HONG KONG DAILY. I
STORY OF THE “ETERNAL TRIANGLE”
VILLAGE ROAD, MURDER RE-CONSTRUCTED GROWN SUGGESTS JEALOUSY AND REVENGE AS MOTIVE.
Pollse Informed..
The girl did not see him in the Nursing Boms but went back with Sergeant onnody to Now & Felice Station and it then appeared that she telephoned to 60 Village Road, to make certain inquirla
many During that work, Fay or ranged by telephone a meeting. with the acoused at the Hongkong Hotel to which meeting she took the rest of the jewellery that ale had not yet returned to him and
that meeting the besought him That, sir is the story so ur na to let her live in peace for good the girl Fay can take it. There in the following I will never let phasize with regard to her evidence you two live happily. I will speed and that is that an foran she all my money in preventing it no other enemy no other person in knows, the man George Fung, had the world would wish to do him harm ather than the accused,
TREMENDOUS PUBLIC INTEREST EVINCED AT PROCEEDINGS AT MAGISTRACY: CROWDED COURT HEARS THE OPENING.dll: To that request she got the other point which I wish to em
GIRL WOOED IN HONG KONG, SINGAPORE AND SHAI:
SI WILL NEVER LET YOU TWO LIVE HAPPILY."
Tremendous publia interest was eviticed at the proceedings, which commenced yesterday, which a young Chinose, Cheng Kwok Yau, aged 20, is charged with having procurud a certain person wakuowa, to murdar George Bung.
**All sections of the community wore represented in the big crowd which filed the Court to overflowing. Every sont and all standing room was taken up, long before 2:30 pm, the time. fixed for the hearing Special policemen had to be employed to keep the big crowds from crashing their way into the Court and although a large number was turned away, they hung Bopefully round the Courts for the two hours during which the case was heard, hoping to be fortunate enough to get the first details of how the case had gone..
Mr. R. E Lindselly Public Proseenter, appeared for the Crown and took no less than, at hour and fifteen minutes to open his case, a full report of his opening being given below. In the course of his speech he said that this was one of the "oternal triangle.'" cases and suggested! that. jealousy and revenge" were the motives for the murder,
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Mr. Geo. E. Hall Britton appeared for the defence while Mr. Peter Sin watched the canc on behalf of Edward Zimmern, who is mentioned in the Public Prosecutor's opening as a person. who had noted as "bodyguard" to the acense, and who is likely to be called as' à Crown witness..
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On Mancha point I bring out in much as it corroborates oor: tain other ovidenge, the two, Fay and Fung, went together to a tea
Monawhile, acousad bad begun to dance at the Repulse Bay Hotel | plot "Fang's death. Now I must and waw the accused there with a admit that the evidence of this plot large party including the girl, is based on what I pannos describe Bessie Aur On March 18, the two otherwins than as teinted evidence. young cousins of the girl returned to It is that of two witnesses who ad-, Shanghai, leaving only the mother,mit having advised and encouraged the air and Fung living at the the accused in his nefarious scheme Nathan Hotel and by this time but, they allege, with the object Fung and the girl were cohabiting of leading him on and leading together regularly. They had in him on nos so do murder, but in fact arranged to get married in order that they themselves might Swatow on April 3. On the 18th blackmail him whatever happened. or thereabout of March, Fing and⠀⠀⠀As the Arst xtra Race Meeting, the gist were noticed to leave their di March 8 last, one Edward Zin roour very early one morning, in ramen, the obvious binde sheep of sponse to a telephone call which a wellknown and much respected. they found did not concern them Hong Kong family, came into the when they reached the telephone picture. According to his story, be On returning to their room they was introduced to the socused an I found the accused sitting inside the South China Athletic Clab »on 403, which was otherwise empty, that day for the first time and went with his arma bolded staring at with him to the KROPA, The same. them, though be mado no other evening he was given dinner by the resturp and spoke no words. On Incensed and afterwards, at a Chức the right of the 20th, while there nese Chub, was engaged by the "ac"" two were in room 404, a knock |aused an what he called his Body- came at the door. The guard" at $40 a month. was
CROWN'S STORY OF POISON to the go to the dooma mes of to occupations and reporte
Mr. Lindsell: propose wish your permission to open this casis at some considerable length as I consider dosirable that the Crown should at the enrliest possible moment pub all its cards on the table and make cloar to the defence the exact nature of the charge that has to be met. I. would therefor ask your indulgence if I take considerable time for that opening.
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later, in September, 1999, le ape peared in Shanghai, bringing with him, I understand, the sum of 850,000, and livedi for a time with the girl Fag and her father.
Fung Appeara. On Scene.
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Road which he told her he had bought and was to be ready for them che when they were finally married and met renewed his promise to marry her to a dinner and the wedding was fixed for April of this year
No Money.
At Repulse Bay,
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to answer it. The voice said there accepted this employment. At the was a letter for them. Other evi time, he will toil you, the accused dence will show what the nature of ↑ Baich -! You talk too much--there that little opisode was Coming me bo no tallping to my service finally to the 4th of March, the I have many enemies-you must two, Fay and Fung, pet most of keep your eyes open."" the day together, going too and fro› o'clock in the in Hong Kong and at about 4
afternoon, at 1 On the next day, Zimmern a Hong Kong Hotel,
accused they companied
Repulse friend who invited them Bay Before going into the Hotel "dande at the he was told to sit at a soparate King's Restaurant. They artable in order that Bang enit the ranged to 2006 him there girl, if there might not see him in About thas some month the girl at about 8:30 pm, and they then the company of the acoused. You It was at this moment, quing Bessie Au wont back to Shanghai proceeded to Wongnoidiong to No, will remember, siz, that the girl this period, that the deceased and after that it seems Fay and 14, Shan Kwong Road, where lived Fay statee that she did go to Re George Fung, appeared on the scene. Fung were out alone together fre-a friend of theirs named Chan, pulse Bay with Fung on that day. He was a friend at that time ofquently, that the jealousy of bio ac Wing Yung. They arrived at 6.30. aug and the girl, according to the On March 24, last, about 8:20 p.m. the accused and ocasionally visited eused grew and there were frequent About 7 p.m. Fay received a tele-Zimmerife story, were there. He a.young man named Fung Tack Hin him. In about February 1930, quarrels between him and the girl, phone metenge which she recognis nlready, new Fung personally but or Fung Him and usually known by Fay's father left for Peking, long followed by reconciliations.
ed over the wire as the voren of her so far ho, had no iden of any ill the name of Geofge Fang, a mom-ing her in Shanghai, apparently in
In September 1937, another achooi amah who bad accompanied her foeling with the accused, From ber of a well-known Hong Kong charge of the Accused-admittedly date of Fay, and a sister of Bessie, down from Shanghai and had lived that day, Zimmern continued to act family, left the house of a friend a rather curious situation. The named Annie Au, came down from in the household since and was as bodyguard to the accused, meet
o M. Shan Kwong Road in the unsed took the girl to live with him Shanghai, the rest of the housthall then Hving at 30 Village Roading him in the afternoon every company of a girl named Lai Mingut two different addresses. In fass having then moved from 9 Wong About 8 pm that aman ame day, going, round to clubs, and gain- Tai, to whom I propose, for the sake they set up house together and pracneichong Road, to 50, Village Road, acro with a letter which was not bling houses and accompanying him of brevity, to rafar. by the name tically passed as husband and wife where they were still Hving in addressed to her at all but was adhome at night. Zimmern would tell of Fay girl with whom he was The girl, however, will tell (andrehruary.
dressed to one of her cousins. you of conversations that he over- cohabiting and whom he proposed to this is corroborated by other wit
That point is a some significameo beard somewhere about the date marry. They started to walk down nesses who have heard the same
inasmuch as it shows that at that of March 7 between the accused Shan Rwoug Road towards the Race thing from the actual lips of the Annie Au and Fay, she will tell hour, 7 p.m., the amah of the as-and Bessie Au, the girl I have Course. They had gone only, about accused), that they were never you, wont out a lot together and used's household know exactly already mentioned, when they were 100 yards when an unknown assassintimate, partly on account of the Annie very soon learned of the where the giel w and hence pro- together in a car. The conversa- shop Fung in the back from behind fact that the accused was antering situation that had arison betweenbably where George Fung wie totion went something like this: at Vary "close quarters The bullet from a disease and partly on ac the girl and the accused. Fung and be found: Depetrated the loft lang and the count of the girl's jealousy of other the girl had frequently in her pre-
Pung has taken Fay from me. If heart muscle with the result that he women. At that time, admittedly sours spoken of getting married but
The Fatal Night.
you want to have anything so. do with me you must have no more to died about three quarters of an hour she was fond of the accused. Owing the difficulty and stumbling block later..
About 8.30 p.m., as. I stated in my do with her q, quarrels and jealousy she threa-was that neither of them had any opening, the couple Joft Chan Wing
About the same time, ZimmÁPO It will be the Crown's one that toned more than once to leave him money, So the matter carried on Yung's house at 14, Shan Kwong had his first direct conversation the commission of this dastardly but the throat was mot with the until they came to a crisis last Road, to proceed to Hong Kong to with the nosed on the subject of and cowardly murder was procured 'counter-threat that he would shoot February.
keep their appointment. I was Fung and the accused told him that hy the neensed who had very good her if she did. He had at that time reasons to hate Fung and had been several guns on the premises that of the usual slight quarrels between many previous occasions they had though the girl had been his for six
On February 20; there was one a very unfortunate thing that on Fung had taken the girl from him plotting his death that the crime they were occupying in Shanghai. Fay and the accused over Fung, left that house, their friend Chen years a girl who had been a virgin lind been in fact a orine passional In about April, 1960, the accused which ended in accused throwing had given them a lift in his car up and was still a virgin and whom he and the accused found this despar left Shanghai, heavily in debt.Himself out of the house saying he to town, but on that particular still wanted to marry ately inhumaa method of solving Two or three months later, on re- was going to Canton. On the next night, he did hot feel like going out
Somewhere about March 16, on one form of the "eternal friangle- And Rvenged himself on the mall, followed him to Hong Kong and went to a sea-dance at the Repuis down Village Road to got a tram. the acmised appeared very excited ceipt of a cable from him, Fay day. February 21, Fay and Fang and therefore the couple walked one occasion, Zimmern will say that Furg, who had supplanted himself the, was provided here by him with Bay Hotel. Whilst they were there, When they were about half way
and worried. He had been, gam- in the affections of Fay, one whom a flat in Kowloon. She still regardin aman from 50, Village Road, down to a side street, called Yick bling heavily and losing heavily berhin regarded, if not an his wife, ad herself as engaged to ntarry him arrived with a message for the girl, Yam Street, the girl happened to and that night on his way home he certainly as his proporty..
and though he visited her every day in consequence of which she immer head, and noticed some wanted to do harm to Fung ind The Story...
she still says he never spent the mediately drove back to Wongnailhree or four yards behind them a asked Zimmera if he could procure night, at the fat and there was still chong in one of the accused's cars." man following. That man she can
a knife, saying he wanted to go This story begins in 1999. the no intimacy, particularly because On her way back, while descending say was dressed in European style over to the Nathan Hotel where story as it will he told by the girl at this time, accused was heavily the cross-island road on the north clothing and had his bat pulled both of them know Thing and the Fay, beraolf. In that year she came smoking opiúm. «
side of Wongneiohong gap, she met down over his face. She did not girl had taken up their abode, and to Hong Kong with her father AB U
During the period that she was the accused's Austin 7 (No.) com know, the man but she is quite em- have it out with Fung there and member of a threatics troupe and actually living with the accused in ing up the hill. Both cara stopped phatic he was no one when she then. He told Zimmer he had they gave certain performances here Shanghai and after his departure and the accused and the girl each new and equally emphatio not been shadowing Fung and wanted in aid of charity. The chairman of and again, while she was licing in got out. There was then a sosne be the man was not accused. They to get him right away Zimmern the association that was intorasted Nathan Road, she saw nothing of tween the two. He accused her of had gone perhaps fly yards fur- clement to have deamused him on in these performancea was a friend the deceased, George Fung
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of the accused and, through him the
other members of the troupe and
Fay heraclf, met the accused
He
an interest in her "and when the
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The First Meeting..
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Fence,
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In fact, it appears, from whati
what "practically amounted to in-ther when there came from just that occasion and actually waited fidelity and demanded back all the behind her a flash end a bang for fifteen minutes outside in Ya jewellery he bad ever given her. She realised at once what had bapage Rond in case he came out to About September, 1900, the girl he then and there took off what read but was so perturbed that go over to Kowloon and do rio. appears from the start to have taken returned to Shanghai for a time, gifta of his she was wearing and she did not see or attempt to see
handed them back to him including what had happened to the gunman. Take Telephone Message. troupe moved on to Singapore he and while there again saw Fung her engagement ring and accom- She had no idea of what happened saw them off and gave the girl corn or twice, but does not appear panied him back to 50, Village to him ber sole thoughts were tain amall presents. Subsequently to have attracted him in any par Road. He there repeated his ac with Fung Curiously enough, nocused told Zimmern the next day, letters passed between them letters, ticular way. In February 1931, ecusations against her and struck Fung himself does not appear to that accused did go over to Kow- of an ordinary character, but early returned to Hong Kong with her and beat her, with the result that have realised that he was injured, loon that night, or very early the in 1929 accused followed the girl mother and a girl named Bergie Au to Singapore where he found her schoolmate of hers, and all lived went next morning to see a She supported him to a house at next morning and did see the two, the entrance of Tick Yam Street, Fung and Bay, together, and that, with them for some months With tection at 79, Wongneichong Road. As a result of this quarrel and wane living and helped him up to occasion that the gel spoke of
taying with her father and stayed with her under the accused's pro
where friends of theirs named Tao one is entitled to assume, is the her father's coupont he took her and Very shortly after her arrival here, assault, Fay determined once a
the first door landing. another girl on a jaunt up-country on the First Day of the Third Moon for all to leave the accused and point before they mad admission pus of the room, by
At that when the and Fung were brought for three weeks and during that last rear, Pay, met Fung for the on the next day, February 25, she to the foor, Fung suddenly col-phone mesange, time he proposed marriage to her first time in Hong Kong, he and i did leave him and threw her lot lapsed and she realised then to the The next day, when Zimmern and and was accepted. No intimacy oc. the spoused boing then still good with the deceased. The deceased full what had happened. She rinh the focused met again, accused in- curred between the parties. They +friends. bocame ongnged and he gave her an Within a month of that day it engagement ring. It was agreed appears that the two (Fay and when her father, on thin return to Fang) had fallen in love with one Singapore, had given his unusent, another, and bad exchanged rows that the marriage should not be car of devotion: In the weeks that he himself fived in another room had come over at once to see if he cused repeated that be and thro
*ed the age of 21. So far as my evi- good deal on visits to Macao and dience goes he is now not quite M1. Canton, and in that period the two returned to Shanghai rid Hong Fang, though Eay and Funga
In about June 1980, the troupe girls went out a good deal with Kong Accused accompanied tasm paraly alone, drva, kont
found rooms at the Nathan Hotel ed down the stairs streaming and formed Zimmern that he had been
owloon where he put up to there met Dr. S. C. Mo, who, Bor- byer there and had actually thre her mother and by young tunatsky at the moment happened Bened the two. He mid he had sins of harn from Shanghai to be at the Yoong a Nersion be drinking heavily accord rooms Nos. 320 and 10 And Home and had heard the shot and bot wlebe. At the same time, we $15. Within a work at that possible to fix the exact date, the about the end of Fabmany, It m.in.
that they bad come to occupy the couple, Fung and the girl, were so deeply in love with one another
Jewellery Beturned,”
Chay's hoe to call sentence and $10,000 if someone would kill him, advice she went straight to Mr. steps and that he would give
liminary report was made. She was so that he was by him taken, in his car to the
day, Zimmerwys, 85 No 9 Police Station where anym
his friends Bodanied back to the spot
ve Bergen entredy then discovered that Fung wan' in the raing Home and was dyi
he died about 9.20 p.m.
as far as this port He left the At this period, about May of Inst some room. ship here and again renewed this year, the girl states that the actua promise of marriage on the under fed was already beginning' to- show standing that he hoped to get toulaings of Jealousy. In about that: The "gif" will tell you that thải gether enough money to be married same month, May 1981, the accused, was the first time in her life that
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