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"LESS A SOURCE OF MOSCOW'S LOTTERY KHAM SINGH FOUND
DANGER"
IDENTIFICATION
CHIEF JUSTICE SAYS SOME STEPS NEEDED
OUGHT TO BE STRUCK OUT
7
"Gentlemen, I think that parade ought to be struck out," his Honour the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, C.BE., K.C.) observed to a jury in his Court at the January Criminal Sessions this morning in a piracy
case.
The words followed questions his Lordship put to Mr. L. H. C. Calthrop, Assistant Superintendent of Police, who gave evidence as to three Identification parades held at the police station on Cheung Chau Island.
Mr. C. G. S. Alabaster, O.BE., K.C. (instructed by Mr. A. E. Hall), asked Mr. who is defending, Calthrop if it was correct that pri- in the only two cells at Cheung Chnu could be seen by any one in the charge room, from the Mr. verandah, and from the door. Calthrop replied that he, could not agree entirely.
soners
THE WHEEL OF CHANCE AND NOT GUILTY
ITS AUDIENCE
GAMBLING INSTINCT
of savinge
The
FORGED BANKNOTES
TESTIMONY
CRIMINAL SESSIONS TRIAL
Moscow.--Public gambling In INDIAN ARMY, DOCTOR GIVES Russia is now forbidden. former casino "Monaco," which otherwise bare little resemblance to the fashionable gaming centre an the Riviera, has been closed, and its jury at the January Criminal Ses- Retiring for about 20 minutes, a shabbily-dressed patrons must go stons found Kham Singh "not elsewhere to stake their stender for guilty," at the conclusion of his tunes on a turn of the card in trial this morning, on an indictment chemin-de-fer or the oscillations of of possession of 88 forged notes, the wheel in roulette.
purporting to be of $10 each issued But the passion for gambling, so by the Hong Kong & Shanghai vividly depicted in some of the Banking Corporation.
Whereupon his Lordship said: The jury have novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, has by no means died out in Soviet "Kham Singh.
You are Russia; and finds a legal outlet for found you not guilty. expression in the strong popular de- therefore discharged."
The case opened yesterday after- mand for State lottery loans, which
noon when several witnesses were! pay no interest, but offer the glit called for the Crown, amongst them tering allurement of thousands of Det. Inspector LP. Lane, who prizes, ranging in value from two seized the notes and two rounds of hundred to a hundred thousand ammunition (in connection with rubles, payable on bonds of a par which the charge had been drop- value of a hundred roubles. At 1sped) under a mattress in a room not always an easy mattor to sell in the Tai Law Tin hotel, Des State loans in Russia; the peasante Voeux-road Central, on Dec. 18.
greatest
"Known Since Childhood" especially display the scepticism in regard to this form Dr. Niranjan Singh, who has held la Viceroy's commission as Jemedar His Lordship's Desire
But on the eve of the drawings in the Indian Army for 7% His Lordship, having commented at previous Sessions on the regula for the State Lottery Loan of 1926, years, and is attached to the Indian tions laid down by the Captain which has an especially tempting Military Hospital, Kowloon, gave Superintendent for identification series of premiums, the banks of evidence this morning. He depos parades and then being informed Moscow are besieged with eagerjed to a long acquaintanceship with The maxims of Ben-prisoner, since childhood, also that that a charge had been made, point-purchasers. ed out that "some steps ought to Jamin Franklin's Poor Richard he and prisoner came from the same
have never found a hearing among village. be taken to render these parades less
On Dec. 18, Dr. Niranjan Singh a source of danger." I have no the Russian people; a State loan desire that a prisoner should escape," with a prosals yearly rate of in. added, prisoner was at his quarters he said, "but I have every desire that terest, even though that rate be as at the hospital from 7 p.m. till he should be treated dairly." high as 10 of 12 per cent, leaves about 10 p.m.
Cross-examined, he said that he comparatively indifferent. Mr. Calthrop explained that when them
remembered the date because he he saw that three men were to be put But hold forth the prospect of win-
returned from Lowu Camp two days up and that prisoner in the dock was ning a hundred thousand roubles,
before. the mathematical younger than the other two, he de- even though cided to hold separate parades in chance of such a coup is but one fairness to prisoner. Sixteen "out-in ten thousand, or even less, and Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Jacks), side" men were available and he ready takers for the bounds are witness said that he came to Hong split these up.
Kong in April 1927. Prior to that By doing so, his found.
he bad not seen prisoner since the Lordship commented, Mr. Calthrop
The Drawing had diminished the value of Identi The drawings are held every three latter left for Hong Kong in 1914. fication.
months in the Theatre of Meierhold, Before leaving India, prisoner was Here he Long Statement
and attract larger and more excited engaged in agriculture. His Lordship also recalled that audiences than are usually to be was employed as a ship's watchman, there had been a previous case from found at the modernistic plays of ceasing to be such some time last Cheung Chau, of a serious nature, that theatre. Outside the buildings, Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, Jr. but the circumstances surrounding in the red streamers which are (instructed by Mr. A. E. Hall), identification parades there had not usually associated with revolution who appeared for the defence, ex- been brought out then.
ary celebrations, are inscribed such plained the law of possession, that Prisoner is Ho Fu. The trial com- Requieftive slogans as:-"Ninth of "actual physical" or "construc- menced yesterday, after having been Drawing of the 1828 Lottery Loan," tive." This case came under the postponed from the December see "Main Prize, 100,000 roubles." second category, and he quoted the slons. He is charged with piracy, And, with a view to consoling local Ordinance to show that it was with others, of a fishing Junk off disillusioned bondholders:-"The necessary for the Crown to prove Lantao Jaland on March 5-6, 1927. Chances of Winning Increase with that prisoner had "knowingly and
Mr. Alabaster drew attention, in each New Drawing.”
wilfully" had constructive posses« his opening for the defence, to a The Drawing Commission sits on sion. long voluntary statement by prison- the stage of the theatre behind two The evidence may be circam- er to Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant wheels. Bullets with enclosed bits stantial, only, Mr. T. S. Whyte- Superintendent of Police. Inciden- of paper on which the eeries and Smith (Assistant Crown Solicitor). tally, Mr. Murphy was called upon to individual numbers of the bonds are argued, but there was abundant read this voluminous document from written are placed in the wheels, ground for presumption.
Det. Inspector Lane Waa in which revolve by electrical power, while two small boys at periodic charge of the case. Intervals pull out the bullets, which are opened and read by the pre-
the witness box.
"Sole Survivor”. The defence alleges, Inter alla, that prisoner and four of his fokis were imprisoned in Shekki, Heung-] aident of the commission. | ahan district (which adjoins Macao)
The "Former People" for 19 months; that. one foki Hed
One sees all types of people in the in jail, two others became so lil that strained and attentive audience: they died shortly after liberation, bowed old workers, therishing the and the fourth, who took treatment hope that their half or quarter in after release, is also believed to have terest in a bond may bring them
Prisoner claims to be the son of more comfortable old age than they doctor who was born and has lived can expect to enjoy under the re-
died.
Legal Argument
In answer to his Honour, the
year.
„A member of the Kowloon, Fire Brigade together with four other Chinese appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday, at the Kow- loon Magistracy charged with de manding money with menaces. The case was remanded till this afternoon, when Mr. Leo d'Almada, will represent the defendants.
Captain and Mrs. H. B. Norton, gular system of pensions; ruined of Bournemouth, last month distri- All his life in Cheung Chau (a part former people," thinking that per buted Christmas boxes of 10s to of the Colony) and that he was also hape the turn of the lottery-wheel born in Cheung Chau.
Sub-Inspector Langley charge of the'case.”
in la
of the revolutionary loan may give about 2,000 ald-age pensioners of them back something of what the the town. revolution book away; instincive
gamblers, to whom the complicated We are all suffering from publics Lertenant R. de T. Trevelyan, figures of the loan prizes afford a tions of one sort or another Mr R.N., was found shot dead, with a sporting gun by his side, at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, last month.
Syd Chaplin
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