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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.
HEROIN CASES AT THE
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
Man's Plea Of Not Guilty
Upheld By Jury
The third of the series of cases concerning dangerous drugs came before the Chief Justice Sir Atholl MaeGregor, at the Cri- minal Sessions yesterday. The accused were two men, Chan Yuk- man and Wong Foog, charred with the possession of a quarter ounce of diacetyl' morphine, commonly known as heroin, and 28 ounces of white powder, at No. 170, Gloucester Road, Wanchai, on January 15.
Chan Yuk-man pleaded guilty, while Wong Font, for whom the Hon. Mr. Les D'Almada, jun, instructed by Mr. F. E. Nash, SD- peared, pleaded not guilty, "..
The following jury was empanelled:-E Hospes (foreman), Fung Pa-ho, H. Sauerbeck, H. G. Cooper, To Shing-chung, Li Pui- Fong and Cheung Kam-chuen,
when
An amusing incident followed the accused, Wong Fong, was asked it he had any objection to the jury.
"Dam short-sighted and I would like to see the jury closer," said Wong. He was then led from the dock to the jury box and after a few minutes' observation said he had no objection and returned to the dock.
CHINESE OFFICER'S
OBSERVATIONS
Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant At- torney General, for the Crown, described a raid made by S. R. O. Griminitt and a party at No. 170, Gloucester Road. top floor. Difficulty was experienced in gain- ing extrance to the premises. A Chinese revenue officer on the roof observed the accused, Wong Fong, hurrying along towards the lavatory carrying two bowls con- tainn red matter. The CRO, then
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came down to the front and the door was opened by another man and the raiding party entered. There were red splashes on the floor of the premises and on the lavatory floor.
The accused's hands were stain- ed pink and were still wet as if they had recently been washed.
ONE MAN DISCHARGED When charged. Wong Fong said, The drug does not belong to me I stayed there only temporarily." At the Police Court he said that he was a seaman and went to visit his friend. He found it was too late to return to his ship and so stayed the night" He did not know what the articles found were. "After evidence, the jury, follow- ing a brief retirement returned, a verdict of not guilty against Wong Fong and he was discharged...
Chan' Yuk-man was sentenced to three years' hard labour.
LADY DRIVER CAUTIONED
ATTEMPT TO
DEFRAUD
Chinese Impersonate
Police Officers
Unsuccessful in 'their alleged at- tempt to obtain money by imper- sonating police officers, two Chinese Chan Lin. 27, ex-police constable, and Taut Fuk, 30, previously of the prison department were charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen as the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning, and were found guilty of the charges preferred against them.
According to Sub-Inspector Hughes, who prosecuted, the de- tendants on Sunday last went into a small shop and demanded from the proprietress, Lau Reung, a 40- year-old woman the sum of $2, W accusing her that she was selling cigarettes without an appropriate
licence..
PROOF DEMANDED
Complainant, in the witness box, said that she did not sell cigarettes in her shop, and that the packet produced in Court was not her property. When defendants came in and demanded the money, she sipped out of her shop by the back door, and asked a few of her neighbours to assist her in the matter. Her friends" then asked defendants for credentials to prove their identities as police officers. Upon their request second defen- dant produced a police whistle and a chain which were identified by Sgt. Hughes as the type used by the Hong Kong Police. Steing that their proofs were insufficient, they arrested defendants and handed them over to a constable.
Chan, Lin, in his evidence, stated that he went to complainant's shop to purchase a packet of cigarettes which cost five cents. He tender- ed her a ten-cent piece, which, ac- cording to his belief, complainant mistook for a five-cent piece, He demanded the change, and accused of cheating, and threatened that he would go and make a report to the police unless she gave him a sum of $2. They then left the shop, and later re- turned again" saying that they would "even wait till very late for the money,
Unemployed Chinese New Comer To Colony complainant
Fined
Lau Pan, 54, unemployed, and Lau Luk, 55, - marine hawker, ap- peared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday alternoon charged with receiving a stolen blcycle Lau Luk was dis- charged when 8gt. Estall accepted his plea that he was innocent of the knowledge that the bicycle was stolen.
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The summons against Mrs. J. M. Allen, of No. 11. Felix Villas, Pok- fulam, for (a) falling to use the left side of the road when turning the corner of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road, Central, and (b) driving without an appropriate license, was taken by Mr. W. Ache- field at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
Defendant did not appear in Court, but pleaded guilty by letter. Egt. Bethell prosecuted and said that defendant committed the offences at 9.50 am.. on February
Sgt. Estall said that on January 22, Teang Kong of No. 14, Mallory Street, second floor, reported the loss of his bicycle. He returned on February to state that he had seen it in the Leung Chong Ku | 4. Second Hand Shop, of 1, Spring His Worship gave a caution on Garden Lane, and had identified it the first charge as defendant was "as his.
a comparatively new comer to the The following day, a Chinese Colony, having only arrived a short detective accompanied the com-time ago with the Seaforth High- plainant to the second hand shop landers, and imposed a fine of $5 and recovered the bicycle. It was on the other charge." alleged by the master of the shop that he had purchased it from Lau Pan for $3.50.
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Lau admitted the charge and added that he thought he could make some money by selling the machine, which was valued at $7. His Worship imposed a fine of 850 or six weeks imprisonment.
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THE INNOCENT: PARTY The story told by the second defendant was that he did not en- ter the shop with the first defen-
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to demand the change, He wit- nessed his friend being assaulted by two or three persons and he blew the whistle for help, but was eventually arrested
Motorist Reminded Of.
Victim's Widow
Sgt. Hughes naked his Worship to take a serious view of this case, Sentence of three months in the and further stated that there had second division was passed at the been a case in which an offender Old Balley on Reginald Crewdson, was convicted for the possession of age 31 of Outwood, near Redhill government-made police whistle. His driving licence was suspended His Worship registered a fine of $25 or one month's imprisonment on each of the defendants.
DEATH INQUIRY
Mr. Justice Hayden at the Crimin- Verdict Of "Natural
al Sessions yesterday on charges of uttering two forged $1 Hong Kong Government bank notes, one
LORRY DRIVER FINED at a shop in Bulkeley Street,
Hunghom, and the other at a shop in Ma Tau Wel Road, and posses- sion of the notes,
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A part-time lorry driver, Lau Hung. 34, was charged before Mr. The following Jury heard the Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon case:-MessTS. W F. Simmons Magistracy yesterday morning for (Foreman), R. B. Capell, W. L L driving a lorry without a valid | Barker, W. Macfarlane, J. G. Jones, driver's licence and driving at an L 8. Silva, B. Pasco and J. D. excessive speed, namely 26 mph., Kinnaird. in Castle Road, near Cheung Sha Wan Road on Monday last.
Sgt. MacVey said that he stop- ped defendant for exceeding the speed limit, and discovered the in- valid licence when the defendant was asked to produce jt for in- spection.
Defendant' was fined $5 on the first charge and $15 on the second.
THEFT OF BRASS PIPES
The accused was discharged. Mr. M. J. Abbott appeared for the Crown.
CONTINGENT FROM INDIA
600 Officers And Men
Causes"
An inquiry into the death of Hui Kwong, a 51-year-old prisoner at Victoria Gaol, was held at the Central Magistracy yesterday
afternoon.
1or seven years.
CELEBRATIONS
The 178th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns 'was" cele- brated throughout the world ··
In the towns and cities of Scot- land Burns clubs and societies met to honour the memory of the. poet.
Lord Inverclyde, addressing the Bridgeton Burns Club in Glasgow, He pleaded not gility to the referred to the proposal to make inanslaughter of John Samuel a Burns film at Hollywood." "If Funnell, but guilty to a charge of that film is anything like the dangerous driving, and his pies film of ''Annie Laurey" he re- was accepted.
marked, "I can well imagine Burns turning, in his "grave,”
Mr. Funnell, gardener-chauffeur, was killed by Crewdson's car as he was cycling with his wife on
A feature of the celebrations in Scotland was the growing ` parti- . cipation of women. Exclusively the Brighton-road on October 18.
Mr. G. D. Roberts (prosecuting) feminine dinners were held in said that Crewdson was a man of Greenock and Dumfries, and wo-
men outnumbered men same position in Croydon and the
at the neighbourhood, being chief mem-Edinburgh Burns Club gathering. ber of a firm of public works con- tractors.
Mr. St. John Hutchinson, K.C. defending) said that Crewdson had held a driving licence for 14 years, and had only one convic- tion--for speeding
FAULTY 'PLANE
CRASH
Experimenter's Death,
Mr. K. Keen sat as Coroner, and the jury was composed of Messra. John Howell, (foreman), M. A.
Mr. Justice Charles said that he Prata and C. M. Sequeira.
had heard a great deal in the aske Mr. H. Barrett, chief warder, about humanity. but it did not
A verdict of accidental death. said that deceased WEA sent to seem to have occurred to the ac-
due to the faulty · design of the Victoria Gaol on December 19, cused, perhaps that there
was | zeroplane, was returned at the 1936, to serve a term of nine some relation between the word adjourned inquest at Caterham on months' hard labour, On January | humanity and the unfortunate | Mr. Richard Taylor, aged 40, an 13, he was transferred to Stanley woman who, by his rash act, had engineer, of Riverside, Sunbury, Gaol but was brought back to the been made a widow in a zash. who was killed when his expert-
"Because you were racing round a bend." he added, “you did not see this unfortunate man. Your
Victoria Gaol Hospital on February 12, when he succumbed to his ill- mesa,
Dr. G. I Shaw testified that character saves you from a long when he first examined deceased term of imprisonment, but impri- on December 20, ne found the sonment you must certainly have. prisoner to be suffering from The public must be protected."" chronic tuberculosis.
The Indian contingent for the Coronation, comprising 800 British and Indian officers and other Ko Lam, 19, unemployed, of No. ranks, will arrive in England about The jury returned a verdict of 4. Peel Street, first floor, appeared May 3. About 300 will have a place death from natural causes. before M. W. Schofield at the in the Coronation Procession. Central Magistracy yesterday for The contingent will include:- the larceny of two files and a brass 29 British officers of the Regular pipe, all valued at $5.
Indian Army, the Indien Medical each of the 11 provinces of the Eub-Inspector Madgwick, pro- Service. the Royal Indian Navy and Indian Police.. secuting, said that Heang Chung. the Indian Police;
a fireman on board the steam Six warrant officers and men of launch. Tung Tal, saw defendant the Royal Indian Navy:
at 2 a.m., on Monday: entering the 176 Indian officers of the Regular stern of the launch and steal the Army-one from each unit-and
each un articles. The launch was anchor-138 other ranks;
ed off Whitfeld Road at the time. 35 British officers of the Auxillary
A sentence of three months with Force units; and hard labour was imposed.
66 Omcers and-men-six from
They will go into camp in the Home Park at Hampton Court and will, remain there until about May 25, when the contingent leave for India.
H.ML Bloop Indus, which repre- sented India at the Silver Jubilee Naval Review, will attend the Spithead Review on May.
TL. SOONG STILL INDISPOSED
Canton, Feb. 15.
mental 'plane crashed.
Major J. Cooper. Inspector of Accidents to the Air Ministry, gave evidence that the 'crash' was due to a structural failure, which he attributed to a weakness of de- sign.
The Coroner-Was this man try- ing out his experiments in accord- ance with the regulations?
Major Cooper-No. It would appear that his fight was a con- travention of the regulations as ne was not the holder of a licence and the fight was not authorised by the issue of a permit..
It is reported that Mr. T. L Boong, Kwangtung Finance Com- misstoner, is suffering from tung trouble, and is resting in the Wang Yan Nursing Home in Shanghai,
financial situation in Kwangtung After his recovery, he will confer Province, and then return to Can- with Generalissimo Chiang Kai- ton to resume his duties as Finance shek, and Dr. Kung Chang-hal, the Commissioner - Finance Minister, regarding the¦hinese Evening Preuss