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SHOCKING STORY RELATED BY OLD MAN
BURGLAR SENT TO PRISON
Yuen Wong-sun, 26, baker, was brought before, Mr. R. Edwards- this morning, charged with burg- lary at No. 62 Percival Street.
Defendant was also charged with returning from banishment.
On resumption of the case in which six men, Tso Lam, 30, Leung Kam, 22, Li Fuk, 26, Chan Luk, 30, Li Wan-cheung, 27, and Chan Kam, 27, are charged with robbery and murder, before Mr. E. Himsworth at Kowloon, Wong Kam, 75, said that on. May 14, he, with his wife and son, boarded the junk, No. 288, at his village in the Tung Kun District. On May 22 at 11 a.m. he heard Defendant was sentenced to six three shots fired by a person on months' hard labour for burglary, another junk, which was ap-and to another six months proaching their vessel.
The six accused then boarded | and carried away money and a
Det. Sub-Inspector W. N. Darkin said that during the night of July 24, defendant broke into the ground floor of No. 62 Percival Street, and stole six sewing ma-- chine heads. He gained entrance- by breaking a window.
second charge.
on the:
cargo of matting and grass CAUGHT SNATCHER
The first accused, he said, the fiercest among the
rope.
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“THE RETURN OF THE CISCO KID" he and other accused were armed
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group, and BUT UNABLE TO hand- FIND VICTIM
with rifles, revolvers and grenades.
At 9 p.m. the same night, they again met the robbers' junk and A case in which the police ar-- rested a snatcher and recovered? the stolen property, but could not find the victim, was mentioned Kowloon this morning.
accused tied the hands of the eight members of the crew. Li Hung,
hands was tied with his
behind him, a cubic-foot stone was con- nected with his hands, and he was the
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sea.
The rest of the crew were cry- ing, but that was stopped by the robbers, who said that if they did not stop they would push everyone into the sea.
Finally, all the crew were lined on deck their hands tied up, and pushed into the sea.
The prosecution is in the hand of Mr. J. B. Prentis, assisted by Det. Sub-Inspector R. Cunningham.
The case is proceeding.
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Lam Kwai, 30, snatched ear-rings- from a woman in Takuling Road. A sixteen-year-old boy gave chase through several side-lanes and ar- rested him, with a constable's aB- The sistance, in Po Kong Road. woman could not afterwards be- found.
Mr. Himsworth imposed sentence. of six months' hard labour and 12 strokes.
LOAN REDUCED
"You
now only owe her one* dollar," said Mr. E. Himsworth this- morning to Lo Nam, 28, shop- keeper, when Tsoi Sze-mui, 40,
DECLARE INTERIM widow, was charged with assault.
DIVIDEND
They were seen causing trouble in, the street by an
Indian con-- stable, who took both to the sta- tion. On their way out, the widow struck the man
over the head... This was witnessed by the police, who then charged her with assault.
Messrs Gibb,- Livingston and Co., Ltd., the Agents of the Hong Kong Electric Co., Ltd., announce that at a Meeting of the Board of Directors held this morning an In- terim Dividend of One Dollar per Share was declared for the year year. 1939. This dividend will be pay-. able on and after Thursday 7th
The widow was placed on à $10- bond to keep the peace for one
September, 1939, to those Share PERSIAN IN COURT
holders whose names appear in the Register of Shares at the close of business on Saturday, 26th Au- gust, 1939.
SINO-AMERICAN INSTITUTE
The third luncheon meeting of the Hong Kong Branch of the Chinese American Institute of Cultural Rela- tions, will be held at 12.45 p.m. to- morrow at the Hong Kong Hotel..
General Wu Te-chen will be the guest
A 46-year-old Persian, Mirza Hassan Khan Farmud, was cau- tioned by Mr. T. J. Houston this morning, when charged with en- tering the Colony without a valid passport.
Detective Sergeant Loughlin -told 'the, Court that defendant came" from Macao.
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of honour and deliver a speech on Before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen "Cultural Relations and Mutual Under at Kowloon this morning, Ho Ting, standing."
American 35, was fined $25 or one month's Commercial Attache, will also speak. hard labour for possession of 39
Mr. Julean Arnold, the
Reservations may be sent to the Gen-sticks of dynamite and 75 detona-- eral Secretary, Mr. P. K. Chu, 223 tors. Hong Kong Bank Building.
Mr. E. Shaw, of the s.s. Shunai, has reported that some person en- tered his cabin while the ship was, lying off Yaumati, and stole money and a fountain pen between noon and 1 p.m. yesterday. The total loss Was $141
To-day. der-in-chief,
Bark
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He was arrested "the Castle Peak Road with
and detonator
in a paper pa
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