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ON POKFULUM ROAD
EUROPEAN CAR_DRIVER
FINED.
POLICE: EVIDENCE.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928.
$10 OR $100 7:
CHARGE OF ALTERING NOTES,
A SERIOUS CASE.
DOUBLE MURDER.
ALLEGED" GUNMEN
CHARGED..
· FURTHER EVIDENCE.
Chan Hung, one of the trio of
the
At "trafic time" at the Contral
Before Mr. W. Schofield at the Magistracy this morning, Mr. J
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, & Chinese gunmen arrested by Limage was summoned before Chinese was charged with utter police in connection with the sheet- Major C. Willson for driving motoring two $10 notes of the Mercan-ing affray. between a quartetto of armed desperadoes and a polica. car No. 2951 In a dangerous mantile Bank of India, the figures on pleket, made another appearance which had been altered to make before Major C. Willson at the ner in Pokfulum Road at noon on the notes represent those of $100 Central Magistracy yesterday New Year's Day.
He denied the charge.
Traffic Sub-Inspector Alexander sald that he was on motor cycle patrol on the Pokfulum Road, go- ing in the direction of Fokfulurn when near the pumping station he saw motor car No. 899 approach
Ing Sergeant Thomas McMahon, in ing him on the left centre of the According to Sergeant Brittain, charge of the picket, and a Chinese road. Behind this car was car No. who prosecuted, the first accused detective. Then followed the run- 2351 which overtook No. 399. round visited a shop at No. 685, Shang- ning fight In which one of the gun- a bend on the extreme right of the hai Street, on Thursday last, and men was shot dead, a second w
after purchasing goods to the arrested a little distance from road. The witness drove his cycle value of 30, tendered one of the where the shooting of the police off the roadway to the entrance of altered notes in payment. He took place and a third got clear the pumping station and gave the received change, and it was not away at the time, but was sub- After until later when the note was sequently arrested by the polled a defendant the whole road. stopping for a few minutes to talk ther and the latter attempted to
handed to the shopkeeper's bro few days after the affray.
Opened Fire.
denomination. The allegation afternoon charged with the murder against the man was that he of two Chinese constables during uttered the notes at two differ- A running pistol fight from Bonbam. Saturday, respectively. ant shopa Inst Thursday and Strand to the heart of the City in
the early hours of the morning of .
Two other Chinese were December 7. Jask.
The police picket, it may be re- charged with having been con- uttering of the second of the two the desperadoes opened fire wound- cerned with the first man in the called, stopped the four gunnda in order to search them. Two of forged notes...
to the driver of car No. 899, the change it that the note was dis- witness, tried to catch the defen- covered to be a forgery, dant up, but failed to do so.
The Whole Road.
A Coincidence.
The fourth man, the accused, was chased right into town before he was eventually brought down ak the corner of Chiu Loong Street
By the Magistrate: Had another All the three accused, and Des Vaux Road Central, ndar car, or the witness's own cycle been on Saturday by a coin- the Connaught Garage. He w23. a few yards higher up the road cidence, visited the shopmaster's then found to be wounded in near the bond, there would have brother's shop at No. 203, Laichi- several places and had to be re- been a smash, as the defendant's kok Road and after making pur-moved to the hospital.
of the chase of car was going very fast--not leas chases, tendered the second forg-In the course than 30 miles per hour. As it was, ed note. The similarity of the this man it was alleged by the pro- the witness saw danger in remain note and the one previously pass-secution that he opened fire on two Chinese and ́one Indian constables, ing on the road and left it. The ed by the first accused was in one of the former being an un- defendant must have seen him but mediately recognised, and all
armied Yaumati Ferry wharf did not slow, up, so the Inspector three accused were detained, and searcher who was shot through the decided it was safer to give him subsequently handed over to the heart and killed instantly. The
police.
other two were severely wounded. the whole road,
"The Magistrate said he Subsequently the Chinese detective
Defendant said that he attempt-
with double murder.
Fight Described.
?.
In seeking to implant to the ed to pass car. No. 899 near the thought the case was a rather who was wounded at the same time Hotung Engineering School where serious one and decided that it as Sergeant McMahon died in hot- Chinese students all the attributes there was a very slight bend. The had better be made one for com-pital, so that the accused is faced that the Chancellor would have in road here, he claimed, was prac mittal to the Criminal Sesalons.
Further hearing, however, was the Chinese leaders of the future tically a straight one and he could -trained in the University of see the corner of the University. adjourned until to-morrow.
The road was clear, there was not Hong Kong the University is in single vehicle on the road. As reality undertaking a work the the car in front was going very immensity of which might well slow, the defendant thought that if stagger the layman in matters he did not pass it before it got to Bonham Road," he would have to educational. To instil the high remain behind it until they reach- PENAL SERVITUDE SENTENCES principles
unselfishness, ed Government House. Therefore honesty, discipline, courage, and he put on speed and passed the other car before reaching the pump- truth in all the students who yearing station. It was then that ho
Driver's Testimony.
FORGED, NOTES.
IN MANCHESTER.
SCAPEGRACE OF FAMILY.
Graphic details of the running fight were given yesterday after- noon by a District Watchman who Joined in the chase spon-after the police picket had been fired-on, This evidence bore out Mr. T. 3.
Whyte-Smith's opening statement
of the case for the Crown and the depositions of previous witnesses who were examined during an earlier, hearing of the case.
The case war again adjourned.
GOVERNOR AND “CAREER” RESTRICTIONS.
A WEAK SPOT.
in and year out attend the noticed the police cycle, which had The hearing of the charges of University here appears the high-not sounded its hooter. Even then forging Treasury notes, or uttar no danger as he had ing them was concluded at the est aim of education extant. Only there was
cleared the other car when still Manchester Assizes on November optimism could make such an ob- well off the pumping station.
80, when three of the men found MALAYAN POLICE. guilty of uttering were sentenced. jective.take a less exalted form.
John Shea, 46, salesman, was sent The University may, as the
to prison for fifteen months, George The driver of car No. 899 Bald Freshney, 52, clerk, for eighteen Chancellor points out, be working he was travelling at about 15 miles months, and Harold Moore, 24, with "worn-out tools" and "try-per hour when a large Flat car sud- ship's steward, for six months, ing to make bricks without denly passed him. It went so fast Detective-sergeant King said Shea Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 10, 1928, straw," but these pathetic facts in that he was unable to see its num- had eleven convictions for offences, ber. There was no horn sounded including burglary and shopbreak- themselves need not deter it from from behind before the Flat flew ing, but only one since the war, in When he addressed the members which he served. Freshney, a na- of the Legislative Council. a raking the effort to mould the past. Witness estimated the speed tive of Cheviot, mear Wakefield, couple of months ago, Sir Hugh education it gives along the high- of the Flat at over 20 mph. When was a racecourse frequenter, con- Clifford (recalls the Straits Like the poor the sceptics are est possible lines, so that in the the Flat was half past his car, the fidence trickster, and associate of Times") said it would probably be always with us. In regard to yet dim and distant future, the Inspector's cycle approached in the thieves. He was never known to necessary to ask them to consider opposite direction. The Inspector follow employment of an honest na during the coming year proposals education, and particularly the then feaders of the Chinese may drove off the road to allow the Flat ture. His convictions were mostly for the better equipment of the The witness did not for being a suspected person. Police force of the-Colony for the Moore was the son of a well-known effective discharge of its respon- education of Chinese, it may be rise up and call the University of to pass.
signal the Flat to paaa him.
Liverpool business man, but ap-sibilities. The shrewdness of His that the number of sceptics has Hong Kong truly blessed..“
By the Magistrate: The witness peared to have been a sort scape Excellency, observes our contem- Increased since the student class
thought that if the Inspector did grace of the family. Ee was not of perary, was quick to discover the throughout China first identified
not, drive off the road there was of the clever criminal type like the weak spot in the Police depart little possibility of a crash. others. He had been dragged into ment of the country. For some, themselves most ingloriously
that crowd, and had given the police years the force in Malaya has been with the rise of sentiment against
The Court then considered the F.M.S., where, however, provision Mr. Carl Anulphy who was in cases of Herbert Crawford, 26, has been recently made for a gen the foreigner at the bidding of
Mr. Limage's car, corroborated the signwriter, Michael Grogan, 32, eral, increase in the personnel. Moscow. It is, therefore, most:
defendant's statement that the road steward, and Herbert Thomas, 61, But it is still difficult to recruit. refreshing to find not only a con-
At the Central Magistracy this was clear of vehicle, and said they clerk, charged with having con- officers of a suitable type and this trary view but a view that has in morning, Major C. Willson had be- had a clear view in front of them spired together to forge £1 fallars to fill appointments is it the elements of a stimulus to fore him a Chinese woman named as far as where Pokfulum Road notes, Crawford pleaded guilty causing anxiety, both in the Colony Wong Chu-wan, and Sybel Joseph, went down an incline. Besides, car to making Implements of for and in the neighbouring: States: les Chinese to further their educa a Jewish woman, who were charged No. 399, was on the extreme left of Sery, of having them in his posses-Referring to the brochure by the
sion, and of having paper for Chief Commissioner of Police, tion in this Colony in order to fit with disorderly conduct by fighting the road and there was nie notes. The other two pleaded not "The Malayan Police them to take their place in the in the street in town on Friday space for Mr. Limage to pass. The guilty,
night. Both claimed that the other witness also stated that Mr. Limage Moore, who had been sentenced, from time to time Inspectors have Career," and to the fact that fulness of time in the adminis struck the first blow, but
The Magistrate bound them both put on speed to between 25 and, 80 gave evidence of a meeting of the been promoted to be Assistant tration, of their own nation. In
over in a' surety of $50 each to be miles per hour to pass the leading gang arranged in a public house, Superintendents and such pro spite of a hundred signs to the of good behaviour for six months, car. The Inspector's cycle appear and stated that Crawford said motion is still possible, but that no ed unexpectedly, and the witness did "Either. Grogan or Themas are probationer has yet attained to the contrary as to the adverse effect or, in default, seven days jail.
twisting, Joseph created scenes both fa- not hear any horn. There was no been £8. Instead there is only $1 Singapore paper says that the There ought to have rank of Deputy Superintendent, the of education-or rather of what
Bide and outside the Court. need for the Inspector to leave the Mr. W. W. Hornell, Vice-Chan-Eventually it was reported to the road as there was plenty of room years, and Grogan to four years doubtedly real and was brought to Crawford was sentenced to three grievance of the Inspectors is un cellor of the University of Hong Magistrate that she was unable to on their right for a motor cycle to penal servitude.
SCENE IN COURT.
A JEWISH WOMAN BOUND OVER
LAWYER AS SURETY.
mitted to prison. find a surety, and she was.com-pass.
...
Later Mr, Leo d'Almada,
sen.,
Road Clear.
every assistance.considere understaffed, especially in the
IN ARREARS.
28
Thomas was found not guilty and the notice of the Government dur- ing the sittings of the Public Mr. Limage asked the Inspecter was discharged,
Salaries Commission as long ago an 1919. They are the backbone of appeared in Court, and, after a if it were unnecessary, even if ears private consultation with bis Wor-were not in a control area, for the
the force, yet it is implied in Mr. ship, went surety for Joseph, who leading car to signal before it could
Hannigan's pamphlet that the ser- was released.
vice has plums, only for officers, of gazetted "rank. There is little en- couragement given to efficient and practical Inspectors to attain the Fank of A.S.P. and much of their time and experience is devoted to At Willesden on November 30, training young probationers in Ernest Mackay 40, a homeless their duties. E
and file of the Euro-
BACK AGAIN.
JAIL AND 20 STROKES FOR
CHINESE AS MAN
be passed.
The Inspector replied that that should always be done.
THREE FAMILIES TO 'SUPPORT.
musician, was charged with being KAS, 6112 in arrears on a child mainten-
Men Angent, have grievances
Kong, styled "half baked and wholly undigested conceits" the education of Chinese in Hong Kong is neither illogical nor ab- surd. Still leas may it be regard ed as mis-spent energy. As His Excellency the Governor, in his
Mr. Limage remarked that that capacity as Chancellor of the
was not done In other countries, University, declared yesterday
where as long as the road was clear "never in its history did China
and there was room to pass a fol have more bitter need that her Before Mr. Roger Edward Lind lowing car could go ahead of a slow sons and daughters should prove sell at the Central Magistracy this moving car in front themselves to be unselfish, morning a Chinese was charged The Magistrate agreed with the It was stated that he prison were years ago and the appearance with returning to the Colony after Inspector, that in Hong Kong a fol, on the morning of his rearrest, of this brochure calls attention to well-dis- be had been bauished for a period towing car should wait to receive a ing just completed his second sen- them again. When next the Straits Settlements, Association ciplined, courageous, and truth- of ten years. In December 1923. signal before passing, and finding fence for bigamy; and "now"
He pleaded
wants a subject for discussion, con- most
Reading the accused's record proved, imposed a fine of $10.
the charge against the defendant little prospect of work,
liable for the support. hron eluder our contempor fervidly, his wish that their coun- Sub-Ingpecter. Vincent,... in charg
familles, Ope
thewives"ditions of Police Recorda” ztated, that on try's distress will be
described accused as a good man.Col two occasionA,
at his trade, but with a falling for the students the Univer ber 1923, the
women "both a clarion call strokes and 48
and in Dec and an inspiration and that TER their training here may "it them atea
honest.:
to come to the rescue of a civil
tion once the admiration of labour and
Nance order.
wap which are as acute to-day as they
the Police service in the
bagconsidered,
Vit an important;