HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.
UNLAWFUL INSTRUMENTS AMOY SHOP-KEEPERS ALLEGED EMBEZZLE HERBERT WALLER FOUND.
DAGGERS, OPIUM, WIRE AND PEPPER FOUND BY POLIČE.
Thrio men were brought before : Mr. Schofield at Central-Angistracy
ON STRIKE
GOVT. RESTRICTIONS RESENTED
yesterday charged with the posses (From Our Own Correspondent) sion of daggers, illicit opium, coilsį of wire and a packet of pepper,~~ | instrumente fit for un unlawful
purpose. The prosecution was the sequel to a raid by Revenue Officer W. Ward and party, on 32, Amoy Street on November 14.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, ir, appeared for the third defendant, and the Police withdrew the charge.
AMOY, Nov. 20.
There is a shop-keepers strike in Amoy, or rather in the Island. of Kulangs. The authorities issued an order that no goods were to be displayed in the street. As the merchants have always 50% out stalls, etc., in the street they pro- tested strongly,
The Municipal Council sent two Dot. Sergt. Kennedy said that ustable to make the merchants at 3.15 m. on November 14, R.O., the order, but the force in question Ward raided. 39, Amoy Street and proved inadequate and the cop-
stables returned with a found accused asleep in a cubicle. wos. Another message was sent to They were woken up and asked for the merchants with throats of drastic action, and the reply wña a the key to a box, of which they general shutting of shutters. The donted possession. But first defen shops in the distrid are mainly dant was seen to throw something gucers, greemgrovera, bakeries, into an empty basket, and the key, and the strike is causing
little inconvenience. was found inside. In the box were 40 taels of opium and two daggera.
The wire and pepper were found MARITIME CUSTOMS
behind the box.
The first defendant was sentenced
to six months' hard labour on one
FLEET
MENT
FURTHER EVIDENCE HEARD
MAGISTRATE CRITICISES
HONG KONG FIRMS
**NOT GUILTY**
(Continued from juige 6)
drink during that time.
to Nam Hong. That took him to 10.48 but he did not start street eleansing until 11.30 am. He was in the You Woo shop between 10,45 and The case in which Lo Kau aliar 11.30 a.m. He admitted that he La Pak King, a former clerk in the had employ of Messrs, Thos Cook and Son, Ltd., is charged with om bezzling $13,283.97 "in various gur rencies from his employers on July. 2 last, was continued before Mr. Wyane-Jones at the Central Magis tracy yesterday.
When this sort of thing is told you by witness who are more or less accomplices, I submit you should reject the evidence, and, after hearing the evidence for tho defence, and what seems to be the tainted evidence of the Crown, I think I can confidently, ask you to! find that this charge has not been provod against tho accused.
Unse for the Crown.
Mr. Fraser, in the course of his
There was nothing in that act address to the Jury said: Refer against, regulations, he added.
Mr. Fraser: If you did not want to arrest the hawkers but only to chase them, why did you go through Mr. T. H. Loseby appeared for the shopa? What was the reason the prosecution, while Mr. H. C.for secrcey! Lee represented the defendant.
Mr. Perrin, local manager of the prosecuting company, in continuing his evidence said that it the money had been removed by Mr. Weight for the purpose of transmitting it to another office no voucher would
be given, but an entry would be Saturday at 12 noon Lo Kau was mnde in the xalos book. On the
them.
Witness: I wanted to surprise
them I-I wanted to come upon them Why was it necessary to surprise
suddenly.
What was the object of that 1-To chuse them out.
Witness added that he did not
in the banking department and he want to arrest any hawker as he left the office a considerable time bad had instructions to arrest only before the witness, who saw that the one a week, Rufe was locked with the cash box insido it. Witnow, however did not
look inside, the box.
charge and a fine of $1,200 or anWELL ARMED NEW CUTTER morning when witness got to the other six months', on the second.
The second defendant was dis charged.
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Canton.-Previous to the estab fishment of the Sales Department of the Honam and Saichuen Gov- ernment Cement Works, the com- bined output of the two works totalled 1.300 barrels valued ap proximately at $270,000.
Since the establishment of the Sales Department in last August, the combined daily output has been been increasing rapidly until now the combined daily output is in the neighbourhood of 8500,000.
The Saichuen Cement Works, working at full capacity, produces 1,200 barrels per day, The Henam Cement Works produces approxi- mately 400 barrels.
The Sales Department, as a con- sequence of the excess of demand over supply of its product, is tak- ing steps to limit the distribution.
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The Hun hing, latest addition to the Chinese maritime customs fleet of cutters, made her first trial run down the Whangpou to Woo- sung Wednesday morning. The ves- sel was christened several months ngo by Lady Maze, wife of the in- spetor general of customs, at the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works.
The mean speed attained by the Hus Heing last Wednesday in six runs over the measured mile was 12.375 knots, threr-eighths of a knot over the guaranteed speed.
While the cutter was making her trial runs, the crew also indulged in gunnery practice with the Vick- ore and Lewis guns with which the boat is equipped, Good firing was i reported at targets at several him- dred yards. The crew has under- gone a stiff course of training in anticipation of any fights against, customs smugglers.
Six Navy Gunboats Planned. The progress made by the Minis try of Navy was revealed by Ad- miral Chen Shao Kwan, miniser of navy, in an interview given to Chinese press representatives.
Plans are being completed, a cording to the minister of navy for the construction of six addi-¡ tional gunboats by the Ministry of Navy. All these gunboats will be used for the defense of various con and river port throughout the coun- try against piracy.
"I Am Unpopular." Mr. Fraser: You have heard four people swear that they saw you in the Po Wah Tong's cubicle. Can you suggest any reason why they should do that!
enco was made by my friend to the gravity of this charge and I should.
like to add in that respect, this:
that the integrity of a public ser- vant is such a sacred thing that
charge of this nature against a man in the defendant's position must be thoroughly investigated.
thing against the defondant at all."'' By that I do not wish to aby nay.
Mr. Franer thon dealt at some
length with the various points rais ed by the defence in the course of the case and wound up by saying: "There are no two ways. Either the prosecution is lying or the defonco is lying. What does the defence amount tot Aman who is on good terms with the Police and on friendly terms with the accused, comes into the Court and says "I was in my shop on that day, but I] did not see the accused, and his Jokis come up and say the same thing. That is not an alibi, it is
ness for further details and no ono could give ma any."
Empty Cash Box. On Sunday the 3rd the office was closed, but at 9 o'clock on Monday
office, Mr. Williams reported to him that the cash box was empty. Mr. Perrin did not see the defondant again until the time of his arrest
Cross-examining the witness, Mr.suppose, due to the street cleaning negative proof. I asked cach, wit- Les said.—
had been quite an honest man dur- Previous to this time, Lo Kau ing his period of service with your Arm 1-Yes,
His salary is $35 a month, is it not -His allowance is $37.02.
He had in his till at different
times a great deal of mouer-Yea What would be the highest amount in his till on any one day! I think the amount he took would be the highest amount, and that was an exceptionally big sum.
He would usually have under his control at least 82,000 7-Yes.
In Charge of Gash, Mr. W. A. Weight, the next. wițe. ness for the prosecution, said that he had been in the employment of
Messrs Thos. Cook and Son for 21
years, and it was on his advice
Witness: They are personal friends of Ho Kiu's.
Why should they swear they saw you --Because I an unpopular, I
and the summonses.
heard of any opium being found in When was the first time you the Po Wah Tong-On October 8.
About a week Inter-Yes.
This closed-the evidence for the defence.
THE SUMMING UP.
The Chief Justice in the course The foreman of the jury (Mr. A. of a lengthy summing up drew the H. Carroll): The jury would like.
to know whether the Detective Ling jury's attention to the fact that it Sam was sent out to Taipo for any was the duty of the Crown to provo particular purpose and also whether their cases beyond any reasonable he was aver reprimanded for any doubt against the accused. It was particular purpose.
The defence raising, no objection Ling Sam was recalled.
et a question as to whether the jury believed the witnesses for the Crown or the witnesses for the de The foreman of the jury: Wore fence. That was not the proper you sent to Taipo for any particular purpose?
Witness: No particular reason. I understood it was a general an-
nual transfer.
way of putting it. The jury might not be prepared to believe fully what the defence witnesses may, left any reasonable doubt in their but if they found that that evidence on June 23 that the defendant was put in charge of the cash pertain-
mind, reading that evidence and ing to the tourist and banking de
Were you ever reprimanded by the Crown's evidence together, they partments. All cash payed to or the accused for neglect of duty must then give the prisoner the by Mesara Thos. Cook and Son Novor. I have not been working benefit of the doubt. passed through the defendant's with him. hande., Lo Knu had control of the cash-box key, together with a bunch of other keys belonging to the office.
Witness wont on to my that on July 1, which was a holiday, he
was in the office for a few hours und did not notice anything amniss with the till pl this time, but he particularly remembered seeing a The two gunboate, Suining and quantity of rupees, francs, and Funing, keels of which were laid gilders in the till. Mr. Weight a few days ago, Admiral Chen said, then gave a detailed account of the will be launched during February book-keeping arrangemente and of next year. These two new gun proceedure adopted by the firm in boats to be built together with the the course of its financial transac gunboats Kinngning and Haining tions, and enumerated in detail the Already constructed are named after amounts of the missing currencies. the places where they will be 23- signed for defense work,
Hong Kong Firms Criticised. At this stage, the Magistrate in Pinghai, which is modelled after timated that there was no evidence
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Is this the first time you have to the discrepancies pointed out by served under him 1-Yes.
the defence and said that although good many of them were trivial in nature, there were two or three very important once. He then pro- cceded to deal with those discre- pancica.
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His Lordship at a later staga In the courte of his address to pointed out that although one might the jury, Mr. McNeill said-In the find a motive for Ling Sam, the inception of the affair, there are two detective, coming up and giving evi- things which seem to me to bo so dence against the accused, it was absurd that they throw some doubt difficult to see why Ho Kiu should on the reality of the whole thing. do the same. It was not easy to also gives, in some eaves, on op. Ons is the way in which the opium see why he should do so, or what
is said to have come into the hands was the motive which prompted portunity for testing the evidence for the defence. If there is any of Ho Kui. I can understand it him. having come from someone who wanted to dispose of the opium, but I cannot understand it coming
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You may do so or you may not. If you do think it fails, of course the other hand, you think it does nat verdiet is not guilty." If, on the fail you must regard the evidence of the defence. You have not got to believe all the evidence, hefore you find the prisoner "not guilty if that evidence, taken with the evidence of the Crown, raises in your mind any reasonable doubt, then the defendant must have the benefit of that doubt,
The jury returned a verdict ́of "Not Guilty" and the accused was
"Thu defence has one thing wenk point in it, it can always be That must be reckoned in strongly in its favour," said his tented. the Ninghai recently constructed in, that the fraud had been going on from a stranger who wanted him Lordship, and that is that the do the defendant's favour. He has Japan, is being resumed.
for any length of time, and as the to keep guard over the opium.
fendant gave evidence on oath and called that evidence again here, in called his witnesses at the earliest cluding his own. case was no different to any other
The other thing which seems ab-possible moment. I think all that You have heard him and his wit- case of a similar nature, he could not, therefore, commit the defen-solutely ridiculous is that this man ought to account for righteousness nesses and you have heard the wit
You may dant.
Ling Bam should have gone into because the defendant disclosed nesans for the Crown.
going about and to have shouted does that, the prosecution can then the Crown that the Crown the Cheong Chun shop on a market straightaway what the defence was think that on the dificulties and day, when, presumably, people are going to be. When the defence discrepancies in the evidence for
Inspector, Inspector,"
shape their course accordingly. It fails, quite bpart from any defence. Į discharged.
of leading firma in Hong Kong to place unnecessary temptation before. their clerks by giving them control of large sums of money.
The case was adjourned.
ion that it was unfair on the part His Worship expressed the opin-
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