CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [Besire 1S HONOUR THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIN WILLIAM REES DAVIES, R.C.)]
A MISERABLE SPECIMEN OF
HUMANITY."
THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 201H, 1918.
HARBOURING A GIRL.
Mak Lam was indicted for harbouring. a Chinese girl, under the age of 21. without the consent of her parents."
INDO-CHINA S. N. CO., LTD.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING.
His L.dship: You have got to meet these charges. The witnisses any they saw you go away with the child, that they saw you at Macas and that you promised
An extraordinary general meeting of to' produce the child and did not do so.
The following wore the jury: Messrs.. the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., The Prisoner: I don't know this man.
S. E. Hodge, T. M. Pereira, W. Wather. Ltd., was hold at the offices of Messrs. I will make my statement by and by:
The onse for the prosecution having spoon, A. M. O. dos Remedios, F. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd, yesterday. closed, the prisoner intimated that he Barradas, A. Morse and C. B. Brown. The Hon. Mr. David Landale presided, wished the statement he had made before The Crown Solicitor stated that the and there were also present': ---Messrs. H. the Magistrite to be read to the jury, girl, who is fourteen years of age, visited P. White, A. O. Lang, H. W. Looker This statement detailed the facts for the the prisoner at his office while her R. Sutherland, the Hon. Mr. Ho Fook,
The parents
were away, and asked him to Messrs L N. Leefe, Geo. P. Lam- C. Potts. defence as stated by Mr. Jenkin prisoner added: " This is a false' charge, make her his wife. Prisoner, in his mert, G. M. Shaw, P.
A. I only statement, pleaded that he tried to per- | E... Abraham, owing to a grudge against me. Messrs. J. P. J. Foulds, William Lele got acquainted with the child's father sunde her to return to her parents, but, Macintyre, M. Austen, H. Rüt V. Gonsalves," K. D. Mistry, Balph Pack when visiting my sister. I am a soldier as she entreated him, he eventually tonjer, E. F. Aucott, K. de C. Longmire, ham, B. J. H. Botelho, and L. 1. Reme and get rations from the Chinese Govern- undertook to take charge of her. Ho A. M. da Silva, L. E. Remedios, R. There was information from the rented a cubicle in No. 4. Ezra Lane and Maddougall, S. E. da Luz, N. L. H.
Lit Mak, alias Lit Bung, alis Nin Hung, was indicted for (1) taking away by force & Chinese boy 7 years of age with intent to deprive his father of the custody of the child, and (2) forcibly detaining the child so as to obtain ransom. Mr. F. Q. Jeakin appeared on behalf
of the Attorney-General.
The following jury was etapanelled:
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The facts of the case, us related hyuthorities that the child's father was a they lived there as man and wife from Railton, F. C. Hall, P. Tod, G. R. Mr. Jenkin, were as follows:-On April rubber and had stolen goods in his posse March 2nd until September 4th, when Layton, A. C. Davison, E. M. Raymond,"
an old friend of the family, and, when prisoner was arrested. The prisoner was the girl was discovered to be missing.
20th a little hoy was kidnapped by the
prisoner from a joss-stick seller's shop a No. 16, Shanghai Street, Yaurat The parents of the child, lived in the joss-stick seller's shop, where the prisoner had also been staying for about ten days
his previous tu
disappearance with
1 p.m. the child... At about
the prisoner the tiny in question, asked the boy to go out for a walk with
on
lont us a soldier he had me arrested and changed the with kidnapping his son.
did not do wit
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His Lordship, in summing up, said: the parents went to his offer and asked Li Yew Yat in U Beans, Le Mati Tie, FOOTBALL, CRICKET & HOCKEY
The evidence for the prosecution is him to help in recovering ber.. He conclusive."
The Jury brought in a unanimous verdict of guilty on both counts.
His Lordship, addressing the prisoner.
promised to do so, and from time to time
informed them of his endeavours, though all the time the girl was living with him.
The girl deposed that she was adopted when she was one month old. Her foster
him to drink some ten. The little fellow said: "You have been found guilty of into the family she had been living with accompanied the prisoner; and from that tim had completely disappeared.
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sery serious offence. It is one of the
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has
cases of
that its kind ever come before 'me. You are a miserable specimen of humanity. You not only and your stole the child, but you scoundrel friend got $160, pocketed the
parents had ill-treated her" and wanted to sell her to a house of ill-fame. Not relishing that life she went to prisoner and begged, him to take her away. She wished to get married,
About the middle of May, Chan Yau, "who, the prosecution alleged.
accomplice of the prisoner, visited the parents of the child just about the time when the parents had received a letter aney, and never took any stops, no far that the girl had been ill-treated She purporting to have been written by the snow. to recover the child. prisoner informing the parents that they going to has a severe sentence, but I am
I un
Ho Kom Tong, Chan Wing, M.. K. Lo. Hoa Wong, Hu Tang Ying, Fung Hun, Chan Shih Ku, Ho In, Li Yun Koh.
Ho Leung Chin Siu Nara, Ho Shai Wa, Lo Cheung-ip Lo Man"Pan, Ho Ki, Lo Sheung Shu, Ho Kwong, and Hu Wing... The CHAIRMAN said:-Gentlemen,--The. object with which this meeting has been
called is to adopt the new Articles of Association, a copy of which was sent to
As
each shareholder some days ago. very little change has been made in the Articles of Association since the Com.
pany was incorporated in 1881, you can readily understand the necessity for this The foster father of the girl denied step. There have been many amendments to Company law during recent years, and was treated as one of his children.
His Lordship: Is it tras that you as the Board of this Company now sit
Witness: Yes, 83 at various times. I
What security --A book containing names of the members of a guild who would pay my burial expenses,
could have their child back for $160. As going to give you an opportunity of borrowed money from the prisoter1-:in Hongkong, instead of in London, we
finding the child. visit to
a result, the parents paid a
I am going to post-gave him becurity, pone the flogging which I impose on you Macau, where they met the prisoner, who for one month. If you assist in recover offered to return them their child furing the child in that month you will not $150. The parents had not that amount.
get the flogging. I shall sentence you to with them at the time, and therefore r
a severe term of imprisonment, but if turned to Hongkong.
you recover the child. I shall ask the
But prisoner will not get the money while you livet No. He gave me the money as he trusted, me,"
When did you take the money from went away and $25 afterwards, though, of course. I did not know at the time that
have been advised by our shareholders that our proper cnurse is to replace our old Articles of Association by these new Arsicles which they have drafted. Your Directors have, therefore, taken this op portunity of introducing a few altera-
On June 14th, the boy's Inther, uncle Attorney-General to approach H.E. the prisoner 1 togk $23 before my daughter tions into the new Articles of Association
"and an employé in the shop, having sol
lected the necessary money for the ransom, went to Macao again, and met
Governor to have the sentence reduced.
Prisoner was sentenced to undergo ten
she was living with him.
It is not because he refused to lend you
Chan Yau and the prisoner. The negotia. Jenry' imprisonment, and to recsive 24 any more money that you brought this
tons were re-opened and the money was handed over by the uncle, $50 to the The prisoner and 110 to Chan You. prisoner promised to bring the child to the boarding-house the next morning. The two men provided the only humorous incident in the whole case by taking away, presumably as keepsakes, two um- brellas belonging to the child's father and uncle. Both Chan Yau and the prisoner completely disappeared, and the next version on which the child's parents saw the prisoner was when the latter was in Police custody.
strokes with the birch, the latter sentence
to be inflicted at the end of a month.
J;
[EFFORE HIS HONOUR THE PUTENZ. JUDOK
complaint? No.
The prisoner stated that the girl came to his oilice to look for him" and asked The prisoner: "I don't mind if I him to take her away. She also ankout receive a flogging or not.
him not to tell her mother.
Further evidence having been heard, His Lordship summed up, stating that on defendant's own admission he must have known that the girl left her home without the consent of the parents. If à gill of 13 or 14 years could leave her home on account of a slight difference with her parents and lived with the first young man she took a fancy to, it would be a bad thing for the Colony.
(MR. 3. H. J. GOMPERTZ)],
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Lam Ki'and Lo Sang were indicted for committing a robbery with violence at No. 02, Wanchai Road on Augus: 27th.
The first prisoner pleaded guilty and the second denied the charge of aiding and abetting which was preferred against
him
The Crown Solicitor prosecuted,
The following were the jury-Messrs, S. E. Hodge, T.-M. Pereira, W. Wother- spoon, A. M. O. dos Remedios, F. A. Barradas, A. Mora and C. B. Brown.
The jury brought in a verdict of "guilty" with recommendation to morey.
Hi Lordship: senteared prisoner to
eighteen months' hard labour.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SOLUTION OF THE SIBERIAN QUESTION.
HONGKONG
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which we think will be of benefit to the shareholders individually and the com pany us a "whole. Attention has been drawn to these changes in the circular letter sent to all shareholders, and I think. it is only necessary for me to refer to them very briefly. Power is taken to sue share warrants to bearer, which, I feel sure, will be appreciated by share- holders and greatly facilitate the trans- fer of shares on the various markets in which dealings take place. The compli gated system of voting at shareholders' meetings which exists under the old Articles of Association has been done away
witn and the principle or one vote for one share has been estabushed," a macb simpler and more equitable arrangement. I do not think that it would be in the interests of the Company that any change in the management should be brought about without due consideration. The
Articles, therefore,
new.
require
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The father of the child returned fr Hongkong, but the uncle, remained in Macao to look for the prisoner, whom the
special resolution" to deal with the Police arrested a month later at the house of another relative of the child's parents.
matter. The stipulation as regards con- tracts between the General Managers of It was necessary, continued Mr. Jenkin,
any of the Directors and the Company to draw attention to the prisoner's
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE The Crown Solicitor said the law in
is the ordinary one common to many other denials. He had stated that he was not
Companies and is framed to facilitate DAILY PRESS."')
the transaction of the Company's busi-" in Hongkong between March 12th and Hongkong made any person aiding and
I should, perhaps, explain 20th, abetting in a felony liable in the stre
SIR-Your correspondent, Mr. Tseness. 10th; that
April с July
feature of the proposed Articles as re- gards the Directorate which, you may when he was supposed to have taken the degree as the principal who actually Tsan Pai, presumably thinks that the
restoration of Siberia to China would have noticed. You are aware that Messrs. child away, he was serving us a soldier committee the crime. In the present case
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Limited, are in China; that he did not know Chan the man who actually committed the have the effect of not only averting a
the permanent General Managers of the Yau; that he knew nothing about the crime had pleaded guilty to it.
The world-war, "but would' conduce to univer-Company. It is considered desirable.
that a member of their firm should always shop; that he had never soon the father facts of the case were that on August 17th sal peace for ever after. He appears, except once some, years ago in China; that at about 19.30 p.m. a small Chinese girl also, to think that Siberia cannot be be a member of the Directorate and thereby directly share in the respon was leaving her house, and had just dis-
banded to a better fiation than strongibility of the Directors for the manage on the 20th June, when he was supposed cended to the second floor on her way to
aud peace-loving China.
ment of the Company's affairs. The new to have taken the $60, he was not in school when the first prisoner assaulted
He says: "In these days of war and Macho.. A feature of the case for the her and stole two gold bangles. He bloodshed, and great ideals-League of Articles, therefore, provide that the ger-
frightened her and and put his arm round prosecution was that it was not one but her throat to prevent her crying out for Nations, universal peace, independence son, for the time being in charge of the Evidence would be brought and integrity of small states, and protec- business of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & several persons who would depose to have assistance,
boundaries, and the freeing of enslaved manent Director of the Company. ing seen, the prisoner taking the child forward to prove that on August 20th tion of the weak (sic), rectification of Co, Ltd., in Hongkong shall be the per- the second prisoner was noticed loitering and subject races it is clear to all think Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., away and to having met the prisoner in about the place, and on the morning of
ing men and politicians' that the real have, necessarily at all times a large Macao and handing over the money to the 27th ho again appeared on the scene.
solution of the Siberian question is the holding of the shares of the Company, and remained there till he heard cries. He
and as any person in charge, for the him. If the prisoner's story was to be then made a hurried exit, but was arrest complete restoration of the territory to believed the jury had to believe that aed by a lodger who was living on the China," etc. If the thinking men and to being, of that Company's business When charged at the politicians" of the world should decide in Hongkong is necessarily a member of number of people were deliberately lying Police Court the prisoner stated that he to hand over Siberia to China, I wonder that Company and interested in such from some unknown motive. The prison went to the house at the invitation of whether they would band it to the Can-holding, it is not thought necessary that ton Military Government or to the Peking he should possess an independent share er had, in fact, alleged that all the wit the first prisoner, who asked him to
Government. Or are they to establish qualification as a permanent Director nesses for the prosecution were lying accompany him on a visit to a friend.
another Government in Siberia with since his occupation of his post may, at The first prisoner went upstairs, and
any time, be of a temporary nature against him. He said that he was playho remained below. It was a rather your correspondent at its head i
China, since the establishment of the You will agree, I think, that the in- ing fan tan in Macao in February this curious thing, remarked the, Crown year and had won some $120. A Chinese Solicitor, that the prisoner, who knew Republic, has always been in the throes terest he possesses in the firm of the that his friend had gone on a visit, of civil war, and to me it appears that General Managers and in the shares of cook, standing near by, wanted to bor- should have harried away on hearing this state of affairs has very little chance the Company held by his firm constitute pany. I do not think that there are any row 840 or $50 of this money and he had crica of "anatching." The prisoner had of calming down for at least another an amply suficient interest in the Com refused to lend it
further divulged certain information to three or four decades. Prisoner suggested
I wonder what Mr. Tse will advocate other points to which I need refer, but the Police which led to the arrest of the,
Probably his knowledge of I shall be happy to answer any ques that that cook, out of revenge, had per first prisoner. The Crown Solicitor sub suaded the parents of the child to swear mitted that prisoner was not innocent, gcography will bring him to ack the tions which shareholders may wish to but had kept watch on the ground-floor world to compel United States of Americansk. I will now propose the resolution:
to all the lies against him.
The mother of the child deposed to tho facts of the prosecution.
She was cor tain in her identification of the prisoner.
His Lordship: Was the boy your only child-Witness: Yes.
to where the child
ground-floor.
while his friend committed the robbery.
next:"
to submit to the Government of Mexico.
Evidence having been given, the jury Yours, etc., “JOHN KESTREL"
brought in a verdict of guilty."
i at prescat Wit Colony 1.
The Crown Solicitor stated that there were four previous convictions against the first prisoner for larceny and robbery, His Lordship: Is he a British subject? His Lordship: Have you any iden us Why has he not been banished from the
When we asked the prisoner at Inspector Sin: He is a British sub
His Lordshin: He is not a credit to the Colony. Five years hard labour and ten strokes with the "eat."
ICES,;
Macao where the child was he said that the child whs at Mow-wah
When witness after witness swore to the facts as related by Mr. Jenkin, and stated that he was certain in identifying the prisoner, the latter only said: don't know this man."!
ject
The second prisoner was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour.
Hongkong, September 19th.
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That the regulations contained in the printed document submitted to the meeting and for the purpose of identi fication subscribed by the Chairman thereof be and the same are hereby approved and that sach regulations be and they are hereby adopted as the Articles of the Company in substitution for and "to the exclusion of all the existing Articles thereof."
Mr. WHITZ seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously.
There was no other business and the meeting terminated. A meeting of the Company to confirm the resolution will be held on Tuesday, October 8th.
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