CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
REFORE DAS HONOUR THÊ CHERY JUSTICE, SER
WILLIAM QEES DAVIS, K+]
RATERNING FROM RANISHMENT
ip Tak San pleaded guilty to returning Prona Barishment belare the expiration his songenee
The Acting Attonyfionerül said that' the prisoner had been Banished six tiriss: the last Terasion (for fry mats on May 20th, 1910
The prisoner said a elinsan taskedi him to come to the Colony to make up anme accounts, and be dil so.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1919.
BEFORE HIS. MONOUR THE PUISNE JUSTICE.
MR. C. Mtukotkaz)
ROBBERY FROM A EUROPEAN
IRL.
La Chan' was indicted for robbery, with | violence), from the person of Mie Enid Muriel Cornell, in Lyttelton Road,"on July with
FEEDING THE POOR.
CONGEE STATIONS TO BE DISCONTINUED,
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|TRAGIC DEÁTH OF MR. F. E.
WEISS AT SHANGHAI.
CIRCUMSTANCES POINT TO,
MURDER.
CHEAP RICE TO BE SUVSTITUTED.
The Committee of the Tüng Wah Fos pita have decided to discontinue the The mysterious disappearance of Mr several congee stations in the Colony, F. E. Weiss,General Agent of the where the poor hays been fed for the past Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, cul- two months, as from Monday next, and minated in a tragic discovery about mid- to institute in its play the cheap sale" of night on Friday, says the North China The following jury was empañciled': --
risolteen cutties for 81. The congrily News of August 23th, when his Messrs. D. T. J. Exper. W. H. Harlev, E. P. Shroff. P. A. Unideiro, J. D.stations have proved a great boon to the dead body was discoverd in
lonely Carriere, E. Guimaraes and A. d'Eca
hungry poor who Hocked to them in spur in the Yangtze poo district. Accord thousands, and the Hospital is to be con- ing to the medical evidence, death, had The From Solicitor, who prosecuted.gratulated upon its successful efforts to carred from 0 to 48 hours prior to the outlined the facts of the case.
strz the tide of starvation which discovery, and it would, therefore, acem End Muriel Cornell. 1 years of age, threatened to sweep over the Colony to have taken place only a few hours His Lordship reminded - prisoner thri | said she lived with her mother in lyttet. owing to the high cost of rige. Their after thecenset left his home in Weida! both Chief Justive) haud sentenced hinton Road. On the morning of July 30th.
work contributed not a little to quelling wet Road), on Wednesday evening, to keep the riots, which, otherwise, might have to banishment for three years i ecober, sie left home just before 10 am., and was.
assumed serious proportions.
a business appointinent, and one other 1916. Prisoner was now sentenced to ::
prooviding by Lyttelton. Road to town,
:engagement the nature of which is not
· The decision to discontinue the feeding yet known. There was a deep wound-iq yellow hard labour.
along Bonham Road. She saw two men.
stations was arrived t sitting in" a bench in Lyttelton Road.
at a meeting held on Sunday evening at the Tung Walthe throat, apparently inflicted with a She wirst down Chine Rond and Wolling-
Kong, the Chairman for, the current or twelve feet away from the body. Fur- Hospital and presided over by Mr. Hazur, afterwards found lying some ten
ther examination revealed a bullet wound. through the back of the head, ant this pak, the Hon. Mr. Ho Fook, Mr. Li Po-rond injury supports a strong suspicion kwai and Mr. Fang Ping sang.
of foul play.
MURDER LY THE NEW `
TERRITORIES.
Chung Kan was indicted for the marure of his elder brother, Chung Kun Yang, at Cheung Pc. & village in the New Territory, January 8th, 1019.
The Acting Attorney Generall (ite Hon, M. II. F. Pollock. K.), prosecuted, and Mr. R E. Belilios defended,, •.
The following jury was empanelled Messrs. C. Hat, A. W. Roan, J. Steer, * ド Castro, C. W. Olsen. E. M. H Castro and F. H. Y, A. Lafleura
Mr. Pollock suit the prisoner and the deceased lived together. One day they boh a quarrel in regard to a doorway in the house, and alnut three days before the
reer there whe -ight between them, in which the deceased came off the worHe with a black eye. On the afternoon of January Bath, the decensed went out of his hot, carrying a bucket, to draw watch from a well or pool close by. H
never returned. About an hour later, his
wil being anxious, rent out with some friends to look for him, and they found him on the roadside, dead, with a number of are injuries to his shark That sude evening the prisoner vanished Iram
village with his wife and daughter. I
such was not heard of til July 15th.. when the Police arrested him, in Ban Tau, Searching the prisoner's house, a Poliçe- sergeant found a chopper, the handle of which was damp. The chopper showed Do trace of blood; it seemed to have been washed free of bloodstains. An offl woman of the village would give evidence the afternoon of the murder,
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the prisoner sharpening that particular chopper on a whetstone. After
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Year There were over 100 members pre- sent, including the Hon. Mr. Lau Chu
A poignant feature in the tragic.cir cumstances of the case is that deceased's mother and sister were due to arrive in Shanghai from Amerien" on Saturday", their visit having been long looked for
tour Storer, to the Singer Sewing Maching Cikk to do some shopping. She was re- turning the same way home when she saw the two things, whom she had noticed before, still sitting in the same place, When they saw her they got up and walker | The Chairman stated that the Tung abin, 6 or 7 yards in front of her. Sud-Hospital had weured 10.000 field of denly, they stopped; one
snt down and Wah rice from the Food Relief Associn- the other stood by as if waiting for her
tior of Canton, at the rate of 1 for 34 to pass She walked up past them, and.
catties. The rice was brought to the when she was about 3 yards in front of
Colony, free of freight charges, by the Sin On Fuen On Steamship Company Ward to by Mr. Weiss who had busied and the Wo Fat Steamship Company himself with preparation for their recep and had been stored at the Yee Wo Fation. Deceased was 2 years of age, and Lodowns Tree of charge. It was the in-nmarried, tention of the directors of the Tung Wah Hospital to sell this cheap rise to the poor at $1 for fifteen catties,, or about $8.60
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them, the prisones came up and pulled at her b She would not let go, and the prisoner pushed her over and wrintsherd the bag, leasing the string in her hand. En the bag was a handkerchief, a "vanity..
back and screamed, and the men ran and a shop-buckle. She fell on her
away. A student from the University, who heard her sercatis, appeared after the men had escaped, and escorted her homeobtain third grade rice from the Govern She saw the prisoner again the same day ment and sell it to the poor at a reduced
picul When the supply was exhausted, if no more should be forthcoming from other sources, the Committee would
The inquest was opened at the U. s. Court on August 23rd.
Dr. Julian Petit spoke as to having visited the scene of the tragedy that morn; Fing at tam-and finding the body'
inclined and face downward.
sing at the foot of a gray mound, fret mains were in an advanced stage of de
The on the hill between her house and Hu Muirate-bout a picul, as compared with hospital. Some days later she was the Government's selling price of *r.
composition, the features being unreco- The Committey had received subscriptions wound in the throat, and the extent of it gnisable. There was a deeply incised
Purmounting to nearly $110,000, and were from several generous Chinese gentlemen
might roughly be described as being from assured that this sun: would be consider The clothes were not disarranged. Life ear to ear. No bones had been broken. Four wittessy we heard for the pro-ably augmented when the cheap sale" of wreation.
rice commenced. A large portion of the
had then been extinct for a day and a money had been expended on the congre-half, or two days Witness was unable stations, the cost of maintaining them to give an opinion as to whether it was being about $3,000 a day?
a case of suicide or no
taken to the Police-station for an identi fication parade and she picked out the prisoner without the slightest hesitation. She was quite sure of the man.
The prisoner said he had no statement to make.
The jury found the prisoner guilty and he was sentenced to 18 months" hard. labour and strokes with the " cat."
A BIG HAUL OF JEWELLERY.
Tsui Tsud Tok, alias Tsui Tsun, and eng beung, ufing Leung Kau, pleaded guilty to Traking into the residence of
to the Central Police station. When 28th, and stealing the following article:- charged with the offence,
1. pair, diamond earrings, diamond plied: "If I did not kill him, he would finger-ring.. £1 diamond finger-ring, 1 have killed mo." Therefore, said Mr.jade necklace and pendant, 1 gold chain
.
A disenssion, followed, and it was eventually decided to discontinue, the congee-stations From Monday next and to begin the cheap sale of rice.
Mr. Chau Yang, representative of the Western district said that an investiga tion as to the number of the poor was being carried out. In the selling of the rice he proposed that tickets should be and quantity of rice required, and that the rice be sold every two hours-ir. four times a day in all
The Chairman stated that the census of the poor would be completed within
Mr. C. B. Weiss, decreased's brother, stated that when he last saw him, he seemed in exceptionally good spirits, spoke about some games of Lennis that afternoon, and interested himself in an oil-painting witness was doing. He left the house shortly after 8.18 pan, wearing | a white suit and shoes, but no hat, and
Habit
the prisoner was arrested, he was taken Mr. E. Abraham, at Kowloon, on June issued to the poor with name and address exrrying a carved bamboo care.
he
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the Chu-pak then informed the
the
be
follock, the jury would see that the pris- und locket with diamonds," pair of oner raised' the plea of self-defense. That pearl earrings, 3 pearl brooches, 3 jade plea the prosecution could not accept, brooches, ruby and pearl necklace, because of the nature of the wounds which gold chain and locket. 1 pair of jade 100,000 piety of Hunan rice for this the prisoner had inflicted on the deceased, sleeve-links, 'gold bangles, a silver hand- Dr. Smalley would state that eight of bags diamond stads, & pearl scarf-pins,
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nine blows had been infictod with some
1 gold flower-holder, z gold studs, 1 gold strument, like the chopper in question chain and locket with pearls, I ruby and on the skull of the deceased. The pro- diamond fager-ring, al gold and jade secution was justified-in-waying that the brooch, I pair of gold cuff-linky, 1 gold prisoner had committed a brutal murder.
Some of these articles have since been recovered.
and silver cag. 3 silver cigarette cases, gold watch and chain with trinkets, I The prisoner said that on the day in
box of gold trinkets, 1 box of jade question he was chopping wood whin he
trinkets, I radium: alarm watch, gold met his brother, who was on his way tô draw water. They had quarrelled. some
scarf-plus, 1 peart neckince, a peari day's previously over certain propertyfinger ring and one ruby pendant, of the and when prisoner met his brother that total value of 83,175. day he questioned him about it. A fight. ensued. The deceased struck him with a Lig bamboo, and prisoner defended him self with his chopper. Several blows were exchanged. Deceased fell down, and prisoner, seeing his opportunity, ran away. He had no idea that his brother was dead. Realising that he had done! wrong, bo washed the chopper and left
the village that evening.
Air. Belilios submitted that it was a case of justifiable homicide and that the facts slowed that if the prisoner þad not de fended himself he would have been killed. The prisoner had no intention-of com- mitting murder. -
Mr. Pollock replied that a man must stand by the natural conseqences of his act. The doctor's evidence showed the savagery of the attack which the prison er made upon his brother,
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The jury brought in &, unsinions verdict of guilty.
His Lordship, in, sentencing tlie pris oner to death, said the jury could not fairly have brought in any other verdict. It was a most brutal murder.
The first prisoner was sentenced to five Years hard labour, and the second pri- sumer to four years' hard labour.
Mr. Justice Melbourne wishes it to be notified to the jury that, the above case having concluded the Sessions, their attendance will not be required to-day.
AMMUNITION SMUGGLER
DISAPPEARS.
A Chinese who had spent sixteen years in America, during eight of which be was employed as a labourer on the Panama Canal construction, arrived in the Colony on Sunday by a Japanese steamer. Following the usual custom, the Police searched his luggage and found, concealed in a rattan bor, a re- tion. He was arrested and taken to the volver and several rounds of ammuni-
allowed out on a bail of G. $120. Central Police-station, where he was
He
was warned to attend Court, yesterday, but failed tu do so, His bail was, there- fore, estreated by Mr. N. L. Smith.
meeting that the Chinese General Cham- ber of Commerce Ead received. telegram from Peking stating that the export of
had been sanctioned by Government.
The Chinese community will invited by the Committee. to visit the different centres next and take part in the super vision of the sale of rice, so that they may judge for themselves the number of poor people there are in Hongkong and the outlying districts.
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ally, he carried a black pocket-wallet with silver clasps. Before leaving, he said he night back in a little white, of possibly be might be late. Witness could
suggess no reason at all why he should
have taken his life. He was always of s cheerful disposition, and there had been no apparent change during the past few weeks.
Dr. Petit was recalled to give the re- Mondaysults of further examination of the skull. He stated that Dr. Hunt and him- selt had discovered a bullet about an inch below the right car. The point of entry had been about two inches bad and below the left ear, the bullet having, thus taken an upward direction. There was a fracture on the right side of the head, but the bullet had not passed through.
Twu representatives from each district were invited to attend a meeting, yester-. day, at the Tung Wah Hospital, to dis- the cheap sale of the rice. cutes the arrangements in connection with
GASTRO-ENTERITIS. EPIDEMIC DUE TO CONGEE FEEDING."
The sudden incidence, in epidemic form, of the disease which has been called gastroenteritis by the local Sanitary authorities prompted an enquiry Yester- day from Dr. Monteith, the Acting Medi- cal Officer of Health, as to its cause and nature.,
Dr. Monteith told our reporter that gastroenteritis was inflammation of the bowels, and caused an acute form of. diarrhoea. Deaths sometimes occurred in five or six days, and often in a shorter period.
It is not a stranger to Hongkong," said Dr. Monteith, but during the last week or two it has assumed epidemic form, and we are doing our best to "stern; the tide of deaths."
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Questioned by the District, Attorney, witness said it would have been impos aible for deceased, having cut his throat, to fall forward, shoot himself, and throw away the revolver. The inquiry was adjourned.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS.
EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS
PROBABLE.
Five Chinese-two men and three women-whom the Canton authorities are secking on a charge of kidnapping, came to Hongkong and, it is alleged, continu- was very likely to be found in the congre They are said to have kidnapped twa As to the cause, Dr. Monteith said it ed their nefarious trade in this Colony. feeding, because most of the cases had children, from a village in the New Ter occurred among the class who receive congee in the enclosures. The Banitary ritory and attempted to escape to Macau. Board were making arrangements to stop The Police, however, got on their track the issuing of congee almost at once, and Issue dry rice instead. The new arrange.
and arrested them. The description of ments would be in operation to-day or the five tallies with the description of
morrow, and it was hoped the disease
abate.
the persons wrated by the Canton authori- During the week which ended last tice, and it is probable that after they Baturday there were 117 cases, with 67 have been dealt with by the local Courts, deaths: Of these, no fewer than id case they will be extradited to Canton to (24 deaths) were reported on Saturday. On Sunday there were another 30 cases. .
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