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13, 1937.
CHIEF JUSTICE SUMS. UP IN SINCERE MURDER TRIAL
atsoever of his own will.
Proceedings m the do so. He also made no stateme Sincere Company mur- The Chief Justice concluded der trial were brought to that as far as the second accused a conclusion at the Su- was concerned, it had been assert- preme Court to-day was
ed by the Crown that the accused
a professional assassin when Sir Atholl Mac-whom a sum of $25 was infinitely Gregor gave directions more important than the life of man Gain, nothing but gain, was to the jury in a sum-
the motive. ming-up lasting 2 hours and 35 minutes.
The jury retired at 12:10 am and had not reached a verdict at 1 pm when the case was adjourned until this afternoon.
Principals in the trial are Li Fak-chong, charged with procuring
to
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The Hong Kong Government the murder of Mr. David Chan See, Wireless Telegraph Administra managing director of the Sincere tion, the Chinese Telegraph Ad- Company, and Au Hing, charged ministration and the Managements of the Eastern Extension and Great with the murder
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K., and Mr. Northern Telegraph Companies an J. Whyatt, Assistant Attorney-nounce that information has been General, conducted the case for the received from Nanking to the Crown. Ei was defended by the following effect.. Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr, while (a) Private Telegrams exchanged Mr. D. J. N. Anderson appeared for Au Hing.
em- The following Jury was panelled:-Messrs. G.
Hall 14 (Foreman), Yue Ping-yui, Yuen Cheung-wan, Lo Wai-cheong, J. Akher. M. Maa, P. P. Arhipoff
Commencing his summing up this morning, the Chief Justice warned the jury of the danger of convict- ing the two accused solely on the evidence of the two accomplices who had turned King's evidence, point- ing out that the evidence of these alleged accomplices was not corro- borated by any outside independent witnesses.
SEPARATE CASES He continued that the cases of the two accused must be treated as entirely separate. There had been no corroboration of the widence of the meeting between the first ac- cused, Li Fuk-chong, and Ko Wah-
(b)
between Hong Kong and the Interior of China in foreigu code must contain the name of the code, which will be tele- graphed free of charge. Telegrams from Banks and Government Institutions in- cluding Customs are excepted from this rule.
The use of Chinese codes is disallowed except in telegrams addressed to Government.
stitutions.
This does not refer to the use of
"the ́ Standard Chinese 4-figure book code, if thể C ese characters are also written on the message form. (c) This will take effect from mid night of 13th September.
Temperature
tak, when it was alleged, accused Rises To 88
A temperature of 88 degrees in
gave the witness $170, whereas there was a complete denial by the Jaccused that he paid the witness
$130 after the murder of Chan Lai-the shade was recorded by the Royal Observatory yesterday, mini- mum last night being 79 degrees.
At 10 o'clock this morning the thermometer showed 85 rees, with humidity 71 per cent.
tsung.
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the instigator of the plot was no It is relatively low over the mentioned at the lower court pro Pacific to the northeast of Japan, Iceedings but when questioned by and over Indo-Ch
Mr. Anderson witness suddenly re- Local vealed it in the Supreme Court.
NO CORROBORATION “There is absolutely no corr ve evidence by any outs pendent witness of Ko's story- might effect the first accused, added the Chief Justi
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