A PORTUGUESE SQUABBLE.
FAMILY TROUBLES LEAD
TO BLOWS:
DEPENDANTS DISCHARGED,
Daniel da Silva, P. H. da Silva and Luz do Silva, of No. 5, Jordan Road, were summoned yesterday before Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistraey for. having nakaulted Mrs. Maria Glyeeris D'Azovedo, of No. 11 Mosque Junction in Jordan Road, on December.9, and also with having behaved in a dis- orderly manner with intent commit a breach of the peace.
to
MURDER TRIAL.
CLOSE OF EVIDENCE FOR
THE CROWN.
| JURYMAN'S POINTED QUERY TO A WITNESS,
Evidence for the Crown in the Felix Villas murder trial at the Criminal Sessions closed late in the afternoon yesterday after the testimony of a number of witnesses. The accused, a servant employed at 29. Kennedy Road, is charged with the murder of house boy who was employed by Mr. Oli at 5. Felix. Villas, and it has been
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.
DEAD BODY IN THE
PUBLIC GARDENS.
CORONER'S INQUIRY INTO
RECENT DISCOVERY.
WERE THE BODIES SHIFTED
IN THE MORTUARY?
The Coroner's inquest by Mr. R. E. Lindaeli in connection with the finding of the dead body of a Chinese baby in the Public Gardena
SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD PREVARICATOR.
WOMAN IN DOCK FOR OPIUM POSSESSION,
"Seventy years old and still lying" said Mr. R. E. Lindsell to a Chinese woman who was charged at Central Magistracy with posses sion of a quantity of opium and eight pounds of tobacco without permite.
Defendant explained that she
nor the
on November 14 last was continued, brought the drugs from the country | lo`give an actor at theatre in at the Central Magistracy yester Hong Kong. She could not give day afternoon when rather lengthy the name of the actor evidence was given by two sanitary theatre in which he worked. Asked tuary: Inspector Shaftain and a polico interpreter.
ANTI-RED CAMPAIGN IN KIANGSI.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, Jan. 20.” General Tsoi Ting Kai, Com mander of the doth Division of the 10th Military Route, left Canton by train for Kiangsi this morning with his staff to direct the campaign against the Communists and other
outlaws there.
A part of General Tso's army had long entered the Province from the north and has been fighting against these desperadoes.
detachment of troops over 1,000
General Tsoi Took with him a
Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the stated in evidence that the two coolies, au employee at the Mor-if she had ever been to Hong Kong, strong Several traits had to be
complainant. Mr. P. II. da Silva was sold to have left the Colony.
A cross-summons. For assault was
preferred against the complainant by the two defendants.
Mr. Lo, outlining the case for the complainant stated that complain ant and defendants were relations P. H. da Silva, who was not in Court, was complainant's son-in- law, and the other two defendnuts
were his brothers.
The complainant, who was of very frail physique and 88 years of age, received brutal treatment from the hands of the defendants on the night of December .9. and was sub. jected to many indignities at their hands. As far as the rough treat ment was concerned, actually not very much force' was used, but owing to the complainant's frailty and age, after the incident, she was confined to bed, auffering from a sprained arm, and had to be under treatment for some time.
were
The facts which led up to this incident
as follows:-Com- plainant's daughter was married to P. H, da Silva and had three child: ren by him. She was dead and the childrón were entrusted to the care of the grandmother (the, complain- ant).
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en at one time were working to- gether in the latter house.
Mr. Oh, in evidenec, said that he dispensed with prisoner's sor- vices because of complaints by the other seryants, and he had known of an instance in which there had been a fight between the accused and the cook. He was reluctant to part with prisoner, because he was a good house boy, and he recom- mended him for a position elac
where,
·Prisoner's Movements.
The first witness said he was cimployed in November last as a substitute for Sanitary Coolie No. 31. On the 14th of that month ho was sent to the Public Gardens to
the woman at first replied in the engaged to get the men and the negative, but later. said that she war supplies up to Shinkwan. From had been to Wanchai an twà pre-Shiukwan they will march to Nam vious occasions.
hung, - exfètting, të arritë there tos His Worship: Why'did you come night, To-morrow morning they
at all?
BOTIC
will cross the Tai Tale Mountaini Defendant: I brought
bordering Kwangtung, Hääää, änd
friends.in Hong Kong. ausages with me to give to my Kiangai, and are expected to arrive in southern Kiangsì in the course of
the other part of his army. the next few days in the camps, of
A combiced attack is being made on the Reds" in Hunan and
Mr. Lindsell: You are really a shameless old woman (To Revenue Office Ward) I don't want to send this woman to jail. She is 73 years Kinngsi. old.
pick up the body of a child which was partially wrapped up in paper. At the time coolic No. 30 was with him, and together they, took the body to the Central Police Station. After making a report there, they were told to proceed to the Mor tuary. They were given tho usual forms, but no officer inspected the body." When they got to the Mortuary, the attendants were not there but an old man took in the rattan aack. body and placed it on a table with
R. Q. Wand enid that the opium was found concealed in a patch, which bad been sown on the outside of a The tobacco might possibly, be for her own consump-
Chan Cheng, & domestic ser- yant, said that he was unemploy ed at the time of the murder on „December, 13, but he slept in the same bed as the prisoner at 20, Ken- urdy Fond. At about 3 o'clock in the morning witness was awakened by the prisoner getting out of bed and he saw him leave the room.
In rons-examination by Mr. Les d'Alminda, jr., Counsel for the decluding, witacas said that previous till to-morrow, in an endeavour to fence, witness said that his estimate to this be had removed bodies to find anyone who could speak for of 3 o'clock was' a. pure guess as there was no clock in the room. It the Mortuary but he never knew of the old woman."
was quite dark inside, the room after Prisoner had switched off the light before leaving the room.
the forms beside it. There was no other body there at the time. Con
any case in which -identification cards were tied to any body.
Sanitary Coolie No. 30 gave cor- roborative avidence, and in reply to a question by Mr. Wodehouse, denied that he told Inspector Dorl ing that ho had only taken, one
In answer to a further question witness said that since December 13, he had been living with the de- tectives at Police Headquarters on a suggestion made by the police since he was without employment.
Fung Hoi, another unemployed servant, stated that he was also body to the Mortuary. He had, in sleeping in the room on a camp fact, handled five or six cases, bed. At 3 o'clock witness was aroused by the prisoner placing his foot on the camp bed, and the Intter was then putting on his socks.
Even before the death of the mother, the father apparently had -dono very little indeed for the sup:
In eroas-examination, witness port and maintenance of the child-stated that he also was staying with small the detectives and did so most re- ren, apart from giving a amount of money to the grand luctantly. He was kept together with the previous witness, but they did not disenss anything about the murder.
mother.
The father and mother formerly lived in Shanghai and the mother died there. The father then re-
tion.
His Worship remanded the case
ARMED ROBBERY.
WOMAN QHARGED WITH
RECEIVING.
re-
· CANTON'S SILK TRADE.
LAST YEAR'S FIGURES REVEAL
A DECREASE.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
CANTON, Jan. 20 According to an official report; the number of bales of silk export ed from Canton during the year 1030 was 60,361, showing & decrcaso of 4,870 bales as compared with the previous year. The fall was due to a large extent to the keen competi- tion of Japan, which has of late become an important silk-producing nation. The increasing production of artificial silk in most of the nations of the West has also con tributed to the decline in the con- sumption of the natural product of
Kwangtung.
Following the armed robbery at 62A, Bonham Road, second floor, a woman appeared before Mr. R. E. Inspector's Story.
Lindsell at the Central Magistracy After the interpreter at the Cen-yesterday charged with having re- tral Police Station had told the ecived a gold finger ring. Coroner his story-that he sent a telephone message for the dead the prosecution, asked for a
Detective Sergeant Meadows, for box and then made out the forms mod of twenty-four hours, which for the Mortuary-Inspector F. W.
was granted by the Magistrate. Shaftain went into the witness-box.
It will be recalled that in con- He said that he was on charge action with this robbery a man and at about 1.10 p.m. he received ing participated in the alleged room duty on the day in question was charged on Monday with hav-
Of the 60,531 bales of silk export. a report to the effect that the body robbery, and with having stolened, 38, 474 bales went to the United property to the value of 8340, States, 20,073 bales to France, 1,434 bales, to England, 83 bales to Italy, and bales to Japan,
Questions by the Jury. turned to the Colony, and bearing said that he thought it was three Questioned by the jury, witness of his arrival, the compilaitiant went o'clock when he saw the prisoner over to Kowloon with the elderstanding in the room. It was dark
at the timo. child to a house in Jordan Road to
Foreman of the Jury: Do you interview her son-in-law.
wish the jury' to believe that you never spoke to the last witness the interpreter to telephone for a
of a child was found in the Public Gardens. He then gave orders to
Stormy Interview. The interview was very unsatis about the murder 1-I can't help it small dead-box, which was the children who had all died, and if if you don't believe me. I am usual proçedura ia cases where a ter next born happened to be ill, factory. The complainant tried to speaking the truth when I say I did get some money from the son-in- not speak to him about the child's body is found. As regards the mother would strangle the child adults, a reserve detectivo would it she thought it was nearly dying. Inw for the maintenance, of the murder.
The last Crown witness was an be sent to the spot where he would This was to prevent it from dying children as she herself was in very interpreter who read a written
see the body being put into the a natural death, and the Chinese poor circumstantes, and could i statement made by the prisoner in afford to look after the children.nswer to the charge of murder. box, accompany it to the Station believed that it would stop the child Prisoner referred to some unpleas- and then to the Mortuary. When from coming back again-in other "The son-in-law was not prepared to antreas which existed between
give any money.
She then asked himself and the deceased, and the an ordinary case of dumping was words put a stop to the bad luck! statement went on to say that de-reported and there was nothing Witness said that he never thought dation at 20, Kennedy Road, but
him to accompany her to the Stur
not like the idea of going back to
* the ferry alone.
In every case the body would bo taken to the Station where the
Station.
Consequently, a large number of filatures on the Canton Delta had to close down, and very few, accord- ing to the report under review, were able to make both ends meet last year.
WHAT
JACK"
READS.
SAILORS WHO CARE FOR BEST BOOKS.
Any ida that sailors "don't care about serious reading-is to Plymouth of B.M.B. Cornwall, after 2 years' foreign commission. During that period no fewer than | 5,000 novels were sold from the
bookstall on board.
Ferry, as she was nervous and dial ceased's wile was given accommo-suspicions attached to the case, it it necessary to attach a label on abundantly disproved by the return prisoner had later asked the hus- was not considered necessary to any body that was sent to the band to remove her elsewhere. Į send a detective... There was also some furniture be- | longing to the couple which the de-
Bodies Shifted Aboat, censed had stated he was unable to
The next witness was the No. 2 remove owing to losses in gambling. officer on duty would examine it coolie from the Mortuary. He said Jaek by no means confines himself
The Court adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning, Mr. d'Almada and then give orders for the neces that on November 14, last, he re- to the Edgar Walles type of intimating that he would put the sary papers to be made out. Onceived the body of a child from thriller. prisoner in the witness-box; that the day in question he had occasion West Point Police Station about Dickens, Scott, would be the only ovidence for the to leave the charge-room, and on 10,204.m. It was wrapped in a defence, Ang dad, returning a few minutes later; he
He was, however, very reluctant to accede to her request, but -oventually consented. When they got out into the street, instead of com- plying with her request, he said
he would take her to his own house (where his mother lived) or she would have to go alone.
Complainant did not want to go to hor són-in-law's house. So she raught hold of his arm and insisted that he should accompany her to the ferry.
"At that moment the second and third defendants appeared and the three of them, against the com- plainant's will, dragged her to their parents' house.
A Lot of Animosity,
Daniel da Silva stated that the
making a tremendous noise in the complainant was quarrellig and street. When he came on the scane complainant kicked him and laid him out for half an hour.
noticed a doad-box, under the tres
in fact,, examined, the body and opposite the charge-room. He saw,
noticed it was lying on some paper and a piece of dirty white cloth with blue stripes. There was no coolie by the box then. One was
sitting on the stops leading to the Magistracy while the other was in the charge-room.
towel but had no clothing on. It was a female child and bo saw the were the usual forms but there was coolies placing it on a table. There
nothing attached to any limb and as far as he knew, it was not the practice then to attach any labels · to any body. Witness said he examined the body but found ne unusual features and he went away at about 11 am, and did not return
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The variety of reading shows that
Thackeray, Jane Auster, Hardy
His preferences were for:
The Brontes,
Wells and RLS. were also favourites, while even Galsworthy's Forsyte Sugs" was in demand.
there were hundreds of canarice on Musically" Jack seems to bave a liking for the song of birds, and board, brought home, with tons of other tressure trove, as gifts
Every mess socmed to be convert- ed into an aviary, and on the streets, every other adler seemed to carry a canary in a gilded cage.
Now Type" Ballóř.
coption of the sailor de a happy- Although the old-fashioned con- go-lucky person, with little educa tion and loose imbits is fast, dis appearing," writes Naval Corre spondent, it is not always realised that to-day his Majesty's ships are manned by men of a far superior
Intended to Cause Trouble. Her grandchild sounded a polico. Mrs. F. E. da Bilva, to whose whistle, but no help came. She re-house complainant came, said that ceived injurice as a result of the the complainant came with the jostling and was in bed for a num- tention of causing trouble with the ber of days
father of the children. She did not
An regard the body, he did not till about 2.45 p.m., when he found come to get any money for the Mr. Lo asked that in spite of the children, but insisted that the notice anything tied round the that two further bodies had been
father should accompany her to a relationship which existed between friend's house.
child's neck-had he. done so the taken in. One of these was that The complainant the complainant and the defendants, abused the children's father in very procedure would have been entirely of a female child, sent up from the defendants abould be dealt with bad language and shook her fist in different. Witness. said he had Central. severely, as theirs was most unhis face. Witness threatened to put handled a very large number of called for and disgusting behaviour. her out of the house and complain during cases, but in his experienco .m.--ho found several other bodies The next morning-about 7:48 There was a lot of animosity ant then calmed down. between the parties and that ox-
Eventually the father and the and he would venture to suggest (all babies) on the table, and plained why they could not arrive complainant went out into the that it was the experience of other around, the heck of a female child at a settlement.
street, where complainant caught shaadress Heape D'Azacedon-navh theoridarinyawada
child of P. II. da Silva gave corro
"Kent for the other two brothers.”“” been any murder of newly born occupied the position where he had the average landsman. borative evidence.
If there was anything alleged babies. He knew of one custom, pinced the body of the child receiv-provide men woll good literature, That no efforts are spared to against the defendants, it was against the father.
however, which might throw some ed from West Point Station the the contents of lower dock libraries. Mr. Buttors dismissed the two light on this case, and that was if previous day. After taking further bear witness. The daily papers are defendants, saying that the case for a Chinese woman had a number of evidence, the inquiry was adjournale read regularly, enabling any the prosecution was very much ex-”
maa to keep himself abreast of cur- aggerated.
(Continued at foot of next column.) | ed till this afternoon.
ront events.
Luz da Silva, aged 17, said that complainant must have been mis taken in seeing him in the streets He had never assaulted complain ant. (Continued at foot of next column,)
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