TUESDAY, MARCH
MURDER TRIAL
(Continued from Page 1)
Witness referred to the conver- sation between the woman and himself in reference to her hus-i band. She expressed a wish to run away and marry another man, and as he felt responsible to har husband for her actions, he quar reiled with her.
She got up and pulled him. holding his hands while she bit his left wrist. He shook her off with his left arm, and she accidently fell into the water.
Witness maintained that he made all efforts to save her and turned the boat into a position so that the woman could be rescued.
He asserted that the other two) men made no effort to nesist himi and sat still watching him.
get
Seeing that he could not the boat near the woman, he he- came nervous and fell to the bat-
THE CH
OMALI
Sidewalk in Paris After Riot Battle
This picture, made in the wake of a police charge during recent riots in Paris, tells its own story. Anti-Government demonstrators who tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies are routed learing many of their number strewn in the Place de la Concorde. Note how nonchalantly the min in centre pleka his way through prostrate bodies.. It Is estimated that more than 1,000 persons were Injured and 20 killed.
tum of the boat. Witness added MRS GILL'S ASSAILANT LOCAL NEWS
that a strong current was ranning;
at the time.
After half an hour they return-
ed to Cheung Chat,
Swallowed Up In Darkness. Cross-examined, witness Mald that he only saw her for a' second after she fell into the water ber CLUSO it was still Jark et The time.
SENTENCED
Taxi-Cab Drivers In Chase.
NINE MONTHS HARD AND
BIRCH.
of
BREVITIES
After evensong at St. John's Cathedral at 5.13 p.m. to-day, the annual Diocesan Conference Meet- ing will take place in the Cathedral Hall at 5.45 p.m..
PLEA OF INSANITY UNAVAILING
Chinese Sentenced To Five Years.
ATTACK ON WIFE
Convicted on a charge of wound- He reputed the allegation that
ing his wife, Chan Lai Ching, in Yau Chỉ, à room boy, charged be-Queen's Road Central he had turned the boat away from
on Febru- Sentence of nine months hard fore Mr. S. Balfour at the Central ary 1, with intent the woman so that the two
to do bodily men labour in addition to 12 strokes of Police Court this morning, for at-harm, Fung Po-wan, a could not reach her, as "all non-the birch was imposed on Ng Siu,tempted theft, was remanded for 24 was sentenced to five years' hard Chinese, sense, and that," no hody would a transient, for the attempted theft hours. ever think of doing such a thing of a handbag from Mrs. Gill.
labour by the Puisine Judge, Mr. He said he became exerted when she Palace Hotel
R. E Lindsell at the Supreme Building, and for Li Mak, of 59 First Street, Court yesterday. fell into the water and he
The prisoner may nasuiting complainant, laat Satur-ground floor, was removed to the was removed shouting and strug- not have acted enlmly and cur day evening in Pedder Street, in Government Civil Hospital yester-gling from the dock. rectly, but. whether right erfront of the Post Office.
day, suffering from injuries to his wrong he did his best to save her.
The accused did not challenge Sub-Inspector Smith said that chest, which were said to have the evidence that he struck his His action in shaking her off as Mrs. Gill was walking along the been inflicted by a coolie. when she bit him was done to street, the accused struck her in avoid the pain and not in danger. the right eye, snatched away Her tumble into the water was handbag and PAR towards purely un accident.
Circumstantial Evidence.
|standing taxi-cabs.
Mr. Fraser, addressing the jury, joined by taxi-drivers. The said that I accused's statements fendant then throw away to the police and to the Lower handbag and ran right Court were to be believed, with spectar Nicholl
wife with a hatchet in Queen's Road Central, but pleaded that he Throughout his evi-
her Ho Man, a returned banishee, was was insane.
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the sentenced to nine months' hard dence he made irrelevant state- OBSTACLES TO FINAL
labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at ments as to his wife's relations
the evidence of his two compan Sub-inspector Smith asked for a
ious, there was no doubt that heavy sentence as Mrs. Gill had cused had pushed, and had inten-been insulted and might received ed to push the deceased woman fu-serious injuries to her eye. to the water.
Death could only he proved by circumstantial evidence. Two wit NEBACS Haw the
WOTIU in the
water, and anve her sink, and body has been hor since.
Ng Could Not Be Believed. Mr. Lim, for the defence sub- ...mitted that the evidence of Ng Siu Cheun that accused pushed the woman overboard could not be be lieved. He was in the forepart of the boat, and had his back turned to the accused and the when she fell into the water. stated further that Ng and tho other man in the boat must have
woman
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(Continued from Pape 8).
Mes, Gill gave chase, and war the Central Magistracy this mora-with foreigners, but was rebuked IRISH SETTLEMENT
de ing. for returning to the Colony by the Judge who told him that a the Accused was banished last year for sense of grievance did not justify into In-ten years.
such a crime.
Surbat Khan, the Indian chauf- Partition Cheng Kam, driver of private car feur, who stopped the accused No. 331. was fined $10 by Mr. E. W.from further assaulting
Of Ireland the wo- Hamilton at the Central Magistracy man, was
"But nothing I hr ze heard or rend complimented by the disposes me to think that Great this morning for overtaking a mov Judge on behalf of the jury and Britain will ever ing vehicle on a bend in Upper Al- the court.
try to persuade, bert Road, west of Government.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Assis-uch less to compel, the North- (House, 'in a controlled area.
Eastern Counties to throw in their tant Crown Solicitor, prosecuted,
lot with "Southern Ireland," Even and the jury comprised Messra.those of my English acquaintances H. P. Allgood (Foreman), Fernandez, A. R. McEachran, MI do not at all share
who contemplate with an equanimity Bucci, A. dos Anjos Lopes, C. de recognition of a Republic in the the possible Vieira Ribeiro, and W. G. Williams-present Free State area, quite ob- viously regard this further step as unthinkable. **
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The Finance Committee of the |Legislative Council will meet
Thursday afternoon, after the Council meeting. Votes totalling U.S.S. Ashville Arrives $128,100 will be presented for ap-
From Nanking.
proval.
Pour cases of small-pox, two Is The following warships are in Victoria and two imported, one port to-day, and are berthed
a case of diphtheria, and one case follows:-
of meningitis, both from Victoria, Basin.-H. M. S. Tamar.
are shown in the official return of South Wall-H. M. S. Bruce.
Сдзев of notifiable diseases for East Wall.-H. M. S. Cornflower, the 48 hours ended March 18.
felt that they might be implientH. M. S. Folkestone, H. M. S.
ed as being accomplices, and this Herald. must have made them believe that
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Englishmen have heard so much of the contrast between the Pro- testant and industrial North and The third performance of the 3. the Catholic agricultural South, Grant Anderson production of the that their political separation ap Sentence of one month's impri- London Stage success "While pears the most natural thing in the if they put the blame on the accus. M. S. Bridgewater, H. M. S. posed on Tee Kow, driver of lorry great success by a large and aption of this little island presents West Wall-H. M. S. Adventure, sonment, in default $25, was im- Parents Sleep" was acclaimed a world. To the Irishman the parti ed they would get off.
Mr. Lim also submitted that ne
Keppel, H. M. S. Witch.
2870, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at préciative, sudience, at the King's Itself as wholly monstrous, an im- cused did his beat to rescue the
North Arm.-H. M. 8. Eagle. the Central Magistracy this Theatre last night.
Įpediment to trade, a source of woman, and that, at the most, he Perseus, H. M. S. Olympus,
Dock.--. M. 8. Bruce, H. M. S. morning for driving at 25 miles) Mr. Anderson was again out futile expenditure, a humiliation to would be guilty of manslaughter.
an hour in Stubb Road, and from standing RE the un-crushable national pride. Taikoo Dock,-H. M. S. Proteus. Stubb Road Referring to the theory that the
to Morrison Gap Jerry, and Miss Vivian, as the The fiercest Orangeman dislikes woman was drowned, Mr. Lím drew Pandora.
Cosmopolitan Dock,-H. M. S. Road at 30 miles an hour.
puritanical Bubbles Thompson of it hardly less than the most ex-
20 Raila the jury's attention to the theory of
Brixton, found her way to the treme Republican. Nevertheless, he drowning-that a person must rise land.
No. 6 Buoy.-H. M. S. Cumber The Hong Kong branch of the hearts of the audience. Miss holds and will, bold, to it, as in his to the surface three times. Evid
League of Nations Society will hold Anderson, as Lady Cattering, ex bellef a much smaller evil than the 40, Bands ence had shown, that she was only H. M. S. Wren.
No. 7 Buoy.-H. M. 3. Witshed, their annual meeting on Friday at cerclied her charm once more, and rule of Dublin, and nothing anyone
Commodity
seen to sink once. He added that
5:15 pm in the Helena May. In pleased and annoyed the audience Ha
|în Dublin, or In "Downlpy-street,⠀⠀ Index". whichever way the current ran in Swan."
No. 8 Buoy.-H. M. S. Wild stitute Business includes election with her, Impersonation of abril, tan sir will aller that facts | Messra. E. A. Pierce & Co. B4- Cand
of officers for 1984-35, Secretary's llant and haughty lady, the spot were she fell into the water
Now it is characteristic of Mr. port The labour position is al- Caterpillar the woman would be bound to be
report, presidential address by the
De Valera that he really believes most the sale topic of discussion and Caysler washed to come feland, and that
Ulster to be, not merely the many fishing boats are always in and Ashville.
historical creation of former Bri- we think that this situation is res- Conciliated de the vicinity; and, as they have no
tish policy (as it is), but also toponsible for most of the lights, they would have been In-1
day. Its humble and obedient ser so far, we can see... 20, visible from sccused's boat.
want, (which it;is not); evidence of the other two men in
As anyone who the boat that they anw the woman
brought in com floating for 15 minutes would prove that she was possibly a swimmer, The Jury must also remember that ok and Kowloon Fire Brigades
reached
some she fell into the water at a place subdued the outbreak soon after where there was no land within their arrival on the scene just after Before concluding his case, Mr, fifteen minutes rowing, and wil, 12.50, p.za. Lim drew the attention of the jury nesses were sure that there was no to two cases in the past, where men other boat sear had been convicted and hanged; for The fury must ask themselves why murder, and, subsequently their the accused did not tell the police supposedly-dead people had returned when he was charged, and the to their old haunts
and she might have
boat or island. M
No. 13 Buoy H.M. S. Verity:
Foreign.
U. S. River Gunboat Mindanao,
Japanese Cruiser Idzumo..
The anal performance of this Rt. Rev. R. O. Hall and address by Company will be London's latest Professor R. Robertson.
[success. "The Late, Christopher
* Bean” which will be played gal 9.30 velock to-night at the King's Theatre.
The ground and first floors of 236 Japanese Destroyers Ashi, His-Sal Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok The hi, Sumire.
were considerably damaged by fire yesterday afternoon, when the con tents of the Hing Cheong paper And store were destroyed. The Mong-
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Lower: Court, the story that he had Fleet For Copenhagen Judge Sums Up told them this morning, that he bad Hi Lordship, In summing up, been bitten and, in shaking off his
This said This cage differs, and differs attacker, he had moelden radically from the ordipity murder her into the waters There is no body, and so which, he had made
evid eltber, medical statement: that-
and that he had
.cane.
SECRET FORMULAE now, he has many
STOLEN.
but one essential make-up
be lacks in sing
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