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THE HONG KONG "DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1929.
SUMMONS AGAINST MR. W. A.
DONALDSON..
TROUBLE IN LOCAL NEWSPAPER OFFICE.
"ROY'S " ALLEGATION OF ASSAULT EMPHATICALLY
DENIED.
Defendant: and he banged it on the desk and I told him I won't have any noise
A summons for assault against His Worship: There you go mak- Mr. W. A. Donaldson was heard bying another speech. Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday, the complain ant it the case being an office boy. His Worship (to witness): Did in the China Mail.
you make any unnecessary noise }
Witness: I might have made a noise, but not a big or unnecessary noise.
Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro ap-| peared for the prosecution, and Mr. Donaldson conducted his own case.
Addressing the Magistrate at the outset of the case, Mr. d'Almada said: "In more senses than one it is regrettable that this case should have come up for hearing at all because of the difference exist ing between the two parties, bath of whom are employed in the editorini offer of the China Vail. There is a large difference between their respective positions, the complain ant being an office boy and the de- fendant is the sub-editor, as far as I'understand."
Mr. d'Almada alter describing the duties of the complainant said that the alleged assault took place on Saturday, April 8. In addition to taking orders from Mr. Donaldson. it would appear that the office bay had to clear up the desks of other; members of the staff and to attend, in particular, to a hand lift, which was used to convey "copy" be. tween the different floors in the office.
Defendant: Did you neglect to clear my trays 1-No
Answering the Bench, witness said he always obeyed orders.
Defendant I told the witness that I should tell the foreman to get another boy, to which he (wit ness) responded by pushing me over to my desk. Witness denied this.
Defendant: Ask the witness if there is anything wrong with his memory?
Witness: My memory is quite alright.
Will you ask him it I got a blow on the shoulder and on the chest 1 Witness: You seized my neck. and in struggling to get free I might have elbowed you.
Defendant: Who inspired you to mention this matter to the police l
Mr. D'Almada: I object. The man is entitled to do what he likes.. There is no question of inspiration
at all.
Disagreement With Mr. J. T. Dobble.
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On April 6, in the afternoon, said Mr. d'Almada, defendant was per
Mr. J. T. Dobbie was the next forming his duties on the third floor near the desk of Mr. Wai Po witness called for the prosecution. Cheung, when he was forbidden by He said he was senior sub-editor of Mr. Donaldson to stand near the the China Mail and had acted in desk in question. The boy was that capacity for some time past sharpening some pencils and gen- Mr. Donaldson was a sub-editor. erally cleaning up as it was Satur-Witness knew the complainant who was office boy to the whole editorial day afternoon. He was told by Mr. Donaldson to return to his own staff. Witness considered his ser table and the defendant also said vices satisfactory. that he did not want the boy to clean up Mr. Wai's desk.
Continuing Mr. d'Almada said that after giving this order the de- fendant proceeded to seize the boy by the scruff of the neck and force him down in his own chair in an other part of the office. The boy struggled to get free and in the course of the struggle Mr. Donald san struck the complainant on the mouth.
The boy ran out of the office and went to Mr. Wai Po Cheung's house. Later he approached the police, who advised him to take out a sùmmens.
Mr. D'Almada: Did you on the goth March have a disagreement Mr. Donaldson Witness with agreed that that was so.
Mr. Donaldson (cross-examining): On the day in question I had oc casion to mention to you in the editorial room that I was very much surprised and disappointed that you should make what you called a necessary report, to Mr. Burnett, the proprietor of the paper-Yea. You were mentally ambk on that day.
Boy's Complaint of Assault. Mr. Wai Po Cheung was the next Mink Hang. the complainant in witness called. He said he was special correspondent to the China the case, then gave evidence..
Mail and Sunday Herald and bad Complainant Cross-examined. been sub-editor of the China Mail for a few years. He knew the com- Asked if he desired to cr058- examine the defendant Mr. Donald-plainant and it was his opinion son said: Before cross-examining that complainant had been irritat this young man, I should like to state that I am representing myself. I think, your Worship, if you hear the real facts of the case you will take a very different view of the matter. In the first place I shall ask him (meaning witness), if he
ing at times.
SOLDIERS SENT TO PRISON.
SEVERE CENSURE · FROM THE BENCH.
JADE STOLEN FROM SHOP,
1ean only suppose your gwne is that you want to get out of the Service. You will have to pay for it! You have not only let down the Regiment," but you have let down the white men in this Colony. You will beth go to prison for three months.".
Mr. E. W. Hamilton made these remarks at the Central Magistrcy, when two solders' from the Somer. set Light Infantry Private Wil- liam Hayne and Private William MacDonald, were charged before him with breaking and entering ['No. 48, Queen's Road Central, on Wednesday night and stealing a boxe containing two pieces of jade and one string of jade beada, valued altogether at $320.
Both men pleaded guilty when charged and both indicated that they had ac intention of FLAIDE tenced. Evidence of character was anything before they were supplied by a subaltern of the Regiment who sat with his Worship.
sen-
The Police officer prosecuting, in. i dicated at the end of the ease that the question of compensation had not heen dealt with. He said that the defendants had braken a win- dow," the damage to which amount- ed to $30.
His Worship: I will mention it to the regiment "and see if they care to do anything about it. can't do anything officially myself.
F.M.S. POLICE OFFICER MISSING.
FORMERLY HONG KONG"
MAN.
Kuala Lumpur, April 10-The acting Commissioner of Police, F.M.S., received a wireless message from the master of the P. & Ö steamer Khyber reading:"R. J. Farquharson, Railway Police, dis- Please appeared during night. communicate next of kin."
Mr. Farquharson was proceeding on eight months leave and was travelling by the Khyber.
out
Mr. Farquharson, whose ago was 43, was in the Dumbartonshire constabulary until he eame East to join the Hong Kong Polite in April, 1907. On April 12, 1510, he joined the F.M.S. Police Force as an Inspector. In 1925 be was gazetted Chief Inspector, F.M.S., and was 'O.C.P.D., Kuala Lumpur. In 1926 he was promoted Assistant Commissioner of Police and was in charge of the Railway Police when he went on leave recently.
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Mr. Farquharson was On Saturday, April 6, the cam police officer and popular in the Before he sailed by the plainant went to his house and Force. complained of an assault by Mr Khyber on March 7 he was enter Donaldson. Witness toid com-tained by the Railway Police sub- plainant to wait till the following ordinate staff. He seemed in good Monday and report to the manager. spirits on that occasion, and said Witness gaid that blood was he would be returning to Malaya understands that in a British Court
at the end of his leave. of Law and before a British Magis-trickling from the man's mouth. trate, it is a very serious matter to
tell lies?
His Worship: He understands that, I think. He has been sworn. 31r. Donaldson then asked wit ness if he had been reprimanded before for neglect of duty.--Witness replied that he had been reprimendi ed by the defendant,
Mr. Donaldson (to, the inter- preter): Will you ask him if it is fact that on several occasions I
have said to him jokingly: "I think you are so lazy that I suggest you should bring your bed to the office and take a nap at half past eight and again jump into hed at 12.30. In my twenty-one years in China, I have never seen a man so lazy.
Defendant: May I ask if witness has had any lessons in English boxing!
Defendant: Did you witness this alleged assault --No.
You say that blood was trickling from the boy's mouth 7-Yes.
Can you as an intelligent man understand how it was that when he left me there was no blood at
all
His Worship I don't see how he can.
Defendant: Did you suggest putting the matter in the hands of the police told him that it would be advisable to report to the police.
i
Is it not the case that you are paying his expense so far as his lawyer is concerned !
Mr. D'Almada: I object.
THE DEFENCE, Defendant Not of. An Aggressiva Temperament.
He observed that while the com plainant, was at Mr. Wai's desk he was making a considerable noise with a bundle of paper. He told the boy to stop it" but the latter went to another part of the room and threw & chair noisily under a desk. Witness then told the com- plainant to stay in his proper place
Mr. Donaldson said that the boy did not attend to the manuscripts on his tray and the lift came up once or twice, but was not attend- ed to. Witness got annoyed and threatened to get another boy and to report the complainant to the foreman and later to the manager. At this the complainant turned round and pushed witness. Wit- This closed the evidence for the ness said that a good bit of "push- How was it that on being told to leave the office you had the prosecution when Mr. Donaldson ing and shoving followed but he called Mr. A. G. Hewitt to give regarded it as nothing serious. temerity and the audacity to turn evidence for the defence. Mr. Hew. They got to the door and to wit- on the only European in the build-litt said he was an architect and nea surprise, the boy turned ing and therefore the representative
+i of your employer, and your hoss," that he had known the defendant round and struck him. for the time.
1:
Witness: No.
(To the Interpreter): Ask him how he had the temerity to strike
mě?
"I was
since 1812. In his opinion, Mr. very much astonished and put my self on guard" said the witness. Donaldson was not the type of man who would strike an office boy nor Notwithstanding, witness said, he was he of on aggressive tempera- received another blow on the chest from the complainant and he re ment, Major Willson:" Shorten your
and struck the Mr. D'Almada indicated that as taliated questions. (To witness): Have you evidence of character, had been call-plainant. After that more blows ever thrown yourself in a fighting ed, he was entitled to recall Mr. were exchanged. attitude f
Witness: No:
Dobbie to rebut this evidence.
com-
he was twenty-five years his senior and did not want any more to do with him. A few minutes later the foreman arrived and witness told the latter that the boy had been lazy, insubordinate and impudent. He then related the occurrence.to the foreman.
The complainant seemed disposed The next witness called was Mr. to continue the fight, but witness Defendant: Were you told to Harry Cooper. Until recently, Mr. told him to go away, adding that keep to your table on the afternoon Cooper said, he had been the editor of April 6-No.
Defendant explained that the boy of the China Mail: He knew both had a habit of absenting himself for parties in the case and he thought ten minutes, or half an hour with the complainant was a lazy, in out permission.-Defendant replied efficient and irritating boy."
Mr. D'Almada in cross-examina that he had to leave to fetch tele-tion sked Mr. Cooper if he would grams and letters,
Defendant: Perhaps I should ex-not, in a case of insubordination or plain that it is not his duty to do laziness, consider the proper course anything of the kind. I saw him was to report the boy to the moving out on that afternoon and manager. Mr. Cooper agreed. I told him as I had done on many former occasions ——
Defendant's Evidence.
2
He
About an hour after the incident, the complainant returned and en- tering the room shouted at the wit- ness saying "You fool man." Witness ordered the complainant Mr. Donaldson then went into to be taken away, but the latter
blow
at him. His Worship: Don't go on to the witness box. He said his full swung make a speech.
name was William Andrew Alister refrained from striking the com- Defendant: I don't intend to. Donaldson.
plainant again. want to make it quite clear that I
Relating his version of the in- BAW him at Mr. Wai's desk and cident, Mr. Donaldson said that instead of cleaning the desk saw on the afternoon in question he was him take up a quantity of paper the only European on the premises.
(Continued on next Column).
Three quarters of an hour later, the complainant again came in and seemed perfectly, normal.
The case was adjourned until Saturday at 11.30 B..
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