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that stepped forward. "There's a warrant out for this man,” he red-
sald, "for £43 maintenance
CHINA MAIL
1945
MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1957.
Inconsiderate SIDE GLANCES
Driver Is
Fined
H. H. Sparso of 89'Shou-
arrears to his wife, from whom son Hill Road, charged with he is separated,”
driving without reasonable consideration for other per- sons using the road, this morning fined $100 by Mr Thomas Tam at Central Magistracy.
Raymond Thursday was lotter day. For on that morning he put long years of clerking behind him and
The magistrate nodded and became a public relations turned back to Raymond. officer. Raymond is a tall, "You're a pernicious type" he lean, keen-eyed, crusading said. "A thoroughly unsatis
factory person. Pay a line of type of man, aged 36. Just £10, and £25 compensation to the kind to succeed in a the loseru. You can have 20 profession where crusades, days in which to find the The alternative is 28 are always being enor-money.
days." getically mounted by an all- commissioned army
(who A public ever heard of relations other rank?).
Ho
had tho utmost fidence in his future, confidence that ста
"I'll find it, sir, certainly" ad Raymond, and briskly ho left, with a glance at the Press box so full of meaning, that we con- half expected that before the Such morning was through, we would sixth receive a h
prepared statement working day he felt
bold on the e90 beginning: enough to call on a nrm with
official spokesman said today...." whom his employers ald business and ask them; "Can you lond us £307 Our 'float' has
out, my run
boas sald you would help."
GENEROUSLY, FOOLISHILY.......
"US"
transaction,
loose
cash
though TS" was his office,
they knew nothing of the Raymond wanted the money for himself, to settle some debts. He
Was given £25,
the all available.
His deceit was soon discovered, AL Bow Street Raymond ploaded guilty to obtaining the
£25 by false pretences.
**I
of
to
shall pay back the money, course," said Raymond alrily
Mr Bertram
Reece. needed it because I generously and foolishly lent money
other peoplemployer's
Your
to
money,
ch?" said Mr Reece. "You're
An
Charged With
Illegal Entry
women
Five
charged with illegal entry were remanded two days in police custody by Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Magistracy this morning.
Sou-
Defendants are Wong wah, 32, Si Lal-yeung, 27, Ko Po-wah, 26, Ng Yuk-kee, 26 and St. Sau-ko, 16.
They are alleged on January 16 to have entered the Colony on board the ferry Man Fat off Castle Peak without a permit from the Immigration Office.
Was
His licence was also ordered to be endorsed.
Was
on,
A bus driver, Chan Jim, in evidence, told the Court that he
driving
bus elong Queen's Road from East to West October 21, last year. Near the junction of Stubbs Road, defendant's stationary, suddenly
oul from Stubbs Road, "I had to apply my brako and swerve violently to the left It I did not stop, my bus would have hit that vehicle," said witness.
Car, which ed
was
Sub-Inspector C. D. Mayger told the Court that on Novem- bor 30, last year, he went to the Queen's Building and made in- quiries. He asked defendant whether he was driving tho vehicle that day, and defendant admitted he ditt but said he could not recall the incident.
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By Galbraith COUNSEL APOLOGISES TO
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"George is a nice boy, but he's got mouldy ideas thinks the pkice for a wife to work is at home!".
Two Alleged
Rioters
Go On Trial
The Ernst Murder case is expected to finish, today. None of the five Chinese accused charged with the murder of Mrs Ursula Margareta Ernst, wife of a Chancellor of the Swiss Consulate, is giving evidence or making statements in their defence, and Counsel this morning began their closing addresses.
As soon as the Court convened this morning, Defence Counsel, Mr Terence Shurlock, publicly withdrew the allegations of assault, against Divisional Det. Insp. W. Watson and apologised.
"In the course of evidence adduced by the pro
secution, I have had occasion to make certain all the DEATH OF
tions against. Insp. Watson that he assaulted' fourth accused. These allegations were in regard tơ These statements signed by the fourth accused." allegations have since proved to be unfounded. In the circumstances I wish to express my regret to Insp. Watson and to offer him my apologies," Mr Shurlock said.
The fivo 'accused on trial be, and what he realised must be a fore a Special Jury aro Tse dangerous act, whether or not should Sang, 28, unemployed; Man he intended that death Chun-you, 20, unemployed; Choi result from that act, then that Kwok-fal, 27 unemployed; Lis murder on his part."
31, hawker; and Leo Chuen, Shu-wing, 26, earth coolic. All aro defended by Mr Terence Shurlock, Instructed by Peter Mo and Co.
Mrs Ernst died of burns two days after a taxi in which the and her husband were travelling was turned overturned and sol on fire by mob at the junction of Talpo Road and Castle Peak
the Road оп
afternoon of October 11 last year during the
Kowloon riots.
Before he began his address on the case, Mr Blair-Kerr said that ba welcomed the "hand- some" apology of Mr Shurlock the allegations of In regard to beating-up
ho which was recalled when two men, employees of a textile instructed to make against Insp. had factory, appeared on trial before Mr Justice T. J. Watson at the trial.
and the United States were zeriously disrupted on Sunday due to a bomb hoaxer, Eu anonymous caller who told the Honolulu FBI that he .had placed bomb aboard a plane at Honolulu airport. He dild not name the aircraft. already flown too far
Five planes which
to tum
The rioting in Tsun Wan on October 11 last
was
not a registered moneylender, Another woman, Cheung Wai-
Is there anything chun, 42, charged with alding back were informed, and they Gould in the Criminal Sessions this morning said, had a very dimcult task
are you?
more you want to say?"
PERNICIOUS
❝xcellent job to
that I've another
sald Raymond.
and abetting illegal immigrants, were searched on their arrival was represented by Mr J. Lat San Francisco, Los Angeles
and Portland, Lynn.
•
Defence counsel applied for go to," bail on behalf of his client which A policeman was fixed at $500.
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charged with intimidation and rioting.
Counsel for the Defence, be
and his responsibility was almost Accused are Lee Piu-fan, 30, spinner, and as great, if not greater, than that of Counsel for the Crown. Chan Siu-tin, alias Chan Shiu-bak, 35, mechanic, "He has instructions and he
hna to put
forward those The Pao Shing Factory nearby instructions irrespectivo of was at the time on fire and he whether he believes them or saw the blaze from his own not," Mr Blair-Kerr sald of factory, witness said.
Defence Counsel.
Both Are charged with threatening. To Tsang-hel, assistant factory manager of the South Textiles Ltd., Castle Perk Road, Tsun Wan, with in- Jury to the factory and its employees with intent to cause
can him to dismiss certain ployees of the factory and to do divers other acts none of which acts he was legally bound to do. They are further changed, to gether with more than other persons unknown, on October 11, 1950, with riotously zesembling together
three
"The noise outside continued unabated. I was in fear that something bad was about to happen to the factory," To said,
HAD NO FLAG Witness said that he did not hoist any flag because they had none in the factory then. How- ever he asked the first accused to produce one and he would hoist it.
He added that in the "rough and tumble" of a criminal trial it might appear to people appearing as.
Counsel
noi
that
FR. JOHN CARROLL
News has been received of the death of Rev. John Carroll,
83, who was Restor' of Wah Yan College, Hongkong, from
he
The other was "If a person 1951-1956. Father Carroll died has an intention to commit any Irisbane, Australia, where
had копе for convalescence felony involving violence then had any act done in the furtherance after a serious operation at the of this felony or during the beginning of last year,
Fr Carroll, who was 40 years actual commission of 11, is guilty of murden”
of
wins bom in.
in
Ireland. He was educated, at Mr Blair-Kerr said that he Mungnet College, Lakrick, and felt that the turning over of a entered the Society of Jesus in taxi with people inside and 1930. Ho continued his studies. setting it on fire was
a felony
in the National University of involving violence, the felony Ireland, where he took the B.A. being causing grievous bodily degree and Higher Diploma of harm to the people in the taxi. Education
"The first thing we ought to
ihta care is atisfy ourselves in whether there was a common ob lect in this murderous gang" sald Crown Counsel. suggest to you that the common obfect of this gang was undoubtedly to stop and over turn and burn" vehicles"
KAME.
the vere equally Ruilty. set it on fire were equally guilty.
COMMON PURPOSE
was to do an
He came to Hongkong in 1930, and after two years of Chinesa. studies was assigned to Wah Yan College, where he taught literature and history and editor of the collega The Star,
magazine He
then went
10 Australia to study theology, and
Wax
and presided at ntion
In the present case the common counsel were of her. Nothing criminal purpose to over months
at daggers drawn could be farther from the truth. turn and set on fire a vehicle with
ALWAYS IMPORTANT
He said this object; was gleaned from all the circumstances of the was ordained by Archbishop
to the He pointed
photu- (now Cardinal) Gilroy in 1945. graph of the mob around the tax) | At the close of the war he and asked the Jury to note the went to Europe and then re- action of their hands, and the ex- premion on their faces. This, he turned to Hongkong in 1947. sold, way the crowd which ran after the Erist taxi and stopped it LONG ILLNESS and were joined by others from aord the street where another
All the succeeding years were vehicle was overtumed and on Bro.
Me Blair-Kerr wubmitted that spent in Wah Yan College, After those who were present, and able, a period of teaching he avas and willing and in a position to help
oppolated Profect of Studies In 1940, and then Rector. He supery vised the building of the new college in Queen's
East, In September, 1955. A few
later his
his health broke down and he bore a linera people inside. mid Mr Blair-Kerr.
with great fortitude. It did not matter whether their in-
Carrol's death is a con- tention was to cause · death to any- one in the taxi. Any one in that siderable loss to "education, in As to the case itself, Mr common purpose WRs guilty of Hongitong. He was a man of While they were talking (this Blair-Kerr said that a murder murder.
conspicuous literary and artistic took place at his office) accond trial was always an
Dealing with the question of den- ability, but the interests of his accused entered and after re tant
tilleation, Crown Counsel said it later years were wholly directed
from two peating the demands made by different from any other trial, could be considered
to education. the con.
different polits of view, There were two clawed of people involved. There the first accused further asked but by virtue of
sequences which fell it was only were thoes whom a witness already on educational developments in He kept himmelf well informed the management of the fac- natural that the Jury should knew, in which case there was no Accused are defended! by Mr|tory should not enforon diamis feel the matter should be sifted room for any doubt 1 the witness many countries and his only re- V. L. J. D'Alton, on the Instruc- jor step of agreement from the we carefully as possible.
top work without the prior
who standing at a reasonable degret at his loss of health was that any subsequent Idan- that he was unable to put into tulcation, if the witness was telling practice the many plans that the truib, was extremely reliable,
had in mind for the develop The other type of lenticationment of his school. Was where a witnew had never
He was seen the people in his life, con Grant Schools. tinued Mr. Blair-Kerr. "If you have by the accused or by others never seen a person before in your Board of Control of the Hong- The crowd outside was then acting with the accused; that sure that he is
entitle you can never be 100 per cent kong School Certificate Excard- death
the person you Ination Syndicate, and he was identity, unless he has shouting, "Hoist the Bay, stop this the work,"
"witness added.
Wooden Chairman of the Biblical Know» · * like thai," he told the Jury, ledge Sub-Committee. He was
also a member of
on
First accused faces an addi- fional charge of rioting October 12, 1950
Mr W. S. Collier, Crown Counsel, s prosecuting, assisted by Det. Insp. P. J. Clancy.
tions of Mr P. D. A. Remodios:
START DELAYED
that
consent
the
union,
that
the
*
trial.
Impor-
It W33 no
trado right-wing
Crown Counsel listed three management should
Crown had things which the Mr Alton who arrived an
workers during, hour and a half late apologised they stopped work and also to That a death had occurred as that to prove in the present case: period to his Lordship and the Jury dismiss all workers belonging to a result of the acts committed for being late. He said that in the "left-wing trade union," fact there was some misunder-
the
standing with regard matter. He had understood in the first place that the case would not be heard today but would take place following the end of another critainal case now being heard in another, Court.
His Lordship said he did not
tation
counted ing of glass eye or circumstances which
To said he tried to contact the to murder, and that the accused manager of the factory by tele- wore amongst those responsible phone at his home, but he was although there might be others, not available;
not before the Court who were
equally guilty
motnothing
Council, of member of the
the
NO DETRACTION
the Hongkong University
Requiem Mars for Fe Carroll Ho mid that in most instances will be celebrated at St Mar- Like that witnesses would say they were 80 per cent sure and that garet's Church, Happy Valley, would be a very, truthful answer. on Wednesday, at 9 a.m. identideation,
know how that misunderstand- tloris on paper. The two, accused the Do no possible doubte in But this did not detract from the
ing had arisen because the case was originally ect down for trial today and the date had not been changed.
in fent the Drople who mained
Bergman Leaves
When it came -to identifying people as faving taken part is som one's mind were those whom knew before or those who, took:
Now York, Jan, 212 prominent part
The
Swedish-born screen Answering Me Smurlock's critician actress: 'Ingrid Bergman left about "uppressing evidence Mr New York by air on Monday Bair-Kerr d it was the practice night for Paris after a 28-hour of the Crown to record identifia
FIVE CONDITIONS Witness said that second ac-
As to
to the first point there cused set down the five condi-
minds of the Jury at all, insisted that the
sald management
Mr Blair-Kerr, recalling should accede to them and ask the evidence of the attack on od him to sign. He then signed the Ernsts with sticks and stone the document as
as roquested.
and the burning of tha taxi Το Trang-hel in evidence sald he was the assistant factory aware
Witness said that he was and that Mrs Erast had 75 per that the Pao Shing cent of her body burned, manager of the South Textiles Factory Lid which dealt in weaving end and that a
had been set on Are ruffered terrible agony and cotton
The factory em-
soy factory which died two days later. em-was adjacent to his was paso The case for the Crown could ployed over 500 workers.
ablaze.
tion parades where the result was a vist to the United States, to'rds. The
crowd outside his be put in one or two ways, sald positive identification, but the paradeceive the Crities Prize for the On the evening of October 11. own fac dry was in commotion, Mr Blair-Kerr. Ona was: "If books which contained everything best actress of the To said he was in the factory He was the only responsible a man die what amounted to were always before the Court.co and noticed a crowd of over 100 person in the factory and he assembling outside the premises, had no option but to sign tho They were maiting a commotion document. and some were carrying Chinese Nationalist flags.
CROWD'S DEMANDS
Witness sald he asked a foki
to find out what the matter wan, Shortly afterwards the man returned with the first no cused who,
Hearing is continuing
Case Transferred
witness said, was A Police application for the In the crowd outside. First ac- transfer to the District Court of cused was employed by the a case against a 27-year-old fastory and witness sald ho had Pakistani, Mohamed Salim
1
| know, him since he (witness)-Khan, was granted by ing
took up employment with "the Yang at Kowloon this factory in 1965,
Khan faces two charges of Withers said that first ac- possession and illegal Importa- cused said to him: The crowd tion of 14 packages of raw outside wanted me to tell you oplum at Kai Tak on January that they want the management 15.
of the factory to host the He was remanded for another Chinese Nationalist flag and that seven days in gol custody, all work must be stopped ta ́allow the workmen to do what they want. Wiinces said that unlicensed massage establish- Planding gulity to keeping an ho told first accused that he ment, Lee Long, 39, unemploy 'would consider'. the" roquest be- ed, of 3774-Nathon Road first cause he had only one intention, four Was nod $100 or pne and that was to maintain work month by Mr. F^K, d'Almada; in the factory. Nat Kowloon this morning, NAS
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