THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 16, 1939.
MASQUERADE POLICE COUP
IN CHINESE HOTEL
IN KOWLOON QUEENS & ALBAMERA
CONSIDERABLE EXCITEMENT
WAS CAUSED IN KOWLOON CITY AT 6 A.M. TO-DAY WHEN A PARTY OF EUROPEAN, CHINESE AND IN- MARQUIS ABLONG, 19, WAS, BE-DIAN POLICE THREW A CORDON FORE MR. R. EDWARD THIS MORN-AROUND THE SING KEE TEASHOP ING, CHARGED WITH STEALING IN SAIKUNG STREET. $68 IN CANADIAN CURRENCY AT THE MAN ON BOARDING HOUSE, AND WITH IMPERSONATING A POLICE OFFICER.
Two men, having tea in the shop, are alleged to have discarded a re- volver and a dagger before making a dash for liberty.
The police pursued and them in Boundary Street.
arrested
Later, the two men took the police
further arrests were made. to a hut in Kowloon City, where two
It is understood that the Police had received information of a plan to'rob a goldsmith's shop in Kowloon City.
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Det. Serg. J. Forrest said defendant went to the Man On Boarding House at about 10.30 a.m. on October 7, and decribed himself as a Chinese detec- tive. He asked to examine the regis- ter and then went to room No. 11, where he found his alleged victim, Tong Fun, and said he was investigat- ing the theft of $1,000. Defendant, it was alleged, asked him if he had any money in his possession. A sum of $68 in Canadian currency was pro- :duced, and defendant examined the money and announced that he 'proposed to take it to Cen- tral Police Station. Defendant took SUSPECTED ΤΟ HÄVE BEEN Tong to a teahouse in Connaught | MURDERED, A CHINESE WOMAN, Road and asked him to stay BETWEEN 35 AND 40 YEARS OF there while he went to make further AGE, WAS DISCOVERED DEAD AT ADDED! FIRST PICTURES OF LONDON EVACUATION
WOMAN MURDERED.
enquiries in the case. Tong insisted 7 A.M. YESTERDAY NEAR THE on going with him.
IN While riding in HO TUNG CEMETERY
POK-
a ricksha, defendant disappeared with the money.
He was arrested on Saturday by a Chinese detective, and an empty holster was found in his possession.
It was said that defendant was con- victed for larceny about two years ago.
Defendant
hours.
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Hands and feet were bound and there were wounds in the head.
Robbery appears to have been the motive; the woman's empty purse was found a short distance from the body.
was remanded for NO PROOF OF
ELDERLY WOMAN
ACCUSED
Whilst an elderly woman was carry- ing her baby granddaughter to the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital for treat- ment, the child died, whereupon the woman dumped the body on the side of the road.
ACCUSATION
Charged with failing to report the possession of a 17-year-old ward, Leung Kan, 55, was this morning fined $15 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at
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Mr. W. H. Fraser, of S.C.A., said THE GREATEST HISTORICAL DRAMA OF ALL TIMES!
that following an allegation that
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This morning she was charged be-girl had been ill-treated by accused, fore Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at. the a police officer visited the place and Central Magistracy and bound over
discovered that the girl was an un- for 12 months.
registered ward.
The child was four years of age.
A 56-year-old Chinese widow, Mak Kam, was bound and gagged by two robbers who entered her residence at
Medical examination failed to sup- port the alleged ill-treatment.
THIEF AT Y.M.C.A.
No. 579, Canton Road, Kowloon, at Burglars entered the European
ransacked
3 a.m. to-day. The men the place and escaped with over $100
in money and jewellery.
Association yesterday and stole clothing belonging to the inmates.
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