SUPREME COURT. Wednesday, 25th November
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. BEFORE HI HONOUR A. G. Wisn (PUISNE Jupag.)
CLAIM AGAINST THE OPIUM VARMKRB
Lau Cheung sued the Chin Wa Hong Company and 11-Juk, excise officer No. 196, for $1,000 damages for malicious arrest, tale imprison mest, and malicions pro-eeution on the ith and 30th September, Mr. M. W. Slade, rister ut-law instructed by Mr F. X. d'Almada e Castro, solicitor), appeared for the plaintiff, and E. H. Sharp, KC harrister-at-law Mr. Hinstructed by Mr. H. W. Looker of Mesure. Deacon & lastings. solicitare), was for the defendants.
The stutement of claim was as follows:
THE WONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH 1963
To the Court, witness said he saw the plaintif na being the master of the shop back.
shot in the wound but did not extract them, was one of the exoies officers who had been con- cerned in the arrest of the plaintif in his own because the deceased was an European, and had house on the 22nd July and he cone-quently knew he commenced to look for shot, which must perfectly wall who he was. Wong Kau Chen necessarily have spread like a fan, through the was well known to the opian farmers; he was a whole body, it would havo necessitated a minate personal friend of one of the managers and dissection of the body. He way of opinion, that He the abot was delivered at least within fire yarda, Was frequently down there himself. said he k ow every exoiss officer by The shot was delivered from right to left. He sight and presumably they knar him. As could not tell the size of the shot.
John Gauld, sworn, deposed that be was an soon as phintill was arrested, in spits of a protest by the manager of the shop, he was Inspector of Police, By direction of the Acting taken off to the police station. Wong Kam Captain Superintendent of Polles he charged Chee promptly followed him and said to the defendant with the manslaughter of William inspector in charge or to the interpreter in the MeGregor on the 8th inst. He rout the charge hearing of the exeiss ofleer who had preferred over to him, with the usual caution. In answer the charge against the constable that the de. the defendant said it was a pura necidant, and fendant was not the run at all and that be witness wrote down what he said. That con-
The cluded the case for the prosnention, himself was the owner of the opium. interpreter told him to come back next day and tell the Magistrate that. He did so and the plaintiff was discharged. These were the facts
He thought of the ouse.
and probable cause
Having been duly cantioned defendant said he wished to resorve hin defence. Defendant was then formally committed to take his trial at
(1) The plaintiff is a gentleman residing at 5 | show a want of reason would be able to the next Sessions, bail being allowed sa before.
Wu Yin Fung, Victoria, in this Colony (2) The defendant Chin Wa lung is the opium farmer and the defendant. He Luk is an excime officer in the employ of the said op:um farmor. 3) On 29th September, 1903, the defendant Ho Lak in the exorciss of his duties as excise ofllcor, insether with eller excise officers and a European polies constable lawfully entered the premises, No. 26 Wellington Street, in the occupation of ana Wong Kam Cher, for the purpose of searching for opium. (4) At the time the defendant Ho Luk so entered the premises, the plaintiff was on the mid premises en a visit to Wong Kam
for the arrest of the plaintiff.
Plaintiff was
was
ASSAULTING A RICEBMA-COOLIE, Vice and Dopaty Consul General J, H. Bacon, of the U.S., was summoned for assaulting rickeha-coolie, when the case was ramandel to permit of the attendance of witnesses on his bobalf,
STOWAWAYE.
Five stowaways on the Tein Kai, whiske arrived on Monday from Singapore, were convicted and tied Sench, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment, and four hours in the stocks.
DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.
the murder of M. Sagquni, "As a foreign sloop disappeared immediately afterwards, it is bo- lieved that the wurdorer escaped therein.
Boston, 29th October. On the arrival of the steamer Ivernia, from Liverpool, to-day, Vohtan Krikerisaan, an Armenian, was arrested at the request of Scot. land Yard on a charge of being an accessory Sagouni in Loudon on Tuesday. Krikorinnen before the act of the tardor of M. Bagulei chuims that his object in coming to the United States was to attend lestures at Harvard, bat, wing searched, only five dollars was found his possession.
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THE INTEGRITY OF GREENLAND.
Halifax, N.8, 21th October. Replying to a referance sade in the Canadian House of Commous to the possibility of the United States obtaining possession of Green land to the detriment of Canadiau intorests, the Halifax Chronicle, the leading newspaper advocates the purchase of the island by Cuandı. supporter of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in Nova Sentia, The Chronicle says: "Unless prompt notion is taken we shall no doubt awaken sote dark morning to and that our neighbors bare encompassed as on the east aten, and At least if we cannot secure Greenland by FOR ESTIMATES OF ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION that we have another arbitration to fucr. purchase let us have some dednite Imperial The other half of the pronouncement with reference to it, unalogous to the bionroe Doctrine. continent is, by choice and by right, British. northwest solely for the purpose of annoying us The American Government bought land un cur and lessening the vales of our country. They are quits capable, if nacinecked, of pursuing u
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ARRIVALS FROM THE EAST.
(5) Certain piùra not covered by valid Plaintiff bad visited this house on the two con urgh, wasarrested for being drunk and incapable | similar policy in the east. Now is the time to go of Japan urnyed on the afternoon of
Evidence was then led for the plaintiff. Mr. Sharp is opening the case for the de- fence said the search was a lawful one, na vas admitted by the plaintiff, and contraband opint was found on the premises. Present und spparently had been Preparing to smoke opium. The spium-lamp was slight and opium was on the ting. He submitted that from the evidenes he wond bring bis Lordship would see that there was reasonable and probable cause for suppo-ing that the opium was the plaintiff's. The aneative days prior to his arrest and it seemd rertificas issued by the opium farmer was found under the circumstances that the epium was in on the premises in possession of Wong Kam his possession. The ground floor was visible Chee, (6) Notwithstanding that the opium way through the grating, and what the poisons on not in the plaintiff's possession, the defondsuts the first floor were doing when the police officer When the liciously enged the plaintiff to be arrested entered the shep bu could not my.
a false charge of by the constable on being in possession of the opium. (7) Plaintif raiding party went upstairs te men ware it. DIL be bed. Sit- was wrongfully imprisoned by the defandouts the culics, Plaintiff was in the pabies by being given into custody of the constable on ting this fulse charge for 14 hours until plaintiff gro-another man who, he believed, was Wong Kara curad bail. (8) Defendants maliciously, and with Cheo. It was not said they were smoking, out reasonable and probable cause, on the 28th but there was every facility for it. The lamp September preferred a charge of being illegally was lit and there was a good deal of ophum, -bolb contrabard and opium farm, on the tray. in assession of opinn against the plaintiff, and en the 30th September prosented the charge A lomon full of opium was lying on the before the Magistrate in the Pelics Court, when tray and also a hors box partially filled with
preparod opium. plaintiff was acquitted. Io claimed $1,000 dahinges.
and was lying down
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Rudolf Lemprecht, soaman on the s., Mar. in Queen's Itoad on Tuesday night, and was fued $3.
STEALING RUBBER BOSE.
So Cheng, a Chinone lodging-houes keeper, was found walking near the Central Fire Station yesterday morning with 45 feet of rubber hose merinn, for which he could, givo se He was convicted and given a $50 fine or two months' imprisonment. rossenable sount.
Cheng Yak was charged with breaking into No. 140 Connaught Road Central and stealing therefrom two metel pipes, the property of Cheong Yat Sang. His Worship save him a fine of $50 or two months' imprisonment.
BURGLARY,
LATE TELEGRAMS.
[VIA CANADA.?
THE ALASKA BONDARY AWARD,
London, 27th October.
of the
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company's ..
tho Srd ult. Vascoater having loft the Captain E. Beatham, INR reports Shanghai 22ed inst. Three fatalities occurred Washi giov, 28th October.
during the voyage: one man was drowned, two The American Public Health Association to
Chines die. On the final passage the passenger day further considered the big infecties comprised 24 cabin, 12 Earon deck, bren of human beings with animals, and undren, 64 Chinamen, three Chingyaren
tion and latened to several papers on th distribution of garbage. In dicen of the sides the mail she brought 119 tors of cargo for Hongkour, Morato N.E. monsoon wen ther was experienced. former subject," Dr. Muzyck P. Ravenel, of
The Boston S. 9. Company's Tremont arrived Philadelphia, regretted the disinclination of
yesterday. Captain T. W. Garrick reports Federal and State authorities to permit criminale condemned to death to be inoculated with theving left Seattle on the 25th it, Majibu emphatically controverted the common theory 15 in the cabin, 147 European dock, 153 China- tubercule germ in the interests of science. He inst. There was a very large passenger list: that sputnim is the underlying cause of tuber
SAN DOMINGO.
cular inf otiou, and said that there is not a liten, 7 Chinawomen, thre children, Tho sarge of evidence that it ever unused a singh caso of consisted of 6,200 tons of transhipment cour parised of Lay, oats, lamber: 23 tons of Hong- tuberculosis in my kind.
kong cargo comprised of watches, dried fish, four. A good paisage was experienced. Musta. Dodwall & Co., Ed., are agents of the stermer.
The Datah 8.A. Polyphemus arrived yesterday morning. Captain Young reports having left Yokabums on the 3rd. Shanghai 2 acklition to a mail there were 2,500 tus of transhipment cargo, 100 tons general for
Cape Haytien, 29th October. General Lavarro, the evolution ury Govor por of Monte Christo, Saste Dom inge, at the head of a strong force of troops, has joined General Morales, Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Dominican Revolutionists, with forces on San Domingo.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY CHANCELLORSHIP, London, 29th October: Lord Rosary, who has been nominated for the Chancellorship of Oxford University to be chosen ia pince of the late Marquis of Sadis- buty, has declined the offer and Lord Goschen is to be elected.
CANADA AND YR. CHAMBERLAIN.
the Hongkong agents.
The Windsor arrived on the afternoon Booth reports hwing loft Moji ou the 18th, of the 4th with 3,500 tons of coal. Captain Strong N.E. wind with high sea was exper*» ience on the passage.
Two reesels were found containing opium, also a lump of raw opium The statement of defence was as follows: which he understood was mixed with propited (1) The defendants have no knowledgens to opium and used in that way. A search was make of the sitting room, but nothing was whether the allegations contained in par 1 of The statement of cisim are true or not and they found there. A fro-taol tin of the opium
The Tince this morning publishes the text of therefore do pot admit the truths of such allega- farmer's opium was found in a locked box. certificate WAS produced. tione. (The defendants admit the truth of and for it a the allegations which are contained in par. 2 The constabio and the excise officers were of the opinions of the American members of the of the statement of claim. (3) The defendants
plaintiff. Ha believed that Wong Kami Choe Fifth Questions of the controversy, together adroit that on the 29th September, 1903, iho opium that the certificato was produced by the Alaskan Boundary Tribaual on the Second and the reported intention of moving the combined Hongkong. Messes. Butterfield unil Swire ace
Referring to this matter defendant Ho Lnk in the exercise of his duties opened the box, as he was manager of the shop, with a map of the Portland Canal and explana- as an excike officer together with other exciso The question was not who had the keys but who tory cerament. offers and an European police constable law-was in possession, or apparent possoasion, of the editorially, the Time considers it ought saccess- fully entered the premises No. 20, Wellington epinm. The constable asked who was the fully toullay any feeling of disquiet and says owner or master of the shop, but neither of the that it seems to confirm bo and dispute the Street for the purpose of searching for opium The defondants, however, do not admit that two men ausworod, Under those circumstances, views already advanced in its columns, namely,
United States hare very little
Toronto, 31st October. one Weng Kam Chae was in occupation the plaintiff having produced the certificate that the two tiny islands awarded to the of the said premises, as they have no know and being found lying on the bed, it was
At a special meeting of the Board of ledge whether he was so er not (4) The assumed that the niums was in his passes enorafous strategie rains claimed for them. defondants silmit that at the time when the sion, custody, or control, within the definitionWe admit," the paper goes on, "that it is re defendant to Ink so entered the said of the Ordinater. The constable consid-grettable that Lord Alverstone-after coming Trade held inst night, a resolution, heartily
dovision elear
was carried anonimously. By unanimous cor premises, the plaintiff was on the promises, ered that he had good grounds for micking to a fresh conclusion about the islets-failed to approving of Mr. Chamberlain's fecal proposals, but they do not rimit, as they have no know the arrest. After the arrest there was some ledge the subject, that he was on the pre-estion raised to the effect that plaintiff was to his Canadian colleagues, but we believe the sent part of the resolution, as originally drawn is on a visit to Wong, Ram Chee. The the wrong mar, cut as the castable knew he actual point of difference involved to be son providing for deg regard to the safety of the would be bailed out immediately he took him exceedingly animportant from a practical stand-industries of Canada, was stricken ont, so that def rdants admit that certain opium not
to the station and laid the charge Plaintiff point that we trust it will not staal is the way uo conditions were attached to the resolution covered Be the spiam farmer was found on
The passage we print to-day sbows speakers were onthusiastic in supporting the was bailed out within tan mientos or a quarter of of the reservod acceptance of the award by which was cabled to Mr. Chamberlain. All the the preuses, but they dong that it was found (+5) Iu
saro † resolation and incidentally some of than de if possession of Wong Kam (heo. answer to par, of the statement of claim hor. He subwitted that the plaintiff was Canada.
were good with Canada a common territorial lors, but weclared that Canada could not, in hogaur, much under the circumstances thers the defendants say as follows:-The said opium apparent possession of the suur and that how strong was the American se was apparently in the plaintif's possession grounds for supposing it was in his possession recognise, as transcending it, the common gain longer delay contribution to Imperial defence. and that defonduits did not ariest him of removing an obstacle to full concord with the great Republic with which every is of nature maliciously.
places us both in such cineo relations." ürtiele axonerates Sir Wilfrid Laurier from any desire for the separation of Canada from the Mother country.
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The
Halifax, N.S.. 28th October,
SHIPPING NOTES.
THE HONGKONGMASILA RUN. How there is room for so many steamers na
ARRIVAL FROM CHISA. The Indo-Chinu ss. Hung Sany arrived from Captain Wabu and Chunkiang Yestery Wade repads that on October 98th whils pesu Swatow he sighted a dietro sed ju horedown, lanachei Hleboat, took off thra, 94
ARIVALS FROM THE WEST, The Halurg Amerika Linin s“. Krraburg | arrived with a mail yesterday. Captain Jub rg urts having left Hamburg on the 3rd nit, Sanpora 12th inst. There were 512 Chinese voyage. The cargo 1or Hongkong, consisted of passengers: One Chinese passenger died on the
general.
tons of
The German as. Phrawing arrived with a muit on the afternoon of the 24th. Captain Mangeldarff reports having left Bangkok en the 4th. The cargo qonsisted of 1,500 tous ci rietors of wood. There were 31 Chinese pissingers. A strong N.E. gale was experienc al on the voyage.
The N. D. b. 88. Konig Albret arrived From Hamburg yesterday. Among tho passengers was Prince Adalbert of Gormany.
CLEARANCES.
The Frouch steamor Bivh Thane cleared for Kobe yesterday with 1,50 tons of general cargo. the is the steamer, it will be remontbered, that was recently wrecked on the sandy beach neur
and the said constable arrested him under a proper warrant which he held for the purpose.
Evidence was then led for the defence. The defendants did not nor did soy of them came the plaintiff to be arrested by the said
His Lordship in delivering jigment sait il constable eu nu charge whatever either emad te him that a very important point in maliciously or otherwise or at all: (7) The the case was the position of the plaintiff when plaintiff wes not imprinted either wrongfully the exciss officers and the constulle entered tho or at all by the defendants or any of them.
house. The plaintiff's story was that he went to The defendants did not ner did any of them
Defendants evidence was to the sitting-room. give the plaintif into the custody of the said sleep in a sort of semi-tranken state in the Day charge whatever. The effect that the opium was found in the cubicle. Plaintiff was detained by virine of the said He believed the plaintiff's story that he was warrant by the police at the charge-room asleep when the officers teed whether for 30 minutes paly and not for 1 hours from the sfocts of opium or of sarashu. If he was - whilst bait was being procured. Such dotainer asleep in the sitting-rooni there was 10 on what it claims to be the quanimous dissatisin i the Rohilla Maru or China Navigasjon steamers Cape Varolla, Mr. J. W. Jamevon witha salvigo | was not wrongfal and did not amount to alle cause to arrest him. Bat the defendants' tion of Canadiens at the action of the Britisht imprisonment. (8) On the 29th September the witnesses stated that they found him in the defesdent He Luk preferred a charge of salicles said he was sitting on the couch, being illegally in possession of opium ruinst the others that he was lying down-with the the plaintiff and on the 30th September, 1903, be lamp and all the opium-crankinir paraphernalia prosecuted the said charge before a Magis beside him and also some of the opium farmer's trate in the Central Police Court when opiam. If he was inside the cubicks where the The defeu- illicit opium was found clearly they had a rigut the plaintiff was discharged.
fide and daute
กว acted
to arrest him. On the point as to whether or not malies and with reasonable and probable causs it was Weag. Kam Ches who produced the in preferring and presenting the said ca e opium certificate the witnesses were at variance. 10) Si, ve iu so far as this statement of defences contains admissions of the allegations which are the officers entered. 1-fontants witness said contains in the statement of elsim the he was in the same as the paintill was in. dofondants deny the truth of enok and every Why he should go and make a scapegoat of of such allegations.
Mr. Slade in opening the cosa said that tho himself was rather curious: perhaps it was
that they wished to put up a new
with +1 wack less plaintiff was a young man of independent means who would get off who appeared to live a taste for opium not eaalty than the plaintin who had been twise Js convicted for being in possession of illicit soufactured by the opium farmer. January of last year ho was arrested in his own opium. His Lordship added that he believed the defendants witnesses altogether. Whether house by an excise officer and taken be ore the Magistrate who tied him 8300 for koing in
or Lot the plaintif hal be smoking opita pussession of opium without a valid cortificato
ou the night is question, ha tras certain he had
the Hongkong-Maniin run is a matter for The declaration that present relations hatween conjecture. The China & Manila .s. Rubi longer way made to-day by the Halifax of cargo. The lodo Chias as. Loongsung, a Canada and Great Britain connot exist much arrived from Manila on the 24th with two tons Chronicle, the leading newspaper supporter in freighterof no man dintusions, arrived the tato the Martime Provinces of the Liberal Party day with thirty tons only. ThoChinaand Maullo 5. Perla scrived from Iloilo in balinat a few In an unusually outspoken editorialun the Alas- kan Bundary Award, the Chemiel expresses, days ago. Nor, indved, hava the Rosetta Marie,
been loaded blow their Plimsoll marks. In fact, party got her off. The ongkong, & Whampoa to uz up the situation in a nutshell, the Dock Company's tug Fume was stranded when ferry" steamers on the Hongkong-Manila trying to sure the anchors used in solving the
pany the Hon. R. Shewan made a remark about ran practically travel no way in ballast every vessel. It was with great dificulty that the old royage. At a recent meting of a public crim tug was saved. The Bink Thun is now as
alliss" taking our trade away. Japanese officers, exeative and engineer, are certainly n cheap article. On the other hard the Rosetta Musu and Rohilla Mar, old P. & O, steamers, simply "eat" col. This expense must certainly
without
from the spinni farmer. On the 22nd July last tlo opium farmer caused a raid to be made on his premises and hp wes again found in illegal possession of opinna and was fuel 9750. Bizco then he had given up smoking opium.
His Lordelip-Daes he not smoke now? Mr. Blade--I believe pot,
Looker-Perhaps he Mr. (Langleter)
2
takes pills.
been smoking opium that wording. Judgment for defendants with eats.
The Court adjourned.
POLICE COURT.
Wednesday, 25ti Nos,mber. BEFORE M6. T. SECOME SMITH
(POLICE MAGISTRATE). -
THE NEW TSÍRITORY SHOOTING CASE.
The case in which Sergeant Lee was alerged with causing the death of Mr. Mettregar, under circumstances already reported in these columns, was again resumed yesterday afternoon, Sergeant Lea servondering to his hail.
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Other steamers just cleared at the Harbour Office include:-Victoria (Swedish stea ver). ballast, Baigon, Mongkut (Barman stormer), 150 tons general, 10 lower berths Cinese,
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This Alaskan episode has made it clear the way. that our existing relations to the Empire
now at the parting of cannot be coutinted mach longer. We are ever
sabordinate position has Our
become wabearably. clearly and hamiliatingly revealed that
speedily to Chronicle adds that there are now only two coarses open for Canada-complete legisla tive independence within the Empires acknow-input"
Thirty-five dolls return (first edging the sovereigsty of the King of China Navigation Co. Ld, were the first England alone, or the status of an independent to cat passage freight down to nation. The paper says that there is much to figure. Canada from the danger of being ever tripper who would otherwise have to spend commend the latter step, because it would freshes), is within the weans of many broiled with the United States on accounts holiday at house. Steamers of that its European convection, and at the au union known as the U. S. Mail bues carry a kong. This, of cours, has made "a big hole" time would secure for the Decinion ti bene deal of freight, etc. from Manila to Hong- in the cargo supply of smaller steamers. True, it of the protection of the Moure Dostring.
the local steamers get pretty well filled up ju M. Sagatel Sagauni President of the Hongkong. If they would only fill up ore
few cigars. The hemp at the doors of his lodgings lo Nunhead yester- at this port. Manila sends us little or no. Armenian Revolutionary Society, was murdered the water it would mean a drop in the freighta doy. The assassination has a political motive, thing exce 1
a great per, exported divest to its and was characterised by a bolders to which is, for London has seldom been treated. It crested destination. The fact of Hongkong being Lo annual sensation, since it appears to have been only an incident in a long and bitt r ren detta between fastins of Armenian revolu The attempted under of Peter tionists.
receut käling in Kuragian in Beston, a
angasination, Switzerland and this Babievements Accredited to the Armenian Radicals.
THE ARMENIAN ABSASSINATION IN LONDON. London, 27th October.
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at Hongkong fur beyond what one won!! imagine.
LOSS OF THE ARNOLD LUIKEN." Yesterday morning we reported the loss of the oil steamer Arrold Layker. She was a
The Arauld Luyken is the third vessel lost by the Hansestische Dampfor Co, in the lost near Vladivostock when on a voyuge from face of a very short time; the s.s. Peiyang wus
Kerosene is a very dangerous e irgo. Sumatra with petroleum, the Piccola was lost of the Saddles (not for from changhai).
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V. Š. O P. $47.00 PER DOZEN V. V. §. O. P. $8400 PER DOZEN.
Mr. Slade, continuing, said that on the 29th September plaintiff went on a visit to his friend
It is said that two members yeasel longing to the Hangeutische Dampfer Wong Kam Chee, who was menager of s Pawnshop at 26, Wellington Street On tho
3888. Her tonnego wue 1,742, length 260 fest,. Best floor was a largo cubicle and the front
of the Opposition parties Love already C of dambneg. was built at Flausturg in been killed ia Russia, though the London part was a sitting-room. Outside the room was verandah. The floor was compared of iron
Armenian Revolutionary Committee denies bra 37 feet, draught 14.5 feet The East grating so that anyong on the first fleer could
It is generally expected that M. Sagooni's death She was fully insured. see what was going below. On the day in
know.elge of er responsibility for this crimes. Asintie Trading Co were har local agents.
question Lau euch went to the shop in the
Dr. William Hunter, sworn, deposed that he only the prelude to other chapters in the them. express afternoon and stayed for the evening meal.
rge of the Mortuary at West Point. story of a bitter blood fend. Mmbers of the Several others were present and
and He held a post-morton examination on the body Armenian Committee hers plaintiff felt drowsy and lay down slept. About 7 p.m. an excise officer und of the deceased on the 9th inst. He examined solres as certain that the murder is the work a constable entered the premisen under the body, and on the back about the level of the of Alfarist mombor of the Radical
oines suggested by M. Sagouni'a
The Arnold Luyken's cargo consisted of Even their cheapest quality is recommended London, 28th October. warrant. Flaintiff was the only person in the 5th or 6th dorsal vertebre, he found a wound minority. The police are following up all the
by the Medical Faculty for Invalids and rom when the officers same up, the others about the size of his, witress's, fist, which was,
The search of the police for the murderer of 62,000 cases of oil. It was abipped by the being on the verandah. The excise oficer to all intents and purposes, a gunshot wound.
delicate people American Eerolationery Society in London, Sumatra. The Tessal was bound for Tientsin provented those on the remadah from coming. Th-20 was no question of its being anything in and made a search for opium on the plain- else. The edges of the wound wors inverted, M. Sagatel Sagouni, Presideat of the Royal Datch Patroleum Co. ut Armobay. tiff's person. Subsequently Wong Karu Chen and faddition there was powder in the gas-
in the suburb of Nunhead Inte on Monday inst. Captain Alberfeldt then reported having was called in and asked for his lays He tool; shot, s opened the body and found he had who was shot and killed by an unknown assassin she touched at Hongkong for coal on the 19th the orcise officer into his cabicio and found, been shot through the heart and lung in several
& Co.. No 5, Queen's Road, Central They certain opium that was not covered by cer plates. There was no externs! wound. Hevening, had head fatile up to noon to-day left Pale Semblin on the 8th inst. The local tificate. There was in the house other opium did not examine the man further, because Several foreign revelatiocary clubs were riided
and an important point developed was that the Europa.
All that is at present known about the accident covered by certificate. Wong Kam Chee was from the evidence he had received from during the early hours of the morning but with agents for the uil company are Messrs. Meyer then asked to open comes capboards in the the constabin in charge and from the accused it no results. The inquest opened this morning understand that the cargo was fully insured in in Hongkong is that the vessel caught fire at sitting room, upon which he said they were not was evident that the man had been accidentallyarderer chat with his left hand. The resolver was an ordinary five-chamber weapon, and not
as reported. sea of the 24th inst. when near White Dogs, his cupboards, but they belonged to the shop. shot. Had there been any suspicions circum-
account The chief officer, an assistant (whatever that circumstantial One of the excisa officers pointed. out the stances he would hare gone into the examination plaintiff to the constable as owner of the shop more fully, Bullets were not searched for, and an automatio ten-shot arm. and the defendant Ho Lak told the constable to the body was allowed to be removed for barial According to arrest him. Fluintiff was thereupon arrested by his permission, and the canse of death published to-day, two foreigners were soen monas), and 15 Chinese were lost. The reaminder a gunshot wound in the making their way toward the Thames soon after of the crew reached Amoy. The steamer was given as and taken away. The man he pointed out was
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