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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20th, 1929.
PARSEE CEMETERY ROBBERY TRIALS AT
CENTENARY.
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IMPRESSIVE RITUAL AT MACAO.
With fitting solemnity the Jana Ceremony was duly observed in accordance with angient Parsco ritual, at the Parsee Cemetery. Macao, on March 17th, to comme
SESSIONS.
A CASE RESTING ONLY, ON!
'IDENTIFICATION.
PROSECUTION FAILS.
A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury yesterday afternoon in the case of two
NEVER JUDGE PERFUME-
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"'
CHINESE TRADERS PAY HEAVY FINES. ·
Several bottles of perfume wera
morate the founding of the ceme-Chinese indicted on a charge of/displayed for the edißcation of Mr.
tery a hundred years ago, The Parsec Priest made
special the
journey from Hong Kong and, in the presence of other members of the community, performed the re- ligious ceremonies over the honour- ed dead to whom Hong Kong owes not a little for the energy, fortitude, courage and initiative they have displayed during the heydays of their activitica
rubbery at Mongkok. This was the Jourth case on the Criminal
Sessions calendar now being heard by the Puise Judge (Mr. Justice
R. Wood).
E. W. Hamilton and the Court in Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, the stop- Court was left guessing sa to the pers were not removed and the effect of the perfume on olfactory nerves.
the
evidence against two Chinese shop- The perfume was the principal keepers who were charged with having exposed for sale bottles of "Lotion Pompeii purporting to have been manufactured by Messrs. Fivet of Paris when they were not the genuine article.
At the opening of the trial in the morning both prisoners denied the charge. They were alleg d to have entered the second floor of No. 38, Portland Street, together with a Nearly two centuries have passed third mau, at about one o'clock since the firet Parsees established in the afternoon of February 4th, and to have stolen jewellery, themselves in China for the purpose clothing and 887 in money from of trade. Hirjee Jivanjce Ready- money and his companion Rustom three women present on the floor Dadabhoy Nadershaw were among Outlining the case for the Crown, the pioneers who paved the way future adventures. They first land-MH. Somerset Fitzroy (Assis ed in Canton in the year 1758, since abattorney General) stated that the three men gained admittance when the community has been pro to the floor by knocking at the door, minently connected with commercial
Bought from Japan. enterprise in the Far East. They and proceeded to bind and gag the
According to evidence, Mr. Thos. distinguished themselves as eminent three women. During this process and respectable foreign merchants two of the women received small A. Loxley Mitchell, of Messrs. Lox- in Whampoa-the then busy port of staba in the hand from knives orley & Co., dealers, instructed one Canton and also in the old Fortn. daggers which the men carried.
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worn landmarks are still standing in both these places to show the centres from which those great traders directed their operations.
Indo-China Trade Pioneers.
I
During the early part of the nine- teenth century, the fourishing trade
between India and China was car-
at the time.
Arrest of the Prisoners. Describing the arrests, Mr. Fit- zroy said that two of the women victims were walking in Shanghai Street a week later when they came face to face with the first prisoner, who was immediately recognised. The women followed him and he was seen to enter the staircase of ried on almost entirely by the house No. 644 in that street. One Parsees in their own ships. The of the women kept the entrance under observation, while the other aniling ships Royal Chartel and ran home to inform her husband. Hornby owned by Hirjee Jivarjee Readymoney were among the first to blaze the trail for many others During the early days of the British occupation of Hong Kong the Parsees had several vessels plying on the Eastern run and they also had the privileged of carrying the Royal Mail.
TheAriel." a merchant hulk, photograph of which appeared in the July edition of the Hong Kong and China Publicity Mently, as the property of Parser merchants and was used for the China trade long before the British occupied Hong Kong.
Belief in Hong Kong.. History records that during the very first year after the cession of Bong Kong to the British, at least four Parsee gentlemen, Heorjebboy Rustomjee, Pestonice Cawasice, Firmajee Jamshedjee and
In appearance. it would be very difficult for the lay person to detect the fraud as the bottles were of the same shape as those containing the genuine preparation while the labels were also much alike. Mr. . S. Marton appeared for the prosecution.
of his assistants to go to the shop uf Sun Shing Tai in Kwong Yuen. Stress and also to the premises of Sing Lee in Des Voeux Rond East, to procure bottles of the genuine lotion. They reted with bottles produced in Court. assistant alleged that the first de- fendant told him the preparation which he sold was not the genuine lotion although the bottle bore a copy of the "Pivet" label.
The
Inquiries made by the magistrate elicited the information that the imitation perfume was sold to de- traveller of # fendants by Japanese firm. still
n
I should have thought that the mere face of a Chinese arent of a Japanese firm selling stuff made in Paris would have aroused your suspicions, commented Mr. E. W. Hamilton drily.
The prisoner was stated to have got into the street again and Seeing one of the women standing outside, he ran away with the woman following him and raising a bue and ery. The other woman and her husband were then coming from the opposite direction, chase which proceeded through a The busband also joined in the number of streets until the prisoner was arrested by a Chinese con- send a sample of the perfume, and Mr. Mitchell asked permission to atable. The second prisoner was the box in which it was packed to arrested on information received" Paris. The magistrate agreed on on the third floor of No. 546, the understanding that an assur Shanghai Street, the entrance to ance would be given that the false this being by the same staircase preparation would not be sold but which the other prisoner was seen destroyed. to enter.
Booking Orders.
"What do you use that stuff for, Evidence of Identification, Mr. Mitchell" queried Mr. Hamil Evidence was given by the women
ton inquisitively.
Mr. namely inmates, one of whom atated that
Mitchell gave д
visible she recognised both the prisoners as
shudder. the men who entered the house. An
"I don'," he replied hastily, amid laughter, The Chinese use it for their hair."
D. Rustomjee, proved their belief old woman, who stated she was a in the future prosperity and deve-sister of the previous witness and
lopment of the Colony by taking was visiting her at the time, was A police sergeant said that be
over some of the forty sites offered by the Government.
apparently short-sighted. Feering
found 45 bottles of the false lotion into the faces of the men, she said on. the premises of Sun Shing Tai A pirate readervous and a barren she was able to recognise the first and five bottles in the shop of island as Hong Kong then was, prisoner but not the other. The Sing Lee. with nothing to show that it might, third woman, who said she was with the lapse of years, become nasleep at the time when a robber mighty port and a magnet for woke her, also picked out the first Travellers all over the civilized prisoner only.
world, it required foresight of an
At the close of evidence, the first unusual character to induce anyone prisoner maintained, as he bad to invest his savinga and expend done all along, that be was wrong years of devotion to so precariously identified. He stated that he an adventure.
arrived here some twenty days be- fore and knew nothing about the robbery.
Commercial and Charitable Activities.
The frat defendant was fined $50 rach on two counts. Bing Lee was fined $25 and an order was made for the bottles to be confiscated and destroyed
"Could. Mr. Mitchell let me see the first defendant. "I shall know a bottle of the real stuff queried what to buy, then,"
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only too pleased to book an order," "No doubt Mr. Mitchell will be
observed the Magistrate, amid laughter.
Certainly, Your Worship," re- turned Mr. Mitchell. He did.
ALLEGED BOGUS WEDDING. YOUNG CHINESE GIRL'S COMPLAINT.
One of the founders of the prince- Second Prisoner Calls Evidence, ly firm of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-
The second prisoner put up an son & Co., Ltd., was the famous alibi, stating that at the time of millionaire Parsee merchant, Sir the robbery he was on the Hong Jamshedjer-Jeejibhoy, who was a Kong side, having taken his wife partner of the then Mr. Jardine over to see her off by a steamer for The Hong Kong and Shanghai Wushow. He also maintained that Banking Corporation had no less he had been wrongly identified by.. than four. Parsee gentlemen on the one of the witnesses. board of directors after the forma Evidence on behalf of the second tion of the Bank.
The first Star Ferry Service beatated that they crossed over from prisoner was given by his wife, who
A Chinese man and two women tween Hong Kong and Kowloon, Mongkok in the forenoon of were before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith which later developed into the Star February 4th (the day of the at the Kowloon Magistracy, yester. Ferry Co., Ltd., was commenced by robbery) and that her husband was day on charges of harbouring Darabji Nowroji, a Parace, and the there until the boat sailed at 3 p.m. 16-year-old girl. same gentleman was for many years Two other witnesses gave evidence Mr. H. H. Batters, of, the Secre responsible for supplies to His of the second prisoner, and his tariat for Chinese Affaire, pro Majesty's Naval Forces, being the wife being lodgers on the floor, secuted. Brat foreign contractor.
They knew the woman went to the The defendants pleaded not country somewhere about the time guilty. The first defendant (the stated, but wer vot aware of the man) claimed that the complainant date. These witnesses were quer came to him voluntarily as her tioned regarding the first prisoner parents were dead." The two and they said they had not seen women denied harbouring the girl, him before or in the company of saying that she had agreed to live the other accused.
with the first defendant,
The magnificent gifts of the late Sir Hormusje Nowrojee Mody are well known. It was through him that the University of Hong Kong saw its beginning and the fine Sea men's Institute also owes its exist ance to him.
Local charities have also benefited largely by the generosity of the Pareces. Large sums are still con tributed yearly from their charit able funds to various deserving in stitutions in Hong Kong and China without distinction of race, caste for creed,
la summing up, bis, Lordship Outlining the case, Mr. Butters pointed out to the jury that none said that the girl was said to Lave of the stolen property had been lived in Hong Kong with her aunt. recovered. The case rested entirely About the end of December last on the evidence of identification, rear she was enticed by the two and it was for the jury to decide women and taken to certain whether the prisoners were guilty. house where she lived for about After an absence of half an hour, one month. During her stay the. the jury returned verdict as fret defendant appeared and later stated. His Lordship remarked her hair was done up with flowers that he could quite ace there was and a bogus marriage was gone a reasonable doubt in the evidence. through. After the ceremony they The prisoners were discharged. lived as husband and wie.
The case was adjourned.
In India the Parsecs have dis tinguished themselves as most loyal and peaceful subjects of His Majesty'a. They have won the affec tion, admiration and confidence of the British Government as well as of all Indian races by their enter-
THE LAST SESSIONS CASE.
Later the gial ran away to her mother in the country, who brought prising, genial and generous tature. Another robbery case by two or her back to Hong Kong and report Although a small community, more, the last one on the calendar,ed the matter to the S.C.A. Office. compared with the huge population against a man and a woman was of India, the Parsecs are held in begun in"the afternoon, Ho Man esteem for the active part, they have To alias Ko Keng Chun, was ar played in its welfare and India,raigned on two charge-first that dwes a deep debt of gratitude to alone and, secondly with the woman that he did steal some of the things this enterprising community.
Ho Tee. he stole money 'and' pro- mentioned, but not the two bangles They have, also by their muni-perty from various persons at and the money! This plea was ficient charities, established many Shamshuipo.on February 8th. accepted as one of not guilty, and benevolent institutions in various The woman denied the charge, the hearing was adjourned until parts of the great country for the while the other prisoner admitted this morning when a jury will be general welfare of all races.
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