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SUPREME COURT,
Thursday, March 19th.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION,
BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIL WM Rees Davies, XC.
THE ORADAM STREET MURDES.
Pang Hin Tung pleaded not guilty to charge of killing and murdering one Li Kam Lan and also Wong Wong on the 8th February. Accused was assistant compradore at Mossra, H. Stephen & Company,
The following werd sword on the jury Mours. H. C. Sandford (foreman), V. S. Ferguson, W. E. 0. Drude, P. O. Roza, 8. Helme, J. J. Gutierrez and A. A. Fyfe, The Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. J. A. 8. Bucknili) prosecuted, on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Otto Kong Sing)
defended,
gave The father of the accused evidence when the ene was resumed. He said that the old woman who was alleged
Mr. Potter-I would like a ruling the point from your Lordship."
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 20т#, 1914.
on although the person who murdered the mother was the person who had the revolver. If, admittedly, i it was not his
The Chief Justico-I have already given cizont, then who was it? The attitude my ruling.g
Mr Potter-Well, the law is clear.
taken up by the Attorney-General was ac extraordinary one. His client was speci
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The Crown Colony of Hongkong, not
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RUBI."
The Manil Cableviews of Tucad y
want a ruling from your Lordship that fically charged with a murder which had withstanding its great commercial pro Zafiro in the stern, denting one or two
There is, evidence to go to the jury
both charges.
on
The Chief Justice I shall not withdraw the case.
Dot been referred to..
The Chief Justice said he Brought the jury would arrive at a conclusion, after what they would hear him, say on what they could really determine whether the
committed suicide.
INTIMATIONS
says While docking directly behind the PUBLIC OPINION steamer Zafiro at pior 3 yesterday morn ing, the sistership Rubi rammed the perity and its wealth of shipping of the steel plates. The damage to the provides a very wide field for charitable Zafird is in no way serious. The Rubi work; and numerous organisations are escaped unharmed as she hit the other nobly, exploring this hold. With the steamer with her solid bow
The accident occurred as the Rubz was
Mr. Potter-Then I shall decido to call young woman killed the other and then majority of these bodies, the person whom docking at the completion of her trip Mr. Potter said that such an occurren-will call, for need of a more applicable from Hongkong. One of the stern lines
no evidence
We The Chief Justice I have had a great many murder cases in my time, Mr. Potter.
Mr. Pottar I venture to submit that in your Lordship's experience you have NEVER heard of a case in which the only evidence upon which a prisoner was convicted was that the revolver which was used was the property of a certain man
Mr. Potter then proceeded to quote one of the greatest oriminal judge's summing up, in order, he said, to bring home to the
minds of the jury exactly the frame of mind they must be in before they could find an adverse verdict in that cases. In
to have been shot by the aroused was hia this quotation were the words, "If there real mother.
is only a question of probability it is your duty to sequit. That covered all
A seventeen-year-old sister of the
was unprecedented in the criminal history of England- man charged with murder and the murden never referred to by the Crown in its opening or closing state mente.
The jury were absent for a quarter of an hour and on their return found prisoner not guilty on both charges and he was discharged.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR ME. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (FIND JUDOR).
THE FORGED BANK-NOTE CABR.
The trial was resumed of Lam Ying Man, U Yat Cho Tsok Ban, Wai Hing and Chan Chi, who were charged on several counts for forgery of Canton
bank-notes.
colloquialism, the man in the street has been made familiar, if only through the colume of the Press, but there are several of these institutions of whose existence he is totally unaware, Among the latter category might be classed the subject of this article, the Berlin Foundling Home.
It is not to be inferred from the word Borlin" that the institution is support- ed entirely by Borlin or by the people of Germany. On the contrary, subscriptions have come from all parts of the world, from, men and women of many nationali- ties. The Home is at once a refuge, home and school for Chinese girls who have been thrown out of their homes, unwanted and unloved. It is a small institution, com- pared with one or two others of a similer
kong, but it is ready for immense leaps forward when opportunity and scope permits,
became entangled in the propellor and Captain Miller decided it was better to give Captain McMurray's ship a jolt chance of shopping one of the propeller than reverse the engines and run the
blades or the shaft Safaring men who
Miller for his judgment
watched the incident commended Captain
THE JAPANESE SHIPPING SUBSIDY BILL,
DETAILS OF NEW PROPOSALS.
On Suturday. (ith instant), the Govern-
prisoner said that sounds of firearms criminal cases, and the Crown had to prosecuted on behalf of the Crown and type wollknown to the residents of Hong- undermentioned figures for a term of five
Proko her up on the morning of the Sho switched on the electric tragedy Tight and subsequently saw prisoner,⠀
Plane were put in to show from which direction accused was coming and the Attorney-General referred to
a lamp
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. JH. Kemp)
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr, prove to them to the exclusion of every Davidson, of Hastings & Hastings) de reasonable possibility that the man 20 fended U Yat Cho. The other prisoners the dock was guilty of the crime. He of deo. could prove by an analysis of the evidenco that the man was not guilty and could not have committed either of the crimes
The Homo is under the supervision of Pastor and Frau Müller, who are assisted.
by four Gorman sisters and a large staff of Chiness assistants, themselves formerly
which was marked in the plan. This of which he was charged. It was human Lantao, in December of last y foundlings. Here, under the benevolent,
прод
the
watchful, and affectionate care of the Sisters, a wonderful transformation is wrought in the lives and natures of the girls. Natures which have been un- naturally stunted begin gradually to unfold, prematurely old faces take on the semblance of youth and childhood, and dwarfed, enfeebled bodies become vigorous and robust. Here they taste, for the first
A witness identified Lam Ying Man as a man he had previously seen He also recognized the other prisoners whom he had seen at Cheung Sha Lau village ly impossible for the accused to have com During this visit he saw the printing damp was produced, a very small oil affair, mitted the crime, and it was utterly out of machine now in Court at the house of one and Mr. Potter remarked that if that had the question, on the evidence before them, of the prisoners. He went to Lam's house been marked on the plan the P.W.D. bad that they would take upon themselves and had some conversation with him the terribly grave responsibility which about soms bank-notes. He told Lam he marked more than they had ever done reated upon them. Counsel impressed wished to purchase some notes and Lam before.
that they jury
were said, Nore have been made well yet," Witness added that she then saw her dealing with a matter of life and death also that he was not to be deceived as it and went on to say that in his experieno was all nonsense Witness was shown mother lying on the bed, motionless and of murder cases in that Court he had two notes, but he was of the opinion that speechless and with blood on her." When never com ECTORS & CASE in which the they would not pass as the portrait of accused, who was with her, saw his Crown had taken such terrible Chan Kwing-ming was not good and responsibility upon itself. It was the clear Lam told him that if he took the muther lying there he said he did not duty of the Crown, he proceeded, to assist notes he would be unable to get rid of me in many cases, the sweet milk of human the jury and to say whether on the them because they were not good enough. evidence they could acquit or convict. Lam also said, "If anyone comes to the He put it to them as a point of law that is out to trouble ine. I will shoot them." it was not open for the Crown now to When they had taken tea, witness went come before them and say that the with the prisoner Was to a wooden hous witnesses who were called by the Crown on the hill-side and saw the other machine wer in any way endeavouring to shield (a lithographic hand-press), line at the Home is model. the prisoner or that they were in any way
Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin witness mistaken or lying. They were Crown said he was a business man in Canton witnesses and the Crown was bound by dealing in pigments. The colours he sold their evidence. There was no earthly were not used for printing forged notes; reason why their evidence should not be they could not be put to this use. The truthful evidence, and he trusted it would colours seized by the police were foreign be a long time before it was ever said it colours. Ele did have some friends in the an English Court that because the Crown police office in Canton. witnesses gavo evidence which might. acquit the accused that therefore reir
know what was the matter and that he would go and fetch the police. Accused thon left and witness subsequently heard soms whistling proceeding, she assured, from the street. Her sister-in-law, she added the younger of the two victims could use both her hands..
Cross-examined by Mr. Potter witness said that after she had heard her brother running downstairs she heard two more shots in the cubicle occupied by her brother's wife. She thereupon went into her sister-in-law's cubicle and found her lying on the floor.
Mr. Jenkin-Were you told that if you did not come down here to give evidence you would be shots
S Witness No (emphatically)
kindness, and the foundlings never fail to respond to kindnew. They appreciate it, and show their appreciation in most practical ways, by obedience, by hard work, and attention. Indeed, the discip-
PUTS JOHN HAIG'S WHISKIES
AT THE TOP RECOGNIZED EVERY-
WHERE AS THE HIGHEST QUALITIES oF WHISKIES IT IS POSSIBLE TO
tied to the Lower House a Shipping Subsidy Bill, which provides that the Government in authorised to grand subsidies for the European, North and South American and Australian services, the sums not exceeding the BUX.
cars commencing from the fourth fiscal year of Trisht (1815-6) in accordance with OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE the provisions of the Ocean Steam Service Subsidy Law
EUROPEAN SERVICE. Fourth fiscal year.. Fifth fiscal year... Sixth facti-year ..... Seventh fiscal year. Eighth fiscal year
Y2,004,900 1,982,667 1,920,630 1,850,433 1,729,847
H.
NORTH AMERICAN SERVICE. Fourth scal year... Y4,548,025 Fifth fiscal year ... 4,756,028 Sixth fiscal year
4,670,926 Seventh Escal year
4,067,967 Bighth fiscal year .. 4,363,280 SOUTH AMERICAN SERVICE. Fourth Aveal year Fifth fiscal year .............. Sixth fiscal rent... Seventh fiscal year Eighth fiscal year
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& SON,
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Y 341,810 834,644 327,468 320,293 304,483
CHS. J. GAUPP
Y 296,374
238,807
220,214
232,897
250,040
AUSTRALIAN SERVICE. Fourth fiscal year Fifth fiscal year Sixth fiscal year
Seventh Sscal your allis Eighth fiscal year ...... Pastor, Müller has decided notions as Commured with the figures for last year to the education of the girls of the Home the amount of the subsidy proposed to be we do not believe in imparting a granted for the European service for the smattering of knowledge to them. The fourth fiscal year show a decrease of idea which possessed our minds is to train 1,011,000, the amount for the South American line of Y233,000 and that for these girls so that they shall be able to the Australian service Y159,000. Thus the take their stance with the educated total of the subsidies for the three lines classes. Many of the girls, be informed mentioned is to be reduced by abou
¥1,400,000. The N.Y K. Seattle service. the writer, are engaged by missionaries to the 0.S.K. Tacoma line is to be struck
The aman at the house spoke to hearing how that the man was no guilty they Mr. Jenkin That is the advantage og teachers in their schools. About 20 off from the list of the subsidised services,
a sound like “ pat pat, and subsequently finding her mistress (the elder victim) lying on her bed motionless. Witness was of the opinion that there had been du accident with the electric light and that this had killed her. The accused passed her as he ran downstairs with an overcoat on his arm. When he had gone down she heard two more sounds of "pat pat." :
At this juncture the Attorney-General asked that this witness should be treated ns hostile to the Crowns
Mr. Potter said there was absolutely no reason for such a request. Her evidence was not hostile, but merely evidence which would acquit the accused,
The Chief Justice I am with you, Mr. Potich
Cross-crammed by Mr. Potter, witness said that when accused bad gone down four or five stairs she heard the last two
vidence must be disregarded. If the evidence of the Crown witnesses went to could not convict him. And what being a friend of the piclice, I supposɛ. motive is suggested?" asked Counsel, who All the men were found guilty. The added, there is no motive at all first two prisoners were sentenced to The Attorney General and suggested no seven years hard labour, the third and motive, he only said it was an unhappy fourth to five years, and the fiftli to three household. In a case which depended years hard abour. The Judge remarked upon circumstances it was the absolute that prisoners were liable to a sentence of duty of the Crown to prove a motive. No 14 years hard labour, one would suggest that the accused, in cold blood, shut down his mother and his wife. Why should that man commit that murder; brutally shoot his mother twice.
ASSAULT AND ROUDERY.
Ho Man Wa and Li Yat pleaded guilty
in the breast and then when she rolled to the charge of assault and robbery by over in her mortal agony, shoot her again one or more and were each sentenced to
five years hard labour. in the back to make sure of hor death? In spite of that brutal murder the Crown could not give them a hint as to why the accused should do it. In the case of a murder of auch an atrocious character the man must have been moved by such a compelling motive that it would have been known to the whole world, and when
EXTORTING CONFESSIONS IN
CHINA,
THE ORDEAL OF FIRE
A correspondent writing from Laichow- fu, Shantung, to the China Press says:
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are no present living happy married lives and one of these is to be extended to New AMERICAN in this Colony, while many others are York the Panama Comel. It is pro scattered all over the globe, from British posed to grant an annual subsidy of over
Y4,000,000 to the North American lines Guigns to Australia, Honolulu, and San San Francisco, Scattle or Tacoma and AMERICAN HOWARD WATCH. Francisco. For eight long years these Panama services-showing an increase of foundlings patiently work at the Chinese about Y310,000 on the total of the sub- sidies paid for the three services men characters, as well as European studies tioned for last year. afterwards assisting in the Kindergarten, until their opportunity comes to leave the Home Needlework and music are also prominent in the curricula. The girls are taught to be self-reliant and before they leave the institution can claim to be well versed in all the domestic arts. Wherever their lives may be cast after they have withdrawn from the shelter of the Home, the good influence of their training remains with them,
The work was commenced, as all such ventured must, in a small way, in barracks on Morrison Hill, as far back as 1849. Ten years later the compound upon which
We learn that the plan of the Govern ment is to have eight cargo boats of about
aving either terminus once every three 10,000 tons on the Panama service with Kobe and New York as termini, a steamer weeks. For his line about Y1,700,000 will be allotted.-Japan Chronicle,
OIL-BURNING SCOUT CRUISERS FOR CHINA,
policeinterpreter said that when! berate the accused? His challenged the out to all parts of the Frovince to arrest the German chapel, Pastor's residence, beam seit, draught 16ft; Parsons tur
shots.
accused was charged with the crime he said, "I deny the charge, I did not kill."
This closed the case for the Crown Opening on behalf of the defence Mr. Potter remarked that there were two distinct charges, and as to the murder of the mother, which he would deal with first, he submitted that there was abso- lutely no evidence of any sort, size, or description which connected the accused with the murder of his mother. The murder of the mother was hardly referred to by the Attorney-General, much less in the evidence, and he would ask his Lord ship to azrmine the evidence and to say
Mr. Potter pressed his point and
His Lordship then said that there was ovidence that he had a revolver and also that the bullets which were recovered from the two women fitted that revolver, which belonged to accused. That was certainly ovidence,
FASTEST SCOUTS IN THE WORLD. The particulars of three scout-cruisers building for the Chineso Government at the Cantiere Navale Triestino, near Trieste, are as follows:-Length 30ft,,:
knots; armament, teu din. Q.F., two bines, designed horas power 30,000-32 Majims, and two torpedo tubes; Yarrow boilers for coal and oil-fuel. The guas are being made by the Skoda Works. The ships are to be delivered in 22, 24, and actual sife is still less known. An English months respectively. According to their designed speed these ships will be gentleman, who shall be nameles, in con-
We are told that the Governor of Shantang Las appointed one thousand detectivas and that they have been sent anyone who may utter a word against the government. I am told that eight hun aud Foundling Home now stands (just dred men have already been arrested in below the Diocesan Boys' School and the the province and are at Tsinanfu, that Bonham Road), was bought, and here the ther confession and are then shot. How true work has been carried on. If the institu- this is I do not know, but it comes from tion itself is practically unknown, its fairly good Chinese sources.
are
putin fatnes to
force
said the whole world he racant, the whole of his world. And, would they xpect the father of the man and th ausband of the one victim to come for ward and give evidence which would Karned Attorney-General to address them or any one point which went to show that hat man fouly murdered his own mutlier, There was, be submitted, plenty of motive why the wife should have murdered her mother-in-law. If the man wanted to kill his wife as well, why should he leave his wife sleeping in the cubicle, go into his mother's cubicle and kill her thus rousing. the whole household by the firing—and then, when the whole house was aroused, go back to his own cubicle and shoot his wife! There was no explanation for that at all, and the Crown gave no reason for it. Pointing to the accused he asked, "Dus he look like a man who would go Taisho Exhibition, the Japan Times into his mother's subicle and shoot her; records the following gruesome attrac and not only shot her, but shoot her twice tions
The Building of Hygionies will also be interesting. The other leg of Cuant Olesino's which her find computated from
in the breast, and when she turned over.
in her mortal struggles aboot her again?
THE TAISHO EXHIBITION.
APPEALING TO THE MORBIN,
In the description of the forthcoming
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fleets. of the children playing about merrily with ore of the Sisters in charge, enquired to
what School they belonged. Ho was in- formed, became interested, asked further questions, and on the following day for
warded a welcome donation.
The work has not been without diffcul
strong protest against the merchants generous, and at the end of October last dent by L Samling, the Superintendent year, when the Pastor returned from leave of the Kwangtung Bank. The Govern about $20,000 had been obtained. Further ment will not, we understand, grant the request in view that gambling was always amounts have come in since, and the work the cause of demoralisation.
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The Peking Dealy News says During the last week the Government received no less than twenty telegramR from the merchants of Canton strongly if he was of the opinion that there was Have you ever heard of anything tikứ that t
* severe injury inflicted in his assault in ties, and for a long time the need for asking the Government to repeal the order any evidence in any shape or form to before? In conclusion Counsel -sub- show that prisoner had killed his mother.mitted that the only theory of the crime 1888, and the skull of the Inte Prince greater accommodation has been felt. for the prohibition of gambling. They
Katsura will be exhibited, to fit in with evidence was that the wile
Many foundlings have had to be turned said that the market has suffered consider The Chief Justice remarked that it of the accused killed her mother-in-law
A correspondent of the Japan Guzette
by gambling the value might be part of one transaction,
the coming ice whistles, and asks, "Are we living in a head-hunting away because of insufficient room, and any broermitting grit paper money V.O.S. the commotion, she killed herself in community! The skull of Prince some time ago Pastor Müller appealed of the paper money might be maintained they heard nocused, the umah said she an Okuma's other leg may kiek against this Home. Response to the appeal was proposal has been addressed to this Presi terror Crown witnesses had said that Katsura can hardly protest, but Count for subscriptions towards building a new and thereby the market might be relieved. the accused, going downstairs, before wanton exposure to the vulgar gaze.band they heard two shots fired. The case for the Crown had absolutely broken down and he asked for an acquittall qua Tha Attorney-General in the course of his address said that the jury had heard Mr Potter held that there was not a passionate address on behalf of the
defence, but he asked them not to use The Wright Company, of Dayton Ohio, scintilla of connecting evidence. He their hearts but their heads, and in using headed by Orville Wright won a legal might have a revolver in his house and their heads to come to their conclusion fight of five years, involving $15,000,000 someone might be shot in the night with undeterred by any fear of responsibility in the United States Circuit Court of cast upon them, and undeterred by any Appeals, when Judges Lacombe, Cox and
Ra Fuku-ci, the ringleader in the BRANDS OF No. that revolver, but because of that no one anxiety as to whether or not they had Ward upheld the decision of Judge Hazel, of the District Court in Buffalo, in favour could surely secuse bim of murder. He done right. All they had to do was to of Wright patents on aeroplanes, the kindness which she has at all times Formosan Conspirace the 18th ultima would give authorities if his Lordship so come to a conclusion on the evidence
The suits were directed against the shown towards such institutions,, having condemued to death on the 28th ultimo which was before them
Herring Curtiss Co., headed by Glen H promised to perform the ceremony. The by the temporary Court at Byoritsu, in CONSUMED IN THE EAST. desired.
At the onclusion of the Attorney Curtiss The Court decides the Wrights building is expected to be ready for Formosa, was executed on the 4th at the Chief Justice added that the General's address Mr. Potter called atten-solved the problem of Jateral balances to occupation by the end of October, when, Taihoku prison. All the dispatches to on to the fact that throughout his cocabat, wind currents. The Court also with cater accommodation and under the Japanese papers agres in describing address the Attorney-General had not decides that the Curtiss invention to better circumstances, the work of the in the condemned man's altitude on the referred to the murder of the mother not preserve proper balances was copied from stitution should be even more beneficent scaffold ss praiseworthy. He was thirty one word had been mentioned about that, he Wright invention,
The
prisoner was found upon the premises
and in face of what he had previously said he could not withdraw the case from
the jury
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