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"ENOUGH TO KILL
MANY PEOPLE"
POSSESSION OF
POISON
SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN
Appearing on remand before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Mägis- tracy on Saturday charged with the possession of a bottle of potassium cyanide. Wong Hung. unemployed, was fined $100 or two months' hard labour in default. At the previous hearing the defen- dant stated he was taking the bat➡' lo to a man, Wong Han, at 8, Pilker Street.
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THEFTS OF ROPE
FROM SHIPS
Property Sold To Fishermen
OLD OFFENDERS.
GAOLED
Thefts of large quantities of Manila rope were admitted by Chan Shui, 40 fisherman. Leung Chuen, 35, and Chan Chi-lung. 23, both odd job coolles, when they appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday charged with stealing
Det-Insp. Eston, appearing on behalf of Det.-Sub-Inspector R Cunningham who was removed to hospital on Saturday morning, stated that the contents of the bottle had been examined and was | 120 fathoms. found to be 1 ib. sodium cyanide which was a poison within the cr-
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of ten inch Manila rope from the s.5. Cortu is Kow- loon Bay and 85 fathoms of eight inch rope from the As Havel in Junk Bay.
PESTERING OF TOURISTS
BAGGAGE SNATCHING
AT THE FERRY
"One thing I intend to stop in Hong Kong and that is the pea- tering of tourists", remarked Mr. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- tracy on Saturday when he im- posed a fine of $10 or, in default, three weeks' hard labour, on Ngan. Chun-yuen. 23, street coolte. charged with disorderly conduct by snatching baggage at Salisbury Road outside the Star Ferry wharf.
A Shantung constable gave evi- dence that the defendant tried to snatch a leather bag which was being carried by a European who had come out of the ferry wharf. The European did not call for a coole.
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Detective Sergeant Haynes star- ed that a struggle between the European and the defendant for possession attention of the constable. The of the bag drew the European boarded the Empress of
Russia
Defendant: I am a newcomer.
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SIMPLE LARCENY
DIFFERENCE OF $90 POCKETED
SELLING HIS OWN CHILD
CHINESE RECEIVES
SIX MONTHS
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Receiving a $100 in mistake for ALLEGED FORGERY
a $10 note. cashing it and pocket-
-Chan Pun, 31, unemployed ap- Possession "of a forged Chining the difference, led Wang Chut, peated before Mr. B.F. Balfour at Light and Fower Company em 25. a
shop fok! before Mr. S.F. the Central Court yesterday
larceny of $90. terday: charged with the simple
countryman gave him the bottle Shaukiwan and they admitted Ployee identification card was the Balfour at the Central Court Yes charged with taking part in a
in a street in Sham Shui Po to
take to Wong Hau.
dinance. Defendant was arrested in Shanghai Street by police carry- ing the bottle in a basket which
Det.-Sergt. A. E. Haynes said also contained pieces of lead and that on July 10 It was reported antimony used for making silver- | from the Corfu that rope valued plating. Defendant could not give at £20 was missing and on August & 'satisfactory explanation 8.9 3 the Melchers' vessel Havel re- to how he got the bottle and where | ported the loss of rope valued at he was taking it to.
$500. From information received Defendant" remarked that the defendants were Arrested in stealing the rope and selling it to the Ashing fleet. Insp. Elston pointed out that the
Chan Shut had among other police had been to five addresses previous gaot terms, served five with the defendant but each time years in 1922 for robbery, while they got to the house the defen- | Leung Chaen who had no less dant remarked it was not the than nine previous convictions also place.
served five years in 1923 for lar- The label, "The Oriental Dispeu- ceny in a dwelling. Chan Chi- sary", on the bottle was false, said | lung also had a previous conviction tr.sp. Elston. The Government against him. Apothecary and the polles had The defendants were sentenced visited the address given on the to six months' hard labour each label and could find no dispensary to be followed by two years' police of that name.
surveillance at the expiration" ef sentence.
Insp. Eston added that the polson was a huge quantity, enough to kill many people. The defen- dant had been in Hong Kong for seven years and was at the time a shop foki but had been out of fine.
work for the past several months. were asking for a heavy Police
CHIEFTAINSHIP. CLAIM BEFORE COURT
ALBANY HERALD'S SPEECH
GIRL'S PETITION STRONGLY OPPOSED
charge against Wong Kam, 25, un- employed, when he appeared be- fore Mr. Macfadyen at the Kow- loon Magistracy on Saturday."My younger brother put the photo on f. I knew it, was false", said the On the accused when charged. application of, Det.-Insp. A. H Elston a remand of 48 hours in custody was granted to find out what the defendant wanted the document for.
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MORE HEROIN
A selure of nearly 2,500 herein pils on the third floor of 38, Tuss Choi Street, resulted in a woman, Wong Fuk, being brought before Mr. Himsworth at the Kowloon | Magistracy on Saturday and re-
transaction on July 28 at No.31. The complainant was Mi, A. Centre Street, second floor, the was to transfer Pareuna, chief Officer of the object of which Basilar.
possession, custody or control of a Det.-Sergt. Man prosecuted and stated that the defendant's father minor Chau Kam aged 4, for a was a tailor and the defendant valuable consideration was sent to collect $20 from the Inspector Ellis of the 8.C.A. complainant. The complainant stated that the defendant W23 handed over what he thought was the child's father. There were two two ten-dollar notes. In reality children. one, aged one year and the notes were one $100 and one the other aged four. Up till a $10. The defandant cashed the month ago the defendant and his $100 and paid his father the $20 family were staying with his alster. and kept the $90 difference to payThe defendant could not, and work agambling debt.
so be was given $4 and left the Defendant's father had express- | house to sleep in the streets with ed willingness to repay the $90. his family.
Defendant was bound over in) $200 and ordered to repay $90° to
manded for one week on $1,000 ban on the application of R. O. ONEL It was stated that the the complainant.. woman was teated near X drying cupboard containing the pilis.
when she arrived at Ooan Gather- fing, to have her place adjusted by the Lord Lyon.
aiction was determining whether a person was the chief or the Mr. M'Kechnie..went on to say cadet and representative of the be had never disputed, the Lord noble familles from which they Lyon's jurisdiction, in all armorial had sprung
questions, but the. patrimonial NOT ASKING PRECEDENCE <question, waa.notope of these. Mr. Gordon Thomas, advocate,He submitted that the law could who was one of the counsel for not take account of it, but only "of Miss Maclean, emphasised that they were not asking his Lordship to place Miss Maclean before any body else.
precedence. On the whole, mat- ter, he asked his Lordship to dis- miss the parts of the petition which dealt with, chieftainship..
The case will be continued to
They were only asking for a matriculation of arms, and he day.
Miss Maclean did not claim to be the Chief of the Clan. She
London, July 22. The hearing of the claims, submitted that the Lord Lyon had for the chieftainship of the the right to adjudicate on arms, family of Maclean of Ardgour quite independent of patrimental was continued yesterday, when interest the Albany Herald (Mt. Thomas Innes, of Learney, advocate) spoke for over three hours before the Court of the Lord Lyon King-of-Arms in Edinburgh.
stated she was the head of a family, and as such she claimed matriculation and "supporters,”
on the whole matter he asked his Lordship to repel the respon- dent's pleas.
of
Mr. Innes is principal counsel
TWO PARTS TO QUESTION for Miss Catriona Louise Maclean
For the respondent Mr. Hector who of Ardgour,
15 claiming
M'Kechnie, advocate, contended family chieftainship.
that one could not get "suppor He spoke volubly, and quoted at ters unless one was chief of a length from heavy volumes of clan or had got prescriptive use. "authorities piled on a table in
"On the general question the court, Some of his quotations jurisdiction of chlefship," he de- were in French, and in every case 'clared, "I am perfectly content if he followed them with a transla- your Lordship will make a anding that you have no jurisdiction on When the Court opened on the question of chlefship of the Monday it was argued that the Macleans of Ardgour.".. Albany Herald could not plead i because he was an officer of the of Miss Maclean raised the ques- In his subralssion, the petition Court as well as an advocate.
Mr. Innes explained yesterday that Miss Maclean asked to be called the chief or chieftain of the family.
tion.
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tion of who was the chieftain of Ardgour, and was in two parte- armorial and chieftain.
In the structure of Highland civilisation the whole matter bore ADVOCATE'S SUBMISSION on: who was the chief, and was Dealing with the plea on behalf quite different from the matter of of the respondent. Lieutenant-who was the principal person- Commander Henry H. Maclean. armorially. Bahkan who is heir male and opposes the Sex was highly relevant in de- petition. Mr. Innes denied that ciding who was the principal per the Lord Lyon (Sir Francis' 7 son armorially, and be submitted Grant) had no jur'sdiction in the female side was barred. questions of chieftainship. Al Chiefabip was a personal thing. His submission was that the ] One found chiefs who had no land jurisdiction of the Court dealt in- at all
separably with those subjects. Counsel said that it seemed to They were subjects for which the him there was no proper prece-- Court had existed at any rate dent for litigation of that kind. since the Middle Ages, and it would be quite put of the The subject of his Lordship's 't question for the Arst time to sus- Jurisdiction was one which even tain jurisdiction, when chiefships to-day no Court could afford to were gradually disappearing:/ regard as other than both socially WHAT PETITIONER WANTED - and practically important, and Pretedetice be submitted, was the fundamental part of the juris just what the petitioner wanted.
CHINESE STEEL CONTRACT
Longon. July 24..... Dorran Long and Co. have secured a contract to supply and and erect 4.170 tons of steel, valued at $1,500,000 (Chinese), on a new bridge to be built across the Chian Tang River at Hangchowa
On July 25 the defendant quar- relied with his wife and as a re- sult took the young girl and went away. He later returned and told his wife that he had sold the child and produced $10. The mother went to the buyer, a man named Lee Hing, and asked for the child back again. Lee Hing then took the child to the 8.0.A.. and it was placed at the Po Leung Kuk, The defendant sold the child for $19
on July 28.
Inspector Ellis went on to say that the buyers were lucky in that they were not, being prosecuted. An essential link in the rail com- They had correctly taken the munication established between child to the 8.C.A. Shanghai and Canton is formed Remarking that all it amounted by the bridge, which will also play to was that the defendant" bad a part in Northern and Southern, taken the mother's child to sell, Cheklang_The total contract | His Worship sentenced the de- value is $4,500,000.
fendant to 6 months.
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