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15 YEARS AFTER, A SUPERINTENDENT STILL HOPES TO CATCH THE HEDGEROW KILLER From the Files
Stealing The police chief keeps his date 25
charge
quashed
Mr. Justige C. W. Reece
at the Appeals Court tha morning quaskert Con. virtion on a larceny charge in an appeal brought by a 49-year-old man. Тво Chul-chun,
Tao had been convicted by a magistrate on ♫ charg of stealing two bags of cement,
Quanhing the conviction, Mr Justice Reece remark- ed that to muslain a con- viction on a ineceny charge
It must be established thal
sloten the property
belonged to some one, and in the present case there was no evidence of owner- ship,
Mr Зняное quashed the conviction on
Reece also
a second charge of breach
of bond wilch
hat been
tlio
registered following canylction on the iąteeny charge.
Bad record:
no reduction
in sentence
with
witchcraft
By ANTHONY DAVIS
London, Feb. 2..
A village is waiting for the return of a county police chief who still hopes to solve a 15-year-old murder, believed to be Britain's last witchcraft killing. Every year since the murder Superintendent Alex Spooner has made a journey back to the Warwickshire village of Lower Quinton.
Now Singapore
wants ban on HK plastic exports
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
On February 14, 1945- 15t Valentine's Day 74-year-old hedgecutter Charles Walton was found dead near his home there. Els throat was slashed with his own bhook. His body WDS stapled to the ground with his own pitchfork.
Why does the superintendent make his annual visit on the anniversary of the murder?
He lold int, "I go to the village and talk to people. I let myself be seen. If the murderer is stil! about he wants the crime for- gotten. My reurn strows his that it has not been forgotte and may wear him down.
"I don't need the file. Every
mind."
It was at noon that death came to Charles Wallon as le cut a hedge on Meon Hil.
The old man, short-tempereu with the villagers, was reputed
2 animals.
And
when the police began
question toumed: Was witch- craft behind the killing?
their investigation, a disturbing
Singapore plastic manufacturers are date and every detail is in my
clamouring for restrictions on imports of Hongkong-made plastic goods. Seven Singapore manufacturers are banding them- selves together to form a federation whose major purpose would be to bring about Government order restricting foreign imports. Mr Justice C. W: Recce in
the Appeals Court this One leading manufacturer said "But the precedent of any morning dismissed an ap-in Singapore on Monday that restriction will bode ill for the poal against a 24 months' the Singapore market was al-future of the Hongkong Industry.
most entirely flooded with plas- sentence on two charges uc goods made in Hongkong. of larceny brought by UK. and Japan, Chow Sang.
"So keep is the competition that our own products almost The Judge remarked
cannot And a foothold in the standing alone, the
local market," he said, would appear to be severe, Javing regard to the accused's record of 10 previous convictions, sony for a similar Tetice, r uld not think he simuld interfere with the sentence.
that sentence
Mr Justice Recce also dis- missed on appeal by Tang Long
a six months' sentenc agalust for herein possession.
"If you behave yourself in jail. you will get a reduction In penalty," his Lordship sald. That's the best advice I can give you, I be afraid I cannot help you on this occasion,"
Sales chief
Hongkong's share
"From January to August a total of $3,040,000 last year, worth of plastic goods was in- posted into this area.
"Of these, 40 per cent camě from Hongkong, 30 per cent from Japan and ten per cent from UK."
He demanded that the Singa- pure Guvernment adopt a pro- that the local tective polley so
maintained industry could and expanded to give more em- ployment.
be
The seven plastic manufactur- ers in Singapore annuntly turn out S$100,000 worth of products
Hongkong plastic shipments lo Singapore and Malaya consist mosity of utensils such as cups, pans, buckets, dishes, and plates To just begun "which have! flourish".
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Boycott
Sir,--} find your editorial "The Wrong Way' much more.
BU per cent of which are for ex-muddle-headed than you allege port to Malaya.
Said Mr S. K. Young. Chair-
Mr Graham Marlin-Turner, Overseas sales director of man of the Hongkong Plas- will arrive in ties Manufacturers Association, Formica L Hongkong this afternoon from There is nothing we can do to London on a lour of Far East stop them from raisbig a profët- markels,
tive tariff.
It is not true
that we
are selling out.......
We are just having one of
our usual..
Paquerette
Sales-
.....where all our customers
can get the bargains for which
we are so well known
TO-DAY...
TEE-SHIRTS
at practically next to nothing
-
OPEN TILL 6 P.M. DAILY
MR HOWELL
Leaving
after 30
years in Colony
Chino Mail Reporter
Man on murder charge called
a “boozer”
A foreman, of a factory today said a mark accused of murder was a "boozer."
He said this in evidence at Central Magistracy
before Mr K. A. S. Phillips.
Wong Fat, the foreman of the Hot Tung electro-plaUng factory, was testifying at the committal proceedings against 38-year-old Chung You-king, charged with the murder of Wong Cheuk-lam on December 10 at the Sun Fat electric blub factory at 3 Maldstone Lane,
Wong said the accused had been working in the factory as an electro-plater for about flye tr zix months and during that time, he W213
па known “becztr** as he drank quite a
lot.
Saw him drunk
a
Blind children feted on U.S. ship
party of 39
bilnd children
were entertained on board the USS Clymer this morning, They were accompanied by went round
"I saw him drunk before, Interpreters
waa
veral ether workers.
who
but not quite as drunk as he the ship with them and explain was on December 16 while hood to the children the various
me dining with
and features of the ship described
by escorting U.S. Navy person "He drank more than the rent
having taken three A splendid lunch was enjoyed of us, glasses of Chinese wine and by the children after their tour, some beer.
nfter which each child received
cl
to talk and sing Lords and Mr and Mrs J. S. Howell, popular mombore of tho Hongkong community for more than 30 yours, will leave the Colony on re- tirement on March 10, by the my Hamburg.
officers posted to and during that interval, he Me Howell was Hongkong by his firm, Norris
heard a commotion inside. Henty and Gardners, Ltd. in February, 1930, and was attach-
DAY OF SACRIFICE In 1873 un 80-year-old woraan had been similarly murdered at Long Compton, 10 miles away on the same ridge of hills. The murderer confessed that he kill
ed her because he believed sheed to the staff of Dodwelt and was a witch.
Co., Ltd., which had represented Norris, Henty and Gardners for ten years.
Whichcraft evidence piled up. Folklore experis told the police that St. Valentine's Day was u
Mr Howell was a specialist sacrificial day and that
the in diesel machinery, but when Hongkong hedgecutter's blood might have he first arrived in
revitalise the there been intended
were only six launches soil.
running in the harbour which Statements were made by
fitted with semi-diesel were people from miles away, who | engines, claimed to know secrets of
• black magto groups. "The villagers do not like the witchcraft theory," said Super- Bol Intendent Spooner. "But Fabian (retired Scotland Yard superintendent who also worked on the case) believed in it"
said the
"His
No other motive was found. "He had no enemies and we had no reason to think that he Labour polley to be.
had any secret hoord of money," South Africa has shown her-
superintendent. time
and again to be ud-purse was in his cottage, bending before moral pressure The only thing taken so for why should a different sort as we know was the cheap, old
watch that he carried. of pressure be applied to make her change a very reprehensible policy? Boycotts
self
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have
been
THEY WON'T TALK
In Lower Quinton, seven mules used successfully by the from Stratford-on-Avon, vil- Chinese against the Japanese lagers still turn away when the subject is raised. "No one wants before and if every nation had ubled by the economic sanctions to talk about it," a newcomer of the
Nations told me. League of against Italy when Mussolin! won engaged in his adventure In Ethiopia that sordid chapter In story might have taken different turn,
Fitting of hand-starting diesel engines quickly became general after that.
WENT TO SHANGHAI
over
Wong sold, that after dinner, he went out to the backyard to boll some water for his bath
He went in to investigate and I saw accused being held down on the floor by two workers, He added that he took' perused to a chair and then went outside
"Hokka and told
Girl." the nickname given to Cheung Kam-ming, not to fight with scrusod ng he was drunk.
"On coming back to the fac tory. I caw two workers, Cheung Cheong and Cheung Wing-int trying to snatch something from accused.
Gave a hand
ambulance
"I went to them and gave a hand. Cheung Cheong SUC- ceeded in snatching a triangular Ale from accused and we then In 1031 Mr Howelt went to
took him back to the factory, Shanghai for one year to re-
On the way, I saw a man General engine the Shanghal
Tillingying in a pool of blood, so after Company's Omnibus
baving seated accused on the Stevens petrol electric, buses; some choir, I dialled 999 and an when the Japanese Look
and the police ar- Shanghai 700 buses were fitted rived 10 infnutes later. Accused with diesel engines.
was handed over to the police." Wong identified the file as that belonging to him and that he used for scraping bearings. It was kept in his tool box and as the last time he used it was Ave or six days before | Pecember 10, he added. Hearing occinos,
Mr Howell returned to Hong- kong and arranged for the re- I engining of the Kowicon Moter Bus Company's business and the China Motor Bus Company's
The vehicular ferries con- structed in 1931
Atted were with
起码 engines,
many aro Hongkong Ishing junks.
For the whole of the war years Me Howell was interned wheat Stanley, where he worked with others in the Stanley
Wallon's cottage has now beer. pulled down. His niece, kept house for him, has married and moved away. Many of a workshop. friends are dead.
He has been an aedve mem-
One man who knew him, Miber for the last few years of Charles Robbins, former land- the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club, lord of the College Arms, wld his cruiser "Fair Lady" winning me: "We try to forget the the cruiser championship "3" of affair."
Class 18 series.
You say that "....no matter how
much we dislike their polteles, Britain has no right to interfere in the government their country." Under modern
One thing is certain, Superin- Mr and Mrs Howell intend to conditions the line betweLTI lendent Spooner will not forget rettle down in the New Forest domestic and foreign cirs is the affair. He still has five area. fast becoming a myth. Jews were being sent anew to, years to serve and his col- leagues do not expect him to
If the
New AOC due tomorrow
The A.O.C. designate, Air Commodore F. L. Donkin, is due
to arrive, with Mrs Donkin, by Transport Command Comat, at Kal Tak tomorrow morning.
They will be met by Air Vice Marshal and Mry P. D. Holdier. Air Vico Morahal and Mis Holder will leave Hongkong on the Carthage, sailing February
will leave They
trom
years AGO-
February, 1935
*ITH the retirement on
Wponsion of Mr A. R. Sutherland, Inspector of Schools, on Feb. 23, Mr J. Ralston, present Heal- master of Central British School, is to be appointed to take his place.
The Rev. G. E. S. Upsdell, who Home from recently returned leave and who is now at Queen's College, will be the now Head- master of Central British.
As from Wednesday, Febru- Row. Lary G, all districts in
|
loon are to be placed under water restrictions. The houra of supply will be from G a.m. to 11 am. and p.m. to a p.M
☆☆
TNDER bold
UN
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headlines stretching across six columns, the SCM Post told the story of the capture of the Butterfield and Swire ship, Tungchow, by pirates:
Hemmed within the saloon of the ship for three days, seventy British schoolchildren with five a specially bought garment 35 mistresses and their headmaster, a present.
found reilet from terrifying, ex- Those were subscribed for by periences in pirate hands when the
and men of USS the Butterfield and Swire steam- Clymer, and bought by arship Tungchow was escorted rangement with Miss Dorothy into harbour at 1.15 o'clock this
morning by BMS Dainty. Lee, Assistant Director of So- cial
Welfare Welfare, Yeuth Section. The
·
Sergeant Tihrivohoff, the chief Russian guard of the Tungehow Commander of the USS was shot dead by the pirates and Clymer, Captain D. Klein, and Mr K. McDonald, Second En- the ship's Chaplain, the Revgineer, was badly wounded in the R.J. Walsh, were responsible chest is a result of one of the for arranging the party with most clariling crimes in the bis- the Department of Social Wel- lory of the China Const.
The whole world was awake fare.
with anxiety when Tate yester day it was carried that HMS Hermes' aeroplanes and a num ber of warships had been cis- patched to the rescue of 70 chil- dren who had been at the merey of pirates in the China Seas for three days.
The children come from the Department's two centres for the Biind at the old Tsan Yuk Hospital and Hunghom, as well as from the Canosalon Home for the Blind ("Honeyville").
Accused of
robbery
with violence
During these three days, the pirates looted the ship to en extent which according to different cetimates varies from a few thousands to $250,003: painted two white circles with á red circle in between on the funnel, and altered the name of Tungchow to Tao Maru.
The pirates boarded the ship as passengers at Shanghai from where the children were retum- Ing to Chefoo after their holi-
The piracy occurred at 6. p.m. on Jan, 20 and the pirates left
of the
Accused of robbery with days, violence, Hon Lim-cheung, 30, of 480 Lockhart Road, fourth Goor, was remanded for three the ship at 2 pm. Ja February
the visit police custody for when further enquiries by Mr Derek geroplanes hastened their Cons at Central Magistracy this parture, morning
days In
I was alleged that at the staircase of 142 Hennessy Road yesterday; Hon. robbed 4 woman, Poon Po-chal, of handbag containing $101.15, a gold necklace with a pendant worth $109 and a palt ΟΙ leather gloves.
was also aliced that im encelistely after the robbery,
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gas chambers would you merely drop the case-Londen Express Woman assaulted Rauncher at mid-day by Hien ured personal violence.
confine yourself
ating "lesse, don'17" Or would you excuse the polley by muttering such pious platitudes as "iet hum who is without sin cart the first stone?"
day
Service.
Road accidents
Three persons, Including a man of 79 and a nine-year-uld boy, were injured in traffic ac- cidents yesterday,
Furthermore, your worthy contemporery, the South China Morning Post, is currently pub- Lishing the memoirs cf Sir An- thony Eden in which that astute aletaman has argued eloquently that there are certain circum- stances that makes interference in the affairs of another acces- sary.
You
that the Labour cause Inspired boycott would
trained relations between two members of the Commonwealth. If you are as concerned about the Commonwealth as you pre- tend to be you would know that the mad policy of South Africa is straining to the utmost At Its relationship with another member of the Commonwealth -namely, India, or doesn't India count because she is "coloured?" I any more power to the boy- coli and I for one will not buy South Africa. That is not to say that I am without sin. There are varying degrees of ain and the South African denial of equality strikes at the very rest of the democratic aystem which I presume you also believe in.
NUTS.
A Chinese woman was attack- cc and injured by a man in Fuk Wah Street, Shamrhulpo yester. day afternoon. The injured per- Fon was admitted to Kowloon Hospital for treatment,
A man has been detained by the Polico for questioning.
13.
RAF
Clothing stolen
A thief broke into the third floor flat of No. 25, McGregor Sireot last night and stole a quantity of clothing to a total value.of $200.
Cinema race to be first with giant screen
By ANTHONY FULLER, CHINA MAIL FILM REVIEWER
Theatro a quarter to twelve this
Royal turned this morning's show, which was morning, tho' curtains of the Theatre Royal, Kowloon, Intended for this. Press, alone,
into a publio, perforinancO. birgent parted to reveal the Acreen
erected in this | Thero was a gasp from the pack- over
ed houro, se the conventional 2. cinemascope, soreen Expanded to completely fill one side of the.cinema.
Colony.
And by doing so, the Theatre Koral won the race is be the firat to show
super Toonirama 70mm at a pubile performance,
For so keen has rivalry boosting
be worn the claemas that the }
The uge projectors tower so highs that a ladder has to be used to reach the top reel-
the holder which' is almost size of a bicycle wheel., {
No pita was taken,
Army Catering
Corps Controller
visiting HK
des
:
It is with great regret that we have to announce. the A death which occurred at the
French hospital
Mr of Thomas
Mitchell, Mordy formerly of the China Light and Power Co and more re- cently of the Texas Oil Com
pany.
U.S. general
calls on CBF
The Controller Army Catering General Emmelt O'Donnell, {Compt, the War Ofoc, Col. I. | Commander-in-Chief of the Scariobrick, will be visling Bri- United States Air Forer, Perliç, til Army units in the Colony | viited. Lieut-Gen. Sir Edrie from February 4 to 10.
Bastynn, Commander British The visit to Hongkong is poet Forces nt Flagstaff House this Fot a general tour of Für Bastorning.
Land Force.
General O'Donnell took the Col Sonrisbrick was Chief zalute and inspected a guard of The six-channel sound system Catering Adviser at Genera! honour drawn from X Company,
is operated from a different Headquarters For East Ind
1st Bn, the Royal Northumber department of the projection-Forets from 1947 to 1950,
Lundi
Capt. Pualilors under box. The effect of this sound
Accompanied by Llout-Co!
.A. K. C. HII, The regimental present Chlef colour was carried
by Lieut Calering Adviser, OHQ J. E. M. Kitchine.
Regimental marchies were The giant screen achieves at last FARELE, Col Scariobrick will
what the cinema prematurely morning frtin Singapore.
arrive at Kal Tak on Thursday played by the band and drums
of the Battalion, elaimed for Use firmi curved
TOON,
in the cinema is startling with L. F. Hayward, Its life-like, reproduction.
The Azores on the abreen do
stand out is eltreongopio za
11of.
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