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AGED WOMAN IN MURDER
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COURT STORY OF A SORDID
TRAGEDY.
aware of deceased's wound, and asked the defendant how the girl had come ta that pass, Defendant replied I threw this at her," and showed him a Ettle glass soy-dish (produced in' Court). That was all she said. As the deceased's wound was still bleeding, witness rushed out to get song medicine. On his return, people on the first floor called out to him that
the girl was dend, and that he had better not come up. He therefore went back to his shop.
As the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Mr. R. E. Lindsell listened to the story of a Chinese domestic tragedy.
Tain Sam, an elderly woman, stood in the dock, charged with the murder of her adopted daughter, Chu Kam Hoi, at 16
In reply to Mr. Nihill; witness said that Heung Hing Lane, on July 18th.
the reason why he seldom visited "defen- Mr. J. H. B. Nihill conducted the Cise dant was that she frequently drank wine, and threw things at him. Answering Mr. Hall, he said that on the day of the tragedy, the defendant staggered in her gait, and appeared to be drunk,
The hearing was adjourned natil, next Friday afternoon.
for the Crown, and Mr. A. E. Hall re- presented the defendant.
in outlining the case, Counsel for the prosecution said that the defendant way the kept woman of a shop's foki, and at the time of the tragedy, had three adopted children living with her, namely the deceased, another younger girl, and a little boy. The defendant gave the deceased an
order to perform some domestic duty, and as the girl did not respond, threw a little glass dish at her. Still the girl did not obey, and the older woman took a knife from a drawer and stabbed, her oneo. in the "thigh with it, afterwards replacing the knife in the
drawer.
MARINE COURT.
YESTERDAY'S CASES.
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"ORIMINAL SESSIONS..
(BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP, THE ACTING CF
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Justics (MR. N. J. COMPERTZ),]
THE INDIAN WIFE MURDER CASE
"FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE
CROWN,
left his child. Witness next took the prisoner to the office of Mr. John Arnak and afterwards at the request of the pri soner drove Mr. Arnald to his house at Pokfulam at tiffin time. The prisoner he left in charge of another Indian.
Inspector Furtle said that the prisoner was very drank when brought to the
The hearing of the case, in which Chain | Police Station. Din, an Indian chauffeur, formerly in the employ of Me John Arnöki, is standing his trial for the murder of his wife, named Gennab, was continued yesterday.
The case for the Crown is conducted by the Attorney-General (Hon. Mr.J. II. Kemp, K. C.), the prisoner, being repie arnted by Mr. HS. Fitzroy, instructed by Mesars. Lee & Russ
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The coolie, who discutered the wounded woman, said that at noon on May 27th ho was in a matshed near the Tung Wah Hospital Mortuary when he heard cries of "Save Life.". He went out and dis- covered the injured woman. He gave her a drink and a telephone messago was sent for the ambulance. The woman wan found in the bushes,
The wife of Issa Khan was the first Inspector Earner gave evidence as to witness unfled for the Crown yesterday finding the chopper on the bank of the morning. She siúd she knew the pulich and a piece of foreign newspaper soner, his wife" nad sandhi Khan. The stained with binod near the spot whero deceased woman frequently visited wit the woman was attacked.. neas's house. The last occasion she
Referring to the jagged edge of the called was at 7 pan on May 20th when chopper. Mr. Fitzroy asked cross. examination: Don't you think it rather witness had a conversation with her and in consequence of this she'llowed her to terrible to say that the jagged edge was At the Marine Court yesterday, the remain" for the night. The deceased, caused in the way suggested by the masters of 12 Eshing boats were Rued $5 when she came to the house, was not
Crown. It looks to me as if the chopper each by Lieut.-Comdr. G. P. Hoir, R.Naccompanied by any person. On the fol. had been struck on hard wood. Duesn't for fishing with bright lights in a pro-lowing evening the evening of the diy it occur to you that was how the edge hibited area (off Wagian) on the 13 ner party-witness said the prisoner was
was jagged inst. and also with shing with bright drinking Chinese sanshu. Witness's hus-
Inspector Earner "was, not prepared to lights, not effectively shaded. All'de hand, after a while, refused further express an opinion. fendanta pleaded "guilty to the drink, but the prisoner continued drink-
isig.
offener.
Dr. F. C. Hunot, at present acting as officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary, A junk master was fined $5 at the same said that on July roth, he examined the Court for mooring his junk outside of body of a Chinese female, aged about 17, five others alongside the 8-8. Desirouse named Chu Kam Hoi, Death, in his boat, was charged on remand with carry-, Wong Po,, the mistress of a passenger opinion, was due to hemorrhage from aing 20 passengers in excess of the number wound in the right thigh. It was allowed by her licence. inches long, and 3 inches deep. A large
The evidence of the coxswain and erew
This latter statement of the witnesa
amused the prisoner very much. He smiled broadly and waved his hand is if to negative the statement.
Continuing witness said that during the dinner prisoner's wife sat with her on the verandah. She persuaded her to
The case was again adjourned.
BEFORE HIS KONGER THE PYISNE JEDGE (MR. JUSTICE DYER HALL).]
artery and a large vein were severed. (of the police launch was to the effect this in and speak to her husband. On en fore the Court on an indictment of
The wound might have been self-inflicted, the sampan had left the ship” and thas It was possible that it was caused by are were 27 passengers on bouril. knife such as that produced in Court.
Defendant maintained her story that she had never left the ship's side and Considerable force would have to be used
by the police were simply going over it that the people found on board her boat
in order to get on to another boat. A no time had she left the ship's gangway.
The Magistrate found the case preved and imposed a fine of 20 with the alter. native of three weeks' imprisonment.
to make such a knife penetrate to such a depth.
CINEMA NOTES.
THE CORONET.
A PLUCKY AND INTELLIGENT BOY.
KIDNAPPED LAD'S ADVENTURES,
The Chinese, who was found. "Not Quilty on
on Tuesday an indictment. of kidnapping, was again arraigned be tering the room prisoner said to his wife: similar nature-that of enticing Chu Ying "Come here Genuab She refused to Wing from the custody of his mother. go and did not speak to him but went The boy in the present ease is a cousin and lay on the bed. Then Saighi Khan of the boy who had so mysteriously dis and the prisoner called on her husband appeared from the raw of the previous the house her husband was perfectly to go down the street. When they left day. soher. but she could say whether the said that, the missing boy, whe "was an Mr. J. I. B. Nib., referring to this,
prisoner was drunk or not. Later she important witness in the preacht ease, heard a police whistle being blown and was still missing. As be notified, the
on going into the street saw that the Court on the previous day, the boy re- prisoner was the fan blowing the whistic. turned from the country on Sunday A Chinese constable came on the seene morning at 6 a.m. and an hour later he and she heard prisoner tell him: My Ead disappeared under peculiar circun- wife ran away for three days. The con stangs.
Mr. Nihil rested the knife (produced) point upwards against his attaché case, and asked the witness whether,. if a per- son fell over, or were pushed over, and fell on the paint of the knife, the latter might penetrate to 35 inches, Dr. Hunot replied that it was possible, melding that the fall would have to be a heavy one. Adventure is the keynote of "To Have stable said: "Ther. why don't you repart Dr. Fitzroy Williams said, that a knife, and to Hold." the big picture which it to the Police Station "Prisoner re-
comes to the Coronet Theatre this even-plied: "I have only now found her.". two pongee jackets, and a pair of trouing as the feature"attraction for the next sers were sent to him by the police for examination. Blood was noticeable in small quality on the knife, one of the jackets, and the trousers They were all tested for a reaction for human blood, hat with negative results.
In answer to Mr. Hail, the witness stated that he could not definitely any if the blood found on the knife was from
Counsel' applied for permission to rend. the missing boy's evidence, This wax. granted
few days. Based upon the novel by Mary
VISIT T POLICE STATION. --
Outlining the case, Mr. Nihill muid thing staged in the time of James I, when Johnstone To Have and to Hold" is
Witness and prisoner's wife accom the boy in the present case was the 12 adventure was to be bad for the seeking panied the men to No. 7 Police Station year-old son of a widow, Lai Yuk-li, who The story is woven round the lives of and on the way prisoner bent his wife lived at No. 1, Namcheung Street. On Lady Jocelyn Leigh, the King's ward continuously. At the Station prisoner May Bath she went out to work, leaving and Captain Ralph Percy, 1 Virginia settler, and a glimpse of its frame-workade the same complaint that he already the boy in the house. When she return- will convey a good idea of the glamour made to the constable.. Witness did noted at pay the bay was missing: He which the Elm possesses. The hand of bear prisoner make any other complaint did not return until June Int. Lady Jocelyn is coveted by Lord Carnal, The Sergeant advised the prisoner to take. the King's favourite who wins his royal his wife home and not to ill-treat her in in the street when the prisoner approach- The boy would say that he was playing master's consent to 119 engagement, through removing one of his royal más future. ter's enemies in
ed him and offered to get him a job a duri. During the revela to celebrate the engagement, Lady
Witness further said that her husband They went together by train to Shum Chula, an elderly man said that he Jocelyn recapes from the Court and takes was perfectly sober at the Police Station Chun where he was taken to a house and was a shop coolie employed by the Trio mail's place as cae of a hand of and accompanied her back to the door locked in a room with the toy who was
prospective brides sailing to Virginia. of her house, when be disappeared. She still missing. He was kept in the room Tak Lung Company, of Des Voeux Road Landing at Jamestown she is embroiled West.
Defendant had been his kept woman for seven or eight years. She
the arme source as that on the other articles.
3.
FAKI'S EVIDENCE
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un topleasant incident from which did not know anything about his having for three days, and then he was taken she is rescued by Captain Ralph Percy, hero of the Settlers for having repulsed
spent the night in the cells.
out for a walk into the village. He heard ved at io. Heung Hing Lane, but wit not long before a serious attack by On the evening of the dinner party for sale. The boy took advantage of an the villagers saying that there was a boy married but trouble begins for them when from 6.15 o'clock to 10 o'clock when opportunity to escape. The man leit bir Indians. The two young people are
Genoab (the deceased) was in the house Lord Carnal arrives from England to
there is still the great climax enacted in
He took off his mother's house at about-à-puin,, “very -
ness seldom stapel there. He slept at his shop. Witness identified a little boy and "girl who were brought into Court, claim Lady Jocelyn. Among the excit Sandhi Khan was there. They had not outside the house and while he was not. as the defendant's adopted children. Heng incidents which follow are a thrill-been in her house together at any other looking the boy, ran away. He found the remembered the little girl coming to his rapier dael in which Captain Ralph
ing escape from Lord Carnal's thip; a time when the prisoner was not there.
railway line and started walking towards shop on July 15th and fetching hire to wounds his enemy; a herce storm which Tong Chin, one of the servants at Mr. Hongkong. He kept on walking until be Heung Hing Lane.
serpe the open boat containing the three John Arnold's house, said he saw the reached a tunnel, which he was just ubout people out to sea; clash with pirates an prisoner sharpening a chopper on the to enter when he was stopped by a rail- There, vitness continued, he saw the explosion aboard the bucancer'a vessel morning of May 27th. Some time after way official who showed him a path over defendant in the kitchen. She appeared and a rescue from almost certain death. I ten o'clock witness saw him return with the hills The little boy walked into his
another perilous escape aboard a raft; to he washing a piece of black cloth. He Even these breathless events do not ex-bis little son in the car. did wut think that the piece of cloth. was haust the young couple's adventures for suiform, which had red stains on it, and tired, very hungry and very foot-Bore the pair of trousers produced. He then England. To Have and to Hold " is told the servants to return it to his The case against the prisoner, said Mr. looked into the cubicle, and saw deceased a paramount picture and this fact is master as he had chopped up his wife." Nihill, rested entirely on the small boy's lying on the floor, dressed in a jacket ampio guarantee of realistic staging and but no trousers. She was making gur. skilful äilming. Bert Lytell taking the He then drove off to Hongkong, stating evidence and it would be for the Jury t gling noises in her throat
leading roles: To Have and to Hold" There was
that he was going to the police station judge whether he was to be believed or is a picture which should create a deep and then to gaol. Witness would not say not. They had to he very careful about blood on the floor. Witness then became impression with local cinema goërs.
whether the prisoner was drunk or sober, accepting the evidence of a small boy but he was very much enraged."
but that was not to say they had to dis Detective Inspector Shaftain gave evi
ot believe him. He thought they would find dence of fading a blood-stained shoe that the boy was very intelligent and fear the scene where the attack is thought undoubtedly very plucky. He thought to have been made.
there would be sufficient evidence to cor roborate the boy's story.
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In corroboration of the boy's statement, a railway inspector deposed to meeting boy of the size end build of the boy in the present case, whom he directed
Yaumati by a path over the hills, The boy in his evidence said the pri and cold drinks. That's the way he Bouer offered him a job selling ice-water
The_deccased 'woman's mother said the prisoner visited her on the day of the crime. He told her he had chopped her daughter. He was sober,
"BAVE LIFE" Another Indian chauffeur, named Ratto gar Din, gave evidence as to the prisoner calling at his house in Landale Street and asking witness to take him to the house of deceased's mother. The prisoner was kidnap me," he explained, much to the enticed me; that's the trick he used to accompanied by his son. He was very surprise of the Court.
drunk and could not talk properly. Wit
After his Lordship had summed up, the ness drove prisoner and his child to a Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty house in Wanchai Hond, where prisoner and the prisoner was discharged.