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UNIONS AND THE LAW. CRIMINAL
DESIRE TO BRING AGITATORS
TO TRIAL
DEPUTATIONS TO CHIANG KAI SHEK.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 1926
SESSIONS.
ABERDEEN MURDER TRIAL.
Replying to the Attorney-General wit ness denied that he had ever been in- timate with the dead woman..
Replying to defending Counsel, witness said that prisoner and his family event- [REFORE SIR HENRY GOLLAN, THE❘ually went to live in Aberdeen. Counsel)
CHIEF JUSTICE.]
A Chinese carpenter from Aberdeen FEAR OF THE NORTHERN NAVY. Village was arraigned on a charge of having murdered his wife. on June 91st. He was alleged to have stabbed her in the neck with a chisel
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Persons interested in the maintenance
of peace and order in Canton are urging that assault and murder, connected with labour sputes, should be regarded as crimes and punished in the usual way through the Criminal Courts. As things are little notice is taken of the street fighting from the legal point of view, and it is pointed out that under such condi- tions as these life is not safe. It is a
Union order.
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Frisoner pleaded not guilty. The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp (the Attorney-General) conducted the case for the Crown, and Mr. Hing Shing-lo (in structed by Mr. Nash) defended.
TRAFFIC CASES.
"NEGLIGENCË” OF CHINESE DRIVERS.
DES VEUX ROAD COLLISION.
suggested that there was some reason for this, but witness said that the only A Chinese taxicab driver was fined 890, reason was that his business had in-at the Central Magistracy yesterday, for creased and he had engaged more fokis, being responsible for a collision between He then found that he could not house his vehicle and a tram-car at the junc his own family and prisoner's family as tion of "Des Voeux Road and Jackson Road. It was stated that there was suf- formerly.
ficient space for the taxi to have passed the trama-car without fouling the tram lines. Mrs. Dunemidth was a passenger
Questioned as to the number of persoas who lived in his one-doored at prior to his increase in business, witness said there were twenty.
Counsel put it to him that he had mis- conducted himself with the deceased woman, and that her husband (prisoner) bad challenged both him and her with it. Witness denied it. He had, he said, never been intimate with prisoner's wife.
STORY OF A QUARREL.. Prisoner's nineteen-year-old daughter said that when the family moved to Aberdeen, her father seldom visited them She and her mother earned a livelihood by doing some needlework. Her two
eldast Brothers and her father also oc
casionally helped them.
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in the taxicab at the time.
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INSPECTOR INJURED. Inspector Ellis, of the Dangerous, Goods ice, was a witness and complainant in summons against a Chinese driver for failing to report an accident.
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Complainant stated that he was driving a motor-cycle combination down Arbuth- not Road when the splash board of the car struck him and cut his ankle. Dofen- dant, who was stated to have been aware of the accident, drove away and failed to
report it,
The Attorney-General, in outlining the case, said they had been unable to and a real, motive for the alleged murder There was evidence as to some quarrels but pose to a rupture which could be held to constitute a motive for the net. Four witnesses belonging to the family would speak as to the relations between the man and the deceased woman and the eldest porfectly simple matter for a few despera-son as to what happened early on the does to commit almost any outrage and morning of June Sles, when the woman
The penalty in this case was 810. to represent that they are enforcing a sustained the injuries from which she
HUDDLED TOGETHER. died.
The case against the driver of a motor- Flans of the house and neighbourhood
She remembered one occasion when her¦ Both parties in the recent labour dis-
were produced and the Attorney-General father visited them, and her mother lorry was that he had no control of his pute are sending delegates to General referred particularly to stains of blood on quarrelled with him. Her father asked vehicle with three men huddled close be Chiang Kai Shek in order to explain to the bed where, the deceased had been for the two younger sons, saying that he side him and seated on each other's lap. him exactly how the trouble arose. The bing, also similar stains the Boor.wanted to take them away. Her mother Defandan: admitted the charge and was Communiss section of the Kuomintang, Blood had, in fact, tricked through to replied "I refuse to let you have them fined $10.
Her parents did not come to blows on who have the backing of the Workers' The couple in question had been mar-.
this occasion. Delegate Conference, will urge the Comried about 20 years and had one daughter
Witness also spoke of an occasion when Prisoner had not been she left Aberdeen for Mongkok, where mander-in-Chief to withdraw all rights and five sons. from the Unions attached to the Central living with his wife for some time. Since she went to find some work. She had he left his carpentering work at Aber- not, she said left home because her Labour Union. On the other hand Mr. deen he had lived with his brother-in-father and mother had quarrelled con- Chan Sum, Chairman of the Central law and had contributed nothing to his
cerning ber betrothal. He visited his, wife Labour Union, is arranging to send dele- wife's support. gates to give his side of the case. It sometimes and there had been quarzela about the two younger sous but nothing would be amusing if General Chiang Kai
very serious, Shek decided to receive both delegations at the same time. The Central Labour Union has issued a statement that its beadquarters are to be maintained in Canton and that new officials are being from witnesses that the husband was seca father he was also angry. She did not watch to the Police Station the following | standing by the woman's bed. The know why they were angry. Counsel
the floor below.
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A STARTLING CRY.
It was between five and six o'clock on the morning. in question that the occu- pants of the house at Aberdeen were awakened by a cry and it would appear
HER BETROTHAL. Replying to defending Counsel, she said that she had never heard her father and mother quarreling.
She agreed that they did not agree in regard to the per- son to whom she should be engaged her mother had chosen one man, and her father another. She remembered her mother being angry one night, and inter the same night when she met her
HONEST PAWNBROKER, .
RETURNED STOLEN WATCH TO POLICE, STATION."
AMAH SENTENCED.
The theft of a gold wristlet watch by an amah, while her mistress was away from her house at Percival Street visiting a relative, was the subject of a charge against the woman before Mr. R. E. Lind- sel: at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
The facts as outlined by Div. -Inspector Blackman were that the woman was sus- pected of being the thief and turned out of the house. A pawnbroker brought the'
elected to replace those who have been woman was observed to get out of the suggested a number of reasons, one of day and made a statement that he sent
bed and walk for a short way and ea which was their difference of opinion-to-back a woman (who was recognised by | arrested on a charge of directing "the of the sons observed that she was bleed-garding her betrothal To all these ques him as the defendant in court) to fetch war" against the Workers Delegate Con- ing Police whistles were blown and the tions, witness replied " Ide not know? prisoner was arrested outside the house..
The woman had severe wound-in-her throat and died at the Government Civil Hospital the following day.
ference.
In the hope of lessening the danger of Labour Union disputes in the future the Kuomintang are creasing two boards one to deal with differences between employ- ers and employed and the other to weigh in the balance the respective claims of rival labour organisations.
PRISONER'S ALLEGED
CONFESSION.
because
Cheng Kan, one of prisoner's sons, was her mistress before accepting the article, giving evidence when-the-bearing was adjourned until to-day.
GIRLS. HELD UP.
4.
(BEFORE MR. JUSTICE WOOD, THE
- PUISNE JUDGE,}
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as he had his suspicions. A report of the loss was made later in the day and the article was identified by the owner as bez property.
Defendant was sentenced to six weeks' bard labour:
THE HEAT WAVE ADVERSELY AFFECTS HONGKONG'S
FOOD SUPPLIES.
Hongkong has been adversely affected in regard to its food supplies as a result of the heat wave in Shanghai.
Before the strike, Hongkong imported most of its fresh eggs from Swatow and
The wound was on the left side of the throat, and was apparently inflicted with a chisel. Prisoner said it was an ac-
Five Chinese were charged with holding cident, but the Crown said it was deli- berately done by him. He was first of some Chinese girls between Mongkok. and Hunghom on July 17th and stealing all charged with wounding and doing from one of them a pair of gold mounted bodily harm, when he stated THREAT FROM THE NORTH.
she has circulated particulars about the rattan bangles and a pair of earrings. The Kuomintang Army headquartersdate, etc., of my daughter's birth without An alternative charge of receiving stolen priscoer. The second prisoner pleaded aro_net_leaving anything to chance since my knowledge, I quarrelled with her. Property was preferred against the first My daughter-ran away for several days it has been reported that forces stationed and I wanted her to look for her and get guilty to having stolen the pair of bangles. The other prisoners pleaded not He also made allegations ber back."
guilty. in various parts of Fukien are contem-
against his wife's morality and said her. Dyer Ball (the Assistant Attorney- plating an attack on Kwangtung by land therefore, used a chisel to cut her.
General), outlining the case for the and sea. To guard against a possible That, continued Mr. Kemp, appeared Crown, said that the facts of the case district, but this source of supply has
When the were very simple. On July 17th at about. invasion by the Northern Navy, the farts to be a clear confession. at Bocca Tigris are being strengthened. woman died, prisoner was charged with 5.30 p.m. three Chinese girls were return been cut off or is very irregular.
murder and he altered his story very con- ing on foot along a railway path Sapplies have always been obtained Heavy ordnance from Russia has already, siderably. He replied to that charge from Mongkok to Hunghom. This path it is said, been put up at these forts. It "I did not intend to kill her. I had a passed over No. 3 railway bridge, and from Shanghai, the exports from this port cannot be denied that considerable quan- quarrel with her and we struck each when the girls reached this spot, a man having increased since last year. Dus other. We had quarrelled and struck seated on the railings accosted them, and to the heat wave in the North, however, tition of war supplies, have reached Can each other before.”
seized one of the girls by the wrists, shipments of eggs have spoiled before ton through Soviet sources, and labour
Other men joined in, and the girl was unions are now openly accusing the Rus-
borne to the ground, and two rattan the ship's departure, and much arriving bangles, and a pair of jade and gold car-here has turned bad directly alter "dia- sians of having aided one faction of
rings were forcibly taken from her. Some workers against another.
of her clothing was also torn. The other charge. Supplies are, therefore, below girls had run away, but when the men the usual amount for the present and, disappeared they returned and helped the | although available from other sources, the girl home.
supply from these places are by no means
large.
A DREAM
At the Central Magistracy de denied the charge. He said that his wife had a chisel in her hand when they were quarrelling. She struck at him with the chisel and in the struggle which followed, the weapon was plunged accidentally into
her neck.
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MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
Medical evidence was given, by Dr. E. M. Minett, the Government Bacterio- logist, and Dr. D. J. Valentine, of the Government Civil Hositol..
According to the agreement between the Soviets and the Chinese Bolsheviks for whom, it is said, General Feng Yu Hsiang acted as the chief representative, four republics are to be organised in
Dr. Minett deposed to have found China. The Christian General is to head faint bloodstains on a jacket and upon the Chinese Republic comprising North some cloth wrapped round the handle of Manchuria, Fengtien, Kirin, Heilung. the chisel. The stains were too faint to ascertain whether or not they were kiang and Johol General Chiang Kai human blood. Shek is to hold away over Hunan, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kiangsi, Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhwei. Apparently the other two leadors Fan Chung Hsiao, now of Honan, and Lu Ching Lin, formerly of Tiedtsin and Peking, are to divide the other sections of China between them. This is a dream which is certainly still a long way from fulfilment.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
The employees of the Post Office at Fatshan have been threatening to strike because the postmaster there has 'dis- charged one of their number from the service..
It is reported that Colonel Feng Pao. Sao, & staff officer of the Military Head quarters at Shiukwan, has died of cholera thero. During, the past few days owing to the great heat there have been many cases of prostration among the men.
BLED TO DEATH.
Dr. Valentine deposed that deceased died from a stab wound is the neck. He was of opinion that the wound could have been caused by the chisel.
cased had actually bled to death.
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BARTERING THE GOLD.
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In view of deaths of livestock and poultry brought to Hongkong by steamers, as mentioned yesterday, prices have been slightly affected..
Continuing, Mr. Dyer Ball said that the earrings had not been recovered, but the bangles had been found. On the evening of the robbery a certain goldsmith is
In Canton the heat has been very much. Yaumati was approached by the frat prisoner who had a pair of gold mounted felt and a number of deaths of persons rattan bangles. He said that they be are recorded following heat prostration longed to his wife. The goldsmith bought have been reported. the gold on the bangles for $12.10. The girl had identified the pieces of gold as parts of the bangles stolen from her.
AT THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.
SATURDAY.
The second, third, and fourth prisoners. were arrested together in a matshed just after midnight following the robbery. |" SCARAMOUCHE " TO-DAY UNTIL The first and fifth prisoners were arrested at different times and in different places next day. The second prisoner had been
As previously announced carlier this identified by one of the girls as the man week, Scaramouche," adapted from who was sitting on the bridge, and the Rafael Babatini's story will again be. first prisoner was identified by the gold-shown at the Queen's Theatre. The pic- smith.
ture, which was shown in Hongkong CONFESSIONS IN STATEMENTS before the Hongkong Amusements took over the Queen's Theatre, will open to-day Dealing with the statements made by and will be shown at every performance the men to the-police when they were until and including Saturday. It will be first charged, Mr. Dyer Ball said that well worth seeing, even by those who saw these statements were in effect confes-it on its previous screening here, while sions by each of the men. Each of them those who have not yet seen this great Prisoner's brother-in-law then gave stated he were present when the girl was historical film, should not fall to avail evidence.
Replying to defendind Counsel, witness said that deceased was brought to the Government Civil Hospital at 8 am but he did not see her until 10 am. She was too weak to undergo an operation. When he saw her, she had stopped bleeding. He did not then know that, a large veia in the neck had been severed. woman died next day...
SUGGESTIONS OF INTIMACY.
The
He said that he lived in Hongkong, and that prisoner had formerly worked with him as a carpenter. At that time prisoner's family lived on his (witness's) premises."
Witness had never heard prisoner and his deceased wife quarrelling, nor did he know that they were at variance.
robbed, and that the money received for the stolen articles WAS distributed amongst them. At the Magistracy each of the prisoners denied having made the statements.
Evidence was then called.
The jury found all the prisoners guilty and they were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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