MOTOK-CAR · PROSECUTIONS. ALLEGED FAILURE TO STOP AFTER AN ACCIDENT.
OTHER- CASES AT THE MAGISTRÁCY,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH. 1821.
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Mr. Vaux raised n somewhat fine legal Mr. John Mackay, land bailiff in the distinction in a case at the Magistracy,servies of the Public Works Department, Yesterday, one of the days when before Mr. G. N. Orme, yesterday after was sayinoned for keeping a ferocious Paul Bouldsberry, 16, of Huntington, West Virginia, were charged before Mr. mmonENI'S for offences in connection.
R.E. Lindsell at the Magistracy,-yester- with motor-ears are heard at the Mngis. A Chinese houze boy was charged dog.
with larceny of clothing, boots, and Sergt. Raker said that on the evening day, with vagrancy. Defendants arrived tracy, there were several cases of in other articles, from Mr. R. D. Murray of April 12th, he was passing Mr. Mac in Hongkong on the American str. ext terest, Mr. R. E. Limilarll was the preof the Chartered Bank.
The defendant kay's house, No. 1, Cox Street. Yaumatien, They were remanded in police
custody pending Arrangements to siding Magistrate" and Inspector Carrod left his employment with Mr. Murray when yellow chow dog rushed at him made by the shipping company concerned On the evening to repatriate them to their respective suddenly; various articles of clothing and tried to bite him.
honies. were then missed, and, when arrested, of the 14th. the same thing happened. the defendant was wearing clothing On that occasion he spoke to Mr. Mac marked with Mr. Murray's initials.
kay's sun and told him to chain the dog ny, but when he passed the house an hour Mr. Vaux urged that, as there direct. evidence of larceny, the charge
later, the animal was still at large. should be reduced to the less rius
represented the traffic department.
W. C. van der Steen, of the Dell Planters Asmeiation, was summoned for failing to stop his car after causing an
accident.
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The defendant did not appear but sent A note by a Chinese, presumably his
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one of being in onlawful possession, to which the defendant was prepared to
Inspector Garrod: A European was driving the car at the time. The defend-plead guilty. -ant assured me he would be here..
The Magistrate: He has written deny ing the charge. He says used my horn and stopped my car after causing a collision" in Jackson Kend.".
The Luspector: He knows perfectly well he should be here.
The Magistrate: think he must n tend.
The Magistrate: There is no doubt
where the things came from. If he is not liable for stealing, he is for receiv ing.
Mr. Vaux: I do not think he could be found guilty of receiving.
The Magistrate: He absconded. The things could not have drifted out of the place and on to the defendant's back.
that it
Sergt. Ernzer and Sergt. Cargill then gave evidence that the dog had given them trouble also.
Later the Captain-Superintendent of Police (Mr. T. H. King) asked that the en might be sent to the House of De. tention instead. It was the wish of the shipping company that this should be done.
The Magistrate: The reason I decided as I did was that I knew that in the House of Detention they would have to work with convicts.
Mr. King: I don't know exactly. We have had several such cases lately and onr accommodation is not adapted for detaining Europeans.
The Magistrate suggested placing the men at the Seamen's Institute.
Replying to defendant, witness said he had recived no complaints from the neighbours about the dog, but he had once seen it jump at a Chiuese.
Mr. King: They get out during cer Defendant complained that the prosecutain hours of the day. tion had not been fair to him, as no notice The Magistrate: Very limited, are had been given him or his family prior they not? to the issuing of the summons. The dog was the pet of the children in the neigh bourhood, and was very good natured. It was also a good watch dog, and was recently the means of bringing about the Mr. King said the shipping company arrest of a thief who was sentenced to had not agreed to that. He added that three months' iniprisonment. The only these men were wasters." and in the As the summons had been taken out by
Sailors' Home would be a nuisance to -private individual who was present,
The defendant, in the box. swore that trouble with the animal was
everybody. The shipping company felt with witnesses, the Magistrate decided to open the case in the absence of the M. Murray gave him some of the "hated the sight of men in uniform," that the men would be more secure in defendant. Inspector Garrud said this articles (which statement she had pre-and this was because Indians had been the House of Detention. They were of A very undesirable type to have about the town-men. with no work and "no was not a police prosecution; member viously denied). Others he bought in a in the habit of teasing it. of the general public had taken action.
money.. The police had had instructions Edward Weston Lewis said that at 8.10 store in Canton (these articles bore Mr.
cases that they were not to give this Hon April 5th, he was on a tranicar Murray's initials). The boots which Mr.
from the Colonial Secretary in previons going east, agar the Supreme Court.
kind of people indulgence--not neces He saw one of the Chinese employer under Murray, said were his the defendant
Defendant thereupon entled Sub-Inspeesarily to make is unduly unpleasant for. him in the Electric Company suuding swore he bought before he entered Mir. near the City Hall and shouted a message Murray's employment, Asked to account tor Grant who was formerly stationed at them; but not to make their stay an to him. The man did not appear to
case was indicated by the fact that noe quite understand and came towards the for the possession of one of a set of four Yaumati. The Inspector, said that he easy one. The type of the men in this tram, Just then motor car No. 101 came gold studs (Mr. Murray having produced
of them, "for a joke," falsely described round the corner, proceeding West, and
The application was granted. knocked the man down. The driver the three) the defendant said he found
himself as a German
applied the brakes and the car skidded. the stud in his quarters at Mr. Murray's Witness paced the murks of the skidding, house on entering that employment. they were four paces long, or about 12 fort. The witness descended from the cur before it had negotiated the second curve but in the abur time that elapsed The the motor car had disappeared. witrss mentioned that the man who was knocked down seemed to be practically in a state of collapse but after 'n lew minutes witness made him walk to see if he had any bones, broken." The off. side front guard of the motor car struck the man on the hip. If it had been going a little slower the man would just have got out of the way in time.
John Edwin Barrow gave similar eviä. ener. He estimated the speed of the car at 10 m.ph. He did not hear my hora Bounded. An English lady volunteered the information as to the number of the
know Mr. Mackay had a dog, but could
present case, All the time the witness not say if it was the one concerned in the was stationed at Yaumati, he never re- ceived any complaint about the dog.
Defendant said he formerly had two dogs. One was trubicsome, and he had
The Magistrate (Mr. Lindschl) imposed a line of 85. ----
The Magistrate said that after hearing the defendant's evidence the caso did not seem to him one for a lenient sentence.it shot. He would have thought better of the boy if he had admitted the offence and nid he was sorry. He always tried to avoid sending a boy who had learned a job to jail, but in this case the defendant must go to prison for one month.
The Magistrate: There is ant a great
CHAIR COOLIES PROSECUTIO A' CONSPIRACY TO RAISÉ WAGES, In Mr. Orme's Court, yesterday at deal of traffic on that road It is not the Magistracy. Mr. Sutherinud, of No. nearly so dangerous as Garden, Rond.
Inspector Garrod said that cars used129, The Peak, charge), two chair coalies Lower Albert Road to avoid the incline with having left his employ without of Garden Road.
giving any notice. The Magistrate: Not many! A European lady. Inspector, Garrod':
The Inspector: Quite half
80 that appears to have witnessed the whole thing, but we. cannot find the lady, way Perhaps as your Worship will be reniand- ing the case the Press will mention that we should like to hear from the Indy..
(By two o'clock, yesterday afternoon, the lady had got in touch with the police by telephone).
car.
inspector Garrod; Shall we have the summons served again?
A fine of $15 was imposed, and one! of for the technical registration of fence.
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The defendants said that they left be cause Mr. Sutherkuid had promised them SHIPPING EXCHANGE 813 each a month, and then gave them: only $1
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Mr. Sutherlind said that was not true He engaged the first defendant as hend coolie of thres, and paid him 813 per The first shipping exchange in Japan. month (the amount he asked for). The is to be shortly established in Kobe, says other two men asked for $12 each and the Japan Advertiser. This" proposal Mr. Webster represented the Chinese received that amount. They had been in was first brought forward during the war chauffeur of Mr. Geo. Hastings car, who his employ for four months, and were when the shipping market, especially that The Magistrate: No, I don't think I was summoned for driving on the wrong quite satisfied until Tuesday when they in Kobe, the centre of Japan's shipping
was very active.
Shipping side of the road: Mr. Webster aid the packed up and went away without giv trade, will bother.
activity was considerably interfered with "We had sumie defendant plended guilty to driving oning any explanation. Inspector Garrod:
The defendants said that they had told owing to the non-existence of a recognized trouble in serving the sunmons but we the wrong side of the Duke of Con found out eventunily that the defendant naught's statue. A rieksha and a chair the Nohey two weeks ago to tell the place for transacting shipping business, to leave and prominent shipowners, shippers and is staying at the Hongkong Hotel. The were in his way and what he did was master, that they intended address we had first was 19. Connaught done under the eyes of a policeman. He Apparently he had forgotten to tell Mr. ship-brokers proposed to catablish a ship ping exchange to obviate that inconveni- had never been summoned before.
MY. Sutherland said that the No. 1 boy cnce. This proposal was enthusiastically Rond West.
did not tell him that the coolies wantal supported, but its realizationhad to bo to leave. In any case they knew suffi postponed until the completion of the cins English to speak to him themselves. Meiji Kaiun Building, which was then The defendants said that when they in course of construction, as no building were engaged they were not told that suitable for the purpose was available. they had to scrub the window frames and The building is expected to be com polish the brass,
pleted in June. The plan. for the estab lishment of a shipping exchange has ac cordingly made further progress, and at
The Magistrate: He could have stop The Magistrate: There is no need for these witnesses to attend next time. red and waited for the road to clear.
Mr. Webster: 1 take it he could have done.
A fine of $5 was imposed.
I shall not give him any opportunity of cross-examining them. He should be
here.
The case was adjourned.
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Mr. Sutherland mid that that was Mr. Nolte was summoned for driving understood always to be part of the Car No. 412 without lights at 9.45 p..coolies' work. He thought that the whole the instance of Mr. Teijire Kawamura, on April 5th, in. Connaught Road thing was a conspiracy. Men generally chief of the Shipping Department of the took on jobs as makes learns, and as Mitsui Bussan Kaisha a meeting of pro- Central,
The defendant: That is correct. May soon as they knew the work they left, moters will be held at the Oriental Hotel Mr. Turner, solicitor, appeared on be. I explain? I was driving the car and Others who came to take their place on April 28th, alf of Dr. J. C. Dalmahoy Allan, who had just left the Canton steamboat pier. (always asked for $2 more, and if this the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Osaka was summoned for exceeding the speed About two or three hundred yards away-demand was refused, the employer was Shoten Kaisha, the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, He and his wife had often the Kokusai Kisen Kaisha and other limit and for a technical offence in con- I think it was less-I was stopped by a boycottel. nection with the registration of his car.. constable. I had just come out of a met old coolies who expressed a desire to leading shipping companies and a
Mr. Turner and Dr. Allan pleaded bright light and I thought my dimmers" return to them, and yet when they were ber of shipping brokers and shippers At guilty. As to the technical offence, he were on. I did not notice that they told to go to the house, they said they the forthcoming meeting detailed parti. said he intended to have his name regis, were not, on account of the good street could not do so. He did not think that culara ofthe plan are to be considered and tered when he took out a new license. lighting there, I pat them on directly the coolies were free agents in the matter. decided upota. The offence was committed in ignorance the officer called my attention to it. No there must be a guild or some primeIt is expected that the propose ship.
ping exchange will be organized as a As to the charge of excessive speed, Drone wants to drive without lights around mover behind the whole thing.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $10 joint stock
concern, capitalized Allan said that he was going to an urgent here: 'I am sure I don't. case: he admitted that he was going too: The Magistrate: That seems a per each or, in default, 21 days' hard labour, Y.200,000, to be divided into shares of Y.500 each. One-half of the share money. fast, and said he would do the same fectly reasonable explanation, Inspector
is to be paid in, and business commenced. again in similar circumstances.
-Garcód? Are you prepared to with
There will be two classes of members, The Where did the of draw 1 Or shall I dismiss it with a
principal and associate members. caution?
former are employers or proprietors who conduct their shipping business, on their The Inspector: That will be better. The Magistrate (to the defendant):
own account, whether companies or in- dividuāls, while the associate members tram station, past the Colonial Secre- You will be more careful in future? tary's Office. Another car, containing Defendant: I certainly will, for
are to be appointed from among their three Europeans, was coming west. The every one's sake, and my own too. Thank
members. doctor passed them at a very excessive you very much, speed and hardly gave them room; as n matter of fact, if they had not got into the side chantiel, there would have been.
The Magistrate: Jence occur?"
Inspector Garrod: In Lower Albert Rond. The doctor was going towards the
a bad collision. This is a control area --- with a speed limit of 10 m.p.h.g
The Magistrate Past the Colonial Secretary' Office 1
Inspector Garrod Yes.
EXCITING STREET SCENE,
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OFFENDERS CHARGED.
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A Chinese who had a series of convic tions extending over a period of several years against him, and who was recently banished for life, was charged in Mr. Lindsell's Court at the Magistracy, MANY CHANGES HAVE BEEN yesterday with having returned from
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A Chinese motor cyclist was summoned banishment, and also with stealing a
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material which
for driving to the public danger at the brass Builda from the residence of Mr. in the manufacture of glass, one of the most corner of Des Voeux Road and Pedder Ng Hoa Sze Street 23
Inspector Murphy stated that the police
important is that inverted by Sir William The defendant said a coolie was hover. visited No. 9, Koyuen Street, West Point, Crookes, who, as the result of numerous experi- Where does the control start?-Ating in the road way and the trouble itrose to execute a warrant on the dogoda The mente, combining glass with rarigino iskale. Murray Battery. There is a signal through his trying to avoid the man connection with the first charge there, and another at the Detention The Magistrate I had better hear the defendant's cubiclo was searched and in a hae succeded in producing
locked drawer was found a pawn ticket Barracks just round the corner. The evidence. A police know nothing about this case, it AD Indian constable said the defendrelating to the Buddh which was identi, cuts off 98 per cent of the infra-red or Lest is brought by members of the general ant was coming out of Pedder Street led by Mr. Ng as his property, which rays together with the ultra-violet or chemical public who witnessed the incident into Des Vans Road at such a high speed had been stolen from his house some time says-called Sir William Crookes Class
Mr. Turner Dr. Allan Rays, he was that, after knocking a Chinese pedestrian go. In n locked box, the police found too much in the middle of the road, and until it collided with the first class on and on ins police applying for permis The Magistrate convicted the defendant well on the left and the other car was over, his machine continued to travel house-breaking implements Crookes lenses of any prescription in either that but for fine driving on his part trance of a tram-caraz
sion to withdraw the fire charge ten- there would have been a collision. I all
The Magistrate (to the defendant):
porarily, the Magistrate passed sentence gorta of things are going to be stated. How did you fail to pull up in time!. of-aix-months hard-labour
Defendant said he had a foot brake but no band
1 will bring Dr. Allan here to prove the truth of the case,
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