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WITNESS IN DRIVING A CAR
MATERIALS FOR LOCAL SCHOOL'S EUROPEAN
COUNTER- FEITING
Police Finds Com- Fplete Moulds
Some fifty different articles, which took over an hour to classify case as exhibits, featured in heard at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, in which three Chinese were charged with the possession of several moulds for the purpose of counterfeiting Hong Kong coins The defendants were: Lum Yu. alias Lum Kit Sang, Kwong Chiu Fang, and Man Chun,
It was explained by the prose- cution that no actual counterfelt coins were discovered on the de fendants or at their residences.
SALE OF WORK
St. Stephen's And Fairlea's Girls Efforts
A very successful sale of work organised by St. Stephen's G rls' College and the Fairlea G.ris' School was held yesterday at the Schools' ground and compound in Caine Road when a very large gathering turned up to spend freely for the cause of local charities including the Ministering Children's League.
RAPE CASE
Mr. Faure's Evidence Helps Defendant
After lengthy cross-examination of a European witness, the case in which Tro! Chi-san, aged 27, tram conductor, charged with hav- ing" committed rape on a 17 year
old
mui tsai, 14 Tim-hi, · WELL.
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immoral and had been about with men. „Acensed's wife said to her, "you need not come back if you
are pregnant.
WHILE DRUNK
Magistrate Gives Good Advice
At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- terday Charles Henry Thompson was charged before Mr. Wynne- Janes with having committed a breach of the traffic regulations.. and was fined $20.
Witness said that the defendant
The charge against defendant. made no reply to the girl's accusa-Was that he drove private car No. 4052, while under the tauence of tions, although he bad every op liquor at Nathan Road at 6.35 p.m.
on Tuesday.
brought to a conclusion by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis-portunity to do so. tracy yesterday when he dik- charged the accused, stating that the evidence given by the girl, was not very clear. She had told the prosecution one thing and when examined in. the witness box, she bad said another.
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charge and asked to make a state- Defendant pleaded guilty to the
On being cross-examined by Mr, Ein-shing Lo, witness replied that he did not know, what the party ment. had come to talk about. He was In his statement, defendant not sure whether Yee Kwt ever stated that he had not been feel- visited the defendant's house at mg well and had been under doc- all, and he did not know if his tor's orders and had been on 9. house-keeper had known the girlight diet. He was to undergo an before she came to work there, but operation. At the time he was on he had heard her talk about his way home. He had taken two- brandles to ease 盛 pain in his stomach and they had taken effect upon him in the car.
Stalls under the various classes were dotted all over the Kwok,Blu Lau Hall, when Lady Shenton who' performed the opening ceremony arrived on the scene at 11 am, she Was met by Miss Atkins. Headmis tress of the St. Stephen's Girls' College. Mra. Cheung Headmistress The hearing was in camera, of the Fairlea Giris, School, the
Mr. F. H. Wililama, Assistan; At- Revs, G. W. Carpenter and Changtorney « General, conducted the Laap Yam, '
prosecution, while Mr. Hin-shing | certain mui tssl, who was being Lo, Instructed-by-Mr--F-E--Nash, treated, and wished to come to was for the defence.
A raid was carried out on Armis tice Day ostensibly for the purpose of Anding legal arms, in a block of houses in Fur Wak Street, Yau- mabi, At. No. 69, which Sergt. C. Goodwin entered with A Chinese
Prier to the opening-function detective, the paraphenalia which the school hymn was sung whien constituted the charge,
dis- was followed by a short prayer in covered on the floor. First and Chinese said by the Rev. Chang. third defendants. together with after which the Rev. Carpenter, two women and children were in welcomed Lady Shenton. the flat of the time of the police rald,
was
Later that same day, third de- fendant made an appearance, at the flat, and when questioned by the police said that he was only visiting his friends. Later he said that he came from Kong Moon. which he subsequently refuted by stating that he came from Macao. He was detained by the police and Cater charged with the other two
men..
MATERIALS COMPLETE
Mr. A. Jackson, Government Analyst In evidence said that al- together there were 11 moulds sent to his laboratory, which contained' five and ten cent impressions for counterfeiting.
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In declaring the function open Lady Shenton said:
SALE OPENS
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Mr. Cyril Munro Faure, of 267 Hennessy Road, First Floor, was the last witness called. He oc- cupied the box for the whole afternoon, during which time he underwent A lengthy examination by Mr. Lo.
CTORS-
Witness said that he occupied one cubicle and sub-let another, His house-keeper's name was Yee Ku, and he had known her for the past eighteen months.
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AT WITNESS' HOUSE Complainant came to his house to work on October 1, and on the 12th he received a visit from the accused and his wife and another woman. They came to see the mui (sai, and the party met on the verandah, the time being 6.45 pm. Witness went on to say that he
was in his own cubicle at the time, and during the first quarter of Bit hour, they were there he heard some noise outside, so fie went out to the verandah. He could speak Cantonese very well as he had been in China for 15 years. Kó understood... the conversation
his house.
DID NOT KNOW OF TROUBLE
For about 4 or 5 days after she had been in his house, he did not know anything about her or her troubles. In answer to further cross-examination, witness went ari
to say that the girl wanted to get away from Chan Lin as this wo man wanted to make some money out of her. Finally Chan Lin got hold of a Shanghai' woman to auk his house keeper to take the girl in, and this was how the girì came to be living at his place.
If he had known that the girl was a runaway mui tsal, he would not have engaged her but would have reported the matter to the B.C.A. It was not until Octo- ber 5, that he had suspicions that she was a runaway mui tal. On October 10 his house-keeper told him that the police were after the girl,"
Miss Atkins, ladies and gentle- men, and pupil-I look upon it as a great honour to be asked t open, this bazaar to-day. I shal not make a long speech because I think they are very tiresome to listen to, but I would like to say. that I have always been very much interested in St. Stephens and knew it long before it moved to these present fine premises; it has been a great pleasure" to see the school grow and expand under the very able guidance of Miss Atkins and your excellent staff of teachers. One has only to look round to see how hard you have In all over a dozen parcels were all worked to make the sale of sent to him for examination, and work a success and us I under- contained everything from a pen-stand that most of the work has knife, brushes (for burnishing up❘ been done out of school hours I the coins) forceps, slabs of alloy think it is a very fine effort and metal, a triangular file, etc., and I congratulate you all. Miss At- 3 complete set for electro-plating kins tells me that it is possibly | throughout. He stated that he processes, together with silver the last joint effort Between St. pald attention to Chan Lin and plating solution, and bruss clips Stephen's and Fairlea Schools as accused's wife, who were question- and hooks, on, some of the former Fairlea will be thoving over toing the maltsal about clothes. De-wrote to the Mu Tsat Society. of which was found a sliver de- Kowloon next year, so I hope it fendant's wife was telling every- pasit,
will be a very great success, but I
one how well she had treated the want you girls to realise that girl when she lived with them. these are difficult times, and that you may not get so much money as last year, you may be a little disappointed, but remember the really important thing is that everyone has been happy and busy doing something for a common cause outside their own needs. the older you all get the more you will realise that it is only work for others that brings real
în witness' opinion, two batter es which were produced in Court as exhibits, would be of sufficient strength to be employed for the electro-plating process.
"With these exhibits. I could easily counterfeit Hong Kong colns" stated witness,
Replying to Mr. D. L. Strellett who appeared for the first defen- dant, witness stated that no com- plete or incomplete, finished or unfinished counterfelt coins were happiness. discovered, but there were several genuine Hong Kong coins found in the moulds.
"The process is not particularly noisy, and a casual hearer would cbt probably notice it" stated wit
ness,
The moulds auct formed, may be used over and over again" con-
cluded Mr. Jackson.
LAST YEAR'S EFFORTS
I believe that last year you gave
$1,000 to the MCL General Funds and over $1,200 towards the Mia- the Diocese in Yunnanfu, Lin- sionary work in various parts of
chow, Pakhol. Canton and Hong Kong, and what was left a little
over $200 was divided between various funds in which you are in- The case, which is one for com-
terested, the Boclety for the Pro- mittal. "was. adjourned. Lance Sergt. C. Goodwin is for the pro-am personally interested as I hap- tection of Children in which. I
pen to be the Chairman of the Ladies' Auxiliary branch of the WEDDING BELLS Society) and the Street Sleepers
secution:
Lee Cheung
Aid Society, etc. I sincerely hope you will be able to help all these deserving causes to the same, ex- tent this year, I am sure you are dying to begin" so I will now have The marriage took place at St. bazaar open and wish you a very great pleasure in declaring this Faul's Church yesterday afternoon successful and enjoyable day- when Miss May Lee, daughter of At the conclusion of her speech. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kan-tuce. was Lady Shenton was presented with married to Mr. Aubrey Cheung.
a bag worked by the pupils
The Rev. Chow
officiated.
The bride who wore
See-long-
a White FRONTIERSMEN'S
} lace gown" over white satin with
a bigh cowl neckline and wide sleeves, poked very charming as she walked into church on the arm of her brother, Mr. Thomas Lee.
Attending the bride were the Misses Nellie Lee, Nancy Kwok. Anita Cheong and Sibylla Wong, who wore katin dresses of green
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and primrose with high gathered | of. Frontiersmen has been re- necklines and flared skirts.
moved to No. 62 Taipo Road last
The flower girls, the Misses Sunday. Enid Fung, Elinor Wong and Next Wednesday, in the nature Eileen Peters, woré long dresses, of a "house warming & supper is of pink satin with puff sleeves. being provided to members and Exidesmaids and flower-gir's all their friends commencing at 7 carried bouquets of shaded African pm, when flims-of-local-activities daisies
- of this body, together with shots Master Lloyd Gock Young was taken at the Cenotaph ta connec- page boy. The duties of best mention with the Armistice Day were undertaken by Mr. Choy celebrations, will be screened. Man-suen, Messrs. Ho Bing-kee and The old address of the frontiers-
South China Daily News (Nam Wah Yat Po) Mok Wah-han were ushers. men it will be recalled. was at
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After the ceremony, a reception No. 19 Waterloo Road.
was held at the Gloucester Hotel.
The honeymoon is being spent on
tour to Shangha and northern wore a Chinese styled dress' of ports. On leaving Mrs. Ch
brown embossed chiffoni velvet.
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST MUI TSAI
He knew that the accused in- tended to make an accusation against him. Between the 5th and 9th of October, witness attempted to have a conversation with the girl, but she was reluctant to say anything, but un, October 10 she told him the whole story, so he
A representative of the Kowloon Confectionery store appeared in Court and informed his Worship that the loss sustained amounted to $34.50 which included $9 for re- pairs to the tricycle.
Inspector Nicol intejected:- when I came upon the scene there" was no signs of confectionary whatever. There were three lokis present.
The Magistrate: 325 worth of sweets evaporated in a minute?
Witness: Some of the sweets were taken by passers-by and the treat were covered with sand.
A DANGEROUS WEAPON The Magistrate: Don't try that on me. If you come to me to make claim for compensation you tell
You will not ge me the truth. any compensation at all-
Witness: Everything I told you was the truth.
Addressing defendant, his; Wor- ship stated that he (defendant) must have felt his inability to drive the car, and he cught not to have attempted to drive the car as all. "A car is a dangerous wea- pon," he continued. "and unless you are in a fit condition you must not attempt to control such a don- gerous weapon. I won't make an. order for compensation because I don't believe the story of the com- plainant," added his Worship.
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LETTER TO SOCIETY «
The general purpose of his letter was to enlighten the Society, with the facts of the girl's case, and how she had been raped on three occasions, by the accused. In girl in order to enrich her own answer to further questions, wit-pockets. ness sald that although Chan Lin Mr. Kin-shing. Lo then told his was a very cunning woman, he did Worship that from the evidence of not think she "had any success in the last witness, it was quite un- The two women then began at-inducing the girl to lead an im- necessary to call further witnesses tacking the girl with words, and moral life, but from what he had and asked h's Worship to conclude accused seemed to be worried the gathered, he drew conclusions, the case. whole time he was there. The
that this scherping woman WRE women suggested that the gizi was i trying to get a husband for the
At this time the girl made cer- tain accusations against the ac- cused, which related to the times on which he had made advances to her,
His Worship discharged the ac- cused as stated above.
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