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CLARINET PLAYER WINS WOMAN'S
DAMAGES
For Injury Caused By Taxi
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GARDEN ROAD ACCIDENT SEQUEL
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Damages for $1,000 with costs were awarded by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Supreme Court yesterday morning to Fusilier Thomas Maguire, a clarinet player in the Band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, who sued the Star Taxi Company Limited, arising out of injuries received in an accident in Garden Road on November 17, 1935.
The evidence disclosed that the plaintiff suffered permanent " injury to the ulnar in his left arm.
CASE OUTLINED Appearing for the plaintif, Mr. Brittain Evans stated that on the morning of November 17 last. Maguire, in company with Fusiller
8. Linwood and
Bandsman Brinton, were walking down Gar- den Road from St. Joseph's Church. When just past the Peak road Tram Lower Station the widens at that point and there was a shallow gutter between the The footpath and the roadway.
taxi, No. 409, driven by Luk Plu, came up Garden Road swerved suddenly to the left and struck plaintiff in the left arm. The door of the handle went lato his arm. He sustained permanent injury to the ulnar nerve which affected the left Httle finger and middle finger.
to take the case up for him but before he could do so the officer was transferred to England.“
Mr. Mackinlay: I put it to you that what actually happened was this. The taxi was stationary and you were coming down the hill and in turning to look at the clock on the Peak Tram Station you slipped and fell into the taxi. Witness: That is not so. Fusiller Linwood then gave evi- dence of a corroborative nature.
DRIVER'S VERSION
Luk Plu, driver of the
taxi. stated that a European lady pas- senger had just alighted from his vehicle which had stopped. He felt a bump against the left side of the car, He then saw two so!- diers, one of took the injured man te hospital and then made, a re- port to the Police about the ac- cident.
BELATED
REMORSE
Threw Acid Into Face Of Man
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
Reappearing before Mr. W, Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Mok Klu was led into court sobbing to stand in the prisoner's dock, and it was some minutes before she recovered.
hydrochloric acid into the left eye
She was charged with throwing
of Tong Tak-shing, a man who had been keeping her for the past six years, on October 8.
The first witness was Dr, K. H. Uttley, who stated that on October 6 at 2.15 p... he examined the complainant's left eye. He found an acute conjunctivitis and an ulcer of the cornea, and the in- julles could have been sustained through acid burn. The man was admitted into the ward at the Government Civil Hospital but was discharged on his own accord the next day.
Dr. Uttley considered that the scar across the pupil of complain- ant's eye would permanently im- pair the vision in that eye.
Sgt. C. Dowman Informed his Worship that he arrested the de- fendant at her address, 188, John- ston Road on October 6.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE Capt. MacMillan. M.B., FR.CS. surgical specialist, at the Bowen Road Hospital, testified that on
Ma Mang, Inspector of the Star examination of Maguire's left arm
Tax Company, in charge of the He was accompanied by a Chi- he found that he had paralysis taxi stand below the Peak Tram nese detective, and upon entering He treated him with massages and Lower Station, deposed that he the premises they saw the defen- electrical treatment for. three
saw only the two soldiers walking | dant crying in the passageway. months. There was no improve-down Garden Road. Other people
and witness formed the
were walking on the other side of opinion that the injury was per-
the road. manent and that further treat- ment would be of no use. The in-
ment
Jury to the ulnar nerve, he said, weakened the grip of the left hand and also the muscles which con
no
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His Lordship'iemarked that peo- ple doing that were surely court-
ing suicide.
Witness added that
the taxi
stopped to allow a European lady passenger to alight.
trolled the finer movements of the fingers were paralysed:
Witness had to attend a tele- Witness examined Maguire yes-phone call and two minutes later terday morning and found
the driver brought two soldiers to change in his condition. In wlt-
him one of whom was holding his ¡ness's opinion he did not think,
elbow. there would be any improvement as time went on.
An injury of this nature would affect his accuracy with the rifle. Even more so when playing the clarinet 23 there were certain movements which he could not perform.
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Although they made a search of the cubicle they found nothing. there. They took the defendant to the Wanchai police station, and about an hour later they returned to Johnston Road where Mok Kiu
contained some fluid. showed them a glass bowl which
The next day the bowl was sent to the Government Analyst, Mr. V. C. Branson.
Mr. Branson deposed that the fuld contained hydrochloric acid.
On the witness stand, Mok Klu 'CHIEF JUSTICE'S JUDGMENT
said that she had been married at The Court then adjourned to in-
one time, and after her husband spect the taxi and on returning. died she cohabited with the com- the Chief Justice delivered judg-plainant, Tong Tak-shing. ment.
Tong returned on the evening of October 5, and she berated him for staying out so much, where-upon he struck her, and pashed her in- to the bed..
She went on to say that it was His Lordship remarked that it not her Intention to squirt the had been a short case but it was | liquid into the man's eye and she Cross-examined, witness said that
remarkable in some ways. There had kept the syringe in readiness the ulnar nerve was one in which
were no independent witnesses to exterminate bed bugs. very little improvement took place whatsoever and there was 50 grave when injured. In his opinion a conflict of evidence that it was there was no possibility of impalpable, that either one side or provement in Maguire's condition. the other must have been lying.
Fusilier Thomas Maguire, in evi- His Lordship found it extremely dence, deposed that he had eight aufcult to imagine that the injury She immediately snatched up years and two months' service in
of the nature that the plaintiff
the syringe and yelled: "Are you the Army and his intention of
certainly sustained
going to hit me again?" His re- joining the Army was to be in the
been as a result of a normal installation was: “What if I do!" and band so that he could further his
pact with the stationary vehicle. knowledge of music and on leaving It must, in his mind, have involv- the Army could obtain a job as a ed a more superior force to that musician.
of the plaintiff slipping.
He was due for discharge from the Army in May, 1939.
from
could
have
His Lordship had no hesitation in accepting the story of the plaintiff and his witness.
Mr. Evans drew attention to the
struck her again. She became so enraged that she squirted some of the acid into his left eye.
Filled with remorse for her wan- ton act, she replaced the syringe and attempted to help him. He re- monstrated and wanted to push
"ROAD WAS CLEAR" Witness then described the ac- cident and stated that they had fact that Maguire, on his dis-her out of the premises, but she re- just come
St. Joseph's charge from the Army, would be Church. It was a Sunday morning thrown to a hard and merciless and the road was practically clear world without having attained his at the time. His left arm Was ambition of being a first class mu-
struck by the door handle of the sician,
taxi and he was thrown violently
to the ground. Witness was takeri
in the taxi to the Bowen Road
military hospital. The Wound COOLIE-BOY
healed up very quickly but the
third and middle fingers were "ab-.. solutely cold" He had two weeks electric massage and then consult- ed the surgical specialist, Capt. MacMillan's predecessor who had since left for Home. The former specialist told witness that in his opinion the injury was held up on its own Witness proceeded with the Regiment to camp and on, re- turoing was due to Dre his rifle
course,
Witness. added that he played second clarinet in the Band but owing to the starcity in the Band due to men being transferred Home he was put up to Arst clarinet. He had found great dif- ficulty in playing the instrument
NOW.
CONFESSES
Stole Watch And Cigarette Case
puised his attacks On fils further insistence, she blew her police whistle, which brought the minions of the law to the scene.
In cross-examination. Insp. A E. Carey. In charge of Wanchai Police station and for the prosecu- tion, asked: When did you buy the syringe?-A long time ago. sometime in September.
When you' filled the syringe, did you know the nature of the field? --I knew that it would kill bed bugs, and that drops on the flesh would cause considerable pain.
Have you ever killed bed bugs with this fluid? Yes, I'did once.
Is it the usual practice of the Chinese to kill bugs with spirits of
TELLS GARDENER OF ?-I do not know if that is the
HIS LAPSE
Mr. D.
8,
Cuthbertson, of Queen's Gardens, May Road, mads a report to the police a month ago that his gold watch and a sliver cigarette case had been stolen.
asual practice, but I have seen a bug killed by this fuld,
Can you tell me when you frst began to suspect your husband's infidelity 7-About September 30.
Did you all the syringes with hydrochloric acid because of Jealousy? had no such inten→ tion.
Do you ever go to the cinema?—--
Did you see "Thirteen Hours By air?" Yes, I did.
Last Sunday, Mok Tung Bing, 19, in the employ of Mr. Cuthbert Yes. LOST PROFICIENCY PAY
saa, confessed to the gardener: of Witness had lost one year's pro- the establishment that he was the ficiency pay, totalling £13. 13s Bd.
culprit who had stolen the articles. and had forfeited pay as he was The gardener immediately re- unable to are his rine course, Heported the matter to his master was due to are the next ride and the prisoner was arrested by course in January or February the police. next year.
Do you remember à lad in the picture who had a rubber pistol which was similar to a syringe?- Yes.
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