WOOD MURDER TRIAL
THE CHINA MAIL, FR IDAY, APRIL 8, 1948.
MRS. MARTIN TESTIFIES HER GARDENER WAS ON PREMISES Alleged Confessions
Read To Court
Mrs. Mary Martin of 377 The Peak testified before Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday that her gordonar, Li Chung-chun (alias Li Chik-song, was back of the Peak when it "was going on to 6 o'clock".
Witness stated that she gave the man two days' holiday during the Chinese New Year (Feb. 10 and 111, and was playing badminton on the lawn. with her son when she saw him returning when it "was going on to six" on the lotter date.
robbed,
She wax definite, witness The third defendant is being shid,
not have aditionally charged with having that it rould Uken after 6 p.m.
while armed, ieorge Ronald Ross and L. B. Wood at Replying to D.S.I. Matches, the same place that day. Mrs. Martin denied that it was Another highlight of on Feb. 18 that her female ser- day's hearing was the production vant, Ah Yee. brought they Detective 755 Kwok Heung
eimen of a confrasion, detailing gardener in to ask for a kn the movements of the men prior of $40. - The date, she asserted,
Inumaliately after" the
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vester-
www [. "Atter thojmeal, 'wo walked up to 8 ph. When in Shanghat Street Cho Kat walked Anal, Ho
Kong Lok
Bear Kills Bay Cheuk-kul second,
Shanghai, Apr. 8,
A Tibetan bear killed a fb-year-old Chỉhese 'boy at the faedi xoölöpidal gardens.
While a crowd of visitors watched, the bear reached out through Its cago, acized the boy and mauled and showed him to severely that the lad dled a few minutes after reaching hospital-At- sociated Press.
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third, and I walked fourth, into a watch, abop., Cho Kat, took out the two wristwatches' which were matched from the Europeans, sold them and got $75.
POP
Spotted
An Odd
"Whilo walking. In the street, Cho Kat sald, After deducting the money for the meal. each person again shares: $15.' After- wards, Cho Kaf said he wIL AY- ing to look for friends, Kölig | Us |Lok., Ho Chepk kul, and 'I, three | persons, boarded a bus near the | Prince's Theatre and return to Kowloon City. We kiighted, on the road at the älifteld near Nga Tsih Wat village.
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Character
Detectives Cpl./C. 425 and "Ho. Cheuk-kul and went P.C. 58 were patrolling Nathan back to Bang Lee Yuen, Kong Road last Wednesday when Lok went back to Sheung Yuen they noticed a queer character Ling village.
approaching from Tsimshatsui to Yaumati
Sub-Inspector J. W. Macdonald handed him a walking stick., a bunch of keys, a piece of paper and two pieces of stone at 2.30 p.n. on Feb. 18, sald witness who
that on added
the evening of Feb. 11 he received from Sab- Inspector W. J. R. Wall (Kowloon Emergency Unit) a girdle which had been used to the deceased's that shop." wrists.
cannot remember clearly the shop where the wristwatches were, sold. Kong Lok and Ho Cheuk-kul perhaps remember
the man and
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Customs and excise!CO.B.A.
GOOD
LAVONIT TO
Awakened By Cries Of "Save Life!"
told her what the defendant had alleged to him that day,
Annual Meeting
The 21st Annual Generar Meeting of the Queen's Col- Jego.. Old Boys". Association was held last evening in the Board Room of the Union Trading Co., Ltd., York Building, with a large number of members attending.
The agenda included confirma= tion of the minutes of the pre- vious annual general meeting, the 1947-report of the Hon. Secretary, the 1947-statement of accounts of the Hon. Treasurer, the lection of officials for 1948 and the election of an Hon. Auditor for 1948.. Meeting, un Extraordinary Gen
Immediately after the General
eral. Meeting followed, when cer- tain clauses of the
constitution of the Association were amended,
In his annual report, Wong Sling
"Hon. Secretory
W.
sald that the number of life members, including
nine honoraty
Inmates of No. 134, Yeo Kok Street, second floor, the sccha 'of a dispute over rent which led to a young married woman losing her right eye after an alleged attack by the 65-year- old principal tenant, gave evidence at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when committal pro- ceedings against Mak Keng-wu were heard
was 108, while 89 Ordinary.
were enrolled during the bersa by Mr. Latimer.
making the total number of Members 107 ne agninat. 957 at Defendant, who was 'nọt re-
the end of 1940. The decrease presented legally, was charged with maliciously.
DSI D.S. Roberts tested that was Inrgely due to deaths --and wounding Chan Yin-mel with Intent to on receiving information at 3.15 departure of members from tho
a. he hurried to the disfigure.
scene, Colony.
Due to the high cost of lying Where he found two table glass Ho
33-year-old tops, a "gions Shiu-ying,
dish and a clock during 1847, no social funcion woman who claimed broken. The clock machinery re- the accused as Hur father-in-law, gistered 2.32. He saw two aubicles, view, Mr. Hung Sling gold.
was held in the year under re- sald she lived in the front cubicle thinly partitioned by wooden of the fat with her husband and framework, about six feet high. 13-year-old aon. Her father-in- law lived in the "teng."
Witness said the knew of no trouble between Chan, who stay ed next to her with Her husband, and her
since the father-in-law
The time end of January, 1948, she started to live there.
Defendant, she said, returned and left after the meal, to come for his mean usually at 6 pm back again some night.
was the Wednesday betorr dieecine and describing the armed wherein Li said that he was with feused, witness said that LI, after had stolen the blatles from Nu. | married Baturday that D.S.I. Matches robbery Useif, alleged to have beer made and signed by the
took Li into custody,
'h
The request was refused, she said, became he had been paid few days previous. The reason he gave for wanting the loan was that he wanted to back to Canton.
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LL, concluded witness, had been In her employ for tabotit fou months. (This was corroborates by the defendant who stated, in the dock, that he entered witness' employ. In the eighth last year.)
The defemlanis, who are un Committal proceedings on the sharge of the murder of Lytton Bevis Wood at a pris lending to Llon's Rock on Feb. 11, are Lau Hol alins Lou Yun-hol (20), un- employed; Ho Cheuk-kuf (20), unemployed and Li Chung-chuu allas Li Chik-sang (32), gardener
employed at 377 The Peak.
Best accused.
Continuing. DSI Matches soldi that at 10.35 am on March 7, before the third defendant was charged with the crime, he took ntioned statement from him, his elder brother and a friend, Mo Yung-hing, practically the whole day and that the friend could be responsible for me that yester- day's piteedings the defendants,
dny."
"As I was about to sign
my when family asked
whether name
to the statement," sald they had any questions to put to witness, "defendant asked me the allegations of the previous 1 told my of the witnesses, repeated whether he could say any more. him that he could say day that they have been beuten what he liked but that it would by The Pallén luta signing the
be taken down. He then made Pather wissen, statements attributed us them by farther short statement."
During the whole of
Twig Found
Continuing his E
evidence of Wetinesday, Del. Sub-Inspector Matches sad that on the after- iron of Feb, 17 he picked up at the scene of the murder a twig similar to the one used for bind- Ing the deceased,
perty of the late Mr. Wood.
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Another Statement Producing another statement, allegedly made by the third ne been questioned from having
10 pm. on March 8 to 1.a.m. on March 7, elected to make p sinic- instruction ment which, on the of, Det: Sgi. Tum Chung, he took down..
In that statement, defendant
was alleged to have flych, history of his life train, the time school in the village he was up to the night of Feb. 11.
On the morning of Feb. said, witness reading from the al-
11.
Tong Inviting him to Have breakfast at 18 The Peak whore
In the statement, alleged wit. leged statement. Li got up at His uess, defendant recounted his un me und, received a tele- phone message from his rather movements on the fatal day.
Witness sald that be then told that defendant that he would like him (Li) to assist him in the in- quiries into Mr. Wood's murder few and would ask him (LJ) a questions which he need not an.
Asked who was the friend who
afternoon.
Tong was employed, Defen- ant got there at 11 a.m. and had the morning meal with the elder brother.
After their meal, the two bro-
the harbour!
The
wharf authorities
were
They accosted n sebrch revealed six dozen handsaw blades inside the man's jacket pocket. They were packed in a tin hdx.
Enquiries
led to the discovery that the man, who claimed is he an odd job coolfe of Holt's Wharf, Wharf, Holt's Wharf, at 12 p.m. on Wednesday. nolined and identified the exhibit as part of the cargo, No. I Gotown, which
was diss charged by the a.. City of Carlisle. Cheung Lee-wall was
Chargest with the larceny, sentenced to four months hard labour by Mr. Latimer at Kewloon yester- day.
Defendant, who had a previous larceny conviction, pleaded guility.
Inspector Orem prosecuted.
stored in
Burglar Caught Before Act
He entered the rear cubicls Personalia
and found it in 'disorder, and a pool of blood on the floor and
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on the bad cover. A brown
Dr. Victor Hoo, United Nationa
papar, above the partition to Assistant Secretary and chief of give it more height, was torn { the Korean Mission, left Hong down.
Kong yesterday morning, for DSI Roberts sald that be made Shanghal after a 24-hour unom. a thorough search and discovered | clat visit. in the rear pussugeway a rusty
Iron chopper. In the "leng" he Peninsula Hotel arrivals:-Capti time at mid-found another iron chopper and John G. Canning. Mr. and Mrs.
a knite.
"On March '11 'she went to bed at p.m. and was awakened early in the morning by some ona crying "Save life!" She heard the cry once and said. that she recognised it no woman's voice. Bha could Dowman, hot immediately identify the committed for tria'. Voice when she awok The volca
"I submitted there to the Government pathologist md his report showed negative results," DS1 concluded,
voice cuine
saw
some-
After formal evidence by the Police interpreter and Det-Insp.
At the
the
defendunt выда
more
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rt. W. Brown, W. R Morris ant G. Murray.
Peninsula. departures:-Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thomson, Mrs. C. B. A: 11 am on Feb. 12, he re-swer if he did not want to do so. thers walked down from the
Singer. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Patten, Mr. and Mrs. S. Baldwin, ceived from Inspector Smith the various articles identifed by Mir. could "be responsible" for him theek and crossed
"When defendant was arrested||
R. L. Moore; Capt. and Mrs. F. Ross, on Wednesday, as the pre- whole day, Ll gave the name of by the Youmati Ferry. At Yau-
he admitted that he was going
A. Amundson, C. W. Grange, M. Mo Yung-hing. Further question- mati, the elder brother took a
he ed, Li was alleged to have stated lorry-bas for Fanling. while de to break into a house when
F. Pearson, J. Birmingham, Mx. suitable house,"
and Mrs. C. V. Dueuroir, Dr. O, that he had his morning meal fondant boarded a No. 11 bus for found
sald where near the staircase Then Lady Grantham with his elder brother at 18 The Hung Hom.
M. McConkey and E. O. Jáklison................. Insp. H. Moran when he was she heard her husband's volce: Peak, and "tea" with Mo Yung- The third defendant was fur-prosecuting Chen Kit, 22, hawker "Uncle, don't be sol" (as trans-At Exhibition hing at Jordan Road in the the nurged to have sold in his who appeared at Central Magis-lated literally,
from "Ahsok,
The following were among statement that he visljed, Mo
travy yesterday on a charge of msai
Helena May Institute passengers by C. P. A, planes:- kum ahi") Both the first two defendants Yung-hing at the Kowloon Docks loitering, being unable to give a Then sha her husband half yesterday afternoon, Lady Grant-R, S. Halg-Brown, R, F. Leth- ngain denied any connection with and went with low and hy satisfactory explanation of his pushing and half supporting his mam, Patroness of today uske bridge and C. Lang (from Singa
low-class ("day the crime, and Lau added that Children to a
and N. W. F. Moore ence and being in possession father towards the "teng," Witment, altended a one-day art ex-pores Yaumat! Presence he was forced to admit the of mow") teahouse at
than 100 Col. Myers (from Bangkok). fence. The third defendant agreed where they had about $2 worth of un Instrument fit for an un-ness said she did not leave her hibition when
lawful purpose, to wit a crowbar. cubicle as she had a child with paintings of scenery and that the statements attributed to of food.
After that, continued the olles-
raite un silk were shown. Defendant was seen
aher bhd dared not leave It.. M by.
Among passengers by · PAA-A him were correct,
ed statement. Li and Mo crossed police constable in Des
Voeux
She héard footsteps running The exhibition was given by Clipper yesterday were V. James over to Hong Kong by the Star Road April-7 at about 2.30 down the stairs, but could not artist Mr. LI Sul who has pre- Honolulu) and Basil Khoury and the young, self-taught Chinese (for Manila), J. T. Janszen, (for walk am. Ferryatid proceeded to
say whose. Two or three minutes
of Mrs. D. A. Rafael (far San Fran to Wanchal where Mo down
When questioned he admitted later she heard defendant saying viously given two showings evidence of Det.-Sgt. Tai Chung, went to look for a friend. It was that he was going to break into "Ah Wong has gorie to the police his work in the Colony. Instituto cisco).
members attended
ten ... given on the first day of the pro- then about 4. p.m.
a house.
station, 1 would like to give held later in honour of Lindy The wedding of Mr. Lawrence- ceedings
He Wax sentenced to nine myself up."
Conway, 17 Lock Road, Kowloon, Granthuin's visit. Then she notlood defendant labour months hard
and TD-
and Miss Suzanne Tausz, took coinmended for banishment. -
pass her door pain towarda
place at the Supreme Court Re- the stairs. She could not TO- member
gistry yesterday. In the presence time at what
her
J. Tausz, and husband or her father-in-law the Tung Wah Hospital, Po Yong of Messrs.
Frommer. returned home that night, prior Strect, tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.
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Det. 755 Kwolt Houng-chuch who took down the statements allegedly made by the first and third accused. corroborated the
While Mo was visiting the the friend. defendant, according to alleged statement. waited
Ou Mo's re and outside, the house,
the
He formally Identifed statements produced in court as those taken down by him, proceeded to read out the one pearance, the two went to the
sold to have been signed by
Hol.
Statement
Lou
The statement, produced by witness, read as follows:
Wanchai Playing Field where Mo left accused while he went to look for another friend. This friend was out, so the two-walk÷;", en back to town.
Mo, continued the alleged Įstatement, Wert on, to the. You-
"At 11 am. on the second day mati Ferry Wharf while accused of the first moon, lunar year, Ho went up Garden Road and board Chouk-kul, Kong Lok, Cho Kated the 5.30 pm...
tram for the and I. altogether four persons, Peaic.
took tea in the Fan Hot Tenhouse
at Takuling Road. At that time,
Cho Kat started to talk. 'We, four persons, go to Shatin today. It
J
Ball Game
When he arrived at 377 The
Committed For Trial
-to-the-commation,
Frightened
The 13-year-old grandson of Li Yiu, Li Chi-wing. Chan Mo, defondant then entered the box, Lam Tak and Tong Shan were all saying that he slept in committed by Mr. A.J. Clifford
the
pori-
Lady Grantham will attend the graduation ceremony of nurses at
Readers Letters
Outrage Sir-It is an outrage, any, #
at Central Magistracy yesterday pasangeway and was awakened that morning by a commation.
he awoke he saw his crime to expect a fully qualified for
The men were charged with conspiracy to reb. First defendant
of an Imitation possession
re-
No
The Five-Forty Sir, I hope you can and space
the following:
All in the valley of Debt Rode the Five-forty.
to stand trial at the next her running along the teacher and his family to live 1. Half a year, half a year, was additionally charged with Passageway to the rear cubicle, indefinitely on the princely basic Half a year onward,
meet something fat, that is,. for-have stated, he saw his 'mlatress | possession of Bon with sales Chung-cheung, 93-year" question, of life and death that| would be fortunate enough to Peak, defendant was alleged to volver, second defendant with said he jumped onto his grand-teacher can give his best in hist
is
Forward the Grant-in-Aid! Fight for your lives, they said, Into the valley of Debt
by the noise, witness wages of $76 per month.
work when all the time he and six mother's bell in the. "Leng" Yor
both ends struggling to make tunate enough to snatch things employer) playing a ball gome rounds and third" from persons who had money. He went in to his quarters, cook possession of a dagger.
It is therefore literally a meet. did not wish to go.
él his evening 'meal at 6 p.m., "Cho Kat said. 'It is not far and retired for the night about 7 secuted. First defendant was re- that some months ago his father salaries of grant school teachers.
son of defendant, living at
should expedite the Government Inspector D.G. McPherson pro No. 316, Dal Coi Kok Road, said its decision on the question of 2. Forward, the Gu away; just to take a walk uppm. Prior to cooking his evening presented by Mr. C.A. Sutherton visited him and asked him, to Lion Rock Peak." At that time, meal, he watered, the vegetables
Mak
old
Ho Cheuk-kul, Kong Lak and and flowers as part of his daily/ Russ and 'fith defendant by Mr. write out A. rent 'réceipt........... His |
"We
J.M. Hall,
To Be Wed
.
father mentioned rent, water, light, and partition, but he could not remember to whom it was addresser.
EDUCATIONALIST.
Debt
Sir-Teachers in grant schools Yip Yu-kal, 40, or No. 180 certainly owe a debt of gratitude
oor, a rent collector Bald heto "Clepsydra" for having taken collected fent from No. 134, up the cudgels for a favourable Yee Hok Street, for over 20 Government decisions in the mal- However, years, and that defendant had ter of their salaries. been the principal tenant for to let olliers night their battles and then hope to reap the frults
Hill and down towards Shatin by second and Kong, Lok were kept urince Assistant, & Liberty AVC | about before July, 1847, was of victory would be
to
→
The rent
mast 1
3.
Rode the Five-forty
W
ma
kpiow
Was there a man. Not though the teacher Someone had delayed Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why," Theirs but to do and die; Into the valley of Debt Rodo the Five-forty,
Blackboards to right of them, Wall Maps to left of them, Students in front of them, Volloyed and thundered Stormed ot with
rare,
Boldly they worked
care;
When asked whether they had | Boad to Miss‘Edlih Mast Brown, plus 83 per mo047, datan.pelled to enter tho, list, in defence
I am convinced.
to be a
Into the jaws of Debt Into the mouth o'er therë Rode the Five-forty.
Just te
claim.
Cho Kat, three persons, agreed. work. also went.
Concluding his evidence. Det. "After drinking tea. Cho Kat Kwok sald, that between, the pold the cost of $3.50. At that period of Feb, 23 and March 6 time it was about 12.30 p.m. he was responsible for the lock- When drinking tep, Cho Kat said, ing up of the first two accused
The
following forthcoming 4 have a
revolver and seven and Kong Lok, who was released weddings have been announced Chung Sha Wan Road, second mounds of ammunition on my on Wednesday.
Cri. Ronald Charles
Daco, person."
During the whole of that RAF. Kai Tak, to Mis Annie four persens tokether, period, and withess. Brst defen- Chan, 449, Kings Road, ard Loor. walked from Kowloon City to the dont was kept in the Kowloon Mr. Luiz Antonio Soares, In- mange, up the top of Lion Rocks City Police Station, while the
Havlog walked their various Police stations all Lange,
Kowloon, Miss Elisabeth a path. greater part of that path, It was over Kowloon. At no time, be about 3.30 p.m., we saw two asserted, were the three men Engineer, Thorpe Manor, May period it was increased to 122 the teachers involved, I feel com
Mr. Cedrio Lawrenco Salter, $10 plus $3 for water, after which becoming of those whose own loy terests are at stake.. As one of civilian Europeans in our op- ever alone, together. porite direction.
"Cho Kat took out a revolver, any questions to put to witness. Secretary, Top Flat, Fire Brigade
November pointed it at the short and thin first accused sald, "Det Bet, Tam Building...
dent told him that the occu- of what Furopean and asked him to put Chung assaulted me until I was Mr. Alberto
Reinaldo Cruz pants of the rear cubicle had When the two unconscious. I l up his hands,
not paid their rent and had hul know Clark, b Ausun Ave to s
of The conditions employment 4 Flashed all their purses bare, Europeans were putting up their what he, rald, na I was unconscl- Cécilla María Pereira, 28 Condult refused to do so algo. As a f masters in hands, Kong Lok went up, and cus. He gave the a cup of hot Road. took off the two Europeans wrist- tại "whến "I recovered 'consciotia- Mr. Angel Wilfredo Franklin,
(defendant) would have watches.
ness and told me that it had Shipping Clerk. 8 Pedder Street, "After these were in hand, the thing to do with the. Ho forced Ground Floor, to Mila“ Čechia stout European struck Cho Kat me to slam the statement. In a Tong, 209 Lockhart Road. on the neck portion with a stick, my life I havo "naver snatched No Cheux-kút picked up stones anything " and threw it at the Dufopenna. Ho. sald, #He'. (witness) sinack Cho Kat also picked up stone] me with a thuncheon and forced 3rd threw it at the Europeana. me to admit this statement. Set. Tam Ching showed me the stalenient which witness. Just
COMMUNIST SUSPECTS
that
Thres
schools are grant by the "Grant Code.",
defendant told him govor 18 of which renda
to delay payment that month. The salaries of trained Anglo- later, defendant Chinese Masters and trained var- visited hi
bald up,
witness nacular Masters shall be accord- said. The defendant had also ing to the scales, approved for tola
him, witness related, that he such militer in Government ser cubicle.
had his sofa bed in the rear
Complained
the
the
Under
circumstances, when revised "Fainted"
scales approved by: More than 1,000 Comitiunlet suspects have
the A few days later, witness con- to force, the grant school teachers Salaries Commission came in- gater, the two Europeans, tell read all forced me to sign the Chihere police and military and complained daghinist included in the new scheme, to Been detained by tinted the complainant came to should have been automatical fainted on the path. Cho, Katana wording man. I do authorities in Canton, according searched and took but $27 from not: do such a thing said the to vernacular press meltages defendant. Ho (witness) then gether with the other Government the pocket of the stout European third accused
The messag
added that
Cho Kat found some rattan In | * Lau added, "He (witness): incl from thi Kwangtung capital you" the nullah and, after tying theme by force in a car to Shanghal
terday. stout European, wo, four poisons, street to look for a watch shop followed the hullah road and Theh Ba took the to a dare room Special Tribunal, will shortly, bo Lion), set up, ron instructions from Nan“ trija: king; to try the men'
walked out.
Cho Kat took back the two and struck me with wristwatches from Kong Lok and chiton.
put them into bla'dwn' pocket On
reaching the tribih 'road' Hear the
Tesarvaira, wo boarded w
"Ühik:30 “Shamanili zani
took-out from hía, pocket
thrbs Persona): divided.
cach, cho I
-WWA walked.
evidenc vill, be heard
SENATE OKS HOFFMAN
school teachats. 22:
overnment indecision in
le even more Incompre bentible in view of Grant, Bendai Circular
Extucation
(of August,
rtmen
Departing
The Bdcratary
Classe End:
*ita" grant schools-sh
the
Flash! They soon turned In
miri
Bull Compositions there, Giving more, Homework whilo The parents wondered. Plunged in the midnight oil, Right, through the night they
toll;
Problems and assbyn": Reeled from the way they
boll Scattered and sundered,
You may aleep well, but hot
Five fortr
8. High reht to Hight of them,
High Costs to left of thep, ---- Goviment stop them, Well squeezed and smothered.
hed out with," mági
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