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Said To Steal PARDON FOR Young Girl
35,000
COOLIE IN
U.S. Dollars ALLEN CASE
Accused of stealing A $35,000 U.S. currency from Sui Koon Chow. cashier for Kin. Sun Company, at_the_point of a gun, Au Fan Kwong was yesterday commit- led to the next Sessions
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conditional pardon was granted to Lee Fu, chlef coolle, by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday, after Chief Health Inspector · J. Reed, the 56th Crown witness, had testllled in
Alleges Rape In Kitchen
The case in which Lai, Cheong, 31-year-old tai lor, is being charged with knowledges of
carnal charged liam Elijah Allen, Health Inspector, Chui Hong, foreman, and Man Kani-fat, beef mer- chant, on 35 counts of bribery,
were it not for the assistance the given by, Lec Pu, maid Mr. Lone followed | dule,
In opposing the application! Dat. Sub-Inspector C., Dowmar stated that the offence carrier with it the penalty of life im- prisonment. The decused
Was only arrested on Oct. 6 And would come up for trint at the next (Nov.) Sessions.
Kip Mei Village on Sept. 22, was again called bi- In making the application for After corroborating Mr. F. F.fore Mr. W. A. Blair- by Mr. F. X. d'Almada Lee's pardon, Mr. Longdale.' W. Bhaftain's evidence tgiven Kerr at Kowloon yester- ef Central Court.
|Crown Counsel, said that heat a previous hearing) up to the.
was making the application at finding of three marked $10 day to hear Mr. Marcus According to the evidence, that stage of the proceedings as notes in Allen's trousers pocket da Silva's application Sui had obtained the money he desired Ells Worship to be Del. Sub-Inspector V. M. Mor- Than the Wing Tai Bank and contrizant with the assistance rison went on to say that, as for bail. was returning to his firm on
Lee rendered the Police.
they were leaving the house. It had previously been re- the fourth thor of the Chin would have been
The story of what happened 81 Johnston found a notebook manded for a week by Ar disjointed. In a khaki Jacket hanging in PR. Springall on Wednesday. Building.
the ball of Allen's quarters. He enteral a lift
On the following day, sald ground Hoor and was
witness; he went to the Max Tau by three inen, Whin the lifti Law Fu would be enlled as : Kok Slaughter House, accom- Crown whe panied by DSI Johnston and was half way between the first Witness for the
Lower Court
proceedings con; Allen, and searched defendant's and sept Hoors, one
mall clude at D a.au. today, he nudeď jdesk." drew a gun and ordered the fift
During the course of yester-
"A Diary" staf.
day's proceedings, photographle From the middle drawer. DS After threatening, Sui byldes. made by Sub-Imperor Juhnston took four notebooks. saying "eive that ups at one Morrlapn from photographs
They in took possession of or I'll open fire on you, theppiled by Det. Sub-Inspector Allen's diary and three Market man with the gun motioned to a screen erreted outside the V. M. Morrison, were projected
Registers.. his two accomplices to grab Court.
On Sept. 6. again accompani- the money tiled paper parcel, Of the 27 photographs shown by his colleague and Allen, he went to Inspector Allen's After the two men,
depicted seemed or and whom it was all ged, was the around the Mong Kok Murketarters where they selzed· 12; Wednesday) he was given toi
one of 14
lecirte table fun, electric cell Larensed, hat grabbed the Barbamshulpo. The
eight by Yaumatt and five in ink tan. electrical tings, a vel, they ordered the lift opera- these howed
manty of radiogram and some carpets howkers' stalls for to proveal to the rerund erected just outside the aurke ter House on Oct. 2. continued Calling again at the Slaugh, floor, where they foreed Sai Mile sume showed illerd swn-witness, he took from the mid-plete change of front.
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Defence counsil, declared that
he was not so much interested In when the ease warld be tried as in the whole question of mil.
At the last hearing before understand that ball would be granted when the case was Bext called.
There appeared to he a com
Evidence
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Witness then proceeded
Rape. continued
Mr. Silvo
on
10 is a charge usually supported
the evidence to be adured by the prosecution would only by the evidence to be proffered by! the girl, whether the alleged offence took place in a public or private place, and whether any shouts or screams for help were heard,
The three robbers then or-1 der the lift to return to the! ground floor und-varuped after | Theatening the watchman;
Buth 14r. A. M. L. doures 1.orgive details of the entries Alie whart Mr. O.. Hugh-thren at the notebooks found. only by the-evidence of thr All was apprehended a! thei
Jones Uur Man Kum-Fal. long- In one was entered: "12 noon female but, sometimes, support. Sun Wong King Hotel.
fed a protest against the intro-Man Kam-fat: 12.30 Yated by medical evidence. In court. Au stated that he duction of the photographs, on Cheong: 1.30) 6. S. Po Yat He went on, to ask whethe
nothing to do with the the grounds that they were - Chuen," cime, although the lift opera- relevant and Inadmissable, ns (Mr. Lonsdale explained that baththey were taken long after the 5.8. Po is the abbreviation for
date of the last offence and Shamshulpo.) Jeven after the arrest of Allen, Detective Sergeant-Major Io
The
photographs, explained Muk, of the Special Branch. de HAND BLOWN OFF Mr. Leusdale, were taken twclared that investigations into days after the arrest of Allen the present charges were com- BY GRENADE and Introduced to Assist the menced by him on July 1 when Ho Tal-ngan. 9. hnd his left Curt visualise conditions he began visiting fish and pork
which existed in the markets. staliholders in Yaumati Band low away and received. Police witnesses would say On July 30 he received cer- sther injuries, while Ho Sai-that the conditions depleted tal: Information from Fung ngan, T. and So Ldung. 13, were identical to those which Pul and Wan
Shing, two fish received serions hand and body existed when they were con-merchants, 25 the result of injuries when a round object ducting their inquiries in the which he took them to see DŠÍ which had been picked
J. Johnston at the Melbourne, cused and his wife. up by Harkets,
Fok Yuct-kwal. 14-year-old Hotel, Mody Rond.
In reply, DSI Dowman said | them exploded.
servant girl of Man Kam-fat The Detective Inspector that the girl was a young girl The youngsters, who live at told the Court that, before she handed $35 to Wan Shing. employed by accused's wite. 25 South Lane, ground floor. went back to the country at the
Continuing, witness and that found the object in question in end of last year, she saw Allen on the following day he detall- and that one of her dutles was the vicinity of Belcher's Fort. at her master's house three or d Det, Tse Cho to keen Lee to get water for defendant's
Fu under observation. After taking
bath. the object He used to call.
The she said. Some, one of them started ham once
fish atallholders. One night while she was per- mering it and, the explosion' sometimes everyday." bu
every other day and Fung Pui and Wan Shing, call-forming, this task he criminally
haded on him again on Aug. 31 resulted. It is believed that the not called since her return in said witness. „Object was a hand grenade. February this year."s
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two
Fishmongers When be brought them down to see DSI Johnston, Wan was
with again given $35
certalu Instructions.
From the little he learneį of the case, went on defened) counsel. it would appear that the alleged offence took place In the flat occupied by the uc
assaulted. her.
She told her cousin about it some time later as sho could not get off from her work. Accused claimed he
WAR drunk at the time and did not He was at the Yaumati Police | know what he was doing. Station on Sept. 1 when Det.
The offence.. continued, DSI
Tsc Cho brought in Lee Fu, Dowman, did not take place in said witness..
He corroborated the evidence of his subordinate officer re- garding the visits to Allen's house on the same night.
Procceding. witness stated that at 10.15 pm, that same day he went with DSI Johnstor and Lee Fit to the entrance of
Youmat Market and.
the hut where defendant lived with his wife but in an ad- loining kitchen.
The complainant made no report until. Oct.--6^¿
The reason was that after the alleged offence certain arrange. arrested nents were being discussed be Chul Hong, who brought them tween the accused rind the girl's to 14. Fuk Wah Street, second parents.... floor, where Chut brought from
lis notes,
third
When Mr. Silva declared that inner pocket $220 in $10 the only evidence the Crown After being cautioned, the could adduce was that the girl defendant alleged wit did not give her conacnt und ness. took a Jacket out of a that she might have shouted wardrobe and, from the twe} and: screamed without being outer pockets, produced $1,100 which he claimed to be money from a Money, Loan Associa tion, the Chairman of which had gone to Canton,
In Wardrobe
A search by DSI Johnston re-
heard, DSI Dowman revealer that the girl was under 16 years of age and that, even if alio did give her consent it would not be legal.
His Worship: Pa getting
culted in another $1,000 in Sic worse and worse for you, Mr. Hotes, being found in the bot-Silva.” tom of the wardrobe, said wit-
ness,
Mr. Silva: "Why was he not charged on that?"
He added that on their way
"He will be," replied DSI to the Police Station, Chui stat- ed that all the money
Dowman; WE! drawn from a Money Loan As- sociation.
(Continued on Page 103
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