THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, `1960.
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WHEN you consider that the area of the City of Victoria extended in narrow formation between the present Queen's Road Central and East, and Hollywood Road, and that the population in 1850 was some 25,000, it is easy to soe, judging by the number of crime incidents, that Hongkong had the largest criminal class in the world comparatively speaking.
This was the headache that May inherited when he landed in the Colony in 1845, and it was with him always during his 17 years service with the Colonial Police.
He first tried to organise the What is in the case he is vật- Force, and put in for a stranger ting on? The blend face of the Establishment which meant In- shopkeeper that betrays only his creased pollee rates, This idea celestial origin breaks into a was knocked on the head right smile. He has no idea. A away by the residents who friend of a friend of a friendi #sk- reckoned (quite rightly) that ed him to look after li for a few they were not getting value for days. money as it was.
Mr Caldwell smoltes also and
So Charles May had to make comments upon the value of do with what he had. Although friendship and the obligations it Then and only then a humane man by any standards, imposes.
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be.
May was not a sentimentalist, does he again ask what is in the He knew nothing of the Colony case, when he arrived, he knew Nove knows Eave the distant nothing of the Chinese criminal fiend
Into classes who swarmed
the Suppose they Joolt merely island--but he knew criminals. ratisfy their curiosity.
The Seven Blais district of The shopkeeper thinks this London, and lower Drury Lane might cause a breach of friend- provided proof of his thesis that ship. Mr Caldwell docs too, but crimiunts as a class are inter- on the other hand, lie hai national.
come so curious,
So, in this vein, the upshot is not only 13
shopkerper arrested, the stulen goods re- covered, but while the long and pleasani conversation ita course, the gunboat Fury has siled up under cover of the darkness and captured the piratical junk.
Queen
the
has rur
Then he had as an assistant, a Mr Caldwell who was quite a character. He could speak the Cantonese dialect uently and was one of those Englishmen who could absolutely lose them- KOWLOON selves in foreign backgrounds, I tell you this, had Rudyard
THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC NOTICE.
He knew all kinds of queer Kiping come to Hongkong In- people in Hongkong. He had stead of India, he would have the most unusual friends in the written a book as exciting as most unusual places. But he "Kim" around the life of Cald-
EARLY BOOKING ESSENTIAL TO AVOID was no crank, and 1 think it is well,
DISAPPOINTMENT,
MORPHY
RICHARDS
CLEANER
Super-Suction
Sale Agents:
FAGAN (HONG KONG) LTD.
Cao House Bt., Hongkoop, Shomrsamı Alexander Armour Tol. 1720)
due to him that the records of You could say of Caldwell- this time show spme 'outstanding police work.
that he was one with rather than of the Chinese, and he be- came a legendary figure in the annals of all evil doers,
Bur-
0
It was due to Caldwell that the murder case 1 describe in the Hongkong Story was nolved
Yel at Umeh one is puzzled. It was due to Caldwell that the One Binds him in such queer pirates took such beating company; one finds him The criminal classes endowed prisingly enriched. He was him with the dubious quality of lone wolf leading a pack Im being some supernatural being far off.
For Caldwell never made the
But only when he wanted to mistake of
impatient hunt. being There was a robbery, say, in Queen's Road. The only way of disposing of the stolen property was to get it out of the island in But at rst quieter spot. everyone is watching, so the loot is divided up into smaller por tions all over Victoria.
a
Months pass by; all is forgot ten if not forgiven. So a certain Junk le told to michor off Aber deen while the loot, already sold, is collected in a shop at Aber. deen.
Ability
But he rerved the early Victorians well, and his learning and amazing ability to get under the skin of the Chinese served foreign sources well. And the Colony respected him.
A leader in the Hongkong
Moy remark in Register 1850:-
"We have learnt, with ex- And then In the peace of the night, just as the coolies are ireme pleasure, that Mr Cald- about to carry the stolen pro- well is, at length, in a fair way bring rewarded for his perty to the boat loading the of
arduous and meritorious services
Junk, Air Caldwell arrives with
to this Colony. a party of polloemen.
"We understand that he has Nor does he behave as an
appoint- angry red-faced Western bar- received the further barlon should. Although is ment of paid interpreter at the midnight, he is neither tired nor Supreme and Chlef Magistrate's impatient. Ho extremely Courts, which will ack £150 per annum to his salary, and will courteous and accepta a cip
make Ho asles politely after the Government, as Aislant Super tea.
his income under up health of the shopkeeper, ex- presses no surprise that the shop Intendent of Police, Joint Axes is lighted and that a gang of sor of Police Rates, and Inter-
coolies hang around.
of
IL is not until he has finished his tea that he asks an awkward question.
preter to annum."
about
£600 per
That was a good wage then, and when such a paper as The Hongkong Register admitted someone in Government deserved their wages, you can reckon it high praise indeed.
On the other hand, the news- papers could be severely critical
that
of the custom of Hongkong. had demanded to be suppåled with rice, and that being re- fused, helped themselves.
"Constabley wore sent, who chased one
bo21 pull-away from the vessel (the crew succeeded in cresping ashore), on board of which was found several plculs of rice.
"The applicant was vised to come over
to
nd- the
Hongkong shore where the vesel would be protected; this he accordingly dia.
"On the same evening. Reveral Chinese reported that they bad escaped from the Junk, which was in the hands of pirates
their account being that they had been passengers from Penang, and that near Hainan, the
Junk had been attacked by several piralo vessels, the crew over- powered and they made pri-
soner.
**The Police, noting upon this information and taking charge of the vessel. found that those upon board were
in several parties who stated that they had been captured by the pirates, and concurred In charging nine men being part of those who had explored them,"
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"Connected with all this is an amount of mystery which we will allow time and the Supreme Court to clear up.
Victoria jail with
PRITISH Justice held no terrors for men used to punishment like this, Dthe prospect of regular meals seemed at the time like a holiday resort for the scum of China who flocked to Hongkong.
nights earlier.
We have received a Chin- ese version of the affair which Police search is made, and his robbery effected by means of a The row spread to England, we have suppressed. The
are on the fish-look on the end of a bam- and strange as it appears now, pratical attack on the vessels uniform and books
for side of the bar counter, a boo, Inserted through a broken several provincial towns held at Chinamo in 1847, and the
the belief for drink the
(This method protest meatings in security
happy square of glass. murders consequent thereon, constable has consumed
Chow of Ma a few is shll, used today in stealing that the books were distinolly traced to a
from
the care, when
owners Wong hnd boen burned to pro- organisation proceeding from this Island: the parties in that case, as in this, fearless of de- tection brought their loot here for sale.
"It does seem more than time.
guard of Police have strange to us, without
Stolen, between the hours of stationed at the Naval Stores in renson, men with piracy
gomo
on
May was too good a police. man to be caught up in this,
A look at Police Intelligence leave the small glass ventilator teet a public offfect, for July D, 1880, gives a good open.) idoa of the petty criminal's activities in Hongkong at the The China Mall mentions that he was vory sure of what he
G
been
8 & 9 pm, from the house of Teu of the Military withdrawn
HONGKONG
The
By JOHN
POLICE
LUFF-
was doing, and he went in with
n straight prosecution, and
pored the side issues.
Ma Chow Wong was departedì, but is followers wanted to know what bad happened to their "protection,"
Well, there wasn't much could be done, but such as there was remained in getting rid of May. The smear campaign tried to get him on brothels, and later an attempt was made to frame
him on a bribery charge.
Inquiry
their consciences and blood on Mr Carr, Gough Street, a French in consequence of the sickness their hands, are found to show clock
entrance effected of the garrison, and complains suck temerity.
through a window and. un- that the Community suffer as a *Wic have long doubled hinging the venetians; the consequence_of_ a portion of
But they did not get away. whether the Chinese Con- owner being at home at the the regular Police being so em-
with it. I fear I sinbulary act in good faith time.
ployed.
get mono in dealing with the towards their employers, and
"We have been told that an tonoria we would recommend there- About 5 nm on the 3d instant, additional number of men have crime area, but it was the .con- All honest fore that the Police Super- a fishing boat whilst off the ope been engaged for this particular sidered opinion of Intendent
(Charles May) a posite shore, was boarded bom duty. (Who pays for the add-on that the gamblingg houses well as the Police Magistrates, a pull-away boat by five armed tomat number of men... the in Tai Ping Shan were the zealously watch the conduct of men with spears; the
owner Colony?-Editor, Hongkong Re- places where
originated the members of it.
resisted and was wounded; the plater)". "Of the
May 37 men examined thieves left without carrying off
So the Colony went its grum-. at the Chief Mazistrate's the booty.
bllag way, and all the time, do quiry, and found several of his Office, nine have been com-
what he might, Charles May subordinate officers were milled to take their trial at
license the nover got on top of the job, but civing bribes. An attempt was the next sitting of the Supreme
garabling ho did make one or two hauls, made to Court."
houses, but the U.K. would not and prosecuted with vigour.
For instance, there was the hear of it. notorious
Chow pirate Ma
Under the Administration of wong. In hooking and success. Six Hervules Robinson, May fully promeuting this pirate, did much better with the Force, Charlos May found he had up- turned a hornets' nest.
Sc.
Nagging
in short, it con bo mid
Stolen about 4 am on the 3d instant from 277 Lower Dazaar, several articles of Chinese clothing, entrance effected from an unoccupied house by means of a bamboo ladder.
of the police, as the following that all during this period there will show. The circumstances i was a constant nagging at the Stolen, during the forenoun of have already mentioned, namely Police, and a well-favoured con- the 4th instant, from the house that once the Police Force was tempt. It is merely necessary to of Caplain Jarleson, Shelly formed, the Chinese
criminal say, even on fear of repetition, Street, supposed to be with tho societies took care to see that neither the pay nor the condi- connivaned of servants, a email they were represented in the tions attracted the right kind of gilt elbek and a les caddy, ranks of the Hongkong Police. man.
So, in the Hongkong Register of July 2, 1950:-
No respectable Chinese would have considered entering the Police Force # career, the whole idea being so outrageous
that it would have been mnd ness to consider it.
Indian
Pay-roll
all the joba
Instituxd another en-
re-
and there was a definite fall away in crime."
on October 15, 1862, Charles May was made acting Chief Magistrate, while holding the concurrent post of Captain For who was on Ma Con
Superintendent of Pellee, Wong'o pay-roll? The Attorney
On July 7, 1852, May was General Impeached the Acting made the First Police Magistrate, Colonial
integrity He had weathered all ・storms,
Socretary's At 10 am on the Gila instant, = female child of about two by Insinuating he had burned and upon this appointment, he years old was found by an the Goolen of the convicted severed all connections with the constable, lying on the pirate bu order that the names Colonial Police Force which he wharf near Victoria Market; on the pay-coll should never had shaped over seventeen years, ahe has been handed over to bogome pubile properly, The the merciful cure of the Sisters Governor, Sir John Dowring of Charity,
took a holiday to Manlin just at the rivomert when they Stolen, sineo Saturday, from starved him with a subpoena. you discover the stores of Messrs Smith and The scandal was simply sheck
A Brimelow, 4 pieces of chintz, ing, and the libel criminal,
"POLICE INTELLIGENCE
"On the afternoon of the 19th ultimo, a Chincan repro sented to the police that he was the owner of a grain ship from Singapore, which was anchored off the Kowloon shore, and begged assistance might be rendered him.
"A number of persona, tak- Time and time ing advantage of ħla ignorance one of the latter missing.
The Europeans avaliable were of the lowest kind; men who dared put return to England and who had found happy anonymity in the Army.
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