TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1932.
PREJUDICE CHARGED IN EVIDENCE
(Continued from Page 1.)
"The accused's vanity and deceit were irreparably wound- ed, because this girl had gone with another-man." he said. What was in the accused's mind was not a sense of humour; he had not lost the girl, but had lost his face. Not a man or woman in that Court, said Mr. Sheldon,, who had listened to the case and knew the facts would believe that Cheng only wanted to slap Fung's face.
Mr. Sheldon then went on to deal with the evidence of Christie
and Zimmern. ile said that their
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the noticed mathify usual in the
Changsha, Aug. 14." demeanour of the accused, and it
Citing numerous points to was quite probable that since he
prove his innocence. Mr. Tan was riding in the back of the car he did not bear the exclamation of Chang-kai, Provincial Commis sioner of Reconstruction for the accused, ».
Mr. Sheldon then went on to the Hunan, in a telegram addressed
to the Executive and Control
Brigands Of Hupeh Surrounded
General Commends Suppression
Units
4.
HARDSHIPS ENDURED
Hankow, August 17...
With the capture of Huangan and Tsihliping by the combined
subject of the new evidence the Yuan, the Ministry of Industry, Hapeh-Honan forces, the brigands under Hau-Hsiang-chien and duced since the proceeding in the and the Disciplinary Committee Kuang Chi-heun in eastern Hupeh have been enveloped by the Gox- |Magistrate's ›Court, and commented;
that the proceeding, started on of the National Government ernment troops. The 4th and 6th Aviation Squadron conducted air April 5, and that it was not until atoutly defends himself against
June 20 that Taut fell into the hands his impeachment on the charge raids on the bandits yesterday.
Proof of Truth.
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of the Police and Ah Wong and the of secretly selling antimony.
General Chiang Kai-shek, in ajof much larger bandit units would rest of the witnesses were available, lead, and manganese to Japanese,
He then recalled evidence of the which was recently filed with the circular telegram to the various not be difficult, General Chiang adds abortive "atteript on Fung's life on Control Yuun by Mfr. Lo Chia-fu, bandit-suppression. units, commends in his message.
member of the Yuan,
them on their wonderful endurance- According to a telegram from narratives of what happened on the March 19.
Declaring that the present against hunger, thirst and other General Wang Ling-chi, Acting night when the accused wanted to
case is based entirely on allega-hardships during the intense Sum- Commander of the 21st Army (Sze-| slap Fung, were true. It showed "You will know that since the tions, Mr. Ten asserts that these mer heat. Special praise is given chuan) participating in the bandit the prisoner's desire to hide the Pelice Kiew of Taui, he hus
been allegations are "delicately bal- for the occupation of Hawkin and suppression campaign in Hupeh, the facts. It was admitted by both under arreat and in jail, and yet you anced between truth and false- Liuan in western Anhwei; Kiang-notorious Ho Lung personally led sides that Zimmern and Christie get that extraordinary corrobora hood and that the slightest shan, Chienkiang and Yingcheng in five regiments to attack Shasi, bat made up their minds to swin-tion of that attempt. The only partiality on one side would central Hupeh; and Huangan in southern Hupeh, on the 13th. On
the prisoner. The case for the explanation is that story in true finitely affect the justice of the eastern Hupeh
receipt-of-u-report, General Wang-- defence wus that they made up he said,
case as a whole.
In the battle for Huangan alone, instantly ordered two regiments to "ther minds long before March 2 Then dealing with the night of
He enumerates points which the 6th. Column of the Left Wing check them. Severe fighting then and the case for the Crown was the murder Mr. Sheldon continued tend to show the incompleteness Bandit-suppression forces (the 10th occurred on the 14th in the vicinity that they first connived to swindle]"A month before the murder, Lai the accused, as the result of con- Ming-fai had left the accused and of the investigations of Mr. Army under General Wei Li-huang of Kingchow and Shasi... The Hsiao I special deputy of the succeeded in routing seven banditbrigands were repulsed, inte on versations at the Hotel Nathan, gone to Funz Seven days before Ministry of Industry, and there-divisions totailing 60,000 men. Of Sunday night and retreated in a dis- After Sarch 20..
the murder he went to the hotel and fore the inconclusiveness of the there, 18,000 were either killed or orderly manner. In addition to the A Serious Charge..
glared at her from the room. Five days before the murder he went evidence which the deputy's re- wounded by the Government troops. wounding of one bandit divisional with a gang of others to slap Fung's port is supposed to have secured. This signal victory serves to show commander, several hundred of the that so long as our forces maintain outlaws were killed and a large Open Tender. e swindle à man there must be face, and yet when the amah rang
their fighting spirit, the subjugation"number captured.-Kuo Min. enmity, but, with murder afoot, it him up on the sight of the crime. Sale of the mineral products of Procuring and informed him that Fung was Hunan, Mr. Tan points out, was was very different. mander was punishable with impri-dead, he did not ask anything about effected by tender and every- it neither, when, where, by whom, thing was done openly.. The
Chinese firm whose bid was ac I the defence was a true one or anything at all-about it what an extraordinary coincidence
cepted, and which has for some that five days after the accused
time been disposing of the min- wanted to slap Fung's face, George submit that the Crown has erals for the Reconstruction De- proved its chsg. We have proved partment, has business conneċ- Fung was murdered.
The story put by the defence was motive, wo kniw: and must believe tions both in China and in Man- pitiful, and it was the only story the story, we have proved the at-churia which fact, he says, may that the defence could contrive to tack by Zimmern and Christie, the have led people to believe that give, he said, Continuing.
Me. Sheldon said, he had never
be able to see why if one want
Bonment for life.
Why Because gentlemen, I say he knew
Point By Point.
VON PAPEN WON'T
SURRENDER: -
Non-Party Cabinet To Remain.
GRAVE SITUATION IN BELGIAN STRIKE,
170,000 Coal Miners Are Affected.
STARVING CHILDREN.
Berlin, August 12. Chancellor von Papen, it is now attack on March 19 by other men he was dealing with the Japan-practically certain, will not abandon Mr. Sheldon said under the direction of the accused, ese. Kuo Min.
his post to Adolf Hitler or any other
Brussels, August' 16. that when Zimmern, from his cell, the master of the hypodermic |
National Socialist, and although it! The renewed coulminers' strike la A. Mr. Brutton and Cheng walk syringe, and acessed's willingness
appears likely that some prominent Southern Belgium, which in accord past, he (Zimmern) thought that to spend $10,000 on the murder of
members of that party will be in-fance with a recent decision of the häd bech
double-crossed. Fung. We are proved that a (Continued from previous Colamm.) cluded in the Government, never-National Miners Congress was de- Zimmern knew that Fung was cused, had t trusted chauffeur who
theless the essentially non-party clared to begin on August 8, affects murdered. When he saw the pri was under an obligation to him, and
"Gentlemen, this is unprecedent character of the present "President more than 170,000 men. wer accompanied by Mr. Brutton, who helped in the killing, and weed. There are three men struggling Cabinet will not be altered thereby. The government has taken' exten- what was in his mind? asked Mr have pred that George Fung was for a pardon, and they will do any The prospective National Socialist sivé precautionary measures to Sheldon. Not the stupid plot to killed ly hired assassing on March thing, say anything, to get a con- Ministers whose
names are still maintain order in the strike region, skup Fung's face, but murder, in 24, and that Ah Lau paid over viction because in that lies their withheld, are not to consider them-calling out a large number of troops, which he himself might be danger-$2,000 for the killing."
own safety."
selves as exponents of their party as well as the civic guards. The accused had! In concluding Mr. Sheldon drew a only involved.
The Lovers' Quarrel. 'but as qualified experts with admin- One incident, however, has taken let him down, as no lawyers had vivid mental picture of the shoot-)
The Crown has tried to provelistrative of other practical experi-place near Liege in the village of Hing on that eventful highti been sent as promised....""
that because of the estrangement ence, and as enjoying the special Herstal where the strikers, led, Mr. Sheldon suggested the one "Whose triving was it?
between Cheng and Lal Ming-fai, confidence of President von Hinden-allegedly, by Communist agitators, question was this-Is that man try-submit that it was his he said, as the accused was so aroused that burg. Pourparlers with this end in attempted to storm the public build- ing to save his neck by telling on he turned from the jury to the he lost his head and perpetrated the view are to be continued during the ing but were checked by the police.
If so, then I will tell all accuse
crime. I shall prove that long benext few days.-Trans-Ocean Kuo The Governor of the province, M. 11. Potter Opens. keow about the case.
fore the murder of Fung, Cheng Min. Openidyl apeech for the de-and Lai Ming-faf had had a quar- It had been suggested by the defence, Mr. Potter said he was surrel and Cheng had ordered her out
There priser at Bir. Sheldon's closing re-lof his house, said Mr. Potter. bal committed perjúry.. fence that Zimmern and Christic marks in which he urged the jury. Even in Lai Ming-fai's evidence, must be a reason, he pointed out; to visualise a man shut down in there are discrepancies. In her but the defence had not given a rea-cold blood.
evidence at the Police Court she
Bon.
No Reason For Charge.
I
"I am used to hearing prosecu stated that her feelings for Cheng characters of these two men," said years I have
"Whatever you think
of
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the tions," he continued, "but for many had cooled and his for her also. not heard the sug. Further on in her evidence, she Mr. Sheldon slowly, "I submit with gestion that the jury should take claims that she was mistaken in
of into consideration that a man was the last respect. Hore confidence that neither their stories. were shaken "one iota shot down," urged the jury to by cross-examination in this Court, dispel all the gossip they had heard If their story is false, then no wit-and all preconceived ideas about ne in the world could have with the case.
stood the cross-examination. that "It is not my duty to twist the these two men have had, with such facts of the case, or to distort them Ingenuity."
in any way, or to use the popular Continuing. Mr. Sheldon said expression "throw dust in your that the defence had suggested that eyes."
1.
"Taul is a murderer on his own. evidence," aldir. Potter. "He is the kind of a man that would lie to save his own neck. Why? Because the police had told him that he would probably get a pardon if he turns King's evidence. He stated in his evidence to the
that home before he was arrested had read the news papers regarding the case.
MAINTENANCE FUND OF WIFE REDUCED.
ايم
Living Expenses Are Discussed.
Hainout, In a public statement, characterises the situation as ́ex• ceedingly grave in view of the in- creasing destitution among the strikers, Relief committees. have been formed'in various cities in forder to feed the starving children.
It is not considered likely that the Socialist party executive and the Trade Unions will heed the suggea- tion made by the National Minera
A case in which Mahomed Farid Congress that A general strike was seeking a reduction in the should be proclaimed in sympathy maintenance fund paid, to his wife, with the coalminers. The Socialist) Mariam Farid, that was adjourned press seems concerned with discuss two weeks ago, was continued be-sing the 'possibility of a peaceful} fore Mr. Schofield at the Central settlement of the strike.-Trans- Magistracy yesterday:
Ocean Kuo Min.
Living expenses for both sides) were discussed and the amount of the defendant's”; income. "It was
decided by Mr. Schofield that the $52 previously paid monthly would be reduced to $25 and both sides
1 would not do so if I could.. Tous evidence was a tissue of lies. To get down to the facts of the yet they had given no reasons for case. The case the Crown has to that suggestion, no reasons why prove, and they have not condescend- Tai got into the box, and told that led to either in their opening or "A man can't get a pardop by would pay their own legal fees... Jong, queer story. If his evidence closing speeches. is the proof of saying, I killed George Fung. No, Mr. R. A. Wadeson appeared was false there must be some rea- Lau's agency with the accused. he must put the blame on someone for the complainant and Mr. D. L.
He had been given a condi- That has not been established. else. Why not Cheng. He had Strellett for Mrs. Farid. « tional pardon, and when a man's life There is not a single sentence roz a already been named in the case,"
-400.
ia in peril would it be likely that syllable in the evidence of Zimmern Counsel added.
be would go into the witness box and Christie to prove that agency." Taut had uttered diametrically and tell a false story that would
imperil bis own neck? 04
Admits Discrepancies
Mr. Potter then called the jury's opposed statements when question- SHEEP WITH GOLD- attention the character, of the ed about the gun which he had COATED TEETH. Crown witnesses.
carried to Man Chung Fong, on Mr. Sheldon agreed that there
Attacks Pardon.
March 10.If, these portions of were discrepancies in the evidence "Zimmern has been described as the evidence are falac, as has been throughout the case, but submitted a "black sheep" and both he and proved, why should the rest of his that it was only to be expected in Christle have been called awind- evidence: be considered as true?"
lers, although they ilbed at the asked Mr. Potter. a long criminal case of this kind.
No One Knows From Where They Come.
ROLLING STOCK DEMANDED
Nanking's Order To Military Chiefs.
Nanking, Aug. 15. Release within ten days of all railway rolling-stock at present de- tained by the various military units is ordered by the Ministry of war in a circular order issued yester day. As such detention on the part of the military constitutes an ob- stacle to efficient railway adminis He referred briefly to the dis-word blackmailers. Mr. Lindeel! Then take the evidence of Ah Stories of sheep with gold-coat-tration, the Ministry has repeated- agreement between the evidence of has described the evidence as tant-To-nui. Teul had stated in the ed teeth have often been told in ly ordered the return of the rolling, Lal Ming-fai and her amah, wherein ed-I shall call it something much witness-box that he had given Ah Australia but it has been left to stock. Regulationsforblo the amah stated she lent Lai all her stronger later in the case. Taul is To-nul $200," then added sarcas Mr. W Brown of South Melbourne military interference with the savings, some $200, a fact denied described as a 'dangerous character tically, for services rendered. to produce actual evidence of itwaye have now been by Lai Mr. Sheldon said that it and I myself cannot differentiate be- Yet, we find Ab To-nui stoutly Mr. Brown, who owing to bad by the Ministry. did not matter In the least whether, tween Zimmern, Christie and Tsui, denying the truth of this, and times is a part time worker, bought will effectually the $200 had been lent or not. And yet they are all to be let free claiming that only $50 had been a sheep's head from his local but ther deb
Then regarding the differences "I do not know who is responsible paid to himacher for 10, and it was only afte between Zimmernand
kong: Lau was the
for the application for the condiGentlemen, I put it to you that boll
ho tional pardon for these men, but I these
rere in this plot; that eg a yel
must say that it does not do him
thes
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