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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1936.
FRAUDULENT
CONVERSION
Interpreter Charged At Sessions
Wong On, an interpreter employed in the Sanitary Depart- ment, was arraigned before the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl Mac. Gregor, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, on a charge of, frau- dalent conversion to his own use and beneflt. $5 entrusted to him by woman. Yip Shu, in order that he might apply the same to the purchase of a present for or pay the same to Sani- tary Inspector William T. Bilson.
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The prisoner. who was defend- within call, as he had to interpret ea by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, instruct-Chinese dialects. except Canton-STAR
ed by Mr. J. M. Hall, pleaded notese, but he was on his own the guilty and the following jury was rest of the time. empanelled to hear the case:- Messrs, O. B. Payne (Foreman) A M. Xavier. V. P. Santos. A. J. Brown. Shim Wai Cheng. A. Eddy
and C.
Lopez.
Mr. M. J. Abbott. Assistant Crown Solicitor. conducted the case for the" prosecution.
The name of Mr. Pam Sha- teng was called for service on the
Не WILS. jury.
absent but brought into Court later.
CROWN CASE
Was
On witness's third visit to 10. Clllles Street on June 9, he found Yip Shu selling foodstum again, and told her that he had to pro- Becute her. Being Informed of a serious allegation by Yip Shu he) took her to the Sanitary Office to hii superiors and the next day took her to the Urban Council office, s
Witness had never received any money either directly or indirectly. from Yip Shu. He had told her Presenting his case, Mr. Abbott that the premises would have to be made suitable before a licence would be issued.
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gination, a play enacted in Hung- hom. The principal players were to be Sanitary Inspector Bilson, the prisoner and two women, Yip Sha and Wong Mui. The locality was in the Immediate neighbour- hood of Ma Tau Wal Road. be- tween houses 182 to 220 with the addition of 208A and 2008. Th2 date was May 14 and the time be tween 8 and 9 a.m.
Under cross-examination by Mr. Hin-shing Lo. Mr. Bilson said that he was certain that May 14 was the date or the cleansing in that neighbourhood as he had noted it In his diary. The diary was pro- duced in Court.
Being a very poor district ur Kowloon. witness never at any time saw anyone there in Euro-
At the time the houses were bepean dress. ing cleansed.
Yip Shu had made an effort to
plead with witness remonstrating that her husband was in Canto and that she had a family to sup- port. She informed him of the events of May 14, implicating the arcused.
The residents were moving their belongings into the street. Mr. Blaon was supervising the use of the disinfectants. Wong. On the accused, was dressed in European clothing, and he was the only | ather person in the neighbour- Yip Shu deposed that she was hood who was dressed in occiden- the principal tenant of 10, Glies tal garments.
Street. She had stopped making foodstuffs to sell about two months
Ago.
Yip Shu, a woman of about 30 was walking along Ma Tau Wei Road. and opposite Bailey's Ship- yard she met the defendant who was alone. She
asked him to secure permission from Mr. Bilson, to sell rice pudding. and bean curd. for whien she would give a present to the Inspector.
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abe saw the accused on May 14, and asked him if he could get permission from Inspector: Bilson to sell "bean curd and elee pud- ding.
the She couldn't state exact place where she met the ac- cused but she gave him the money Asked when she was going to do with which to buy a present for this, she replied that she would | Mr. Bilson. as soon as she got the where-
In reply to Mr. Lo she said that withal, whereupon the accused she spoke to the accused in an
A new romantic team of unusual told her that, if she would get the ordinary tone in Chinese.
appeal is introduced in the Metro- money immediately, he would buy
She had fully intended to re-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Fury," and.. secure sume the present for her.
foodstuffs now showing
the King's the selling of the necessary permission at the after the Inspector's warning, as Theatre. The co-starring leads same time.
she had to support her family. are Sylvia Sidney and Spencer she was afraid to ask the Inspec- Tracy, and their acting in many of tor for a licence because he was the difficult scenes of this power- an European.
ful screen play approaches new heights.
Tracy and Miss Sidney are When Mr. Lo asked her why typical American couple planning she only wanted to give gift to to marry. He is arrested as a sus- Mr. Blison, and not to the accus-
a community where a pect in ed: she replied she only gave a kidnapping has just occurred, and word of thanks to the accused.
circumstantial evidence blackens (Laughter.
his case: Rumours spread, and troublemakers in the town, stir up a demonstration that ends in a furious attack on the prison in which Tracy is being held.
Accordingly, she returned to her house at 10. Gillies St.. and met Wong Mul. a fellow-tenant, and asked her for the loan of $5 Wong Mui agreed,
ال
Wong Mul'a curiosity was arous- ed. She followed Yip Shu and saw her hand the money to Wong On. She then returned home.
A WORD OF THANKS
で
Continuing, Mr. Abbott said that some time during the last of April, Bantary Inspector Bilson She further said that she te went to 10. Gillies Street and turned the money in instalments warned the tenants against using the fat for food-selling.
of $3 and $2 some three weeks after the loan..
Mr. Abbott: Wis the second instalment paid before or after your v.aft to the Urban Council?
Witness: After 'Wong Mul said that she loaned the money to Yip Shu.
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On June 9 he returned to see
*The mob, in a frenzy when If his warning had been heeded.
baffled in its efforts to drag out i[ Wallace Beery, who rose to fame on the laughter of the world turus
but found that rice pudding and
the innocent victim, dres the pri- bean curd were being sold with-
son. But fate takes a hand and, dramatic in "Viva Villa "" Metro.
He Goldwyn-Mayer's epic story which out the necessary Ticence.
guided by the vengeful splift of comes to the Star Theatre To-day, also saw food being prepared.
Tracy and his two younger bro For the Arst time in several years She told the Inspector that she She contradicted Yip Shu's thers, relentlessly pursues the men Beery plays a semi-villaincus rale thought that the events of May 14 statement about the refunda of and women responsible for the -that of Pancho Villa, whose name entitled her to sell without the instalments. She said that murder on carefully concacted evi- blazed from the world's headlines license.
the last one was repaid after the dence. Twenty are convicted! for a dozen tumultuous years.
Mr. Bilson had never received third vialt of Mr. Bilson which The denouement in the court- But like Marie Dressler, with
room achieves an emotional ten- whom Beery was co-starred in such any money at any time, and took was on June 9.!!
She said she followed Yip un-alon seldom equalled in motion asses as "Tugboat Annie" and Yip Shue to the Urban Counci
ber "Min and
Bill," Beery comes Office, where she made a state-intentionally, but curiosity pictures. It leaves you literally on through with a perfromance even
mert.
was aroused to such an extent be- the edge of your seat up to the more powerful than his delinea-
cause of the large sum of money fadeout. tions of comedy characters..
that was borrowed. She saw the According to psychologists, the
money being handed to someone reason is simple." "The laugh and When Tip Shu returned the who looked like a Chinese dress- the tear are so closely akin," said borrowed money she told Wong ed in foreign clothes. She was one eminent thinker, "that only Mut that it was for the accused. standing near a fountain, about Ane line divides them. It should but he denied receiving it.
ten or twenty houses away at the be simple for a competent actor to These two women
time, but she could not distinguish cross this line at will”
the features of the man,
The money had been retained by the accused for his own use, as Mr. Lilson did not receive it.
could not
With Beery playing drama, it possibly concoct such a story as it will not be Latonishing to find was full of discrepancies, Charlie Chaplin blossoming out) The first witness called was Mr. one of these days in his secret M. I. de Ville. land-surveyor of dream as. Napoleon ('
the P.W.D. who produced plans
As Pancho Villa, Beery has one of the vicinity. of the most powerful roles of his career in one of the biggest pic
WOMAN'S STORY tures ever made In the character
Sanitary Insp. Bilson was the ho brings memories of his per
next witness. He testined that on formance in his former greatest in the morning of May 14, the accus- dividual bitas another tragic Bgure, Richard the Lion-Hearted. ed arrived at the cleansing opera- Villa, whose assassination in tons some five minutes after he
1923 shocked the world, rus from did. The accused was always peonage and slavery to become the enemy of the rich, the friend of the poor; the savior of Mexico-
and one of the great historical Wray, Donald Cook, Stuart Erwin, figures of the ages. The picture, George E. Stone Josept Schild- & fictional version of his life, de kraut, Katherine De Mille, Phillip picts his triumphs in love and war. Cooper, 1rank Puglia Henry B. With Beery appears a notable Walthall and others. Jack Con st, including Leo Carrillo, Fay way directed.
She found out since the money was returned and that Yip Shu wanted it to lend to the defen- dant
An excellent supporting cast is headed by, Frank Albertson and George Walcott, as Tracy's bro- thers; Walter Abel, as the eastruct attorney: Bruce Cabot, as the lead- er of the mob, Walter Brennan, as a small-town deputy; Edward Eilis, as the sheriff, and others too num- erous to mention in smaller roles.
“Fury" is strong fare, strongly. presented..
When Mr. Hin Shing Lo asked her if it was not her job of break- ing stones on the morning of May 14, she replied that she worked at her leisure: She usually left for Sub-Inspector R. Cunningham,
Bailey's shipyard on that mom- ing, or any other morning.
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Charlle Gray, manager of the Majestic Dancing Academy, was summoned before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Leung Fung-dang, propriė- tor of the Dragon Motor Car Garage, 34 Village Road,
work between 6 and 7 in the the next witness, said that his girls and the complainant had complainant.
Da
Mr. C. A. Sutheicon Russ ap defendant then struck the com- peared for the complainant,
plainant in the face. The doctor's Gray admitted smacking the bill had been $15. Mr. Russ sug complainant. He said that he gested that Gray should try and had quarters in Village Road for, discipline h's girls and not the
Counsel went on to say that ha morning, but she was quite sure June 11, at 2,40 pm, he arrested been giving provocation, he and
was not satisfied with the de that she was in on that morning. the defendant at the substation his fatis bela source of nul-
She had told Yip Shu about the of the Sanitary office. at 2, Pausance: The complainant had been fendant's excuse. The complainant sum of six dollars which had been Cheong Street, and charged him warned several times and on this had a genuine grievance, and the
through an interpreter.
occasion the complainant smiled. defendant's excuse made it appear given her by her son, f.
This concluded the case for the and defendant said he lost his as though the complainant was
temper,
also gulty Mr. Russ asked for crown, and as Mr. Fin Shing. Lo wanted to give a legal submission,
Mr. Russ said that the girls an apology, which Gray was not the Chief Justice. Sir Atholl Mac- went to the Garage and there the prepared to give. - *
Hearing of the case was fixed her life, and never saw any Muro- Gregor, released the jury until defendant ordered them--away) pean dressed people going into 10.00 am. this morning
The for Monday, August 10.
She had never seen the defen-
dant before, but she saw his head and not his face quite clearly.
She had never been-in a bas in
which they would not do.
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