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Around the Courts
BOARDING HOUSË KEEPER CHARGED
Мад, boarding Lam Ba
Con- house keeper of No. 81, naught Road Central was charged before Mr. MacFadyen at Central Magistracy yesterday with having uttered a document purported to be a traveller's certificate, worth approximately $200 in Hong Kong currency, issued by the Govern- ment, of the Netherlands, and which was deposited with him by one Tsang Ki Hung.
AN AGITATED DEBATE
to the Imports and Exports De- The Amalgamation of
*partment, he stated that he had
400 This, the prosecution_com~ tended, showed that the money, did not belong to defendant, and thus it was classified as cargo and not as his personal effects. If the money belonged to him, he could have put it in the compradore's department instead of keeping it
in his cabin.
Two Colonies
(Special to "Hong Kong D'ally Presnys
(Bp. Telegraph, Copyright, Tata- staphio... Massages Ordinance. 1891.
Received, November 8. 4.10 p.m.)
Geneva, Nov. 4.
The defence"submitted that) zne prosecution had not proved that the silver dollars were cargo, Uni-
An agitated debate took place on Wednesday in a Mandate Çom- less it was proved to be bullion, it was not cargo, at all. Ip was omittee meeting, arising from A Inspector J. Murphy stated that small an amount to make it cargo motion submitted by the French the complainant. Tsang Ki Hung. The reason why the prosecution delegate to obtain consent for the arrived in Hong Kong from Hol-Alleged that it was not personal amalgamation of the territory To- land some time ago and deposit effects was because of the sugges-go, formerly belonging to Ger ed a traveller's certificate with tion that that money belonged to
many, with the adjoining French someone else. But the fact that colony. Dahomey, on the grounds the defendant. He then went to he the country, On his return the property belonged to someone
that this would effect great Onan- else did not make it a cargo at cial economies in the work of ad- asked for the' certificate but the
all. The money represented the ministration. Togo is suffering defendant on one pretext or an- other. put him off day after day. defendant's savings which he was severely from the world economic was bringing from Canton to be bank-crisis and showing yearly a de- Finally a certificate which later proved to be false was hand-fed here, ed to him by the defendant,
The case was formally remand- ed until Saturday morning, ball being fixed at $500. Mr. R. H. Cole appeared for the defence.
SUMMONS OF ASSAULT
Chinese Detective Discharged
After hearing evidence from the defendant, in the course of which he stated that he withdrew the Canton a bank in money from and that it belonged to him, His Worship convicted the defendant but reserved his decision, sine die. in regard to the penalty and the confiscation of the dollars.
felt of about four million francs-
The President of the Mandate,
signor Theodoli interposed several times, pointing out that when in 1929, Great Britain proposed to incorporate German- South-West Africa in the South African Un¬ lan, the Mandate Committee re- Jested the proposal Theodoli re- Mr. Kemble intimated that reminded the French delegate that would appear against the convie-the Governments who accepted the mandates voluntarily under- took to make as good as possible the deficits and are not entitled
tion.
.
A similar case was then heard Remarking that there' were great by His Worship. Cheung Yau, fire- discrepancies in the evidence of man of the 55. Kinshan was both parties. Mr. QAA MacFad- charged with importing 200 Sun yen at Central Magistracy yester Yat Sen dollars from Canton with- day dismissed the summons, out placing them on the ship's brought by Kwan Chan, a "boy" | manifest. " employed at Gloucester Building The case was adjourned sine die against Leung Chiu Chinese de- pending the decision of the first tective C477, for common assault. case, Mr. Peter Sin appeared for
Mr. M. A. da · Silva, appeared the defence. for the complainant, while Mr. R. C. H. Lim, instructed by Mr...J. M. Hall, was for the defence.
The
KOWLOON CITY MURDER -
TRIAL
According to the prosecution. the incident took place at Kau U The case in which Pun Cho-on, Fong at 2 a.m." on September 9 charged with the murder of Chick when the defendant came up to Wing, a vegetable gardener of Tal the complainant and demanded Hom village near Kowloon City by to search him. After the search arsenic poisoning was again when nothing was found the de- brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones fendant enquired of complainant at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- what his occupation was and on day when the whole afternoon was being told that he was employed | occupied with the evidence of Ko 85 & "boy" in Gloucester Building. Kam. Yung widow of the deceased accused him of being a procurer. At the outset his Worship caution
complainant indignantly ed witness that she had sworn to denied this and the defendant it tell the truth but if she felt that was alleged then seized hold of the questions put to her might his hair and started pummelling prejudice her it was up to her to him on the back with his fst. answer them or not. When the complainant shouted Witness told the court that she ous "save life," the defendant was married at the age of 17 and pushed him to the darker portion had a child by him last year. She of the street, against the wall and is 20 now. In June this year her sratching the handkerchief which husband told her in the presence the complainant had in his hands of accused that if business did not to wipe his forehead, attempted improve she would have to go to stuff it into the compininant's abroad with him to make their mouth with a police whistle. After living. A few days after the above this the defendant pulled the com- incident accused suggested to wit- plainant into Aberdeen Streetness to run away with him to where another Chinese detective Bingapore but she demurred. Op. was stationed and from him the various occasions accused also sug- defendant borrowed a truncheon gested or attempted to get in- with which he prodded the com-timate with her but she repulsed plainant.
all his suggestions.
The medical evidence produced She denied having run away in by the prosecution was to the July this year and when she told effect that there were four the defendant of her husband's. wounds OXI complainant's back accusation that she had attempt and a cut on the left cheek.
ed to run away the accused sug- The defence was a complete gested to her to kill her husband denial of the allegations, the de- She then replied that she did not fendant stating in the witness- | know how to do it.
box that after he had searched
While working in the fields with the complainant, the latter re- accused on July 31 he asked her marked to him "Don't be so ar- to buy some arsenic and said that rogant, I will summon you." He he wanted it for a purpose.
did not strike the complainant. Then on the afternoon of August
5 accused again asked her "to be- come his sweetheart" but she did not make any definite promise. Agairi he suggested to her to kill the husband. The accused told her not to prepare dried fish and
He was not on duty at the t'me of the incident and he did not borrow a truncheon from the other detective, as alleged by the com plainant. That detective was al- so not on duty at that time.
Sergeant Reidy stated that ground-nut congee for the mid-day when complainant came to the charge room at 2.30 on the morn ing in question he examined him and found no marks on his body
"UNMANIFESTED SILVER
DOLLARS
meal the following day but have instead red-Bean congee. Should the. husband be killed she was en-. joined to keep secrecy otherwise he would chop off her head wherever she may be.
Witness related the events of August 6 when she saw the ac cused put something into the con-
Stoker And Fireman Charged see after they had eaten, Chal-
lenged by her accused admitted that it was sugar and asked her to make a fire, to keep the congee
The case is adjourned till Tues-
Before Mr. W. M. Thomson à Central Magistracy yesterday. | warm. Wong Hing, & stoker employed-on board the ss. Lung Shan, was day. charged with importing 300 Yuan Shih-Kat silver dollars to the Co- lony from Canton without having
placed them on the ship a manifest. SENOR MACHADO DYING
Revenue. Officer A. W. Grimmitt appeared for the prosecntion, and
Mr. P. TK. Kemble was for
-defence; ^.!
thể
New York, Nov. 7. According to the New York "Mirror," the former President According to the prosecution, Machado of Cuba is dying in a defendant was arrested on Tues cottage in the neighbourhood of day as he was coming ahore. Be Santo Domingo, suffering from had 300 Yuan Shin Kal dollars the effects of poison with him, but when he was taken · Heuter,
to overcame such difaculty by uniting the Mandate area to an- other Colony whereby the inde- would pendence of the Mandate suffer.→→ Transocean Euo Min
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Received, November 8, 7.10 p.m.)
Paris. Nov. 8.
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