THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 194
JARDINE'S ROBBED FOR 18 MONTHS
Koo Ka-ming; 25, clerk, was further remanded by Mr. R. Edwards this morning, on charges of fraudulent conver sion of $2,135.45, received by him on account of Jardine Matheson and Company.
It was alleged that embezzlements took place between - September 27, 1938, and January 25, this year.
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Defendant, pleading guilty, said he' spent all the money to support his family. He had had every inten- tion of paying back the money.
Mr. P. Wynter-Blyth, for the prosecu tion, said defendant had been in the company for about six years, start- ing with $40 salary, increasing to $85 a month this year. He was clerk in the import department, in charge of removal of goods out of godown. Each time he made out an order for goods, he took out more than waś ordered. When stock was checked. suspicion was aroused and defendant was accused. It was alleged that de- fendant had spent nearly $10,000 since he took up the job.
Library, Supreme Court
MME. LUPESCU
F
IN LONDON
Mme. Lupescu, red-haired friend of King Carol of Rumania is-in-London.--
.... She loft Rumania just, bofore Carol raised the ban on the Iron Guard, the 'members of which are Her sworn anomics.
She is expected to stay in. Eng- land only a short time’Before go. ing to the United States
Mmo. Lupescu has, for years, had two accommodation "pass- porta which enable her to move continent with hot about the
identity concealed.
As a friendly neutral; Mme. Lupascu would have no difficulty in landing in Britain as a visiting alien so long as a reputable per- son guaranteed her.
FIRST LOSS
TO SUICIDE
GANG
First of "the Suicide Gang," the men of the Scottish trawlers who' dare death from the skies, has gone down in the sea he served. con-
Mr. Blyth asked the Court to im- pose the maximum sentence.
The case was adjourned for sideration of sentence.
Det. Sergeant Brooks the Police.
represented
DAIRY FARM CHEATED
Leung Chiu, 25, prisoner at Stan- ley, serving six montlis hard labour since March 7 last on con- viction for conspiracy to rob, was before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at Kowloon Magistracy this morning charged with larceny by servant of] five ice-boxes from the Dairy Farm between November and February, Det.-Sgt. Baldwin stated that cused, while working for the Dairy Farm, sold five ice-boxes to various people without the knowledge of the Company.
ac-
When recently the Company check- five ed the store room, they found boxes short.
SIX CASES OF. DUTIABLE TOBACCO
of
For possession of 330 pounds dutiable tobacco in a Des Vouex Road Central shop, Ng Fook, 30, was fined $2,300 or six months' hard labour by Mr. R. Edwards this morning.
The tobacco was contained in cases, which were found in the shop.
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WOMAN KILLED WHILE
FLYING A KITE
He was Robert Liston, of Leith. When his ship, Star of the Isles, was plane last attacked by a German month, it was Liston, fisherman off the turned gunner, who drove diving bomber.
for As Liston left home
that fighting trip he had laughingly told. his wife: "Make it a boy this time," for, Mrs. Liston was about to be a mother again.
Liston And just as Gunner pouring bullets at the Heinkel, second child was born-a girl.
BOB WAS SAFE
was his
"I heard the news on the radio," his wife said later, "and pressed my baby to me and prayed that Bob was safe."
Bob was safe. and came home, laughing again, to jest with his wife and hold his new daughter produly
in his arms.
The Suicide Gang cannot stay at home. Robert Liston sailed again on other ships.
His last was the Leith trawler Ocean Drift. Last Sunday she was in collision with another trawler and sank in the North Sea.
Two of her crow were missing. One of them was Robert. Liston.
They told the news to Mrs. Liston in her home in Leith. She wouldn't believe it. "Bob always comes back." she said.
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Eight survivors of the Ocean Drift
A young married woman, Yau Wai-arrived at an Edinburgh station. ching, of No. 263, Cheung Sa Wan
Mrs. Liston, with her elder "three-
Road, was killed instantly yesterday year-old daughter, was waiting" för when she fell from the roof of her them. residence, while flying a kite.
TAIKOO ACCIDENT
30-072
Two workmen, Mak Hing, 30, and Leung Mak-yeung, were admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital from Talkoo Dock, with serious. Injuries yesterday, when an iron bracket fell on them. Mak Hing died as a result of his in- juries,
KOWLOON DOCKS THEFT
Charged with breaking into the store room at Kowloon Docks on April 24 and stealing seven bars of white *keling, 20, and. Leung
Neimanded by
Hifhsworth
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She watched them file out of the compartment. Then she knew, Bob wasn't coming back, and
She sat down on a porter's barrow, hugged her little girl, and they went together.
KOWLOON TONG CLUB *** CABARET-DANCE RO ai rinh c aron L tô A Buffet Supper dance, in aid of the British War Organisation and Chinese War Relief Funds, will be held at Kowloond Tong Club on May 18.
A variety cabaret programme is be- ing arranged. There will also be spot dances and raffles.
The committee in charge of arrange- itting, -comprise --Me
Lee, Pater Sousa, Y. H. Tang and A
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