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JUGDEMENT RESERVED
The case was resumed before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday when Lự’Lin ~23,
and two others were charged with intimidating Tang Chun. £ waitress, at the Chul Teashop with a vlew to compelling her to join án legal society.
WARDER'S DEFENCE.
UPHELD
The onus is on the plaintiff. and he has falled to discharge it.
I am of the opinion that the claim was in the nature of a loan and therefore the defendant la entitled to the provisions afforded him in
the defendant." the Ordinance. Judgment is for
CABARET GIRL
IN TROUBLE
.i
Ill-Treating Her ·
Mui-Tsai
Ball of $2,000 was allowed to a
on
cabaret girl of the Majestic Dan- cing Academy, provided she was to remain in police custody for 24 hours pending her Arrange- The three defendants were re-
ment to raise the amount was the presented by Mr. Leo 'D'Almada,
decision made by Mr. W. Scho- Sr., and Detective Sgt. Fitches tice, Sir Atholl MacGregor,
With these words the Chief Jus- feld at the Central Magistracy was for the prosecution."
dis- yesterday when the girl, Allee Li Lin, the first defendant sald by Mr. M. A. da Silva on behalf All
missed a claim for $150 brought Luk, residing at No. 46 Morrison that he had known the complala-of Harnam Singh.
Road. was charged with watchman having kept Ting Ying. a 12-year- ant since August 1934. On who claimed the above sum from old girl as an unregistered mur September 16, he lent her $10. On Bagga Singh, an Indian. Warder. tsal, and with having assaulted September 3 he went to the tea The Public Servants' Liabilities her on September 25, and shop to see her. and there he ask-
Ordinance of 1917 which exempt other previous occasions. ed her for the money back. Com-
Government offelal drawing less The plainant said that 'she had only than $200 a month,
young girl presented 4 from being pitiful sight in Court, bearing worked a month and had not sued for money tent was success bruises all sufficient money to pay him. De- fully raised as a defence by the and legs.
over her hands, face fendant denied having struck her defendant. or even having asked her to Join Mr. Silva asked permission to the Triad Society.
amend the wording of the writ On the night of September 8, he from "money lent" to "money de- went with the second defendant posited," as, he had since learned after a cinema show to the tea-that the money was deposited by shop. He did not know that the complainant had made a report to the police, and while he was there he was arrested by some detectives. He said that he did not know the third defendant but the second de- fendant did.
Lai Yan Chol second defendant said that he lent the Arat defen- dant $10, and met him three times afterwards and asked him to re- turn the money as he was very hard up..
Mr. D'Almada said, that he did not wish to cross-examine the third defendant "as. he had noth- "Ing to do with the case.
The prosecution stressed the point that the arst defendant had $15 on his person when he was arrested. Why did he not pay the second defendant with that money instead of pressing the girl for the $10 which she was supposed to have borrowed?
His Worship then reserved judg ment til Monday, September 30.
ASSAULTING A WOMAN
A fine of $25 with the alternative of three weeks hard tabour was imposed by Mr. W. M... Thomson at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- day on Cheung Kong, unemployed who appeared on a charge of as- saulting a married woman named Ho Yuk Ching of No. 277 L Lung Street.
the plaintiff with the defendant for safe keeping and was not lent by him. A letter had been recefv- ed by plaintif from Messrs. Lo and Lo who had at one time acted for the defendant in which the letter stated that the defence would be based on the "provision of the Public Servants' Liabilities Ordinance of 1917 as defendant
servant and
was
not
when the
The defendant "pleaded gulity to the charges, stating that the girl was the daughter of her elder sister who died girl was only a few months old. The girl had been brought up by her, The child had been punish- ed because she was naughty, and as she was afraid the child would jump over the window sill. The girl had been treated as her own and had also received education. The marks of her arms werc caused by à cane.
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ADMITTED CANING Mr. Schofield: What sort cane was it that could cut her arm open?
was a public earning only $35 a month.
MONEY DEPOSITED
Defendant: I was using a tong. In the witness box plaintiff and it touched her accidentally. stated that the money
was de- Mr. Schoñeld: Was it the tong posited with the defendant on thear the cane which blackened her condition that plaintiff was to eyes? have it whenever he demanded Defendant; I cannot say. I It was never lent.
lest my temper. I. did hit her. In question as to why he did
answer to His Lordship's but I cannot say with what. keep the money himself. plainti bite her?
apt. Mr. Schofield: Did you also replied that he was illiterate and Defendant:
angry.
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MAGISTRATE DISMISSES
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ASSAULT CASE
There Has Been Some
Monkey Business
Appearing on remand and on bail, Lam Li Lam (35), an earth. coolie, was charged beforeTMMt. W. M. Thomson at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy with common assault on Fong Tim, a fellow earth coplie, who was greviously injured on the night of September 15, when three men set about him outside his house at No. 96 Cheung Sha Po Road, Kowloon City,
The original charge against defendant was one of occasion- Ing bodily harm," but this was subsequently changed to one of common assault.' It was stated by the prosecution at the previous bearing that complainant had been paying to much attention to defendant's sister and other women, so the former had shown his resentment by enlisting the aid of two other men to "beat defen- dant up." An assault consequently took place wherein one of the combatants used a hammer.
اوبامیا
I blt her once, be-At the resumed hearing yester- was not in a position to under-cause she struggled, I was very day. Inspector W. R. Chester Wood stand the laws of Hong Kong.
(in charge of the case for the pro- That the money was borrowed
secution) called "Fong Tim, the by the defendant from plaintiff at
complainant to give evidence. Fong interest at the rate of $2 per
said that on the night in question month was the admission made
Po Ying, an acquaintance of his. by Bagga Singh when giving his
knocked at his door and beckoned evidence. This interest was not
him out. "I went out and 53W paid until a few months ago when
three men standing there, among he learned that the plaintif wat
whom was defendant. I was as- not entitied to it.
saulted and someone used "an iron hammer, knocking me senseless."
THE JUDGMENT Giving judgment for defendant. His Lordship said: The defendant in this case is an assistant ward- er. It has not been
Defendant: I pinched her three times, because she stole things eat.
Mr. Schofield: I doubt that:
BEATEN BEFORE Sub-Inspector O'Conner, of the 8. C. A. said the girl had been sent to school for year. but
a week last was then taker away froth the school. He believed the challenged gir was beaten at that time, and Tt was stated that the complain-that his salary is $35 a month and the defendant was a rald to send ant was walking alone in Portland so he is enciled to the benefit of Street last night when the defen- the Public Servants Liabilities caused. The g had also one ut ber to school owing to the marks dant and two others bumped into Ordizance of 1917 1; the provision two teeth broken, alleged to have her. The defendant grabbed at of that order covers his case. This been done by the defendant. The an umbrella which she was carry-morning the paintiff for the Ars: girl's story was that she had been ine at the same time putting his time suggested that the writ be sold to the defendant in Shang- hands upon her. She raised the amended to one of money deposit nal, and had been brought down afarm and chased defendant. The ed instead or money fert, I em- latter turned round and struck phasise this is the first time it slept on the door by the defen- to Hongkong shortly after. She the complainant two blows with is done because, without a modants bed. The defendant was his fat. A Chinese constable came
ment's hesitation. I entirely dis being kept by an American sea- on the scene and arrested him.
believe the plaintiff's evidence and man, and was a dancing girl t because he had never mentione the Majestic. She had a draft for YOUNG STOWAWAY before that the writ was wrongly $2,000 in her possession.
expressed.
Frank Traynor. an American youth aged 19 years, made a sec- ond appearance before Mr. W. M. Thornson at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday, when he was bound over on a charge of stow ing away on the liner Javanese Prince from San Pedro to Hoog Kong.
It was very dark at the time of the "assau't. witness continued, so that it was impossible for him to recognise the faces of his comba- cants, So severe were his Injuries stated the complainant, that he
tal. was rushed to the Kowloon Hospi-
QUARREL OVER WORK
In answer to a query from the sault, witness said. "The man cail- Bench, as the cause of the as-
ed Yuk Ying had a quarrel with me over work when we were both earth coolles."
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lect some payment for work I had done. Po Ying left us, stating that he wished to see complainant." We (Kit Ying and defendant) did not go. I then witnessed what ap-
peared to be a fight."
FRIENDS RAN AWAY Defendant said that in the com- motion that followed, his two friends ran away but he remained on the scene for some considerable time later, before he finally return- ed home. "The next day I was ar- rested by the Police" concluded de- fendant.
Lum Fook, unemployed was next called to give evidence. He said that he was the principle tenant resided. Regarding the assault he of the house where defendant also
did not actually see it, but heard a commotion outside the door. He blew his police whistle but when
fair, the men who had assaulted he went out to investigate the nf-
complainant had already disap- peared,
Ordering the witness to stand Magistrate: Can you
suggest down, the Magistrate remarked to any reason why defendant should the prosecuting officer, that ap- assault you?-I cannot say that he parently since the case "was last assaulted me at all as I could not called up, "there has been some see who
was there." Questioned monkey business in the meantime." further witness stated that "after"They might be new witnesses and I was assaulted I saw defendant this might be a new. case so far as there."
you are concerned!"
altowed by Magistrate After you wer? 28- defen-saulted, according to you, you tel
Mr. Schofield upon the dant's request for same.
CARELESS CONSTABLE
down senseless!
In answer to a further question witness said "I used to live with de- fendant, and I owe him months' rent." Magistrate: fendant's wife.-No.
Inspector Chester Wood. cor- curred and said that Lum Fook (the last witness) when questioned in the police station concerning the affray, was very emphatic regard- two|ing details and actually "demon-
strated how the hammer was used .. Do you know de- and showed where the complain- "Through your own carelessness
ant was wounded. Later when we have a man in the dock wao Do you know defendant's sister-complainant was examined, the should not be there
No. remarked
wound marks he had received were Mr. M. Thomson at the Kow
Defendant alleged that another found to correspond exactly with Joon
man had for sometime past threa- last Witnesses statements. Magistracy yesterday to an
How- Indian constable, in discharging
fened to fight the complainant as ever in view of the altered cir- Yun Wong, who was wrongfully they had quarrelled over work cumstances, the Magistrate said summoned for obstruction.
"That evening (the night of the that he could not do anything else Assaut Kit Ying, Po Ying and but dismiss the case.
Mr. Schofield remanded the de- The defendant's story is that it fendant formally for one week was a loan. It is unfortunately and requested that the child be not unusual in this Court to and thoroughly examined and a med attempts made by money-lenders cal certificate produced, to go and to the provision o? Ball, as above was the order, which I have referred. In the very short time which I have sat in this Court I have al- ready had two such cases. I am An additional charge under the satisfied, if one can be satisfied Vágraney Ordinance was preferred where there is so cittle truth, that against him, and he was.com-the plaintiff has not satisfied me mitted to the House of Detention that he had made out his case. until such time as arrangements I cannot, in the interests of gen- can be made to deport him. eral truth, put it any higher than The Magistrate remarked that that. The onus is on the plaintiff be had considered the case, since and he has failed to discharge It. it was first heard and found that I am of the opinion that the claim under the Stow-away Ordinance was in the nature of a loan and He was not empowered to send the therefore the defendant is entitl defendant to the House of Deten-ed to the provisions afforded him in the ordinance. Judgment is for In the interests of the defendant the defendant." he
Wes adding the vagrancy charge in order that defendant may have a place to go pend Ing arrangements for his being away.
tion.
CHOPPER "ATTACK
COOLIES FALL OUT
myself went out for a walk. I was Defendant was accordingly dis- on my way to a soy factory to col- ' charged.
It appears that a summons for the above offence was brought against Li Yau, master of a car- penters shop at No. 86 Portland
who failed to Street,
made an appearance in Court and a war- and some papers from Fung Pak day on charges of possession of There was a sequel to a fight rant for h's arrest was thus issued Pan, a spinster.
11,500 hétofn pffs at No. 152 Wel- on Tuesday. The constable went Det, Sergt. T. Cashman who lington Street, first floor. First to the shop and spoke to Yun prosecuted stated that at about defendant was discharged while a Wong, foki. He asked for the 445 pm? on Wednesday, whilst fine of $2.500'er in default one name of the master of the shop. the complainant and her aunt years hard bour was imposed on. and Yun Wong replied that it was were walking a'ong Queen's Road ị thế other defendant. Li Yau The constable d not Central, defendant came up from Revenue Omcer A. W. Grimmitt ask for the foki's name, but took behind and snatched the bag, appeared for the prosecution, and him to the station.
He was chased' by Indian Mr. McCallum appeared on behalf The Meg'strate 'n the absence Sergeant and was arrested in of the first defendant, Mr. Me- ...
Feel Street after he had run Callum stated that he would ad- Through Wellington Street. He mit possession, but deny guilty. Was on a recent arrival in the knowledge. Colony.
in which a bamboo pole was used, and in which one of the.com. batants broke his nose, at the A fight between two market stall Kowloon Magistracy yesterday forts at the Wanchal Market yes-when H San, a coal coolle was terday morning resulted in the sentenced to one months hard admittance of one of the combat-abour for. striking a fellow wor- ants to hospital in a serious con-ker. It was stated that the com- dition.
Hainant had to be carried to the Wong Mun, 26, who, is at pre- Yaumati Police Station from the of L Yau imposed a fine of 810 sent in the hospital, suffered no Yee Yick coal yard in a semi- and issued a distress wärrent. less than seven gounds said to conscious condition, have been indicted by a butcher's was said to have commenced imile by his friend, apother, Loki when complainant remonstrated BAD DAY FOR SNATCHER numed Tam Tung, aged 33,
with "defendant for allowing his
The fight
The wounded man who resides pole to strike the former on the · A sentence of six months' hard
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door, is in a serious condition with opposite directions. A quarrel Chau, a 26 years old unemployed wounds all over his body. Incind- ensued and defendant was alleged when he was convicted by Mr ing, several in his abdomen: Hist have lifted his pole above Assailant is at present in police head, striking "complainant custody.
gloneing low on the nose.
POSSESSION OF HEROIN PILLS
Two Chinese women, Wong Sik
Becond defendant: in answer t the charge, admitted possession or all the pills, and also the duan- ty carried by the first defendant. Mr. McCallum al the Arst de- fendant was employed as an amah by the second defendant, and had
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A Macfadyen at the Central Lam and Wong Yee, made an ap-been instructed to carry the pills, Lagitacy of matching a hand-pearance before Mr. W. Schöfeld bag containing 65 cents in money at the Central Magistracy yester
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