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JOHN CLARKE'S Strange CASEBOOK Prison DOUBLE Meeting
ACT
HEY asked Simon what
Te did for a living. "I'm
an actor," ho answered, from
ASSAILANT AND
*
VICTIM
Recife, Brazil, July 11.
A convict serving a 15.
the witnses-box at Mar-year sentence for robbery borough Street.
His apparunee-the leoning head of black hair, the robustly flourishing side-whiskers, and
sume was re-
and homicide discovered his "victim" alive in the gaol with him, li ported today.
six
Jose Siman, sentene:d years ago on conviction of rob-
the thin noustache that seemed to be in walt on Itis upper lip. ready to emphasise Its curl in
name of stage villainy-bing and killing Abdias Soares the eniorsed his suitement.
man
The learned clerk turned to the magistrate, Mr Paui VC. and said "This Bennett,
Oww £67 on an order made in - May 1054, that he should pay 25s a week towards the upkeep of his daughter by the LCC.
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"What about all that money?" the magistrate asked Simon.
LAST YEAR, LAST WEEK ❝IR," he answered, "for part of the last year I've had
a bad time.............”
"I suppose you've eaten every day" the magistrate suggested. Simon contrived a wry sort of smllc.
"Well, I've not caten very much in the past year," he said. "You see In this past year...
"Tell me about last week, not last year," the magistrate com- manded. "Did you have any money last week?"
Simon thought for a moment: last week,
"1 had about £10
sir," he said,
"And the week before?"
"Less," Simon said. "You
see it was about
£15 I had,
spread over the two weeks."
THREE GIRLS
46||7HY haven't you paid this
WH
money?" The magistrate
asked,
"Well, you see, sir." Simon began my wife Jeft me in 1993. I
brought up my three children all girls, sir by myself, from the time they were little. It was just that the past year was a bad year, and the youngest.
de Silva with a wooden club, learned in an exchange of lite storits with Sopres, now a fellow prisoner in the Recife House of Detention, that Soares had sur- vived the attank.
Neither reugnised the other at first but the more they talked the more Simao was sure that Soares was the man be left for dead on the night of October 18, 1949, in Canboilno, Pernambuco State.
Simao nally asked if he would take revenge on his assalfant f he discovered who he was.
"No," replied Soares, "He
Love me a lesson in the school of hard knocks. I hold hatred for him."
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Simao, according LJ the report, then told Soares, "Forgive me, brother, for I am the man who attacked you,"
The two men were reported ta have embraced and told the story to the- Prison Warden, Luna Freire, who will apply to the Court for revision of Simao's sentence-United Press.
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This is what happened to 19-year-old Ho Kun-lin's car when he mistakenly drove it up a footpath from Kennedy Road to the Bowen Road reservoir this morning. He tried to get the car back to Kennedy Road, but one of its wheels
left the pathway and the car became stranded. Staff Photographer.
MURDER CHARGE COMMITTAL
PROCEEDINGS
Rev Haig Brown Says
He Warned Accused
STARTS INSTANTLY NEVER MISSES
SHEAFFER'S
"CLICKER"
MEDIUM & FINE- BALLPOINTS AVAILABLE.
ALLEGED FRAUD TRIAL:96
Admissibility Of Evidence: Judge Gives Ruling
At the Victoria District Court this morning, Judge J. Reynolds held that any statement by an alleged accomplice of the accused made in the latter's absence, which could properly be construed as false pretences, was admissible evidence, provided the Prosecution could establish that such statements were made in common criminal purpose with the accused.
His Honour had reserved his decision on this matter yesterday in the case against Joe Francis Gerver, alias Jean Franz Ang How, allas Chiu Wait-fat, 39-year-old Mauritius salesman.
Gerver WIL charged with see the shop owner, and the two obtaining on December 24 lost had a tolk.. He heard accused усог with intent to defraud, menikin that the cases he wished from J. Kundan and Co., to store were cases of shirts. cheque to the value of $2,000 by
giving corroborative
Cheung
Yee, pretending, together with one evidence, M. Mirchumal
Hotwani, that prietor
In
pro-
of the Chung Tung
he was the proprietor of a Arming China Ware Shop, of 25 called the Swan Garment Fac-Hollywood Road, said that
few days after his interview" tory which manufactured rayon with Gerver, he had a look in Jackets.
his godown and found a quantity of salt stored there.
The
said, was salt, he sacks. Some of the socks were inside large cases.
Hearing is proceeding.
Accused was further charged with obtaining on January 8 this year, from J. Kundan and Co., a cheque to the value of $50.800 by pretending, together with Hotwani, that a quan of rayon jackets of a description and volué specified in a
bill of the Swan Garment Factory,
delivered to J. Kunden and Co., had been shipped to Australia.
Gerver is on bail of $5,000. He is represented by Mr Y. H. Chan of Messrs Lau, Chan and
Kr D. E. Greenfield, Crown Ce DSI H. C. Ht of the Com-
Counsel, is prosecuting, assisted
In the second day of the committal proceedings against' James Richard Becker, charged with murder, the Rev. W. J. Haig Brown, Chap. lain to the Missions to Seamen, gave evidence of having warned the accusedmercial Crimes Branch, Police to cease his association with the deceased girl Miss Evelyn Fung.
The Rev. Haig Brown, testifying before Mr G. Creedon at Kowloon Court this morning said that Miss Fung started to work for him as his Secretary şix months before her death.
Mau Mau Gangsters Lose Their Lands
Nairobi, July 11.
Tokyo, July 12:
The Kenya government today confiscated the land Reports circulated widely here of 324 Mau Mau gangsters as part of a new drive against yesterday that Japanese Prime
terrorists who failed to respond to an amnesty offer. Minister, Ichiro Hatoyama, was planning to
The amnesty expired at mid- States, but the government an night last night. Two Mau Mau nounced the Cabinet had not "Generats" Manyocki Wan- "Where
the other formally discussed the matter.
gombe and Haraka-were shot children?" the magistrate asked, The chief Cabinet Secretary,
dend by Kikuyu and Embu "They're with me, sir. Mr Ryutaro Nemoto, told
Fort Hall arca They've been with me, all the
reporters that leading members guards in the
its coming to time. The youngest one of Mr Hatoyama's Democratic within hours of
an end.
arc
would....
"How old are your children?" "The
oldest one's 10, sir. She's down on the South Coast, She looks after herself, now."
THE LITTLE ONE
and next THE
one's. 17, TW
waiting to hear about going into an office job she's after, and the third one, the little one, she's just 15, so she's come back to me now.
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Simon sighed into silence. It seemed to have cost him a 10% ta admit that because of the bad year he had had to ict his youngest child out of his care for 12 months. It was as though that fact hurt him more than the other that he had not
been able to pay for the child's up- keep by the LCC.
the
"I suppose the 20s. he was ordered to
pay was no! total cost of the child's upkeep?" the magistrate inquired.
"No, sir. Her upkeep com £3 14s, a week.”
EXIT
THE magistrate turned again to Simon "No one is sug- gesting," he said, "that you are a millionaire. But that 26s. that
you were ordered to pay was
based on what you were earning
Party were suggesting that the Prime Minister go to Washing- ton this year.
A New Type
Of Air Conditioner
Но also knew
by
Headquarters.
In
in
Tokyo Faces Water Shortage
Tokyo, July 12. Tokyo, salt-Alled
one of the world's three largest cities," was · today | facing its worst water shortage ini 15 years because of the unusually dry season and hot weather,
of the city's biggest wards have already, been badly affected as the water level at
approached recevoirs
the
Radio Hongkong
Four
1.K.T. 8. Time Signal and Programing Summary: 6.00, Concert by the Band "drought limit,"
The water authorities were of the Hongkong Police. By kind permission nt Mr C. Maxwell, preparing to ration water and a
Cocorisioner of Police under the feet of lank truck, have been
A.R.F.M. (Concert Hall); 6.50, mobilised for
-use-in-· case the "First Hearing prosented by Alex city's water mains dry up.
1. (Studio):
Sundown Demi-Heure
Borrtu
Serenade: presentation de M. Castel into operation in
Trucks have already been put
Memeries of some of his Country. Leave For China
By Train
one of the in giving his ruling this Programme du 14 Tullet is most seriously affected districts.
739. Weather Report; 8. Time Signal
The authorities said if therO morning, Judge Reynolds said and The News (Landon Helay): 8.09. that Mr
Commentary Chan had raised an
London Heiny or is no heavy rainfall by the end objection to a certain converst Special Announcements; 8.15. Bongs of August, water reserves will
of the Nation-Italy: 8.30. Forces be
the lowest since the big lion that took place between Favourites (London Relay): drought of 1040-Reuter. Holwani and a a Prosecution wit- Signal. Record Review (Studio):
9.30, the accusedness, Mr Chopra, and had ob-
George Bernard Shaw, An Trian Portrait
the drawn from whom, he guld, had benjected to this conversation being
men. coming to the Mission to visit admitted as evidence,
Elited and Introduced by Miss Fung periodically, during His Honour recalled that Mr.
W. R. Rodgers (BBCTS): 10.30, At the Ballet. "The Emperor's New lunch and after office hours.
Chan had submitted it Was Ciolice" (Jean Francaixi va Buxon In the afternoon of May 18
hearsay evidence and that it State Orch. cond. by Kurt Striegler:
A group of 192 Chinese re- he had a conversation
10.50. Weather Report; 11, Time with could be admitted only if Hol- sumal. Radio News Reel London patriates, the majority of whom Becker in a room adjoining the wani was proved to be an agent Relay): 11.09. Test Cricket. England V. were of school age, left by train church at the Mission."
of accused On the Prosecution's South Africa. Commentaries on the for China this morning upon Relating the .conversation, evidence, it was further con- Rex Alton. John Arloit and Charles
tast day'a play of the 3ed tent by disembarkation from the my witness said "I explained to tended, such common criminal
Fortune at Old Trafford, Manchester Tjiluwoh
Recorded London Relay); God Save Becker that Evelyn Fung had purpose had not been established. no further wish to meet him Counsel had also claimed, any more and that if he al. alternatively, that such state- tempted to do so i would put menta could be used as evidence the matter in the hands of the only against the person making the statement and not against police."
the accused in this case.
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JUDGE'S SUGGESTION After stating his ruling, Judge Reynolds hell, however, the be
The queen: 1156. Close Down.
COUPLE FOUND ELECTROCUTED
Of the group almost 600 came from Indonesia and some 300 from Singapore,
One of the repatriates, Lal Phoo, a 34-year-old rubber tap- who boarded the vessel in per GAVE PROMISE
Chatham, Ontario, July 11: Singapore, died of heart failure A man and his wife The Roy Halg Brown added
were while on the way to Hongkong found dead in the bathtub that at the conclusion of the
of last Saturday...A burial service interview Becker
their farm home on Monday. at sea was held the same day. promised
They apparently were electro- faithfully that he would not
cated by a faulty water heater. see the deceased girl again.
The couple Witness said that he adopted
are believed to A government antiouncement
have died four days ago. Their firm very
attitude
in his Enid next week's Kenya official
two conversation and he left no
young children-Linda, 5, would
New York, July 11. Gazelic
contain the
Jni and Janice, 2were found doubt
about it in Becker's mind names of "many more" ter- An electronic air condi-
that he meant what 'he said.
His Honour said ho would the house. Hving on cookies and rorists who wili löse their land. {tioner which will
work
Becker was Very silent suggest
evidence dry bread.-Associated Press. Chopra's Those hamed. in
be today's without a motor or any mov-throughout the interview but should
deferred
fribesmen known to be Mau
д
that Chopra's evidence of conversation would not admissible at the present stage of the trial, as regards the ques tion
whether or not a printu facie case had been made out.
by
other
NO CAUSE FOR
ANY ALARMO Hongkong RNVR motor mino- sweepers will be exercising in area Chung Hom... -Wan (Southeast of Repulse Bay) on
the
TYPHOON CLARA Saturday ext.
Explosions of a minor risture At noon today typhoon Clara may occur as a result of these was situated 180 miles south-exercises, but ålarm should not
lease.
But Mr Nemolo stressed this was a "purely informal" sug- gestion,
prisinte The reports has
Mr sald Hatoyama was planning to go
Gazette are Kikuyu and Embu ing parts is being developed the point and made his promise stage of the trial after
eventually he was able to see the Prosecution until later
a to the United States instead of his Foreign Minister, Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, Mr Shigemitsu has Mau leaders and organisers, at the special request of not to see Miss Fung again. witnesses had been heard. a standing invitation to visit Notices have already been post-her husband. Mrs David' Continuing witness sald he Evidence was then given by west of Okinawa, moving north- be taken, states an official re- Washington but his trip has noted on their land telling them it Sarnoff revealed in a na-also knew Michael Bowyer. He Wu Ming, manager of the west. yel materialised because of has been taken over for the tional magazine article recalled having seen Bowyer Union Apartments, 221 Nat
and the deceased girl in the Road. Wiinces Mission building round 10.30 p.m. on May 10. And an hour later he said he received n telephone call from Bowyer.
Hearing is continuing.
other commitments at home or benefit of the community.
in Washington.
Mr Nemolo did not reject the
possibility that Mr Hatoyama might go to Washington Al- though the subject hod nol been officially discussed,
He sold 11 was "conceivable" that Mr Shigemitsu would
the Prime urge
Minister to make the trip. He added that If Mr Hatoyama decided to go. Mr Shigemitsu might accom- pany him. Reuter,
BIG DROP IN EXPORTS
London, July 11, British exports during June tell by £90,000,000 from the at that time. You had better April-May average, the Board pay £1 a week now, until the of Trade disclosed on Monday. £67 is paid off,
The dock and railway striktos Simon
and made an during that period were the nodilock
little exit from the primary cause of the stage, and returned decline. to his cramped home in the
The exces of imports over
inconspicuous
small
dock's
published recently,
Redio
of
NEW PREPARATIONS
"Four years ago during the pro celebration of his 45th year with troops are Meanwhile paring intensified
Corporation operations the against "last ditch" terrorists America, he asked the scientists their at the RCA Princeton Labora- who failed to lay down
the amnesty arms under
Entory, which the company named the David Sarnoff Restarch Art nounced on January 18.
total of 959 men and Centre, to invent three things women-about # quarter, of the
os a gift for his 50th anniver- force lurking in the forestssary." Mrs. Sarnoff wrote in the took advantage of the offer. article, "My Life with a Genius" Terrorists still have a chance in. the June Issue of Good
air
Nathan
1 produced
and referred to an
about Wer 20
regarding August 18 and SIDE GLANCES
lost
year
show- ing that Hotwani had stayed during that period in room 200 Witness identified Hotwani from
photograph shown to
May Transfer him from among the Court ex-
Businesses
To HK
An American
hibits.
He said Hotwani filled out a registration form in his pro- sence. The handwriting on that form, produced in Court, was that of Hotwani's.
On
to surrender under the original Housekeeping magazine, amnesty advanced in
August The three Inventions, which
Arst registering at the 1953. providing protection from Mrs Sarnoff predicted would be
apartment, witness continued, the death penalty for carrying ready next year, are the clez.
Manila, July 12. Hotwani gave him a forwarding business address. After Hotwani had arms or consorting with gang-tronic
conditioner,
said today Beveral left on September 20, he received recorder which executive magneti: tape
American business Interests certain both pictures and entrenched in Japan are con-warded to Hotwani at the ad- letters which he for- no longer be excused crimes sound from a television screen, templating to transfer to the dress Hotwani had given him.
But those who surrender wilt will record
or black and Philippines and Hongkong in committed before January 18-elther in colour
slers,
Reuter,
sharp Run
heart of London's theatre-land re-exports WIS. £120,000,000, to resume the difficult part he compared with an average of had played so long with such £47,900,000 for the April-May near-succesS that of
both period-Associated Press,
parents to three children whom
he loved.
HANDS OVER
NIÁGARA FALLS VAST PROPERTY
TRAGEDY
Niagara Falls, July 11. middle-aged man WEB
white, and an electronic ampli- fer of light which will do away with picture tubes and make it possible for a TV screen to be hung on the wall like a picture
Again Request frame-United Press, To Eisenhower
Washington, July 11. President Dwight Eisenhower today received a petition signed.
IN BAD SHAPE
Bremerhaven, July 11.
the wake of Japan's move to of the "Universal Mail Order The lotters were in the name increase taxes on foreign invert- ments.
wincess added. Crosse
Wu aid he Misa Margaret McGowan, sales sure Hotwani used and production executive of the his room as an office. He did United Milla Company of New not see any sign-beard in, or York, sald she earned about outside his son. [the contemplated mass transfer CARPENTER TESTIFIES
of American business to tho Philippines while looking into Yu-hing, a carpenter, of 8 Old The next witness was Choung possibilities for investment Japan.
Bailey Street, ground floor. Ho said he know accused since the Japanese occupation,
The 35 lend-lease American Mise McGowan arrived here by 84 Republican members of warships returned by the So-oday from Hongkong for a
About the end of December the House of Representatives vie's carlier this month are in brief visit,
last year, accused" asked to asking him to run ogolt in the bad shape" and probably will be in a drastic move to curb borrow his yard to store certain elections of 1956,
competition in her market, Kuwalt, July 11. Praising the accomplish 130ld as funk, a US. naval officer Japan, she said,' recently: had cases. Witness said he refused, Į
shrnents said on Monday.
because the cases were much too The property of the Emir of | during two and
"Everything of value in them, create de big to suit his convenience. Ac half years of Kuwall, said to be the world's his administration, the petition such as instruments and equip next Jamiary.
on foreign goods to take effect used told him the cases were ment,
Mini McGowan sald hot a few, wis removed before they
to contain shirts. swept to his death over Niagara-
over to State, an announce when one wrong decision mikhi Fallon Monday before the merit in the official Journal of prove disastrous. It is of the rewsmen." eyes of about 100 tourista,
the little Sheikhđón sold today. greatest importance for the The vessels include 80 priroded to her that with these new of any place that could be used To takes in force, they would either sorage space for eight or 10 control of all his belongings in man, coxperienced in internation- chasers. They were handed ewhere or face fruin, Cheung mid
komir has, in fact, given United States to be led by a torpedo | hosts" and "five rub have to transfer their business days wilemas said i
He made
enquietas dongland, and the United States, al... aftalım, and⠀⠀⠀ gifted with over to American agent by she, såld the businessmen, org stanhope in Hollywood Hoad, all ale cií profita and all his other patience, - firmantas, raunder«. Soviet sailors: who brought them eyeing both the Philippines and, and klar oyenne, agreed to let Hiii. investments, to government ade landing sund courage-France to the German Ballic, port, of Hongkong as posible markets rodown be used to istor, & the ministration, Tygaon-Prem
Rial, Associated Pretty P
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The man clung to aerock at the brink of the falls for about 30 viola bezore the rumming wafer tore film Jose and hurled him: 105 feet down into the A FOTKY SLAMociated Press.
richert. mum, la to be handed nacrted that in this atomic wire resumed," the offleer told | American businessmeri. id con+] Gerver then asked if he know
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