THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27th, 1927.
AND BIAS THE “IRENE” PIRACY, KOWLOON MURDER CASE. AY
BE SMOKED T
SEVEN SUSPECTS IN
COURT..
AN WILL BE DONED.
ECOTELSPONDENT.]
thorities have in- nde, pt the 25th Cantor Army, to Hay, and rid the = "and pintess.
FORMALLY CHARGED AND
REMANDED.
PRISONER CERTIFIED
INSANE.
FATHER ALLEGED TO. HAVE KILLED DAUGHTER.
A Chinese named Wong Yui The seven Chinese who have been Yeung was remanded by Mr. W. in custody for the last few days in Schofield, the Kowloon Magistrate, connection with the pirating of the yesterday, on a charge of murder- China Merchants' Steam Savigationing his sixteen year, old daughter. Company's s.s. Irene in the vicinity
Detective Sub-Inspector Dorling
of Bias Bay on October 13th, made stated that the man had been curti- their first appearance before Mfied as insane at the time, the mur
. E. Lindseif at the Central Magis der was committed. The Atorney tracy yesterday morning.
General was investigating the case, and it was probable that the man would be placed in an asylum.
er of the Canton They took their position in the istrative Council, following order: -Lau Hing, Li Gg-k......summarily Kwong Kong Tin Hung Kwan nderstood that the Chan Hi, Tse Wa, ami Chan Shing. mergency one,,
JOVEMENTS.
Military Council assumed command Volunteer Corps. Ein. the un- Honam, on the aten, is raising no astering his men Tovide that his!
e'in Homam is not ali Tsai, Hsin y more troops to
at Canton last Hain Hua from - number of men troops returning join General Li ing
in Canton.
Y ELEMENT CONTROL.
The first five men said that they spoke the Punti dialect, the sixth elected to speak Hakka and the seventh man, commented that he did not mind whether it was Punti. Hakka or Hoklo.
The men presented an unkempt appearance, all wearing dirty. Chi- nese trousers," some singlets, und others loose Chinese coats.
The proceedings only lasted five minutes, the men being formally charged. Mr. T H. King, the Director of Criminal Intelligence, prosecuted, and with him was In- spector Lane, of the Criminal In-
H-was-alleged that the man, who lived with his daughter at No. $S, Canton Road, Kowloon, was much attached to the girl, but her illness. preyed on his mind to such an ex- tent that on the night of September 84th he cut her throat with a razor, killing her Fnstantly, He then made an attempt to take his lie by cutting his own throat. :
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HARD SWEARING.
TENANT, LANDLORD AND
THE FITTINGS."
The point af issue in a case which
TWO FATAL ACCIDENTS AT HAPPY
VALLEY.
THREE COOLIES KILLED IN A LANDSLIDE AT THE CEMETERY.
BAMBOO HAT SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE.
WORK OF THE FIRE BRIGADE AND POLICE.
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Four Chinese lives were lost in the Happy Valley sector yesterday afternoon" in two accidents within a few hours of cach other.
".
In the earlier incident, a Chinese was knocked down by a tram-car, and injured. In spite of very efficient first aid by a riember of the St. John Ambulance Brigade pending the arrival of an ambulance, the man died on the way to hospital,
The later incident took a sudden toll of three lives.. The victims were engaged in excavation work at the Moham medan Cemetery at the time when they were, without warning. buried in a landslide..
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Officers of the Central Fire Brigade, the Police, and the Sanitary Department did extremely good work in an endeavour to rescue the unfortunate victims, ut to no purpose.
A fourth would-be victim of the disaster, a coolie woman, had an astonishingly fortunate escape, ber bamboo hat being the incans of saving her life.
One of the upper terraces lining hat, and although her hands were the Mohammedan Cemetery hill pinned down she shook her head was the scene of the accident at 4.10 about and was able to breathe free- p.m. yesterday when three men ly until she was taken out. coolies and a woman were buried hy several tons of moist clay which slid down the bank while they were putting the finishing touches to. a trench which was to be the founda
vestigation Department. The acting before the Buisne Judge (Mr.bion for a containing wall for the
eused were unrepresented, but Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared to watch the case on behalf of the owners of the pirated shi
On an application from Mr. King, his Worship remanded the accused rill Monday, "at 2.15 in the after-
noon.
were arrested at s Chb at Canton connection with to damage the and other lines. the law are being His Worship fixed provisionally revent order of the afternoons of Monday, Tuesday,
Esin will save
Thursday and Friday, stating that en from being imou Tuesday he might be able to say es alleged against what mornings could be given. members of their lied on failing to against whom a I would take the caining one or more
amily.
M. King asked if the Crown Solicitor could be informed of any following day which could be set nside for the ease.
- over 20 persons aiting trial and account of many
Bureau of Justice
he recommendation
m commission has
ses be disposed
-xt three months. RCHANTS CO. CHTERMEN.
The charges were to the effect that the seven accused, on October 10th and 20th, while on board the frem, then sailing in the vicinity of Ocksen. Islands, in the China Sen. committed the following acts of piracy:
Firstly, that they combined in an
Justice J. R. Wood) in the Sum-terrace. mary Court yesterday afternoon
The trench, about twenty feet was whether the landlord (plaintiff) long and four feet wide, was to be had waived the rent in exchange three feet below the surface of the In the course of their for the electric fittings in the pre-terrace. mises and on condition that the de-digging work the coolies working fendant vacated the premises head the foot of the 'bank had heaped fore the expiration of his notice to the earth from the trench on the terrace side, and were thus in a quit.
pit over five feet deep."
The case was one in which Chan in Sang claimed 893, due for on- month's rent, from the Yee Cheong
Firm.
Mr. D. McCallum appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. C. A. S. Russ was for the defendants.
Plaintiff's case was that he gave the master of the defendant Army notice to quiet the premises, and that defendant cleared out.
He denied a cross-examination by Mr. Russ that he ever waived the rent, or that he consulted de- fendant and told him that plaintiff) required his premises to carry on a Chinese druggists' busi- ness, and that if he vacated the premises by a certain date he would waive the rent if he had the electric fittings and a stove. Plain-
!
Shortly before the accident an Indian forerann had been in the trench taking measurements, as it was intended to complete the digging yesterday and put in the concrete foundation to-day.
The four coolies had resumed their place in the trench after the foreman's inspection and were busy shovelling when disaster, overtook them.
According to an eyewitness of the accidunt, who was standing on the terrace below the scene of opera- tions, the mass of earth came down
Shortly after, the rescue of the woman, the arduous digging re- vealed one by one the bodies of the three net. It was about 7.30 p.m. when the last of them was ex- tricated. Having been embedded in moist earth, there were hardly may signs of external injuries. They were removed to the mortiary, As is usual in accidents of how- ever slight a nature, a crowd "st' Chinese gathered, but the majority of them kept at a safe distance for fear of the ghosts, which one man was heard to say were present in the Cemetery and took toll that afternoon.
The coolies worked for a contrac- tor named Chung Sau Kee, of 165 Temple Street. Yaumati, and lived at that address. The names of the
victims were:-
Ho Yuet, 31.
Ip Pat, 24.. Từng Chơi, 24"
FATAL "TRAM CAR ACCIDENT.
VICTIM DIED IN AMBULANCE:
attack on the officers of "the ship emphatically denied that any without any warning. When he Ambulance Brigade and the quick †
namely, Jebn Henry Jahnsen, Georg Innes, Alexe Zalorichkov such agreement was entered into. sky Archibald Flodge. Harold Defendant. he said occupied rooms Haiyik, and Albert Bernard Demee, in the same hotes as he dit and that they also attacked and
room boy.
Contradiction.
wounded Chan Fung Wai," a mess- "The master of the defendant firin, when put in the witness box, told He econdly, that they seized the a directly opposite story. .ship and robbed the passengers of stressed the point that the land- their personal effects and property, lord (plaintiff) did make the agree including one gold ring and other ment mentioned between them, and
the lightermen in jewelley, the property of a passen.that in view of the rent, being ger. nained Foo Ching Leung; 340 waived he vaunted the premises on in money, belonging to a second the date required. passenger named Chan Lin Fui;
have been refusing
in board "vessels of
ants S. Co. The
up is that an officer
lowns of the Com-
: union worker. ''
The workers, but in a second three first noticed the slide, he shouted to
of the men were completely lost to sight. The woman, who was in a corner of the pit, was buried up
her to
shoulders. Immediately
The usefulness of the St. John
response of its members to the call of duty was evident from an incident near Happy Valley yesterday.
At about 1.10 p.m. a tram-car turned from the Valley into the Praya whed an accident happened. At the junction of Wanchai Road and Tin Lok Lane, where there is 2 small market, a Chinese was knocked down and injured by the car which was then travelling slow-
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after the disaster grunns were heard but soon there was silence and the three men were quickly suffocated. An appliance from Central Fire Defendant called a witness to Station, another from Wanchai, with Mr. G. C. Moss (Superinten. $120 belonging to another passen- give evidence of a corroborative
Only a few minutes had elapsed Eer. Yau Shui Tsoi; and $20 nature.
Mr. Russ argued that defendant's dent of the Fire Station), Inspector before Mr. M. A, Salleh, an ambul belonging to Chier Chun.
story was the more likely of the Macdonald and officers from No. 2ance man of the Indian Section of two, while Mr. McCallum rejoined Police Station, Sanitary Inspector the Brigade, was on the spot, and that with regard to the stove, that
worked hard with the fireman to Meanwhile Police Reservist Ser- fendant vacated the premises, as all dig out the victims. They were geant Choa Hing Kr (No. 301) had would be the landlord's when de-. L. Lockhart and other officers rendered first aid fixtures, unless there was an agreearly on the scene thanks to a tele- also arrived on the scene and gave ment to the contrary, automatically phone message received from the all possible assistance. become the property of the land- onlooker on the terrace. Jord when the tenant-left_Mi
McCallum argued that it simply a pretext to regain posses sion of the electric light fittings.
AND ECONOMIC.
of the Yeel-Han Railway, is prob Mr. T. T. Lee, managing director uspension of credit able resigning from his present Canton' has result-post. Mauty friends, however, hope e of several Canton that he will reconsider his decision. On Sunday a monument will be unveiled at Shekwaitong Station in memory of the late Mr. Hah Chung Man, who was assassinated in 1929. He was the managing-director of the Canton-Samshui Railway.
rt and export firms eral silk Alatures in prnd business." The divers require at the
Was
The woman was extricated in less than an hour after the accident and despatched to hospital in an am- His Lordship commented that he bulance. She was, however, only believed the defendant's story, and suffering from shock and not really said that he had no doubt an agree-injured. A few hours later she left He, there the hospital and was being con- gratulated by her neighbours on her good fortune in escaping with her life,
h silk season more An attempt by "Reds" the other ment was entered into.
fendant.
in cash to facilitate day to loot the Shing Tong market fore entered judgment for de-
and the refusal of in Epping failed. This shows that the Reds" are by no means quies-
nks in Canton to cent in the districts, despite their ed has put many con- failure in Swatow.
inconvenience. Pre- A wireless station is to be in- conditions in Canton, stalled in Nanning and the contract parts of China, for has been given to a Canton con-
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are discouraging in- Mr. Y. N. Lee, a graduate of very sort, and it is Wisconsin and Chicago Universities chers besides silk and in America, has been appointed Middle School exporting firms may principal of the unless the banks which is affiliated with the Sun Yat Sen University. present policy. ding more less action to enforce
of
PROMISES.
BAMBOO HAT AS CAMOU FLAGE.
A THEFT THAT FAILED.
A large bamboo hatethich she was wearing at the time was the means of saving her life. Some portions of the earth fell on the top of this
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PIRACIES AND INJURIES COMPENSATION.
CASE OF MR. BLACK OF THE
* KOCHÓW.'
In view of the frequency of piracies, the sea-going fraternity are naturally much concerned with the compensation and nsurance scheine which was in force prior to the boycott, but was abandoned when the revised regulations came into force...
How an elderly man with a big bamboo hat assisted a youth in stealing a leather suit case from the Bakilly Company's store at Des Voeux Road was described at the Central Magistracy yesterday be fore Major C. Willson when the * $10,000,000 loan from
Frequent changes of personnel in two were charged with theft. " erchants and bankers Canton administrative departments Detective Sub-Inspector in
than 38,500,000 has have drawn forth announcements statement said that the elder man On account of the bad of policy from each successive com- engaged in a conversation with a
by this enaction, the
missioner. Mr. Chen Shih Jen, in salesman while the boy carried the missioner of Finance, taking office the other day promised article away evy the loan, will most to procure from public revenue The boy, who had pleaded guilty The case of Mr. "Black, chief n its enforcement. $10,000,000 for the development of to the theft and was ordered to re- officer of the Kochou who died the repeated refusal of a merchant marine and the com-ceive ten strokes, with a cane, later whilst defending the vessel against Authorities to remit pletion of a public highway system. made a statement from the witness the pirates, is receiving the atten- ey to Nanking, Mr. In addition, Mr. Chen will also aim box in which he gaye the man sway. tion of the marine guilds, and it -Nunking Minister of at the exclusion of foreigners from He said that he was instructed by is understood that an enquiry into considering a visit to the postal service. But Mr. Chen the man to carry the suit case away the whole circumstances will be ee what can be done. outdid Mr. Chan Kung Pok in while the latter held his big bam asked for. So far the authorities at Nanking have promises for when he took up boo hat in such a way that the have taken wo action, but it is the -o desort to the oppos office about a week ago as Com- shop people would not notice the general belief of these afloat that ecause of the unfavour-missioner of Civil Affairs, he pro- theft. Unfortunately for this pair an enquiry would bring to light
'did!
new facts which would settle how nas regards prospects mised to allot $2,000,000, a monthy elder defendant was sentenc far Mr. Black's dependents are
The of victory.
from the Kwangtung revenue for the development of local industries ed to three months hard, labour.entitled to be compensated. ed ́on mext Column.)
The man, who was at the time un identified-and-probably belonged to the hawker class, was bleeding through the nose and he had a rather bad scalp wound.
An ambulance was summoned and twenty minutes of the within mishap the injured man was on the way to the Government Civil Hos pital. When placed in the ambul- ance the man appeared to be more or less unconscious.
It was ascertained later that the man died in the ambulance before reaching the hospital.
DID NOT LIKE PRISON.
CONVICTED MAN'S JUMP FOR FREEDOM.
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A daring but fruitless attempt to escape from police custody was made by a Chinese prisoner this week. “
The man had been sentenced to six months' hard labour and twenty strokes of the birch by the Kowloon Magistrate for snatching a gold bangle from a little girl while, with her father, she was leaving the .8.3. Talamba."
At the entrance, to the prison on the Hong Kong side, the man sud- denly freed himself from the hand- cuffs and jumped over a side wall into Arbuthnot Road, a drop of about twenty feet, and ran down Pottinger Street, with the police in pursuit.
The fugitive was caught as he was attempting to enter a house be
tween Hollywood Hand and Wel- lington Street through a back door.
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