JUDGMENT IN
EXTRADITION
PROCEEDINGS
CROWN CASE FAILS
DISCREPANCIES IN EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES
Judgment was delivered this morning by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy, and the fugitive discharged, in the ex- tradition proceedings against Chiu Shiu-ting, alias Tsui Kau alias Chan Siu-fun who is wanted by the Canton authori- ties in connection with an alles- ed robbery at the Ko Sha vit lage Sin Lam, Chung Shan dis- trict within the province of Kwangtung, on May.5 last.
The Crown case was conduct- ed by Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assist- ant Attorney General, while the fugitive was represented by Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones, of wi kinson and Grist.
The Judgment
His Worship said:-
wit-
"In this case the Crown has, put forward three principal nesses who give direct evidence
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of the alleged robbery and fourth who is intended to corro- borate them.
"At the outset of Lie Wai-lam's evidence, I was unfavourably in-l pressed by his self-contradictions! on the vital question of his know- ledge of the fugitive before the offence alleged: these were in his that evidence in chief. I infer
it be had not thought oit this part
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of his story in advance. No such . To-day's Short Story
confusion occurs in the evidence
of his fokis, who had had time to
consider, and who had had op- portunity to profit by their mas- ter's experience; all lived toget- her in the same house in Hong Kong and would naturally com- pare notes regarding what hap pened in Court. -
"Another point that seems. don btful is the source of the money stolen: it was the proceeds of the sale of pigs and ducks in Canton. In the absence of evi-
THE FLAW
ORSON would have
Co
away with it had it been for Baines.
By Cecilia Willoughby
got, what I used to do." I never had a not blot or a 'stat on my books when.
I did them myself..........and now. Sallow, cadaverous and forty-just look at "en" nine, Corson had been at it for
SIR WT SOUTHORN RESUMES DUTY
Prescribed Oaths Taken To-day
NEW APPOINTMENTS
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"It is notified in the Government Gazette that the Honourable Sir Wilfrid Thomas Southori, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Companion of the Most Dis tinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, resumed duty as Colonial Secretary to-day and thereapon took, the prescribed oaths and assumed the adminis- tration of the Government of the Colony by direction oft. His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies and by virtue of the provisions of the Letterst Patent passed under- the Great- Seal of the United Kingdom con- stituting the office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and providing for the Government thereof.
Appointments.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. David William Tratman, CM.G.. to act as Colonial Secretary, with effect from to-day.
His Excellency the Officer Ad- ministering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. Robert | Andrew Dermod Forrest to be Principal Assistant ·Colonial Secretary and Clerk of Councils with effect from to-day.
His Excellency the Officer Ad-|
NAVAL WEDDING AT ministering the Government has
CATHEDRAL
Knox-Illingworth
RECEPTION AT HONG KONG
HOTEL ROOF GARDEN
[been pleased to appoint Mr.
Henry Robert Butters to be Deputy Clerk of Councils, with effect from to-day.
His Excellency the Officer "Ad- ministering the Government has
been pleased to appoint Mr. John Henty Burkill Lee to be his Private Secretary, with effect
The wedding was solemnised from to-day-
at St. John's Cathedral at 3 pm His Excellency the Officer Ad- years before Baines discovered it. Young Baines came down after to-day between Lieutenant Wal-ministering the Government has Baines was thirty and had had a the old anditor died, and Corson ter Neville Ronald Knox, RN heen pleased to appoint Lieiden dence as to the price of such live poor start, what with his father took to him at sight, which was a of HMS. Parthian, and Miss ant (Local Captain) Willian John stock in Canton it is not easy to dying while he was still at school bit usual, as he hadn't had a John Illingworth, who arrived Roto Cragg, 1st Battalion, The
and his health letting him down good word for old Western. All in the Colony last Wednesday, Lincolnshire Regiment, to be his↓ judge, but if we assume that each
would have been well had not from England, by the as Aide-de-Camp, with effect from to- pig fetched $30 and eich duck for the Navy.
He took over the audit of Cor-young Baines been so enthusias- Corfu $1, there would be 35 pigs and 65 ducks, or possibly ten pigs and son's department after old Wos-tic about his auditing. 755 ducks. For a mulberry farmtern died, and Corson went out of of 34 acres this seeas an incre-his way to be friendly with him dible amount of surplus live from the start.
stock, even admitting that ducks
Corson had been with the firm
can get food away from the own-for twenty-five years, and ran the er's land
Weakness Of Evidence
commented on by the defence
office. He could pull strings with the directors, and they trusted him
Mr. Robert, the junior partner,
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The bridegroom is the son of Honorary Aides-de-Camp Mr. Kenneth Neville Knor, of the
His Excellency the Offer Ad- Indian Civil Service, while Miss ministering the Government has Illingworth, who comes from been pleased to appoint the fol- Herningham Yorkshire, England,lowing officers to be his Honorary |
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Lieutenant Mervyn Muspratt- Miss Illingworth, who wore a williams, 1st Battalion, bridal gown of ivory chiffon and colnshire Regiment
An expulsion order was yester- The as. Tanda is due here from The Lin-day made by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac-Manila at noon to-morrow.
fadyen against Arjan Singh, 53,
"A third, weakness of the evi-absolutely.
He missed a voucher in the dence is the practical identity of the three men's stories, already had remonstrated with him about course of the audit, and assumed who carried a bouquet of white Lieutenant Stephen Everard an employed Indian watchman, Kwok Hin, 25, banished in Au- working overtime. There was no it must have been mislaid, as the roses, was given away by Lieut. Skey, 8th Heavy Brigade, Royal for extering the Colony without a gust 1931 for a period of ten A most remarkable point is need for it. He could get an ex-staff said it would be there-Cor Commander Brooks, Commander Artillery.
valid passport:
years, was yesterday sentenced by that the second and third wit-tra clerk if the work was piling son was such a me for having the of HMS. Parthian. The Naval Lieutenant Robert Caradoc Rose-
Mr. E L Wynne-Jones at the nesses bave known the fugitive np. The day was past when hel books right always. He always Chaplain, the Rev. F. N. Chamber Price, 2nd Battalion. The Royal
An Old Pauline Dinner will be Kowloon Magistracy, to for four years and have often needed to sit up till eleven in the went over them himself before the lain, officiated at the ceremony, Welch Fusiliers. De
held early in December, should months' hard labour, for retum- seen him about Ko Sha with fol-office, checking accounts and going audit and got out a trial balance while appropriate music was play Subadar-Major Lall Khan, 1st ficient support be forthcoming ing to the Colony. When arrest lowers up to ten in number, while through the books. He had been purely for his own satisfaction; ed by the Cathedral organist, Mr. Battalion, 8th Punjab Begiment. All Old Paulines who wish to red he had in his possession two Lia Wai-lam saw him for the at it for twenty-five years, and be there was no chance of any mis-Lindsay Lafford. The choir was Subadar-Major Waris Khan, tend are asked to communicate as banknotes wrapped mound, a wad first time at the robbery, again needed a rest.
takes passing him. (7
Hong Kong and Singapore Artisoon as possible with Lieut. Col of paper, with which, it was sus with ten men.... Light is thrown Bat Corson only shook his iron- Brines had a good look through After the ceremony a reception fery.
RF Johnson, RA.O.C. Depot,pected, he intented to work the on this by the official witness grey head, and tightened his thin-the fes for the voucher and was held at the Roof Garden of Risaldar Miran Baksh, LDS.M, Hong Kong
“banknote trick.” from Chung Shan, who states the lipped mouth.
couldn't find it.
the Hong Kong Hotel
Hong Kong Male Corpis. fugitive was in command of si "I like to check things," he saïdį. He decided he must have mis-
Lieutenant John Robert Crosse squad of detectives. Yet the first flatly. Then if there's a mistake laid it himself, and, not wishing
Hamilton, RE three witnesses all day they ever anywhere. I can locate it. I don't to bother Carson about it, he took knew the fugitive was a detective, trust these young clerks to do it upon himself to drop a line to I infer from this that Liu Wai-
the firm in question, asking for a copy of the missing voucher ver return post.
.
lam is lying when he says he witnesses: admits that the fugi never saw the fugitive till the tive was in the Magistrate's de- robbery, if in fact the fugitiva tective squad till June, 1934, and
A week later the letter was re-1. was constantly to be met about in another force till December,
Address the place; and that the fokis are 1934 He tells us further that he turned to him marked,
the fugitive was in fata detective. gitive, once in May, after the al-
fourth witness.
unknown, can't trace.”
in attendance..
CAPT. MICHELL'S GOLF WIN
Four Up Secures St. John's Trophy
Captain D. B. Michell (10), Won the St. John
and
in all likelihood well aware that twice got orders to arrest the fu- Baines thought that very suspithe Red Cross The credibility of all these wit leged robbery, and once in Aucious; especially as the voucher field of 98 nesses has, I feel, been definits gost, in consequence of s further was for fifty pounds. Without Other scores. ly shaken by the evidence of the petition from Liu Wai-lam azging mentioning it to anyone he wrote ing" (17). 2.
the fagitive's arrest. This points to two or three other addresses i (10) and W. W. Crown Witness's Admissions to the correctness of the fagi- the ledger and requested copies of 1 up.
This fourth witness himself, tive's evidence, that he was ar who stays while in Eng Kong at rested on May 23 and got away set down. Whilst two firms sent the same address a the other by some means two months later, him copies of genuine vouchers, dred at present, but I "While not disputing the possi- the third was returned, marked, it up to a thousand
tire. The going's bility of a detective turning into "Address unknow...
the vouchers for the transactions
a robber, especially if he had been Convinced that somebody was you know." one before (which fugitive does cooking the books, Baines told "You'll be old admit) I feel that the suppres Corson about it Corson went a the other five sion by the three first Crown ff. queer colour and heard him out. som,
ness of fugitive's former official
position strongly suggests they were hiding something, and the evidence for the fugitiva shows what it was, namely
dispute, in which the fugitive had
The defen
a private have put
you mnationed it to Mr. throug
«ked. "Mr. Drew. Was moz
Baines.
(17)
Lieutenant-Clive
Garthwaite. RA.
Mr. G. C. Pelham, H. M. Trade To-day being the Feast of All Commissioner in Hong Kong and Saints, Holy Eucharist. ⠀ was Charlton Commercial Secretary for South celebrated in the Lady Chapel, China, who is travelling to Eng- St. John's Cathedral at 745 z.m. Lieutenant Charles Cecil Stan-land on the sx Cathay, which In the evening at 7.30, there will Ley Genese, 2nd Bn. East Lanca-sails at noon on Saturday, No-be a special service of Commen
shire Regiment
vember 2, will embark on the oration (Choral) in the Cathe Captain Thomas Addis Martin, launch Teencheong at Queen's dral. The service will be in F- Pier at 10.30 am on that day. Aglish and Cantonese, and the HKVD.C.
Bishop will be present. Admitting the possession of prescher will be the BerJohn 14,175 heroin pills at No. 161 Foster of Canton Temple Street, ground foor, on
Second Lieutenant Henrique Alberto de Barros Botelho, HKY.D.C
NO MORE VICE IN October 23 Au Wing, 38, unem The opening concert of the
ployed, was fined $2,500 with the season will take place at the He CANTON
alternative of 12 months hard lens May Institute on Thursday, labour, by Mr-EL-Wynne-Joni November 7, 5:30 pm Canton, To-day at the Kowloon Magistracy yes-1 following artistes are con work Aiming to abolish all vice, the terday. A previous conviction ing to the programme.
re-political and military authorities under the Opium Ordinance was Snowdon-Jones (soprano
here are planning to form a comproved
N. Mathieson -(contralto) med Gambling and Opium-smok
TRid Prohibition Committee.--Neu- News
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