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CONSIDERATION FOR MAGISTRATE AS EXCUSE
KNOWING THAT OFFICE HOURS ENDED AT 5 PM. HE OBLIGED THE MAGISTRATE BY NOT CONTESTING THE CLACCUSATIONS AGAINST HIM, FOR WHEN THE_TIME CAME FOR HIM TO MAKE A STATEMENT, IT WAS AL- MOST 5 P.M.
This was explanation given by 28-year-old Yuen Hon when asked
this morning at the Criminal Ses- sions why he did not tell the ma- gistrate that he was not the owner of the 79,472 heroin pills, of the pos session of which he was accused.
According to the Crown, repre- sented by Mr. John Whyatt, accus- ed was found by a pork-seller, Hui Kai, at 6'a.m. on October 26 on the staircase. leading to the third floor
INCREASE IN
H.K. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
A net increase of 600 motor
of No. 10, Jubilee Street: Hui, vehicles in the Colony, m 1937 knowing that the man had no right
as
to be on the premises, kicked him, compared with 1986 is revealed in the report of the Commissioner of and as he did so, heard the man Police. drop something before running down the stairs.
Hui pursued him into Road Central and handed to' an Indian constable.
Queen's him over
a
CONSTABLE REBUKED On the staircase were found rattan case and a flour bag con- taining the pills.
The total number of accidents re- ported during the year was 2,589 as against 2,483 in the year 1986. The total number of persons killed was 81 as against 75 in the year 1936.
The total number of Public Motor Vehicles examined and passed fit Giving evidence this morning, for public use during the year was the constable could not definitely 4,718 as against 4,458 in the year state whether they were found on the landing of the first floor or of the second.
Asked whether he made any notes of the case in his notebook, wit ness replied in the negative...
1936.
The total number Commercial Mo- tor Vehicles examined and passed fit for commercial use during the year was 7,698 as against 7,400 in the year 1936.
"
Motor driver's licences suspended during the year numbered 71
ая
Mr. Justice Lindsell: "Why?" "I thought I would enter it up after the case was finished at the Su-against 107 in the year 1936. The Licences cancelled totalled 3 às preme Court."
Mr. Justice Lindsell: “Mr. against 7 in the year 1936. Whyatt, I trust that this man will During 1937 the following amend- be dealt with by the Police Departments to existing traffic regulations ment. He has utterly neglected his were made:- duty."
Accused, in the witness-box, said he was a tenant of the third floor When of No. 10, Jubilee Street. he knocked for admission, the door| was opened by Hui, who shouted thief and kicked him. He ran into the street. He knew nothing of the rattan case and flour bag un- til he was taken to the staircase by Hui and the constable.
-Accused denied all knowledge of the heroin pills.
The jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to three years' hard labour.
PIRACY ATTEMPT IN BRITISH
WATERS
(1) A 30 M.P.H. speed limit wns
made in built up areas. (2) Queen's Road, except between Arsenal Street and Murray Road, was made a 20.. M.P.H. control.
(3) Silent Zones were commenced. (4) A 2 hour limit was made for
certain car parks.
-(5) Motor licence fees were in-
creased.
KEPT IN COURT FOR BEING LATE
MR. M. BERAHA, PRINCI- PAL OF MESSRS. BERAHA AND COMPANY, GOLD AND DIAMOND DEALERS, WAS DETAINED THROUGH-
Yip Tai Pak, aged 38, master of OUT THE CRIMINAL SES- cargo boat No. 308Y, has reported SIONS AT THE SUPREME to the Police, that about 9 a.m. yes-COURT THIS MORNING.
He was absent when his name Ning to Castle Peak with a cargo was called out to serve the jury.
Later he turned up and ex- of salt water grass. When off Yung
RETURNED BANISHEE terday, he was sailing from Tai
SENTENCED
Long Wan, British Waters, a small plained that his "watch was in- boat under sail coming from the correct.”
Lee Nam, aged 31, unemployed, direction of Deep Bay, fired on his The Acting Chief Justice, Mr. boat and ordered him to stop. He Justice R. E. Lindsell, ordered refused, and sailed towards a large him to remain in the Court until
the conclusion of the case. junk nearby; and called for help.
was charged before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning, with receiving a fountain 'pen, the property of Mr. L. Blair,
The people of the large junk open- of No. 70 Broadwood Road...
ed fire on the robbers' boat. Thé Defendant denied the charge, boat was over-powered and all five said that someone threw the pen at men arrested. Two revolvers and Kam, residing at No. 11 Upper him, and when he picked it up, he 28 rounds of ammunition were later Lascar Row, reported that some one
was arrested.
: ;
Yeung
Au A Chinese woman,
entered her house some time last
He was also charged with return- It was believed that one of the night and stole a jar containing $94:
found in the small boat:
robbers was shot and fell overboard.
Learn to
ing to the Colony, during his 10
in money. “DANCE IN 6 HRS" years banishment, in August 1980. Rapid easy lesions. Pri- A sentence of four months' hard
Two Chinese women, Lai Sau Wei vate tuition. Expert in Ballroom, Tango,
labour was imposed on the first Miss Luz Ranago, residing at the and Lau Tung, were admitted to the Dance.
charge and another six months for Trocadero Hotel, has reported that Queen Mary Hospital, suffering TONY'S DANCE STUDIO the second.
while she was visiting a friend at from acid burns on hands and legs, 6th Fl. China Bldg., 12-A Detective Sergeant H. B. Dewar No. 98 Parke Street, on Tuesday, received when they were working
Tel. 80988.
prosecuted.
she lost a handbag, containing a sum at the Ling Nam Torch factory in of $52, from the above address. King's Road.