THE SNATCHING””- CASE IN JUBILEE ROAD,"
INTERESTING DETAILS ON THE
ROBBER
MISS HARVEY'S EVIDENCEL
the four Chinese youths" who were at-
the West Point police in com
#Tba!
ed to
the ch
dants
they made Fandu
statemens
ith the highway robbery in the Second
abilee Road at noon on August 9th in to go to the
Mis Harvery
residing—at | steel bathers.
and na they Boad they saw Min the road,
Hotel was the victim." "wers charged on remand, at the Magistracy, esterday, with (1) highway robbery, and (3) conspiracykl
famed
THE HONGKONG DULY PRESS,
The
WEDN NDAY. AUGUST.
ICE POSSESSION O DYNAMITE
USED FOR KILLING FISHS
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General Post | Af the
agistr
for the year-1919, «täfen; dostmen were charged wit
MAILS
imber of mail bags and packets From igkong during this year '144.592" ne against 135,189 in ase of 9,430; the number *-** against 198,925, an
of
The number of mail bags and packets ent in tranulk through the Colony smount- Aaina 81,509 in 1918, an
pogi
"and some funer
unlawful
and
The defendants adu the first def
in charge of the boat 1ại
that it was old stuff. They used, the
mite to kill fish. He asked that he should be given a chance
The Magistrate suggested to the Inspee tor that the charge should be changed to one of dyn
fab without a permit The Inspector agreed, increase of 8,96873
The Magistrate convicted the Inst de with it. Another youth
Boxes and baskets in transit amounted to fendant on the altered
arking Fay
defendant) volunteered, to 110,100 28 against 11,307, a decre
that as he They robbed the lady 1,138. ant) and four the robbery was going on Harvey gave the
ther
They met Inter, inda tes
Chai
pro
The Magistrate (Mr. Hutchison) said he defendant) refo did not thing that the char could be proceeded
thes
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– £54) steamers carrying mails úrrived and 6463 laft in 1919 as againab 4,301 and 8,697 respresively in 1918.
MREGISTRATION AND PARGILE. Registered and Insured articles handled by the General Post Office amounted to 955,535 as against 882.826 in 1919, an in crease of 92,909. –
Parcels, ordinary and insured, handled by the Post Office, amounted to $19.143 25 compared with 201,680 in the previous year, an increase of 17,463.
The Inspector hid that if his Worship | help “Mon saw the defendante sintemente, he wouldH6 (Arst have no doubt that they had conspired on av to commit theft They left Second Street When Mi Market together with the express purpose all ran away, of visiting the bathing beach and stealing house where the stolen money was divided. bathers clothing. They were disappointed Everyone got to cents, while he (fras when they got to the beach, as there were defendanty got only 40 cents. He went to no bathers there They bad a dip them theatre and then went home. The second selves, and, then, as they were returning defendant made an almost similar state One of them ment. He did not take an active part in kome, they saw Hlun Harvey,, said This lady has several hundreds of the robbery. He got 60 cents out of the dollars with her, Bho has just got her stolen money. At 6.20 pm, on the follow wages, let us rob her." With this, the ing day, said the Sergeant, he read out four defendants and three others, who were the charge to the third defendant and the not in custody, followed Miss Harvey for latter aho made a statement, which was some-distance. Then, as Man Harvey was in effect the same as these made by the first
mah, they decided that it was not and second defendants.
while for all to attack her The The Bergeant Interpreter attached to the 1916 The net expenditure after deduct- two bigger boys, the fourth defendant and Detective Office said the four defendanting the sum of $108.321.37, arrears = of another under took the work while the made a statement saying that seven of them | Transit Charges recovered from other Ad- -others ant on a wall after the robbery, they all decansped. They met later in & tea house and there divided the booty They each got some 60 cents.
The Magistrate Yes, but there nothing to prove that they conspired to rob Miss Harvey, They did not know the was in the vicinity until she made her appearance The most you can do is to prove compiracy to rob the first comer
The Inspector: No, your Worship.. They conspired to roh Miss Harvey as soon na they saw her coming.
KEVINUE_AND EXPENDITURA
"The total revenue from the Postal Service in 1919 amounted to $450,050.75 being #22,923-87. mors than that collected in
was the only person respo
The Inspector. dants we
defen
Br defendant himself without the defendants
the other
The Magistrate pointed out that the only person who could be resp sible for the possession of the dynamite was the per son in charge of the boss. The other men were fokie and had no say in the matter.
The Inspector said he would not press the charge
The first defendant was fined $100 or one month's hard labour, and the others were discharged with a caution,
BASE INGRATITUDE.
BEFRIENDED. WOMAN-STEALS
JEWELLERY.
hinese woman - was charged Bat The balance of revenue over expenditure the Magistracy, yesterday, with stealing
$100 worth of jewellery from anothe amounted to $345,889.88.
woman living on the second floor of No: 1 Tinfong Lace w
went to the beach to steal clothing. When ministrations, amounted to _8101,073-89- they saw his Harvey coming down Jubilee | being less than thas of 1918 by $62,031.57. Road, a youth named Mong Chai sug=" gested robbing her. He (fourth defendant) agreed. "Mong Chai" struck Miss Harvey, and he (fourth defendanty snatch ed her handbag
After their statements had been read to them in Court, the Magistrato enquired from the defendants if they had anything to ssy and they all said that the statements as rend by the Sergeants Interpreter were correct and they had nothing to add to
Magistrate: All right, we will pro-them,
arvey said that at about noon on. the 9th, she was coming down Jubilee Road taking some snapshots of the hillside, was suddenly struck from
Magistrale. Were you alone
Asked there
The increase of revenue from the sale of postage stamps in the year 1910 over that of 1918 amounted to $23,339.49
MONEY ORDERSTEU
The defendant admitted the offence, and undertook to redeem the jewellery
SET policajske analain towarda payment
The
The police said that the defendant was The year under review witnessed the anaman Being out of work, she went {to the complainant's amsh and asked her phenomenal rise in the price of silver to give her food and shelter. The com forcing up exchange from 34. 4d., ma the plainant had no objection, and the de
fendant
stayed in the house. On Bunday beginning of the year, 105. Per morning, the defendant managed to steal dollar in the middle of December. It was the complainant's key and during ber thrattling the flour of inward money orders sence from the house, opened a box and | stole the jewellery, which, she pawned, for from Gold Countries and eaised much Rot. At the time of her arrest, the defen- had 216-10 on her person, and the consternation amongst the Chinese families dans
that the money he handed over in the who are in receipt of remittances from abroad, and who now obtained only 84 in for the recovery of the jewellery from exchange for the pound sterling The wide divergence between the parity value and
current rate of the sovereign Luited States money market anxiety to this Office as the all balances from gold dollar using-coun- tries was fixed at 81.87 per £1, payable by bills in London, Gradually the rate fell to $3.77 per £1 and as the balances were invariably in favour of this Colony, ns time was lost in rectifying the system of liquidation of accounts.
The Magistrate enquired from the defen-- Cants how old they were, and they gave their ages as 20, 13, 17 ad #1 respectively anything known about the defenda Inspector Willie said that the first defendant had been before
the o the Co
recently charged with being Harvey mid that the blow was not rogue and a vagabond, and was sent to heavy one. As soon as the felt it, she jail, while the second defendant was con- turned round, and saw the fourth defen-victed of matching a gold chain at Shek dant, who immediately grabbed her hand bag, and gave it a hard tug, bursting the cord
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tongtaui, and on account of his youth, the Magistrate had given him only 43 hours detention and eight strokes. There was nothing known about the third and fourth defendants
The Magistrate reserved his decision
TROUBLE OVER A WIFE:
She noticed another man approaching hey cautiously. She thought that the other man looked like the, first defendant, but she was not sure. As soon as the fourth until to-day, defendant had get witness's handbag, the olberman ran first, followed by the fourth defendant. Witness chased the fourth de fendant who disappeared up the hillside. The other man ran own to the beach, Witness called out Thief all the way, but no one came to her assistance. – After the fourth
ta defendant had run up the hill, witness gave up the chase. She went up to some fishermen and naked them to get a Policeman and to chase the thiet, but they took no notice probably because they that the whole trouble -did, not understand her, Bho went to a friend's house. -the vicinity, and telo. phoned for the police.
UBJECTS TO FRIEND SPEAKING TO HER
handicr
Two Chinese were charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with disorderly
conduct.
"Inspector Moore, who
defendants
the great
The Magistrato granted the application and sentenced the defendant to one month bard labour.
RICE MARKET REPORTS."
Mesars Wm. G. Hale & Co., Ltd., of Saigon in their latest report any Supplies of paddy are small, and prices keep steady, though the demand is weake except some business which has been done of late with Japan and Java. -
The Compagnie de Commerce et de Navigation D'Extrême Orient... Saigon Although the Money Order Service with report: Our market is dull without any the Philippines was temporarily suspended transactions, and with downward tendency from October 28th natil January 1st, 1990, owing to the lack of business During this vatisfactory “afrangements, with all coun; last fortnight about 20,000 tong of rice. trina were concluded and the basis of have been sold to Java, but purchases have accounting for, balances dae was fixed in stopped and no further transactions to be accordance with the unit of the currency registered with this, country Besides this exchanged.
ho demand from anywhere. The rainy Notwithstanding this universal disturb season continues normally, and there are ance is the currencies of the work the total amount of rice exported from the good "prospects of a fair crop. 1920–1921– volume of business in Hongkong, aided by an increase in the lane of sterling orders Int of Janadry up to the 10th August, 1920 on the United Kingdom, has resulted in a 14:506,325 tons against 800.533 tons in net increase of £10,100 13, od over the rice No. 2 Sified Japan quality Hong 1910 We quote today: White Saigon
kong #7.60 per picul During the year, 16 telegraphic orders August shipment.
Baigon for amenting to 2003 54, 6d were received, and amounting to £791 Os. "Od." wera despatched as against 21 for £6610s pd received, and 15 for £800 11a, od, despatched. during 1918
transactions of 1916
TELEGRAPH ACE DEPARTMENT
one of the Mane objected to her speak
The revenue collected dant but the, took The average cost of a telegraphic deferred years from radio-telegrams Three days ago, the
rate mentage was $8 as against 89.60 in the $10,350.03, a decrease of 813,881.23 on the previous year. We do caught his wife speaking to the
amount, collected in 1918) The depresan 18 An increase of £406 10.0d took place due to the French Government cessing, to defendant and be police whistle in the sale of Imperial Postal Orders. I use the Cape D'Aguilar Wireless, Blation gaya the second, defendant in charge, was noticed that greater quantities of for the transmission of Prose telegrams, to
Central
share | British Currency £1 bank notes were pres↑ Indo-Uhina. – Adviors of vessels niguilled et | rented at the counters for exchange and it | the lighthouses yielded $470.40 and sema- the second de would appear that this method of remitting phore memages $15:40, making a toin
The
chief
a.m. on the
Police "folunteered to take him to the billside where he sai he had left the Jady'a han
went with; him: the defendant
fend
to a fendan
-him
did
to Jubilee Rozd
conducted him up the hill and pointed to it, and found
nbush Witney
Ming Harvey
A hawker
“An Kannedys
ght food from
to speak to the Colony from Chinese in the United of $10,836.83. Expenditure amount The first de Kingdom accounts for a decrease of £4,000 34,130-81.
to
in the payment of Postal Orders last year; | The telegraphic NEFTICS. VAN Worked at that he did not wants there is a saving of lid, pondage on loss of 823,314.85 his wide any more, but be ach 20/-, where = "mrrency" "notarie med The gumber of radio tele know, what" to:
his little instead of Portal Order="
during the was 1,118 his wife, The Fre
The high premium reling at Shanghai 15,577 words as against 1,117 th: 108,330 and other Treaty Ports in China, precluded words in 1918, sad 2,825 were reserved con- troubles to the the increased issue hero of Local Portal meting of words zu against (A7s with
Texter. Nates which dec
0,243 wor
his ware witness told him to take
The rob
Becreti lay the first defendant again wife taking to the seÇÓ!
"the" cond
During
postal
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