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THE OHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1947.
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P.O. MASON FOUND GUILTY
Three Years For
Robbery
Sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard labour was yesterday passed by Mr. Justice T. J. Gould on Petty Officer David George Mason, who was unanimously found guilty by a jury on a charge of robbery.
Mr. J. Reynolds, assisted by and that a further $10 was Detective Inspector V. M. Mor- chanced by him while at thei rison. prosecuted on behalf of NAAFI Club, Kowloon, where the Crown.
he had gone to have something to eat after a show.
on
the Mason suggested that driver of the taxi, in pointing him out, hnd simply picked out the first Naval Officer he came across.
Serlous Offence
The accused. who was not legally represented, was charged with armed robbery on Mar. 6.
Outlining the facts of the case, Mr. Reynolds said that at 7.45 p.m. on Mur. 5. Mason hired tax No. 4038 In Pedder Moron concluded his state- Street and ordered the driver ment by statlig that the identi- to proceed to Happy Valley. fention of the driver was not
The taxi proceeded along | sailsfactory. Queen's Road Eust and reaching Kennedy Rond, Mason asked the driver to turn up this road. After the corner had been turned, the driver was ordered to stop. As soon as he obeyed this order, the driver felt som thing hard pressed Into hin back. He was also asked, in English, to hand over bs money. In compliance with this request, the driver handed over about $40 in $1 notes. He was then naked by Mason to ko.
As the car was being re- versed, the driver, by the ald of the headlights which had been turned on, had a good look
at Mason's features.
The driver immediately pro- ceeded to No. 2 Police Station. where a report of the incident consequente of this report. Sub-Inspectoral
was rande, In
McLeod and MacDonald accom- panied the driver on a search of the area.
Identified By Driver At the Junction of Hennex Rey Road and Johnston Road, just near Murray Barracks, the driver identified Mason as the man who had held Him up. On being approached by Police Officers. Mason' was seen to drop Aume object to the ground. This object, when recovered,
WOR found to be a piece of metal tubing.
Evidence in support of Mr. Reynold's opening was given by Lau Shing, the taxi driver, and Sub-Inspectors McLeod and
MaeDonnid.
Detective Inspector V. M.
1
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FOR JAPAN
Tokyo, May 12. General MacArthur's head quarters has authorized the Japanese Government to din- tribute 167,501 metric tons of imported food and indigenous rico as part of the May staplo. food ration for the JapanIČBO people,
Despite distribution dificul. ties, food impuria from abroad ara alleviating to a certain extent the acute food akortage in Japan-Reuter.
JUDGMENT IN DISPUTE OVER CONTRACT
(Contimied from page 2)
Students
Run Riot
Shanghal, May 13.
More than 3,000 students Chlastung University today dia Trupted railway traffle from Shang- hal and took charge of the city's North Station following refuss!. of their demands for transperta tlon to Nanking to present de mands to the Ministry of Educa. Elon.
The students took the law into their own hands after pucking the station since morning walt ing for transperiation, Railway authorities cleared passenger coaches out of the station when engineering students, comman deered locomotives.
Meanwhile the Minister of Lt. Comdr, F. M. Tippetta, to get out of the contract and
the argument that the defen-Education, Chu Chia-hun, whom who was called, by Mason as witness to character, and that dants repudiated it le quite un students demanded to see in Non- king regarding changes in cuti- he had known accused for the substantial. Repudiation of
In Shanghai by lost three months. The accused contract is a serious matter not culum, arrived
mcming
and was had been in the Navy for three to be lightly found or inferred. plane this or four years. His behaviour in Lord Selborne in Mersey Steci awaiting the students at the City the Navy had been satisfactory. and Iron Co - Naylor, Ben-Hall. City nuthorities
Replying accused, Lizon & Co. (9 App. Cases 434) studenta until 6.30 n. to evacu. Condr. Tippetts agreed that he, aid the Court must look at ate the stallen accused, had been in the Navy previously and that it WHA necessary to have satisfactory record in order to rejoin the Navy.
to
After Mr. Justice Gould had surned up, the jury retired to consider their verdict. On re- turning after an absence of 15
minutes, the Foreman an- nounced that the jury had un- animonsly found accused guilty of robbery.
In passing sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard Jabour, Mr. Justice Gould told accused that although he had, not been found guilty of armed robbery un indicted, the offence of 1obbery was nevertheless a serious one. Mr. Justice Gould said that he was taking into consideration the effect which this conviction would have on nerused'r future.
the:
"..........actual_circumstances of the case in order to see whether the one party to the contract is relieved from its future per- formenco by the conduct of the other: you must examine what that conduct is, so as to ste
gave the
and send reptes sentatives to the City Hall and treatened to send troops after at "to evict them by force," Associated Press,
Committed
whether it amounts For Trial
ro-
to a re- nunciation, to an absolute
The daylight arned robbery fuel to perform the contract, a would amount
nt the to B
Wan Lol Teahouse, 484 such rescission if he had the power Shanghai Street, on April 21, was the recalled before Mr. Blair-Kerr at to rescind,, and whether other may accept it as a reason Kowloon yesterday when, aflge
hearing evidence for the prosecu for not performing his part..'
"Applying these principles toon, Chan Kin, 29, one of the al- the Court, eged robbers, was committed fer the case before
trial.
hold that there was no repu diation by the denfedants and that the plaintiff was not en- titled to rescind the contract. There will be judgment for the efentiants with costs both on the claim and counterclaim."
Didn't Want P.O.W.'s
In Copper Mine
Morrison said that. when He had been against the employment of POW
searched. two bundles of $1 banknotes, one of $37 and the other of $16, were found in the pockets of accused. The sum of $16.65 was also found in cused's wallet. When charged. į accused aid: "I don't wish to say anything."
Mason's Statement
ac-
mine.
Prosecuting, DSI Sykes stated another man, that, accused, with went to the teahouse at about 9.00 am, on that day. After about Half an hour, the two men went
the counter as if to pay their
bill of 70 cents..
Accused suddenly grabbed the accountant by the ann while his mpanion pointed a revolver at the man said DSI Sykes, Delon. dant then emptied the till of the contents.
An alarm was raised after the men had left, and a hue-and-cry sinrted. After a chase through Shanghai Street to Shantung Street, through a side lane behind
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On Lok Street, thence to Nelson Street and on to Portland Street, accused, it was alleged, was ur rested by the fokis and District Watchman Chan Wah near Argylc Street.
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labour at the copper mine for the reason that the arrangement could not be an economical one with inexperienced workers, Toda Misugu, manager of the Kinkaseki Japan Copper Mine Company, on trial with eight members of his staff before No. 5 War Crimes Court, stated yesterday when he went into the witness box to testify in his own defence Toda unid that negotiations Speaking of conditions in the from the drawer were pleked up In a statement from the dock, for the employment of POWs mine, Toda eald that he only by the accountant, Leung Yam. Mason referred to a statement at the mine had been going on inspected it about three times at the corner of Shanghal Street by the Police Officers that he with Taiwan Army Headquar- a year. His office was situated and. Shantung Street, said DSI kept turning his head round inters for some time before he half a mile from the mine site Sykes. a suspicious manner and anid was appointed manager of the and, he lived in Taihoku. that he was, at the time, look-
He When he assumed duty ing for a taxi.
he was in no position to break Mason admitted that the them off. plece of metal tubing was his property. He said that while in Singapore, he had been ntinck- ed and assaulted Bome Chin-
`OPIUM CASES ese. He had therefore always Yeung Shun-hing, 28, cigarette carried this piece of tubing for hawker, was fined $72 when he self protection. He wna not pleaded guilty before Mr. Latimer aware that it was an offence to a charge of possession of six against the law to carry such maco cf raw opium at Room $24, an instrument.
Sun Wong Kung Boarding House, In explaining the large num on May 12. ber of $1 notes in his posses
For possession of three taals of sion, Mason said that he had raw oplum of the K.C.R. Station occasion to, change two $10 en May 12, Leung Kal-hing was notes during the day on Mar. fined $300, or two months hard]
labour, by Mr. Latimer, at Kow- loon yesterday.
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wan engaged mostly in attending to the mine's afson business and knew little of what was going on other than what he read In reports sub-i mitted to him.
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«Ottawa, May 12. With tears in her oyee, Bar- Ann Scott, 10-year-old prisonera bara was never reported to him and Canadian holder of the world he did not know that any in- figure skating championship,
back to stances had occurred. When today handed ho find inspected the mine, he Mayor of Ottawa the car which found everything in order. Ac had been awarded her for cidents in the mine wore re-winning the championship. ported to him.
She returned the car after There were. fewer caacs of suggestions that in accepting it Nakamura took ahe might have jeopardised her these after over as production manager, amateur status for competing he claimed. The main tunnel in the 1948 Olympic Games in was shored all through and the Britain-Router. bogies ran by electricity. This was not true of the other tun- niels. A bogie when full of ore would weigh about a ton.
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Y.M.C.A. DEBATE There will be a meclily of the Hong Kong Debating Society in the YMCA. tonight at 8 pm. The motion before the House will be in the opinion of this House a woman's place is the home." The motion will be moved by Mr. Lecser & opposed by Miss Jones of the AT.S.
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