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THE CHINA MAIL, JUI
WOMAN GIVEN JAIL TERM FOR HEROIN OFFENCE
"You have been convicted on the
clearest possible evidence for the possession of a type of pill which is a peril and danger to the
community.
!
19, 1938.
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decott, yesterday openal the new graving dock casting one hundred. thousand pounds sterling, in Co lombo Harbour Reuter: "
FOUR YEAR TERM
FOR DETECTIVE
"You may not be one of the prin- cipal actors but you clearly are an actor," said His Honour Mr. Jus- tice Lindsell in sentencing Li Sam, Victoria a woman, found guilty of posses
A Chinese detective, Leung Arrive sion of 20,000 heroin pills, to 18.
months, hard labour at the Crim Chiu-kam, of the Shatin Police Aug. 9inal Sessions this morning Station, was convicted at the Cri Aug. 22 The prosecution was conducted minal Sessions this morning for by Mr. John Whyatt, assisted by robbing a Chinese farmer Chan Sept.
Revenue Officer J. L. Stephens, and Hei of $60 in Man Hang Village,
New Territories. defendant was not represented.
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The following jury was empan- Remarking that accused had been (fore rightly found guilty by the jury, elled: Messra. A. J.
Khin the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr. E. man), Li Lan-sang, ́
| seong, V. M. HAM H.
Williams, sentenced him to
dar, E. Funck and J. N. Wong-term of four years' hard labour.
In the witness box this morning
CENTRAL DISTRICT
him
Accused had been seven years in the Hong Kong Police Force,
Mr. Whyatt said that on June 26, accused attempted to establish that R. O. Stephena, accompanied by a he had been "framed" and that raiding party, acting on informa- complainant had a grudge against tion, proceeded to the fourth floor of 124 Des Voeux Road, Central.
The floor was divided into two cubicles. The front cubicle was oc- cupied by a man and his wife while outside the rear cubicle defendant was standing.
Addressing... a question to the people who were standing around, R.-0. Stephens was told by defen- dant that shẻ occupied the rear cubicle and further that she was the principal tenant."
He was alleged to have demand- ed a sum of $500 from the farmer, menacing him with a revolver and handcuffing him. This sum was re- duced to $120, of which $60 was paid over to accused.
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Hong Kong Bank $1510 b. cut. div. Hong Kong (Lon. Reg.) £89/b.
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A search of the premises reveal-enquiries in local share quotations this. ed an earthenware jar and a tin în which were found packets of heroin pilla containing 20,000 pills in all. Defendant admitted possession of both the jar and the tin and was then taken to the Imports and Ex- ports Office along with the pills.
When charged with possession, defendant said "I have nothing to gay.
DEFENDANT'S STORY
She was subsequently removed to Stanley Gaol and 10 days later when she was charged before the Magistrate, said: "I did not know what the contents were. My hus- band owned them. He went to the country and I received a letter from
"NEPTUNA" him a month after he had been
JULY
26th. JULY
For
away saying that he had volun- teered for military service."!
After Revenue Officers Stephens and Millington had given evidenc Mr. D. E. Davis, Acting Governme Monopoly Analyst gave evidence of having examined the contents of the two containers, brought to him on June 26 and finding them to contain heroin pills.
He then went on to say that it was highly improbable that the pills could have been made more than two weeks prior to his exam- ination.
The evidence of the interpreter at Central Police Station on having taken statements from defendant, concluded the case for the prosecu- tion.
DISPROVED
Defendant, electing to make statement from the dock, repeated. the story she told at the Magistracy to the effect that the containers had been left behind by her hus band, that she had no know of their content, and that her
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