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FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED AT THE SESSIONS
Prisoner's Statement From
The Dock
"Keung Chi-Pan, "the sentence of the Court on you is that you be taken honce to the place from whence you came and thence to the place of axeention; and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead; and that your body be buried, in such place as His Excellency the Governor shall order. And may the Lord have mercy on your soul."
In these words, the Chief Justice, His Honour, Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor yesterday pasend sentence on Keung Chi-Pan, who was unanimously found guilty of a charge of murder of a 25- year-old woman at 211 Laichikok Road in the small hours of July 21.
The closing scene of the trial was marked by tense silence following the verdict of "Gulity." The jury only took three minutes to arrive at a verdict. His Lordship after observing that the verdict was the only one which the jury could have found asked prisoner if he had anything to say as to why sentence of death should not be passed up on him according to law.
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"I Was In A Rage'
The prisoner who appeared to be numbed by the verdict, spoke in a scarcely audible voice to the interpreter and his words were thas the woman was his wife, "That man committed adultery with my wife. I did not intend to murder her. I discovered both the man and woman were naked. I was then in a rage and I did not know how I stabbed her."
witness,
At the close of his statement His Lordship passed sentence... Yesterday morning, a Keung Sau, who stated he was an elder brother of the accused stated that he and several others wit- nessed the marriage of the ac cused with the deceased.
After this evidence the Jury left the court whilst His Lord ship put to the defending counsel the points on which he would re- quire enlargement before putting- his charge to the jury.
His Lordship said: Assuming that the jury disbelieve the last witness, then may I hear you as to whether there is any evidence of marriage and secondly, if they belleve that accused and deceased were husband and wife, is there any evidence that the provocation which was present was grave and
sudden?
had
Mr. Lo said the couple Uved together for a condiderable time and had had two children, and it was the discovery of adul- tery which gave provocation to the accused.
* If accused had ocular evidence of the adultery, he submitted that the charge should be reduced to manslaughter.
Accused went to the floor to confirm his suspicions, gaining access by means of the rope. The knife he may have been taken with him to open a window or perhaps to be used in self-defence.
Final Address The Jury were recalled and Mr. Lo made his final address.
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Mr. Lo said he would suggest that accused did not go to the flat
with any intention of killing but that he lost control of himself.
Mr. Fraser's Address
The Assistant Attorney General said he would confine himself to answering the points raised by counsel for the defence.
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MODERN INSTITUTION
Many friends and well-wishers of the Wing On Company yesterday paid. a visit to the new bak which this Company has started in Da Veux Road and which is to be known as the Wing On Bank. The visitors exceeded five hundred and they were cordially. greeted and hospitably treated by the officers of the Bank.
Many of the visitors were shown over the bank's strong wom which is of ultra-modern design. The door of the strong room, built by the Moster Safe Company, is of seven inch solid |· stoel. IC operated by means of doable combination lecks, The walls of the strong room, where depositors' valuables will be kept are four feet thick all round and within the strong room is constructal a second safe i which the bank's valuables will, be kept.
The Company is incorporated under the Companies Ordinates, 1911, with an authorised capital of $10,000,000, which is divided into 85,000,000 in Shanghai currency and 83,000,000 in Hong Kong currency, The shares are distributed into 50,000 at $100 Shang- hai currency and an equal number at the same gure in Hong Kong cur
rency..
The Wing On Co., Ltd, the well- known departmental store in Hong Kong are founders and promoters of the new bank. They are foun- dlers and promoters also of numerous other concerns in the Colony and in Shanghai and Australia.
The new bank will conduct banking business of every description, includ ing current accounts and a savings bank. It is the aim of the manage- nient to give the public the fullest possible. service. The new premises are commodiously fitted with modern ideas.
In addition to the visit by many chal-community, the bank was the recipient residents from all sections of the of many congratulatory messages both locally and from abroad:
The Crown had strongly lenged the evidence of the brother who had spoken of the marriage.
The evidence of Yim Hel as to the visits accused made to the fat was corroborated by accused him- self he lost control as was suggested, he certainly regained control very quickly as was wit-
nessed by the excuse he made when accosted by the policeman shortly after the killing.
If the jury agreed that the union between accused and the woman was unlawful, he would
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London, Sept. 5. Prince George and his fiancee, Princess Marina of Greece, left Salzburg for Lake Bled, in Yugo- Slavin, where they will continue their holiday as the guests of
Prince and Princess Paul of Yugo- Slavla.
Princess Paul is Princess Marina's sister, All four have been staying in Salaburg, at the Hotel de l'Europe, and they left together. On
PRINCE GEORGE'S TITLE It is considered unlikely that the Prince will wed as "Prince George." In recent years there is no precedent for, a "Princess' George of England."
At present the Prince is not a peer of the resim and only ‘bears a courtesy title as a son of the sovereign. +1
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Among the titles the
dukedom. leaving Prince George signed the visitors' book as "George von England.”
Princess Marina travelled in a car driven by Prince George to- day.
She wore a grey English tailor-made costume with a beret. They looked radiantly happy.
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Prince George will return London in a week or ten days. And his fiancee may accompany him..
Princess
Prince George and Marina will be married in the late autumn. The wedding will most probably take place in West- minister Abbey and the Prince of Wales will be the best man, with the Dukes of York and Gloucester" as groomsmen.
Prince may assume are Duke of of Kent or Duke of Edinburgh. These have long been royal titles, and both dukedoms have been extinct for some years.
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The wedding will be by Keence dents of royal marriages to estab-
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mony Archbishop will perform the cere-
Bishops of London.
himself, assisted by the Winchester and Oxford.
There will be a State proces- sion along the Mall, and after- wards the bride and bridgroom will return to Buckingham Palace for the wedding break- Last.
More than 1,000 guests will be invited to the wedding.
It is anticapated that there wil be many visiting royalties, includ- ing the former King and Queen of
feel justified in his cross-examina. Picnic For The Blind Greece, the King and Queen of
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Excluding the brother's evid- ence, there were only the state- ments of accused himself that he was married to Keung Wai Lán and against this there was the
Sir,-In evidence of the father who said Peter's
past years the St. his daughter was married to Yim VDMA. have undertaken
Church Group of the Chun and produced a photograph responsibility arranging of them together.
yearly outing "to Shek-O for the The only Justincation for re-inmates of the Blind Home ducing the offence of murder to Pokfulam and for a visit to the manslaughter in such a case was Home at Chinese New Year when if accused found the woman, who each girl is given a present. must be his wife "in fagante delicto" and yielded to the killing without meditation.
But in this case the knife and
rope, the entrance at night and the arrangements for flight, had to be explained. If he had mere- ly sought ocular confirmation of his suspicions he could have seen through the window.
What the defence had suggested was nothing more than irresistible Impulse-which was not provoca
tion:
In one statement accused had After repeating his submission said that: Yim Chun had taken that the charge should be reduced not only his wife but his furniture. to manslaughter if adultery could ¦ He showed that he was willing be proved and the fact of the mar to accept compensation for the riage between Keung Wal-Lan and accused was established, Mr. Hin- Shing Lo went over the evidence of the alleged marriage.
He submitted that the brother's evidence as to the ceremony, had not been shaken and their living together afterwards was evidence of their legal marriage.
furniture and for the wife. He wanted his $80 marriage money back, and yet he says that when he became aware of the adultery he was overcome.
Despite the sympathy which the jury would feel for any cogent reason advanced by the defence, they should in this case find him guilty of the murder with which he was charged.
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Spain, and perhaps the Queen of Norway and the King of Denmark
THE KING'S GUEST
If precedent is followed Princess Marina will shortly pay a visit to England as the guest of the King and. Queen.
She will then rejoin her parents and be busy preparing her troua-
scau,
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert will probably be sent to bring her over from Calais and Prince George and his entourage wil be on the landing stage to greet her as she sets foot on British soil.
A royal'salute will be fired from Dover Castle and all naval vessels will dress ship.
In London Princess Marina will probably stay with the King and Queen at Buckingham Palace and will drive from there in State to Westminister Abbey.
Not since the wedding of the Duke of Albany, fourth son of
1882 has Queen Victoria, in
น younger son of the sovereign mar- ried a foreign princess. That will be the immediate precedent con- salted.
THE KING'S APPROVAL
But the Earl Marshal will also refer to the procedure adopted for the wedding of the Duke of Con- naught to the then Princess Louise
Margaret, daughter of Prince Fre derick Charles of Prussia, in 1879.
The marriage of King Edward,. then Prince of Wales, to Princess Alexandra in 1863 will not be used as a precedent in this case.
When all details have been ap- proved by the King, the actual ar- rangements for the ceremony will, be left to the Lord Chamberlain,
A Home In London?" Finding a house for the royal couple presents considerable dir- ficulties.
It is suggested that they might live at White Lodge, Richmond Park, which was the first home of the Duke and Duchess of York. At present, however, the King has granted the use of this house to Lord Lee of Fareham.
Frogmore, near Windsor, is an- other possibility..
But friends of Prince George believe that he will prefer to go on living in London.
At present He shares bachelor quarters in York House, St. James' Palace, with his brother, the Prince of Wales,
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themselves that the accused had satisfied them beyond any rea-by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at Central A warning to perjurers was sounded sonable doubt that the couple were Magistracy yesterday whi husband and wife. If that failed dealing with a traffic summons, he when prior to the defence failed. If they were remarked that of late there had been satisfied, however, that they were a good deal of hard swearing in fritic darried, the jury must be able to cases, and obviously one party or a
other had been swearing falsely. False [ say to themselves that the ac swearing, he said, was just as bad in cused had satisfied them beyond trafic cases as in criminal ones, and
As far as business. Hves, are any reasonable doubt; that there he wished to inake it quite clear that concerned, it is forbidden, to make. was that grave provocation, which if he had any reason to allocate any any distinction between Aryans the law recognised, because of the false swearing or muy evasion, úi and non-Aryans, either as em- accused finding his wife in the peaking the truth, he would take a ployees or business drms, says a arms of her loser, n
serious stop us lie in bis powere
Bentill Of The Doubt "Even If you found that," said his Lordship, you must be able to say that there is no premedita tion in this case."
Berlin, Sept. 19.
When accused returned from Cantor and learnt that his wife was staying with Tim Chun, he tried to see them several times and then determined to go at night and find out for himself on what terms of intimacy they were. The fact that he went at night-time taking a rope and knife with him could be used to allege that he went with malice, but it was also consistent with the theory that he went to get confirmation:
The manner in which accused made his escape also fell into line with the suggestion he foounsel) wished to make that when he saw the pair naked actually together in the cubicle, he lost control of himself and stabbed the woman to death.
Following a remark: by Counsel ap to reducing the offence, his Lordship interfected: Burely there is a presumption that all unlaw-
that the defence must fall," His Lordship concluded by lay ful homicide is murder, and it is After reviewing the evidence. ing great emphasis on the point for you to satisfy the jury that upon other aspects of the case of doubt in the jury's mind. He there are circumstances existing his Lordship concluded by remind said that in every instance where which justify the reduction of the ing the jury that they must, if there was "doubt in the minds of offence from murder to man- they were to find a verdict of the fury, the benefit of much doubt slaughter.
manslaughter, be able to say to was to be given to the prisoner veris turning into the slope, he place on Tuesdayy,
THE SUMMING-UP In the course of his summing up, the Chief Justice reviewed the evidence. He pointed out that if the jury were gatlaged that the accused and theered woman were not husband and wife, the
Mr. PC, Morgan of the PW.D. wae circular just issued by the Reichs defence failed. The reason for
summoned for disobeying a traffic Labour Minister to combat the that was, the law could be re-
signal in Hollywood Road on Septem-anti-Semitic movement beginning laxed in the case of husband" and
bere After evidence had been given again among the extremists. wife, so as to partially excuse a
by both parties which was entirely It is forbidden to discharge em husband if he were in any such
contradictory, Mr. Hamilton dis missed the summone, saying that one ployees on racial grounds" where circumstances such as the finding "If you cannot answer these of the parties had not spoken the their services · were -' otherwise of his wife in the arms of her questions in favour of the accused, truth. Ha thought that the police satisfactory says the Minister. lover, but the law had never pro- I am obliged to direct you that constable on duty had probably made Similarly, the boycotting of tected a man, who found his mis- the defence must fail, and theIt was stated by the
a mistake in giring the signal.
non-Aryan busineïnes la Mega! treas or financee or some person defence having falled, there can that after the right-of-way signal had "Also non-Aryan workers are
prosecution with whom he had carried on a be only one verdict, because there been given to Traffic Sorgeant: T. under the protection of the Gov- Unison, under similar circums can be no other suggestion of ctr- Melaniebo was coming down the ernment, concludes the circular tánces. If you are not satiated cumstances tending to excuse or slope leading to the Central Police Transocean Kuo Min. that they were husband and wife | minimise this terrible crime, if the Station, defendant's car which was coming from the east -- Wyndham into the slope, disregarding the signal. Street-continued its way and turned Evidence given by defendant, and Mr. H. W. Layden, who was a passena gor in the car, was to the effect that in their favour and while just as they the constable at first gave the signal
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I feel it my duty to instruct you† defence fails,"
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