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JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
Sunday Morning
Conspiracy To Forge Banknotes
+
5 Men Sentenced Sentences ranging from two-and-a-half years to four the doorsteps of rear hard labour
Omans houses round the passed Mr
by
were Justice Acting Pulsne church of St John on Beth- Scholes,
at the Criminal nal Green, full milk-bottles Judge. stood, as if to announce: Sessions this morning on were found "Still Sleeping -Do Not five men who
Newspapers guilty by a Jury last Friday Disturb." thrust through letterboxes, on a charge of conspiracy and drawn curtains, sup to forge Macao $10 bank- ported the plen. The church notes and other connected offences, A sixth accused, clock showed 9,26.
Not everyone in the neigh-a youth of 17, was bourhood was spending this over. Sunday morning in bod. There
were queues at the bus stops; along
bound
The accused were Law Shu- Chi-ping, 40, the big roads, young yan, alius Lew people on bicycles fled towards Fung Ngal, 53, Tang Chi-fung, the country; and here and there as Kom Kim, 41, manager, of drifted people to whom lekure 59 Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong, Fung Ka-churn, 17, Ng looked to be a penance.
For-ching, 35, and Wong Tin- cheung, 30.
TNSIDE the church,
designed
by Sir John Soane, and built 100-odd
Heat years ago to
The Prosecution was con- ducted by Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr,
1,300 congregation, 45 people Crown Counsel, while Det. Sub- kuelt, as the vicar, the Rev. Insp. J. Gurney. officer-in- O'Brien Hamilton, entered, and charge of investigations; was Choral Holy Communion, the also present.
main service of the day, begun.
Tie
service
sers
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**Isch
None of the
accused
was
Angilean" in form, and Its represented by Counsel.
beauty uwed much to the way in which it was sung by the vicar and even more, perhaps, to the closeness you sensed between him and his congregation,
were not the
d. Reitings they some-
mas
The Jury of seven men who brought in the verdicts Friday after a five-day trial were exempted from further service for two years.
Appearing
for the Crown times are. The congregation this morning. Mr Simon
so to speak, on its toes Crown Counsel, said that the (they did not know an outsider offences involved were serious was observing them). This, you ones, and had the accused not feli, was genuine corporate been detected there would have
been very for-reaching worship.
The service lasted an hour. It soquences in trade und com- and possibly included a six-minute, simply-merce la Mueno, phrased Epiphany address, on in Hongkong. the importance of home-life and influences,
the
on
con-
Crown Counsel Bald be was and likened
given to understand that there silence relative
number of Christ's boyhood to the silence was a considerable
Bible's
as to detail that surrounds the forged banknotes being cir- childhood and upbringing ofculated in Hongkong, Prince Charles.
MOST
were
•
of an
YOUTH LED ASTRAY
af the people there "Your Lordship will appreciate age 10 have the seriousness of crimes of young families,
and the atmo- this nature and the difficulty in sphere, when the service was apprehending the culprits," Mr over, was one of friendship to a Li added. "In fairness to the stranger, without that alarming fourth accused, he is only 17 clusivenes thai sometimes years of age, and it is possible
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1953,
IT'S CARNIVAL TIME
The larger the heads the louder the laugh, is usually the order of the day at the Carnival, and it was cer- tainly the case when The Mayence Carnival Society made a visit to Ludwigsburg, during the Rhine Carnival, for plenty of laughs were enjoyed by all-
London Express.
Partially Paralysed Man Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter
Lying on a stretcher, partially paralysed, Lau swamps a newcomer to a church, he might have been led astray." Chi, 33, at the Criminal Sessions this morning While I wolted 10 speak to
talked in this! Before announcing the sea- denied a charge of murder, but pleaded guilty to pleasant atmosphere, to a 20-fences, Mr Justice Scholes fold year-old girl fumed Margaret the accused that the offences with
manslaughter. He was sentenced to 10 years. Cheesman, who lives near the which they had been charged Crown Counsel, Mr W. A. Blair-Kerr told the Court
the vicar
Sheaffer's TM SNORKEL
ARCHITECT'S CLAIM FOR
FEES SETTLED
OF COURT
OUT
A settlement for an undisclosed amount of the claim by Antonio Henrique Basto, local architect, for payment of fees for professional ser. vices, was announced by Counsel before Mr Justice E. H. Williams, Senior Puisne Judge, in the Supreme Court this morning when hearing of the action was to be resumed.
On Counsel's application, the Judge ordered payment out of $15,000 that was in Court, with no further order.
engineer.
Basto, authorised architect, quite clearly ought to have been the and surveyor
of cottled, and I am certain Prince's Buliding,
claimed plaintiff is not to blame. The $93,784, representing architect's second is with regard to the ices for professional services claimant. When he was in the rendered in connection with witness-box there was put to plans for Inland Lot No. 1743 him in cross-examination well in Des Voeux Road West, and over 200, questions and the an- for reasonable remuneration for swers he gave seemed to con- similar servicca in respect to frim to me the rightness of the plans for Inland Lot No. 1408 claim he was making, and lig in Yes Wo Street, East Point. was not shaken in his cross- Defendant was Llu Po-san, examination. That is all i wish merchant, of 128 Wing Lok to say. Stroot West.
The claim was on estimated coste for abandoned work on the two lots.
Mr D. A. L. Wright, in- structed by Mr. M. E. Ives, ap- peared for the plaintiff, and Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, Instructed by Mr P. H. Sin, was for the defendant.
Plaintiff claimed the stipulat- ed foes at two per cent of the
total cost of the work in rela-
tion
Alleged Demand With
Menaces
Five men charged with demand-
for three
to IL 1743, with an alterna- in $3,000 will menaces were co- tive claim based
*****Imanded in Police custop at Cen- on quantum days by Mr Jile-shing morult (as much as he or she trat this moming upon the applica.
on IL
tion of the Prosecution, 1403
The defendants, Chan- Kom-wali, on quantum allas Chan Woon-man, allas Lau
Man-taal 28.
accountant; Chan
deserved), and plaintiff claimed
alone. merult
Announcing the settlement, Mr Bernacchi said he was happy to tell his Lordship that the action had been settled, and asked the Count to make an order for pay- ment out of $15,000 that was in Court and no
and no further order.
Ming, 35, driver: Lei Wing. 5. salesman; Chol Kul, 33, driver: and Mok Bhing, alias Liu Kin-sang, 31. aro alleged to have demanded with menaces $3,000 from Wong Blu- kan, with intent to steal tits_Raine. at fiddle play on February 3.
The five defendants are further with larceny from the charged
Under that charge, they are alloged to have stolen $3,000 of Wong Siu-kan, at Middle Hay on February 3.
person.
COUNSEL'Bordship, from Chung Kam-tia, the property
In
Me Wright: Your regard to this case, my client has been put to a long week of suspense and mental agony, and during the course of that week an imputation was made which he feels seriously affects his reputation as an architect in this Colony, namely,
to the Effect that in his relations with the defendant he was merely a per- son,
who was required to sign any document that might have been submitted to the relevant Government authorities where as the contract was substantial-
lile
ly made with the assistant in Ip. We ask that this Che office, settlement be made on the butt that any imputation of that
11 The int defendant further alleged to have falsely pretended of the anti- to be a Policeman Corruption Branch for the unlaw- ful purpose of demanding money
Wong
Blu-kan February 3,
The Rith defendant, when his name was called this morning, denied he was Mink Shing but admitted he was Llu Kin-want
from
оло
on
Mr. X. d'Almada who appeared for all defendants entered plea of not guilty to all the charges
Del. Ing. Chan Wal-man in charge opposed ball at the of the case present stage on the ground that the case was sill under Police enquiries. Dales for hearing of the case were fixed for April 22, 23, 24, and 27.
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character Is withdrawn and abandoned and any further
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church, and works in the City were very strious. They had been that Lau fractured his opine when he jumped from n two autions of that nature bei
as a shorthand-typist. She told very carefully thought out and me she went to church every put into execution. Had it not Sunday, either in Hethnal Green, bean for the core of the Police never have been or in Feltham, where her fance, they might
went, and she gave me answer quite promptly.
storey building seven months ago in an attempt to kill himself.
Lou's plea was taken in the lives. I asked her why she found out. He considered the
the second, third and sixth reused absence of the jury. He was said as being mainty responsible, and to have killed his former em-
ployer, of he therefore would scnience the
Cheung Wing, 31, "I suppose I've, à sort
fifth accused to a slightly lighter
Cheong manager of the Wing I worry-nature," she said, "and
Metal Shop, 384 Reclamation find it helps me to sort things term. In respect to the fourth
Street, on July 6 with a poris out, if I come to church. Some accused, his Lordship remarked times, to be quite honest, that he was going to give him skinning knifo.
a
Ho was docsn't mean anything another chance for the reasons that he was only 17, which was to me. I seem quite dead to it, but usually, you get a feeling of very young because the Jury
found he was not very much
service
oneness with God, I suppose plicated in the possession of the
and it does help,"
forgery implements; and because Lordship was of the opinion he was very much ander the influence of the older men.
HE vicar took me back to his THE
flatted viaruge, in a street off Roman Rond. £.2. He is a tall, sandy-haired bachelor, just under 40, human and with a dry sonse of humour. He from Liverpool, but all his ministry has been spent in the
Les
south-in Wokingham, East Wickham, Twickenham
five years, Bethnal
Is
and
THE SENTENCES
His Lordship then passed the following sentences
of
„sen“
abandoned.
Mr Bernacchi:" My position that we have settled this oc- tion and we abandon any further allegations.
13
Mr Wright: The settlement, my Lord, is at an undisclosed figure, and the payment out
incidental. merely
JUDGE'S REMARKS
Lordship: As the action His has not been heard to the full, I do not wish to say very
stool. The deceased finding he could not if the stool, stepped back whereupon the knife went into his left back and produced fatal results,
· FROVOCATION PLEA Mr Leong Bald that if the accused had intended to stab the deceased with any malicious intent he would have done so as soon as he had picked up the knife with his right hand, but he did not choose to do so. represented by Mr This story was borne out by the Lawrence Leong, instructed by position of the wound which was Mr. R. W. F. Lodge.
upwards. Further, submitted Mr Leong, the provocation of the kick
make. consultation with the was enhanced by the attempt to lift After Attorney
General, Mr Blair- the stool and there was a
is no time for the accused to "cool ofT", Kerr Announced that in all the
The Chief Justice ascertained circumstances of
the case the
from Crown Counsel think the DC-
would Crown was prepared to accept cused
continue to lave and the plea
medical treatment in prison of guilty to man-
sentenced him to ten years. slaughter.
had The accused previous convictions, he add-
210
ed.
The Chief Justice, Sir Gerard Howe remarked that he thought in all the circumstances the Crown
had taken the right course. Ho enquired about the physical condition of the ac- cused.
FRACTURE UNHEALED Crown Counsel wald that Lau jump- ed from the building, into the pirent immediately after the incident an July o and had been in hospital aince. The fracture of his spine was at unhealed; his left foot and part of his leg were still paralysed There was an impairment of
Lany Shu-yan two-and-a-half years hard labour for custody Implementa for forgery.
Tung Nh cong Test sentences conspiracy, custody totalling four youre hard labour for now, for
of Implements Green
for forgery, using implementa for What is his main problem? forgery, and possession, of paper for
ferrery. swil,"
said Mr. Hamilton. T Chi-fun-conparent "When the parish had 10,000 ferices totalling four years' Bard people,. the vicar had three tr for complency, possession of implementa for forgery, using Im- cumtes and Lady Worker.plemente for forgery, possessions of Now it has 16,000, and the staff | paper for formezy and pression of myself and a Lady Worker forged $100 Hongkong and Shang-
hai Bank note. He finds i difeült to
Fung Ha-chues-conditionally de- churchgoers (congregations charged on, ble, entering, into a average 40 at the two Sunday cocaine in the sum of $200 to sensation of the entire body from Communion services, 60-100 at be of good behaviour for two years. Ngo-chung-concurrent sen- oversong) and almost impossible toes totaling three 3 Hard to visit those who might go to labour conspiracy custody of church if he called on them.plemente for forgory, using in This pressure may ease, for plementa for forgery and possession during the year Mr Hamilton
Wang Tin-dung-concurrent' west- hopes two curates may. Join: tenom - totalling four yours hard him.
tour for conspiracy, making me plements for forgay and possession. [DC implikyenia foe forgery,
visit
of paper for forgery,
Why do more people monitor ce Scholes ordered all
to church? Mr Hamilton aontences to date from the date of said: "This is an industrial arrest November 13, parish, and modern industrial
conditions make regular church.
are
an❤
wenhausted by the panlenship are just around the
the lege downwards.
He told the accused that in alt the circumstaniers of the case në could impose no less a sentence and reminded him of the doctors! opinion that his chances of recovery would depend a great deal on his own co-operation,
Leighton Hill
Road Fight
Defendants,
marks' which
0.02.
Living Language
Why we say Quiz.
Mr Daly, the manager of a Dublin playhouse, laid a wager that he would Introduce a new word of
no
meaning into the Language in 24 hours. He had the letters quiz chalked up all over Dublin so that very soon every. one was beginning to ask what it meant. Since then a “quiz" has meant any- thing designed to puzzle.
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Formosa., U.B.A., Western State) Canada, 0 p.m., H.K.AJN.W.AL.
(Seattle
Japan, p.m., B.O.A.C.
By Surface Macho. 9 am 8 p.m., H Loo Hong
Tak Phung.
Impersonated Police, Charge
Facing
a charge of imper- A Police officer. Orlando Lopez, · 17,
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The defendant.
was alleged
night to Windoor
3: Cardiff Cartle EBCTS): 115, Record Haview pre- sentor by Curtis Hindson (Studio); much but there are two re 10, Chanson, Francaise Tino Rossi to have impersonated a Police
would like to and Elyana Cells: 10.15. Musical officer on Wednesday The first is that
entry to the this Comedy Memories; 10.49, "Dancing goln
He was allowed bail of $500,
was a case which seemed to me Tune with Weather Itegori: Dancing Academy.
Marine Court
Cases
Pointing out that the purpose of the regulation was to avald undue strain on the govern- meht-owned mooring, buoys in the harbour and congestion Mr T. B. the fairways, along Low at the Marine Court, this dismissed two sampan morning women charged with mooring outside Ave
other vessels along-
sido the sa
a basket-balt Kowloon resident' Wilson ét!
A fight over match resulted in the three The Magistrate added that the offenders. being fined $10 each regulation did not apply where
Winter at by Mr R.W.S.
pier was concerned. As to the future condition of the Central this morning, when
The women, Chang Ng, of secused, Me Blair-Kerr said that the they pleaded guilly to charges sampan 1060V, ood Ho Tak, of doctor could not say whether or
sampan 208V
were arrested not his spine would ever heal. They of disorderly conduct.
last Saturday when they moor- Chol Hok-yau, were of the opinion that a lot would depend on the mRSS
their himself as to 35, Wong Chul-ka, 82, and Wong cu
craft outside Дуе 18, were arrested others alongside the President spinal column would over heal,
while
Wilson fighting, in Aking for a tenient sentence, Air yesterday! Leong submited that inc and Leighton Hill Road. Enquiries by the
was provoked and revealed that a dispute over a Way unintentional
basket-ball match at Caroline He waid that the 'accused, went back to his shop to collect his fins Hill led to the brawl. pay and then went to buy a packet of cigaretes. He offered one of them to the brother-in-law of the deceased outside the shop and had refused
whether or not the lesion in his Chl-kit
In court, Chol såld that Wong, the second, accused had to sit down in the thus obstructing his
a farewell chat with him. After stand, A while the accumd, crowed to view of the match in progress. where the deceased was, utting o
going call for a really big lonely?" it asked, and. effort. I think many people nounced, "Happiness and Com-
commer
thought of the
a stool the shop and had a few Wong said that he was similarly by a spectator Though congregations are friendly church, just around the word with tuh. There was no obstructed amall, the parish for generous to comer. But the
quarrel. Suddenly and without any standing. in front of him. postcard warning the deconsod, who Ita ahtarch, and finance is not a ferred to an infinitely more
elaborate means of major problem for St John's.
ending
As I left Bethnal Green, my loneliness and Ending happiness. Cyo was caught by a postcard in It advertised an Introductions
shop-window.
be bureau.
Why
Printed and. published by WILLIAM ALICK GRINHAN LE and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong.
wearing a pair of wooden clogs kicked the accused on the shin to this day he bore the brulam of th
- Not allied with that kick,, the. -deceased inade a move to pick up Iris widal jo afrike the accused, but
The Grants Return
Cary Grant, accompanied by
before he could do so the accused his wife, Betsy Drake, arrived had picked up a cobbler's knife from here this morning from Tokyo basket lying around. He changed via. Okinawa by BOAC for a this knife info his left hand and sued his right to press down the few days stay in the Colony.
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FAILED TO STOP Intercepted while coming in from Cheung Chou Island to Aberdeen early this morning aft Lamma Island, Pon" Chee-hou, 20, was fined a total of $675 for falling to stop when called upon to do so; carrying dan- gerous goods: : (30 · gallora - of petrol); falling. to display navigation lights; being under way without a certificated coxswain; being under way without a certiseated pngineer; and failing to take out a llenes *for his junk, kayanth
For carrying four passengers in excess of the eight he was allowed to carry, Chan Lo, 30; of cargo junk. 1632V, was fined $25,- Chan was intercepted near. buoy AS last Saturday,
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SIDE GLANCES
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half cash and half surety.
By Galbraith
Just a finishing touch on these sweaters I bought, so my grandchildren will think I knitted them hope I don't spell them!"
From The Filce
100 Years
Ago
The Victoria Amateurs per formed a second time, on Satur day evening, to even a larger audience than on the previous occasion; indeed such was the to secure seats, that a among Solglic
crowd, which were several ladies, as- sembled at the doors before half-past 7, and no sooner were they opened, then a rush took place, which soon Alled the houco. The night's amuuncements consisted
of the two Furces. Twice Killed,
and Slasher ; and Crasher, with, as an interlude,
two comle nigger songs, by "Me Angustus Caesar Pompey, from Georgia," who, if not a real live. *Ethiopian curtainly compacted
What impression his glossy complexion; handsome person, and
himself vory Ako one:
distingue, made upon the ladies. we do not pretend to say; buż.. they gave the most open expres. sion to ther admiration of h "long-tailed
HURRlue."
REPORT The following account of a hurricane experienced by the American barque Annie Buck nam from New York, has been sent to us:-
"February 5, 1853-Lat., 14′′ N., Long, 128 E. the Annie Bucknam had a violent gale from the Northward, in which she lay 24 hours under bare poles. On the 6th, it moderated down Westward)
(having hauled to the
so that she could show close-rected main-topsall to ll. On the 7th, the gale again Increased, until it blow &
rfect hurricane, which lasted twelve hours, laying the ship completely on her beams ends, The wind was at 9. W. during the hardest of it, and abated at 5, about 2 a.m. of the 8th, i-- Barometer The
ranged about
prior to and 29.00 during the early part of
the inw
gale, and fell to: 20.25 a hours, before the hardest part of the burricane. Belag well prepared for it, the thip sustain-
ed no material damage,"
"REIGN OF TERROR"
the
A case was brought before the Petty Sessions a fortnight
had ego, which,
it been thoroughly Bifted, would in some measure have exposed the manner in which the fu- former Ma-isow Wong improves his "reign of terror over the pative populace in the colony
Some time Jan.
year
The Chinese wife of one of t
f the Ghaut Serangs Invested $150 each in. five girls, (or "Chinese Ladies of TANK"
according to Gutzlaff and English
and" papers,) despatched them to San Francisco In change of her brother, samodi. | Akt’al-they: engaging to be at
her disposal there for a period of. two years. Shortly after their arrival, however, the Chinese in San Francisco, ashamed that their countrywomen should be mada to prostitute -them- acives to foreigners, after other means had bean. unsuccessfully by subscription, and persuaded tried, raised the sum of $1,000 their keeper to accept it and return with them to Hongkong, The speculation falled, Ak'al
having thus demanded from each of the girls the sum of $70, and as they refused to pay, ho sent Ma-trow Wong to them, who, by dint of bullying, indic ed one of them at least to pay him $30, which was to be con sidered in full liquidation of all claims upon her. Ak'a how- discontented with the arrangement — or, as is report- ed, having only received half the amount the other
half having been retained, by this·· friend Ala-tsow wong: as com mission-took out a summons against the women for 140, "the balance of the $70. The case was dismissed by the Magist- rate; but having been-ilt is gald. unavoidably -- postponed" from Thursday till Saturday, and the women kept dancing attendance at the Court-house door for three days, sho naturally folt alarmed. Jest some underhanti Influence was at work; but on. applying elsewhere for advice,, had the probable cause of dolay explained to her, and was told to be firm in resisting the tie- mand.
over,
If the percentage" "Fald” to. have been charged, by, Ma¬taow Wong for his services in this case, bo a fair sample, and business anything brisk, bla yearly Income must be a hand- some one.
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