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AN EXTRADITION CASE.
APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
FULL COURT DISMISSES THE APPEAL
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31st, 1916.
RICKSHA AND BICYCLE IN COLLISION.
REVENUE OFFICER SUMMONED FOR ASSAULT,
Mr. H.E. Pollock, K.C. (instructed by Mr. F. X. d'Almada) made the applica: tion, while the Attorney-General (the luspector Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, C.B.E.), appeared || Magistracy with assault. ► for the Crown.
JOVE STRIKES THE UNIVERSITY.
THE CURIOUS BEHAVIOUR OF
LIGHTNING.
eurent locally
such chimneys should have a copper band round the top, with stout, ebarp, copper points, each about one foot long, at in tervals of 2 or 3 feet throughout the dr cumference. The rods should be connect ed with all bands or metallic masses in or near the chimney.
An accident occurred on Monday after- EY PROFESSOR MIDDLETON SMITH:] At the Supreme Court, yesterday, the noon, at 430, on the Ting Lock Lane Chief Justice (Sir William Rest-Davies, heading to Wong-noi-cheong Road, near inany stories have been
It has been suggested that, as K.C.3, and the Puisne Justice (Mrth Bowrington Canal. A Chinese youth as to the damage done to the University practicable, it is desirable that the It is of interest to note that "as far Justice (ntiportz) heard in application riding a bicycle ran into a ricksha, over-buildings by lighting, some sort of an
bonductor be connected to extensive for a writ of Habeas Corpus to be issued turning the rickshaw and causing injury explanation should be given of what uses of metal, such as hot-water pipes,
to the lady recupant. directing the Superintendent of
really did take place. It can be said. c., Both external and internal; but Victoria Uhol to show cause why Lawas sleged that the occupant of the at once, that the actual destruction of It should be kept away from all soft second-ricksha, Inspector Wildin, a property appears to be practically of every kind." It is quite evident that metal pipes and from internal gas-pipes Sheung, now in custody, should-mat. Go
Revenue Officer, stopped his ricksha and significant. although the proverbialthe steel used for reinforcing the upper discharged.
got hold of the eyelist and struck him with a walking stick many times.
good joss which has attended the University since the laying of the founda ail ended, offered many paths for the floor in the building, where the hand As a result the Chinese youth charged tionstone must have been mostly respon electricity to run to earth.
Wildin at the Hongkong side lor its escape from any real damage.
It may be The facts of the case appear to be quite
that in future the advocates of reinforced Mr. W. B. Hind: appeared for the com. simple almost disappointingly simple.crete will find this an additional The accused was arrested in Hongking plainant ned Mr. Crew for Inspector The structure affered is called the rgument in favour of the material! and application was made under the Wildin.
mais building," name which dis Although the word meteorology, as gen- Chinese Extradition Ordinance for the The complainant said the ricksha tinguishes the block in which letures are ferally used to-day refers to phenomen man to be extradited to Canton, on a coolie was in the wrong side of the road give and laboratory classes are held
lating to the weather or climate, it charge of murdering another Chinese, and that he was not the cause of the from the residential quarters and the might be translated literally named Li Fat-cheung, on November 9th, accident, which was due to the lady medial schools. It was the building,
Wience relating to meteors. And the 1917. The esse carne on at the Magistracy Stopping the ricksha and coming out presented by the late Sir Hormusjee
word meteor was originally used to before Mr. J. R. Wood, who granted hurriedly. The ricksha thus overturned. Mody, and it is the most prominent by skies, whether astronomical or merely signify all phenomena occurring in the the order asked for. Mr. Pollock The lady called upon the European to reason of its granite columns, it unusual atmospheric, comparatively recent electri- sought the man's release on the ground strike the eelist. and inspector Wildin general appearance and the collection of cal researches in the laboratories of phy that the man has never been formally struck him on the arm, wrist and thigh.minarets which adn the roof. A fen-sicists have enabled them to explain accused in China, and also that no real Complainant said he had been cycling for are of the building is the central tower, atmospheric phenomena, such case has been made out for the man's the last two years and never rode in obviously intended to carry a dock, but, luminous effect
like the tower of the railway station at which take place in rarefied air.
furoral displays, There Kowloon, Hearing a curiously vacant
ia now.
no doubt as to the nature of ppearance, as it contains no timepiece. turned and the coolie thrown down.
(It is said, of course, that people do not lightning: it is an immense electric spark Complainant got mixed up with the rick still, it docs seems a pity to have a
worry about time in the Far East; but caused by a sudden discharge of electri-
sha colic and they fell together.
The accumulated electrification of clocktower without a clock. And even
the upper atmosphere, in the plainant tried to ran away into a house if time is not money we cannot, even
C180 of lightning. is suddenly, discharged; the ten yards away, and another Chinese boy in the Far East, altogether neglect the aurora permits the escupe or discharge took charge of the bicycle. The lady passing of time) It was this centrai to take place slowly. ocenpant wris witness' sister. She was
tower which caught the eye of Jive, and,
stradition.
The Hon. Attorney-General said that in recent Habras Corpux cases tried be fore the Supreme Court the fugitive had iwgan, lint; he wished to submit to their Lordships that the proper procedure was pint the person who was actually in clurge of prisoner should begin. He did not think the question had ever been
sealed or even raised before. -
The Chief Justion replied that the question' had been raised and fully dis
zig-zag manner.
Inspector Wildin stated that he saw the complainant riding his eyele on the wrong side of the ragel. The ricksha was over-
Com-
city.
де the
az the
It was the illustrious American philoso not thrown out but jumped as the rickshat his command, the lightning flashed phor. Benjamin Franklin, who first sug was going over and sprained her ankle, from the sky to the lagstaff at the top gested that lightning was an electrical cussed when he first ent. It was decided
Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe said the complain of this tower. Perhaps the obvious con-discharge, and to him belongs the honour That it was obviously incumbent in the nut was responsible for the accident, inattempt for time irritated Jove.
of initiating the use of lightning coudue fugitive to start. The procedure now was the defendant huid, no right to assault
tors in about 1749. There is always soins If procedure adopted at home. A rule him. Therefore, he fined bim $1 for take-the harbour who saw it must have had danger, however well protected a build-
i was granted enlling upon the per-ing the law into his hands.
ing my
be by lightning conductors, for! the path by which atmospheric electricity reaches the earth in most erratic.
son in charge of the prisoner to show,
The Attorney General In England it- is ile other way; it is the rule for the Crown to begin.
rested the burden of proof..
THE WANCHAI MURDER. QUESTION:OF THE PRISONER'S
SANITY.
Mr. Pollock said. it was the common At the Hongkong Magistracy, yester pearlice here, is "well as in England, that day afternoon, Mr. P. W. Goldring in- the prisoner should begin. The whole formed Mr. E. D, C. Wolfe that he wished question stood on one point whom to have Luk Chi, the man who is charged with the murder of an amah at Wanchai, The Chief Justics The custom at home medially examined by air outside doctor, canjunction with the Guol doctor in is as the Attorney General bus stated.rds-to test his sanity. Mr. Goldring
Mr. Pollock replied that the point was seriously one which touched upon the added that he was already in communica. Eberty of the party. Obviously, it rusted tien with the Government on the subject, upon him to legin, lyghuse if he was not and thought he would inform the Magis to begin the position would be that,trate of the matter. supposing neither the Attorney-General
nor himself addressed their Lordships, was not until several months after the twir Lordships would say that the man murder that the fugitive was accused of should be discharged. He thought he had being connected with it. Before that the a right to have that matter enquired into.man had been described as a notorious Mr. Justice Gompertz-Taking your robber, and it was not until comparative, own position, you have the order nisi. ly recently that the crime of ourdes bad The onus must be on the guoler.
beer brought against him. The extradi- Mr. Pollook then cited several authori-tion was being sought upon a charge of murder and not robbery. Mr. Pollock ties in support of his contention.
The Chief Justice, addressing the added that there was no evidence at all Attorney-General, said he thought, it to show that his client had committed the would save time if Mr. Pollock began.murder:
It was a wonderful fash; anyone in
a unique experience My house is not very far away, and, although sitting with my back to the window overlooking the University, the lightning seemed to jump
There is alan some danger in making right across my eyes, Formerly it was experiments on the subject. A Russian difficult to understand that anyone could experimenter; Professor Richmann, had be alarmed at such a Common natural arranged a vertical rod from the roof phenomern as the flashing of lightning, his taboratory, and had connected this that such a flush can strike tortor into An future it will be easy to understand cal ball on the ceiling of the room. But he had not provided any possibl the minds of those who are near to its way of escape for the electricity to earth
and, on coming near to the ball, his body) formed a conductor. The result was quit sudden, hud if not any more painful the Professor than is the electric chair in America to the criminal, yet it wa probably inconvenient to liis relatives.
it reaches the earth.
The clock-tower carries a wooden Bag. staff and the lag is pulled up and down sleul cord. This cord was hanging loosely, the lower end happening to be resting on an iron hand-railing which runs alongside the light of stain up to the top of the tower. The lightning spic
the circular, wooden disc at the top of in balves, as if Jove had used a sword,
the flagstaff. It then ran down the wire rope on to the railing, and then, where the railing ended in a floor built of rain forced concrete, it became nasty. Indeed, it was fortunate that the floor had inforements of steel in it, for at the base of the railing the concrete was shat tered, and evidently the lightning found a path along the steel rods, which spread out in a most approved fashion. It was not altogether happy, because where the floor meets the outside wall it leapt across-boring a hole through the con-
The electrical disturbances associated
with lightning set up air vibrations or
of the light waves of the electrical dis and waves. They travel at an almost casual speed, as compared with the speed charge. Sound reaches us at the rate of
The sound
feet per second, but light travels through the ether at an immense speed, not far short of 200,000 miles per second. That is why the sound of the thunder takes so long to reach us as compared
travels at about the rate of one mile in with the lightning flash.
ve seconds. It we count fifteen seconds between the fash, and the sound, the thunder has travelled about three miles. Of course, that ruling was, not to be re- His Lorishij said he was
The jar of the blinding finsh which of the garded as establishing a precedent,
opinion from the depositions that there
trick the University main building Mr. Pollock began by referring to anwas prima facie evidence that would crete until it reached aj leadcovered caused me to look up the subject in the affidavit by Mr. P. X. d'Almada, stating justify a magistrate committing a fugi. electric-light wire. It wrecked the fuse of them states that a lightning flash has books in my small scientific library. · Onu
the grounds on which they were seeking tive for trial, and, therefore, the Court box to which this wite was connected, sparked across a distance of one mile. As the writ and went on to deal with the did not desire to hear the Attorney but it did not run past it. It is hardly thousand volts to cuum electricity to takes an electrical pressure of oag potat of law. He said that a fugitive General on that point; but the Court likely that the fuses melted so quietly jump across a tiny air-gap of one-hun- criminal under the Ordinance meant a would like to hear the Attorney-General's that it could not go past them; it is difredth part of an inch we may form son
le of the enormous electric, pressure sabject of China accused of an extradi- argument on the point as to whether the ficult to understand why it did not go required to spark across one milc tion crime committed within the jurisdic. fugitive was accused in China.
much further along the circuit.
If anyone had been holding on to the The Attorney-General said the position tion of China. They contended that a Bean could not come under that Ordinthe Crown took up was that no accusation icon railing of the staircase when the ance unless the conditions precedent had in China and to formal accusation at all lightning ran along it he would have had been performed, ie, that he had been taken under the Ordinance. It was quite not the orthodox path for lightning to was necessary before action could be a very unconfortable experience. It is aceresd of an extradition crime. Until snfficient if the fugitive was in fact accus
reach the earth, and, of course, there was demanded The fact that he was
it
It may be of interest to Peak residents to know that an electrical discharge, such aliatning, clears the atmosphere of fag. The phenomena can easily be de wonstrated in the laboratory, and Sir Oliver Lodge has urged its practical ap pliation. The only difficulty-one all Los common-is that of expense. A get- eration that discovers, how to obtain electricity by some very economical
por hundred units--may be able to live arch-enemy of that distres by switching on the Peak and simply pulverise the on electricity. is the gardens will be greatly stimulated That generation will also find that the growth of the flowers
zaan became fugitivo criminal within cd of the crime for which his extradition should have been, a proper lightning con method-let us eay, at a cost of one cent the interpretation of the Section, no steps accused in the requisition of the Governor ductor at the top of the tower. It is could be taken under the Ordinance, of Kwangtung of the crimo and in the only tir to the scientific staff of the Mr. Pollock explained that a man must depositions of the witness was sufficient University to state that a suggestion to be formally accused of murder before be General said he was prepared to show that effect was made by them some years accusation Nevertheless, the Attorney- could be extradited for it, and proceed that there was in the present case, ample ago, but it was not acted upon. ings must have been commenced in China evidence of aensation in China and of against him for that crime. There had
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or other judicial person, this contention.
The Chief Justice, în giving judgment, pure opper,
Iron is used sometimes unpleasant enough to be called anything) the whole edifice would have falle
It not from the sky to the highest edifice was, not sufficient for one man to say that said he expressed no opinion on
Acarious phenomenon known as so happened that, at the time of the earth on the island. It may be that the Univ the but it should not weigh less than 2 lbs. Elmo's Fire was noticed by the passen- quake, my innocent experiments on some versity central tower was the highest point the accused had committed some crime, charge of murder which had been pre-per fost run. In this damp clampte all gem. It can be described as luminous steel bars were being made in the base rear to the clouds over the harbour. One
ferred. All he bad to decide was whether
electrical discharges slowly escaping from mout of the building, from which there curious fact, showing that rumour travels but actual proceedings had to bo-institut the magistrate acted regularly in issuing metais oxidies rapidly if exposed to the the masthead The sailors regarded the would have been small hope of scape through the Colony almost as rapidly as ed. Mr. Pollock referred to the case a warrant for the man's arrest. He had atmosphere. In the instructions to be phenomena as good jos.” No damage Now the lightning seem to have miracul- lightning, may be mentioned. The Last tried in Hongkong of The King v. Son no hesitation in saying that on the ovid-found in a well-known engineer's pocket fellows these rather pretty pranks of ously missed causing considerabis daru-nows that reached me of any damage done On Nam, in which Mr. Slade argued the ence before him the magistrate was book it is stated, in connection with the
atspheric electricity.
age. It is to be hoped that the Tuiver to the University came from the Club. thoroughly instified in committing the
It is only a few months ago that some city building will be satisfied now with A friend rang up to enquire if it was point. He also referred to some doen man for trial. He was of opinion that Protections of factory chimneys, that, for of us who were at work in the main the quiet lils associated with academic true that the University buildings had beea badly damaged. The answer was in ments in this case which showed that it the requirements of the Ordinance had lightning, conductors" oxidation of the building of the University felt the fall institutions,
effect of the earthquake shock, be
One of Without wishing any ill-fortune to the the negative. been complied with, and the rule azri was joints must carefully・・ guarded.
Then an inspection was my friends, who makes a bobby of study property owners or householders of the made to see if anything had happened. (Continued at foot of next Column.) discharged.
against.” It is also recommended that (Continued as joat of next Column.)