NANKING PLOTTERS ARE
COMMITTED TO GAOL
Extradition Proceedings Judgment Delivered
After many hearings, including remands, the extradition pproceedings against the four Chinese who are sought by the Nanking authorities on x charge of conspiracy to murder MT. Wang Ching-wel at Nunking on November 1 "last year. were concluded before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon... The fugitives, were Yu Lap-ful. allas Li Chi-on kilas Li Shek-ya; Chay Sal-ping, Wu Tal-hoi and Cheung Chi-hon
Mr. D. Strellett conducted the case for the Crown while Mr. P. H. Sin appeared for the fugitives.
In a written judgment delivered, authorised meeting in The by Mr. Schofield yesterday all four | evidence of the Canton hotel boy fugitives were committed to gaol was somewhat confused in certain to await the further order of His details, and all he could say was that on November 1: 1935 the first fugitive was in Canton, whereas Wong Yan Shan said that he was in Hong Kong on the 7 or 8 which leaves a margin for error.
Wong Yan Shan was not shaken by a severe and lengthy cross- examination. his memory seemed unusually good. I conclude thare- tore that he has told a reasonable and credible story, which has been corroborated in several details by other witnesses, and, is supported by the nature of the correspon- dence found on the third fugitive
Excellency The Governor..'
This case is noteworthy for the fewness of the legal points which have arisen. The chief one is the admissibility of an accomplice's evidence. with, special reference to that of Wong Yan Shan. It is generally agreed that such evidence when uncorroborated must be received with great cau- ton, but cannot be excluded on that ground alone. Is It then possible to say that Wong Yan Shan's evidence is uncorroborat cd?
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1936.
PICKPOCKET CAUGHT
AN OLD HAND AT A THE GAME
| CORRESPONDENCE
TENTS AT REPULSE BAY
(To the Editor of The Hong Kong Daily Press"] Sir.-Is it not ironical that just Lo Kan, revenue oficer No. 2. was the complainant yesterday at as we read in the English papers of the magnificent response of the the Central Court when Chol Yuen Shang appeared before Mr. late King's. "great family" to the appeal for a Memorial Fund to J; H. B, Lee charged with the larceny from the person of a wal-provide fresh air, sunlight, and let containing the sum of $11.21. The theft took place inside the Hong Kong and Canton Wharf in Connaught Road.
MORE FORGED NOTES
IN EVIDENCE
TWO WOMEN IN COURT
the
Lait Sau Ying. 25, married woman, of No. 38 Bute Street, first charged
with uttering, a forged $5 note and possession af four $5 notes, whilst Chan Sze, 30, widow, was charged with uttering a forged $5 note and
Committal proceedings against two women charged with posses- aion or counterfeit currency, were opportunit.es for physical develop commenced at the Kowloon Magis- meat and recreation for the chiltracy. yesterday. Five dollar notas dren of Britain. this small British purporting to have been issued by Colony should read in its own pa-
the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, which were good Det. Sergt. Riddell stated that pers of the passing of a measure during the
which will effectively deprive the imitations were featured in embarkation of the passengers on the s.s. Kinshan at children of the average resident case. the Wing Lok Street Whart, the of all nationalities of the only defendant was walking behind the healthy and pleasurable summer complainant with a rattan basket recreation available for them indoor, Kowloon City was in his hand. On the gangway the this climate? defendant loosened the complain- May I. through your paper, ap- ant's hip pocket and took the wal-peal to every reader to think it let out. The complainant swing over, and decide whether he or she around and caught hold of the de- really wants this to happen?, Per-with possession of fendant, who stooped and dropped haps many of us do not realise $5 note. the wallet on to the wharf. The that with the prohibition of tents.. wallet was picked up by an Indian at Repulse Bay there is actually watchman.
where the average man and his family may enjoy a swim and a picnic in shade and qulet, and this in a Colony whose order boast is the incomparable Defendant said that there was opportunity it affords to residents another man immediately behind and to visitors for bathing. The the complainant and it was he Tourist Bureau may find it hard convince the tourist,of the who took the wallet. When the t complainant
swung around the truth of our assertion that the
him and he (defendant) was ar-will be nowhere for him to
unless he is a rich man.
Lal Lol Fuk, a stable boy at the Jockey Club gave evidence after the complainant had been in the box.
"nowhere."
and admittedly from 7 Sharp gulity person slipped in front of bathing is perfect here. There
(1) One of his main points is that Wong "A Chla was the leader Street East, with which the first to be of the gang and chief conspirator, fugitive has been shown and that the first fugitive was hi: connected by several links-even chief lieutenant. First fugitive if we accept his story that admits knowing Wong A Chiu and"
silken letter of appointment a meeting Wong Yan Shan. but general got in by mistake. On denies ever having met the former these grounds.. I ruled that the in Hong Kong. Ching Yik Tsungfugitives had a case to answer: says Wong A Chiu often gave din- but can it he sa d that the; ners in arst fugitive's house et 10 Wing Hing Street, and that he met both men there.
evidence casts such sericus doubt upon it that if this were an or- dinary committal case I should not be justified in committing the accused for trial?
rested.
Defendant had three previous convictions and was sentenced to eight months.
that when he went to live with the Arst fugitive he was dropsical after beri beri, and was ill up to the time of his arrest: he went to gaol, made no report to the doc- tor, and WILS cured at once. 80 completely that he has stood in First fugitive gave evidence at court since, January through every the first fugitive. This is confirm-very great length, admitted know-hearing of this case with no visi- ed by Ching Yik Tsun and by the ing Wong Yan Shan, Wong Able inconvenience.
(2) Both Wong Yan Shan and the fugitives agree that the second fugitive lived for a long time with
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try.
M.B. BARKER [Ed: We understand that it is only on certain portions of Repulse Bay beach that tents will not be allowed.]
ELECTING THE U.S. PRESIDENT
To the Editor of "The Hong
Kong Daily Press"]
basket
A countertelt
and
Detective Sergeant MacPherson said that both women entered a shop in Sha Po Road where Lau tendered a five dollar note in pay- ment for a straw mat, valued at cents. She received forty five change and left the shop. Later Chan feturned alone and bought a bamboo vegetable leaves. She tendered a five dollar note. The shop mistress had no change and sent her son-in-law to change it. He returned and said that the note was a forgery. They both examined the $5 note given by the first accused and discovered that was a counterfeit. The two nares were given Chan who compared them, and then depart-
to
ed. The son-in-law was instructed to follow the woman. He saw her meet Lau at the junction of Prince Edward Road and Nam Kok Road and had them "arrested. “
The case Was remanded till Tuesday, June 7 at 11.30 am.
A WOMAN'S DEATH PROBED
Found Hanging
Sir: Your reply regarding the nomination and election of the U. arrest of the second fugitive in Chiu, and Cheng Yik Kia, but säld The third fugitive's case is that S. President is possibly nearer cor- it -first fugitive's house at 7 Sharp
he had met the first three times. he spent
two months in Hong rect than you realize, but Street East, where Cheng Yik K'n never met the second here but Kong between March and Jurie nardly gives a complete picture of was principal tenant, Now Cheng only in Shanghai, and Was no 1935 at 455 Hennessy Road, then the situation. Among others you Prohibition was an acknowledged plotter and more than a casual friend of the went to Canton, and returned have forgotten the henchman of Wong Chiu, though third before he became his sub-September; in October he got Candidate but no one knows about first fugitive denies that he knew tenant in 69 Shing Wo Road and work as a cook with Cheng Yik that except him)
An 'enquiry was opened at the 1 before this trial; but the cor-7 Sharp Street East. As for the Kin, worked one month and one Mr. Norman Thomas, one of the | Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with respondence in the attache case charge of conspiring to murder: he week for him, and was then ar- best fitted of the candidates, has Mr. Q. A, A. Macfadyen sitting ar
denies all knowledge received the nomination of the is proof enough that either Cheng and all the fugitives flatly deny it.rested. He
coroner to prove the clraumstances 0: first fugitive. or both. were He also admits knowing Ching of the plot. In cross-examination, Socialist party. Although there is attending the death of a villager, closely connected with Wong' Ch!: Yik Tsun, and declares he is a however, he made number of no possibility of his election, his who was found hanging in an un- Nanking detective, which Ching improbable *.statements. denied vote will no doubt exceed that of numbered" but in Shek Kip Mei STRIKING KNOWLEDGE,
denies. I do not attach much 'm-knowledge of several things he the Communist. Likewise the Village. (3 Wong Yan Shan's Know-
portance to the initial denial of must have known. and says I negro, James W. Ford, nominated ledge of addresses here is most his Identity: even an innocent thought the papers (which I was for Vice-President by the Com- striking. and
the addresses man might suspect something -if | carrying) quite harmless, which is munists, is better fitted than, some have mostly been verified it can suddenly challenged in the street. ..not be pure invent on. No. 1 and give an allas or a false name. Kwong Ming Terrace and eight On the other hand he discredits other addresses were known to himself by denying that he said the Hong Kong Police on Novem- 'Yu Lap Fui is my friend' after ber 20, 1935, and this information falling to challenge the witness must have come from Nanking | who stated he did. and had been obtained from some
of the people arrested there or in Shanghai.
HIS LETTERS
not consistent with h's agitation.[of his opponents. when arrested, nor with the state- ment to the detective 'no offence has been committed against Hong Kong law,'" evidence which was not challenged when it was given, and was not denied till Ave months afterwards.
Dr. G. 8. Henry, medical oficer cf the Kowloon Mortuary deposed to conducting a post mortem on the body of a woman identified as Wong Luk, aged about 30 years, and found that death was caused by axphyxiation due to strangu- lation. Congestion at the back of the lungs was due to pneumonia, which might have caused a slight mental derangement.
You state that the Republican nominee has not been chosen yet, Bless my soul! haven't you heard of that sterling patriot, All Landon of Kansas, hand-picked by that life long Republican, William Randolph Hearst? To be sure, we may have not decided who will run
Li Chiu Lum, aged 50, mother.. the office in case of election, W. R. | In-law gave evidence in which she Hearst, or someone else, but Alfį sald that the deceased was on good heads the ticket which the voter terms with the rest of the house- is offered
hold. On the morning of her But there is always the off-death, ber daughter-in-law said chance that Mr. Roosevelt might that she was going to Tsim Tax be re-elected.
Tsul. She appeared to be in Yours etc.
normal health, but during the G. O. F.
previous two days had not been able to take much food.
Our apologies for having over-
TWO BIG FIRMS UNITED
In cross-examination he admit- FOURTH FUGITIVE'S CASE ted that one or two letters from
The fourth fugitive's case is 4) Wong Yan Shan's account the attache case were bla, and that he has no connexion with the of the Shan Kwong news agency that others referred to him. He plot or with the other fug.tives, -1 confirmed by the Nanking po-attributes the mixing of his pa- and never saw them before his llee witnesses; he was arrested in pers with Cheng's to the fact that arrest. Yet he admits that Wong Shanghal with Sun Fung Ming's he was not present at the packing Yan Shan knew his right name, wife and Chan Mong Chi, a friend at 69 Shing Wo Road. Third though Wong Pan, the detective, or one of the Shan Kwong em-fugitive flatly contradicted this did not; and he is proved by Po- ployee's; and the defence base and said both he, and Cheng were lice evidence to be lying when be part of their argument on the present but did none of the work, says the Hong Kong detective who circumstance that he is an ac- which was apparently left to the arrested him 'found out from bls looked Mr. Landon. - Ed, "H complice in the plot. It is clear. third fugitive and the first fug- own admission that he had been K. Dally Presa"] therefore, that it is impossible to tive's wife. His inexplicable igno-iving in 1 Kwong Mng Terrace. call the whole of his evidence rance of who 'Kau Ko' is, referred That information came from Nan- fabricated: 2 large proportion to in a letter addressed to him king, and must have been given must be true on any showing, and (Exhibit 29) strongly suggests by arrested plotters; hence I I am satisfied that he knew that, as counsel for the Crown re- consider there are grounds for be great deal about the plot,
marked, he is hiding something-Heving that he is connected with (5) Exhibits 30 and 34, coupled 11 fact many things and his the plot.
An important bustriess change. With Exhibit D. link up first and evasive replies to many questions The nature of the correspon- { resulting in the absorption of one second fugitives with the corres eonarm that Impression. This dence in the attache' case, the of the oldest and best-known pondence in the attache case: exasiveness
was I noticed, com- vague, allusive character of much | British · commercial firms in the first fugitive admits he is the per-mon to all the fugitives. Nor can of it, and above all the references Far East, will take effect as from son named in Exhibit 30, and it the first fugitive explain how in Exhibit 16A make it clear that to-day as a result of Messrs. is almost certain that the second Wong A Chiu's letters come to be at least part of it must relate to Reiss, Massey and Co., Ltd., hav- fugitive is the 'Shai Ping' named the attache case.
the murder plot described by ing acquired the goodwill, trade with him. The phrase '4th and
An attempt was made to bear Wong Yan Shan If this all be- rights. and interests of Messrs. 5th elder brothers' applied to them out the first fugitive's evidence by longed to Cheng Yik Kin, it seems Bradley and Co., Ltd, of Hong is very remarkable, as neither the calling a witness from Canton to incredible that neither the first Kong, Swatow and Shanghai writer nor the fugitives are blood prove his alibi on November 1, nor the second ΠΟΥ the third The name of the newly-created brothers, and seems to imply that 1935, but the witness did not ap-fugitive knew anything about the firm will be, дя from to-day, they are in a society or cónfede- pear, though the acquaintance at plot, since all lived together in Messra racy of some sort; it is analogous Shaukiwani, if at here, should
Reiza, Bradley and Co., the same Hat, moved together Ltd. to similar phrases in other letters. have been able to give the same from one address to another, dig
(6) Ching Yik Tsun was first evidence.
each other's packing, and mixed asked by the Nanking authorities
Lastly, his admitted attempt to each other's papers. No adequate about November 10, 1835, if he put the Police off the track of his explanation has been given, of this committal case, the evidence would knew the first fugitive, five days identity by giving Tang Yatatate of affairs: still less of the be sufficient to cause the fugitives before Wong Yan Shan's arrest: Ching's name as that of the oc-asty removal of the correspon- to be put upon their trial, or to hence someone else must have cupler of Sharp Street East.dence to 92 Robinson" Road, constitute a strong or probab's given them rat fugitive's name though he knew, Tang was not and No evidence has been given. and case against them. In my opinion possibly never would be there, apne suggestion made, that theee111s, and no sufficient answer" or pears to be hardly consistent with proceedings, though nominally explanation has been given by any The attacka on Wong Yan innocence,
criminal, are in fact directed of the fugitives. STORY DOUBTED
for against political opponenta
In committing all four fugitives Shan's veracity by independent witnesses are not very serious, Against the second fugitive purely political reasons: all that to gaol to await the further order His father in cross-examination there is little circumstantial | the defence suggest is that Wong of HE. the Governor. It is my was less certain that he was in evidence beyond the fact that he Yan Shan is incriminating the duty to point out to them that they cannot be surrendered to the Hong Kong from mid-February to was living in Cheng Yik Kin's fugitives to win the favour of early April 1935 than he was in his house when, arrested, and has ad- Nanking authorities, and save his requisitioning Government until evidence in chief. His motive ta mittedly lived about a year with own skin,
15 days have elapsed, and that obviously to clear the good name the nrst Tugitive. But the story In giving a decision, I wish to during that time, if they wah, of his association, which of course he tells raises the gravest doubts emphasize that my sole task is to they may appeal to the Supreme is not affected by a secret, un-lot his truthfulness. He declares ascertal whether, if this were a Court for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
in connexion with this plot.
VERACITY ATTACKED
The Jury, comprising Messrs. B. H. Nyhon (foreman), W. Lawson Butt and L. E. Rosario without re- tiring from the court room return- ed a verdict in which they found that deceased had committed suicide by hanging herself. A con- tributary cause of her death was that she suffered from pnemonia.
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