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FATHER GIVES EVIDENCE ON BEHALF OF SON
Charge Of Uttering Two
Forged Banknotes
Described by his father as an energetic and diligent worker. Cheung Kl-chung was charged before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday with utter- ing two forged $10 banknotes on the Chartered Bank of India, Aus- tralia and China.
During the course of his evidence, the father, who had been called by the Crown to refute the son's statement that he had received one of the notes mentioned in the charge from him, stated that at the time his son was alleged to have committed one of the offences, he was sleeping at home..
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1938
FOUND GUILTY
·OF ROBBERY
Chinese Detective
Imprisoned
PILL A PERIL
AND PEST TO COMMUNITY
Heroin Case. At The Sessions
Convicted on a charge of robbery by two or more, Leung Chiu-kam,
"You have been convicted on a detective in the Hong Kong Po- lce, was sentenced to four years' the clearest possible" evidence of hard labour by the Acting Putsne possession of this form of pill Judge. Mr. Justice C. H. Williama which is a perll and pest to the Accused, who had pleaded not cummunity. You may not be one guilty was defended by Mr. Hinut the major actors in this traffic, shing Lo, while Mr. W. J. Lockhart.but, clearly are one of the actors." Smith, Crown Counsel, prosecuted. With these remarks the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice R. E. The following comprised the jury:-Messrs. H. Heitmeyer (Fore. Lindsell, sentenced Lee Sam. 28- woman, to eighteen Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, When "formally charged, accused man), G. B Butt, L Goldman, H. year-old
convicted by a jury at the prosecuted, and Mr. Hin-shing Lo, denied having been to the shop in Wong, H. C. Fox, Cheng Fan and months hard labour whe she was Criminal Sessions yesterday or instructed by Mr. J. M. Hall de-the morning, and as regards the E. F. C. Fernandes. fended...
incident in the afternoon he said Testifying yesterday the accused The following comprised the he did not know the note, which said that he has been in the local possession of 20,000 heroin pills.
Mr. J. Whyatt. Crown Counsel,
and prosecuted,
the Jury: Messrs. L. F. Ball (Foreman), was given to him by his father. Police Force for seven years. He
following K. T. Alexander, Chow Hon-shu, K. was a forgery. However, his fa- had been stationed at Shatin for comprised the Jury: Messrs. Ä. J. On April Manton (Foreman), Yee Khin- K. Soeren, L. M. Remedics, W. 9.ther was questioned and he said some 10 or 11 months.
he had never given his son any 28 he had complained to a Euro-shuen. Li Lan-sang. V M. Ham Clarke, and W. Crichton.
Mr. Whyatt said that the shop money that day and further did pean officer that he had found it mond, A. H. Madar, W. Funck and..
difficult to get along with the where defendant had uttered the not send him out to buy food.
The first witness called was Hovillagers around Shatin. On June notes had been opened only that very morning, (June 23) and there Ming-chiu, shroff of the Chartered 12, a police informer went to see was a fairly large number of cus-Bank, who tested that the notes him at Shatin and together they Juge 24 on the fourth floor of a tomers, among whom was accused were not very good forgeries. The went to the Man Hung village. He block in Des Voeux Road Central, who bought 20 cents worth of roast paper was too thick and the sur-did not rob Chan Het of $60.
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pork. He tendered a $10 note for payment, and shortly after he had left with the change it was teard to be a forgery.
face too glassy.
Questioned by Mr. Lo, witness agreed that the two notes were tw different kinds of forgeries, one of them being coarser than the other TAILUR'S EVIDENCE
those produced.
In his statement to the police following his arrest, the accused said that he had handcuffed Char because he had attempted to run away. He never pointed his re į volver at Chan,
J. N. Wong
The woman. was arrested
on
following a raid by Revenue Officer J. L. Stephens and party.
"In a statement from the dock. prisoner said that although she had admitted the things were hers she did not in fact know what
the contents were. They were left behind by her husband, who re-
volunteers.
Without retiring the jury re- turned a unanimous verdict.
OWNER SOUGHT
Later in the afternoon, accused returned to the shop and bought. another 20 cents worth of pork After four other witnesses for the In the course of his submissions turned to the country to join the He again tendered a $10 note, and Crown had testified Cheung Shui-to the Court for the discharge of when this was being examined he kit was called. He said he was his client, Mr. Lo pointed out to the remarked that he would make paymaster tallor, his premises belas members of the Jury that the ac- ment in small coins. However, the at No. 233 Lockhart Road. He had cused would not be guilty if they 'shroff took the note to another not given accused any money on round that Chan Hel had given shop for it to be examined and June 23. He could not say whe-him the money, supposing that he when it was declared to be a for-ther he had ever given him any had, for fear of being arrested and
Police are looking for the owner gery, she returned and told -nc-notes as he (prisoner) kept maner taken into Chinese territory and of a bathing trunk and a large cused: "You gave me a forged for him. He was sure, however, not because of fear of actual per-towel which were found in the note this morning and now you are that he never had such notes as sonal violence.
possession of a street coolie who trying to pass me another."
After retiring for five minutes was arrested by the police. The Accused denied having beer. to
Later witness said that on the the Jury returned a unanimous articles were stolen from a car. it the shop in the morning and an maming of June 23 his son who verdict of guilty.
was alleged argument ensued, ending in the had played mah Jongg til late the
The defendant. Li Kau was re- In passing sentence on the ac-
at parties going to the police station previous night, had slept till be
the 48 There accused was searched and tween 11 a.m. and noon. Asked by cused His Lordship said: "The manded by Mr. Butters en his person was found five $5 M. Whyatt whether he knew that Jury has found you guilty, and very Central Court yesterday for notes and nine 10-cent pieces, all one of the reasons why his son rightly so of this very serious of hours.
Detective-Sergt. McVey, of No. 7 ismore serious in had got into trouble was because fence, which COUNSEL'S SUGGESTION he was alleged to have uttered a view of the fact that you have been Police Station, is in charge of the
communicate with him. The reason why accused retum-forged ten-dollar note at 9 a.m. a member of the Hong Kong Police ease and the owner is asked to ed to the shop. Counsel suggested, that morning. witness repeated for a number of years,” was because he thought it was not number of times that he could not unlikely he wattld be successful have done so as he was sleeping again, as the business was new in the shop at that time.. and therefore it might be expected not to be sc vigilant in detecting forged notes.
good money.
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
NOT PROVED
Kwan Tu-chuen,
Sub- Manager of the Mercantile Print-
Co. ing Press
Ltd.. who was charged with having embezzled the sum of $1.602.02 from the company, was discharged 'yester. day by Mr. Edwards at the Central Court yesterday.
tendered a $10 note in payment of In reply to Mr. Lo witness said a bill of 34.10.
The case was then adjourned that on June 22 a man and a wo- man had gone to his shop and had this morning.
Ten local Chinese expert radio operators will shortly leave for the interior to offer their services to says the National Government, Central News.
PNEUMONIA ROBBED OF ITS TERROR
New Drug Experiments
A new drug, used with remarkable success in the treatment of pneumonia, is the discovery of a British research chemist.
ALLEGED BORROWINGS OF
A BANKRUPT
That he obtained credit of over $100 from an Indian money-lender"
It is admittedly the first drug to possess any powerful effect against the virulent germ of pneumonia, a disease so insidious that the great Doctor Osler called it "the captain of the men of death.""
Until a few months ago recovery in 'severe eases of pneumonia, without informing him that he was especially among old people, was regarded as something of a an undischarged bankrupt. was the charge preferred against Mr. phenomenon.'
George Graham Stubbs, 1 Clerk Mr. S. Ng" Quinn appeared for the defence and pleaded not. Now, as a result of the discovery | have described the results of the employed at the Department of guilty, while Mr. McCallum was in of this
drug. new
victims of drug in three cases in the current Statistics, Singapore, when he ap
peared before Mr. H. A. Forrer, Lis- charge of the prosecution
pneumonia have every chance of issue of the "Lancet."
Despite these successes the trict Judge, Criminal District Court, It was alleged that between life. April 25 and 30, Kwan received a The medical profession has ac- manufacturers are having the drug recently.
Mr. Stubbs claimed trial, while sum of nearly $3,000 and only quired an unexpected weapon in' tested still more thoroughly before
2 Mr. EN Taylor. Official Assignee, turned in to the company a sum the fight against this dread disease, offering it for sale.
They want to be sure that it has appeared together with Mr. J. W. of $1.500,
,,:
and British doctors and British Evidence given was to the effect chemists are rejoicing in the know- no harmful reaction in addition to D. Ambrose. Assistant Official As-
sigree, for the Crown... that Kwan had signed, the receipt ledge that the drug is a product its "known healing properties.
The two doctors who have re-
Arunasalam, Chettiar,, the money- of
research Our Own for the sum due to the company of one
counted their experiences in "The lender, said he jent Mr. Stubbs a and that he had not turned in laboratories.
Mr. Maxwell Tellat sum of $100 on May 20, 1935. The the full amount that he had re- The new drug is the answer to Lancet" are
criticisms so often made that re- chief assistant to a medical unit accused signed a promissory note ceived..
Kwan stated that he had used search in chemistry in this country at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and promising to pay back $130.
The debt was settled on Nov. 9, the money to settle accounts for is a long way behind that of Ger- Mr. W. A. Oliver, Lawrence research
scholar and junior demonstrator of that year, when Mr. Stubbs came to the company and it was his fault many and America.
The full name of the newpathology at the same hospital. his shop with a Eurasian and a for not informing the manager of the reason. He produced bills and drug is 2-(p-Aminobenzenesulpho- The first case described is that Chinese. The accused said that of a woman. of 60 suffering from the three of them wanted to bor- accounts in support of his state-namido)
a very severe form of pneumonia row some money, Witness lent menta,
and regarded as an almost hope them 3550 and the three of them less case.
signed a promissory note for $750. One lung had completely col witness said he handed the money. It was discovered by Dr. Ewins, lapsed and the other was seriously to Mr. Stubbs.
Arunasalam said the accused still Director of Research at the Dagen-
After treatment with the new owed him a balance of $52 of the ham Laboratories of Messrs. May and Baker, the, manufacturing drar improvement set in and with-first promissory note and when the In a fortnight the woman's pulse sum of $550 was handed to him.
PURSE STOLEN FROM US. SAILOR
Pyridine,
but it is referred to in the medical world as "M. and B. 693.","
chemists.
TESTS ON MICE
involved.
.1'
MAN OF 60.
In the case of a man of 60 suffer-
2
Mr. Stubbs paid him the $52. The case was adjourned.
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"M, and B. 693" was first tested and temperature were normal. A sallor of the US.S. Black on animals at the Bland Sutton! Hawk, George W. Culbert, was Résearch Institute by Dr. Lionel E
extensive broncho-the pneumococcus germ have dis- victimised of the sum of 800 by &B. Whitby, who discovered that the ing from pickpocket on Monday while walk-drug was able to kill the pneimo-pneumonia, the drug was ad appeared following the administra
"The suggestion is that the germ Ling along Queen's Road Central, coccus germ in experimental infee ministered on the fourth day of his tion of the drug.”
tions in mice-even in the most illness. and within 12 hours his near the Queen's Theatre...
temperature had fallen to pormal. is deprived by the drug of its means The alleged offender. Wong deadly strains of the germ.
In the third case a man of 34, of protection against its natural Since then the drug has been Ching-chung, was sentenced to five months' hard labour when he used with encouraging results in suffering from lobar pneumonia, enemies in the blood-the white. This is also the theory "of the appeared before Mr. Edwards at scores of cases of pneumonia and and also a victim of diabetes, was corpuscles.
other diseases in a number of given the drug on the second day, the Central Court yesterday.
Culbert told the Court that de-hospitals throughout the country.and his temperature fell to normal way the other two great drugs- prontosi and sulphanilamide-act The majority of doctors who are in 48 hours. fendant bumped into him twice
A doctor who has been concern- on the strepococd germs in infec- while walking in the street. The testing the drug are waiting until second time. Wong used a hat and they have analysed a large numbered in testing the drug said to a tions of childbirth and in cases of covered his (Culbert's) breast of results, before publishing their "News of the World" representa-meningitis, JA
tive recently
"If this is so, it opens an entirely pocket. from where the $60 was conclusions.
"During bacteriological examina-new field of research in the war Two London doctors, however, stolen. The
who, in their enthusiasm, could not tions it has been found that the against bacteria. It seems almost keep the good news to themselves, capsules which normally surround too good to be true.””
Culbert gave chase and arrested Wong in a side street.