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GIVE EVIDENCE IN PASCO $10,000 DAMAGES SUIT
THE $10,000 CLAIM FOR DAMAGES BY MISS PATRICIA PAS-
CO, THROUGH HER FATHER, AGAINST THE HONG KONG TRAMWAY COMPANY, LIMITED, WAS RESUMED BEFORE THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE, MR. JUSTICE R. E. LIND- SELL, AT THE SUPREME COURT THIS MORNING WHEN TWO WITNESSES TESTIFIED ON BEHALF OF THE DE- FENDANT COMPANY.
The action followed an accident He held to the iron bar with both in which Miss Pasco was involved hands. While witness was sounding while travelling on a tram near Lee be applied, the boy let go the bar.
the bell for the emergency brakes to Gardens on the evening of Novem- In answer to Mr. Fitzroy, witness do- ber 28 last. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, clared that most, first-class passengers instructed by Mr. Peter. H. Sin, proceed down the stairs after a tram-
car had actually stopped. appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., instructed by Mr. O. E. C. Marton, represents defendant company.
The Acting Chief Justice: "There is evidence that the driver went to the rear of the car when the car had stop ped." "Yes."
"SCOLDED AND ABUSED” The Acting Chief Justice visited
“When ?"--"As he was being scold- the scene of the accident
this ed and abused by the European, he went morning before the case was through the door at the bottom of the stairs and through the third-class com- resumed.
partment.” “Why?" "I don't know." CONDUCTOR'S STORY
"Surely you must know." "He Chan Kwok-wai, the tram conduc- tor, stated that on the evening of might have been trying to get away
from the European,' November 28 last he was on duty on Mak Yat-chau the driver stated that car No. 60, travelling from west to before reaching the stop at Lee Gar east. At about 8 p.m. a small boy,
about 14 years old, attempted to jump dens, he received a signal from the off the car. Witness, who was stand conductor for the emergency brakes to be applied. The car stopped, about ing near the wheel at the rear, warn- ed him not to do so and the boy three yards after the brakes were ap- stepped back a space. He suddenly plied. turned and jumped off.
A European girl fell down the stairs,
The lad, however, held on to the and he saw a European man coming bar in the centre of the third-class down the stairs. The man picked up entrance and was dragged along the girl. The man did not. fall down Witness rang the bell four times, or brush up against- witness: --
Mr. Potter: "What was his atti- signalling for an emergency stop be cause witness saw the boy was in tude?"-"He was very angry.”
* “What did he do?”—“He picked up danger.
Mr. Potter: "How far did the car the girl and struck me a blow on the go after the
was chest. He was speaking loudly, but I emergency bell sounded"-"About three- yards.” could not understand what he said. "
"Was there any jerk?“I did not feel much."
"PURSUING""
Witness said that when the conduc- "What happened after the car tor arrived he told him that a girl had stopped?" "I jumped off and wanted fallen down and asked him why he to rebuke the boy and see, what had happened to him."
Witness explained that the boy let go the bar before the car actually stopped. He was unhurt and ran away.
**Witness did not know the boy and has never seen him since. Witness could not estimate the speed at which the car was travelling, but said that it was going "at the 4th notch."
"ALL STANDING”:
sounded for the emergency brakes to be applied.
"What did he say?” He told me that a small boy was being dragged.” Witness said be made out a report concerning the incident that evening to the company.
Cross-examined by Counsel for plain- tiff, witness said he did not see any Chinese women in the third-class com- partment.
Witness saw the conductor in the third-class compartment near, the door "What happened when you got which leads to the bottom of the stairs back to the car?""The motor-man when the car was brought to a stand- shouted out very loudly that some still
FRI. MOST SENSATIONAL EXCITING DRAMA front of the car through the third- went through the door into the third-
one had fallen down. I ran to the After the car was stopped, witness
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class compartment and opened the class compartment, followed by the door leading to the bottom of the angry European.
stairs and saw three persons stand- “Do you mean to say that the Euro- inga,woman, a man and a child.” pean was pursuing you;"-"Yes."
Acting Chief Justice: "All stand The case is continuing this after- ing ?"—"Yes.”, «e,
Witness added that the man was scolding the motor-man. Witness: ex-| plained to the motor man why he had signalled for the emergency brakes to be applied.
noon.
LETTERS PATENT AMENDMENT
In the first-class compartment there were only a man a woman and a young girl, all Europeans, and in the third-class compartment there were also only three passengers
At to-morrow's meeting of the two Chinese men and the boy. There Legislative Council, there will be were no female passengers in the a recital of Letters Patent passed third-class compartment..
Witness made out a written report in Chinese that night to the Company regarding the incident...
under the Great Seal of the Realm amending Article XVI of the Let- tera Patent of the 14th of Febru
A&Mr. Potter: "When you were ring: ary, 1917, constituting, the Office
and
ing the emergency bell, did you know that the European woman, man girl were on the stairs."No.""}
CROSS-EXAMINATION Cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, wit ness replied that the boy sat near the entrance of the third-class comparte
ment.
"Did any people get off the car as the stop before renching the Lee Gar dens 7""No." The
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies.
His Excellency the Governor will proclaim the said Letters Patent.
FAIR GENERALLY
"How many yards from the Perci- val Street stop was it when the boy got up."Between 20 to 30 yards.
The Royal Observatory reports. Witness stated that he had been em- that pressure remains highest over. ployed as a conductor for the past three the Pacific to the east of the Bonins, and a half years."
"Have you ever stopped persons from
and the depression is stationary ghting from cars while in motion?" over South China and Tongking.
Kesi”!
An area of low pressure is indicate (many?” “Seven or eighted over the Pacific to the east Witness explained that the boy's feet Luzon Forecast:- winds, Tresh
Scott Colton
touched the ground - whe
the car and then he was
fair generally.