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MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1958.
SHEAFFER'S
NEW NAI WITH A
MOLILABLE AT ALL
MEOS STORES
Murder Hunt Grotesque Story' Says Counsel
Continues
Up to this morning, The Police had not made any
itt the arreste Hunghom murder case. in which Chau Lim, a 42-year-old worker em- ployed at the Tai Hang Tung Government School, was stabbed to death and his 32-year- old wife, Lam Lai-ping seriously injured.
The Police are con tinuing their investiga- tions and any person. having any information regarding the case is requested 10 contact the Divisional Detec- live Inspector al Hung Hom Police Station; Telephone 58121 Ext.
581 O" any Police Station,
Woman's Bag Snatched
Closing Address In
Sweepstake
In Disputed
Ticket Case
Mr John McNeill, QC, Counsel for the Defence in an issue to determine the ownership of a sweep ticket worth $873,180, at the Supreme Court this morning described the plaintiff's story as "grotesque and improbable.'
In his closing address, Mr McNeill said there was not one single scrap of evidence which the Jury could possibly accept in creating any kind of probability whatsoever. The issue is being determined by a special jury before Mr
Justice C. W. Reece, Acting Chief Justice.
Plaintiff is Lee Sin, a former Naval Dockyard coolle, who claims that on Le Monday following the draw of the cash sweep un a Saturday, he found the winning ticket be missing
from among a total of 38 tickets which he had kept in his per- sonal metal box in the Duck- yaru,
He maintalnes that another Heket had been substituted in place of the missing one.
In Cathedral At Money Changer's
Ten other suspects, including a bug, were artevied by the Police
The defendant, Tang Chik-
teket at
money
Mir
winning ticket was a "substantial box with its substantial padlock." The next point, Mr McNelil be termed sold, would simply
us "police." He sald IL was quite apparent that no attempt had been made by the plaintiff to get the Police.
The plaintiff's character was displayed in the witness box and by his own evidence and, Mr MeNeill said, he was a man uf somewhat strange inanner.
the
in the box, could discover the winning ticket and open it for the purpose of extracting it from the envelope lind re- pincing it with another,"
The plainti! had never sug- gested that anyone had the key to the strong box and fulherest he had gone was his the sweeper in remarks about
Dockyard. Under cross- the
suid exminination, the plaintif he was not suggesting that the
bad sweeper
extracted the ticket. And there was no evi- dience whatever to say that the "From every aspect, it
sweeper evuld have, or did gel extract the Continuing, Mr MeNeill said into the box, and
Ucket, Mr McNeill added. this action was a claim that the winning ticket had been stolen
The Jury might also feel it im probable that a thief, having got from the plaintiff by some per-into the box, and having extract son or persons unknown,
should ed the winning take the trouble of putting her ticket in its place, Mr McNeill void.
Every Aspect
The Police have delamed a yin, an electrical shop appren- | grotesque,” Mr MeNell! said,
had tested last Friday non following an
allept te! tiee steal a handbag from a Chinese that he had bought the winning
changer's coman in the Cathobe Cathy- trul Caine Road, at mount 143 op in Shanghat Street
Plantis represented by b. this morning.
Mr Lawrence Leon!! MeNeill and Mr Leslie Wrigla in Hongkong and Kulnou overre appearcat for the defendimi. In his closing address to the the weekend in a
Jury, Mr McNeill said Mr Leong! petty thell capes,
Articles stolen include geld had told the Jury that in a civil and silver necklaces, fountain, it was a mere question of prolability. pens, a gold pendant and is jade prependerance of pendunt.
Up to a certain point, this was correct enough, Me MeNeill and
number of
Cyclist Injured
Wis
A cyclist.
injured 1 about 9,20 am, yesterday when
he collided with a private car
In Gascoigne Road, near Jenetion of Wylie Rond
the
That claim of larceny must in- volve a claim that the defendant was a thiet or an associate of thieves.
Lickel.
Mr McNeill also suggested that the plaintiff had written the numbers of the tickets on the envelope nal on Saturday but on Monday.
An Uproar
Not content with this allega- tion, the plaintiff had further suggested to the defendant and defendant's witness that they had! conspired together to fabricate evidence, "This is a Quoting on authority, Mr Me-very serious matter," Mr Mu- Counsel further suggested that
Neill said.
any owner, un discovering the
Jest, would
cerally This was allegation that ticke
tried to create an uproar. He would have defendant had
Commodore G. D. A. Gregory with Rear Admiral Chakravesti, Captain S. L. Nanda, inspecting a Guard of Honour this morning,
L. H. 8. Punia and China Mali Photo.
INDIAN CRUISER HERE
ON GOODWILL VISIT
The Flagship of the Indian Navy, I. N. S. Mysore flying the flag of Flag Officer Commanding the Indian Fleet, Neill submitted that a civil court
Rear Admiral A. Chakraverti, arrived in port on a good. when considering a charge of fruud would naturally require a
will visit this morning. higher degree of probability subon a witness to commit rushed to the Police and than that which was required in perjury" and there was not a clared his ticket stolen. "What
the arrival Shortly after did he (ine painuff) do?e the Mysore, H.M.S. Tamar
nothing. Absolutely fred a 13-gun
salute, The Indian ship replied with
The considering negligence,
man, Liu Kal-loi, aged 41, of
I did require a degree of
the
single scrap of evidence which
did
19 Main Street, Shek Kip Mei probability which was comunen-/might have been called to supaathing" Mr McNeill said.
Village, is
receiving treatment
m Kowloon Hopital.
House Thefts
.....There were two cases of theft trum residence in Hongkong
Cash and over the weekend. Jewellery valued at $300 were stulen from No. 12 Tung Shan Terrace, 1st floor. yesterday as cash and property valued $108 were stolen from No. 34 Aberdeen Street, ground floor.
at
surate with the proportionale
occasion
and
to the subject. And the
allegation- present
defemiant ughing: the
wen! farther than fraud, Counsel said.
Prohibited. Arca
Mr McNeill also presented a stumber of points for the Jury's
The consideration.
dockyard premises from where the ticket was alleged to have been stolen was a prohibited area. Secondly. the metal box in which the plain- äft claimed to have kept the
We might seem
But,
o it
No Sign
The plaintiff had agreed that there was no sign of this box having been tampered wilb. "And you (the Jury) are invit- ed to agree with the plaintiff that some
unknown, persons who did not know that the had bought the plaintif winning ticket, and who did not know the numbers of any
dis
PUNS.
the
11
A 10.30 am. this morning, in Chorge, Commodiore
He aid not go to the Police. Mr McNeill sad, but went to u
a Mr private detective,
Lam, who had not been called to snow
he investigations What
Bud Hongkong, Commodore GDA made.
Gregory, accompanied by Flag A any cape, no claim was Lieut. C.P. Addis, called on made until he had any after-Rear Admiral Chakraverli Warus, mit McNeu sauc
aboard
which the flagship, The character of the plaintiff berthed at the Dockyard North WILS rather unportaut when AD, considering Liso
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A heavy programme has been arranged for the Mysore during her stay in Hongkong.
At 7p.m. this evening, a re- ception will be held on board the ship during which more then 200 guests will attend.
Tomorrow at 8 pan, His Ex- cellency the Governor will hold a dinner party at Governinent honour of the Rear House in
Admiral,
At 5 pm. on Wednesday, the Mysore's hockey team will play
a friendly match with the Nav
Club
at Sookunpoo Bharat Army ground following which a reception by the Club will be
| McNeill contenard, The pin- The Commodore then Inspect- ed a Guard of Honour aboard of the tickets bought by the on his own evidence, had a
of the plaintiff, or that they were even leaning towarcu gumbling be-in company
Rear cause otherwise to one araw- Admiral, Captain S. M. Nanda, ing wages of $32 a week would "Commander of the Mysore, and held at the Indian Recreation
Officer of Club. spana some $70 on his 38 tickets, Litut. HS. Pumio,
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The Jury had wazened the the Guard. The band plusuf in the witness box and Mysore was in attendance dur- it would strike them that using the Inspection. Inatner was strange.
calls then
Exercises At Sea
Band To Play
of courtesy A round
At 8 pm, the same day. a Iteviewing the defendant's by the Indian Admiral
dinner party will be held aboard evidence, Mr McNeill said the followed.
the ship to which the Governer, defendant had made 18
Lady Black and the Commodore adidavit a few days before the
are among the guests invited. Kaunti had made his. De-
On Thursday at 6.15 p.m., the Tenant had also denied the
class cruiser, passed ship's band will play at Victoria angulon that he had been to Calony the Duckyard, Counsel also through Hongkong on July 14 Park. In the evening, the Indian for refuelling to Shanghal. She Commissioner with hold a recep-
rerred to the evidence of Mr
Street
The Mysore, an 8,700-ten
before coming
STERLING
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From the Files
25
years
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the Queen's 'Theatre,
A "shin'
by Sidney Franklin was show- Ing. The stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Lesilo Howard.
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Laue
The two white-bellied cagles which I saw circling for aoine days over Jardine's Look out have disappeared and I fear have left the island, writes the Nature correspondent, it ap peara that they
been driven away by the older pair, which I learn have been ob served for more than a year at their roost and which are ben Heved to have a brood of nest- lings at the moment. It this so, it makes the subject more interesting, q
suggesting that the time of the hatching of eggs
varies or that twa broods care be reared in a twelvemonth.
"PRETTY soon all the houses in the Colony will be under ordem" remarked Mr Wynne- Jones in the Central Police Court when he Imposert a fine of $75 on n Chinese woman for keep- brothel in Aberdeen Ing a sly
Street. The magistrate also De- made an order for closure. tective Inspector Baker sald that the orders had had some effect. Landlords were now reluctant to allow these people to live in their flats,
The name of Mr Robert Philip Shaw has been added to the List of Authorised Archi- tecta,
BACK TOT Vollge headquarters
NORMAL WEATHER
Hongkong's
weather
has returned to nor- mal after a stormy week-end; with fair weather forecast. Only traces of rainfall were registered at the Royal Observa- tory from midnight to noon, and there are по further storm wornings.
THE following communication,
was issued on Saturday: "In- formation has been
received
that on July 20, ten pirates left
Wai Chau
on
area dor Hongkong piratical expedition, and that a party of some thirteen pirates loft the enme district on August I for Shanghai."
*
One of the few beaches re- maining in the Colony which have not
every been overrILTE weekend in the summer months, at Ma Kong Bay, situated just beyond Refilte Bay will no Loriger mjoy ita izolation next year, when it will succeed part of Repulse Bay as a popular rendezvous. Government has written to the matshed qunera in Repulse Bay 10ho will be affected by the "Lido" scheme, requesting them to vacate and
one of the days nearby.
Former HK offering an alternative site in
Resident
Dead
A
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SITE for residential de- velopment on the mainland slluated on Grampian Road and having an area of 30,750 square
an
So Yin-chung, a partner in the then visited Yokohama, Kebo,tion in honour of the Rear Ad
tomiral, the officers and mee of money chonger in Shanghul and Kure
the ship at his residence. The Hongkong.
News was received in Hong-feet fetched $21,300 at Governor and Lady Black will Aximiral Chakraverti attend.
kong, this morning of the denthuetton yesterday. Upset price Reur No Shred
Д Interview with Gald In an
On Friday, at 6.30 p.m.. the of an old Hongkong resident, was $15,375. Successful bidder "Taking all these matters China. Mail reporter that the Indian Association will hold a Henry ("Brab") Hellowes who was Mr Andrew Harper, an old together, I am inviting you to
we Far reception for officers and men died at his home in Glapwell, local resident. The unsuccessful tour of the Mysore
Foxerock, County Dublin, Ire bidder
representative of a say that the plaintiff has not on East served to extend goodwill of the ship and at 8.30 pm,
diner party will be held by land.
well-known foreign real estate any probability convinced you and promote friendship.
the Commodore of Hongkong. Mr Hallowes was a member company. Mr H Harper has pur- that this winning ticket Wha The ship had undertaken at
of the Public Works Depart-chased a site big enough for stolen from him and that my sea which was part of the pro- client either stole it or took Itgramme of the tour he said.
ment pre-war, and was intemed throe detached houses of the by the Japanese during the oc-European type but be intends to from thieves," Counsel said. He
Rear Admiral dur- submitted that there was
retired and settled down in which he proposes to move from shred of doubt that the defen- Shanghai, he visited Peking for dant was entled to receive the one day and visited the Indian
his present residence in the Ireland. prize of the sweep.
Andrew Harper Building. The Ambassador and the Chinese
rest my Leong in tús address sald | Defence Minister, among others,
of the site will be turned Mr McNelli could not dispute He said both In Shanghai and
into a garden, with possibly a W.O.L.: No name or addrass. smaller building for his the fact that the law was that Peking, he was wormly wel-
civil cases, the
wipers and Besides don't you think publica-purposes. prepon-comed by the Chinese. aerance of probability may con
The Mysore will leave one spare tyre were stolen from tion of your letter would spoil stitute a suillefent ground for
Saturday to continue her tour private car parked outside the film for hundreds who have verdict. He also cited author to North Vietnam and Singa-No 27 Cambridge Road, Kow- not yet seen it? Ed, China
loon. pore before returning home,
In
Uos,
Hearing is continuing.
Hon The Bulp's tiveronystay in Thefts From Cars Cupation. After the war, he build only one bungalow into
Vice-Mayor Goes Back To Manila
Mr Jesus ILoces, Vice-Mayor of Manila, who returned from 23-day tour of China on Saturday, Jeft for
Manila this morning by' Hongkong Airways Viscount airliner. He was accompanied by his assistant, Mr W. Lesno, and a Howspaperman, Mr P. Tinoco,
*The Vice-Mayor declined to speak
the Press before leaving.
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Housebreaking
A man was arrested yesterday afternoon following the theft of cash and property valued at $930 at No. 15 Cambridge Road, 2nd floor, Kowloon.
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On
A man was arrested early this morning following the thef: of five hub caps from two pri- vate cars in Cheung Sha Street, near Nathan. Road, Kowloon.
Two windscreen
Mall.
REPLIES
On the left is Mr L. 8. Shaw, the Principal of the Exhibition of Chinese Paintings discussing one of the exhibits with friends at the Hongkong Chinese Art Club's exhibition at St. John's Cathedral Hail thle morning. --- China Mali Photo,
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own
Magnate;
Bird's Eye View: Get my broker, Mias Joner.
Secretary: Yes, sir, stock or paron?
The annual custom, of Lan- chow
women to expose their legs in the sunshine on the sixt day of the sixth moon has been. celebrated with great thusiasm. Favoured with glori- ous weather, thousands of .women in the capital city of Kansu flocked to the open spaces outside the city and exposed their legs to the sunlight in the confident ballef that this would prevent them from contracting contagious diseases in mummer. The custom dates back to time immemorial.
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