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FATAL SEQUEL TO COOLIE times and P.S. Pincott Gred twice over
RIOT.
INQUEST'ÎL ELD AT HONGKONG,
EXCITING STORIES OF EXUSUAL AFFRAY.
ME HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1ẾT 1916.
MAGISTRACY. HONGKONG SOLICITOR SUES
HONGKONG
DRUNKEN JAPANESE SAILOR.
CLIENT.
A Japanese sailor came ashore on QUESTION OF JURISDICTION, Sunday and proceeded to beggine intoxi-
Faithfull, a Hongkong cated. Subsequently, he was found solicitor, was the plaintiff in an action at staggering about the roadway by a the Summary Court yesterday when he Indian constable. The latter went up to claimed $45.00 from the sailor, and was promptly struck on Cheung, trading as the Yes Cheong, 22, one Tang Sui
the eye.
By Chan Village, Ping Shan district, New Territories. The claim was for pro-
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the coolics' heads, down, the gangway. The coolics went back to the after part fof the ship for a few minutes, and then ' rushed again. One of the officers of the Kymang them brought forward the rifle (produced) ant this was handed to the Mr. J. R. Wood, Police Magistrates, third officer of the Ton Linschotea, and held an Inquest at the Hongkong Magis- when the coolies rushed again he ordered tracy yesterday evening on the body of this officer to fire high. I did this, a coolie, who died as the result of infiring high and down the gangway. Wit At the Police Court yesterday the juries received in the mefer on board the mess Kaw a man fall as a result of the sailor was ordered to pay $3. Java-China-Jajau Lijn', steaner Fanshot. This was about 845 - pom, the
WANDERING CHINESE, Linschoten on Friday evening.
trouble having been con since 6.15, Soon! At the set the Coroner apologised | after this shot had been fired Eusquetor? The Chinese of the coolie class were for calling the jury at such a fale huur Gordon came on board. The coolies were charged before Mr. Orme with being in, and at ace contended that his lord-
to in Chinese by Inspector the grounds of 7. Robinson Bond, pro-It was laid down in the local authorities WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SPLENDID SELECTION OF GOLF CLUBS.
| ship had nu jurisdictión to try the action. il at such short notices An incident,spoken "he said, had ovenrred on a Dutch steamer Gordon, ami what with the shot and this perty belonging at the Koulum wharf on Friday even-talk the coolies became quiel. Cargo Stephens, for an unlawful purpose, and ing, a confie passenger had died, and he was worked after this, but there was also with the theft of about 10 cents for that Court without leave having
Half of the disard worth of taro planf leaves.. more
been previously obtained from the dis coolies Jeft for Swalow by a Japanese
Mr. Stephens said that the meg were triet. Magistrate. Mr. Faithfull had not, on Sunday, and half remained on
found in the garden by a watchinan and fobtajned such leave for the case arose boat and would go on to Swatow on the morrow." Witness added that he did subsequently arrested by a Kubing in the Now Territories and therefore his lust to stop the row on, the shin. They were discovered about 6 am.. aid, his lordship had no power to deal with said Mr. Stephens, they mast' have been in the grounds for an unlawful purpose. The men must have known that the house was anorenpiel. It had ten-væeşted an
val was going away on the following day. The Corner also briefly referred to the pulic, which triminated fatally, and mentioned treat the shot which killed the coolie was Ared by the think officer of the Fan Linsolanten.
trouble.
before he ordered his third officer to fire, De. W. B. Moure, Assistuni Superin.
Evidence was then, given by the third tendent of the Government Civil 'Hos- ̈pital, said direvised was brought to the officer, who fired the fatal shot. He
to him by the
16 Mr. M. J. D.
that no such action, in relation to a šumi |not excording $200, could be brought "he-
ou the main dork and the passengers themselves, but, as heck, would have-it,
the mase,
Me Faithfull objected, saying that the cause of action was in Hongkong. ·
FROM
75 CESTN EACH GOLF BALLS
AECH-COLONELS
(FLOATING AND HEAVY). $1.50 Encl.
2
PATENT. COLONELS
-$1.25 Buch.
GLORY DIMPLES
$1.50 Each.
.:
FROM
75 CENTS Faoir,
NEW BLACK & WHITES $1.25 Each.
MIDGET · ·DIMPLES $1.50 Each.
THE - CINCH” $1.00 Eich.
THE BOB"
75 Cents Dault.
SPALDING “GOLD MEDAL" CLUBS.
Hix lordship But the law says that the grounds, so they must have known it is out of my jurisdiction, unless leave something about it, The men vidently 15 phtained from the District Officer. 1 thought they would have the place do sms very clear that that is the law.
this runt in the New TerritoriesR.
Mr. Faithfull Then I must sue for watchman had been placed in charge as art, that is all. I should like to say. soon as the house was varied.
al, that it does not scene the correct A previous conviction
thing for my friend to ruise this objec
He knows he owes the money.
Mr. Mason I do not know that, 'I
instructed.
was
proved
Trepital a 14 pin. on Friday by scorroborated the evidence given by the the afternoon before the usen were found! Evans. He was suffering fein a lace Captain and added that the gun (r 'rated wound on the scalp. Through which need) was hauded brain nutter was exuding. He died at
Insetor. At the time he was standing 2 pan. on July 30th. À post-mortem
wire aft, and they were lacking the examination was math that morning. There was a wound on the right sick of officers and police with pieces of wood,
stones. frying, pus, etc. the top of the skall about three inches
There were four attacks before he was tharmed er
shots in the air. At the fourthe attack he he shot with the gun (produced) into the was ordered to fire by the Captain, and
away, firing high. The coolies were shing forward when he fret, and be saw one of them fall. He could not say? whether the man who fell had any) weapon in his hand.
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long and half an inch rond. Splinters Aviered to shtet, these being stopped by list on of the men, and he was sen- have to pay.
of home, had been driven into the brain. and had also enused considerable tearing of the scalp. On removing the brain he Found the small piece of inetal (produced) embedded in the back part of the right side. fheath was due to laeration of
the brain. The deceased had been iden sified as one of the passengers on board. the Fon Linschalen.
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P.S. Pincott said he went on board the A fellow passengers of the dercasid,
Fun Linschoten about 6.35 p.m. and lat who had been a tobacco grower in Java; that time the Cantonese passengers were gave evidence of identification, and, an-jeaving the fore-part of the ship, and a swering questips by 3. Wood, said there was a fight on board the vessel when
number of other passengers were in the it reached Hongkong, but he (witness) weapons in their hands; rice bowls. starboard alleyway with * variety of did not take part, as he was asleep holes, and pives of wood. He asked deek at the time; When he awoke he the Captain what the trouble was, and heard that decensed had been killed, and he said that the passengers would not he also saw his body. He denied that allow the steverlore coolies to work fine his fellow passengers tried to stop the stevedore roobies from working cargo.
The Captain of the Pia Linschstra, Fritz Baner, said the vessel crane from the south to Hongkong on Friday, having come from Singapore, Punte for Swatow. He had 1,300 coalie passengers on board; about 500 for Hong kong and 800 for Swatow. They came from Deli (Sumatra), and Penang, being
While he cargo,
· passengers'' made a
404
on board the
conlies,' at the some time shouting out rush at the cargo.
“gtrike" (tain). The hose was turned on them and they dres back. This was repeated twice at short intervals, the pushes being made at the ship's officers. After the third rush he went to the Kunsang and secured a ride and
я
tenced
CHIFAL morth's hard labour, aspector Bent saying that he was a "basi haracter". The other two un were sentenced to fourteen days' hard.
Jabeur.
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understand that my friend has been is LADIES' AND LEFT-HANDED CLUBS.
Mr. Faithful I am not misinstructed,
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reark. We are all presumed to know. the law, my friend being amongst the others, and 1 think he should have in- formed me that he was going to raise! this point. He could have said ten daya Tago, when the case was fixed for hearing, that there was no jurisdiction here with yester-out waiting until the last moment. It have saved your lordship the trouble of would have saved a lot of trouble and coming into Court.
At the Hongkong Police, Cours day Mr. One, the Magistrate, concluded the case in which a young man named Jose Montez, a cinematograph operator employed at the Palisade," Kowloon, orders, valued at £1 each, the property, your lordship. It was part of my was charged with the theft of two postal Mr. Mason-It was not for me to say
Why did you not mention it before, Mr. His lordship-It is no trouble' to me. Mason?
defence. Tot a Chinese honed C. Lane Poole.
Judgment was accordingly given for Montez, who was defended by Mr.defendant with costs. Presion, stated that he picked up the. orders in Pottinger Street, and subse quently gave them to a young olerk Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, named Abbas, employed in the office of with a request that he should advertise for the owner, but that Abbas - cashed
them.
HONGKONG GARRISON
SCHOOL.
ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION,
The annual distribution-in-connection- of receiving the notes knowing them to
Mr. Ornie said he found Montez guilty with the Hongkong Garrison School took have been stolen, and he passed sentence place yesterday, the presentations being of two months' hard labour. In doing made by Mrs. Robertson, wife of Major cowardly act on the part of defendant
Schools.
of
nisferred to his vessel at Singniere revalver, and (wo of the officers also went 50, the Magistrate said that it was a very Robertson, A.0.C. Those also present back to the Fan Linschoten with him to try and implicate a respectable young were:-.E the General Officer Com- On the way from Singapore the pas
When he returned to the ship napther man like Abbas. The defence was agmanding (Major-General Ventris), Capt. sengers became reŝtive, and even at Singapore they made endeavours to re- Tush was being made, be handed the gun gravated by the fact that he had tried 10 Cassel, Rev. C. L. Cooper-Hunt, and
hrow the blame apɖo Abbas. and revolver to some of the officers, andrea of his (defendant's) class were be Lieut.
Young Vent cargo coming board, and $2,000 worth had to be left there. The he used the linse Then come another coming a real danger to the Colony and
rush and a revolver shot was fired. The their doings had to be put a stop 10. coolies wanted to go direct to Swntow. Two lays out from Hongkong the eum
coolies went back, only to rush again, pradore caue to bim and said the coolic
whereupon he took the Captain's revolver
passengers wanted to go direct to Swifton, or only to disembark passengers at Hongkong and at the cargo. Ou the turned from telephoning he was told that morning of arrival at Hongkong he the conlies were climbing over the bat ordered the crew to upen up the hatches deck. He ran up there and then heard and prepare for discharging cargo. The rifle shot. Upen going down he saw coolie passengers endeavoured to stop coolie bleeding from the head and lying them. He reached the Kowloon wharf
in the alleyway the conlie had the neek
.
Peares Inspector
Army
Addressing the children previous to the distribution, Major-General Ventris said and fired two shots on the deck. This Coraon said that the last witoras and equal to those which he red last year. he was very pleased to read the excellent Replying to the Coroner, Inspector reports of the school, which were quite sent the coolies back, whereupon he rang the deceased-coolie were the only two He also congratulated the sclicul naster for reinforciments. After he had re-injured. The last witness was struck and staff, and thought the children de
the boat deck. by a baton. when trying 1F clinb served all that had been said about them. The tocal agent of the Java-China had been industrious and had done their They always looked clean and tidy, they Japan Lijn said that before the arrival work well. He hoped they would have a or the ship is had asked for a police very pleasant holiday and would come cause of the trouble in Singapore, but had done previously. guard to be put on board the host, be back ready to work just as well as they When he went alongside so guard had
the Water ye areived and he thereupon felephoned
Police Station. P.S. The prize ist was as follow:-- Pincost and others arrived, and theat
Religious instruction: Church of Witness said he fired one shat on the ested the scenes previously described. | England:-- deck, as requested by P.S. Pincott. The affair, in his opinion, was very serious, necessary..
the measures taken
bik
very were
THE PRIZE LIST.
1st Prize, Bessie George, 48; 2nd Prize, Senior Division (Possible marks, 50)- Dorothy May and Nelle Purden, 47 each. Junior Division (Possible marks, 35).-- 1st Prize, Marjorie Olford, 32; 2nd Prize William Howell, 20.
Standard 7--1st, Herbert Offord, top
24 6.15 p.m. ba Friday, and the stovedore of a broken bottle in his hand. After coolies came on board. As soon as they this the coolies were quick. came on board the passengers commenced Jaspector Gordon said that po to interfere with them, and molested receipt of a telephone message he went them to such an extent that the stevedore on board the Fun Linschoten about 8.30 coolics had to leave the ship. The Hong pan. He saw a howling mob of coolies kong passengers left the ship as early in the after-part of the vessel; many of as possible; the trouble came from the whom were standing in the alleyway in ship was expected on gly 27th, the guard of School; 2nd, William Mace, also ist
Asked by the Corgner why theguard was not present, Inspector Gordo sail the Swatow coolies. The agent came on a threatening attitude.
Two or three was kept all day on the 27th, and up to in Dockyard Exam.; Lorothy May, con- board and the police were at onze sent Europeans were standing at the forrard 330 .. pa the 28th, and they were duct, and general progress. for. P.S. Pinent came on board and end of the gangway, - armed,
then discharged, as it was thought the Cecil Jennings, Highest marks in period- Standard 6. 1st Nelie Purden; Witness ship would not arrive. tried to quicten the coolics, and he secred placed some Indians on guard, and also hour the ship came in.
Within half a cal exams; tonald kentley, 2nd Prize; to have been successful. The stevedore went on the boat deck with P.6. Pincott, Indian guard, and he did not think It was only
Robert Winfield, marked progress. coalies came on board again and the where he placed some more Indians on
they would have been much use; it was
Standard 3-Ist, Percy Joines; and, passengers then rushed from the after-guard. As lie was returning he heard a
too tough a job for them.
Bessie George; John Deane, progress, part of the ship and again stopped the rifle shot, and subsequently saw one of there was a riot it was the duty of every Robert Talbot,
In the course of his summing-up the and conduct. Coroner said that the law was that when Standard 4-1st, Beatrice Bliss; 2nd, stevedore coolics working. Many of the the coolies lying, as he thought, dead, in citizen, whether he was of the military 2nd, Percy Offord; Austin Thornhill, Iatter were struck, and once more the the alleyway. Eventually things were or police, to do his best to put it down.
Standard 31st, George Harrow; stevedore coplies left the ship. P.S. quiet, and the man he saw lying in the 'n Liaschoten, and the jury had to
It was evident that there was a riot on marked progress, and conduct Pincott fixed up the hot-water hose and the alleyway was removed to hospital.
Standard 2-1st, Edward Phillips; consider whether the measures taken by 2nd, Rowland Adams; 3rd, Fred. Youngs; drove the passengers to the after-part of A coolie who was also on board the The evidence showed that there had been c
the officers were necessary to repel it.
William Rollitt, marked progress, and the ship, the hose having been turned on Var Linschoten, and whose head was a lot of trouble on the ship, and when Edith Lambden, prize for drawing them several times. Officers of the Kim heavily bandaged, told the Coroner that the vessel arrived at Hongkong things Lydia Stonham, prize for general neat- sang, the chief and second, also came on his head was injured upon his arrival became really serious. If the jury con-hess of work, and exemplary conduct. board armed with sticks
sidered the measures taken were heces- assistance. The coolies again endeavour a firearm into his head." There was some the measures were too severe then a
Sewing School 1st, Constanco Ston- to render in Hongkong by some person- puthing sary then they should return a verdict ham proficiency, Lydia Sonham,good ed to rush forward to attack the officers row on board the ship, but he knew no verdict of manslaughter ought to be proficiency,
-of-justifiable homicide. If they thought conduct; Marjorie Offord, progress; Norah Howell, proficiency; Eileen Bliss, of the ship and the police; they rushed thing about it. several times in an endeavour to force Under pressure this coolie said that verdict of justifiable homicide and the ficiency: 2nd, Phyllis Harrow, progress; Withent hesitation the jury returned a Standard 1st, Mary Joines, pro- the gangway, P.S. Pincott then asked they had been told that they would re- Coroner remarked-I entirely agree 3rd, Eileen Stagg proficiency 4th, for firearms and witness gave him two main for ten days in Hongkong, and with the verdict. It seems to me that revolvers. The agent, who had a revolver, thus some of the coplies tried to provent fired first, firing once in the air to this happening. He knew nothing about frighten the coolies. Even after that the a man being shot, poolies-again rushed forward several
(Continued on next Column.)·
returned.
in excess of what the situation demand the steps taken by the officers were not ed. I think they were fully justified.
The jury was composed of Messrs. H. R. Northey (foreman), S. F. de Pinna and J. Gardner.
INFANTS' SCHOOL.
William Smith, progress, Class II: proficiency: Harry Watson, progress. William Joines, proficiency; Thelma May, Class III: Doreen Joines, progress; Doris Williams, progress Class IV: Beatrice Evans, good conduct; Herbert Gander, progress.
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