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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1931.
Mr. Rt. Shim, formerly Head- CHURCHWARDEN AND actually succeeded in obtaining
master of Ying Wah College, has been appointed Manager for Hong Kong of the Asia Life Insurance Company.
For being in possession of 498 heroin pills, a Chinese was at the Central Magistracy this morning. fined $400, with the alternative of three months' hard labour.
RECTOR
Story of Payment of £1,9062
GAOL FOR BLACKMAIL.
A charge of obtaining money by
"It seems astonishing, but Caffey
£300, in this way."
The matter came to the know. ledge of the police and Coffey was arrested. Later Coffey made statement which, in almost every particular, confirmed Mr. Dunn's, story and contained important ad. missions.
The Rector's Evidence. The Rev. Hubert, Dunn, a clean.
Mr. H. C. Macnamara, LL.B., will menaces from the Rev. H. E. Dunn, shavan, rugged-faced man, said lecture on "Judicial English" in rector of Ruan Lanihorne, near that he was sixty-one years of age the Cathedral Hail to-day at 6.30 Truro, was preferred against James, and had been rector of Ruan Lant- p.m. This lecture is organised by Coffey, a clerk, aged thirty-eight, at horne for, seventeen years. the Hong Kong Branch of the Eng-Bodmin Assizes recently.
In describing the Incident at Coffey had been committed. for Coffey's house, he said: "Mr. Coffey 11sh Association.
trial from Truro upon charges of was ill and I went to visit him. The
In the house I say
Mrs. Coffey. She was very distressed. She bad had a brain operation, and knew that she had to have another, and thought that she might die.
hearing of the Western demanding with menaces from Mr. Market murder case was continued Dunn the sums of 2100 on Septern- before Mr. E. H. Williams this ber 1, 1929, £300 on January, 1930, morning. Detective Inspector
£200 on May 10, 1930, and other Shannon appearing for the pro-suma on intervening days, making 'total of £1,606, with intent to secution. Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton is
steal. defending.
W.
of £300.
A further chargo was of obtain. ing by false pretences from Mr. Accidentally falling, down the staircase of his house at 122 John-Dunn on January 7, 1930, the sum stone Road, Li Woo (41) was re- moved to the Government Civil Coffey, who W23 at one line people's warden at Mr. Dunn's Hospital at noon yesterday. He received Injuries to his head, from
church, was arrested, in London. which he died at 2.50 p.m.
Mr. J. L. Pratt prosecuted. Coffey, who has only one arm,
"I embraced her once, purely as an act of sympathy and with us im pure thought at all.
Mr. Dunn then gave evidence. bearing out counsel's statement. and told of repeated payments to Coffey in connection with the set. tlement of the cass.
In a written statement Coffey alleged that his wife informed him that Mr. Dunn had forcibly held The following forthcoming wed-defended himself. He pleaded not her and kised her several times. dings are announced: William not guilty to all the charges.
He alleged that on a. coxler de Elijah Allen, No. 3, Seen Keen Ter-said that the charge was more po- to tea at the rectory, she told him Mr. Pratt, opening for the Crown, casion, after his wife had beep race, to Eileen Florence Coles- worthy, No. 211. Wanchal Road:pularly known as blackmail. Coffey, of the attitude of Mr. Dunn to- W. R. Hillyer, Y.M.C.A. Kowloon, from the Rev. Hubert Dunn by Dunn.
it was alleged, obtained these suma wards hen He went to see to A. M. Silice No. 36, Caine Road. threatening to report to the Bishop "I threatened to inform the Cheung Yau, foreman fitter at indiscretions with Coffey'e wife. appealed to me on both knees to that Mr. Dunn had been gulity of Bishop," Coffey went on, "but he the Shek Li Pui New Dam, has re- The second threat was that these stay my hand, and offered me £100. ported to the Police that at about 5
o'clock yesterday morning, a coolis alleged indiscretions should be ex- named Li Sam (30) was struck bying of legal proceedings against posed and made public by the tak
a large bucket whilst working on a Mr. Dunn. concrete mixer. Ho received severe injuries to his body, which proved fatal before his arrival at the Kowloon Hospital.
the Post Office.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
FRUIT HAWKER'S PATRONS SWINDLED.
་
$10 NOTE VANISHES.
A Friend of the Rector. Coffey, said Mr. Pratt, went to live at Ruan Lanthorae in 1924.
་
This I foolishly accepted."" that he favented the two lawyers Cross-examined, Coffey agreed
in order to get money from Mr. Dunk.
..
Mr. Justice Finlay, in summing up, told the defendant: 'I do not He made friends with the Rector for one moment accept the view
a means for blackmail.
"Coffey was ill and Mr. Dunn Coffey in a downstair room. went to see him. He 60W Mrs. She was very distressed and was crying and as a friend and clergyman of the parish Mr. Dunn comforted her.
J
"He was a kindly and very sim- ple man, and he placed his arm
concurrently.
SPELLING PROBLEMS.
Turkey and The New Latin Script.
{
Turkey boasts of being the European nation with the simplest She can as well orthography. claim to be that of the greatest anarchy in the spelling of names.
When it was decided to intro-
no
attention of various bodies in this Colony to the new Tyrolese
A curious incident happened in and his wife and became People's that there was foundation for the Bill, which, it is said, is in no dan Shaukiwan the other day.
Warden. In February, 1928, owing threats you used." Fung ger of being rejected. Where are Hung-on, atated to be a rich man to the illness of his wife, Coffey The jury, after a brief retire- those people who want to restore and living at No. 9 Big Street, re-wrote to Mir. Dunn that he was ment, found Coffey guilty on RII quietude to our Colony? Are we ceived a rather large parcel from short of money and borrowed sums counts.
from time to time though it was not Mr. Justice Finlay imposed Suspicious about not becoming a Colony of nervous ita aize, he opened the parcel and suggested that these sums were ob- sentence of seven years penat ser- wrecks through noise? Now is found that it contained a sword,tained by criminal means.
vitude on the black-mail charges. the time, when Tyrol has given which, after examination, WAS
"In December of 1928," continued On the false pretences charge the n lead, to do something about it. at $10 gold.
found to be American, and valued counsel, "the incident occurred sentence
was eighteen months Granted that some of the pro- to the Police Station.
He took the weapon which was seized upon by Coffey as hard labour, the sentonces to run visions in the Tyrolese farmers' Bill may appear too extreme or too far-reaching for this Colony, it ought not to be difficult to con- centrate on an Anti-Noise Bill to: meet local conditions and circum-! stances. Eight or nine o'clock of an evening certainly seems rather A Chinese, Ma Man-chung, ap-around Mrs. Coffey and kissed her. early to muzzle motor traffic, peared before Mr. Butters, at the He had no thought of anything im radios, and gramophones, but to have posed as
Kowloon Magistracy to-day alleged proper in his conduct.
a fruit hawker. "Subsequently Coffey called on there are many noises that could and have feloniously obtained $10, Mr. Dunn and complained. But he duce the Latin script; the principle be enumerated that are quite un- from Chang Kam, at 184, Temple apparently remained friendly, and was laid down that every word necessary and unwarranted after pretending to go for some change. But this did not satisfy him. In d
Street, by the simple expedient of continued to borrow sums of money. should be written as it is pronounc
So far as Turkish proper 10.30 or 11 p.m. There have been After that he was alleged to have September, 1929, Coffey told Mr. nouns and their use withia Turkey summonses in the Courts against disappeared.
Dunn that unless he paid him were concerned, there was building contractors pursuing Chung Kam stated that he money he would report him to the harm. The trouble began with the their nerve-wracking operations cents from defendant and tendered
purchased fruit to the value of 55 Blahop and take legal proceedings. use of Turkish proper names "Mr. Dunn very foolishly, not abroad, and that of foreign ones after 9 p.m.; but there is no de-a $10 note in payment. Defendant because he was guilty, but because in Turkey. finite regulation laid down for the went away to get change, and alhe dreaded the thought of the As the phonetic transcription of Hong Kong and noise are guidance either of the perpetra. though Chung Kam and his four charge even being made public, proper nouns into Latin letters inseparable. In spite of the tors or the sufferers of all such for an hour, Ms Man-chung did not ginning of a whole series of do- dual character, hardly anyone is That was the be. has made them lose their indivi- companiona waited optimistically paid Coffey £100. prevailing depression caused by operations. The local Radio return. Later they saw him wash-mands. Coffey had found someone really particular about the correct the slump in the dollar, it is cal- Studio could close down at 11 p.m. ing clothes at a street fountain and he could frighten, and pressed his writing of names. For instance, culated that cracker firing on instead of 11.30 p.m. and those identity, but was taken back to the
arrested him. He pleaded mistaken advantage.
Ahmet, with a "," is the correct New Year's Eve involved, thou who want to disturb their neigh-house and identified by a girl.
A Mysterious Lawyer,
apelling, but many, transcribing it sands more dollars than on any bours by listening in to outside
"Coffey invented a solicitor in from the Arabic, write it careless- previous New Year's Eve for at stations during the night should
London, à fictitious character, wholly with a "d." Thus it happened When before Mr. Butters this was supposed to be carrying on the France, to lose hours in cash- to a Turkish journalist, travelling least five years. Chinese were be made to pay special fees. Even going to 184, Temple Street, and remarkably illustrative of Mr. Dunn
morning, the defendant
denied law proceedings. The story vas
Ing not the only demonstrators and the noises created by motor cars added he had never been a hawker regarding business. He actually made out to the order of Ahmed, disturbers of the peace.
Euro- and motor cycles especially the The first intimation he had of the believed Coffey when he represent while his passport showed him to peans and Portuguese-the latter latter could be moderated in complainant and his friends.
affair was when he was arrested by ed himself as trying to help him, have been much greater if it had be Ahmet. The difficulty, would in particular-must have wilfully some way after 11 p.m. were an
and suggested that it was a mys. Evidence was given by Wang terious lawyer who was standing din with Nurittin, er Abdulrahman been necessary to Identity. Nured- squandered hundreds of dollars Anti-Noise Ordinance to be placed Mul and the girl, but Mr. Butters out for further sums of money. on the purchase of crackers. on the Statute book.
discharged the defendant.
"On one occasion three hundred
with Apturrahman. When Chinese New Year comes
pounds was paid to a supposed Mr ludicrous when foreigners have The situation becomes almost The worst of it all, though, is next month it may be safe to pre- that no legislation can possibly
Chambers the imaginary lowyor. their names written as Con Gove diet that, in spite of Nanking's provide for
More money was actually obtained for John Gage, or Boris Sovallye ban on cracker firing, the volume created by quarrelling neigh- the disturbance
by Coffey in order that an imagine; ary Mr. Major might buy up- prae-
for Maurice Chevalier. of noise in this Colony will be no bours, by squalling infants, or by
tice of the Imaginary Mr. Cham- less dense than last year, or the hilarious private parties which do
bėrs.' A further addition to the roll of "All this culminated in a meeting year before. To find a peaceful not "celebrate" beyond. an urrea solicitors in the Colony was made at the Red Lion Hotel at Traro. retreat of an evening in this sonably late hour, although capa-Brittain Evans was duly approved, posed Mr. Major was there to see this morning, when Mr: Donald Coffey told Mr. Dunn that the aup Colony seems well-nigh impossi-le of disturbing the peace of the admitted and enrolled upon applica him. They went to the hotel: Sir Charles Higham, speaking at ble. Radios, gramophones, neighbourhood long before "clos. tion to the Chlef Justice.
Coffey said that Mr. Major would the annual, pianos, mah-jongg, and even building down" (or "shutting up"), (Acting Attorney-General), in mak 2500 to settle the action.
The Hon. Mr., C. G. Alabaster not see Mr. Dunn, but must have dinner in London, sald that Great ing operations all add their quota And the noise habit has ao grown ing the application, stated that he
Britain needed A great Pross. to the creation of noise.
upon the majority of us that a wished to apply for Mr. Evan's-ex-ed himself as coming to the help of the many of those wise things now "Finally, Coffey again represent-advertising campaign to Inform It may interest some of the nuisance is only created when it emption from those provisos con Mr. Duna. He said that he had in known only to the few ke opponents of noise in this Colony is made by ctners, Thus, how Ordinance which require that four and that he (Coffey) would pay tional distributive force in the tained in the Legal Practitioners duced Mr. Major to accept 4400, The Press to the greatest educa- to learn that the Tyrolese farm-ever admirable raay be an effort months' notice.be given to the Re-half of that amount. ers are pressing through a Bill to to folow, in pitt, the example of gistrar of the Supreme Court, and
world, and the cheapest," he de- make noises at night illegal, the Tyrolese farmers, it is to be also to the local Law Society. was given a receipt supposed to
:1796 Mr. Dunn paid him £200 and Clared. "Night" means between 8 p.m. feared that we are dromed to Strallatt secretary of the have been signed by Mr.¶¶¶¶¶ and 6 a.m. in Winter, and 9 p.m. enjoy or retent, as the case may to state that no objection would be vised, for Mr. Dünn still had a t local Society, had been authorised "Then a new plan had to be de- to 4 a.m. in the Sammer. When be noisy nights in the Colony made on its part to the proposed the money left, Coffey showed to special festivals occur a permit till further orders!
Exemption.
himla" chéquo which, be bald,"had Mr. Evans was a recent arrival been paid to him out of a legacy. in the Colony, but in point of fact from an hunt. It was forgalm practically three months notice of £1,165, Coffey and be hdd be 11/16. had already. elapsed. Incidentally, going through the accounts and
for motor trafle and other.noises
may be obtained on payment of fees ranging from 22. to £100.
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