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DEFENCE SUGGESTS DETENTION OF CHIEF WITNESS.
TRAGIC END TO DRUNKEN ORGY ON OIL TANKER.
WAS THE WHISKEY ADULTERATED?
Evidence in the s... Royal Arrow murder case took a dramatic turn yesterday when Lewis Pedersen, a Danish seaman, appeared before the Magistrate, Mr. Humphrys, at Kowloon Magis tracy, charged with the wilful murder of John Zetterberg, a Danish messman, on Friday last by striking him with a bottle,
The defence threw out a strong hint that there was a possibility of the whiskey drunk by the accused and the murdered man having been adulterated. It was stated that the whiskey was purchased irregularly from a Chinese sampan and Inspector Lane informed the Court that empty bottles now in the possession of the police, bore, traces of having been tampered with and refilled before they were sold to the men on the ship.
Mr. Marton, for the defence, caused something in the nature of a sensation by suggesting that the principle witness in the case should be detained by the police.
Late last night, the Daily Pre made inquiries and was officially informed that Inspector Lane had consulted with Mr. King and 'it had been decided that there was nothing to justify such a step being taken. The police are apparently satisfed that the witness, Benson, could throw no further light upon the matter.
It is understood that the accused man will give evidence on oath this morning.
THE STORY OF THE BRAWL.
Before Mr. E. W: Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Detective Inspector Lane opened the case in the absence of Mr. T. S Whyte-Smith, Crown Solicitor, who was engaged in the Supreme Court Mr. C. E. L. Grist held a watch ing brief on behalf of the Company and Mr. O. E C. Marton, who
On
Dramatic Cross-examination. Cross-examined by Mr. Marton, witness said he had known accused since 1994. He had never quarrelled with nccused who was also friendly terms with deceased. Ac cused's quarters were in the fore part of the ship. Everybody in the ship was ready for a drink" upon arrival in Hong Kong after the non- stop run from San Pedro.
They
Magistrate: I do not think there is any need to dwell upon the sub- ject of the black eye. It is not so bad as some that I have seen and he was apparently able to continue drinking immediately afterwards..
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Cross-examined, witness said he did not know if Benson was excited. He was too busy to notice anything about him. Witness, with the help of the Firet Assistant Engineer, lifted the body on to a bed. Wit ness passed accused en the deck before he received the report of Mr. McDermott.
He knew of no trouble 'between the men..
The Alarm Koriopus Chapence, ship's fireman, said he returned from shore at about & o'clock when he went straight on watch He saw the three men, Pedersen, Benson, and Zetterberg outside the kitchen at about 8.10 right away from the oilers' room. They appeared to be drank, and were arguing. Pedersen and Zetter- berg were very drunk and
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appeared for the defence entered bought the liquor from a Chineseceased say the money was stolen Benson did not appear to be so
plea of not guilty.
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Witness had his dinner before the ship berthed. Zetterberg was "not much drunk" when he entered the cabin during the afternoon. Both be and witness were happy Other members of the crew went in and out of the cabin to have drinks during the afternoon.
Inspector Lane said that the oil tanker Royal Arrow arrived about noon on January 18th, from New York and was lying alongside the Standard Oil Company's wharf at Laichikek. The cabin in which the affair occurred was occupied by three oilers, two of whom went Counsel: Did Zetterberg sleep ashore leaving the third on board.during the afternoon !
of that.
Did you feel drowsy -Yes, and I thought that Zetterberg felt the same.
It would appear that a quantity Witness: No, I am quite certain of drink was purchased in Hong Kong and that certain members of the crew indulged in it a good deal. During the afternoon John Zetterberg, the deceased, and ac esed, L. Pedersen, went to the enbin of the three oilers and con- sumed an amount of whisky and beer; all three got drunk.
A Quarrel And A Blow.
Did you eat any food At about 5.30 we both went to the messroom for supper.
Did Zetterberg speak to you about some money -No..
Be careful. I put it to you that
Witness: From his pocket. When did he discover his loss Just after supper.
Wero accused and deceased just sparring about i-No, they were fighting in earnest.
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be detained by the police.
Magistrate: Why I see nothing in the evidence up to the moment to justify such a step.
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At 9 o'clock witness went on deck |⠀ *-*** to take coffee. He saw Benson out KOWLOON COURT CAMEOS. side the mess room with a bottle. of beer. Witness opened it for him UNCOMFORTABLE TIME FOR at his request and Benson then walked off toward his room. Wit- ness returned to the fires.
At 9.30, witness went up again to have some food. Benson was outside the mess room and said to A sailor has killed the witness,
mess boy!"
The Court, then adjourned.
Broken Beer Bottle, the First Assistant Engineer of the After tiffin, Mr. Wm. McDermott,
Witness ran down to the oilers room. Looking through the door. ship, said he was on duty on the he saw Zetterberg sitting on the evening in question and was called foor. There was nobody in the at about 9.15 p.m. by the fireman
He then on watch. The fireman told him room but the dead man.
called Mr. McDermott. He did not there was trouble in the oilers'
Witness saw accused, the sce Pedersen.
Cross-examined, witness said that
Peder
room.
the cabin. Deceased was in n sitting position on the floor with his back resting against a bunk on the after bulkhead. He was un conscious.
sen could have been behind the door
It was alleged that a quarrel l'he told you he had lost about 20 previous witness, and deceased in he did not enter the room. between the accused and Zetterberg er 25 dollars Mex. 7-Yes; he told ersued, but this was subsequently me as we were leaving the mess- room that he had lost the money settled. Later on, they commenced to quarrel again and it was alleged during the afternoon. that the accused hit Zetterberg. Did you suggest anything to him? I just said that perhaps a China- It was also alleged that the nman or one of the women who were" cused picked up a bottle and struck in the cabin might have taken it. Zetterberg on the head or the neck, He collapsed at once. The engineer
An Accusation.
on watch was called and also the Was Pedersen present during that chief officer, who told the Indian conversation No. He
came up watchman to telephone the police.just afterwards and we went to my
First aid was immediately render-cabin to have a drink. ed to the deceased but with do avail. Later, Dr. P. C. Wong arrived and he pronounced that Zetterberg had been dead for an hour or so."
John Benson, an oiler and the only eye-witness of the crime, said that work was finished about 2 p.m. He remained on board in his cabin which was on the port side aft on the lower deck
In A Dazed Condition. Accused was standing in the middle of the cabin in a dazed con- dition. Benson appeared to be very excited but Pedersen had nothing to say.
Benson insisted on talking to witness told him to keep still and Were you not, all three of you, asked accused what had happened. already under the influence of He replied that he did not know. Benson offered several explanations drink Yes, I suppose we were.
Was the loss of the money men- and persisted in accusing Pedersen tioned again 1-Yea in the cabia of striking deceased and said they Zetterberg wanted to send for more had been fighting. Witness examin whiskey but said he had not sufed deceased; he was not breathing ficient money as some of his cash and appeared to be dead. Witness called the Chief Officer. Accused had. been stolen.
and deceased were left in the cabin.
I put it to you that he accused you of having taken the money-The Chief Officer directed an Indian watchman to send for a doctor. He was quarrelsome.
Witness would not care to express an opinion whether, the state of Pedersen or Benson was due to
During the afternoon, Zetterberg
Answer my question. Did he ac- entered the cabin and invited wit ness to go ashore with him. As cuse you of having taken his money? witness was not free, they remainedYes, but I told him I had not in the cabin. Accused joined them touched it.
He did not accuse Pedersen of at 5.30 in the evening after supper. The trio were still in the cabin at having stolen it-No. 6 o'clock drinking beer and whiske
Accused and discussing boxing.. affered to box Zetterberg. Witness was sitting on a bunk next to the lore bulkhead and Pedersen and Zetterberg were opposite.
The Fatal Blow. The accused and Zetterberg had argued intermittently upon boxing and, eventually, after more drink and argament, Zetterberg, who was reclining in a bunk with his feet on he floor, was punched by accused. Zetterberg appeared to be frighten- od of accused.
theft to deceased 1-No.
Did you hear accused mention the
alcohol or not.
Cross-examined by Mr. Marton, witners said accused was in the room all the time that he was there.
Was deceased angry with you 7-He He was not happy with anybody.
Was he angry with you concerning ing Yes, I knew that. the loss of the money? Yes.
did not appear to be excited Counsel: Benson had been drink
Talking About Boxing, What caused the alleged quarrel between accused and deceased - They were talking about boxing and Pedersen and Zetterberg start ed to fight once or twice with their fists,
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Mr. Hamilton smoothed his hair and adjusted his glasses more. firmly on his nose.
The boy was selling pudding without a licence, your Worship,' explained, a Chinese constable.
And here is the pudding, your Worship, interjected another con- stable brandishing à grimy-looking package before the Magistrate's He sold this disinterested gaze, piece for 5 cents."
"Then Ee will receive six strokes with the cane," decided the Beach. "It is getting a custom for small bus witness could not say. He did boys to be paid 10 cents a day to not see him. Benson was."quite look after street stails while the nice" in his manner. He was owners gossip across the road," a drunk at 8 o'clock but appeared to Inspector told the Magistrate. bosober when be told witness of the death of Zetterberg. There were small pieces of broken glass on the cabin floor. Accused had been on the ship for two or three months but witness had not seen him the worse for drink before.
Adulterated Spirit?
Then I am afraid the small boys are in for uncomfortable times," observed Mr. Hamilton gravely as he ordered another startled urchin to receive "six of the best."
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"I don't believe you! Five dol
CT 8 days," snapped Mr. Hamilton to a woman charged with The defence called Captain Paul cutting down young. fr. trees in.. Muller who said that the drink Shatin Pass. She declared that she may have come aboard from u sam- fonad the wees already out. She pan. Practically three-fourths of was not strong enough to cut down the crew were "kuocked out.” trees herself.
Magistrate: Was that due to bad Six of the trees "alightly big-
ger "than
rosebushes-were. pro- alcohol?
Witness: I should say it was too duced in Court. much alcohol! (Laughter.)
"I know what happens," said Inspector Lane: I might say, the wise Magistrate." ** The men Your Worship, that I sent some of cut down the trees overnight and. the whiskey to be analysed. Up you women collect them the next fortunately, I did not send enough, morning." I am informed, however, that the bottle gave evidence of having been re-filled. The tin-foil had been re- moved and replaced in position, with
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Dramatic Development.
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The woman did not dispute this statement.
An elderly coolie, lying in bed, saw his trousers suddenly dart out of his hut and speed down the road. There was nothing miraculous in this occurrence really, for they were -
toň.
Cross-examined by Mr. Marton, witness said that accused was an exceptionally good man in respect. He would imagine that in the hands of a particularly nim- .. getting drunk would be repugnant to ble thief. A mumber of women Who had been drinking the most ?/ accused and he was not the kind of gave chase and caught the would-be person who would commit such a Raffes who was sentenced to a It was more obvious that Benson crime. He had received no pre-month's hard labour by Mr. Hamil had been drinking than was the vious complaints against Benson. case with Pederson. As a matter of
At this stage of the proceedings, fact, Benson was supposed to stand
watch from two till four in the Mr. Humphreys intimated that the afternoon. I went to the oilers' room and saw that Benson had been ship might have to sail without an drinking and was incapable of keep order. While it was not in bis pro- vince to order. the detention of ing a, watch.
Benson, one of the witnesses, yet he
the matter, they should do thought the police should see what' Inspector Lane: I will see what Was he annoyed by those instruc. is to be done, Your Worship.
Sub-Inspector Hoare said he re- tions 1-No, on the contrary, heceived a telephone message at 11 No-soemed relieved.
Then what happened Zetterberg was against a bunk and was leaning Benson alleged that accused with his head bent forward and to followed this blow by grabbing a one side. full bottle of beer from the table and striking Zetterberg once at the base of the skull. The bottle smash ed and Zetterberg collapsed on the bank. He did not answer witness when spoken to,
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That is important: What did you Why was he in that attitude?- do 1-I told a Ereman to take his He had just been struck by Peder place and said that Benson was to sen who hit him next with the go on watch at midnight. bottle.
There was a table and chairs in the cabin -Only one chair. body was sitting on it.
Do you agree that you and Zetter berg.were sitting at the table while accased was in a bunk 1-No.
Did décensed throw a bottle about the cabin 1-No.
Did you see deceased when you paid your visit-No.
Was there any previous bad feel- ing between 'the three men?-No.
Ho Choung Tai is known to his friends and the Revenue Officers ar
The Man-With the Thirat." No doubt the celebrated Mr. Baraum would consider him a valuable asset to his sideshows i
Fifteen jars and several bottles af spirit were dumped, with a suc cession of bangs and rattles, on the floor of the Court.
"We found him with this spirit in his possession, your Worship." explaiced a Revenue Officer. He had imported it without paying. dutr on it."
P. In consequence of that he went on board the ship and saw the Drinking Heavily.
Chief Officer who took him to ac- Witness said he went out, locked
"Why should I pay, duty?" de- cused in the foc's'le, Witness took the door, and told a fireman to call
him into custody..
manded Ho Cheung Tal with an - Chief Officer's Story. the First Assistant Engineer.. When
Cross-examined, witness said ac fajored air. I brought this wine witness returned to the cabin,
Mr. J. Martensen, the Chief cussed was sitting with his elbows from Macko to drink myself!"
"I don't believe you," declared Zetterberg was sitting in a chair
Accused's Black Eye." Officer, said he was on deck amid- on his knees looking into space and He could not say whether he had
You can see that now, five days ships when he was called to the apparently feeling his position. He Mr. Hamilton dispassionately. moved himself or if he had been shifted by anybody else. He was after the crime, accused has a black oilers' room by the previous witness appeared to be under the influence"The spirit, will be confiscated and still insensible and witness thought eye. How did that happen Before reaching the room, he sent of drink. Witness told him he was the prisoner is fined $480.
Pedersen and Zetterberg started to for a doctor. Benson and deccased under arrest but he said nothing at Plenty dear drink !"comment- he was dead.
After striking the blow, confight on deck at about 8 o'clock were alone in the cabin. Zetter, the time. After a quarter of an ed Ho Cheung Tei sadly as he tinued witness, accused left the gut between them to separate berg's pulse and heart had stop hour, accused said, "What are you received 890 change from a $500
going to do! How do you think I bill. cabin. He had gone before the them and Pedersen wanted to fight ped. First Assistant Engineer arrived me then. I hit him with my fist Accused was not in the room, but shall get on t" Witness cautioned
ed Medical Officer. He saw Benson Zetterberg and Pedersen had been and blacked his eye I had to do witness found him in his quarters him and advised him to say nothing identified the body before the
in the fore part of the ship. He further about it.
P.C., Alfred Brittain said he went who appeared to be excited but he drinking nearly all the afternoon something! and were drunk. Witness had You did not bit him with a bottle 1 was sitting down and appeared to
be able to answer questions all on board the ship in company with said nothing. had a few" but "not much."No.
You see be also has a bruise on right. He said he did not know the previous witness and; superin-1 Accused was remanded until 11.1is He did not ace Pedersen again
The Court adjourned in order to until he saw him in custody. This his forehead above the eye-Yes, what had happened. Witness sent, tended the removal of the body to this morning.
for the police after, the doctor had the mortuary. He went to the was at 2.30 a.m., about 5 hours after but I hit him with my fist.
You agree he received a severn gone. Benson gave no assistance in mortuary some hours afterward and inspect the cabin in which the the blow was struck. His condition
shifting deceased.
(Oontinued at foot of next column.) alleged murder occurred. "had"improved”“”