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CANTON, September 19. To-morrow, September 17, the 15th day of the 8th moon, is Mid- Autumn Day, one of the four big annual festivals in China, and popularly known at the Moon Fes
The moon will be worship- tival. ped by boys and girls throughout China. Among the customary sacri fices are the famous moon cakes, sugar cast fgures, and other typically Chinese confections." The baker's shops in Canton have been preparing for a long time and every one of these shops is beautifully decorated. At the front entrance of the larger shops two grotesque figures made of clay are erected and gorgeously dressed. They are the guardian spirits of the shop and carry huge words or lances to pre- vent the entrance of any evil spirit that might want to bring misfortune to the business. Their dresses are dwarfed banyan trees twisted in the form of a human body. These trees are grown in Fong Tsoon in big flower pots, and are brought over to Cantor in huge numbers every year at about this time to decorate the baker's shops.
THE HONG KONG
NOISY SCENE AT MURDER TRİAL.
GIRL'S ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE PRISONER.
DENOUNCED AS A KIDNAPPER AND ROBBER CHIEF.
THE INDIAN
CONSTABLE CASE OPENED.
Scathing denunciations of the prisoner and hysterical cries from a girl witness marked one stage in the trial of a. Chinese at the Criminal Sessions before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) " yesterday for the murder of an indian constable." Speaking in the Hakka dialect, the witness referred to the prisoner as a robber chief '' and the "single-eyed devil." Allegations of having been kidnapped and forced live with the prisoner were made by the girl, and in the end she had to be forcibly removed from the Court after an outburst during, cross-examination.
On the charge being read out to the prisoner, Lam Ling, be pleaded guilty. His counsel, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., said he did not think the accused realised what he was pleading, where- upon His Lordship directed the interpreter to point out that accused was charged, with deliberately killing a mat. The accused then answered I do not do it." This was accepted as a plea of “pot guilty and the trial proceeded before a jury.
THE CROWN
Opening the case for the Crown, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said Lam Ling was charged with the murder of Indian
да
constable named Sapuran Singh at Yaumati on July 10. The latter went on beat duty at eight o'clock that night and was supposed to patrol until midnight. Two chops were taken before nine o'clock but about ten o'clock when ho should have given a third to superior officer he was not to be found. He did not hand over his search parties later went out. duty to his relief at midnight and
It
CASE OPENED.
The Woman in the 'Case/
DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1929.
The revolver produced in Court was identified as the weapon issued to the deceased constable shortly before he was sent out on his beat at 5 p.m. Other evidence, includ ing that of Sergt. Willcox and Detective Inspector Fallon, went to show that the body was discovered shortly after o'clock the next morning by the search party.
Chan Kui, the girl who is said to have been living with the accused in a small shack, stated in evidence that she was 18 years old..
Asked by Mr. Fitzroy if she knew the accused, the girl answered: "I do not know him; be is the chief of the robbers."
Mr. Fitzroy Why do you say he is the chief of the robbers only came to know him because he kidnapped me and brought me here.
AN ALLEGED $20 ROUND THE COURTS.
BRIBE.
SAMPAN MAN AND JUNK
INSPECTOR.
ACCUSED FOUND NOT GUILTY BY JURY.
The correctness of an English translation of a statement made by an accused was questioned by Mr. Ha Shing Le, who, instructed by | Mr. F. C. E, „Rendall, of Messrs. Kuss & Company, appeared for the defence of Ip Lam, who was on trial at the Criminal Sessions yes- terday before the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) for offering a ribe of 80 to Mr. W. R. Hillyer, Chief Junk Inspector.
"Tea Money" or Duty? Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Solici tor, alleged that the statement meant that the accused offered the balance of the money to Mr. Hillyer aste money after duty on Chinese wine had been paid, but 31r. Lo disputed this, saying that the money was handed over to pay the duty and any balance should be returned to the accused."
Explaining the case, Mr. Holmes Mr. Rocha, Assistant Junk Inspec- said that at 8 a.m. on August 30, for, saw from his launch a zampan making for the beach at Kennedy Town where it grounded. Two men The sampan was then taken in tow to jumped out and ran away.
the Harbour Office pier, and it was" found to contain 20 packages of Chinese wine on which $29.60 was payable as duty.
At 10 o'clock Mr. Rocha met two men, one of them the accused, and together they went to 800 Mr. Hillyer. The accused told Mr. Hillyer that the sampan belonged to his brother and he was told to bring him along. At 11 o'clock the accused returned alone, saying that his urother was afraid to come, but added that he had been given to hand to the inspector.
Statement and Translation.
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ASSAULT CHARGE AGAINST SOLDIERS.
"CASE FIXED FOR MONDAY.
Privates Thomas McEwen and Harry Shea of the K.0.8.B. made another
appearance, on remand, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Central Magistracy · yesterday, on charges of assaulting an old wo- man and a chair coolie.
Owing to illness of the woman, who was at one time reported to be in p critical condition, the case had to be remanded. IcEwen also had been sick and had been in pri- son hospital.
Both parties appeared before Mr., Hamilton yesterday, the, old
woman
still showing signs of weakness and being unable to walk. Noticing the woman's condition, the agistrate stated that he was not aware that the woman would be brought to Court and that it was not his wish that that should be done.
Addressing McEwen, Mr. Hamil ton said I understand you have been unable to find bail"and the prison doctor in inclined to think that the Prison Hospital is pre- judicial to your health. I under stand that the Military will be prepared to have you back in their bably go to the Military Hospital. custody again. You will ther pro- In any case I leave the Military authorities to make such arrange ments as they think fit.
The hearing was fixed for Mon- day next at noon.
THE CLOGS AND THE STAIRS.
staircase
Convicted of being found on the of No. 242 Prince Edward Road with the intent to commit a felony at 4. a.m, 00 September 15, of assault and re- sisting arrest, a Chinese was sent
to prison for four months with hard labour by Mr. T...S. Whyte Smith "at Kowloon yesterday.
Magistracy
Was
Defendant said that he looking for a friend and had gone The detective to the wrong house.
who arrested him twisted his arma and hit him.
The detective in evidence maid that the defendant was taken up the stairs to the first floor. There it was found that various articles A of clothing had been atolan pair of trousers had been abandon-
His body was found on the hill- But in spite of preparations and side near Kun Chung market. His decorations the bakers are not doing shorts were lying some distance away, and his shirt was pulled up round nearly as well this year as formerly his neck. His head had been batter and the activities of the Canton ed in, presumably with a chopper "Ameliorators" are chiefly blamed. and his revolver holster was lying
Accused then took from his pocket about eighteen inches away. Continuing, witness said that the two $10 bills, pad, according to the They have of late been very busy was fastened but did not contain sceused kidnapped her from Pokprosecution, said I give you (Mr. with propaganda condemning the the revolver. His truncheon was
Lau Village in the Sheung Shui Billyer)-820 for drinking wine District on January 1, 1928, and the same time handing the money moon worship as a dangerous super- found in some bushes near a smali
and and his turban, partly unrolled, after they had stayed some time over. Mr. Hillyer then sent for s atition, but they have not gone so alongside some matting. One chop-at another place she was brought police officer and arrested accused.. far as to stop the making and sell-per was found just in front of the to Hong Kong on November 9, and Mr. Holmes continued that when ing of moon cakes; or actually to body and another, a smaller one, she had been living with him sirice...
charged at the Central Police proscribe moon worship. But their underneath it.
Referring to the events of the Station, accused said: "I gave widespread propaganda has certain-; There were no signs of a struggle.night in question, witnces said that so to the Inspector and told him to ly had an effect.
The ground was hard and there the Indian constable first visited pay duty for me. I did not know The Society for the Amelioration wert to signs of footsteps. The the hut at about 7 p.m., and again the laws of Hong Kong. The wine of Beliefs and Customs are putting body was about twelve yards from an hour later when she and the is not mine. Aly relations told me up slogans denouncing moon wor- the hut and everything tended to accused were still having their meal. to go to the Harbour Office to pay During the earlier visit the Indian duty, so I gave 320 to the Inspector Among other things these show that the constable was killed made a suggestion to the accused to pay duty and to keep the balance, why he had left his clogs at the
that witness should go outside with whether much or little, as tea him. He had also given the accus-money.' ed. $2 which was accepted, Witness absolutely refused, whereupon the constable demanded the return of the money, but the accused would not part with it. On the second visit the Indian again raised the question, but she still refused, and at about 2 o'clock she left for her elder brother's house.
as he lay.
ship. poaters state that all religious and socitl superstitions must be banned,
Medical evidence was to the effect and that joss worshipping, nuns, that the constable was on to priests, fortune tellers, geomancers," Palmists and idols should not be ground when he received the blows. tolerated in this age of scientific If that was reliable, said counsel, To-morrow at then it followed that he had his the Provincial Kuomintang Headclothes off and his shirt pulled round quarters a big demonstration will be his neck when he was killed. staged at noor when" Superstition Elimination Day will be formally. inaugurated to take the place of the Moon Festival.
enlightenment (1)
Revolver Taken Away.
On the following day a man and A woman were seen near the border.
Qutstioned regarding the elder They were joined by two other men brother" the girl said that she and a farmer saw the woman throw called him that. The elder brother something to the accused. Shots lived at Homuntin and she was there CANTON'S ARSENAL. were fired and the villagers set off till 1a.m. At that time the accus- after accused and demanded the led came to the door of the fint on revolver. He replied that he had the top floor and asked her to go thrown it away. When found it with him to Canton. She was was kept by a villager for some threatened and finally went with time until he gave it to another him. man who handed it to the police nt Sheung Shui, It was the re volver issued to Sapuran Singh on the night of his death,
ہو
DRASTIC ECONOMY
POLICY.
LESS MONEY AND SMALLER OUTPUT.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, Sept. 16. In consequence of the disbanding of troops and the reorganisation of the armies of Kwangtung, General Chen Tsai Tong has cut down the expenses of the Government Arsenal at Shek Cheng from 220,000 to When Marshal di Tai Hein was
$140,000 a montil
in power, the monthly expendi
Walked all Night, ·
Witness went on to say that they walked all night and on the even. The woman would tell the jury ing of the following day they came that she had been kidnapped in the to a place where there wore two country by accused and had been temples. Here the accused was ne compelled to live with him. She costed by two men who questioned would also say that, on the night him regarding the girl. The two
f his death, the Indian constable en taxed the accused with having bargained with the man regarding kidnapped the girl (the witness) the woman. The woman would say and suggested that he should at that she refused
company them to the police station.
ed on the second floor and a dodr on the first floor was found open..
The tenant told his Warship that a bar had been placed over the door and he could not explain how it had been dislodged.
His Worship naked the defendant
bottom of the stairs and received a reply that they would have made
His Worship They would, His Worship convicted the de- fendant on both charges.
The Sergeant Interpreter at Cesanoise. tral Police Station, in evidence, read as English translation of a statement which he said was made and signed by the accused, the translation being the same as that read by Mr. Holmes.
Mr. Lo put it to the witness that there should be full stop after Inspector," and the pronoun "1" was inferred, making the statement read "I give 899 to the inspector. After paying the duty I (accused) keep the balance, etc." did not agree. Later witness said that the Chinese characters did not say who was to keep the balance,, and Mr. Lo suggested that they meant the accused should keep it.
Witness
The Defence.
said that on the morning of August Outlining his defence, Mr. Lo 50 defendant was visited by bis brother (Yau Yan) who told him that that the sampan and cargo had been seized. Defendant was given 39 and told to go to the Harbour Ofice along with another man sho and apply for the release of the was present, Yau Sing, to pay duty sampan and cargo.
On arrival at the office the defen.
have anything The accused then ran away, follow dan told Mr. Hillyer "I give you
$20 for wine duty Unfortunately the Inspector made a mistake and
the money over except as payment There was no intention of handing
of duty.
to do with the Indian and that shed by the two men, and he fired Fan away. She would further state four rounds with the revolver at ture was $100,000, but when Gen. that accused said he wanted to get his pursuers. Later he threw the regarded the money as 2 present. Chen Tsai Tong assumed control of the Indian's revolver and that later the military affairs of the Province he made a statement to her en rested by the villagers who joined weapon on the hillside and was ar after the defent of the Kwanzai clique, the expenses were reduced what he had done and that they to 82-19,33 a month, and later were going to Taipe. further reduced to $240,000,
"
Medical Evidence,
This reduction in expenses hae Ifr. J. E. Dovey, medical officer meant a correspondingly decreased in charge of Kowloon Mortuary, output. Prior to September the said there were multiple injuries on monthly output of the Arsenal was the left side of the Indian's bend, 1,007 rifies, 13 machine guns, one the wounds being so numerous that aeroplane machine gun, 1,440,000 the skull underneath had been cartridges, 1,000 7.5 shells and 200 broken completely away. fifty-pound bombe for use from air-
The cause of death was lacera- craft The future output will be
in the pursuit,
Evidence called for the defence was to the effect that when the money was paid to the accused be was asked to keep anything over and above the duty payment as "tea money."
Cross-examination Contradictions.
Cross-examined by Me, Alabaster, the girl said that she had never seen the two choppers produced in Court. Asked to turn her eyes in the direction of the articles, she replied
After his Lordship had summed in a stubborn tone "I do not want up, the jury retired for a few to look at them."
A pair of clogs she admitted were minutes and returned with a verdict of "not guilty." His Lordship
only Goo rifles, 10 machine guns, tion of the brain and shock. Hoher property. Counsel draw attenereupon discharged the accused.
car.
Prisoner's Injuries,
tion to her statement in her inferred that the wounds on the examination-in-chiet that she knew 070,000 rounds of assorted
head were inflicted as the man was nothing about them. Witness re- tridges, and 600 7.5 shells.
The local military authorities belying on the ground. The wounds plied that she did not mean to say lieve this drastic reduction in ex- on the hands might have been that they did not belong to her.
Dr. D. J. Valentine, medical peases to be necessary, in view of caused if he tried to defend his head.
Mr. Alabaster questioned her Officer of the Kowloon Hospital, the large sums needed for disband. The blows had been delivered with about a small piece of a mirror. gave evidence of treating the pris meat purposee. Steps are being considerable force.
Witness said that it belonged to oner on July 15. The man WAS taken to turn over the control of In anewer to Mr. Alabaster, Dr. the "single-eyed devil."
And the comb It is the devil's juries. There were four wounds on the Amenal to the Nanking Minis Dovey said he thought the man
brought to him with several in- try of War in accordance with the had been cend from 18 to 36 hours. comb. decision of the First National Troop Counsel remarked that at the Police In further cross-examination, wit the back of the left hand, three or Disbandment Conference. But in Court witness had said the man had ness said that she did not know the back of the right hand, a super- ficial scalp wound, an abrasion on the meantime the local military been dead at least eight hours. anything about the murder of the the left side of the body, and other authorities will be in control,
Witness explained that rigor mortis Indian constable. Mr. Alabaster scratches. The wounds appeared to came on more quickly in some cases asked her whether she rememberéd be about four days old and might than in others. His change of her etatement at the Police Court. opinion was not the result of other She stated then that she saw the have been received in a struggle.
Cross-examined, witness agreed facts having come to his knowledge.nccused and the Indian quarrelling, that the prisoner might have been Mr. Alabaster: How long in this and she went to her "elder brother attacked with an implement such as elimate, in the open air and in the and brought him to the hut.
one of the choppers in Court. The (Wah Tez Yat Pao).
rain of July, does rigor mortis last? Witness would not answer that suratches might have been caused -It passes off as a rule in a day. question directly and proceeded to by finger nails during the struggle, SHANGHAI, Sept. 18. General Chen Ming Shu has de. On the second day decomposition explain. On being pressed for an and it was possible that the man answer, the burst into piercing fell down and received the abrasion vided to return to Canton next starts. week. He will probably be accom-
The body was quite fresh and shrieks, and eventually had to be panied by Mr. Sun Fo, the Minister decomposition had not set in removed from Court. of Railways.
CHEN MING SHU'S RETURN.
Уся,
(Continued at foot of next column)
WEARING FIVE COATS!
A Chinese was arrested wearing. five coats under his own. He was charged before Mr. Whyte Smith with larceny and was sentenced to three months' hard labour. His record showed a previous convic- tion for stealing last August.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING.
Charged with attempting to kidnap a small boy from his parents at 314 Portland Street, a Chinese, who appeared before Mr. werk, the hearing being fixed for Whyte Smith, was remanded for Wednesday the 25th instant.
STREET FOUNTAIN FIGHT.
A charge of fighting at a street fountain reminiscent of water Whyte Smith when a man was al- famine days was heard before Mr. leged to have attempted to push fountain. When she resented his a woman at a Shum Shui Po struck her on the arm with int bamboo pole. The woman retaliat- ed, and hit him with a sling, but received another blow with the bamboo on the forehead.
His Worship remarked that he thought street fountain fights were over. The defendant, however, had no business to hit the woman. A fine of 810 and a compensation of 85 to the woman was ordered by the Magistrate.
H
MORE GAMBLING,
A Chinese pleaded guilty to keeping a common gaming house in Canton Road and was fined $30. Six others were fined 83 for gambl- ing and four bails of 86 were estreated, the defendants failing. to make an appearance in Court.
CRUELTY TO CHICKENS.
Five Chinese were before Mr. Whyte Sarith for carrying chickens They suspended by the wings. were fined 85 each. In another case a man was fined $10 for 'cram ming 8 fowls into a small crate. CHISÉL USED IN A FIGHT.
Charged with assaulting a fel tow workman with a chisel & Chin- ess apprentice pleaded guilty and as to the complainant. was fined 810 and ordered to pay
originated in a dispute over some The fight was stated to have
dofendant kicked the complainant
water: During the quarrel the
on the side of the body.matu and then struck him with the At this stage the Court adjourned chisel, causing two wounds in the until 10.30 am, to-day.
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