INTERNATIONAL MUSIC.
DELIGHTFUL TEA PARTY
AT GOVT. HOUSÉ.
Those who know something of har many activities often wonder what Hong Kong's public and social life would be without Mrs, Southorn, She interests herself, practically, in an astonishing mumber of good causes but her talent, as a hostess is by no means the least important aspect of the work she does for the Colony. Whatever the ostensiblo object of the invitation to an "At Home," may be to earn something about the work of the Y.W.CA, to entertain the Guides or to say fare- well to some distinguished resident
one may be quite certain that if Mrs. Southern requests the plea sure" of your company, the plea. sure will be yours also and you will carry away memories of n delightful afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon was no ex- ception. The invitation said "In- ternational Music.” If it had not been from Mis. Southorn many people would, 1 believe, have begun to make excuses. Would any music, international or otherwise, compen sate one for turning out on a boil ing August afternoon? I don't, of courio, know how many were invit ed but a very large number of ladies
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1932.
ZIMMERN'S ANSWERS TO MR. JENKIN.
CRUELLING CROSS-EXAMINATION BY DEFENCE IN FUNG MURDER TRIAL.
PURPOSE OF VISITS TO VARIOUS SOLICITORS.
Edward Zhamern practically occupied the whole of yesterday's hearing at the Supreme Court yesterday in the ease in which Cheng Kwok You is charged with procuring, the murder of George Pung.
He was subjected to a gruelling cross-examination by Mr. F. O. Jenkin and did not leave the witness-box until 3.45 p.m. ulter having been thers a part of Thursday afternoon, the whole of Fri- day and several hours yesterday.
After Zimmern had been re-examined, Christio was called and he was still giving ovidence when the Court adjourned.
QUESTION OF PARDON RAISED.
Mr. Jenkin, resuming his CTORI You not know at that time examination of Zimmern, took that Fung had alienated Ini Ming witness through the long series of Fay's affection ?-No. conversations he had hoped and Mr. Jenkin: You omitted to tell taken part in relative to Fung's us that, when you were staying at murder and prior to it. Withers the Nathan Hotel, in the same agreed they were all substantially room, was Christio 1-That question
correct.
was never put to me.
Mr. Jenkin: Did you say before And you were staying on the same were there and passed a delightful the Magistrate that after your ar-floor as George Fung 1-I did not time.
Tea was served in the ballroom,est you made one statement and know. after which it was suggested that one statement only
we might like to walk in the garden Witness: Yes.
entortain us.
Asked why he stayed at the Nathan Hotel, witness said it was always Into when he left. Cheng at so, Village Road. He could not
Mr. Jenkin: Wink, wink, wink: why he gave this false information ↑ This is the frab time we hare heard --No, sir. about a wink. What 'wink ?
Zimmern: Christie gave me a wink at the Nathan Hotel when we were talking about the poison and I was eager to know all about it.
What did you understand by that wink --After the offer of $10,000 to put Fung away with a gun, Christio suggested poison. I was startled and Christie gave me a wink.
Do you say that the idea of swindling Cheng never entered your head up to that moment 1-Not so far as I know.
Do you expect any lawyer in this Colony to give any other advice to that which Mr. Lo gaval-That I don't know.
Do you think anno people can
other murder
people without penalty -I don't any that.
When did you first learn that you cannot murder without paying a legal penalty 1-When I was old enough to understand.
You well know that the penalty for murdor is, in the case of a sano person, death, and in the ease of Do you say that this idea of an insane person, detention during swindling Cheng which you, Chris- the Governor's
tie and Fung arranged never enter sir. ed your head before that moment? -Well don't say that,
not
pleasure 7-Yes,
And you say that Cheng, having given this false report to Christie Mr. Jenkin: No, I should think then invited you and Christie, particularly Christie, to go to other solicitors and find out for himself that there would be no fear?-That is quite true,
Zimmern: That' iden came into my head when we were having dinner, but I did not speak about
it.
Mr. Jenkin: Do your remember deposing to an alleged conversation with Chong in the early morning of March 19, when you said to Cheng you were sure the two men he had talked about would not carry out
Kicked Out of the Office.
Did you think that Mr. Davidson
was going to tell you to commit murder ?—No, sir. We got kicked. out of the office.
Why did you go and see Mr. his instructions and asked him to Davidson After I heard from let you have the matter in your Christie, I thought it would be safe, bands 1-That does not mean there to sco a lawyer and find out in what was any intention of swindling.
respect we would swindls Cheng. I want to warn you this much.
That was your sole purpose in
for half an hour. So the conver Mr. Jenkin: The statement was sations began over the tea cup a very long one and I put it to were just nicely finished before manners suggested that we should you that in that statement there is go all the way to his uncle's house. I am asking you if you said it seeing Mr. Davidson 7-Yes. listen to those who had come to an absolute omission of the conver; at Kowloon Tong. He did not stay Yes, I admit it.
We sat, not in concert ranks, but sations you have so closely detail-at his parents' house because they grouped round the small tables thated as having taken place in the did not like him going home, inte. and served for tea, and with su- Nathan Hotel and elsewhere about He had no desire to stay at hotels
thoughtfulness preme were placed on every table.
cigarettes getting rid of George Fung!
France and Germany, Mrs. Southorn's iden in arranging the programme was, I believe, to draw attention to the international aspect of the Colony.
Witness: That I cannot Bay. I have not seen my own statement.
Revision of Evidence.
in Hong Kong but preferred mati, where it was cheaper.
"A Big Jew."
Tiger Triad.
Did you think Mr. Davidson was going to tell you how to swindle Cheng 1-I was surprised when be I challenge the whole of that evi-told me to get out of the office. Yau-dence and I put it to you that you
Was not your reason that: that: asked Chong to leave the matter when the opportunity came and you in your hands?-I said that the two wanted to blackmail Cheng you men happened to be of the Tiger would have a record of the visit to Mr. Jenkin: Why worry about Trind, a society in whom I had very Mr. Davidson's offico -I can't an- that when Cheng was giving the little faith, and I knew that they awer that question. money 1--No, he is a big Jew with were out for Cheng's money. That I put it to you before passing on regard. to giving me money, I have is why I said "leave the matter into the next solicitor's office that your going to the pharmacies and had to pown my clothes sometimes.
buying poison was that there would Mr. Jenkin: Can you give me
be in the register of the pharmacies other record by which you can blackmail Cheng -No, sir.
I put it to you, that the whole of the incidents we have been going through are false -No, sir. you then went to Mr., C. Y. Kwan's Having left Mr. Davidson's office
office-I went there to seek dif-
You told us you went to see Mr. see how you could swindle money out of Cheng. You say you went to see Mr. Kwan for a different purpose 1-For the same
1 put it to you that there's an Madame Evelie opened with two entire abance from that statement piano solos, by her compatriots, Severae and Debussy, both cham of any reference to the conversa ingly played. Then Frau
vontion to which you have deposed to
my hands." Winterfeldt, who has one of the whilst walking to the Ferry 1-There most attractive voices. I have heard,
Now that statement, I put to you, sang Figaro's Wedding (Mozart), may have been a revision to my any other reason for your being pre-if true, is absolutely new Yes. and Sandmännchen (Brahms). Her evidence. I have since been ex-send with Christie on that floor- You have never suggested it be. voice has the pure passionless qua-amined by Mr. Lindsell and I heNo, sir. So far as I understood it, fore --The question was never put lity of a boy's and every note is perfectly sounded and comes out lievo I may have spoken to him on Christie at that time lived in the to mo I know the men were two without tho lightest apparent that point.
garage and I told him that if he rogues out to swindle Cheng and effort. One could listen to her sing-
I put it to you there's an entire liked he could come along with me. ger his money. ing by the hour.
omission from that statement of The reason why I took a room on Portugal and Esthonia.
any reference to the evidence to the third floor was because it was Miss Elsa Aires gave us a couple which you have deposed; of the can the only room vacant, but I knew of Portuguese songs by Ruy versation between you, Cheng and nothing about Fung or that he was Coelho. She has a very pretty coloratura soprano, Misa Alves is Christie at the Prince's Cafe 1-As residing on the floor.. still a young girl and her voice pro far as I can remember there was a misce to be a very lovely one when conversation. she reaches maturity, at present it is still a little thin though perfectly true,
You are a blackmailer I think Well, according to this case you can Madame Men who danced the put it at that, yes. famous
La Cygne 11 19 a native
of Enthonia. To dance in daylight Chief Justice: I don't see any
on
a hot afternoon right in the, blackmailing yet in this case.
middle of her audience, WAR no Mr. Jenkin: On his evidence-in- light task, but the intense interest
You went up and down in the
Mr. Jenkin: And the reason whyferent advice. you suggested the matter be taken Davidson to from one lot of swindling rogues, was in order to put it in the lunda of two other awindling rogues reason: No, I don't agree.
I had every
lift 1-Yes, when I left and returned right to ask him to let me handle to the hotel.
the matter because I was employed as his personal bodyguard.
Witness denied an allegation that the idea of beating up" Fung came from him, and that Cheng at first would have nothing to do with
Outside the lift there is a notice board showing where, and which people are living on that floor?- A blackboard, yes.
It shows the number of the rooms
and long applause must have shown chief he and Christie hoped to get and the names of the people living
her that she gavo very great plea-| $5,000 out of Cheng.
sure by her art, and I am sure that
that was an adequate reward to this attractive artist.
·
Italy, England and China,
Chief Justice: Swindle.
Mr. Jonkin: He used the word himself,
in them on the board ?—Yes, quite
80.
It is a conspicuous board, is it not?-It is not à very attractive Chief Justice: I don't sen any board, blackmail here.
it.
In the afternoon, witness answer- ing questions by Mr. Jenkin said that two or three or four days prior to or after the commencement of the present trial he had seen Did it ever occur to you during Mr. Lindsell and had mentioned the Mr. Jonkin: Swindle; I will use those four days to look at that now evidence then. the word swindle.
Italy was the next country repre sented by Madaras Ferrajolo, who sang Butterfly's Aria (One Fine Day) and a berceuse by Gretchan inaw, Madame Ferrajolo has evi- dently been trained for operatic Mr. Jenkin. (to witness): Whilst singing and has a strong voice and in Shanghai you associated with wide compas.
I suppose that England and roguos 1-1 mixed up with any kind America must share in the credit for of people.
Mrs. Sanger's delightful little turn, Gunmen included? -- No, sir. the two negro spirituelles she sang More or less business associates. being very much applauded, rape-
Christie likewise associated with He's the Lily cially charming was of the Valley.
rogues in Shanghai 1-That I don't China was represented by Miss know. Amelin Lee, who gave two piano- After tracing the arrival in Hong forte solos. She plays with quite extraordinary force and vigour and Kong of the witness and subse one wonders bow so much powerquently of Christie, sad later Zim. can come from her tiny bands. Her performance was considered by some man's introduction to Cheng, Mr.
board? I did not take any notice
of it. I saw no attraction in it.
At the main entrance of the Nathan Hotel there is a notice board showing the names of all the rosidonta 1-There may have been.
I did not notice it.
Mr. Jenkin: Have you received a pardon in this case I don't up derstand what you mean.
Did you think Mr. Kwan would give you any advice as to windling another man-No, he adviced mo not to do it.
Who did the talking in Mr. Kwan's offico 1-I did.
Tell us what you told him 7-1 can only remember that I spoke to Mr. Kwan and told him that I had an offer of $10,000 by someone to put away somebody. I had no in- tention of putting away this person but I wanted to swindle the money. Could he teach me a way to get that money i
Did you seriously think that Mr. Kwan was going to give you advice for the purpose of carrying through that scheme? He happened to he my schoolmate and I think he would not let me down.
How-By not giving me advice. If Mr. Kwon gives evidence in this Court and denies that conver estion, what would you say about
I have nothing to say,
it
In the opening statement of the Assistant Attorney General at the to ponder on the importance of Mr. Kwan, shys that. I want you Magistracy he had mentioned a par- these words: "Zimmern asked me don for you in the plot to murder if "A" whose girl had been taken It is strange, Zimmern, is it not, George Fung-Yes, sir.
away by "B" were to kill "B" would that be maóslaughter! "--I that you and Christie both lived From that date to this you have don't remember saying that. on the same floor as Fung for four heard nothing more about pardons 3| days not knowing that he was ) --No, sir."
Blackmailing Weapon,
there 1-Let me tell you this much.
I swear I knew nothing about it.
Asked how much he expected to
Visits to Solleitors.
You see what a weapon for blackmailer it would be to have that in solicitor's office on record -I
You told us about visits to don't know. members of the audience as the Jenkin said: "I put it to you that got, Zimmern said the proportion solicitors? You told us that you tour de force of the concert.
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and Lo I swear upon Almighty to allay Christie's mind t-We were that you wero by Cheng God that that is true.
paid to go to the lawyer.
the artists, said that she hoped to swindle? That's an allegation, 22,000 each and Fung would get $1,000 if the plot earned them
I say it is falso to say you went I put it to you, Zimmern, that $5,000. The figures would be there with prisoner. The purpose the visits to the three solicitors doubled if they got $10,000.
of that visit you told us was to as oflices wore all for the same pur PROGRAMME.
I put it to you that you hnd in
sure Christie that if he murdered nosa? Blackmail 1-Swindle, sir. You were satisfied with that pro Fung be would be salo as he is a 1.Madame Evelie-
your mind at the start to get money portion-I knew for certain that minor 1-That is Bo
After questioning Zimmern on Minuet
Séverac.
other incidents, Mr. Jonkin passed La Fille aux Cheveux do, out of Cheng 1--No, sir.
we could mob get $10,000. It might On your own evidence you were on to the events on March 21. Lin....... Debussy. Why did you seek him out for
Mr. Jenkin suggested that Zim- Frau von Winterfeldt
employment was introduced to interest you to know that Chong clearly advised that it would not be
enle for him to do sof-That is if men's story of Cheng's-nervous- Figaro's wedding......Mozart, him and, knowing Iris brother and actually asked Christio to take he was a manise.
ness was merely an attempt to Sandmännchen Brahms. knowing he was wealthy and had 82,000, the balance of $8,000 to be Did Mr. Lo tell you it would be pile up" the case against Cheng. 3-Miss Elan Alver-
influence, I asked him to get me put in a bank account in Christie's alright if he did it while he was Zimmern denied thin. Mr. Jenkin Amor Mvi Ruy Coolho, job but I did not expect him to name. I knew then there was some sane 1-I cannot remember him say contended that the evidence of his
give mo a job himself,
thing fishy and I told Christie noting that.
extreme nervousness when accused Who introduced you Mr. Poon. to fall for it.
You told this Court that having was supposed to have driven faster If Mr. Poul says he didn't, whunt "Mr. Jenkin: Did I ask you that I got this information from Mr. Lo than usual for his behaviour at do you say to that 1-Then it is his Zimmern: No, but I thought it that you and Chong went back to the Kwong Hoi Hee was purely word against mine.might interest you.
the car and that Cheng informed imaginary." Zimmern also denied You any it was a chance meet-
Christic that it would be perfectly this. 74
Outono 4.-Madame Mein.
Lo Cygna.............Baint-Saens 5.-Madame Ferrajok
One Fine Day (Madame
Butterfly).
Puccini,
Berccuse. Gretchaninowing 1-We were in the South China
G-Mrs. - Banger-
He's the Lily of the
Valley Negro. Spiritual. Swing low, Sweet
Chariot Negro Spiritual. Miss Amelia Lee ...
Ftudom By the Sea
Athletic Association when I was in- troduced to him there.
Did you know anything at that timo about Cheng's affairs 1-No.
You know nothing about him either personally, socially or his Chopin, business 1-No. I only knew his Schubert brother. Cheng Kwok Ön.-
Christie's Wink.
sage and there was nothing to fear, Regarding Zimmern's statement Is that true According to you to the effect that Chong had told When was it fixed-The first Cheng goos back and tells a lic→ him at the Kwong Hoi Kee "that thing I cha remember. about at All he said was, “We have seen; Fung was dead and that Lại Ming tempting to swindle accused was Mr. Lo and if you doubt my word Fai had sworn vengeance,"
"Mr. when he gave me $10 in Statue you can go and see another lawyer. Jenkin reminded witness that Lai Squaro and asked Christie and I to You told us that Cheng told had given evidence that the only consult other lawyers. It was then Christio be had nothing to fear. person whom she telephoned that I asked Christie about his wink
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