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CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
PROCESSION OF CARS.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23kb, 1924
THE SHAMEEN STRIKE
SETTLEMENT.
The Crown are going to ask you to assume When the "Court
tiffin time that on arrival at this place and that by BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP, THE MTING CHIEF
arrangements were made for the Jury to some extraordinary, means prisoner gut - JUSTICE (ME. H. 14. J. GOMPERTZ).}",
We mentioned the fact that the Carton visit the serne of the crime, no fewer this woman out of the car and then up
Cate out without a line on THE INDIAN WIFE MURDER CASE than six ears being required to take the the hillside where he persuaded her toalette CHAUFFEUR. SENTENCED 10 DEATH. party out to Pokfulam, which inchided lie quietly and put her feet up so that Wednesday in reference to the return of his Lordship, his clerk and his inter- he could chop them, and then that he the Chinese employees to Shameen. In its Thursday's issue our contemporary Chain Din, who stands charged with the preter, Counsel, the Jury and the pri- drove away and some distance down the murder of his wife, Gennal, wn May 27thsoner and the preessary warders.
road he passed Sandhi Khan.''
says that a report which teenpies two Mr. Fitzroy then pointed out why the eclumes in the paper was "ungecounG=; as the result of her alleged infidelity, was
It was anticipated that the visit would, ", subjected to a very severe cross-vaient, take longer than an hour but it wased at the Magistracy. He did not wish
sprisoner's defence had not been mentionably omitted from Wednesday's issue, " ticu'yesterday morning by the. Attorney 4.15 pm, before the Court resumed the the Jury to think that it had only been decision to end the strike was reached In this account we are told that the
prepared at the last moment. That was
General.
bearing.
Prisoner was first questioned as to the CLOSING ADDRESS FOR DEFENCE. purchase of the chopper. After the as-
sault at the City Hall, prisoner said, hei Me. Fitzroy commenced his closing was very much afraid and as a further address to the Jury at 4.15 p.m.
fie
."
means of protection he purchased the aid the Jury had heard the evidence and other people, including Sandhi Khan, and another and they were not easy over,
borne,
a matter which was left to his discretion only after a long and storay inveting and he had known what the defence at the strike headquarters date on would be right from the beginning. In Monday night). A minority held our for conclusion he asked the Jury to finl that
a long time, for guarantees of one kind] the prisoner was telling the truth and the had the advantage of having seen the
were not telling the truth, He asked chopper, which he always kept in his car,
"It is now ay duty," said, them to find that this woman was there wrapped in a cloth with which he used ground. to dust the car.
Counsel.to place before you the prind that Sandhi Khan was there with her, and that es the facts the case against soner's case and to ask you to give your the prisoner was nothing more than
First of manslaughter. ridict according to the facts. all I want to draw your attention to the prisoner's wife. At the time of her mir- ringe shy was pregnant, a fact which the prisoore and her mother were not aware
The Attorney General :. You stilla'i mike the clothing the hillside wher' jak went after your wife and Sandh: Khan?--I left the cluth thirul.
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Four months afterwards she gave
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S
ADDRESS.
The Attorney-General said it was der the Jury to decide whether the prisoner was guilty of murder or manslaughter. If they believed the case for the Crown it was murder, but on the other hand if they believed the prisoner's story the must find a verdict of umnslaughter.
Yesterday (Tursday) morning the malcontents again retewed the sprike, and not until a dispatch had been received, Crum Dr. C. C., Wu, assuming full re ponsibility for the carrying out of the terras. of settlemcat, were they finally apprased.
"i" is well that this last hour episode
il uvern
should be recorded as a reply to thos who have glibly assumed that word from the Government would have settled the strike long ago without re-
On May 2nd you told Mr. Arnald about "your wife's infidely and you told him
you proposed to chop her!--I did not say birth to a child af which the prisoner Mr. Arnold says you did!e i have been was not the father, It is necessary to 17 years in Chis and I hagenver heard tell you this because it gives you lie a European tell her except år. Arnold as to the conduct of the woma
There were a number of pointi stated after marriage." If I said that 'I was going to churp 1435. The first thing. Counsel said, he would by the prisoner which were not correct. wife, he should have répertad Ŷt. deal with was the case put forward by the would remind the Jury that the pri-gard to the wishes of the strikers. Any soner had told the police that he had thing in the nature of coercion or forcible Witness" wirat.cum tots that on the the Crow They had shown that a cer
inin chopper was bought ou lay theen looking for his wife for three days.
imensures would more probably haw muurning.pl the crime he motored to his and they had suggested that the prisoner That was not correct because is bad come quarters ac alius 115 o'clock. His wife went to a certain place and chopped at qut in evidence that she was at his house arouard serious resistence, and a settle ment in such evenmatates could not on the day before ste, was found at Issu was not there and he went to look for her this the Crown had produced evidence, (his wife's feet and legs. In support of
Khan's house. The Attorney-General: Didn't it occur that of an Indian constable who saw the to you to go and book for her at Mr prisoner bis wife and child go by No 7 Police Station on the morning of the Biggar's hynise 1-If it 'way night time
erine." might have found her there, but not is the day time,
I would be a safer plads than the Lill side--At Mr. Biggar's house they would he sewa by many. Indians who would teli ng almout it. That is why he did not take her there.
With regard to woman's character, con- time Counsel, there had been witnesses the Ts, Sandhi Khan especially, who him and the woman and Issa Khan bad had said that there was nothing betwixt
in some degree burns this out.
PROVE OF ANFIDELITY,
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THE BELL RINGING INCIDENT.
He put it to the Jury that the prisoner Phase proved toore than temporary." took the deceased out on that rand with. the intention of either killing her or wounding her very seriously. There were several things in the prisoner's story which he thought wade it unlikely that they were true. They were improbabili ties,
This is how the bell-ringing incident is described by our contemporary-
One of the strike leaders, it seems bad conceived the brilliant idea of carry ing a hand bell with him, which he rang all the way through as the procession marched on its way to Shameen. Pre- sumably he felt it necessary, like a shep herd fending his flock, to keep ringing the bell so as to indicate the direction in which he was leading them.
The proersion entered and passed, through the French concesion, with the bell ringing, and no trouble occurred there.
After the procession entered the British concession, an offcicus igle individed nated Watson, took it into his had to rush forward and take away the bell from the bell-ringer.o
The prisoner had said that on the morn ing of the crime he went to his quarters to look for his wife and did not and her there. Nobody saw him make that visit Du May Ith the prisoner want to although it was more than likely that he Prisourc was rather youfused when betrothal his wife having gone there two would be seen by the servants directly cross-examined by the Attomey General days previous. After the betrothal pri-he approached the servante-quarters. soner arranged for his wife to return He had said that he saw that the amals regarding the fight of his wife ad home the next day at 1 o'clock in the was lying in bed asleep. In view of what Sandhi Khan up the hillside. He first morning. She did not return on the his wife had told him earlier in the day
following noming. said he was seven, or eight paces, "whad told them he rang up his mother-in-auah why did he not wake her up. It On the goth prisoner that she had an appointment with this from Manchi Khim when he commenced law and ensuired why she did not come was most unlikely that he visited the chasing him. Later he aminded this ant back. He was told that she had left on
servants" quarters at the time he stated. said that he was auveur or right she arrived ho he found his wife and the previous day. Later that day wheu
WHY SANDHI KHAN WAS NOT ON THE RIMŠIDL when he Grat saw them together. When child had returned. He asked her where he finished shopping - his wife Sandhi she had been and there upon, after some
Referring to. Sandbi Khan, the Attor Khan had disappeared".
troulle, she confessed to prisoner that sheney-General said it was most unlikelytering and rumbling started all along had spent the night before with Sandhi Khan in corroboration of that they had Kattarh Singh who wore to seeing the wife and Sandhi Khan outside the pic ture palare on the previous day.
On the 21st and d May the prisoner's wife was again misking and they had bad it from Me Arnold that the prisoner tabl him his wife was unfaithful. Prisoner
The Attorney-General: You now want to go back on your previous statement that you saw him running up the path as you were chasing him-When I saw then they got up immediately. I abused them. Bardhi Khan was then eight
paces away.
was 10 pacOH AWAY.
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that he was on the hillside that morning. After wounding his wife it would not take the prisoner long to get back along the road and past the spot by ent reading to the Indian constable, Sandhi Khan was standing. If, as the prisoner had stated. te Saw Sandhi Khan with his wife, it was not possible for Sandhi Khan to make his way through
At once the procession halted.
the line and threatened to become serious. Fortunately, however. Mr. Luk King Fo, the calmand always unruffled deputy at the Foreign Bureau, was at hand, and
he
went off to the British Consulto ringer insisted upon the bell bring m tarred him. He contended that M Watson had no right whatever to take
.
How near did you get to them before told "Mr. Amoki of his wife's past his- the scrub, up hill and down dale at the bell away from him; it was his 'pro- }
perty... If there was any objection to his they got up When I first saw them Italy. Then there was evidence that the active there before the prisoner arrived ringing, be, of course, would stop
Did you see them lying down together?! Prisoner visited the Secretary for Chinese there in his car. The constable had saidrieging, but what business had the for-1
that when ho saw. Sandhi Khan he was neither hot nor breathless. Then again to take his bell away! he told
Mr. Luk. did it seem likely that Sandhi Khan who, Upon Mr. Watson reterning the bell according to the prisoner, had seen the
to its owner, the procession resumed its woman being attacked would place "bim
march, without any more bell-ringing, self in a position where he could be. at tacked. And was it at all likely that that but the incident shows how tactless in- woman having made an appointment with dividuals like Mr. Watson can be, and Sandhi Khan would drag the child with how often trouble arises precisely on her and leave it in the road while the account of such tactlessness. Of course, as Mr. Luk King Fo observed, the bell- went up the hillside.
ringer neither intended nor implied any. thing offensive or disrespectful to the residents of Shameen by carrying the tell and ringing it.
Affairs and there complained about his That is why I ran for my chopper.
wife's unfaithfulzens. So they could be seen from the road
Counsel then detailed prisoner's visit - No.
to the hospital, taking his wife and child Look at this photograph, you in gee right up the path. There is nothing to away in the car and having them sear the Baitors Home. After purchasing prevent you seeing them 1-1 crossed a four bottles of beer, some of which he ditch and took bac pace up the path drank outside the City Hall, prisoner then whee I saw them.
went to his quarters and not. Ending his How wide is this ditch - it as widowife there he drove to the bridge where as the Court-No, the road is not so he saw his ang.. Prisoner had told the wide as that.
Is it as wide as the Court table --Take Court how he found his wife and the man Sandhi Khan at a spot which the be there and i will measure it for you.
Later the Attorney-General asked: Was Prisoner pointed out to them that very
day. your wife's clothing disturbed in wayShe was not wearing her trousers. Air. Fitzroy: I think he means down; not off
"AS EXTRAORDINARY SUGGESTION. How had the wife got there, asked Counsel.
at the Before leaving her The Attorney General: Were they down Sailors' Home she made an extraordi- round her ankles or not-ller trousers nary suggestion to prisoner, asking him were nearly off, one leg in and one ont. to drive her to Ho Tang's Cemetery Why did she want to go there? It seem
"I suggest Dealing with the prisoner's statements ed an extraordinary thing, in reply to the two charges, prisoner ad that she made an appointinent with
Sandhi Khan." mitted that when charged with doing
**If the use for the Crown was cor grievous bodily harm he said he was drunk and did not know whether is rect." "assaulted her of not
THE TWO STATEMENTS.
down."
. THE CHOPPER Then there was evidence for the Crown that "an Indian dressed in uniform pur- chased a chopper on the morning of the crime which the purchaser took away wrapped in foreign newspaper. He asked the Jury to remember that a chopper similar to that sold on the morning of the crime had been found near the scene of the murder as well as a piece of foreign
newspaper.
In conclusion he asked the Jury to find that the prisoner was guilty of murder.
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However that may be, the bell-ringer. and also the calm and unruffled deputy of the Foreign Bureau," who led the procession, must have recognised that for them to come into the foreign settlements making this tontinuous din was imped- ence of the most challenging character-- Es., II.D.P.3**
NATIVE BANKERSAT CANTON
1.
SUSPEND BUSINESS.
[FROM OFA CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
11
STRIKE
went on Counsel, would it be His Lordship. in summing up, polated necessary for the prisoner to take the out that the Jury had visited the scene The Attorney General: In your second woman right along the road and there of the crime and that they had noticed commit this terrible assault? If the man several cars pass while they were there. stalerent, in reply to the charge of burntended to commit murder be does not Did the Jury think that a woman would der, you did not say anything about "having caught them committing adultery go about it in a way that suggested he there with a man on a path practie DOES IT FORECAST A GENERAL
ally in view of the road, and also leave I told the Sergeant (Abdallah Shah murder."
"Were the Jury going to believe that a child on the road who, if asked where that I caught her.
inflicted when the his mother was, would say: "Up there.".
As a protest against the Government Be-examined by Mr. Fitzroy. prisoner the injuries were said that when his wife saw him from the woman was standing?. It was alrious The prosecution had produced a man filiside she pulled up her trousers before that the worban was lying down and the who sold a chopper to a chauffeur in forcing upon the market of unsecured question was why was she lying down and white uniforin at 9.30 am on the day banknotes of the Central Bank the native runcing away.
Kattah Singh motor driver of Moon another question was how did she get of the crime. The chopper had borne two bankers in Canton suspended business on Street, was called for the defence. He there. It was quite easy for her to get listinguishing marks and a chopper bear,August 22nd, thus affecting the whole said he knew the prisoner and Sandhi there from where the prisoner left hering these marks had been found near the business community. This may be the Khan. He remembered May 18th. On and ther all knew why she was lying scene of Be crime. The Jury had to con- forecast of a general strike in Canton
sider whether the prisoner had been Dr. Sun Yat-sen has practically ex- the evening of that day he saw prisoner
"Gentlemen, I am going to ask you," brooding over the matter for several days hausted all his means of getting money standing with Sandhi Khan at 10 o'clock.
to believe that prior to the attack or whether he did to support his mercenaries, who at one Witness had conversation with them went on Mr. Fitzroy, Prisoner said they had been to be this man is speaking the truth. Tho in actually come upon ber in the act of time numbered nearly 140,000. No fur- ther sales of public lands and buildings trothal party. On the following day jurice could only he inflicted by a man committing adultery.
is possible, very few inches of real witness said after work he saw Sanchi, who is absolutely mad. No man in his
publie lands have been left at his dis Khan and prisoner's wife standing out scoses would do such a thing. What the man must have
posal. The sale of cemeterica has met side the Wasebai theatre. They said they rent. provucation
with no little opposition from "a people He found his wife there with had. were going to the show. They went is another man. There is nothing I can say
who still regard the graves of their par together. He did not go in
ents with respect. More war imposta will Another Indian driver, in the employ of that can explain it away except tempor-
arouse active opposition of the maues. Mrs. G. F. Haslam, who lived at Repulseary insanity'
Dr. Sun's last scheme has been the estab Flay, said he had a conversation with
lishment of a bank undertaking to suc Sandhi Khaa, who told him that the pri
Now then I want you to notion that
paper money. There is no secret that the soner was a very bad man. He told wit the man's irst care was that of his child.
Central Back has no capital. The an ness he had been keeping prisoner's wife
nounced espital of the Central Bank is sovietly, but now he would keep her is one object was to get the child away
and under proper care." That was the act After the sentence had been interpreted gro,000,000, procured through the sale of openly,
of a considerate father. That was not to him he clapped his hands is a fechle a bond issue of equal amount. It is said Another Indian motor driver, employed the act of a deliberate and wilful mur sort of way and said with a brave attempt that so far not a coat of the proposed by the compradore of Messrs. Loxley & Co., said that on the morning of the crime derer. He drives hack to Mr. Arnold's at a waile: "I am glad to hear that." $10,000,000 bond issue has been sub
Two warders rose and forced the pri-scribed for. Friends to Dr. Sun, how- he saw prisoner drinking a bottle of beer the child with his mother-in-law."
and then goes into the City and leaves
soser to sit down." As he was being taken ever, have been responsible for the in- nutside the City Hall,
"If this story is not irve what did hap-out of the dock he shouted in broken formation that the Central Bank will not pen! The Crown is going to tell you English: "I never want to see any more withdraw it notes from the market as that he drove out on the Pokfulam Road, of bad men like theae.” then turned down Mount Davis Road, The Court finally rose at 0.45 p.m.
This was corroborated by an Indian watchman who also saw prisoner drinking Leer outside the City Hall,
A CONSIDERATE PÄTNER.
PRISONER FOUND ** GUILTY." CLAIS 15 ANOS` WHEN SENTENCED TO DEATH.
"The Jury then retired to consider their verdict. This was at G.10 p.m. Twenty five minutes later they returned to Court. A unanimous verdict of "Guilty" was returned and is Lordship after donning the black cap sentenced the prisoner to denth,
several days ago it succeeded in getting I nearly $50,000 to operate the Bank.
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