PIRACY TRIAL.
SECOND ARREST AFTER
FOUR YEARS. ·
ACCUSED "FOUND - GUILTY
'BY THE JURY,.
A pirney which occurred on a fishing, boat in 1927, in connection with which a man was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the following year, was recalled at the Criminal Sessions yesterday before the Chief Justice, when another. inan, Chan Sam, stood his trial for the same offence,
The charge against the accused was that, with others unknown, be pirated a fishing boat, off Lan Täu Island, on January 29, 1927; and stole the boat, tackle, and property of the occupants. The complainants in the case were a man and woman living at Choung Chau, who were two of the victims
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After a jury had been empanel. led, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, in out. lining the Crown cssc, recalled the conviction of a man in 1928 in conLady Luck."-London nection with the same pirney, His Lordship held that the reference was likely to prejudice the present accused. Tht jury which had been sworn isi was discharged and a new jury was appointed.
Details of the Outrage. In outlining his case, Mr. Fitzroy explained that Ng Lai, his wife, Sun, Tai, a small girl and another na left Macao at about jour o'clock on the morning of January 29, 1927, in a small fishing bout, and when off Lantau Island, just outside the waters of the Colony, they were attacked by six or seven people in another bont. One mån was seriously injured and eventually died, but his death was no concern of the present ese except as to evidence of what took place.
However, three pirates boarded the dahing boat, and it was alleged that prisoner was one of them, They tied the master and his wife to the mast and sailed the boat into Chinese territory, where the victims were taken ashore and Je- tained. The woman was eventually released and went away to obtain money for ransom, but the girl dis- appeared entirely. Ng Lai and his wife were both releseed later and were put on board a regular passen- ger junk which took them to Mano. | The fishing boat was not seen again..
Woman As Accuser.
The complainants, Ng Lai and his wife, were among the witnesses called by the Crown. It was.estab- lished that the accused was seen at Cheung Chau in June this year by Ng Lai, who had him arrested. Subsequently the accused brought to Hong Kong and he was picked out by the woman witness at an identification parade..
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In giving her evidence the woman stated that the accused also travel- led on the same boat to Macao, but that she lost sight to him at the landing place.
Answering a question put by the accused as to why witness did not report to the police at Macio and have him arrested, witness said that there were no police when they Innded from the boat, and she also agreed that under such "circum- stances it would be easy for pas sengers to smuggle firearms or land kidnapped persons.
Accused's Statement. Acensed made a statement from the dock to the effect that he was falsely accused by the witnesses of being a pirate. He stated that he was also a victim of the pirates and was forced to carry out their orders to mist them in removing the loot. He was threatened with death. if he disobeyed their orders. It was not true that ho carried any fire-
amns.
Continuing his statement, accused said that he was released at the same time as the complainants and went to Macao with them. It he had taken part in the piracy the complainants had the opportunit to report to the police in Macao and have him detained at the time.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 1931.
BOOKS and READERS
A BATCH OF HORROR" VOLUMES,
[BY NORMAN R. COLLINS.]
"GREAT BUORT STORIES OF DETEC
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MURDER, MYSTERY AND DETECTION.
Connoisseur of Qualma. Both these coffretions, "They Walk Again" and "Tales.cf 3ys tory, Horror and Detection," are
for the connoisseur of qualms. The
first is an epicure's selection of 30 TION, MYSTERY AND HORROR."
stories, and is introduced by Mr Second Serics. Edited by
Walter de la Mare, who can spread Dorothy Layers, Gollantan, atmosphere of mental unquiet ncross his own stories that clings liko a sea-mist. Mis Sayers': volume is a grant block of a book containing 67 tales. Its editor re ally does know what she is about. So does the publisher: half the legions of hell for s, ed. 1
THEY WALE AGAIN." Chent; Storica Chosen by Culin de la Mare. With an introduction by Wal ter de la Mare. Faber and #Faber. 78. 6d. .” "THE SCENT OF DEATH." By Morley Roberta, Nash and Grayson, ts,
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Mr. Morley Roberts in The "PAGAN." By W, F. Morris Bles. Scent of Death" puts tho ready.
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made, microscope-and-tinietable, THE WA- type of detective-story, writer to "GRACK LATOUCHE AND
HINGTONA." By Marjorie Bowen, shame. Death has become so com." mon in fictien lately, that writers Selwyn and Blount, is, d. A. Ghost story, like a con have tended to forget that it is jaring trick,
the climax of the last chapter of eni enjoy ла half measure of success. Either life, and have come to regard it Song" He's Tall, Dark and the thing comes off, or it doesn't merely as the climax of the first Handsome."-Sophie TuckerEither frightens, or it fails, chapter of a "thriller." Mr. Ro (Comedienne).
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
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pose,
Boo to a Ghost.
Mr. H. G. Well, in "The inex- perienced Ghost," in the Sayers Collection, has written an admir able parody of this kind of tale. The story told in the first person and describes how an unimagina- tive and well-dined meraber of a 'country club meste a mysterious
figure on the starre, who
"Pagan" is a dereit; almost al confidence "trick. It opens in the manner of a true tale of mystery- two travellers arriving under the egyer of darkness at a lonely mou»», tain inn; a squinting, suspicious reception; locked doors, and so forth-and then becomes an ordin ary thriller" with a character who talks like a gramophone with the needle permanently jammed in the groove of Betis Wooster.
Bright enough, to doubt, but disappointing from Mr. Morris.
Miss Marjorie Bowen produces a greater volume of uniformly good writing than any other writer liv ing. If she did not produce so much, he might, perhaps, produce
lent. something that was really excel-
Her now collection of period pieces, mostly of the supernatural, contains an expert ghost-story of cynical author who wants to write about ghost and nearly loses his balance while reading up his subject. And there is not one story here that fails in. its inten ticn.
But the history of fiction is 'full of authors who produced not too slovenly work, but merely too much. And wish that Miss Bowen would follow Mr. Hoover and call a boli- day.
HUNGARIAN WAR-PICTURES.
Two PRISONERS. By Lajos Zilaby, Translated by Joseph Collins and Ida Zeitin, London: Wil liam Heinemann, Pp. 304, 88. ad. het.
were
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pillar," 1 nauseating. fantasy "founded on cancer, to be found in "They Walk Apain.". Or it can fail-and these stories are too numerous to action-because the
Seldom is a book so difficult to write about as this. The mere that authors have not even begun ic un- derstand the terrible forces that
is written on the war the deeper becomes the agony of those who are assumed to drag the dead out of their graves and drive them back
passed through the war years and into their homes. And so we get
have survived to read it. "Two thoas aimless ghosts that stroll Prisoners" gives an appalling about, frightening old ladies, up-glimpse into just a few more of setting the servants, and occupying those broken hearts; such a glimpse the reader's time all, to no purna makes the reader exclaim, Can
it be that while we misorating with ourselves on the petty liscomforts of the peace (that seemed so unbearabley others were enduring all this! Can it be that years after the re-establishment of
sanity, when comparative thought that our financial strait was the only hardship left to us, away in Central Europe the pain and death, the tyrannies and her." rors of body and spirit were still rife that such over-whelming scenes continued to happen na that which is described in this woll- translated novel by a Hungarian of the return of the prisoners of war from Russia? Yes, in the very summer of 1021, when we English were bemcaning as a nation the blow dealt at our cricket by the Australian cricketera! "Two Pel- ghosts are notoriously backward. soners may seem incredible, but Usually they say nothing at all.it must be read if only for our When they do open their lips it, is self.castigation. It may be read merely to produce a how! that, an for more than that, though. ordinary earthly tomcat might drame is superb, and the two pri- make, the real houble, of course, Guers, a soldier and his wife, who, is that it is impossible to put, the separated by the war, are tortured profounder emotions into words. with the desire of the flesh and And a ghost is always assumed to mind-prisoners of desire-until. be a veritable sink of profound each is impelled to hurt the fet emotions. Shakespeare avcided the term of honour and loyalty as the difficulty vory neatly by making his only alternative to insanity, Their wheeled dead" in "Hamlet" sim-poignant situation is heightened by nly "squeak and gibberleaving their mutual love before they were the rest, to the imagination; which parted-lyric lote, depicted in is the proper place for the pros frank, honest chapters that alone would make the novel memorable....... (found.,
In summing up the evidence to the jury, his Lordship said that the onus was on the Crown to prove beyond reasonable doubt that ac- cused was guilty. The evidence of Ng Tai and his wife appeared to be contradictory on some points, but the incident had securred four years before and it was not likely St. John's Cathedral has been en- that they could remember all that riched, and its beauty enhanced, by took place. The accused also had the installing of now Communion the onus, in a lesser degree, of rails, the gift of Mr. W. L Patten- proving his innocence. The story heden. The rails were dedicated on had given of having been forced by Trinity Sunday, and in appearance the pirates to assist them might are of very dignified workmanship. be true, but he had not stated The design of the rails was the specifically how compulsion was work of Sir Giler Gilbert Scott, used.
R.A., Architect of the Liverpool Verdict of Guilty.
Cathedral, and were contracted for. After retiring for loss than five by the Hong Kong Furniture Com minutes, the jury wore unanimous pany, whilst the carving from the in a verdict of guilty against the design was carried out by air, Chan
Fook prisoner.
prisoner, his In addressing the prisoner, his
A low vacancies remain open in Lordship said that he should con.. sider himself fortunate that he was the choir for boy trebles. Apart not indicated on a capital charge. from the fact that parents, in en The man referred to by acoused, couraging their boys to join the who was convicted in 1028, had also cathedral choir, are benefiting the put forward the same defence at church, and doing an extremely bis trial, namely that he was com- necessary work, they are also help pelled by the pirates to assist thom. ing the boys, as the choir master an extremely, good The sentence in the present case gives them would be the same as in the pre- training in singing. All expenses vicus case, three years' imprison-are paid by the Cathedral, and ment with hard bour.
small remuneration given to boya
turned round, drew himself up. projected his face, raised his arm, spread hu hande in np. proved ghost fashion-came to- wards me. As he did so, his. little jaw dropped, and he emit ted a faint drawn-out "Boo"..... Boo be hanged," I mid, "Are you a memoer?"
In the matter of conversation,
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