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THE SITUATION AT CANTON.
MONEY
CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19TH,
[BORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR WILLIA
THE PRIMARY NEED. The January Criminal Sessions opened There is nouawa of striking import when a large number of cases were up At the Law Courts yesterday morning, ance from. Canton beyond the fact that: there are so many factions concerned in the one being presided over by the Chief for hearing. Two Courts were sitting, "the victory" that no government has Justice and the other by the Puiane yet emerged. In spite of instruction*|
Judge. given to Cantonese troops to remain out. side the city large numbers of them have some in, and while some sections declare: themselves as deserters from the banner of General Chen others declare themselves, as anti-rébel troops" and claim to have been appointed by the "Great Iresident meaning Dr. Sun Yat Sen.
Efforts are being made to evolve order ent of the prevailing chaos.
A matter of primary importance is demand on the city for money to par the troops in order to assure the main
tenance of peace and order.
The Navy is stated to be under the control of the Sua parts.
REAL
The chase was a long one, leading over paddy fields, walls, and gardens, eventually the prisoner
over the track of the chase a revolver was The other man rscaped On going back was captured.
found and a bundle of notes.
Evidence was "culled" bearing out this
statement,
THE MAN IN POSSESSION. A MANAGER WHO REFUSED TO RESIGN.
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THIRTY-FIVE PARTNERS DEFIED, An extraordinary story was told at the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, which it was alleged that a Chinese Prisoner, "speaking from the dock, said he was quite willing to admit snatching of a basiniss for two years in defiance of ports merchant had maintaäued control the money, but he contended that it was the wishes of the Firm's partners-35 in RXES DAVIES)}.
owing to him.
The complainant had all. The man in the case was Lam Kai REMARKABLE FORGERY CASE angered himself and his friend by saying Luen. It was said that he refused to he had money, but would not pay them. hand over the business of the firm whose As to the rubbing of ointment over his partners had demanded his resignation. eyes, that was totally untrue. Had he As a final mesire the partner prefer wished to rub anything over the man's red, a charge against him that he did re eyes he would have rubbed in somethingceive or take into his possession certain that hurt.
meats and chopa belonging to the Him mones, title deeds, account books, “docu-
Yick Firm and that be embezzled them. instructed by Mr. R. E. 4. Webster, and Mr. Campbell Frosser, barrister at law, Mr. F. G. Vaux appeared for the defen dant,
FALSE REVENUE OROP USED ON CIGARETTE PACKETS.
A sequel to the remarkable forgery caso in which a Chinese stallholder was alleged to have put a forged revenus chop on a number of packets of cigarettes, was heard in the Chief Justice's Court yesterday, when Un Tai, of 10, Des Veux Road, Was indicted on three charges. first of forgery, second of utter- ing, and third of forging a seal or die.
The following were the Jury:-Messra: B. M. Webster (foreman), G. Wonden.
Traffic on the river steamers is normal once more and the Woaam, which arrived in Hongkong from Canton yesterday berg, F. A. Chopard, C. Kew, N. Drum afternoon, brought down very few passermond, E. W. Major, A2 C. Johnstone. gera.. This may mean either that the
Crom Solicitor (Mr. H. K. people in Canton
re not expecting Holmes) explained that the offences re-
homes to the steamer.
The
The Jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of six years hard labour and ten strokes of the was passed.
cat
FIVE YEARS FOR POSSESSION OF ARMS.
indicted on a charge of being in unlawful A Chinese named Leung Wing was
possession of arms.
The facts of the case as presented by
serious trouble, or on the other hand that lated to a mark or type authorised by the Mr. Dyer Bali were that on December fried on business as exporters, "It was] they are afraid to journey from their Superintendent of Imports and Exports 10th a Chinese constable attempted to to be placed on each packet, Hundred arrest the man, but he resisted and The Bund is practically monopolised by Sparrow" cigarettes, to show that duty struggled fiercely. He was eventually Kwangsaldiers on the march. The had been paid on them. The stamp converpowered and found to be in posses bulk of them coming from an castern sieted of the two letters "H.K" By an sion of a fully caded revolver and three the Firm for $18,511.
on
the
quarter and they pass up the Bund in orderly fashion
their way to various barracks. Reports say they are
rounds of ammunition. arrangement with the firm, these labels were printed on the wrappers, so that the
Prisoner pleaded guilty " and was letters were always of the same type and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.
Mr. Frosser, in opening the case, said that the facts were rather curious, because they showed beyond doubt the extreme been untered upon. Nevertheless that was laxity on which the partnership had
no excuse for the action rendering defen- dant liable to a criminal charge. The His Yick Firm was started in 1903 and car- started originally with 33 partners, and in San Francisco. In 1911 the Hongkong in 1908 a breach of the Firm was opened Firm moved into new premises at No. 113, Wing Lok Street, which were bought for At a partnership meeting it was decided that the premises abould be described in the deed as being; held by three partners on trust for the Firm. They were; the Manager--at the time Lam Tak Chiu-the defendant and
died, and at a meeting Lan Lap Pong was appointed manager and the defen dant assistant manager.
In 1920 Lam
already overcrowded and that during the in exactly the same position. On Des CANTONESE SOLDIER" SENT TO Lam Lap Pong. In 1015 the Manager!
A RAID OF, SHUMCHUN.
PRISON,
Describing himself as a soldier in the
He
offered no resistance. The police were unable to verify his statement that be was a soldiers
Sentence of five years' imprisonment was passed,
Lap Pong went away to the country, as was his usual custom each year, and ho handed over the keys and control of the
he asked for the keys and attempted to go through the accounts, The defendant refused to have anything to do with him.
several partners in Amorien, one of them and said that he would run the business himself and keep the keys. There were Leing the manager of the San Francisco branch. The manager of the San Fran cisco branch came back to Hongkong in June, 1921, and called a meeting. The meeting demanded that defendant should hand over the keys, show the books" and give an acount of his stewardship. But all this the defendant refused to do. It ger and a submunager, but the defen- was proposed to appoint another mana dant would not recognise them. Ho apparently told the partners that bo would take furher steps, but the matter was left at that. Several meetings were; other in February, 1022.
Another part
last two nights soldiers have been sleep and a Chinese reveals officer called at ing under the verandahs and in the streets.
defendant's stalk and asked for, a packed They are for the most part. poorly clade In many cases they have of cigarettes. The master reached behind not the slightest gemblance of uniform.
a coat which was hung up, screening bis Cantonese Army, Chan Ho Wing was and any of them are shoeless and cont. foki and handed out a packes of indicted on a charge of being in unlawful less. Many are dressed in blue drill
"Hundred Sparrow" cigarettes. On possession of a fully loaded revolver. business to the defendant. On his return coats and carry arnis of great variety, examining the packet the officer found Mr. Dyer Hall explained that the man Large numbers of coolla bearers follow
the letters "H.K." to be still wet with was arrested in. Reclamation Street, behind cach Regiment and the Com the foki sitting at a table with an
ink. On looking behind the screen he Yaumati, on the 19th December. manders in most cases are mounted on ponies. Ponies are also used
ink pad and a chop in front of him, on for carrying machine guns" and stores.
which were the lettera H." He kep: It is reported that there was much the defendant there till the arrival of looting in the city of Fatshan by this other revenue officers, and all the "Hon force on their march to Canton.
dred Sparrow" cigarettes in the stall. were confiscated. In a statement to the
BOWEN ROAD ROBBERIES. police Un Tai said: "My foki hought In the course of a casa in which to There is no news of the railway being the cigarettes cheap, ac 84 per box of Shing was indicted on a charge of being reopened. Some of Chen's troops are 1,000 cigarettes, and he brought four in unlawful possession of a revolver on the Baid to have come within a mile of was within the law and be said: "Ob
boxes back with him. I asked him if it Bowen Road, it was stated by Mfr. Dyer British territory yesterday morning and
Bal (appearing "for the Crown), that caused minch' excitement amongst the in-officers come 'my foki 'ran away."
I bought them." When the revenue. habitants and the suggestion is that the For the defence, Mr: Zeitlyn submitted
Bowen Road in the course of two months:
According to Mr. Ball the prisoner in her arrived from San Francisco with the incident is due to the fact that Shumchun to the Jury that it was a remarkable fact this case was stopped by three detectives counts of the Firm and its branch could
hooks of his branch so the annual in the past has been decidedly pro-Sun. that the owner of the stall prior to the Bowen Road, in company with two be checked.
The raid was a startling one. During prisoner taking possession, was a clans other men, and searched.
In April last the partners He struggled held another meeting but they still could the early hours of the morning a train man of his, and had also been charged alightly with the man who searched him, not get control of the Firm-could ges stemmed into Shumchua market and 100 with selling tobacco soldiers belonging to Chen Chiung Ming's paid, and a fine of $100 had been inflict-be in possession of a revolver loaded in with the business in Wing Lok Street were without duty being but was soon overpowered and found to no satisfaction at all. All the partners and two others who had no connection forces disembarked. They seized tha ed. Bearing in mind that fact, and fur four chambera.
present at the time, but there was ne main stresté and aroused the inhabitants.ther that the prisoner was well aware of
Prisoner pleaded that he was merely partner who had the courage to assert bis The merchants were collected together and the identity of the revenue officer, it was out on a walk that day, and he found the rights. It was not until Nogember, 1929, difficult to see what possible reason revolver hidden between two stonca. He that George C. Lam, a partner in Ame a large sum of money was demanded there was for the storekeeper to sell him did not know that it was necessary to rice, who returned to Hongkong, had the from them. Apparently the merchants cigarettes on which duty had not been have a permit in order to carry, pr courage to straighten matters up. He refused and the Chinese Chief of Police
paid..
He pleaded guilty to the charge, but saw the defendant on several occasions and the Secretary of the Market were went into the witness-box and repeated
The prisoner, a man 64 years of age, His Honour refused to accept his excuse, and tried to persuade him to draw. op held to ransom by the soldiers and finally the statement with reference to his for and passed sentence of five years hard a balarea-sheet and show the accounta
The defendant was stubborn. Failing to get satisfaction Mr.-G.-C. Lam called s meeting in January, 1923, and the meet ing decided that defendant should again be required to hand over the keys and control of the business, and if he failed
raided Shumchun market: The incident well, the seller has lent me a chop, and so there had been eleven robberies in, the held one. in September 1921, and an-
taken off by train to Shekling. The "soldiers also paraded the coolies of the district and selected 40 of the strongest These they also took away with them of the train..
Labour
just as he had finished scolding the foki buying the cigarettes.. He added that for bringing cigarettes on which duty
PRISONER'S SUCCESSFUL PĹEÁ. had not been paid into the shop, the "Asked to plead on a charge of being
officer walked in. He pleaded unlawful possession of arms at Yaumati revenue, w that he was not the man to stamp the on January End, a Chinese named Wong to do so, that they should get hold of the
packets, it was done by his foki.
Chong said he wished to plead guilty cash books and cash. The defendant After a short, retirement the Jury found though the revolver was not his nor opened the safe and it was then discover- prisoner not guilty of the first, charge, was it in his possession when-hed that the Firm's books had all gone. but guilty of uttering, and of being in arrested. Through the medium of the The chops had also gone possession of the seal or die
Sentence of Ave years imprisonment show the man that this amounted to a Court interpreter His: Honour tried to
The soldiers remained in the market throughout the morning and finally left by train in the direction of Sheklung. They are demanding a ransom for the Chief of Police and the Secretary for the Market (86,000 each). Before leav. to ran concurrently. ing the Shumchun Station it is reported that the soldiers 'robbed the station office, taking with them $500 in cash,
THE GLORIOUS DEAD. "MEMORIAL" TO "HONGKONG AND
SHANGHAI BANK
EMPLOYES....-
-/{BEFORE, MO, JUSTICE COMPÉRTE (PUIGNE
JUDAE).)
STIFF SENTENCE ON ARMED
ROBBER..
Mr. Prosser said that in support of on each count was passed, the sentences plea of not guiltyPrisoner was most these acts of embezzelment he would emphatic in his assertion, but after some prove that, the premises in Wing: Lek minates agreed to let his plen go through Street, were bought by the Firm in 1911 be one of not guilty.
Lam Lap Poug (the manager) had been Mr Dy Ball, who prosecuted for the living there ever since then up to last Crown, stated that at 9 p.m. on January April when the defendant turned him out. Sad, a Chinese police sergeant and He was an old man like the defendant.. Inspector Murphy: went to the second Subsequently it was discovered that de Boor of No. 5 Pak Hoi Street, which fendant had let part of the premises to Six years hard labour and ten strokes was the headquarters of the Kowloon Tea bank and that he had been receiving with the cat was the sentence paased by House Guild. The only man inside the rept since last April. But the money had the Puisne Judge in a man named Wong room was the prisoner and when he saw not been accounted for: to, the Firm in Chu
who was, indicted before him on a the police sergeant he made a rush for any way, The premises were rented to charge of armed robbery, and stealing 855 the stairs: The sergeant seized him, and the bank at $200 per month. In May from irent collector in Kowloon City at the spine time heard chatter on the seat year, the defendant mortgaged the Bood.
table, as though something had been remises to the same Bank for $10,000. A memorial in being erected in Statue The following were the, Jury: Hesera. thrown there Onlooking up he found He was only holding the property se come Square in honour of the Hongkong and Bradbury, A. A. Louis, R. M. Smith, continuing to hold the mad wati) In Fum The defendant had not accounted P. Farrell foreman), Wong Min, B the revolver, which he picked up, at one of the three trustees of the Hum Tick Shanghai Banking Corporation employés E. Wilson, and P. Pestonjoe
spector Murphy arrived. The weapon to the Firm, in any respect for the mart who made thi
prome sacrifice in the Mr. Dyer, Ball, prosecuting for the was loaded with four rounde en gege money. UZA V Great War. The erection. Is to take the Crown, said that the prisoner admitted charged, the man said he had only visited Mr. Prosser said he could prove that in form of a beautifully modelled bronze taking the money, but alleged that it was the room and did not know de revolver, February of last rear, that the book
owed to himself and his companion, and wie there, or to whom it belonged igare representingFame" which has ho merely tried to take it by force. But The Jury brought interdit of not teper of the Firm, who was in charge will recently arrived from England, the facts according to the prosecution guilty, and prisoner was discharged.
of the books, drew out a balance sheet, which showed that there was then actua The guze siltareet on solid beds of ero that on the 17th December a rent red Peterhead, granite, and the arrange his rent in Kowloon City Road. He had collector: named War: Pun was collecting
ly in the Firm over $3,000 in enab Not one cent of this amount had been nts are under the supervison of with him about $400, and went to the
counted for Hessrs Falmer and Turner, architects, first floor of number: 63. As he was cord ten minutes of violent struggling to In conclusion Counsel said that he The figure itself is the work of Ming down the stairs he was stopped by arrest Li Lo, who was indicted on would sak for the committal of the defen Wilm "Reynold-Stephene, a sculptor, of and threatened to kill him if he made, sofoams. When the three arrived at the was looked upon as a very serious arte, two men, who pointed, revolveret him charge of bang" in unlawful polemion | dant if the charge was proved, as the case sole celebrity in London, noise. They robbed him of 365, and then police station, they were, hot, excited, and involving very large sums of money. The of the memorial "ie" to be placed in the made him hold his hands up whilst they perspiring. When searched a vicious defendant, he was informed, had taken scared his face with some medicinal looking dagger, described by Mr. Dyer out six cross-summonses for assault Bank Gardens, nearly opposite the new ointment. When they had gone he wiped Ballina a most dangerous weapon, and against the other partners. He suggest Statue Square Fier, and it ir hoped to thin of, and going into the street blew to bamboo gag were found in his posed that the summonses be heard at the "haye it seady for unveiling at the same a police whistle. A plain clothes police emiom
saxay time, because what actually hap man happened to be in the vicinity, and ¦ Pioner, deeded time as the Hongkong Cenotaph will be.....
and was pened was in conjunction with the pre gareinchascynopompanied by a friend sentenced to five years hard labour.
A VIOLENT STRUGGLE”
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