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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1936.
RUDE BUST
DRIVER
COUNTERFEIT.
COINS
Summoned By Lady Case For Sessions
A last rude bus drivers will find Chan Mux, 42, unemployed was out for themselves that it is not charged at the Central Magistracy worthwhile to be unpolite to pas- yesterday for the possession of 529 sengers. When one of them was counterfelt ten cent pieces. He ap- summoned by a lady for rudeness, peared before Mr. S. F. Balfour. he was convicted and fined and a Sub-Inspector M. J. Flattery remark was made by the Magis- stating the case for the prosecu- trate that he thought the sum-tion said that on April 6 at about mons which the complainant $.40 a.m; the s.s. Tai Lee arrived brought was the first prosecution in Hong Kong from Kongmoon. of the kind brought to Court. Revenue officers were on the wharf Mrs Anita Hillyer of No. 7 Ven- and among the passengers disem- irls Road brought a summons be- barking was the defendant. He fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cer- was carrying two baskets and tral Magistracy yesterday against bamboo pole. He was stopped by Ng Yim, driver of bus No, 675 for one of the Officers and in one of behaving rudely towards her at the Baskets were found some bun- Connaught Road Central on Apridles of herbs, in
2.
H Worship, after hearing the stories of both parties ordered de- fendant to pay a fine of 55
"GO AND DIE"
In the course of her evidence, complainant who conducted her own case, said "he told me Chinese 'to go and die."
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the midst of which were rolls of counterfelt coins wrapped up in socks. There were altogether 529 coins.
MORE TREE CUTTERS
A Further Batch Dealt With
A further batch of wood cutters two Magistrates at the Kowloon made their appearance before the
Magistracy yesterday.
Li Tai (27) married woman was fined $15 in default, one month with hard labour by Mr. Keen, in the Second Court for possession of 41 cattles of pine tree branches. Accused admitted being arrested at No. 9b Plantation, Kowloon Tong.
Another married woman, named Chung Kam (39) was similarly sentenced for possession of 67 ca tles at No. 9B, Plantation. Mr. Farrow of the Botanical and For. estry Department prosecuted in both cases.
Tang
Around the Courts
REVOLVER CONFISCATED
A BAD CHARACTER An order for the conscation of Sentence for five months' haru a 765 calibre pistol and eight labour was indicted on Tang So, rounds of ammunition was made aged 23, unemployed, when he ap-. by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the The pistol and ammunition were charged with theft of two Kowloon
peared before Mr. Balfour at the Magistracy yesterday. Central Magistracy yesterday, stated to have beer found in the hammers from No. 26 Upper Lax- stone- beakyard of No. 114 Yee Kuk; car Row. Sub-Inspector Johnson Street, Shamshuipo by a Chinese sald defendant was seen to steal detective on April 2. Sergeant C. H. Goodwin appeared marine
Detective; byr the complainant, Leung. 猛 for the police,
dealer. Defendant Was found to have two previous convie- tions, one for receiving and other for demanding" money.
PIGS STOLEN
OVERCROWDING
the
For the theft of two pigs from the Ma Tau Kok Slaughter House, two Chinese, Way Ngai (30) and Police measures taken against Kong Pin (23) were sentenced to motor bus drivers for overcrowd.ng two months with hard labour each. resulted in nine conductors being Mr. J. M. Hall watched the case summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, on behalf of the Kowloon Fork at the Central Magistracy yester- Dealers' Guild: The prosecution day. All were aned. stated that the pigs were taken to tors of bus Nos. 632 and 675 were The conduc- Leung Kul, Revenue officer was
A REMANDED CASE the first in the box and gave evid-
the slaughter house and left there. j fined $5 each; Nos. 636, 634 and Appearing on. remand ence of the Anding of the coins in
A visit to the pen at night however, 801. 36 each; Nos. 603, 612 and 633. Cheun (351 the basket. He stated that before
unemployed was disclosed the fact that the animals $7 each and No. 489, $8. charged with possession of 110 cat- in the ship arrived there was nobody ties of split pine wood at No. the
were missing. The watchman of
Pork Dealers' eise on the wharf except a few
Chilld was Plantation. She began her story by saying coolles.. The defendant was taken
Inspector Chester-notified of the theft and he traced Woods said that the accused was that the bus had stopped out to the Folce Station where he was
the animals to a shop in Yaumati side the Wing On Company store searched by Sergt. T. Pilkington.
one of the party of seven who were Later the two accused were ar- arrested in a gang. The accused rested. at about 11 am. on the day of the Sergt." Pilkington in the box said incident and she had started to that he searched
had attempted to resist arrest and the defendant received multiple injuries. get off the bus with her child, and had found in the bamboo pole Accused had been detained in when defendan: suddenly started two rolls of counterfeit coins wrap-hospital but had since been re- again. As a the result she was ped up in paper and wedged in- leased. thrown with her child against a side with some more paper in cr- seat. She told the driver in Eng- der that they would not Ish that he should be more care-around. More coins were found in ful the next time, whereupon he the defendant's jacket. replied in Chinese telling her to go and die. She told the driver she understood what he hid said. and would report him. The driver then asked her to report and "go and die." There were some Chin- ce passengers in the back of the bus. The driver snarled at her and showed his teeth. He spoke in angeries, ordinary voice.
Defendant denied having abused complainant, saying he had not addressed the remarks to her.
TRADE MARK CASE
Infringements Alleged
The intringement of Trade Marks once more came up when the Yat Lee firm of 127, Jervols Street was summoned beiore Mr. W. Schofield yesterday at the Central Court. The summons is that on March 12 the Yat Lee firm had for sale soap which bore a trade mark resem- bling that used by Monroe and Co.. 359, Li-chi-kok Road, which calculated to deceive.
Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios appeared for Lam Choy, the managing pariner of Monroe and Co. while Mr. C. E. R. Sanderson appeared for the defendant firm.
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Lam Choy in the witness box stated that Monroe and Cc., were the registered owners of the trade mark "Policeman Brand" which had been duly registered. Since the application of the trade mark the firm had been making powder- ed spap in cake form.
In January the sales were found to be going down and upon making enquiries a soap was found on the market bearing a similar trade mark. Witness said that he found the infringements in a show case 1 a soap shop: Tile defendant Arm was one of these shops, Det. Sergt. Gund was takin to the shop and the infringements were seized.
Fong Chuen then gave evidence of having gone to the defendant shop and having bought three bars of the soap for 48 cents,
After this evidence the case wa adjourned until May 5.
WOLFRAM ORE
Two Men Arrested For Stealing
Wolfram ore valued at $60.00 was mentioned before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy. yesterday when a fishing junk master and his foki were charged with theft of the ore whilst trans- 'porting twenty two sacks contain- ing 11 piculs from. Pak Mong Fa, in Chinese Territory to Sha Tin, In the New Territories. A total of 70 cattles had been stolen, "all of which however was recovered.
The accused were arrested, stated Inspector Ells, on information re- ceived. First defendant was seat- ed besides the driver of a motor Jorry while transporting the ore, and in a basket placed with him, two casks of ore were found. The first accused pointed out the sec- and defendant as having assited him in removing small quantities of pre from each of the twenty two sacks, to make up two sacks full,
GOOD FORGERIES
roll
Sergt. J. G. Whitcroft gave evia- once the examination of the coins and stated that some of the coins were deiuced and their col- our was different from genuine ones. They were very good for-
Sub-Inspector M. J. Flattery gave formal evidence which was fol- lowed by that of
the Interpreter of the Police Station who had read out the charge to the defendant when he was charged.
Defendant in the box stated that
came
he knew nothing about the coins. He had only just arrived in Hong Kong from the country where bus!- ness was so bad that he down here with his employer. After landing he lost sight of his mas- ter and that he had admitted t the ownership of the coins in the absence of his master. They ha concealed the coins because it was better not to expose wealth. bamboo pole. witness said, taken from a matshed near the Customs Shed in Kongmoon.
The defendant was committed to the Criminal Sessions.
The
was
THEFT OF MAḤ
JONG SETS
Woman's Numerous
Exploits
A remand of three days was granted at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday in a case in which a 45- year-old-wide, named Au Yeung was charged with the theft of seven mah jong sets from seven different
addresses, in various parts of the mainland and Hong Kong.
Inspector A Elston told Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen that he would like a remand in order to further pursue inquiries. Although, there were sever complainants in" the present case, there was a likelihood of further charges, being instigated against the accused. The Police' had received twenty seven com- plaints in all regarding her. The total value of the misappropriated good was $100.
Bobbing qultely,
accused said that she had five children to look after, and had no money.
Inspector Elston asked if a little girl arrested with the accused was to be detained. There would be no charge against her. Actually a decoy. The defendant had the accused had used the girl as
claimed that the girl was her daughter, but his statement had since been proved to be untrue,
After deliberation the Magistrate ordered that the girl be referred to the 5.C.A., and also instructed allegations of the accused regard the prosecution to look into the
ing her children,
The first accused, Ho San Ko (20) was fined $50 or one month in jail, while the second defendant · Li- Kam Tung (36) was fined $20 or three weeks. Cho On, wolfram ore dealer of No. 162 Tu Chai Street, appeared as the complainant.
A fine of $25 or in default, six weeks' imprisonment was imposed. For possession of tree bark known as "Heptapleurum Octophyllum" used by the Chinese as a medicine for curing headaches, a Chinese Tam Kam Chuen, 19 years of age, was brought before Mr. Q. A. A Macfadyen in the First Court. Mr. Farrow appeared for the prosecu- tion and stated that the trees grew wild on the government planta- tions, but once stripped of the bark, they die. Tremendous damage was being done. The accused was
Talpo Road, arrested near the 34 mile stone at
BANISHEE
HEROIN PILLS POSSESSION A 20-year-old unmarried woman, Chan Ho, was charged before Mr. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yesterday with the possession of a quantity of heroin pills. Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ appeared for the Lam Man (24) a banishee who
defence and asked that a date be was arrested on April 16. was sen-
fixed for hearing. Accordingly, the tenced at the Kowloon Magistracy case was adjourned to April 25 at to two months' imprisonment. Lam 11 am. Ball in the sum of $500 admitted being banished from the was allowed. Sub-Inspector John- Colony on October 8, 1935, Be son prosecuted... stated he had returned because of unemployment.
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yesterday. Defendant was seen to Central Magistracy empty the rubbish into the gutter. Sub-Inspector Johnson prosecuted.
DUMPING RUBBISH A fine of $10 was imposed "ASSAULT AND ROBBERY Wong Tin, aged 23, house cookie, Appearing before Mr. Balfour at charged with dumping rubbish at the Central Magistracy yesterday. Glenedly near St. Paul's Church. 1 Chik-sang, aged 30, unemploy- when he appeared before Mr. Bo- ed, was charged with assaulting Loup at the ving, a 22-year-old woman, on the stairway of No. 18 Zetland Street on Apr 18 with intent to rob her. Another man, Ho Sing, aged. unemployed, also appeared, charg ed with aiding and abetting first Inspector Ellis on behalf of the accused in the commission of the Police made an application for a crime. Both defendants denied the peared on a charge of disorder v 24 hour remand, in order to re-offence and were remanded for 24
hours in police custody on the ap-Street outside the Gloucester Hote
conduct by fighting in take the accused's finger prints. The application was granted.
plication of Detective-Sergeant P. O. Guild.
SOLDIER CAUTIONED
On Traffic Summons
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MORE BANISHEES
21,
Ho "Lam, 47 years, unemployed. charged before Mr. W. Schofield,
was
to
banished
for five years in January th year.
at the Central Magistracy yester- day, with hav.ng returned from banishment, Private Brutton, of the 2nd. East twelve months' hard
sentenced Lancs. Regiment. Shamshuipo, wan was banished for ten years in No- labour. He cautioned at the Kowloon Magie-vember last year. Ng Wai-shum, tracy yesterday by Mr. Q. A. A.18, unemployed, was sentenced to Macfadyen where he appeared in nine months' hard labour on answer to a summons for driving similar charge. He was a motor cycle without a cence. Brutton stated that on March 27, while he was on his way, to the Water Police Station to make an appontment, he was stopped by a police officer. Ee had since ob- tained the necessary licence.
Traffic Sergeant Paton was cited as the complainant but failed to make an appearance.
The Magis- trate was informed that the pro- secuting officer, was and had been admitted into hospital.
During the hearing of another summons the, Court was informed that Inspector Nichols of the Trafic Department was also "an Inmate of the Kowloon Hospital,
assau.ted A3 Wanchal Thursday.
ASSAULT CHARGE Charged before Mr. W. Schode d." at the Central Magistracy yester- day, with having Yeung-cheung. .at 55 Road, ground floor, en Au Yeung-lut, shop foki, was boun1 over in a personal bond of 350 to keep the peace for one year. and ordered to pay $2 compensation to complainant. Defendant was said to have quarrelled with complain- ant and hit him on the head with an iron hook." Both were employ- ed in the same shop:
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Pleading gulity to a charge of a breach of the Passports Ordinance. Vasily Andre Dlakof, a 34-year-old salesman was fined $10 and ordered to be expelled from the Colony by Mr. S. F. Balfour at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
Det.-Sergt. F. E. Russell pro secured. He told his Worship that defendant arrived in the Colony on March 24 on his way to Cariton. from Shanghal to Hong Kong. He He had a transport visa for passage
was warned to leave Canton the- sanie day. Returning to the Co- lony, defendant lived at the Airlie Hotel until March 29. He then left for Canton again, but came back and lived at the same hotel. On April 8, defendant went to
found to be living at No. 35 Ashley Macao. He later returned and was Road. He was not there when the police called, but reported himself at Police Headquarters the next" day.
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