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PEAK MURDER CASE OPENS
COOK BOY CHARGED WITH PUBLIC AUCTION. KILLING MRS. CHALLINOR
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Husband Gives Vivid Description Of Grim Struggle In Bedroom
Graphic details of how his wife. Mrs Sybil Ruby Challinor, met her untimely death in the early hours of May 5 as her residence No. 499. The Peak, were related by Mr. B. H. Challinor, manager of the Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd, giving evidence at the Central Court yesterday afternoon before Mr. Butters when Lam Chan, his former cook boy, faced charge of murder.
Mr. John Whyatt. Crown Counsel, conducted the prosecution. Lam Chan, who was not legally represented, appeared in Court with crutches, not having fully recovered from injuries sustained in an alleged attempt to escape.
The prosecution alleged that accused murdered Mrs. Challinor by stabbing her with two kitchen
knives.
Accused, said Mr Whyatt, was employed as a cook boy at the time of the murder. He had been employed as such for about 15 months. His work as a cook boy was described 2.9 satisfactory. The relations between accused and his employer were the re lations that usually exist between mistress and servant.
that it would attract the attention of the other servants, as the lights had an extension to the servants'
quarters.
PROTECTED WIFE
"I then jumped on my wife's bed and placed myselt between her and the prisoner.
I put my right arm round her body to keep her behind me. I then looked at the prisoner and Saw by the travelling clock on the mantle- plece that it was two minutes past four. I then said to the prisoner 'Boy, let ns be sensible about it. You know what will happen to you if you injure missy and me?' He replied 'You say I silly. I not silly. I kill you'."
He took one or two paces for. ward. I was still shielding my wife behind me and endeavouring to get her on the bed into the passage way between our twin beds when, to my consternation. she suddenly sprang to her feet
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The two were still in ignorance and jumped out of her bed on the
the window. of what had taken place in Mr.off side near Challinor's bedroom. They heard scrambled after her in an endea shouts of "Robbery" and they ran your to intercept the prisoner. out of the house into the main road where they met two Chinese detectives. Together the four re- turned to the house.
While waiting for the door to be opened, one of the detectives flushed his torch on the roof and there they saw the Agure of a man lying low, close to the rain gutters. The 'man leapt into the air as the beam rested on him. And landed on some flower pots some 12 feet below.
Sergt. Moran then arrived on a bicycle with first aid equipment. He questioned the man who had fallen from the roof and the man
Towards the end of April ar rangements were made for Mrs. Challinor to go Eome to visit her daughter. and it was intended that she should leave Hong Kong on May 29, to return in the early part of November. For this rea son Mr. Challinor had made ar LÄMMERT BROS. rangements to sub-let his house
"I have stabbed the master, the Mrs. Poolle stabbed tenants during
the mistress, and new
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Mr. Challinor gave his servants. were all taking part in it," he told which included a coolie, a wash the police. amah, a gardener and a chauffeur and accused himself. their wages and notice. Informing them that they would be re-engaged by the new tenants.
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But he sensing the movement, sprang forward like a leopard and drove the knife-I" think the one "In his right hand-through my wife's left breast. I pulled him to the ground and whlist struggling with him he kept jabbing with the right hand knife at my wife's body.
"As soon as he struck her she collapsed.
WIFE COLLAPSED
"I got hold of prisoner's wrists. spreading them out face down- ward. As soon as I had him under control, I said to my wife "Try to ket to the telephone."
'She attempted to rise and then collapsed. I was certain that life was extinct.
"The prisoner and I continued to struggle. We then found our- telves on our feet.. Prisoner's hand kept aiming at my body with a knife and I endeavoured to ward it off:
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An ambulance arrived later and the Conveyed Mr. Challinor to War Memorial Hospital where he
"We continued to struggle and remained for several weeks. Later both fell heavily on the floor, he ONE EXCEPTION
In the morning the body of Mrs. underneath me. I had him under was removed to the control again by the wrist. I said There was one exception in the Challinor
2 accused Public Mortuary, where post to the prisoner: Boy this all very arrangement. however.
Missy lie in that corner. was left without a job as the new mortem was performed the follow-silly.
Ing day. The doctor's report killed by you. Now you trying to tenants had their own cook.
death was was stated that
due On hearing
to kill me. The boy cried I killed this accused
severe haemorrhage following stab missy. Now I kill you' disappointed and was much 'dis
wounds. There were eight of "I made desperate attempts to tressed.
these stab wounds and one had keep the knife out of his hand, that he let the accused free. Ac- severed the sub-clavian artery. particularly the large one in his used dodged past him and ran out of the room. He intended to fol- WALS that hac left hand. I released my grip on Medical opinion morrhage from that wound alone his right wrist and used both low him, realising that accused was hands in an endeavour to keep the covered with blood and the police would have caused death.
large knife from him. When I did might arrest him. " this he dug the small knife into
p.m.
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kitchen
my back.
left one, and pummelled his head hard many times with the handle." Mr. Challinor continued to say
* went to the bell button and pressed 1t
witness, hard." gald "There was
Then no response. suddenly, I heard a crash coming from the pantry.
On the night of May 4. Mr. and
diped Mrs. Challinor
at home Mrs. Challinor retired about 11
About 4 o'clock the following
More police officers arrived at moming. Mr. Chaillnor awakened by the,, voice of his No. 499 The Peak in response to the telephone call. As a result of wife. He looked up and saw ac-
investigations, two blood-stained tused, armed with two knives. repeatedly stabbing his knives were found on the floor of wife. Mr. Challinor immediately the bedroom. The furniture was leapt from his bed and struggled plattered with the accused and at the same room was in complete disorder.. A picked up a rattan chair. I crack-wide open, the one opposite where time called out to his wife to pair of trousers. underclothes and ed him
Mrs. a torn sleeve belonging to ae- telephone for the police. Challinor made as if to go but cused. were also found in the bed- collapsed and died within a few minutes.
Mr. Challinor then telephoned to
room.
with blood
BLOOD ON FLOOR "We then found, ourselves on our the feet again and by manoeuvring I and
"I threw one of the
windows
over the head several my wife's body was calling out times with this chair. It made no Fa Wong' as loud as I possibly impression on him as the rattan could. There was no response. chair was very light. I cast the I went and had a look at my chair aside, closed on him' again wife's body. There was no pulse, MR. CHALLINOR'S STORY
and, owing to the slippery Hoorno heart beat She was dead." Meanwhile the struggle between Mr. Richard Howard Challinor. which was covered with blood-- Witness then said he opened the Mr. Challinor and the accused giving evidence said that a few we both fell heavily to the floor. bedroom door went into the hall continued and it was not till 20 days after he had given ac-
He was again underneath me. and telephoned for Dr. Durran and minutes. later that accused was cused notice to quit, accused
"Finding our faces close together also made a report to the police. disarmed.
approached him and requested a I bit him in the chin. I have very reference. Mr. Challinor said he strong teeth. I hung on to him DOCTOR'S BYIDENCE discussed the matter with his wife dug my teeth deeper and deeper. Dr. J. Durran, in the witness and eventually refused the request. He tried to shake me off?" He then box, said he received the phone Coming to the night of the tried to get my face with his right call about 4.32 a.m. He went to crime. Mr. Challinor said his wife hand. It was then that I realised No. 499, The Peak and on entering After having been disarmed, retired about 1030 p.m. He him that the knife was not in his handsaw Mr. Challinor "covered from accused apparently went to the self went to bed about 30 minutes "I took hold of his right wrist. head to foot with blood." He said
coolle. later. The door leading to the holding it out. I still had my Mr. Challinor was dressed in py who had just returned from town bedroom was opened as usual: teeth in his chin. He then tried jamas with a coat, on top. and was preparing to go to bed.. "During the night I was to get at my face with his left Dr. Durran carried out a brief heard, some noise at the back awakened by my wife's voice call hand and in doing so let the knife examination on Mrs. Challinor's door. Shortly after, he saw acing out Bay! Bay! Don't be silly.slip from the fingers. cused standing near the door, Don't be silly." There was dressed only in a Chinese jacket ceiling light on. I sat up in bed.
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body and found life was extinct
He then attended to Mr. Chal- linor, who suffered many wounds.
and a pair of socks and covered I saw my wife sitting up in bed I promptly picked it up, and The more severe ones were in the with blood.
looking at the prisoner: The at that moment he was absolutely right flanks head and wrist. Accused. who was carrying prisoner was 'standing with his at my mercy.
Mr. R. D. Ollesple gave evidence hammer, attacked the coolie and back to the mantle-plece, armed "However. I did not use the of identification of the body of later went into the room and with a knife in each hand.
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Mrs. Challinor at the Queen Mary attacked the gardener. The two sprang out of bed and pressed the "When I took possession of the Hospital during the post-mortem. however, rushed at him and push- button of the electric switch be-j knife I transferred it from my The case was then adjourned ed him out of the door.
tween the twin beds in the hope) wounded right hand to my soundtill 2.30 p.m. on June 23.
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