Conspiracy charge:
committed
accused
Marcus da Silva and Tam Shqo-kwai, charged with conspiracy to procura falso avidence, word committed to stand trial at the July Criminal Sessions by Mr. J. Raynolds at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
It was the fourth day of the trial at which 25 wit- nesses gave evidence for the prosecution, and more than 30 exhibits were put before the court,
senting TRI,
time that day. I heard him in- etrunt his secretary to telephone Cowle.
wero
Reminders
Today
St. Stephen's College, Pilze-Glv-|
Ing, at Stanley, 5 p.m.
Club tombola, Chcero Services
7.30 pm.
Nino Dragons Services Club,
tombola, 7.30 p.m.
1st.
Andrew's Church Forces ex- cursion, leaving Church at 2 p.m.
Junior Swimming Gula, European⚫
YMCA pool, 3 p.m. Competitive Swimming neet at
VRC, 8. 9.30 pr
Coming events
Toe
Nine
Silva is being defended by Mr. R. G. Sheldon, KC, Mr. Luo d'Almada, KC, and Mr. D.
"On May 30 I received certain A. L. Wright, instructed by Sig!
Instructs from Mr. Silva. He Man-Rom Lo.
Mr. John McNem KC, insiruet-ked me to draw up a statement in skeleton form on the following ed by Mr. C.Y. Kwak, is repre- jattiine:
Cowie, a professional driving The prosecution is in the hands of Me. A. Hooton, Crown Cu-structor, has taught the defen- get, resisted by Mr. T. Cashujan.dant in a trafic manslaughter case Acting Director of Criminal In- drive for a period (in be left
Diaz) and that at the MESA.
The end of that trial evidencester Cowie had given the tire
of test
which was given by Detective Sub-to be left binak) and has found Inspector Wong Ssu-chung and to be
her to le Mr. 3. Kwas, ar Interpreter auch so that in
[ competent driver, so
his
(Cowie's) inched to the Kiwan CD, plain the accident with which Karding souples taken of type-
could not writers in Silva's mee on the girt was involved
have been caused by any incom- Detective
A.petency on her part.'-
Continuing witness sald Silva Morrison, in charge of the iden
to make an ap- ication Rureau, Police Head also asked him
for
who was to quarters, sald he is accepted he pointment the law ents
In this Colony arall on him that afternoon to 3rd Slivo artded he was not an expert in the identiflevation at Cowie, comparison of unwriting ant entirely satisfied with the matter and that the man would attend to typescripts.
2 he was handed theverything Including the typing St. statement which second arcused of the statement on his own type- | writer, Silva gave no reason why
On June
Sub-Inspector
AMAN
· Colled Cowio
alleged to have handed Cowie, the tutement was to be typed on and he went to Silva's flee the other man's typewriter. tuck samples from typewriters | there, unsisted by In-pavior Wong and Mr. Kwan." He was of the ughing that any of the type- writers there had been used in typing the statement,
In answer to Mr, Hooton, wit- ness said the instruction apeared it him to be samewhat queer.
Continuing, he sold he drew up the statement and waited for the
call.
At live o'clock in the afternoon
TOMORROW
11 classical concert, 30 Mac
Dragons Services Club,
donnell Road, 0.30 p.m.
film show "Border. G-Men" European YMCA, Arinchuir Group
8 p.m.
meeting, "God and the Atom Bomb" film, 8.45 p..
MONDAY European
YMCA, whist drive, 8 punt, Union Jack Club, tombola 7.30
3.17.
TUESDAY
HK Rotary Club, lunch, Roof Garden, BK Hotel, 12.30 p.m. Paul's College annunt speech day, 33, Macdonnell Road, 5 pan. Chicero Services Club, whist
drive, 2.30 panz Nine Dragons Services Club,
whist drive, 8 p.. European YMCA, Bridge Drive,
1 pun.
+
THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, JULY 8,-1050.
Russians fired Whampoa Dock Co.
at in Canton
An unidentified armed man fired at two Bovist technicians near the Kwadptung, Paper Malat Nais: thek Tau,/ How nam, opposite Canton, sald the vernacular "Wan Kiu Yat- -Po" youtarday.
They were fired at while on, their way from the, mill travelling In ambtor.car. The bullets smashed a win- daw in the car. Broken glasa Injured one of the technlolana.
Chinese troopa sent out falled to make any acroats, wald the newspaper in a ren part from Canton.
Scene in city hotel
annual meeting
A net profit of $3,221,528 for the year 1942, was mode by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company Limited which hold its annual, gan- oral meeting at Queon's Building yostarday noon.
Trading results for the year were not as profitable os in the previous year, said Mr. S. T. Wil- liamson, the Chairman, due mainly to the falling off in larger reconversion works. The Chairman reviewed, the vast rehabilitations and extensions that have' been carried but which, since the re-occupation, have amount. ed to nearly $12,000,000. Mr. Williamson suid:
norinal pracetime wth of a part "The main additions to our such as Hong Kong, and fo autdi and and bulldings were the new I am pleased to inform you that wall and the extensive rea comparable voluine of work has uildings included the completion uilding o! our joiner shop., Other been inaintained.
"Our main activities were
A Chinese clerk under the Influence of drink went to the
und do. Great China Holel manded to be shown a room.
f a new power house, alterations normal. repairs to vessels using o the curpenter shop, tinsmith this port, also hicluding saveral: When refused he took a chaleshop and pattern shop. A modern maior damage repair jobs. and threw it on the ground stylo steel-frained building was "Of the Jobs of more public. This was related by Inspector erected in our West Yaril, and intores, would be the rebuilding Harry Brown at Central yes-menities for chips personnel and of the Electric Star. This vessel. ur own workmen were completed together with the remainder of terday.
The defendant. Luk Mo-chak, at the No. 1 and No. 2 Drydocks. the "Star" forry feet fall of The Head Offee, including which have undergone extensive aged 30 of 303 Shanghai Street drawing office, has been air-con-repairs and modernisation at our was charged with being drunk diffoner during the year. and incapable, mallelous damage, completed the
We Yards, has greatly added to the installation of convenience and with creating a public mis-
the cross-harbour chief by impersonating o
police numerous machines, including #t travelling
heavy, special lathe In our ma-
also received an order: officer.
chine "Defendant pleaded guilty to all
shop, and also added to nur from
the Hong “Hong and erate and other facilities, Wit Yaumat! Ferry Company Limiled charges und was cauiloned on the drunk and incapable charge, uned acquired further modern slipway to bulld a new vehicular ferry. $50
or two weeks on the malicious necessary arrangements for tin-which was launched a few week damage charge and ordered toallation of it; this will con- since received.
no by Lady Grantham; we linve owlers for two $20 compensation.
siderably asisi in dealing with further vehicular ferries for the On the charge of impersonating the smaller craft,
'same company. defendant police ameer given the option of fine of $25 or one week in prison.
yחק
39
War
machinery and are making the
"Very extensive rennirs to the hull and to the machinery wero also carried out to the tanker Yune Hoo, which work is now
completion.
Soveral
"By the end of this year it is ently anticipated that the confidently change of electric frequency and Inspector Brown said that at installation of the new electrica am. yestarius defendant went to uloment. and the re-wiring the fourth floor of the Great China converted with it. will have beer g Hotel at Connaught Road and finished at Kowloon Docks, and launches and lighters have also there wanted complainant to show similar work at our Cosmopolitan teen built. At the present time we have a number of inquiries for Filtry a room. The complainant Darkyard will be well in hand.
now construction and are honcfal found that he was under the in- "The new and up-to-date elec- nf resuming this
this former
activity fluence of drink and refused to do trie pumning machinery has now in the very near future.
been completely installed in our Defendant then told complain-No. 1 Drydock which greatly (m- and Insisted in being shown a this. defendant because angry, plekced completely destroyed by wartime our main Drydock; the room. This was refused again and original machinery had been
chair and throw it on the bombing attacks: improvised at ground, damaging it
rangetnents were made by us for the interim period as although the new pumos and electric mo- fors were ordered to 1945 kw not until recently that all had been delivered and they are now completely installed.
AIRDIS other dements
the bank. He identified a copy found in a search of the ullen we
of receipt for a cheque for $4,000. a pencilled document in a drawer.
Miss Wong Yuk-inn, despatch To compared the writing with handwriting on 10 pages of hand-be called Mr. Chan in and gave sometimes looked niter Silva's clerk at silva's offer, said she also writing in a Tenancy Tribunal him the same instructions that
lo. and be formed the opinion Silva had given witness. He tolling, but on being shown a loant that he was the writing in both cases was the Chan that a man should came of the fies taken care of by Silva by the prosecution, said it was one same. He took photographs to il 10:
to see witness regarding the mail- himself, Justrate he anding.
alaughter case the statement was
A. A. Noronha, also originally in- Articled clark's evidence handed to him. At first he tended to be a defence witness. The next witness, Mr. P.D. gave his instructions orally but as said he was clerk and secretary d'Almanda Remedios, vaid he is un Chan seemed to be confused, he to
put them down in writing. arlicted clerk in Silva's office.
Sho Here Mr. Sheldon asked the
up
a police officer proves the pumping speed for foreferring 40 the Directors
WHO OFFICIAL
the
we are
and
Balance Sheet you will see that we hove disposed at
lifting of the Moratorium we pald outstanding mailers amber of during the year. Following the nur pre-war creditors and repai the pre-war Bank overdraft, but regret to say that the collection
prewar
debts (luc to this Company has not been marked a chit, he identified it as
with great success, but He said he has not seen the
telephone message taken down IN COLONY
still actively pursuing this matter. to take note that Mr. statement since, and when shown by him on May 20, He said he And been intended as a statement by the prosecution, showed it to Silva who handed it
They year 1949 saw the delivery "We have built for our own Dr. Stephen Roberts, an official defence witness and a statement said to have been handed over by back saying to hell with it, I
of the World Health Organisa- use further launches and a lighter of large, quantilles of stocks, Laken from him and Cowie, whness said it was sub- don't work on Saturday after-tion, arrived from had been
(some an order as far back as Manila by to augment our facilities for her-1945), and our holding of stores stantially the same as the one le noon. handed to counsel.
Fan American World Airways, bour work. Witness said he had been with had drafted out, except for some
He had had no dealing with the
.capable of "At Cosmopolitan Dockyard and meeting all likely demands.
in general is now yesterday, Bilva since September 1938 except slight alterations.
manslaughter Case in the office. Dr. Roberts is on a Far East Aberdeen Docks we have con- Apart from these two occasions Silva had given him no Instruc-
"Towards the end of, 1039 the for the war years.
Shown the two visiting eards he had had no connection with the tions after May 20 regarding campaign
survey of the anti-tuberculosis tinued the policy of carrying on United Kingdom Government
sponsored by
with maintenance as necessary. Steel Control Authorities released which were left in Cowie's house, manslaughter cas
He did not Cowie, and he knew of no proposal United Nations.
and have postponert decisions ar Remedios sald the writing on them know second pecused and had re- to get Cowie to give evidence,
Before coming here he visited to the extension of the facilitier steel for export to Hong Kong was his. On the night before May ceived
no mone
from him in con-Asked if he knew Tam, who stood New Delhi, Pepatig, Singapore of these yards. The caisson and with the result that our stocks been substantially nug- have 23 he received a telephone call nection with the case.
up for
for him to see more clearly, he
and Manlin. He expects to stay dock at Aberdeen: Docks have the effect of reducing our Balaned Dumping equipment of the dry-mented; this has, of course, hact from Silva telling hi he had On the evening of May 30 he replied I don't think so.
in Hong Kong two weeks before been trying to get in touch with received
cail telephone A
from
The 25th and last prosecution proceeding to Taiwan,
been rehabilitated for drydocking a Mr. Cowie and that Cowie's Chan who switched him over to witness, Chang Koon-yin, an in- telephone seemed to be out of the client whom he did not know terpreter at the CID
Central, order.
by name. He spoke to him over "He asked me,"
sait witness, the phone and asked him what testified to explaining in Punti the charge and caution to second ac- to Cowie's house early the time he could see Cowie and he used at Central on June 2. 69 following morning to ask him to replied he could see him at any
Bolh
Sheldon call at the office during the lunchtime. He also asked for witness' McNeill said they reserved their
Mr.
Mr. and interval, as he wished to see him telephone number so he could ring defence and would not call any urgently,
back in 15 minutes to find out the witnesses in the 12wer court. time of the appointment. He rang buck a quarter of an hour later and witness told him Cowie could not see him that day but would do so the next day between six and half past six in the evening:
asked. Mr. Silva where Cowie lived, and he told me 1 could And his address in the telephone book, He further told me that if I should find him out I was to leave a chi behind,
Wrote cards
Employees testify
Both accused-were-then-com- mitted to stand trial at the July Criminal Sessions.
at Bank.
While in Hong Kong Dr. Ro-work there as and when required. (Continued On Page 11) berts will meet Government efficials and exchange views on the campaign.
HAN CHAI HOLD-UP
"The total cost of additions and rehabilitation during the financial venr 1949 amounted to appro- ximately $2.000.000 and the amount expended upon Fixed Assets since the re-occupation of the Colony amounts to the con- siderable total of neatly $12,- 000.000.
-A Chinesa pedestrian was-rob-Further rehabilitation will be bed of HK$3,000 yesterday morn-carried out progressively over the Ing by a band of armed inen near future in connection with the ex- the junction of Jolinston Road tension and further modernisa- and Barlow Street, Wanchai The tion of our faculties. police, subsequently arrestech three suspects. The money was report-
TO BE WED The forthcoming wedding of Arthur Marla Ozorio, merchant, "The following morning I look-
Carlos Luis da Silva, manager of St. Joseph's Buliding, Blocked to have been recovered. ed up the telephone directory, got af Mr. Marcus da Silva's
ofice, "A",
second floor, Robinson Road, Cowie's initial and address, and 7 suld be checked all monies re- and Miss Lo Sou-ming, of 35 wrote out the two cards shown as ceived, issued receipts for them, Village Road, Happy Valley, lis exhibits in court. 1 asked my and saw that they were paid Into) been announced.
sister who was going tɔ Mass that morning to get my father's chouf- feur to deliver the note while she was ot
Moss.
"After Muss, at about 20 nan.,
as a result of a report from my sister, I wrote out the other curd, which I asked my father's chnual- feur to deliver.
Comments by Court in necklace case
"Mr. Silva gave me ne reuson Mr. J. Reynolds at Control yesterday, found Hung
why he wanted to see Cawie. }
made a report to him at lunch
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and the
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Son, aged 31, not guilty on a charge of ob taining a gold necklace on May 13 from a dance hostess, Miss Chan Tin-ching, by pre- tending that ho was a brothor of Detective Sub-Inspector Hung
Western Police Station.
Hung-choung, of the
Bu
In discharging Hung, Mr.dence of the Ferry Inspector that Reynolds said: "In this case the journey, to the New Ter- the prosecution contention that ritories was mado on April 10. the defendant obtained the
defendant further alleges necklace and pendant by false were lying when they said that that complainant and her sister pretences is based on the cvl they returned to Hong Kong late dence of the complainant and on that night, and, this is, to my her sister,
mind conclusively proved by the
to It.
"They say that defendant Arst Ferry Inspector's record. claimed to be Inspector Hung's brother. Detective Cheung who "These falschoods no doubt was with the party does not bear vero told to hide their indiscre out this evidence although heion in not returning home on the does not contradict it. From nights in question. It is not per Cheung's demeanour In the wil nps a, vil ness box. I can give very little that complimate, but it shows and her sister weight
pro quite prepared when con- "On the date in question: the venient to give false evidence defendant admitted borrowing the for tliorarcan be no queation -of necklace from complainant in forgetfulness or mistake, I can order to platge. 12. In: geturn for hot accept their evidence-fint on $100 to settle a gambling/debt. the night in question defendant The complainant, and her, alter stated that he was Inspector allege that defendant again said, Hung's brother and that this was that he was, the brother of Ine: the reason why the necklace and spector Hung and it was be- pandant were loaned. cause she believed this tnak, ho
thats is made the loan of the necklace to that. I think the defendant inbo
very far from saving him,
The defendant called a num-secution has I my opinion failed cent in this caste› But the pros“ bered Willesdoss to whow this to prove its ease beyond reason- the complainant and her sister anla,doubletky were ring when Tiled they think that tie, defendait the jouniny do the No: Conduct, and this matter Handbagg torica: was on opens werepepetible and cont But ||awna, astuny camí dag 109 TV
Demptuous Mid). Mr. Reynolds":
Defendant, was also ordered"to":
Ir, think jy is diese, trúm the
MONEY FOUND
Trading activities "Turk" to Grading activities of the Company during the year 1948, from the Accounts and Balance Sheet you will have ob- serred that the results were not A Hong Kong Boy Scouts profitable as in the previous found a sum of money near the venr, which is mainly accounted bus Stop in front of the Vine for by the general falling off in Cofe, Happy Valley, on July Jarger reconversion work.
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