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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1948.
FIRST WOMAN JURORS The Comet SHE LOST HER
FACED WITH A SKELETON
Yesterday marked the shouldering of a new civic responsibility by the women of Hong Kong when, for the first time in local history, .women jurors were empanelled for a Criminal
Sessions case at the Supreme Court.
The trial was a murder trial, | following enquiries, accused was which was also unique in that arrested in a hut at Homustin portions of the skeleton of the | HI. alleged victim were produced ; in Court,
Those who thought that the sight of a human skeleton would unnerve the women jurors ware doomed to disappointment.
They not only took a keen Intereat in the proceedings, but aerutinized, with minute care, the skull of the alleged victim when it was placed before them for inspection.
There were four wom the jury.
Before they were aworn in,
E.H. Mr. Justice
William (Chief Justice), pointed out that the charge on which the Lit Chun alins Ng accused, Chum, was being tried, was that of murder.
He enquired if any of the women jurors had, on a matter of principle, any objection to serving.
There being no objection, the jurors were then sworn in, of ter which Mr. Justice William guve a brief resume of the birth' and growth of the jury system in England and mentioned that| women were first enlled upon to serve as jurors in England in 1919.
Mr. A.J. Clifford, anxiated by
Det. Insp. G. E. Willerton, is
He was informed that he was suspected of murdering Ng Shul at Aberdeen.
Accused is then alleged to have replied:
"Ng Shui was killed by me with one blow with a pole by | mistake."
On Sept. 13, when formally ! charged, necused anid: "I did strike him, but I kileld him by | mistake,”
WHA fur "I Hiruck
After this accused thur heard to say! him with a stick and pushed him down the hillside."
After evidence by a number of witnesses, hearing was nd- journed till 10.30 am. today, ne the Court and jury will first make a visit to the scene of the alleged crime.
"We May Discover Something'
"We may uncover something Interesting." Mr. Lailmer anli when he remanded Siu Liu, 21-
year-old married woman of No. conducting the case for the pro-peared at Kowloon Magistracy 516 Shanghai Street, who ap- secution,
yesterday on a charge of simple Larceny two very mahjong pieces.
The accused, who is charged with the murder of Ng Shui on July 28, 1947. is defended by Mr. Percy Chen, who has been assigned for the defence by the Crown.
The prosecutor, Mr. Clifford) suld that up to the time of the
lleged murder, the two appeared to have been on good
"And the stolen set may be recovered too," Prosecution Om.
cer
Inspector Orem added.
Leung Woon, mistress of a general repair shop at No. 1 Aus tin Road, told the Court that de- rendant came to her shop at 10 last Sunday With women and two boys.
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This looks a bad photograph but on December 22 Royal Air Force homber, 18,000 feet up saw the new comet for the first time from England. Meteorological conditions prevented Briton's seeing it from the ground.
The new comet was first seen from South Africa and Australia simultaneously December 0, and is still travelling through space at 250,000 mlies an hour.
astronomers to be
The tail of the comet is believed by more than ten million miles long.
PHOTO SHOWS:-The emet us it appeared to Austra- Ilans from Melbourne on the 8:cond night of appearange, De- cember 10-A Photo,
RUSSIAN TO CONDUCT ANTI-RED CAMPAIGN
Shanghai, Jan. 5.
Elias Shendrikoff, 71-year-old founder of the Rus- sian Menshevik branch of the revolutionary party which later was outlawed by the Lenin- Stalin clique of the Bolsheviks, left today for the United States to contact other exiled Rus- sian anti-Communist leaders in a worldwide anti-Soviet campaign.
After they had left, Leung and? CANON DOES
terms, although it was alleged she discovered by the prosecution that accused wwerf the deceased $40.
On July 28 deceased left in company with the accused, The
12 mahjong set missing and was informed by a passerby that one of the women had taken R.
Complainant
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free recently
Shendrikoff said he expected to Mexico City to meet conier with Alexander Kerensky Russlan Committee in the United States and go formed there,
Shendrikoff who represented the Menshevik branch in two govern Russlan post-revolution
Soviet ments, charged that the Union was "preparing itself very actively for n new and terrible war." He said the people of Russia; cut off from outside information, have no idea of the donger hanging over their coun-
PENANCE FOR
wife of the deceased would say women running and arrested de THIEF
that deceased never arrived
home that night.
Scattered
The remains of deceased were found scattered on the billside and in a nullah on Sept, 4.
The Police were notified and
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fendant who had stopped to pick up the two mahjong pieces which apparently had dropped.
Defendant, who said her bus band was in Canton, pleaded not guilty, saying that she did not know the other women and that she did not stop to pick up the pieces.
She was remanded 24 hours pending further investigation,
Russia as real
more
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Workman Took His Hire
"I worked for him for several months and he ow- ed me wagen," 25-year-old Yeung Po, told Mr. Blair- Kerr when he was charged with stealing 20 plenes of clothing, two dogs and three chickens. properly of his ex-employer, at No. 3 Texa- co Branch Road, last Satur- day night.
Defendant,
who pleaded guilty at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday
the to stealing. clothing but nat.
guilty to taking away the animals, was sentenced to nine months' hard labour and recommend. ed for deportation.
The Prosecution said that dismissed Yeung, who was
by Hung Fat three days ago, broke into his ex-employer's hut through a hole in a wall and escaped by unlocking a door, between 11 p.m. and 2.30 am.
The dogs and chickens, the prosecution
might added, have escaped through the hole made by defenunt,
"BUT IT WAS NEW YEAR'S EVE"
"But for the fact that it was
iry. FINCHLEY, JAN. 5. CANON CHRISTOPHER Preparing For War TURNER, VICAR OF FINCH- The exile, who hus been in LEY, LEICESTERSHIRE. China 27 years, sald?”__ "The des2**] WHO IS DOING AN ACT OF polling of
North Korea, the PENANCE FOR THE THIEF ransformation of small states into WHO TOOK PARCELS IN. submissive humble satellites and TENDED FOR POOR CHILthe use of prisoners of war in in building DREN IN EUROPE FROM THE CHRISTMAS TREE war prisoners with their own OUTSIDE. THE PARISH generais in charge all this test!- BLACKMARKETEERS CHURCH. REFUSES TO DIS-es that Russia is preparing it CLOSE THE NATURE OF selt very actively for new and CAUGHT ON WHARF THE PENANCE.
more terrible war."
"Russia is in ruins," he said. Police vigilance brought two He says: "The penance is "Arcording to statements of the black-marketeers, arrested at known only to myself and is be- Communists. themselves the ter the Kowloon-Canton Railwaying carried out during certain, ritary between the Volga and Station last Sunday, before Mr. services in church. If any of Warsaw is a virtual desert-with Latimer at Kowloon Magistracy my parishioners after services a starving population, unclothed and unhoused. The nation is yesterday.
communiente what I am doing
bankrupt Sin Ha (31), unemployed, of that is not my affair."
Shendrikoff, a prominent Shang- No. 454, Lockhart Road, and Asked about the possibility of hai attorney, expects to arrive in Law Yiu (48) were each flood the their making reparation, San Francisco in the middle of $75 for offering KCR tickets for the Canon said it was quite January, aboard the American sale at above the original prices. possible. That would be a mat- President Liner General Meigs.
Firat defendant was seen by ter between the individual and; DPC 88 trying to sell a Third | himself.—Router. Class KCR ticket $10 ($8.80).1
Second defendant was seen by DPC 881 trying to sell a Second Clase ticket at $22 ($17.60),
U.K. DELEGATES
Boatman Wong Fuk (22) had
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CASH IN A LIFT
Lau Mo Fun, 23, resld- ing at Room 305 Nam Ping Hotel, defendant in a charge of having taken possession of $400 when she believed the owner could be found, was con- victed by Mr. F. X. d'Al- mada at Central Magis- tracy yesterday and sen- tenced to thrée months' Imprisonment. and re commended for banish- ment.
According to Inspector Moran, defendant entered a lift at the Sincere Co, together with othera.
She WAK farther alleged to have either taken from the per- son or pleked up the money and made a quick getaway.
Defendant admitting pleking up the money but denied having taken it from complainant'a handbag.
were
Leung Cham Sum, lift opern- tor of the Sincere Co., said that As the lift stopped at the first floor and while people Ketting out he gaw defendant opening complainant's handbag. Before he could inform vie- tim, defendant had left the clevator and made for the stairs,
Asked if she had anything to say, defendant replied that she knew it wa wrong and asked for leniency.
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