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MAN BREAKS DOWN IN TRIAL 25
Became Agitated MR BURGESS VISITS MARINE DEPARTMENT.
During Cross-Examination
A coplie accused of murder broke down in the Supreme Court this morning and shouted that he had stabbed a business competitor at the Central Market for vengeance and that he would do it to any one else who got in his way.
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Fong Yick-chen, who giving evidence on his own be- tal at Arst told the Crown that Protecutor, Mr Simon 1,
he could not say how the dead man, Chan Chari-yu, was stab- hrd.
However, as the cross exam- ination went on Fong g.ew more and more agitated und Mr Ll put it to him that he had stube, bed Chen for vengecn.e. FR broke down completely and shoutcal;
Y9.
I did i fer venger we.! Never mind if I die. I have reason to slab another person.
Stab Myself
"Even if I die i do not mind.
I will stub myself; stab myself
and show you my heart,
"I have been, a coolie in the markets for ten years and have never had a fight before. Give me a knife and I will stab my- self and show you my heart."
Addressing Mr Justice A. D. Scholes and the jury of five men and two
Fong women abouted; "I ask that you deal with the case properly and fairly."
out
He was forcibly taken from the dock
went and Lesticulating and still talking.
Business Argument Earlier, Fong pleaded not guilty to murdering Chan stabbing him in the back July 23.
on
'Unscrupulous And Selfish Landlord'
Mr Henry G. Leong, of
Henry G. Leong Estates, Ltd., was described by Mr Patrick Yu "an un- The Officer Administering scrupulous and selfish | the Government, Mr C. B. landlord" this morning at Burgess, visited the Murine the tenancy tribunal.
Department and its estab.
was
TOSS-
air Yu was referring to state-lishments on the Island and
Mr. Henry Yaumati this morning. ITALIS nade by Leong when he
He was accompanied by examined yesterday as to his proposed scheme.or demolishing. a building at 643 to 061 Nathan Read, for which he is applying for exemptico.
There are eight shops on the ground
the Director of Marine, Mr A. G. Parker.
The above picture was taken at the Yaumati work-
Man's Claim For
$8,000 For Beer
four of the existing shops and shows Mr C. H. Mr George Max Koeper, a German merchant, told
building and some of the oc- Renfrew
explaining ma-
Mr Burgesa
cupants of these have un pro-chinery to Maple businesses where for dif- | China Mail Photo. teen years.
Some have offered Mr Henry Leong construction
money and
4 higher rent to enable them to
re-enter the new building of
seven
storcys which he
hopes
to build on the site it exemption
is granted.
He has turned these offers
by down.
TO MAKE MONEY Yesterday, when it was
sugTM
WOMAN LOST
Mr E. Corbally at Central Magistracy that he delivered almost $8,000 worth of beer to a Chinese woman and man but had not been paid.
FOUR FINGERS Anne Chan, 32,
IN CHOPPER
He said that on July 22 be- gested by opponents solicitore ATTACK:
tween 9.30 und 10 p.m. he and Chan had fought because of a business argument.
Afler they were separated, Chan had struck Fong on the head with a bamboo pole.
Fong sold he ran home to get knite to defend himself.
When he returned Chan's manner suggested he was going
to hit him again.
kong said he drew the knife and Chan rushed towards him
to try and seize the weapon.
Both Fell
Chan grabbed Fong round the body and they both fell forward on to the ground.
"I cannot say how Chan stabbed," sald Fong.
wus
that he did not have the in- terests of his tenants at
រ
MAN
Accuard of obtaining credit by fraud are Chen Siu-imi alius of Yis Villa, Foklulam, and Cheng Kwan- shing, alias Kenneth Chung, of 2 Essex Road,
Mr Koeper said that sometime in July last year Mr Cheng in- troduced him to Miss Chan and
that told him
she could kell
Beer, German Baverlla
for
heart, GOES FOR TRIAL |which he held the sole agency
Mr Leong replied: "How can I? I cannot have both my own in- terests and theirs at heart."
It was obvious, Mr Yu said this morning in his final sub- mission to the tribunal on be- half of her opposing clients that Mr Leong intended to make as much money for himself possible out
scheme of this without regard to the welfare ut his tenuats.
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was
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or
re-
The new scheme, he said, did not represent the maximum even the optimum developmen: of which the site was capable,
the prd;oced staurant and dance hall on three floors any more desirable than might the tenement flats which have been built there above the shops, which Mr Leong dismiss- ed as unsuitable to the neigh- bourhood but which were really de- necessary to meet a known mand.
The existing premises con Tae hearing before Mr Juh- lained eight shops on the ground fice A. D. Scholes, is continuing. | Roor whereas the
new scheme Mr Bimoa L. Crown Counsel, pro- offered only seven.
He said that Inter he picked up the niko
because he was afraid of, being beaten up by olher Cantonese coolies.
He ran away and discorded the knite. He was arrested on July 20.
secuted.
Mr K. S. GI detended Fong.
The hearing continues,
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A man, Two Kau, who is accused of wounding a 5-year-old Chinese woman in a cubicle AL 85 Tung Choi Street ground flour, Kowloon, on the morning of September 15 pleaded not guilty at the Dia- trict Court before Judre B. J. Jennings this morning.
in Hongkong.
that Miss Chan Cheng said
very good connections with local merchants.
Mr Koeper said he offered her a job as his eelling agent so that she could operate under his licene:
Later, she showed him a s of names of clients who wanted beer and also a list of the quantity they wanted.
He sent to both accused a samete contract and they re of beer which he delivered to turned it, asking for 500 cartons
I was stated in Court by the prosecution that
accused the had been out of work for some time and was borrowing money from other inmates at 35 Tuns Choi Street where he occupied & them cubicle on the ground floor near
The boor was worth $7,928 that of the violim.
trd They were given our mulas to pay.
Witness said he never rem ceived any money in return.
Hearing continues this after-
One of the inmates had seen Tso Kau uctually hitting the woman with A chopper while she lay on a camp bed outside her cubicle,
She received three wounds in the head two measuring S Inches long and one 3 inches, Angers on her lett and four hand and her right hand thumb were almost severed.
She had been taken to Kow- toon Hospital where they had to be amputated,
The woman is now back at homo but had to be fed, as she was almost helpless, arid was ungble to continue her occupa¬ tion of basket making.
11.
A
Trial is fixed for November
NOT WANTED
1,000
Man Denies
Embezzling
Me
Sung Sheunghong, Chaman of the Hongkong and Kewiocn Pentecostal Mission, 1c2fed today that rumours Leout him embezzling $500,000 in Mission funds contributed to a split in church membership last year,
..But
2 Fires
по
Sequel To Woman's Death
Policeman Chased
Chased U
Man Down Three Flights Of Stairs
A policeman told the Supreme Court today how he chased a man down three starøys onto the street soon after a woman feil to her death from verandah.
Constable Koo Fong-hin was testifying at the trial of CYKLI Chi-kam, 39, who picaded not guilty to murdering the woman, Chan Kiu, 03. by throwing her from the third
floer 0 Wo On Lece on May 8, 1956.
Koo said that shortly before dawn on May 8 he and Another voller officer had gone to the building after hearing police whistles.
Noises Inside
not
the
They went to the third floor and fount the door closed. Koo said he would bear noises of turnure being moved coming from aside.
They could door, Keo add he went down to the eccond floor, and the eiher policenic wall out and returned with two more police to an elderly Chinese woman. They went Into the room.
too said he stayed outside. He
heard branging noises,
One constable ran past him, followed by a civilian bare from the waist up.
Koo said he chased hira down into the street,
N
TRIADS GO
IN FOR
VOCATIONAL
TRAINING
years -AGO
YNDER blazing banner headlines the South China Morning Post report- ed "KING Of Siam Abdi- cates".
The acnsational news, sald the report, comes from London that the King of Siam has ab dicated. The National Assembly at Bangkok has not yet signi- flex its agreement.
The crists arises as the sequel to the, recent estabilsh- ment of Д constitutional old
monarchy in pince of the
absolute system.
The National Assembly pro-
poses to modify the Royal pre-
gative in death sentences.
Its toxallon of the Royal es- tutes has also irked the king.
A republie is considered likely but meanwhile civil war is thought to have broken out.”
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XX7E regret to record the death of Mrs Nancy Stewart which occurred at the Victoria Hospital on Saturday morning after a long illness. She was the wife of Ronald Leslie Ste- wart, of the staff of the Certain triad elements in Union Insurance Society of Wanchai were recruiting Canton Ltd. She was 29 young shoes shine boys years of age.
and training them to be beggars, Detective In- spector R. G. Laurel told Mr Y, L. Yang at Contral Magistracy this morning.
عد الفحل
Three of these young beg gare were located and they told the
after that
their "training" period" they were The man was holding some- allowed to bez in the Fenwick thing in his hand. A party of Pier area, for which privilege police
the stopped
fleeing they have to pay 50 cents a day civiling and he brandished the to their protectors. object at them.
す
Handcuffed Koo said he appeared
to
be
attacking the police.
The mon WDS subsequently handcuffed, Later Koo luid re-Chinese woman on a stretcher.
He said he could not identity the man.
¡Two roof-top squatter fires broke out damaging a total of nearly 42 huts, late this morning. There were
casualties ported.. One was at 672 Shanghai Street and the other of 80 Nanchang Street.
Hearing is continuing.
Mr G. B. Willie, Crown Counsel, prosecuted
Mr Herry K. L. Xu defended
Chim
Pleasure Junk For American Firm Launched In Colony
The average amount obtained
Insp.
by begging was $1.50. Laurel said they mostly begged from American sailors on shore leave.
Two of these "trainers" were Tong
arrested after inquiries, Chi-kwan, 20, and Chung Chi-
kwong, 19, who admitted being members of the Tan Yee and Tung Yee triad societies,
Tong who had a clear record, was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment and two years" Police supervision,
Chung, who was previously cautioned for being o tried triad member, but persisted activities and associating with trlads, was sentenced to two years intizomment plus a Anc of $2,000
A further months.
от
The 35-foot long junk, Bofus No. 3. bullt at a local ship.|| Former
yard for an American firm, was Launched this morning at Shaukiwan.
The Junk built on traditional Chinese lines was launched at the Chun Hing Shipyard, by Mrs James G. Robinson, wife Broadcasting of the National Corporation's Hongkong corres- pendent.
The Bofus No. 3, made of teak and yacal, will be shipped to America tomorrow on board the Akikawuro Maru.
The owners, Junks Ltd., have their head office in Atlanta, Georgia,
THE THIRD
MORE CARS
AND MORE ACCIDENTS
More and
more vehicles are being registered by the Traffic
Police
It is the third jurk that the Branch of the Hongkook Poʻlor,
Hong- and the Commissioner he denied that these frm has bought from rumours and opposition against kong yards. The first two were in his annust report points out that accident statisiles can be him by members of the Kow-25-foot long beats..
The Bolus No. 3, constructed | expected to become more-de- Kuching, Oct. 22. teen bigach prompted him to
in Tine weddus, is luxuriately pressing. determined campaign Is repay large sum of money he being waged by Sarswak trade | bad unions to prevent unskilled funds, borrowed from Mission equipped and can take 14 pas-
His Excellency and Lady ADC Peel attended by the were the guest at lunch of Afr W. J. Keswick at Fanling.
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TROM the SCM Post's kong has fallen on evil umes Years Ago column: "Hong- is to lose its unique pride of place as the one free port of the Far East. The liquor duties measure is undoubtedly the flest insertion of the wedge, and the residents of Hongkong lament the change which the hard times dictate"
Built in 1901, the "Ohel Leal", or the Jewish Synago- gue in Hongkong, which has been showing signs of the passage of the years will soon Plans have renovated. been made for a new roof to be erected and various other improvements to the building are being contemplated..
be
Consul In HK
During the year, 3.320 more kong and now the A Money Stolen From
In 1966-57, there were 20,830 aircraft from Formosa, on. bis
European Woman
singers on long cruises. It has In a 12-month period from been ordered for pleasure pur-1958-89. 154 persona died on the or semi-skilled workers from He was
evidence
arords, as compared to 128 in
Drumright, *Mr. Everett F. Hongkong and other areas during the second day of an. poses, and is powered by
· 1957-58. being allowed entry into the action he has brought in the outboard motor.
Mrs John Dominis, Hongkong
former consul-generat in Hang- Colony,
Supreme Court to obtain an order that 'the Pentecostal partner of the American com- The unions claim that over Tabernacle in Waterloo Road is bimming to like boats, and tng the latout
Dany said, "Everyone in Ameries vehicles were registered hiring, minbassador, 'to Tatpal," serived seas workers are taking jobs be declared Mission property,
total to 37,377. - here this morning by mliliary Should be sent to Hongkong & from local-born, men, who are Mr Sung and Mr Wong King- they have found Chinese Junks
vehicles' registered. Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown (No. 2 now unable to find employment, fong, Secretary of the Missions excellent for their purposes."
Showed she expected more.
way to the United States vis and that the government should also Bre asking. Mr Justice
Doa Hon ficctz-made Gate) by 5.00 p.m. on 22nd October, impose a ban on thele entry. -
Accidens statistics have shown | Hurope, Gregg for an order that would ders
| n ́gradual, Anórákat,. Erem. 13,760 1959.
The Government has replied make Mrs Lee Wong So-ching, Junk, "in the near", Suture,
in 2086-57, 10, 12542 in 1987-BE. Ile is on 's fhrno-mastih laavaa mumber of choques, walk atalen. that the entry of workers treasurer of the Kowloon church,
This your the practically all of them Chinese execute a declaration of trust of
Sgure stood at and will have csomaltations with into the colony is very strictly the property in favour of the Vico-Admiral F. N. Kivette,3 3,022.-
HDYorkzaami ---- while controlled and that Govern- Mission.
Commander, United States
This latest Basie Ei vakiote | Washinglan, ment pulley, is only to allow in They also want her to render Seventh Fleet, et in his - dipate- skilled men to do jobs which to thern All accounts of all ship USS St Paul this morning registrations: zorama tigst there cannot be performed by locals. monies belonging to the Mission for the Philippiner after a weekn | are nearly 13 walición ver mije
́of road in' the 'Cholesty Kince 1950.
visit here.
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