A HOUSE IN BONHAM OUR OVERCROWDED
STRAND
Counsel's Allegation of Forgery
WIDOW'S CLAIM IN
SUPREME COURT
Mr. H. G. Sheldon in opening a case yesterday before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Wood, made an allegation that the assignment of No. 73, Banham Strand, was forgery. The case was one in which Li Tse Shi, administratrix with the will aunoxed, of the estate of Li Woon Nain, her late husband, sought to recover the property from Pang Tsui Ching of Shatin,
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PRISONS
140 PRISONERS RELEASED AND DEPORTED
To cope with the problem of over- crowding in the gaols in Hongkong, in has been found necessary during the past few weeks to release short term prisoners before they have completed their sentences,
"Seen by a Daily"Press representa- tive Mr. Hopkins, Acting Superin tendont of Prisons said that 140 prisoners serving six months and under were released since last week under the deportation order,
There is no concealing the fact that the gaols have been over-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.
LIQUOR LICENCE REFUSED
Police Oppose "Excelsior" Request
TOO NEAR DANCING
ACADEMY
Ab a meeting of the Licensing Board yesterday, an application by the Excelsior Restaurant for a liquor licence was refused on the ground that there were already sufficient facilities in the locality for anyone desiring drinks with
their meals.
KING'S BIRTHDAY PARADE
FORGERY OF HAW- KER'S LICENSES
VOLUNTEERS' FORMATION
The Volunteer Corps will take part in the King's Birthday Parade on June 3. The motor ma 'chine gun section will provide the scort to His Excellency the Gov ernor, and the position of the va- rious companies will be as fol lows:
No. 1 Company commanded by Capt. M. A. Johnson, consists of Engineering Company and Corp Signals.
No. 9. Company, commanded by Capt. H. Owen-Hughes, consists of Machine Gun Co.
No. 3 Company, commanded by Capt. H. R. Forsyth, consists of Seattish Co.
Mr. T. H. King, A.8.P., who crowded for some time and anyone represented the Police, announced visiting the Magistracy in Hong-that he objected to the granting of
No. Company, commanded by Appearing for the applicant are kong must wonder how accommoda the licence on several grounds, one' Mr. H. G. Sheldon and Mr. Leotion could be found the number of of them being the proximity of the Lt. C. de S. Robertson, M. M., con- D'Almada e Castro, jnr., instruct people who are sentenced each day. restaurant to a dancing academy.sists of the Anzac Co. ed by Messrs. Lo & Lo, and for
The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern, the defendant Mr. Eldon Potter, R.C.. and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., instructed by Messrs. Hastings
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Colonial Secretary, presided over the meeting and others present
No. 5 Company, commanded by Capt. S. Jarvis, M.C., consists of the Portuguese Ci
Pipers and Drummers, will play at the head of the Corps. ""
Curious Case Against Hawker
POLICE MESSENGER
· DECEIVED
The story of how * licensed hawker was alleged to have de ceived a police messenger into hawker's licence was related to Mr. putting a Police stamp on a forged Wynne-Jones at Central Magistracy yesterday when a Chinese hawker was charged with having obtaincă 8104 in all from three Chinese by giving them forged hawkers' licen ces in exchange.
Originally two Police messengers were charged with the defendant as accessories before the fact, but on the application. of Sub-Inspector Fender, who prosecuted, they were discharged on the ground of in- suficiency of evidenes.
As a result of this step by the prosecution, Mr. Wynne-Jones de- cided to hear the cases separately. Outlining the facts of the case, Inspector Fender said that 10 March this year, Mr. T. H. King, Deputy Tespector General of Police, received information that certain members of the Police
According to an offer of the gaol, who has a fairly long record of service, the local prisons have heen overcrowded ever since he joined the Prison Department. Mr. Sheldon said that the pro- The Superintendent of Gaols, Air, perty was purchased on February Franks, was outspoken on the sub ID, 1917, by a person named Ng Yoject in his report for 1902. How- Hon had resold to Li Woon Namover, the Goverment is pushing on on October 11, 1024. The death of with the new gaol out at Stanley, Li Woon Num occurred on April where there should be room for zii Mr. P. Chand for a licence for Ex PROF. EINSTEIN AND had been issuing forged terrorce
10 in the following year and all deeds were handed to his widow, plaintiff in the present action, to gether with the will of deceased. Those deeds she kept in a safe in her house at Toi Shan city, and as she was unable to read or write did"] not know to what they referred,
Plaintiff's Adopted Son.
comers,
PRIVY PURSE ON MAHARAJAH
FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES IN STATE OF ALWAR
Simla, May 21-Though official confirmation is lacking, it is under stord that the Maharajah of Alwar is shortly leaving for London, where he will discuss with Indian leaders and with British authorities his personal affairs.
A prominent figure in the case was plaintiff's adopted, son, Li Kni Loy. On March 24, 1930, the pro perty was purpared to have been assigned by Li Won Nam to Li Kai Loy, the original document for which had apparently been lost. A draft copy had been obtained from the solicitors concerned. That was the assignment, which Mr. Sheldon alleged to be a forgery, as Li Woon Nam hal been dead some five years. The supposition was that Li Kai Loy obtained some persoir to impersonate his father and put authorities, particularly with re- through the assignicent.
gard to the collection of revenue and the remission of taxation. The Treasury is said to be depleted, while the collection of revenue is
On April 13, 1931, Li Ki Loy swore a statutory declaration to the effect that he had purchased the' property, obtained all the title -deeds from the solicitors and gone) to Toi Shan city thking them with him. He stated that at the begin ning of April of that year he was returning to Hong Kong and the suit case in which he was carrying the deeds was lost.
On the same day Li Kai Loy gave power of attorney to his nephew, Li Hip Loy, the son of a man named Li Cheuk Nam, brother of the deceased.
**The Villaina.'»:
These two men, Li Kai Loy anil Li Hip Loy, were described as the villains of the piece who had "de frauded plaintiff and defendant in
were:-The Hon. Mr. C. G. Alubas. ter, Mr. H. B. L. Dawbiggin, Mr. J. L. McPherson, Mr. J. M. Wong and Mr. H. Owen Davis (Secre tary).
In respect of the application of
celsior Restaurant of 22, Des. Vœux Road Central, Mr. F. G. Nigel ap- peared with Mr. Chand before the Board,
The Chairman: Have you any representations to make?
Mr. Nigel I understand that some 818,000 to $20,000 has been spent on these premises and noth ing have been skimped that the premises may be a fit and proper place for an eating house and much money will be lost if this licence is not granted as many people think it is impossible to eat a meal with. out drinking something at the same time. I have been there myself and I think the place is very well fitted up.
The Chairman: The feeling of The latest reports from the State the Board previously is that there of Alwar indicate that the internal
are plenty of places already licensed, administration has taken an acute
in that vicinity. What argument turn owing to differences between the Maharajah and the British have you to put forward in favour
of our issing another licence ?
slow.
The Government of India has in formed the Maharajah that, in ense they afford him Anancial help they will insist upon his fixing his privy purse at £15,000 a year.
rfused to agree to this.
Mr. Nigel: I don't believe there are many other licencees in that part of Des Voeux Road, There may bo others on the Queen's Road side but so far as I am aware there are very few of them on the Des Voeux Road side.
The Chairman: Do you happen to know, Mr. King? He has
It is understood that he is not. drawing at present on the revenue of the State of Alaw, as he pos esses large private resources on which he will draw until the dispute regarding his privy purse has been settled.
Mr. King: There is Gloucester Building, Hong Kong Hotel, Queen's Cafeteria and another in Queen's Road and then there are the King's Restaurant and Lane, Crawford's.
FREUD
CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT "WAR MENTALITY "
Is it possible to control man's mental evolution so as to make him proof against hate and destructive ness and other emotions which cause wart
A Chinese detective was detailed to make enquiries as a result of which the defendant was arrested. Further enquiries were then made and Chan Piu, one of the com- plainants in the case, was found and he produced a license which turned out to be forged.
Chan, Piu, the complainant, said that he had been in the Colony for over twelve years, and had known the defendant for about two years. He applied to the Police for a hawker's license about'a year ago but failed to get one and in March This is the question that Proof. this year he asked the defendant Albert Einstein aska Siegmund to help him, because he heard that for he had been getting licenses Freud, the psychoanalyst, in a brochure entitled "Why War 1 other hawkers. The defendant pro (Allen and Unwin, 6s), just pub-mised to get him one, and about. fished.
Freud sees no possibility of the com- leto suppression of humanity's ag
gressive tendencies.
a month later, gave witness a licence at the same time asking 840 for it. Witness knew that the fee for a license was only 34, but he paid the money demanded by, the defendant. Although his photo was "The Bolsheviks," he writes,
on the license, the name was not aspiro to do away with human aghis, and defendant explained that whenever he was asked to produce gressiveness, by ensuring the satie faction of material needs and en-
the license he gave the name Lau! forcing equality between man and Ka-the name on the license. man.
To me this hope seems vain, Meanwhile they busily perfect their armamente, and their hatred of outsiders is not the least of the factors of cohesion amongst them- selves.'
Einstein writes: "The quest of international security involves the unconditional surrender by every nation, in a cortain measure, of its liberty of action, ite sovereignty that is to say, and it ja clear be- vond all doubt that no other road can lead to such security.”
Accordingly, he proposes the ex- Mr. Nigel: These premises secin tablishment, by international con to be rather out of the beaten truck sent, of a legislative and judicial that Mr. King has mentioned. body to settle every conflict arising On the invitation of the Chair.between nations--one with greater man with regard to any objection executive force than the League of
Nations possesses... met Li Kai Loy and threatened him the Police authorities, may have with arrest. He left the house. On with regard to the granting of a the evening of July 28, a person licence, Mr. King said: I would named Wong Yu, son of it man like to put before the Board the ned Wong Wah Kou, Li Kai fact that there are a number of On April 20, 1931, the property Loy's father-in-law handed her licenceca in the immediate neigh- back the deeds. Accompanied by bourhood and they are all within way' mortgaged by Li Kai Loy to a person name i Yan Pan, which Weng Wah Kon she left for Hong a stone's throw of these premises, -mortgage was put through by Li Kong the following day. On July The amount of money spent, Iodious importunities? For it seems Hip Loy as attorney for Li Kai Loy. she went to the eating house of should think, has nothing to do On May 1,, the same year, a second Wang Cheuk Nam in Wyndham with the granting or otherwise of inortgage was put on the property Street and pointed out that his son a liquor licence and I think the and on July 2, the property was had been responsible for the frauds real reason for this application is a desire to keep such a place next sold by public auction by order of the mortgagor under the power of sale contained in the deed for $77,000, the purchaser being Kwong Tuci Ching.
this action.
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On the original sale of the pro-l
Freud supports the idea, but a note of pessimism creeps into the correspondence when he says:
"Why do we, you and I and many another, protest so vehement ly against war, instead of just
another of life's cepting it as
a natural thing enough, biologically sound and practically unavoidable. trust you will not be shocked by my raising such a question.".
and asked him to get the pro- to a dancing academy. The danc perty back. She was told that Laing academy has been in existence sidered by the Board and the Board Hip Ley was out at the time and for some time and I don't thinks of the opinion that there are that nothing could be done until the idea of a restaurant and of a he returned.
at
Hin
Cross-examined by Mr. Shing Lo, for defendant, witness said that when he paid the $40 to the defendant, his former employer was present.
Mr. Lo: Did you ask the defen- dant to explain why the license was given to you in a different name 1
He told me that if anybody were to examine the license, I would have to answer the name of Lau Ks.
King's Evidence,
Li Ping Yau, one of the Police against whown the messengers, charge was withdrawn then gave King's evidence. He admitted hav- ing put the seal on the license, and said that the reason why ho then that the license was forged. did so was that he did not know In reply to Mr. Lo, witness said. that although he was only a mes- senger he usually used the stamp. The Inepector in charge formerly had a foki and he used to ask him to do the stamping. But na he had no foki now, witness had to do the work.
Sub-Inspector Sabey, registrar of licenses told the Court that a license was issued to Lau Ka on register and said October, 1932 for this season. He
that the seal on the photo Was produced the
false.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, wit- ness said that the register was ac cessible to only one clerk, and not
to anyone else in the department.
He had no idea how the forgery
liquor licence occurred at first and present suficient facilities for meal happened." It must have been done She called at the house the I submit thero is no, need for this together with drinks in that locality by a man who know the working I do not want a liquor and is not prepared to grant this of the department. As far as ne licence. licence next door or close to this dancing academy.
following day and remained there until 4 p.is. and refused to leave until she had seen Li Hip Loy.
The Chaiman (to Mr. Nigel) Has your client anything to do with the liquor licence business before? Mr. Nigel: He has been connect ed with the Peninsula Hotel before.
a manager."
licence.
owners.
Transfera Granted.
was concerned; it was impossible for the defendant, to do such a thing
the Referring to the stamp on
the license, Inspector
perty to Li Woon Nam, Ng took ten year lease on the premises at a rental of $550, the rent being sent to the country to Li every month. No formal receipts were Wong then complained to the
The Board granted an application photo on sent but lotters passed between the Police that there was a mad woman two men in which Li acknowledged in his house and naked their assist
by Mr. R. W. Waller for the trans- Sabey said that the Police secre fer of St. Francis Hotel's licence tary had charge of the chop which the receipt of the money. The ance in removing her. Two Chi
from Mr. J. C. H. Rye to hini. It had been kept more carefully than letters continued to past after Li's neso constables came to the house,
was stated that a new Company had the register. In his opinionen would be impossible for the defen death but those from the country and Wong then stated that ther The Chairman: In what conner purchased the business from the dant to be present when the seal were seen by his widow chopped plaintiff was unknown to hin.
Was put on the license, with the name of Li Woon Nam. Plaintiff pointed out Wong as her tion?
After the employer of the com Mr. C. North, who applied for plainant had given evidence to the Mr. Nigel I believe it was not transfer of licence from Mr. Gaffect that he was present when the In 1929 Ng surrendered the lease brother in law and stated that his for business reason and, on behalf son had signed the assignment in connection with the liquor Gabruiler to himself in respect of money was passed over, His Wor of plaintiff, obtained new tenants. document in her husband's name licence but with the building de David Cafe, was also granted his hip decided to convict the de He arranged, for small commis. Plaintiff was advised to see
apartment of the hotel. He has also application Mr. North stated the fendant. He said that even if the sion, to collect the rent and for. solicitor about the matter.
he had been assistant manager, for, defendant did not actually utter ward it to plaintiff monthly. Plain Plaintiff then made her way to With regard to Mr. King's refer- Mr. Gabruiler and that he had the forged licenses, he had a guilty i
knowledge in that he asked for $40 tiff received the rent until certain the house of Ng Tao Ching, with ence to the dancing academy, Mr. bought over the business,
when he know that the fee. for, a demands were made on Ng to pay Wong Wah Kon, and while she was Nigel suid: The girls up for
license was 8. the rent to defendant ward no longer there a European, presumably a bidden to leave the academy before usi
Accordingly be registered, a con- to plaintiff. This occurred after solicitor from Messrs. Wilkinson it closes which is long after the the sale of the property to the de- and Grist, accompanied by a Chi- hours of the licence expire. I be
Mr. Kwong Hing Chung, a Police Viotion, and adjourned the other
two cases until this morning. fendant by the mortgagor,
nese arrived. When she saw them, lieve during the day there is little reservist was commended by Mr. plaintiff went upstairs and took no doing in the dancing academy. It Wys-Jones at Central Magistracy
yesterday for the arrest of "A drum of tar is very differ- is also very unlikely that they will Chinese youth who attempted to ent from a rotten beau," remarked part in the conversations.
attract people from the academy steal a gold dock chain from a Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central Me before the academy. secing that they will be closed long waitress. Some rather good work gistracy yesterday when he seatene
is being done by the Police Reed an unemployed Chinese to six. The Board's decision with regard. They seem to be getting most of of a drum of tar; Defendant stat
serve and the District watchmen, week's imprisonment for the theft. to this application was later in the Police cases," said Sub-Laspec ad bo: collected rotten beans and nounced to Mr. Nigel as follows:-tor Kirby, who prossbuted. De as the drum was left outside the This case has been very fully con- fendant was ordered to receive shop in Wellington Street, he
Continued on nézt' Column) eight strokes of the cane.
Surprise for Plaintiff.
The first intimation plaintiff had of these dealings was shout Ju 27, 1931, when she received a lettor from her nephew, "Li Choy Loy, whilst in Canton. She returned immediately to Toi Shan and there (Continued at fast of next Column
in August and together they went Her nephew arrived in the Colony to the offices of Messrs. Lo & Lo
Letters of administration to the estate of the deceased were granted to plaintiff on December 4th, 1931, with the will unexed,
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