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"UN AIR ENRADNÉ
LOTTERY DEPOT RAIDED.
FOUR DEFENDANTS FINED.
WHAT IS KEEPING A
GAMING HOUSE?"
AN INGENIOUS DEFENCE.
EMPLOYEES WHO TURNED AT THE QUEEN'S CINEMA.
ROBBERS.
WOMEN GAGGED WITH ORANGES.
THE MASTER'S HOMECOMING.
Robbers usually use either a piece of wood or walnuts to gag their victims, but the man who is alleged to have robbed & bouse in Yuk
"POKER FACES"
AN AMUSING COMEDY WITH LAURA LA PLANTE
[DY OUR FILM CRITIC.]
"Poker Faces" which you can see at the Queen's to-day is a well orked out comedy with plenty of laughter in it Edward Horton who plays the young man with a. “ poker
piece and is excellently supported hy the star Laura La Plante. It
Whether an employes of a gaming Ming Street on, February 15th face, is the life and soul, of the
house could be charged as the
keeper was the legal point raised by
was more considerate. The oranges
which he used sa gags were pro-
Mr. F. H. Leseby, at the Ceatraduced in Court, but, they were of is another of those incredible Ameri-
Magistracy yesterday before Major. C. Willson, when he appeared on behalf of four Chinese who were charged on three counts, to wit: keeping a gaming house, pos- session of Po Pui Lottery tickets and with writing Po Pui Lottery
tickets.
Mr. Loseby's contention was that an employee could not, he charged with keeping a gaming house, up- less it could be proved that he had a hand in the management or in any way conducted the business. I should be sorry if it is consider- ed that my messenger boy runs my office for me," said Mr. Loseby,
Evidence was given by Inspector Shaftain, who appeared for the prosecution. He said he raided the premises at Hillyer Street on Apri 14th, at about 19.30 am. He was Accompanied by a district watch man, and when he got into the house, the third defendant got up
course, in a very mouldy and shrunken condition.
Li Sun, the accused was said by the victims to have obtained ad-
ruee.
mission into the house with three others not in custody by means of Once inside he threatened the inmates-all women-with a sinister looking knife of the kind which Chinese use for culinary pur
can stories, this time à clerk is given temporary rank as Junior week, because his Partner for a chief thinks his inscrutable face will please a prospective client, and be-
cause he is reputed to have a pretty wife. Unfortunately, the pretty wife runs off in a huff, anit “ Poker |
Mr. Dixon when he is sent to meet! face" falls foul of the important
him at the station. He hires na
poses. Thrusting an orange into
actress to pose as his wife and com- each woman's mouth and then tying a piece of electric wire across that his real wife (Laura) is being plications arise when he discovers to prevent it from rolling out was employed as a secretary by Dixon. an easy job when there were four You can see there is a chance for wer to do it. The women were fast movement and amusing situa bundled into a cubicle and a gen-tions, especially as Mrs. "Poker erai ransacking of the premises was Face" makes a rapid conquest of methodically carried out.
Dixon and the actress's husband is While they were thus engaged, the jealous pugilist master of the house returned-i was then just past mid-day. The intruders admitted him and then overpowered him also. The key to the safe was taken from him, the
is
The play opens, as so many films do, far too slowly, but when warms up it never flags and the great fight between "Poker Face" and Dixon has all the rollicking absurd.
from a chair and made an attempt | súfo opened and $60 in notes transity of good knock about with the
to rush out. The man was stopped and brought back into the cubicle, where two more men were sitting around the table. Opposite one of the men were a bundle of 340-lottery tickets and some written mitters relating to Po Pui. At the other side of the table another 718, tickets were also seized.
In another table, Inspector Shaf. tain found 11 tickets on the left side and 503 tickets on the right. He then entered the next cubicle, where he found the fourth defend a blanket. ant sleeping under He woke defendant and took him into another room. He told the man to put his jacket on before taking him to the Police Station, The defendant went to a peg in the wall to take his jacket and just above the jacket another bundle of 503 tickets was found. The four defendants were then ushered down "UN AIR EMBAUME" into the street, when two men made
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a bid for liberty. They were chas ed some distance and, eventually re- captured. Their Hands were then tied and they were marched to the
Station.
Mr. Losely said that be admitted that the tickets seized were Po Pui lottery and that he did not require any proof to be given. He also said that it was not possible for him to argue that the house was not a gaming place. With regard to the second, third and fourth de fendants, he would enter a plea of
guilty to the charges of possess ing and writing Po Fui lotteries. The first defendant, Mr. Loseby said, was a Chinese doctor who had gone to the house in search of a friend and was innocent of the whole affair.
Chinese Doctor Professes Innocence.
ferred into their pockets.
The men then decamped taking away booty to the value of about 900,
In the witness box, the master of the house said that the prisoner was his employee. The man had worked for him as a painter for some time. On the day in question, defendant, two other foki and witress were engaged in painting a Chinese restaurant at West Point. at 12 o'clock, the Jokis left for their meal and witness was work ing. alone up to 2.30 p.m. As his fokis did not come back to relieve him, he went home. Arriving there, he knocked at the door and was admitted, but on passing the thres hold
behind. sagged and bound. He recognised two of the four robbers as his e- ployees. The defendant was one of them.
seized
from
There are a few more witnesses to testify to the exploit of Li Sun, and the Magistrate said that be would hear them on Friday at 10.30 a.m.
Addressing the Court Mr. Losoby said The evidence before your Worship consists of two things. The Po Pui tickets were found in the house. The four men were in the house, and if the presumption of the Inspector is correct, the four men were writing out these tickets. Now with regard to the first de fendant, I am satisfied that he is Ennocent, although the Statute says that anyone found in a gaming house, unless he could prove to the contrary, is considered to be there gaming."
Continuing, Mr. Losely said that the sound and third defendants were engaged as clerks at 30 and 50 cents a night respectively, and that they were writing. the only evidence against them was
Replying, Inspector Shaftain said that the men had pleaded guilty to writing the tickets, and therefore they must be guilty of
koeping as well.
addition of genuine comedy. We can recommend "Poker Faces" not as a first rate comedy but sertainly as being considerably above the average and a âim most people will enjoy.
AMERICAN FILMS IN THE
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United States exports of motion pictures for 1026 show a consider- able decrease as compared with those of 13. There has been very ittle change in the far-eastern market. Its consumption for 1928 amounted to 62,020,764 linear It., ha against e2,438,168 linens ft. in 1025.
Among individual markets the United Kingdom, which Australia leads thus supplanting fallen to fifth place. The Straits Settlements is eighth market, with imports totalling, 9,197,205 linear ft. for 1920, as against 6,277,015 · IL. in 1995. Japan has fallen from seventh market in 1925 to tenth, importing 8,327,091 it during 1926, as compared to 9,124,030 ft. in 1925,
CAUTIOUS PAWNBROKER.
DISCOVERS INGENIOL'S
FRAUD.
A plan to defraud a pawnbroker by pledging gold-covered lead pins As solid gold led to the appearance of a Chinese woman at the Central Magistracy yesterday. She was ten- tenced to three months hard
labour.
pawnshop had been victimised to The police stated that another the extent of 87 by this woman a The prisoner was few days ago. arrested when she attempted to re peat the trick at a diferent stop. The pawnbroker had consented
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A SLAP AT THE STAIRHEAD.
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A lap in the face during a quar rel between two Chinese resulted in lead.
The prisoner maintained that the of the Board of Directors of the The trouble, which occurred in
The thirty-fourth annual report serious injuries to one of the men. pins were given to her in settlement Mercantile Bank of India, Ltd., boarding house at Cadogan Street, Legal Definition 01 Keeping.
of a debt, accompanied by instruc-states that the net profits for the West point, arose over a pair of His Worship said that evention for pawning them.
She was watchman in a gaming house could directed to call at different shops, year, after providing for bad and shoes. The man was not at first
where she would probably receive also be charged with keeping,
and including thought to be seriously injured, and
is suggesting that the whole Statute
Mr. Loseby-Then your Worship between 36 and 37 euch for the pins 162,834, 125. d. brought forward the assailant was allowed bail in
His Worship asked if the woman
Lost Account, amount to $30; but a medical examination re- is ridiculous. In my own office, I mentioned by prisoner could be pro-413,668. 11. 8d. From this sum vealed that, the victim's spine was should be very sorry if my spessen- duced, but it was stated that she has to be deducted £81,000, being fractured.
the Interim Dividend of 8 per cent less Income Tax, on the "A," "B and "C" Shares paid in Septem ber last.
On going into the witness box, the first defendant said that he had been in the Colony since last year, He WLS A "doctor and received patients at a confectionery sher at Queen's Road West. He went to the ger were considered to be conduct had gone up to Canton." house in Hillyer Street at about 11ing my business, and that my inter preter with me now were considered
p. on the night in question to to be conducting the Court. talk with a friend.
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GOLDEN BUDDHA " PICKED UP" ON SANDS.
GAOL FOR FINDERS.
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arrested and taken into custody.
The bailee was immediately re-
On Monday the accused appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell on a charge of causing grievous bodily
harm. He was remanded for a week end allowed out on bail in $100.
APPRENTICE STEALS MASTER'S GOLD.
The Directors have added £25,000 He found his With regard to the charge of
to the Reserve Fund (raising it to friend was not in, and just as he possession, Mr. Loscby argued that tickets were found on the table,
£1,385,000), £15,000 to the Officers' was about to leave the Inspector and that the defendants were
Pension Fund, and written £35,000 off Freehold Banking Fremises. came in and a commotion ensued, charged with writing them, but there was no evidence, to show who
They now recommend a Final Defendant, was subjected to
www the owner of the tickets" It Two Chicese, who said they pick Dividend on the "A" "B" and per cent, lexs may be anyone. We can't convicted up gold charms on the beach in "C" Shares of 8 lengthy cross-examination by Ins of presumption only," added Mr. Telegraph Bay appeared yesterday Income Tax (making 16 per cent, A Chinese apprentice who was pector Shaftain, in the course of Loseby.
at the Central Magistracy an Afor the year), leaving a balance of charged at the Central Magistracy which he said that he did not see
Mr. Losehr asked for leniency charge of unlawful possession. £160,866. 114 Ed. to be carried yesterday with the theft of serca. and reminded his Worship that the
One of the men said that his cou. forward. any of the three defendants in the mer had been in gaol for several panion asked him to take the It is with very great regret the ve as, his reason for the theft that golden trinkets from his mister house, and that he was sure that days, and that two of them were charms to the pawnshop
When Directors have to record the death his master ill-treated him, but he the other defendant was asked by of their esteemed colleague, Mr. H. could not escape without money. the raid was made a short time only clerks employed at a starya- after he had arrived there. He was nocent.
tion wage, while the doctor was in his Worship why he did not take Melvill Simona, Deputy Chairman Ha stole the trinkets in an effort to
the charm to the pawnshop himself, of the Bank. quite certain that it was not at His Worship entered a conviction he replied that he thought it was Mr. J. O. Robinson, of Madras obtain enough money to return to
his native village. 12.30 p.m.; for when they got to the against the four defendants on the made of brass, but his companion tord of Singapore and London, Tad to one month's hard labour.
and London, and Mr. W. H. Shel- Major C. Willson sentenced the and fined each of them $100. charge of writing the tickets only, insisted that it was gold. He allow ed his friend to take it to find out.
have been appointed to seats on "the Board. The charm in question was stated to be a solid gold Indian Baddha.
The men were sentenced to three and two weeks' hard labour respec- tively.
Police Station, It was then only
little after 12 p.m., and the Police had been in the house almost an
hour.
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The third defendant wae stated to have been twice convicted in May laat. He was fided $50 for gam- bling and $200 for possession of Po Pui tickets.
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