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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1930.
SINGAPORE OPIUM CASE.
HEAVY BAIL FOR EUROPEAN.
LOT OF MONEY BEHIND
ACCUSED."
BRUTAL ATTACK ON PASSENGER BOATS
TO CONFESS OR NOT.
A WOMAN.
CHINESE SAYS IT COMES TO THE SAME THING.
CHINESE GETS HEAVY SENTENCE.
UNDESIRABLE'S FONDNESS FOR HONG KONG.
SEVEN YEARS AND 24 STROKES.
MISUSED.
CONVEYING GIRLS FOR IMMORAL PURPOSES.
MASTER FINED BUT MISTRESS DISCHARGED,
The record of a young-Chinese" An echo of the trial and convic
At the Criminal Sessions yester At the Marine Court yesterday, tion of C. P. McCully, an officer of who made thieving a profession and day, before Mr. Justice. Wood, a the master and mistress respective- the Singapore Preventive Service, used his spare time out of prison plea of guilty was tendered by Holy of two passenger boats were atida Malay named Ahmat bin to carry on his nefarious calling Yung, when he was charged with charged with using their boats for
namedharbour for immoral purposes. Haji Ibrahim ou charges of being was referred to "at the Criminal wounding and causing grievous the conveyance of women in the in possession of a large quantity of Sessions yesterday when the man bodily harm to a woman contraband chandu: was heard in had to answer to a charge of dis-Tim Chi. The only excuse the ac- cused was able to offer was that the Singapore last week. An applica-obeying the Banishment Ordinance.
vith proceeding
woman owed him money, and he tion for bail was made to the
went to her house to ask for it. Criminal District Judge, Mr. C. charge, the accused was placed on Wilson, in view of the appeal which trial for theft of clothing from
is being made.
When a similar application was made in the morning immediately after the conviction of the accused, his Honour said that in view of the facts of the case he was not pre- pared to allow bail.
Appearing on behalf of the ac cused, Mr. F. H. Collier, said that they were appealing against the
conviction and asked for bail to be fixed.
If there is any reason why bail should be given I will listen," is Honour said. "My feeling is that there is a lot of money behind Me- Cully and the others, and in such cases small men do not do it."
Mr. P. L. L. Braddell (inter- posing) Small fees nowadays, Bir, Asked if he had anything to say regarding the question of bail, Mr. I. C. MacMillan, Head of the Singapore Preventive Service, said, that the matter was now entirely
out of his bands.
4.
His Honour: $10,000 for McCully and 81,000 for Ahmat.
Mr. Collier said that 810,000 bail in the case of McCully was excès-
sive. McCully, Counsel said, was a not likely European and it was that he would abscond to some ch- scure part of the world.
"It is well-known that this sort of thing is backed by a wealthy gang and if anybody is caught they will put up the money and pay,' his Honour, remarked.
Bail in the amounts nained was fixed.
The second steward on the Cre mer, a Hylam, who was charged with importing contraband
or chandu into Singapore. was found guilty and fined 85,000, in default Swo years' rigorous imprisonment.
SINGAPORE NAVAL BASE· RIOT.
CORONER RETURNS OPEN VERDICT,
"Culpable homicide not amount ing to murder against persons un- known," was the fading returned by Mr. J. G. Barrett, the Singa- pore Coroner, last week at the con- clusion of the inquiry into the death of a Chinese during a riot between Indian and Chinese lab- ourers on May 29 last at the Naval Base, Seletar.
Medical evidence showed that the man was admitted into the Tan Tock, Seng Hospital on the after- noon of May 29 and died a few hours later.
Before
this
The woman refused to pay him, and whilst he was trying to take her to the police station she struck bim.
CHINESE YOUTH ON TRIAL.
ALLEGED UTTERING OF FORGED $100 NOTE,
Wong Kam,.a Chinese youth, was on trial yesterday at the Criminal Sessions before Mr. Justice Wood
forged $100.note, purporting to be and a jury on a charge of uttering a
& Chartered Bank nöte, and with.
obtaining 70 by uttering it at the Kam Toi Hotel in Kowloon on May
"17.
In outlining the case to the jury, Both defendants pleaded guilty, and while the former was fined $50, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy pointed out to the jury that they had to be the lutter was discharged.
Sergeant Olivier, who prosecuted, satisfied that accused knew the could convict. It appeared that said that he was on patrol in the note was a forgery before they Northern Fairway at about 8 p.m. on July 19, when he came upon and the cote came into accused's posses- - Asked to give the facts of the stopped the man's boat. There sion on about May 13, 1930, and her casc, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said were seven girls on board, and in took it to the hotel where he en- that the accused went to the wo answer, to questions put by him, gaged à room. Apparently the ac- man's house at 118, Tainan Street, they said they were going to visit countant had not enough change on May 12 Other people were liv. the compradore of the ss. Hoso he gave 370 to accused who did Outlining the Crown case, Miing in the house, but except for Ping. He then took them, on board not sleep in the room that night. his launch, and in spite of his re. He went to Hong Kong and took a Somerset Fitzroy explained that the two women, they were complainant woke up at about 3 Those ho sent out on a wild goose peated efforts, he could rot find room at the Tung Fung boarding a.m. on July 3 to see a man in her chase to collect money from ped. I the vessel in question. It was then house where he stayed the night.
woman living at Aberdeen.
Accused pleaded guilty to the charge, but since he had denied the theft in the lower Court, the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) allowed the old plea to stand and directed the trial to proceed.
cubicle.
She raised an alarm,
whereupon the intruder jumped out of a window, but he was arrested shortly afterwards with the stolen articles near him.
A witness called stated that he was on a visit to a constable friend that night. The latter was called away to Aplichau, and at his ro quest witness volunteered to patrol the district. While he was doing so he heard police whistles and came upon the accused, who had been caught by another man, a Blacksmith.
Speaking from the dock, accused admitted that he was a bad man and had been convicted several times previously. He said that hav ing violated the law before, to con fess or not to confess would amount to the same thing.
After a brief retirement, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty on
that count.
41
Banishee's Perambulations.
|:
In the afternoon, the accused, Ho Yan, admitted that he was also known as Cheung Fat. He pleaded guilty to the charge of returning from banishment, adding that he had nothing to say.
Mr. Fitzroy recalled many con victions for burglary and larceny since September, 1855. The Crown' Attorney said that the accused was first banished on August 6, 1995, The man returned for ten years.
in January of the following year, served twelve months in prison, and was re-banished. He was back again on May 31, 1928, and was giyen twelve months' imprisonment for larceny, and a similar term for
the Colony. returning to January 25, 1929, accused was banished for life, but he came back again in June to get twelve months' imprisonment. The last time he was sent out of the Colony was on April
all out.
ple, and then proceeded to assault that the girls admitted they were
prostitutes. the woman with a chopper, cutting her about the body and head, ap. parently with the object of robbing
her.
The woman was ill at the time, and he asked her to hand over her rattan bangles. She replied they were in the trunks and whilst she was obtaining the keys to open the box, be struck her with the chopper, and said that he not only intended to have her money but
that he was going to kill her.
He struck her a glancing blow on the skull, which although not causing a fracture, tore away some ash. He then became alarmed and ran away. The women had to re- ceive attention at the hospital.
his
An Example To Others. Addressing the prisoner, Lordship said that Dr. Smalley in his evidence had stated that the wo man had five wounds and that it was fortunate she was not killed. The accused was therefore fortunate in that he was not standing before the Court on a capital charge.
2 strokes of the birch.
YAUMATI BRAWL:
O BOTH PARTIES BOUND OVER
19 this year.
His Lordship passed sentence of two years' imprisonment with hard labour.
The Other Stofy.. Referring to the second case, Sergt. Olivier said that about &15 p.m. the same day, he stopped ce- fendant's sampan as she was leaw ing a Dutch steamer which was lying in the Northern Anchorage. He boarded the junk and found two girls hiding in the hold, cover ed with blankets. On being dis- covered, they admitted they were 'prostitutes, and said that when the mistress of the boat saw the police launch approaching, she told them
to hide.
Sergt. Hoadridge corroborated last witness evidence, but differed from Sergt. Oliver in saying that the name of the vessel given, by the girls on "first defendant's boat was Hoi On.
His Worship: It was Hoi Ping, according to the last witness.
Sergt. Olivier: It was either the Hot Ping or the Hoi On, your Wor- ship. It was apparently a fictitious
Dame.
."
On the following day he returned to the hotel where he received the balance of his change, $20.40. He went away but again returned the next day. In the meantime the note had been taken to the bank. and found to be forged so that when accused went to the hotel he! was approached by the accountant
When asked about the note, he said he had been given the note by a friend and told to engage a room for him at the Kun Toi Hotel. Accused was unable to find his friend, however, with the result that he was arrested...
When charged, accused said that he did not know the note was forged, and asked if I had known would I have gone back to the hotel?" When charged with utter ing the note, accused stated note was given to me by An Lung to pay the rent for the room. I did not know it was forged.'"
the
An Alleged Conspiracy. Included among many witnesses called when the trial was continued in the afternoon was a man alleged by accused to be the person who gave him the note to book a room Defendants' Stories."
for him. This witness denied the recused The first defendant said he did allegation, saying that not know the girls were prostitutes. took away the note from him after They told him that they were going he had been told that it was a to visit the compradore of the forgery. Hoi On, whereupon the Magistrate A young woman stated in evidence
Witnesses from the Kum Toi Hotel gave evidence of accused's visit, and stated that after they had paid $70 on the first visit and $20.40 the next day, he paid a third visit
His Lordship continued that the accused had attacked the woman asked whether he did not think it that the accused visited her in while she was alone and about to was rather strange that seven girls Jordan Road and requested her to He go out and cash the note, but she should visit one compradore. be confined, the object being to get (the Magistrate) added that he did refused. She denied a suggestion her money. This was a most. seri-not believe the man when the lat made by accused, that she was in & ous crime, which had to be metter offered the solition that it was conspiracy with the previous witness possible only one of the girls knew to get accused in trouble. In fact with a sentence which would prove the man, while the remaining six she denied that she was acquainted.
with the witness.." as a deterrent to other bad men. were only her companions.
The second defendant said that The sentence would be seven years' she took passenger to a British imprisonment with hard labour and steamer, and whilst she was return
ing, someone hailed her from the Dutch boat. She accordingly went alongside, and the two giria said May 10 when he was informed they wanted to go ashore, so she that the note was forgery. He. took them on board. She denied then volunteered to look for his having instructed them to hide in friend and proceeded with, the ac- countant to the Po Hing Theatre. the hold.
The Magistrate then remarksed Shortly after that he was placed. that according to the Ordinance,under arrest.
Accused made a statement from no vessel shall be used for the conveyance of women within the the witness-box, which was a rereti- limits of the harbour for the pur. tion of his previous defence that pose of prostitution." He took it he booked a room for his friend and did not know that the note was that it meant conveying women from shore to steamer, or. from a forgery. He said that the witness steamer to steamer. Continting, who gave him the note and the the Magistrate said that, while the young woman were consuiring to- prosecution proved that the girls gether to get him in trouble.
Before the accused could finish his were being taken from steamer to shore, there was nothing to prove story, his Lordship adjourned the that they were conveyed from shore case until 9.30 this morning to en- to steamer, and under those cir.ahle it to be concluded in time to cumstances, he could not convict allow Mr. Fitzroy to be present at the second defendant, who was the murder trial which will be heard
"before the Chief Justice: accordingly discharged.
As regards the, first defendant, he was found guilty, and a fine of 850 or six weeks hard labour was imposed.
An unusual Icature of an assault case which came before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday was that the complainant was himself bound over, together with one of his witnesses and the two defendants. The case was one in which a Chinese summoned * water policeman and another un- employed Chinese for assault.
The deceased, who was a carpen ter, was stated to have had an argument with an Indian overseer which led to a free fight between Indiana. When the Chinese and the outbreak was got under control
Looking for His Aunt.... the deceased was found on the
In "another trial where the accus ground mortally wounded.
Twenty-three Indians and foured was charged with theft of a sum Chinese who were arrested at the of money at a boarding house and time of the affray, have..been re- also for returning to the Colony during his period of banishment, the manded on a charge of rioting.
police produced a long string of con- victions dating back to 1924.
Asked to explain his presence on Sunday, July 6, at noon. The in the Colony or this occasion, ac complainant, however, could not cused said that he came back to
After recording the evidence of several witnesses the Coroner found that the fight lasted about fifteen minutes. The evidence, Mr. Barrett said,
he was conflicting, but thought the Chinese were the aggreg. SOTE. It was difficult to say who actually struck the blow that caused the death of he deceased.:
It was asserted by complainant that the first defendant struck him with a hammer in Parkes Street
look for an aunt. While passing tell a straight forward story, and the Wing Lok boarding house be in the end his Worship bound all saw the door open. The opportu- parties, together with a witness for
be nity was very tempting, so entered and helped himself to the complainant, to sign a bond of 850 property. He did this with the each to keep the peace for six intention of returning to the coun- months SIR C. CLEMENTI TO FLY try and not with any idea of giving
trouble to the authorities.
Sentences of six months' imprison. ment on the larceny charge and three years for returning from banishment were passed, the sent tences to run concurrently."
TO JAVA. DUTCH ENTHUSIASM FOR FORTHCOMING VISIT.
Sir Cecil Clementi, Governor of the Straits Settlements, will visit Java in August, making the journey by aeroplane
CHOPPER ATTACK..
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MOTOR CYCLIST · · HEAVILY FINED.
40 MPH. ALONG CHATHAM ROAD,
STRANGE PLACE TO LOOK FOR TEA. CHINESE CALLS AT LYEMOON
·BARRACKS,
When charged with trespassing at Lyemoop Barracks for an unlaw. ful purpose, a Chinese explained to Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen Detective-Inspector C P. Fallon
Mr. L. Huggett, of 685 Nathan tral Magistracy yesterday that he intimated that there was something Road, Was fined 830 by Mr Whyte was there to drink tea fa behind it all which neither party Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy
Sub-Inspector Ellis told his Wor. would reveal. His Worship, agreed, yesterday, when he was charged ship that the trespaseer was seen and remarked that there appeared with driving his motor cycle along by a sergeant of the Royal Artillery. to have been something in the n Chatham Road at a speed danger- The man was on, the first floor ture of feud between complainous to the public. The offence was verandah of "C" Block, married alleged to have occurred on Juno quarters, the occupant of which was ant and the defendants.
18 at 6.45 p.m.
out at the time." The defendant, who had a previ The defendant was taken to the ous conviction for the same offenfe,iation, and he then had said that was stated to be riding, at about his mission at the barracks was to 40 m.p.h.. at the time..
search for work. wymagadhathe caufion against defendant on the same question, the defondant told previous occasion did not seem to a different story and said: have any effect. Accordingly the went there for a drink of tea,"
Magistrate What are you talk.. Magistrate imposed a fine of 830, and pointed out that it was most ing about, how do you get tea to dangerous to speed along Chatham drink there f
The defendant was sentenced to Road, where the Children's Play- ground is situated.
six weeks' hard labour.
According to tho Amatordaan newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad, ASSAULT FOLLOWS QUARREL:Lam Woo, building contractors, to Bir Cecil will leave the Straits on
The newspaper-isanthusiastic A Chinese coolie was brought by concerning the forthcoming visit, fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the and says that the visit of Sir Ceoil Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday on will be of great help to the Dutch a charge" of attacking a man with East Indian Government, and will chopper. contribute towards the more 875- tomatic tackling of Communism, one of the East a most serious pro blems.
earry stones. A quarrel arose over me dictions, and defendant afterwards ran into a kitchen to get a chopper and slashed complain- ant's left shoulder.
In sentencing defendant to six Sergeant Slater told his Worship weeks imprisonment, bris Worship that both complainant, and defen- remarked that it was a serious and dant were employed by Messrs.savage thing to attack a man with (Continued of foot of next column.) it. chopper.