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seven years' hard labour and to receive a flog. ging of 20 strokes of the birch within the first week; the second prisouer was sentenced to Ave years' hard labour and to receive one fog ging of 20 strokes within the first w. ek.
FOBBERY,
Wong Fo and Li Hing were convicted of robbery and were each sentenced to four years' hard labour and to receive a flogging of 20 | strokes within the first week of their imprison ment.
NOT GUILTY.
Chan Choi, charged with robbery at Chung- shawan on 30th December, is found by the jury not guilty and was discharged.
The Court adjourned.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HI, HONOUR A. G. WISE (PUISNE JUDGY).
TYSING SHOP v. LAUTS, WEGENER AND CO.
The bearing was resumed of the case in which the Tysing shop claimed from Messrs. Lauts, Wegener & Co. the sum of $1,125, restricted to $1,000, as damages for the non- delivery of 100 cases of beer, being part of 200 cases purchased by the plaintiffs" from the defendants and paid for on 23rd June, 1902, the other portion of which, namely 100 cases, was taken delivery of by the plaintiffs on or about 30th June, 1902.
Mr. J. Hastings of Messrs. Deacon and Hastings, solicitors, appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. G. C. C. Master of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, solicitors, was for the
defendants.
After hearing further argument, His Lordship gave judgment for the defendants with costs.
Thursday, 19th February.
IN CRIMINAL JurisdicTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM M.
GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE).
THE DIOCESAN SCHOOL BURGLARY.
Wong Hing, Chan Hui Yan and Kam I were charged with burglariously entering the Dioce- sau Girl's School and assaulting the superinton- dent and one of the teachers on 2ad January; also with attempt to strangle.
They pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled :—Messrs. W. A. Stopani, J. Lacock, A.. E. de 8 Alres, E. J. Raymond, W. . C. Spalckhaver, A, Sheffield, and A. G. da Rocha.
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The Attorney-G neral Sir Henry S. Berkeley conducted the prosecution (instructed by Mr. E. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor). In opening the case the Attorney-General said the offence charged against the prisoners was of a most serious description. They were charged with having in the dead of night entered the Diocesan Girls' School with intent to commit a burglary and with having, in order to effect their purpose, violently assaulted two or three of the ladies who were in charge of that institution. The School was presided over by Miss Skipton, assisted by Miss Hawker and others. At an early hour in the morning of the 2nd of January Miss Skipton was asleep in her bedroom on the first fibor when she was awakened by feeling somebody clutching her throat. She attempted to scream for assistance but was unable to do so on account of the extreme pressure put upon her throat. While being thus assaulted she heard her teacher, Miss Hawker, calling for help. After a time the man who was holding Miss Skipton let go his hold of her throat. Thereupon she rous d the school children, who ran for assistance. Thea she went outside on to the verandah where Miss Hawker was.
There WES man trying to come ia over the balustrade but Miss Hawker pushed him back. At the same time that Miss Skipton was awakened, Miss Hawker was awakened by a light in her room. She called out, and the light was ex- tinguished. Then she heard Miss Skipton calling for assistance. She was proceeding to Miss Skipton's room when she met a man who seized her by the throat and threw her down. I
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[February 23, 1903. : separates the well of the Court from the public scats. Standing in a row, each with a num- berod tablet hang round his neck, they filled the entire width of the court-room.
After a_time_be left. Meanwhile, one of the papils, Hana h Moorn, who had been awakened along with the others, came out on to the verandab end saw a Chinaman on his hands and knees between Miss Skipton's and Miss Hawker's rooms. The young lady seized him, punched him, got hold of his cue; hat she was not strong enough, and he got away. She had enough contact with bim, however, to say he had a thick coat and a cap on. One of the prisouers, the second, had been formerly employed at the School as a cook's mate and know the premises. When the ladies went downstairs they found that a glass door in the dining-room had been broken, so as to make an aperture His Lordship, addressing Mr. Morgan Phillips, sufficiently large to permit of the entrance said that he appeared to have been very success. of the body of a
would A drawer in the ful in his defence; his services, of course, man. dining-room table had been broken open and not now te required in the case. its contents were scattered about. There were Mr. Morgan Phillips-If your Lordship marks of candle-grease aud bloodstains about pleases.
found verandah were the place. On the s pieces-everal of tape and string. Now, as to the connection of the prisoners with the affair : ́about three o'clock on the morning in question a Chinese constable saw a maa running from the direction of the School. He arrested the man and took him back to the School, where Miss Moore identified him by his clothes as the man with whom she had the rough-and-tumble. When arrest he had in bis hinds some tape and string precisely like that found on the verandah at the place where Miss Hawker was attacked, When taken to the police station and searched a packet of pepper was found in his possession; and it was a well-known fact that Chinese robbers were in the habit of asing pepper (o throw in the eyes of their victims. From information given by this man to the police the second and third prisoners were afterwards, arrested.
The Attorney-General Sir Henry S. Berkeley, who conducted the osse for the Crown (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, Crown Solicitor), stated g to his Lordship that he had filed an indictment against the prisoners for the murder of an Indian watchman at Quarry Bay, but on further consideration he had decided to proceed against- them on a charge of riot and wounding with intent to murder. His learned friend Mr. Morgan Phillips was for the defence.
Evidence was called.
The jury, after an absence of about 15 minutes, found all the prisoners guilty as libelled, the first and second unanimously and the third by a majority of six to one.
Two previous convictions were put in against the second prisoner.
His Lordship sentenced the first and third prisoners each to seven years' hard labour and to receive a whipping of 20 strokes with the birch within the first week, and the second to eight years' hard labour and also to receive 20 strokes with the birch.
A98 \ULT AND ROBBERY,
Lai Kang Sang and Lo Li were charged with having committed assault and robbery at Shaukiwan West on 18th January.
They pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled Mes
Essrs. C. C. Corveth, A. M. Barradas, R. B. Cooper, A. B. Gomes, jr., W. Puddepha, A. Forbes, and J. Lysaught.
Evidence was led to the effect that the complainant, a Chinese woman, was asleep in her matshed at Shaukiwan with her little son when three men entered. One of them held her by the throat, another gagged the boy, and the third took off the woman's jewelry. They then m.de off. Subsequently the complainant recognised the two prisɔners in the market and gave them into custody.
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His Lordship further remarked that he quite course taken by the concurred with the Attorney-General. He had read the deposi- tions and it seemed to him that it would be more satisfactory to proceed on the lesser charge.
The Attorney-General said it was with" great satisfaction that he heard these words from his Lordship's lips, b cause this was a matter of great responsibility. He was afraid it would be hardly possible for him to press the capital charge in view of the circumstances of doubt as to who actually caused the death of the watchman.
The charge was then read over to the prison- ers, who all pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled:-Messrs. P. E. da Silva, A. 8. Gomes, jr., A. E. de S. Alves, C. Warren, R. B Cooper, W. l'adephia, and F. de P. Barros.
The Attorney-General in opening the caSO kaid that in support of the charge of "wounding with intent to murder it would be necessary to prove that the prisoners or some of them weru all engaged in a common purpose and wounded the watchmen whose names appeared in the He would have to prove that the indictment. prisoners wounded the watchmen in such a manner and with such weapons as would lead- the jury to suppose that their intention was toi kill. With regard to the riot he would have to. prove that at least three of the prisonersi assembled together and behaved in such a manner as was calculated to inspire terror. In this case there were some watchmen at Quarry! Bay'set upon and stoned and one was killed and others were very seriously injured. From that fact he thought that if the jury were satisfied that the prisoners were the persons who formed that mob and threw the stones which caused the death of one watchman and the injury of others. It would not be too much to ask the jury to say that the prisoners intended to do that which they actually did. On 21st December, about five o'clock in the evening, an Indian watchman was on duty at Quarry Bay Shipyard Works at a point where the railway crosses the road. As the coolies w.re leaving their work this watchman stopped two Chinese women carrying wood and snatched the wood from them, This watchman, by the way, was the cause of all this trouble and had since been convicted and fined for beating oue of these. women. Evidently the coolies passing were · enraged at 'what the watchman did to the woman, but at the outs:t he need hardly tell the jury! that although the watchman struck the woman the coolies were not for a moment justified in resorting to the extreme measures adopted- by these men. Since duelling was aboli,bød men bad to resort to the law and not take the - law into their own hands. Instead of takingį out a summons against the watchman, as theys cught to have done, these coolies set upon him; with their fists and bamboos and he ran towards: No. 1 watchman, about 150 yards off, with the: whole crowd at his heels. While running he THE QUARRY BAY RIOT. Nineteen coolies were brought up for trial in was being stoned by the people who were connection with the riot at Quarry Bay which pursuing him. The diffenity was to come to the conclusion who were the people who were resulted in the death of an Indian watobmın and serious injuries to others. The unusual stoning him. His duty would be to assist the number of the socused parties necessitated a jury in arriving at an accurate conclusion on that point. They would be at one upon this complete rearrangement of the internal äosom- modation of the Court. The ordinary railed pofut-that whoever did it was committing a bar, which holds half-a-dozen or so prisoners, breach of the law. The nineteen men now. was removed altogether, and on that side of the|| charged had been identified as having taken chamber were placed the seats for the jurors part in the riot and the stone:throwing. and the European public. As for the prisoners. A number of other watchmen came to the they were ranged" behind the railing which | azsistance of the first watchman to be aşmulted,»
The jury ananimously fou id the prisoners guilty, 8 libelled.
His Lordship tentouced them each to four years' imprisonment with hard labour and to receive 20 strokes with the birch.
The Court adjourned.
Friday, 2th February.
IN CRIMINAL JurisdicTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR WILLIAM M. GOODMAN (Chief Justice),
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