~FATAL MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT AT BANLING.
OHINESE CHILD KNOCKED DOWN
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AND KILLED.
ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A
THE RONGKONO DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25TH, 1016.
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"WAYFOONG TAIKOO.
Un Sunday Wayfoong and Thikoo met each other at Fanling in a thirteen-a side match Wayfoong gained the victory more easily than was anticipated by their opponents, though many of the matches were of the grimmest and no genres (point) was given for byes.
In spite of limbs which ached from an
A SUBSTANTIAL CLAIM.
In the Supreme Court yesterday, ho fore the Puiane Judge (Mr. H H. J. Gompertz), Mr. D. Sotna, who trades under the firm name of Setna & Co., at 3 Queen's Road, Central, brought an
ton to recover $3,014.05 from Mr. Ham In Sun, of 44. Hollywood Road. The claim was for the balance of the price of goods sold to the defendant by plaintiff or in the alternative, damages for the
overdose of Aunt Sally, ele, at Yo ncceptance of the goods. There was English Fayre," the golf was of a good standard, and a shining example was Thursfield, who paralyzed his opponent by doing 16 consecutive holes in 71
Dewar and Murray (yclept « Brassie ") were the respective captains of the sides, and the Taikoo skipper managed to defeat his opponent by a comfortable margin, chiefly owing to the fact that the latter did not produce the game he can
REVENUE OFFICER.
VERDICT AND SENTENCE,
At the Hongkong Criminal Bessions An enquiry was held at the Hongkong yesterday, before Mr. Justige Gompertz, Magistracy yesterday, by Mr. Hazeland, two Chineer Ma Yuk Shan and Clan Coroner, into the circumstances sur Kwong Chak, were indicted for attempt rounding the death of a six-year-olding to bribe John Charles Wildin. a Chinese boy who was knocked down Revenue Officer, by giving him two sums by a motor car containing several of money-500 and 8105-with a view
va influencing his official conduct, Europeans, on September 30th, and
The died almost immediately as the result
case for the prosecution as that while Mr. Wildin and some assistants of very severe injuries to the head.
were in a house at No. 0, Wing Wo The jury was composed of Messrs. A.
Street, searching for opium, they came Lang, J. H. Beth and S. Baker.
acros the prisoners in a cuncle at the The first witness was Mr. A. Turner, back. One of the prisoners, getting Mr. architect He said that on September Wildin to withdraw to a lobby, put $105 doth, about. 5p.m.. he was in a motor in notes into his hand. Subsequently eur in company with Mr. G. G. Moxon the same prisoner, after being absent a and care indies travelling from An Tau short time, returged with five $100 notes to the fabling Golf Club. They were and handed them to Mr. Wildin. About approaching the ninth hole of the golf 110 tacks of drosa opium and about 2lbs
In the afternoon muttera wers better as course when he noticed a small crowd of of loose opium were found in the house. far as Taikoo were concerned, thongh Chinese in front of the car. The driver The defence was that the prisoners they were unable to retrieve their losses. sounded his horn, and then the crowd were ignorant of the presence of the
Amongst the foursomes, that played by opened up, some going to the left and opium in the house, and that their pre Stabb and Sandford against Edkins and some to the right of the road. Witness sence, there was for the purpose of re-Fisher resulted in being squared on the then saw two anall buys in front of paying a loan to the owner of the house the car after the crowd had dispersed. Guilty against the first prisoner and The jury returned a verdict of “ Nat One of the boyu, the sinallor of the twoad the indictment proved against the
Two well-known opponents were dis who was killed, started to go from left to right across the road, when he was
second prisoner, who was accordingly covered arguing golfing law with great caught by the other boy and dragged sentenced to nine months hard labour perspicacity on opposite sides of the for offering bribes, and fined $100, or chasmi guarding the Gem,'' bạt from up the tank at the side of the road,
three months' imprisonment, for being the result of the match the arguments As the car pussed there was a bump,
in possession of opium.
advanced by the Taikoo jurist wero not and Mr. Moxon exclaimed: Why,
Mr. G. N. Orme (of the Attorney-Gen-sufficient to affect the decision. surely, we have hit that kid." The car
eral's department) prosecuted, and the was immediately stopped, and the occup-
Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. (instront unts ran back and saw that the stalled by Mr. E. J. Grist), defended, boy had been struck. He had been picked up by the other Chinese, but was placed in the car, and witness and Mr. Moxon walked across the links with the other small boy. The boy who was knocked down was conveyed to the golf
club house.
The Coroner-Was he then alive or dead --I should say he was probably dead; Mr. Moxon said he was not.
Did the driver reduce his speed when he saw the crowd of people? Yes.
They
eighteenth green after a strenuous tussle.
at tiffin,
The teams were the guests of Mr. Stabb.
appearance for the defendant. Mr. C. G. Alabaster (instructed by Mr. Gardner) was counsel for the plaintiff. and produced evidence to prove the debt, from which it appeared that, at the re queat of defendant, who was their com pradare, plaintiffs purchased some yarn for defendant's own speculation in 1918. It was arranged that plaintiffs should sell the yarn on his accomt although the defendant was the real sellor and would get brokerage plus any profit be made on of it
Judgment was given for the plaintiff with costs.
FATHER SUES SON.
At the Summary Court yesterday # Father sued one of his sons through an: other son, acting as attorney. There was no appearance for the defence
Mr. H. E. Pollock, KC. (instructed by Mr. G. R. Haywood; solicitor), stated that the plaintiff was a very old man named Tso Yui Kwe, of 04. Wellington The detailed results of the matches are Street, who sued through his son (Tse attached
Ming Yuk) for payment by the defen dant, another son (Tee Taung Hin), of
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we all felt. The driver pulled instantly, and stopped, as they after wards say, quite close to where the accid- Witness said to Mr. ent occurred. Turner: I am afraid wo have run over that child." Directly the car stopped, Mr. Turner, huself and the driver got out to me what had happened. A few The Coroner-Do you mean me to yards behind them they saw the small boy understand the you thought you had being supported by the elder one. The passed the boy 1--Yes, we had passed small boy was bleeding profusely from him. He must have been struck by the the head and from the ankle. side of the car in some way or other.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ picked him up, put him in the tonneau
Inspector Gurrad asked Can you say of the car, where he was attended by wat how fast the car was going at the time-nces' shooting coolic, and the car was It is a difficult thing to say, as we had ordered to go slowly to the golf club no speedometer, but I do not think we house. Mr. Turner and witness ran were going at more than 18 miles an across the golf course, taking with them hour..
the older boy, and arrived at the club house a fraction before the car arrived. Witness" asked if there was a doctor în the club house or playing golf, but there was not one about. He had the injured child taken out of the car, and carried into the club house, taking him upstairs into one of the cubicles. Sergt. Kerr, the caretaker of the club house, accom panied witness upstairs, the child was laid down, and they jointly examined Mr. G. C. Moxon, broker, said he was him and came to the conclusion that be with Mr. Turner in the car. They were was dead, although witness thought he bound for the Golf Club from Au Tau was living when he arrived at the club in a hired car. About 5-p.m. they had | house just passed Sir Robert Ho Tang's pro- perty when, about 100 yards ahead of them, a number of Chinese peasants, men, women, and children, were gathered, It was a straight piece of road, visible for quite a distance ahead of the car. The car was travelling, he should say, between 12 and 15 miles an hour. When the peasants first came into view, about 100 yards off, the driver sounded
Mr. A. O, Lang asked--What distance were the two children from you when the horn was fret sounded?--When the horn was sounded the people were 100 to 50 yards away, and they at once parted in all directions. The horn was also sounded when the car was a few yards from the children.
his horn-be (witness) was certain about that. The little crowd dispersed at the sounding of the horn, some going to the
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Mr. Haywood proyed the service of notice on the plaintiff that the case was to come up yesterday.
After hearing the evidence, judgment was given for the plaintiff, with costa.
NAVY #88TH COMPANY R.G.A. These teams met at the Happy Valley yesterday in a friendly match. The sailors, unfortunately, had to commence with only ton players, but were at full strength before half-time. They cour- really unnecessary, as the probability wan menced with a rush that looked like that there would be no Bugby games this goals, but the soldiers got the ball away season. However, on the proposition of and Watson tried a shot, The Navy Mr. Heggarty, seconded by Mr. Kennedy, goalkeeper stopped it but did not clear, Mr. A. House was unanimously elected and Caple, rushing up, scrambled it Captain of the Rugby team for any games scored again for the 68th Company, and through. Shortly afterwards Caple which may be played. then Finn registered a goal for the Navy
with a good shot. A dangerous run on the sailors' left wing was stopped by Lt. Wilkinson, and half-time arrived with the scores: Army, 9, Navy, 1
Asked by the Coroner what, in his opinion, was the cause of the accident, Mr. Moxon said be thought the child was bewildered by the car, broke away from his brother, and blundered into the car. He had mentioned the hood being up because that prevented the occupants of the car from seeing exactly what was hap pening. The car was running well in the middle of the road, and they just sailors occasionally broke away and felt a "snick."
worried the gunners' defence. Caple again scored for the 89th Company, with
Dr. J. T. Smalley said that on the
1st inst; he saw the body of a Chinese boy, aged shout six years. The cause of death was a multiple fracture of the vertex and base of the skull; the skul}
over by a motor-cer would have caused such injuries.
In the second half nearly all the play was around the Navy goal, although the
Mr. J. Stalker was unanimously ap- pointed. Captain of the Association team.
The other oficials. were:
Trear surer Mr. W. J. Morrison; Secretary: Mr. J. McL. Walker.
Rugby Committee:-Messrs. Heggarty, Woodhead and Kennedy.
Association Committee: -Messra. Ra binson, amilton and Chassels.
After a discussion it was, decided to
a shot that gave the goalkeeper no chance run one Association team only in the “Sticks'. at this period were very freHongkong and United Services Leagues,
right and some to the left, and they was badly smashed up. Being knocked quent. Smith and Caple each beat the and to have a cond team to play friends
WAS
wore a bit strung out The most dia tant individuals from the car were two small boys, who were on the left of the road, one about ten years old and the other about six. When the car about 30 yards distant from these boys the smaller of the two made as though he was about to ran across the road in front of them, and the driver appeared to him to slacken up, at the same time
eleven years, said the motor car came The deceased's little brother, aged along and knocked my brother down The boy also alleged that no horn was blown, and that he and his brother did not know the car was coming along.
At this juncture the Coroner said that the witness, in a previous statement to the police, said that his brother ran in front of the car, and he had evidently been put up to say what he had just said. He (the Coroner) did not think they the boy to any mo
Navy custodian with good shots, only to find that the whistle was blowing for “sticks" instead of a goal. Result: 88th Company R.G.A, 3, Navy, 1.
HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB.
ANNUAL MEETING.
There was a satisfactory attendance of members of the Hongkong Football Club
ly fixtures to be arranged for by the Committee.
ROLL OF HONOUR. The Chairman mentioned that during the past two years, several of their mem |bers had fallen in the war, and is had been suggested that they should institute some roll of honour in memory of the fallen. He would be glad to receive sug- gestions on the matter,
It was subsequently decided that some-
master should be left open for a future
Cat Bounding lus horn. The elder of the need listen to any more evidence from at Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s thing should be done, but that the
mecting was held, over which Mr. A. T. Offices last evening, when the annual
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two boys evidently saw the car coming down the road, and grabbed the smaller boy by the back of his coat and, appar- ently, dragged him into complete safety, well on to the bank of the roadway, Witness was himself relieved to see the child taken out of the way. The car thes went in. The hood was up at the to between six and eight miles an hour. Mr. Heggarty.
The hood was up time, and just as they came abreast of He was sure in his own mind that it was the place where the two children had safe to pass the boys as the speed he was
travelling. been there was a nasty sort of spick on the left hand side of the car, which (Continued at foot of nest Colema.)
bearing out the statements made by Mr. The driver of the car gave evidence Turner and Mr. Moxon, and added that, in his opinion, the scoident was caused by the buy becoming excited and not Tim annual report and statement of knowing exactly what to do. The speed accounts, which have already been pudr of the car, before he saw the crowd, was listed, were unanimously adopted, on the between 12 and 15 miles an hour. After he saw the crowd the speed was reduced proposition of Mr. Walker, secunded by
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Photo / On the question of appointing a captain The jury returned a verdict of death of the "Rugger" team Mr. Walker re- from misadventure and the Coroner marked that such an appointment, was remarked that he thoroughly agreed with the decision,
(Continued at foot of mest Bolumn)
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