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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
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December 22, 1900.] caught him. The first prisoner then gave The Attorney-General said the first prisoner November, and in case number 5 you pleaded away his comrade, the second prisoner, who had pleaded guilty to stealing, and therefore he guilty to housebreaking with intent to commit had pleaded guil'y to receiving the stolen did not care to trouble the jury about the second larceny on the 18th November. It is clear, goods. Then the police from information re- count of receiving so far as the first prisoner therefore, that your case is a very bad ons. You ceived went to the house No. 6, Sin Hing Lane. I was concerned. He would be satisfied with a think you can come down to this colony and On the second floor there was a cubicle which verdict of not guilty on the secord count. As prey upon the peaceable inhabitants of it." You was rented by the old woman, the third prison- regarded the second prisoner that was a matter will find you are mistaken, and will have a long- er. This old woman came to Hongkong about for the jury. The question chiefly was whether time to think about your mistake in gaol. The the 28th October. She rented this cubicle about he received this property knowing it to have been sentence of the Court apon you is that three weeks before this robbery, and this cubicle stolen on the 15th November at No. 3, Wo Hon you be imprisoned for nine months with hard was nothing in the world but a receiving house. Street, where there were some people living. The labour in case number 3; that you be imprisoned It contained the produce of several robberies. cook went out at 11 o'clock in the morning, lock with hard labour for two years in case number There was not a shadow of doubt that the jurying the door after him. On returning about 6; that you be imprisoned with hard labour for would come to the conclusion that the place was three-quarters of an hour afterwards ho found two years in case number 4; and that you be rented practically for the purpose of facilitating that the premises had been broken into during | imprisoned for 15 months with hard labour in thieving. She and her so-called son, who had his absence and a number of things stolen. | case number 5, the sentences to follow one pleaded guilty to receiving these things, resided Among the things stolen and recovered was a there. There was only one cubicle between waistcoat, which the second prisoner was found them, and it was perfectly absurd that the old wearing, some of the other property being also woman was under the impression that her found in the cubicle occupied by them.
came by these things honestly. The Evidence was led, and the jury found the first second prisoner had pleaded guilty to receiv-prisoner not guilty of receiving, and the second ing these things because he could not help prisoner not guilty of stealing but guilty of rẻ himself, the having been found on the place ceiving. where his mother was living. The first The Attorney-General said there were two prisoner had pleaded guilty to stealing the more cases in which these prisoners were con- things, and he was satisfied with that. As re-cerned-No. 3, in which Chan Chai was charged garded the second prisoner, he had pleaded with (1) housebreaking and (2) receiving stolen guilty to receiving and he was satisfied with property; and No. 7, in which Chan Chui, Tang that. He was not satisfied that he did not take Wing, and Chan Kwan, who were charged with part in stealing the goods, but he was satisfied (1) housebreaking and (2) receiving stolen goods. with his plea of guilty of receiving. Of course He thought Chan Chai might be called upon to the old woman pleaded not guilty, and it would plead in the third case-that was the charge be for the jury to say whether she was guilty against Chan Chui alone, or not.
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Evidence having been given by the cook, the woman servant, and Chau Yu Ping, Sergeant Murison entered the box, and deposed to find.; ing some of the stolen property in the cubicle rented by the third prisoner at No. 6, Sin Hing Lane, as well as the proceeds of other robberies. Some of the latter were identified by the owners. On Kam Shing, sergeant interpretar at the Central Police Station, gare evidence as to statements made by the prisoners on their being charged. The woman in her statement said it was not she who received the property, A man named Chan brought the things to her in a trunk, and her son opened it. They took something out and went to pawn it. She knew that that was stolen property.
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On the indictment being read over to him the prisoner pleaded guilty of receiving and not guilty of stealing.
The Attorney-General-I am quite content with that plea, my Lord. I do not propose to proceed further with the case.
The Attorney-General said there was another casa - No. 7-in which all the three prisoners were concerned. He did not know that any useful purpose would be served by going on with it.
think you have done
The Chief Justice: enough to vindicate justics.
The Attorney-General asked that the pro- party pawned might be handed back to the owners without compensation to the pawn-
: brokers.
Addressing the second prisoner, the Chief Justice said-You, Tang Wing, were tried on two indictments-cases numbers 6 and 4. În case number 6 you were convicted by the verdict of the jury of receiving stolen goods on the 15th November last. In case number 4 you pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods on the 17th November last. I am not at all sure in my own mind that you did not have a part in the rob- bory and housebreaking aud larceny as well. But, however, that was not brought home against you, and therefore no effect is given to that. At any rate you were receiving stolen goods in a wholesale fashion. The sentence of the Court upon you is that in case number 6 you be imprisoned for nine months with hard labour, and that you undergo a similar sentence in case number 4. The sentence in case number 4 will take effect on the expiration of the sentence in case number 6.
Addressing the third prisoner, the Chief Jus- tice said -You, Chan Kwan, were tried on an indictment which charged you with receiving stolen goods on the 17th November last. That was in caso number 4; you pleaded not guilty, but the jury found you guilty on very clear evidence. I have no doubt that you and your son, the secon1 pri oner, regularly organised this place to receive stolon goods, those goods being stolen by the first prisoner and perhaps by your son, the second prisoner, also. The son- tence of the Court upon you is that you undergo imprisonment for nine months with hard la
bour.
His Lordship, however, directed that it
THE CASE AGAINST BERNARD JORUS: should be returned on the payment to the pawn- Bernard Jorus, who was charged with the brokers of the amount for which the property | defilement of a girl between 12 and 16 years of was pawned.
age, pleaded not guilty. The accused was de- The Chief Justice directed that the whole offended by Mr. Slade. the three prisoners concerned in these charges should be brought up to-morrow morning for sentence.
A TRIAD SOCIETY CASE.
The jurors were Messrs. V. F. V. Ribeiro, T. Spafford, E. Shellim, L. C. do Rozario, John Gloyn, H. Struebay, J. M. G. Pereira.
In his address to the jury, the Chief Justica advised them to return a vendict of not guilty on the second count against the first prisoner, seeing that he had pleaded guilty to stealing the goods. He recommended them to return a verdict of not guilty on the first count against the second prisoner, who had pleaded guilty to receiving the goods. The woman had pleaded not guilty on both counts. His Lordship re- minded the jury that the Attorney-General had also given evidence of goods stolen from 11, Wing On Street, on the 10th November,! and 3, Wo On Lane, on the 15th November, being found in the cubicle of the third prisoner. The jury acted upon the suggestion of the Chief Justice with regard to the first and second It appeared from the statement of the At-time Customs as a tide-waiter, and he knew prisoners. They found the woman not guilty torney General that on the 30th October, the nothing against him at that time and unt 1 this on the first count and guilty on the second, police visited a house in the Tai Hang Village, offence. He married a Chinese woman named count.
behind the Polo Ground occupied by the pri-Loung Yan at the Registrar General's Offico soner, and Sergeant Ritshio found theroin in a on the 15th February, 1889, and four years after basket belonging to the prisoner cortain articles | his marriage he left the Customs at Canton and which had been identified as being connected came to Hongkong. They did not seem to have with the Triad Society.
had any children, although they had been mar- ried 11 years. On coming to Hongkong they The jury found the prisoner not guilty, and lived at various places. At one time they
The Attorney-General (the Hon. W. Meigh Liu Ng, who was charged with being a mom-Goodman, Q.C.) said that at the time when her of an unlawful society, pleaded not guilty. The jury was composed of the following Messrs. L. C. do Rozario, A Ellis, E. A. da Silva, J. M. A. Graça, D S. Gubbay, E. A. H. Siebs, and T. F. A. Verney.
ANOTHER CASE AGAINST THE SAME PRISONERS.
The Chief Justice-Attorney-General: Yon have another case against the first prisoner.
The Attorney-General said he had two or three. He did not think it would be necessary
Evidence was then led.
to proceed with more than one other case as ho was accordingly discharged.
things stood. The first prisoner had pleaded guilty to breaking in with intent to steal, and he had also pleaded guilty to stealing. There being two convictions against him he was in- clined to stop there. As to the second prisbuer,
Wednesday, 19th December.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
this offence was committed- some time at the beginning of last month-the accused was living at the Eastern Hotel, for which he obtained a license in October, 1899, Jorus was formerly in the service of the Mari-
lived at Wanchai. Then they went to 165, Queen's Road East. Then they went to Kowloon, and remained there till about July, 1899, when the y returned to Wanchai and final- ly went to the Eastern Hotel, which was at 192 and 194, Queen's Road East. Having no | children of her own, the woman appeared to have adopted three daughters at different times--one named Ah Lin, who was 18 months old when adopted; another named Sul Kam, who Chan Chin, Tang Wing, and Chan Kwan, was adopted when three days old; and a who had been concerned in several housebreak-third named Chan Lui Hee, who was adopted by, ing cases, came up for judgment.
TON, C.M.G. (CHIEF JUSTICE).
there was only one conviction against him, and BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN CARBING- he thought it would be necessary to take another case. He proposed to take the case No. 6, in which the second prisoner was discovered wear- ing part of the stolen property. He did not intend to proceed against the old woman further.
The sixth case was then proceeded with. The counts in the indictment were the same as in the previous case. The first prisoner pleaded guilty on the first count and not guilty on the second. The second prisoner pleaded not guilty on both counts.
The jurors were Messrs. V. F. F. Ribeiro, E. Shellim, H. B. Carter, C. Klinck, F. H. Yeats, R. Saxon, and J. M. G. Pereira.
THE HOUSEBREAKING CASES.
The Chief Justice, addressing the first pri- soner, said-Chsa Chiu, you were tried on four indictments yesterday. The first was in case number 3. You there pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods on the 7th of November last. In case number 6 you pleaded guilty to house- breaking and larceny committed on the 15th November. In case number 4 you pleaded guilty to housebreaking and larceny on the 17th
this woman when about six years old, Chinese reckoning. Chinese reckoning was different from European reckoning. An European child was not considered to be one year old until it had been in the world 12 months, but a Chinese child was considered to be one year old as soon as it is born. The age of the third child at present was somewhere about 14 years and a half. Things went on for some time. A year or two ago there was some sort of quarrel be.