June 24, 1899.
in a crate in which the Chinese carry pigs, thrown into the river, and drowned, the crate and the body being subsequently recovered by the troops,
Soon afterwards the man's widow and his son laid an information at the Central Police Station, and enquiries were instituted which re- salted in the issuing of a warrant for the arrest of Tang Ching Sze.
The police came across their man unexpected. | ly. On Thursday afternoon 15th June à tele phone message was sent from the Registrar- General's office to the Central Police Station sta- ing that the man who was wanted for the murder of Tang Cheung was there, having come about same land. (Chief DetectiveInspector Hanson and aChinese detective at once went to the Registrar- General's Office and found Tang Ching Sze there. The warrant was produced by Mr. Han- son and read over to the man, who was forth- with taken into custody.
Prisoner was brought up at the Magistracy on Saturday, and after formal evidence of arrest had been given he was remanded until Thurs- day. Prisoner is a man getting on in years and has not a particularly ferocious aspect.
ANOTHER ARREST.
At the Magistacy on Tuesday another China- man-Cheong Kie-was charged with being concerned in the murder of Tang Cheung, the man who was posting H. E. the Governor's pro- clamation at Un Loong on the 17th April. He denied the charge. Formal evidence of arrest having been given by a Chinese constable prisoner was remanded.
PROCEEDINGS AT THE MAGISTRACY.
At the Magistracy on Thursday two China- men-Tang Tsing Sz aud Cherng Ting-were charged with the murder of Tang Cheong, who was posting the proclamation of H.E. the Governor last April when he was seized and brutally murdered, together with two other
men.
Captain-Superintendent May conducted the case on behalf of the prosecution.
Ng Fang Cheong said-I live at Un Loong and am a student. I am one of the gentry of Un Loong village and am a Chinese B.A. have been living there for sixty years. I know first defendant, but do not remember having seen second defendant. I remember the sixth day of the third moon (April 15th).' I went to the meeting house at Un Loong between seven and eight in the evening aud I saw Pang A Mo bring in a Hakka. Pang A Mo belongs to Fung Sui, near Taipo. The Hakka was handed over to the meeting house. I do not remember what elders were present. The Hakka man was looked up in a room. I did not go to the meet. ing house on the next day, but on the day after I went there at foar p.m. I heard that Tung Cheong had been arrested and I went to look at him. Tang Cheong deals in oysters and belongs to A Cheung. Tang Cheong is not alive now. When I went to the meeting house Tung Cheong asked me to rescue him, and I asked, "How am I to rescue you." Tang Cheong said, "Tell your younger brother to write to Tung Chak Hing to bail me out." Tung Chak Hing is an elder of A Cheong. I then went to find my younger brother, who wrote a letter to Tung Chak Hing, who did not come. That night at sight o'clock I went with Chow Young to free Tung Cheong, who was still in the meeting house. When we got there we found he had three chains on his hands and foot. Chow Young loosed two chains, but he could not find the key for the third chain. I told him to go away and he replied, "I dare not return to A Cheung, and I said, "If you dare not go to A Cheong go to Hongkong." He replied "I have no money." Then I said. "If you have no money I will give you one dollar passage." I gave him a dollar and told Chow Young to take him to another place, broke the lock, and let him go "free. We took him as far as the gate lead- ing to Un Loong Market and then we met first defendant. I spoke to him and said I had freed Tung Cheong. First defendant said, "Why did you free him so soon. He is an A Cheong man, and ought to have been banded over to the A Cheong elders." I said, "better let him go here." First defendant then said, "If he is to be let go let me let him go," and 1 told Chau Yeung to hand him over and I went
home,
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Kwan Pui Chi said-I live at Un Loong and am a seller of dried meat. I have lived at Un Loong four generations. I know first defen- dant, who has a house at A Cheung. He is one of the elders. I also know second defendant. He is a Samchun man and is a coolie in the Po On gambling house at Un Loong. I have known him since the third moon of this year I did not know him before the eighth day of the third moon. I remember the eighth day of the third moou. At seven p. m. on that day I went to the Un Loon meeting house. I had heard that five men had been arrested and I went to see them. I saw five men in five pig baskets. The men were chained up. I know two of these men. One was Tung Cheong and the other Chan Kwai Shui Tai. Tung Cheong was an A Cheung man. I met him in Hongkong last year. Among those in the meeting house were defendants and some others. They were talking about letting go two of the men and killing the other three. I heard first defendant say Tung Cheong was communicating with the foreigners and selling his country. Ng Ki Heung said Chun Kwai Shui Tai was not a good man. I saw two of the men let out from the pig baskets and shut up in a room. I did not hear any reason given why these two men were let out. Lum Ching Tse said to Tam Pok Tan. These three deserve to die for com- municating with foreigners and selling their country." Then Lum Ching Tse said to Lum Pk Chau, "Let us wait until mid- night when the tide is high." He also said a boat must be got ready for eight o'clock-that a boat was to be engaged and it was to be said that three pigs were wanted to be taken aboard. The boat was to be in a creek some distance from the meeting house. 1 and Lam Pak Han went down to the river and engaged the boat and then defendants and others went to the gambling house to consult. I also went there. First defendant said Tung Cheong had been communicating with the foreigners and selling his country. Lum Pak Tan said, For these
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storeys ablaze, and soon afterwards the roof became ignited. Only part of the roof, however, was destroyed. In the meantime huge quan tities of water were poured on to the burning material, but it seemed to have but little effect, and a large amount of the stuff stored in the building was destroyed. The work of olearing out the flour, etc., which had not caught was commenced forthwith, and several junks which had been drawn alongside the wharf were filled. The firemen were hard at work all yesterday, and they will no doubt have to stand by to-day and to-morrow. The loss will be heavy. The building is insured with the Hong- kong Fire Insurance Co. Limited, and the South British Insurance Co. for which Messra. S. J. David and Co. are the agents has a line of over $100,000 on the contents.
19th June.
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The fire at the Wo Ou Godowns at West Point was still smouldering on Saturday and Sunday, but a fair estimate of the total damage can now be formed, and it is believed that it will reach $150,000. The building belongs, as we have previously stated, to the Land Invest- ment Company and is insured with the Hong- - koug Fire Insurance Company, Limited, but the damage done to it is not extensive. Many of those who had goods stored in the godowns will, however, lose heavily, between forty and fifty of them not having taken the precaution to insure. The following are the names of those covered by insurance, with the goods they had stored in the godowns, the names of the Insurance Companies, and the amounts :—--
Yenng Fat, Bonham Strand West, sugar, Chau. Wing Lok Street, sugar, Messrs. Car- Chun On Insurance Company, $50,000. Ling
lowitz & Co., $30,000. Kwong Wing On, Bon. ham Strand, flour, Messrs. S. J. David & Co.,
$50,000. Kwong Yan Hing, Wing Lok Street, four, Messrs. S. J. David & Co., $30,000. Chit Wo, 15, Queen Street, flour, Chuon On, $30,000. It seems that the last time anyone inspected the godowus was at eight o'clock on Thursday night, when all was found to be right. So far as
is known no one went in in the meantime, and how the fire commenced is a mystery.
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three men to die is not wrong." Then first defendaut said. Wait till 12 o'clock, when the tide is high and do for them." Lum Pak Tan then went and called six l'an. Tin men, and carried out the three men who were in the JNKS ATTACKED AT MIRS BAY, who went to the meeting house, with defendauts
baskets to the side of the creek. The gambl- ing house is just opposite the meeting house. When the three men were taken away I followed THE OCCUPANTS CARRIED AWAY. with the crowd. Tang Chenug wept and Mercy, save life." He called out in this way when he was being carried to the boat and the boatmen refused to take the three men.
First defendant then said, “Here then,' and gave a revolver to second defendant, who find two shots at Tung Cheong but did not
cried out.
kill him. First defendant then said, "give me the revolver; let me shoot." First defendant then fired two shots at Tung Cheong and killed him. Then Lum Pak Tau and Tai Tak Tuk pushed the other two men who were in baskets into the water. Then Lum Pak Tan fired two shots out of a revolver at Chun Kwai Shui Tai, who was one of the men in the baskets. After
the murder 20 cents was given to each of the men at the creek side as a reward.
The case was adjourned.
GODOWNS ON FIRE AT WEST
POINT.
17th June.
At about a quarter to five yesterday morning a district watchman discovered that the godowns Nos. 24 and 25. Praya West, were on fire, He at once informed the police, and the Central Police Station being communicated with, Cap- tain Superintendent May and a number of fire men made for the scane of the outbreak with a
A RANSOM DEMANDED.
We have already had abundant evidence that our new territory across the harbour is inha- bited by a good many lawless spirits, though the activity of the police and the severe punish- ment which is being inflicted upon offenders are likely to ere long have the effect of keeping them within bounds. The Acting Chief Justice on Thursday sentenced the armed robbers from Lautan to a flogging, and seven years' imprisonment.
4.
While every effort is being made to clear out undesirable characters from British territory the same cannot be said of acrossthe border, with the result that those who have broken the laws in British erritory are able to elude pursuit by taking trefuge in the Chinese portion of the Peninsula.
A remarkable instance of this was reported to the police on Thursday, when news arrived that 30 armed men had attacked a couple of junks in Mirs Bay and carried about $200 and the occupants across the line, subsequently sending ́ one of the men to Taipohu to seek for rausom. This map came across the police and told them his story, and word was sent to Hongkong. The affair is one in which vigorous action is necessary.
quantity of hose. They found that the fire had got a good hold in front and their endeavours were consequently directed chiefly to preventing its spreading to the back and to the adjoining H.M.S. Phonis returned from Weihaiwei buildings. The godowns, which belong to the yesterday, says the Shanghai Mercury of the Land Investment Company, and are known as 12th June, bringing Messra, Wood, Beeston, the Wo On Godowns, are two storeys in height and Burrows (H.B.M.'s Police Magistrate) who and are large buildings. They were literally took part in the cricket and tennis matches packed from floor to ceiling with cotton, which Shanghai played with the British fleet. baga of flour, sugar, and matting. The probs The Navy won practically everything, including bility is that the fire had been smouldering the hearts of their guests, whom they treated. all night, as when the firemen arrived they right royally. The rest of the defeated column found the floor between the first and second l arrived by the Tungchową,