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SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST SANITARY
INSPECTOR
Persecuting Stall - Holders For A Bribe ?
The case was commenced before Mr. W. Schoffeld at the Central Magistracy yesterday when Thomas Storey Clark, Second Class Sani- fary Inspector, was summoned for| having between May 1 and July 15 last, at Happy Valley, accepted from Yu Sap a bribe of $81.
Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton is re- presenting the defendant and Mr.
his past show that he aimed at
bribe, and that his subsequent conduct proves very clearly that he understood the object of the so- called "present,"
AROUND THE COURTS
KAIPING
RAW OPIUM
Arrested coming of the Kow- loon-Canton express train yester day with 13 taels of raw opluni concealed in his shoes, Li On, 30, unemployed, Was fined $450, OF three months' imprisonment, "dn his appearance before Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
Revenue Officer "H. Major ap- peared for the prosecution.
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BANISHEE SENTENCED
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W. Schofield, at the Central Magis- Appearing on remand before Mr.
tracy-yesterday Leung So, un- employed was sentenced to one month's hard labour for having returned from banishment before
Your Worship will remember that in a recent appen! the Full Court ruled that persons offering a bribe were to be regarded as ac complices of the person accepting W. J. Lockhart-Smith Asat Crown, and that consequently the Jury Solicitor is for the prosecution, thust be warned, in accordance; the expiration of his term of ten In outlining the facts of the case with a practice so well settled as years It will be recalled that the Mr. Lockhart-Smith said:
almost to amount to a rule of law,, defendant stated when he first ap- "As a result of certain informa-o the danger of accepting such peared in Court that he had re- tion which gravely implicated evidence. If uncorroborated. That turned to find his son whom he Sanitary Inspector Clark, enqui- does not apply to the preliminary had learnt, was destitute in Hong- ries were made at Lockhart Road proceedings. Al I have to do is kong. Market which ed to the institution satisfy your Worship that there is of these proceedings
prima facie case to justify com- mittal and for that purpose ac- May I say at once that this pre-complices are perfectly adequate eaution la undertaken in no vin- dictive spirit-as is shown by the fact that an application was made for à sumtions and not for a war-į rant but rather in fairness to the accused himself. The matter
witzesses. In addition there is of course, the corroboration of the Sanitary Dept. coolle
THE EVIDENCE' -
The first witness called
WES: who
could be dealt with departmentally | Acting Inspector Eccleshall where less strictaress would be per- missible, but in accordance with said that from May 1. til July 15, the spirit of Sir Alison Russell's
1935. Inspector Clark was the Ins- memorandum, which is regardedector in charge of Lockhart Road as a work of authority by the Co-
Market. From May 1 till June 28. lonial Office, it has been decided he occupied the Quarters at 125 to leave the issue to a jury-that Wong Nel Chong Road. is to say if your Worship decides further stated that he knew noth
ing of the signboard in front of defendant's quarters.
to commit.
HISTORY OF TROUBLE
this year, and lived in No. 125
Witness
Au
Next to give evidence was Yang Shing, pork butcher at Lock- hart Road Market. He said that his father owned the stall and he
FORGED NOTES
Three men who are charged in
connection with the possession of forged notes, made another ap- pearance before Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Magistracy yesterday on remand A date for hearing was applied for, and Friday noon was fixed.
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SMUGGLING OF SILVER
Two Offenders Muleted
Appearing on" remand, before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central charges Magistracy yesterday on of exporting 833 pounds of silver"! bullion from the Colony to For- mosa on the steamer Fukujin Mary on December 2, exporting 12,945 silver dollars and exporting namely, six manifested cargo, cases of fish and silver, one bas- ket of fruit and silver and
The case will be continued at 215 pm on Monday. December 9. Mr..E. H. Willams, the Assistant for Attorney-General. appeared the Crown, and applied for a date package of silver. The Chung-
to be fixed for hearing. .
FALSE PRETENCES
On a charge of obtaining $1.50
by falsely pretending he had four
Inspector Clark had the duty of supervising Lockhart Road Market from the 1st May to the 28th June worked there. He could not any vegetable plots for sale on Wong Net Chong Road. Some time of any trouble between the stail atering the latter period, the holders in the Market ard Inspec- offence which is the subject of this tor Clark as he was away in the charge was committed. The wit- country, but when he came back he was told of some collection that was to be made.
nesses are of a type which I am afraid your Worship is only too
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kuan, a shop fokl, was fined $100. while Wong Kan-yuen, unemploy- ed convicted on the same charges was ordered to pay fine of $1,000 or, in default, to serve at months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.
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MORE PRISONERS
IN GAOL
Extra Vote Of $19,000 Asked For
FINANCE COMMITTEE
MEETING
Votes totaling $34,150 were subsequently
passed by the Finance Committee of the Legis.... tative Council · immediately after the Council Meeting.
Of this amount $19,000 was for the Prisons Department, being for the subsistence $13,600 for Public Works Recur- Prisoners;
of
rent, Hong Kong Typhoon and Rainstorm damages; 81,020 for the Medical Department being for repairs to the Dialecting and His Worship also order the Fumigating machine; $400 for Castle Peak Road. Mul Lam. 23, bullion to be confiscated.
subsistence of prisoners in the unemployed, was sentenced to six
Revenue Officer Grimmitt pro- Police Force; $100 for Colonial weeks imprisonment, wher he pleaded guilty before Mr. Wynne-secuted while both the defendants Secretary's Office, incidental, ex- were represented by Mr. P. penses and 850 for the Supreme Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy sin.
Court being fees to Counsel and Solicitors for Prisoners.
yesterday. The complainant was a woman, Tit Heung, living at 100
familiar and it is quite impossible | went along with Chan Fuk to 'coli Yu Chow Street. Detective Ser-
On the evening of h's return be to ix the exact date of the occur-est money. It was in the middle | geart C. Goodwin prosecuted.
rence, but in my submission the
date is not vital the whole ques- Juce or July. Witness said that tion being, did the accused during he personally collected the money." his time in charge of the Market accept a bribe of $81?
The history of the trouble is as follows: No sooner had Inspector Clark taken over his duties, then he commenced to harry the stall! holders, especially those with beef, Dork and fih stalls, by requesting them to cleanse their stalls at 'all
$51. from 17 stals, and besides this he received from LJ Yung $30 mak- 18 total of $81. He changed the money into bank notes, handed this to Li Yung that same evening.
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MITIGATION PLEA
Mr. Sin at the outset of yester- day's sitting fold the Magistrate he reached his clients' ples of ed off was not a felony But $ "guilty" to the charges, but in misdemeanour. As for the first mitigation of the offence, Mr. Sin defendafit, Mr. Si sald It was stated that the second defendant his Arst offence, and as he stood a merchant carrying on an to lose all the silver, a tentent import and export business with view should be taken. Formosa; and he exported the Revenue Officer Grimmitt said cases of fish and fruit. He was the Superintendent of Imports lured into the commission of the and Exports took a serious view offence by the Arst defendant, of the case of the second defen-
On complaint of the land ord, a rald was made on a sly brother on the first flock of 111 Woosung Street last night. It was found to Yung another stall holder | be patronised by Europeans.
The keeper. Yuen Fal, a man, ld that he had some dimculty
was fined $250," or six weeks in de- with the Inspector, whom he fault, when he pleaded gulity be who asked for the use of the dant If the liver had got membered, took charge of the
defendant would Market in June or July. Defenfore Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kow- goods. It was a sudden tempta- through, the
tion on his part, arid Mr. Sin have made at least twenty per This dant used to come in at 8 or loon Police Court yesterday.
Sub-Inspector o'clock in the morning and want-
O'Connell pro- asked that he be dealt with cent. profit. and it was a capital speed them to clean up their stalls.
tentently, as the offence complain- offence in China at the moment. tor occasioned a great loss of This, witness went on to say, was business.
sorts of unreasonable hours usually between 8-10
a.m when business was at its height. conduct on the part of the
At some period during the Ingrather troublesome, as it was their pector's term
busiest time. Previously no one of duty at the
had called on them to clean the Market-variously estimated from
weeks after his arrival to June stalls at these busy hours. Wit- or July the stall holders got toss said that he cleaned his stail gether and decided to get up a twice a day, first at 10 am, and subscription for a present for the later at 6 pm. but he never clean- Inspector in the hope that hed his stall at the hours requested would abandon his persecution. by the defendant and nothing
It was agreed that each of the happened. 27 stalls should contribute $3, each
Later the stall holders held
after "which" each a total of $81-and a stall holder consultation, named Li Yung, and Another agreed to subscribe to make a named Chan Fuk, approached the present to the defendant. Witness Sanitary Dept. Market Coolte, An collected $30 from ten fish stall Chuen, and asked him if he wou'd holders and handed the money to take the money to the Inspector. Au Shing, later At Shing gave him The coolle refused to have any-481 in notes which he in turn thing to do with it.
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'handed to Chan Fuk. This inemey was handed to the Inspector, and from that time onwards there was no trouble about the cleansing of the stalls.
MONEY COLLECTED
Accordingly a young man. Au Ghing, accompanied by Chan Fuk coffected the $51 from 17 stall
Chan Fak, master of a pork stall holders and Li Yurg the fish stall said that he remembered the dif holder colected $30 from 16 stalls,culties he had had with defend- and handed the money to Au ant, and in the main his evidence Shing. Shortly afterwards Au
was corroborative. Shing gave the $81 in the shape of one 350 note, three $10 notes and one silver dollar.
In answer to questions by Mr. ant used to come to the Market Bruttou, witness said that defen-
Next day Li Yung handed ove: 2 or 3 times a day, sometimes after the whole sum to Chat Fuk who 8 am and sometimes after 9 am
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in turn gave it to Po Tong. There. When he came in the evening he would Inspect the, stal imple. seems to have been aime coyness
ments. about the actually handing over to the Inspector.
At this stage the hearing was Finally Po Tong and another adjourned till to-day. man named Yu Lap, set on to- gether for the Inspector's Quarters.
at Happy Valley. The witnesses don't remember the number. but
AN INCORRIGIBLE Before Mr. Q A. A. Macfadyen the house was indicated by la signboard in Chinese. They went at the Central Magistráty yester- to the room and Fo Tong pro- day, La Yin, aged 25, was senten duced the money and counted it Ced to one year's hard labour, and on, the table. Tu Lap picked it up ordered to place himself under and handed it to accused saying police supervision, for two years Here is a present for you. Inspec- when he was convicted on a charge
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From that moment the annoy- Defendant, it was revealed had ance by tae accused ceased, and seven previons danvictions against, the Crown asks you to infer from him most of which for larceny.
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