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GIN DRINKERS' BAY
FIGHT.
REVOLVER BATTLE BY POLICE, ROBBERS AND KIDNAPPERS.
FOUR MEN SENTENCED AT
SESSIONS.
THE MAN IN THE MASK.”
SENTENCED FOR ATTACK ON
BUTCHER.
JUDGE'S COMMENT ON A CRIME TOO COMMON.
"I agree with the verdict. You have been convicted of a crime be coming all too common in the INSPECTOR ANDREWES COM- Colony; that of waylaying of peace able man. But for the fact that you are certified as 'unft I would be inclined to, have you flogged. As it is you will go to prison for three years"
PLIMENTED BY JUDGE ON CREDITABLE ACTION.
Sub-Inspector Andrewes, And other police officers who partici pated in the affray at Gin Drinkers' Bay on December 2nd, when there was a revolver fight between the police and alleged robbers and kid- Dappers, were publicly compliment ed at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon by the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood). when the trial had been concluded
and the men sentenced.
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The fight in question involved the narrow escape from death of Sub- Inspector Andrewes and Sergeant Goodwin and several Chinese police officers. Several of the robbers were killed.
The Hon. Sir Joseph Kemp, EC. (Attorney-General) conducted the
case for the Crown
The case was a sequel to an at-,
MR. CHEN AND HIS FAMILY.
[BY T. BEDDARD JACKSON, Who knew Mr. Chen well in hic.
early days.]
The man of the moment in China is certainly Mr. Eugene Chen, a“ man of undoubted ability and of infinitely patient ambition.
Mr. Chen is supposed to have been educated in Jamaica and at Oxford But, as a fact, he was never in Jamaica, or at Oxford" beyond a possible short visit.
He was born in Tricidad, in the British West Indies, of pure Chin- Thas the acting Puisne Judge ese descent. When I first met him! (Mr. J. H. B. Nihill) addressed a some twenty odd years ago he was Chinese prisoner with a hair lipa British-born solicitor of the and a gold tooth who appeared be Supreme Court of Trinidad and fore him at the Criminal Sessions Tobago, where, as quite a young yesterday charged with robbery man, he had already a considerable with violence. Mr T. S. Whyte
practice. Smith prosecuted for the Crown.
The case
question concerned a pork hawker who was walking in the direction of Taipo from Tsun
Wan on January 29th, and who was struck by a stone, thrown by a man in a mask," by whom he was pursued.
hawker bolted but was overtaken by Dropping his two baskets, the the masked robber who had taken possession of a butcher's knife in the foresaken baskets.
The hawker was robbed of over 813 but he was able to say that through the large eyelet, holes in the mask he could see that the rob- ber had a hair lip and & gold tooth., On reporting the matter to the tack by six men on the Wah Loong police the latter soon arrested 4 man answering this description. Distillery on the shore of Gin The man made a sacment amount Drinkers Bay, near Laichikok, oning to a confession but bad later *December 2nd..
stated that this had been forced from him.
The Charges.
There were four prisoners, and they were charged on four counts of attempting to reb and kidnap, and conspiring to rob and kidnap The frst prisoner W3S
further charged with being in unlawful possession of a dagger. The pri- soners denied all the charges, and said they were forced at the point of the revolver to help the robbers.
Cutlining the circumstances, Sir Joseph Kemp said the incident re flected great credit on the police, bath for their bravery and the skill ful organisation by which the trap for the robbers was set. In con- sequence of informatier, the police arrived at the distillery shortly after six o'clock on the evening of December 2nd. At about Leu
o'clock, a junk sailed up to a pier, from which some men landed and rapidly approached the building Six men entered, and Sergt. Good- wiu saw two walk past the counter, towards the room in which he was When the leading min entered the room two sharp reports were heard, and these were followed by others.
Firing Starts.
The man walked into the room holding & revolver ready. He fired twice, but by great fortune the de- tenating part acted, but the charge did not and there was no doubt that that saved Sub-Inspector An
Sub-Inspector" An- drew returned the fire, and the 'man drew's life.
was shot dead.
In the meantime, Sergt. Goodwin shot the second man, who was bold-
pital shortly afterwards.
T:
He was educated at the Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain. Mr. Chen's perfect English is thus ac- counted for. At the time I knew him in the West Indies he spoke
worry was that he was not then at and wrote French equally well; his
all at home in Chinese.
For some time I was intconstant association daily and nightly with Mr. Chen, then hoown as Eugine Bernard Acham.
I formed the impression that bef would go very far indeed, given the opportunity; but his ambitions in those days were confined to building up a competency with a view to qualifying as
barrister-at-law,
with eventual 'unofficial membership of our Legislative Council of the Colony, which he thought (with truth) was in great need of new members.
Prisoner, in his defence, said it was a case of mistaken identity, and although he admitted seeing the pork butcher on the date in ques- tion it was not he (prisoner) who assaulted and robbed him. Prisoner His interests outside were in said he heard detectives talking English and French politics and shout a man with a broken lip, who literature, in which he was ex- was wanted for the robbery, and betremely well read. He had pro- bid himself.
bably the best library in the West Indies.
Asked why he hid, prisoner.re plied that there were not so many men in the world with broken lips.
ANOTHER ARMED ROBBERY
AND WOUNDING.
KOWLOON CITY VEGETABLE GROWER VICTIMISED.
A vegetable gardener and Govern ment opium dealer, living in an unnumbered house at Mau Tau Kok, Kowloon City, was the victim of an armed robbery by five men last night.
According to the report available last evening it appears that the robbers, three of whom were armedi with knives, entered his dwell. ing between eight and nine o'clock, and stole about 928 in money, and also a quantity of jewellery and clothing. The total value of the stolen property is about 850.
It appears that the victim of the robbery must have put up resistance of some sort, or attempted to raise alarm, for it is reported that he was
the head. slightly wounded
in
Forced To Take Part The defence of the prisoners was that they were compelled to take part in the affair, at the point of the revolver.
No. 1 prisoner said he came to Hong Kong to buy salt to pickle his pigs. He was accosted by robbers who struck him with revolvers and told him where they wanted him to
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The Fight, Sergt. Goodwin found one man in a nullah outside the distillery, and,
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The sixth man, who was the first
go.
The other three men said they' were on legitimate business in 1 junk, and were accosted by robbers, who told them to sail in the direc tion of Gin Drinkers' Bay.
The BentencOS.
Mr. Eugene Chen married a
charming coloured ereale of Fort of Spain, by whom he has two daughters and a son. They have divided their time between Port of Spain and London, taking the name of Achim-Chen. The wife died not very long ago in Port of Spain, where the only son, Mr. Perey. Acham-Chen, is practising at the Trinidad Bar and is a very clever Rugby half-back.
The jury found all four prisoners silty of attempted robbery, and all. guilty of attempted: kidnapping. They also found No. 1 prisoner guilty of possession of a dagger, but not guilty on other counts.
His Lordship sentenced the pri soners on the charge of attempted robbery and attempted kidnapping to three years' hard labour each,
prisoner, was found lying in a aul- lah by Sergt, Goodwin, who left him for dead, but a Chinese can stable, secing him moving, arrested him with the help of another. This man was found in possession of a dagger, three gag, some wire and a wine-cup, the latter being com- monly used for gagging people the sentences to run concurrently.
The junk moved off, but was chased by a police launch and stopped fired across its bows. On board were found three men, these being the second, third and fourth pri soners, together with gags, wing- caps, and a coil of wire.
after several shots had been
No. 1 prisoner, he sentenced to two years hard labour for posses ion of a dagger, this man to serve five years' hard labour in ail
Creditable Action. His Lordship called Sub-Inspector Andrewes into the witness-box, and Question of Conviction. said: I have asked you to come into. the witness-box, although I know Dealing with the indictment, Sir full well that all members of the Joseph Kemp pointed out that the Hong Kong Police Force are accas- counts of kidnapping had been put tomed to accepting such work as in because as the case developed this has involved as part of their
the jury might come to the con-ordinary routine. I think you will
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