWLOON-CANTON.
British Engines' Through Journeys.
YESTERDAY'S INAUGURATION.
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.
MURDER CHARGE.
CHINESE ACCUSED OF CRIME.
WIFE FOUND STRANGLED.
dig-
SCHOOL FEES.
WHY INCREASES WERE MADE.
A HEAVY CHARGE.
Evidence was taken for the The reason for the various In- For the first time in the his-first time by Mr. R, E. Lindsell creases in local school fees, provid- tory of the Kowloon-Canton at the Central Magistracy yes-ed for in the "Government Gazette," Railway, British engines are terday afternoon in the case in so far as the Government district now being used on the Chinese which a Chinese Ilving in. Castle schools are concerned, is that the as well as the British section for Peak is charged with the murder instruction given is of the same the recently resumed express of his wife. The case was the standard and it is thought reason. able that the same fees should be service to Canton.
sequel to the sensational
charged. The change is necessitated by covery, reported some time ago, At Belillos School for Girls, the the indifferent state of repair of of the murdered woman's body monthly fee has been increased the Chinese section engines owing, which was dug up from a dis- from $2 to $3 and at the Ellis to wear and tear which was par- used sand pit in the vicinity of Kadoorfe School for Indians and the Gap Road School it had been ticularly heavy during the time her home. when there was constant com- Mr. T. S. White Smith, Assist-Increased from $22 a year to $2 a mandeering by warring military ant Crown Solicitor, related the month,
In spite of increased expenses at factions.
surpassed details of the affair.
Queen's College, the fees have re- The first express to run under Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask appear-mained at $5 a month since 1910 the joint arrangement between ed for the defence.
and, in accordance with the new the Chinese and British sections According to Mr. White Smith move to regularise school fees in officials by which British engines the deceased was the accused's the various Government Schools it complete the through trip was kit fat' wife. They were married was felt that an increase was the 8 a.m. from Kowloon yes- in the country about 20 years justified.
That the various increases are terday, the 8-5 a.m, also leaving ago. A year after the marriage Canton for Hong Kong with a the accused went to America, justified will be seen from the fact British engine..
where he had been before, leav-that whereas the amount derived Although the British engines ing his bride behind. He return- from Government school fees has been about $100,000 yearly, the were not designed for expressed about 10 or 11 years ago. amount expended on them totals work, it has been possible by In- Husband and wife, their three about a million a year, not to men- creasing the water storage capa- children and a mui tsai went to tion expenditure on new building city to adapt them for the pur- live in a new house about seven etc.
pose, and yesterday's runs years ago. The couple were ap- proved that they are not only parently quite happy together.
able to keep to the three hours Then, a year after, he took a Jewellery and money worth $704 and forty-five minute through concubine and put up house for was stolen from a passenger on schedule, but that they possess a her in Chungshawan, Shamshuipo board the B.. "President Taft" reserve which, if thought advis- opposite where the Military Camp while the vessel was lying along- able, could be used for reducing now stands. Although the two side the Kowloon wharf.
Lit.
A Regular Service,
The use of the British engines is the only means by which the express service may be reliably resumed and, now that the joint
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women did not meet often, it was also known that after taking the concubine, accused and his kit fat began to quarrel.
to the mui tsai would say that he never went to them. The next Mui Tsai's Search. Coming to the circumstances day accused came to the Castle arrangement arrived at has immediately preceding the alleged Peak house with his concubine proved practicable, a regular murder, Mr. White Smith said and her sister and they packed double express service daily will that people in the village saw the up and carried clothing, mosquito be maintained, leaving Kowloon deceased alive on April 6. After nets and bedding to the con- at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Canton the morning meal on April 7, the cubine's house in Chungshawan at 8-5 a.m. and 3.20 p.m. with mui tsai would say that the where the accused took up per- number of Labourites to the one slow train from both the accused sent her and the two manent residence. He only went House of Lords must commend Gracias a fare for the through respectively, to gather fir cones a crop of peaches.
Chinese and British sections, the elder children, aged eight and six to Castle Peak once to see about Three weeks later, on April 27, itself to the country as a whole. trip being $5.
on the hillside. Later the ac- As long ago as 1295 the develop- It was a hopeful augury for cused and the youngest child accused called on the deceased's the success of the resumed ser- joined them, and later still five brother, a cobbler in Shamshuipo, ment of representation was an-
Soon and communicated his suspicion vice and indicative of the ap. other villagers came. ticipated by the so-called "Model" preciation by the Chinese travel- afterwards there came a rain that deceased had run away with Parliament, famous as containing ling public of the enhanced re-storm, and the whole party went a man whom he named. Accused two knights from each shire, two liability assured that by the time to take shelter in the verandah of called again on May 7 and said citizens from each city, two leave Canton
the afternoon. express was due to the accused's house which was that he no longer suspected that the return locked up, and accused did not man, and named a brick layer as burgesses from each borough, journey the compartments were make any attempt to open it. the person who had enticed his When some friends called out to wife away. Although the brother- and representatives of cathedral well filled. and parochial clergy.
On the occasion of the in-hie wife the accused was alleged in-law suggested accused should That, of augural return journey from to have said that she had gone inform the police, he did nothing about it, saying that if he did so course, was more akin to classifi- Hong Kong to Canton yester-out for a walk.
of the After the rain the villagers de-and offered a reward for his cation of the various grades of day, representatives
The deceased's brother also did society rather than actual repre- Hong Kong Press, both Chinese parted and the mui tsai was sent wife's recovery he would lose face.
and foreign, were the guests of out to buy some cakes. sentation of political Parties such officials of both sections of the she returned she found the house nothing about it until May 16 as is now sought under the Railway, among the hosts leaving had been opened by the accused. when his suspicion having been scheme debated in the House of Kowloon with the party being Soon after the accused went out. aroused by the accused's indiffer- Mr. 1. D. Trevor, acting Traffic The mui tsai was concerned about ence he made some enquiries in Lords yesterday. Perhaps the Manager, Mr. C, D. Lambert, her mistress's absence, and after the village at Castle Peak and at most interesting point in that Chief Mechanical Engineer, and the accused left she searched the the police station, and then on discussion is to be found in the Mr. E. S. Carter, Engineer of house. She first went to the attic May 19 made a report of his Way and Works. Among the and noticed that the steps and sister's disappearance. The ac- readiness with which Conserva-official party meeting the guests part of the floor above was wet cused was forthwith arrested, near his house at, Chungshawan. tive Peers supported the pro- on the Chinese section were the as if recently washed.
He made an attempt to escape posal, which is likewise favoured new Managing Director of the attic was a three-ply rope hang- but was overpowered. by the Government itself. Once Chinese section, Mr. Ych Ka-ing from a nail driven to one of
Garden Dug Up. a Bill is introduced in due course gineer in Chief of the Chinese of the main building and there den was dug up in an effort to chuen, Mr. W. M. Stratton, En- the beams on the roof. She then
went to an outhouse on the right The whole of the accused's gar- on the lines indicated a hitherto section, Mr. Liu, Traffic Manager, she saw two large baskets, one find his wife's body but the search powerful plank would be removed Mr. H. B. Harris, Chief European inverted and forming a lid of the proved fruitless, except for the
from the Labour platform and a greater sense of co-ordination in legislation would be possible be please tween the two Houses of Parlia-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 21, 1927:
REFORM OF THE LORDS.
Quite an interesting debate has taken place in the House of Lords on a proposal to leaven the com-
position of that Chamber by the nomination by the Government of
a certain number of Labour mem bera and a reduction by selection
of the number of Peers. The trend of the debate would in- dicate that the scheme is inspired by a desire to anticipate the action of any Labour Government
In introducing a Single Chamber Government.
Conflicts between
ment.
LOCAL WEDDING.
accountant, Messrs. Bander and J. T. Smith, Traffic Inspectors, and Chinese officials including Messrs. Le Kwong-woon, Leung Ing-wai, Ng Sheung-chi Chow Hin-sum.
other.
When
In the
was
finding of a pair of trousers, Huddled Body.
identified as the deceased's, in a The The mui tsai lifted the top pond opposite the house. and basket and she saw the body of police then offered a reward for her mistress huddled up inside the finding of the body, and with a rope tied round the neck, on May 26 a villager who was Welcome From Canton. The party was met on arrival The mui tsai was too terrified to searching on the hillside at the Canton railway station, say anything. That same night attracted to a sand pit at the the girl heard the accused cough-rear of the accused's house, at Tai Sha Tau, and conveyed to the city by launch, an excellent ing and the sound appeared to where the sand appeared to him come from the outhouse. This to be unduly loose in a certain meal being served at the Nam was about 8 a.m. Next morning spot. He scooped some of the MR. L. A. OSMUND & MISS A. M. Yuen restaurant, Southern Gar-she found the accused drying sand up and came across some
DA SILVA.
dens.
some clothing by the kitchen fire. human hair. He borrowed fur- Mr. Yeh Ka-chuen, in wel-
Ran Away.
ther and unearthed a head. Then coming the guests, referred to the varied fortunes which had That day accused met the Chi-he informed the police and they befallen the railway owing to nese minister of the Christian dug up a woman who was identi- the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on spoke with appreciation of the longed and accused suggested to the clayish nature of the mud A pretty wedding took place at upheavals in the province and Church to which the deceased be-fied as the deceased. Owing to Saturday, the parties being Mr. assistance that had been render him that the deceased had run underneath the surface of the J. D. Osmund and Mrs. Osmund; ed by the British section. With away from home and had gone to sand, the body was preserved in Hong Kong. Later he left the a mumified form. There was a and Miss Alda M. da Silva, daugh- the co-operation which had now house telling the mui tsai that rope round the neck and another ter of the late Mr. E. E. da Silva found expression in the granting he was going to Hong Kong to round the waist.
of use of British engines over
LOCAL BILLIARDS PLAYER.
Luiz Osmund, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Silva.
These were
same
on
'the attic. There were no in-
The bridegroom is well-known the Chinese section, the Railway enquire about his wife. But the three-ply ropes of the locally, particularly for his skill at could face the future with con- friends mentioned by the accused quality as the length found billiards, which earned him the fidence. With a regular service, Continued at foot of next column. juries on the body except a grove commendation of the famous play- er, Stevenson, when the latter paid he thought the Chinese section, Hong Kong a visit,
which had been run at a loss for The Rev. Father Spada officiated some time, could be put on a
which went completely round the neck. This grove formed a com- plete circle round the neck which
at the ceremony and the bride, who paying basis, for the demand was track on the Chinese section was negatived the idea of suicide by was given away by her uncle, wore there and he was confident that far better than they had expect-hanging, because in that case a the Lords and the Commons were a gown of French taffeta trimmed in being able to meet it with a ed and he thought this was a mat- break in the circle would be ex- acute during the tenure of the with ailver lace.
reliable service, their troubles ter for commendation having re- pected at the point of suspension. The bridesmaids, Miekos Mer various Liberal Ministries, and
cedes Fonseca and Julia Soares,
were well on the way to being at gard to the difficulties, both greater differences must be ex-
Strangulation financial and otherwise, with wore pretty dresses of pink geor- an end.
Kowloon Section Reply... which the officials of the Chi- The post mortem examination pected, with a Labour Govern-gette trimmed with pink ribbon.
Messrs. Max Remedios and A. J. Mr. I B. Trevor, in reply, nese section had been faced. carried out by Dr. Dovey did not ment in power.
It should not Osmund attended the bridegroom thanked Mr. Yeh for the hos- In conclusion, he would like to disclose anything that was in- be necessary, as happened dur. and Mr. Baptista officiated at the pitality, extended, and particular-point out the advantages of re- consistent with the theory that
Ing the Ramsay MacDonald Ad- ministration, to create Labour Peers with the object of giving Labour a voice in the delibera- tions of the Upper House. And as no one in this age can gainsay
the right of every political Party
to be represented in the Legisla
ture the remedy now suggested
organ.
There
The happy couple left for Repulse ly on giving up his time to their liable railroad travel, not perhaps death was due to strangulation, Bay and Macao after a reception at entertainment on this his first to the exclusion of other modes and that it was sudden. No. 63, Kowloon Tong.
day of assumption to the office of of transport between Kowloon was nothing in the stomach which Managing Director of the Chi and Canton, but as a very useful could not be attributed to natural nese section. The thanks of the alternative. The times at which causes
REPRIEVE SOUGHT.
Gibraltar, June 20.
British section of the railway the trains left the various ter- Mr. White Smith suggested were also due to the officials of minals agreed with the demands that the rope in the attic was A huge meeting of citizens has the Chinese section, generally for of those following various busi-probably intended to tie the appointed a deputation to present their co-operation in the engine ness vocations and, in spite of woman to after death to give the to the Governor a petition for the tests and track inspections which the difficult times through which impression of suicide, but the reprieve of Lieutenant Dumel had been made previously they had passed, the railway was plan was abandoned for some people have signed the petition the fact that the condition of the and a reliable time table. Up to the present, over 16,500 Mr. Trevor also referred to still able to offer safe transport|reasons
Evidence was then taken
by the nomination of a certain Reuter.