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SHAUKIWAN MURDER TO POPULARISE
TRIAL VERDICTS
Continued From Pare 1
USE OF SOYA
BEANS
In these days of rising prices, It is felt that fecipes for whole some foods costing but a few cents malnutrition, especially amongst children, which is so often the forerunner of tuberculosis.
of Shaukiwan Pollie Station, also in the question of identity. He gave evidence."
considered the prosecution ev!- Yip So-kee, a laundryman, said dence confused and contradictory may be of assistance in combating that he allowed the use of hia and that no case, had been made shop for the playing of dominoes out against his clienta, among his friends. He did not charge them anything but sold refreshments to them.
CROWN CONTRADICTION Mr. Leo D'Almada, for the third LI SO WOUNDED
and fourth defendants, said there was contradiction in the Crown On the night of the murder he evidence as tokhether four of six noticed first defendant enter his persons carried out the assault shop and leave shortly after but and who struck the fatal blow. he.did not notice any fight on
Even if the whole of the evi- quarrel near his shop. He redence of Yam Yung was accepted membered seeing So at the in its entirety, there was the pos- Fook Chan, teahouse. Ll So was sibility that the third and fourth wounded and bleeding and Was defendants were running after the leaning against a counter.
First defendant was then called to the stand. He said he did not know the deceased Li So. He ad- mitted having gone to Yip 80- kee's shop at about 9 pm, on July 22 to see a man who owed him money, but not finding hini there, he left.
As he was leaving he saw Chan Sam-chai and six others near the entrance, Chan assaulted hin with a weapon which appeared to be of iron. He was hit on the right shoulder, and ran away Im- mediately.
REFUSAL TO JOIN
He attributed the attack to b's refusal to join a San Hap Society which offered protection against attack by others. Or his refusal
night in
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was not enough inference this action of theirs to link them with the crime."
there was no apparent motive for It must be remembered also that the crime. There was no evidence that third and fourth defendants knew Li So. He submitted that neither of his two clients guilty.
Was
THE SUMMING UP In summing up to the jury, His Lordship said that it was
known that LI So was killed by a savage attack. There was evidence that the man who did so was the first
defendant.
The Crown said there was gang determined to make a serious to join he had been warned for the purpose.
attack on Li So and chased him he might be attacked.
Four persons When he was attacked on the were said to be members of the gang. The question was, which of question, he used his electric torch on his assallant In Crown case had two faces: (1) I them struck the fatal blow? The self-defence and managed thereby it was the first defendant's hand to take the iron red from him. This he later threw into the sea (2) whether the whole gang was that struck the fatal blow, and He then met fourth defendant who told him he
concerned. was looking for a sampan for the night. They also struck while he was sitting in a It is known that Li So was Arst met second and third defendants nullah, and that he was and eventually went on
chased board a sampan.
and further attacked. This was They stoked pills on the boat. The police came was whether any of the accused heroin indisputable. What was disputable at about 3 am. and they were had anything to do with it. taken to the police station. There was nothing unusual in spending a night on a sampan in the sum
mer.
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that it was not disappointment It is worth while remarking that drove him to seek refuge in Shanghal. the Air Force and Army. He him- Canton. self was satisfied with the results Japan.. of the Cairo Conférence, and the Churchill policy.
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He had great trouble in enlisting, but eventually joined up under the name of Shaw and went to U. S. A. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Uxbridge. sent to Farnborough and for some
From there he way Francisco date, 8th September)............... time his identity was not known,
4ir Mail by "Imperial Airway, Direst but someone gave it away and the Shanghai and Amoy
-London date 23rd Sept. "Daily Express" blazoned the se-Shanghai cret in sensational headlines,
Shanghai Straits.
The Air Ministry was annoyed, but would have let the matter blow Japan over if it had not been that the Calcutta and Straits officers complained that he had Japan and Shanghai, been sent there to spy on them. Australia and Manlis. And so he had to leave.
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." CHANGED NAME " He changed his name again to Ross, and with the consent of the Army authorities joined the Tank Corps and was drafted to Boving- ton in Dorset; he did not like the Army, compared to the Air Force,, and his friends are continually
trying to unravel the mystery of his escape complex.
His trials and tribulations f newspaper persecution. were not over. He was enabled to get back into the Air Force which he liked much better and
was eventually drafted out to India where he was stationed at Karachi and never went outside the camp compound.
He was always ready to do other people's duties to enable them to ge out but he was content with: his books and his gramophone re-. cords and his gadgets for making camp life bearable by extra Eights and hot baths.
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so sitting earlier in the evening Yam Yung had said he saw Li with the villain of the piece. Later, after he (witness) had met Lai Hing. he heard shouts, turned In summing op his case for the and had a side view of the gang Crown, Mr. Whyatt said that the that was chasing Li So. He fur- evidence was borne out by thether identified them when they witnesses, and particularly Yam turned round after the assault, Yung who was so close to the and ran back. scene of the attack that he not Lai Hing, who had been squat only saw it, but was able to re-ting in the vicinity, saw everything cognise the party without any earlier than Yam: He was able to doubt. This witness was unshaken Identify two, the first and second by the severe cross-examination. defendants, but not the third and
He was later sent to Peshawar He was an honest witness.
fourth.
and Mirunsha and it was while he Proof of his unmistakable iden- The fourth [796.tification was further shown in had been that he saw a
defendant's story was here that the Labour Party,
a persistent barrage of " the fact that these same four men and, aroused
crowd, bezan by curiosity. had questions in the House of Com- should be found together, in a followed. There appeared to be mons about his activities. They place which
was not their usual nothing against the fourth defen- could not be silenced by the rather abode, a few hours after the dant:
stupid answers that were given at assault. Surely this would be the
the time and it was decided to strangest coincidence in the world
send Lawrence home.
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His Lordship concluded by tell-
If Yam Lum had any doubt as tomg the jury that it was for the
the identity of the men.
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show by some of the officers and men at Bridlington, and quietly A departed on his push-bike. He went down to the cottage that he had built for himself in Dorset when he had been in the Tank Corps. He kept open house not only to the fellow members of the hut but to such distinguished visi- tors as Thomas Hardy, E. M. For- ster. Bernard Shaw and many others.
Mr. Whyatt said that identifica-were guilty, and if they were the Air Force with dismay. He tion had been established by the satisfied that proof of guilt had was given a farewell feast and Crown on accuracy and honesty been established, they should re- and was unshaken by the defence. tum a verdict of guilty. If, on the He
asked for verdict of guilty other hand, they considered that against all four prisoners.
been proved, they
a verdict of Mr. Macnamara, addressing the guilty. It was necessary that the Court on behalf of the first and verdict should be unanimous. second accused, explained to the The jury then
retired and jury at the outset that the case brought in a verdict as stated. against the four men must be His Lordship thanked the jury considered severally against each and granted an exemption from of them, and not jointly. If they service. were satisfied that one of the de- fendants bad delivered the fatal blow, then only that man would
be guilty of murder and the others ALLEGED MURDER
would only be guilty of complicity. There could be no murder charge
IN WANCHAI
against those who did not do the Yu Wai-tim, alias Tai Kau-lo,
30. unemployed
actual stabbing. ------
baker, was Yam Yung, the only witness who charged with the murder of Yau was convinced as to the identity Kam-hol before MT, B. A. D. For of the assailants might have made rest at the Central Court yester- a mistake. It was raining at the day
time, the lighting in that street The defendant was alleged to was poor and there were a lot of have murdered Yad at Jaffe Road. people about at the time. Also, Wanchal, on September 23. the only means of checking up A week's remand was
granted his story that he was only 14 by Mr. Forrest and hearing of the paces away from the scene of the case was fixed provisionally for crime, was by taking an immediate October 11, check of positions. This had not
been done. It must be remember-
ed also that first defendant said DANGEROUS TRADE
he was once attacked by Yam Tung
ONLY FOUR PERSONS
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Again he went down and found some still there. He used physical force by giving a good right to the jaw and escaped through the rhododendron bushes. After a few days he went back and found the place damaged but free from re- porters.
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The three children who were In an effort to show how un- three months? Imprisonment, were believed to have perished in the reliable the prosecution evidence imposed on Li Mul, 50, a stone big fire which broke out in a Shanghai. was. Mr. Macnamara said that contractor, when he appeared timber yard at Kennedy while Yam Yung and Lai Hing had betore Mr. J. Houston at the yesterday, are reported to be safe. Town testified that as many as six per- Central Court yesterday, on two They were found with neighbours sons chased Li Bo, two other, in-charges of possession of dynamite to whom they had ned for safety Straits and dependent witnesses, swore that and manufacturing gun-powder when the fire broke out. there were only four.
If there could be that difference Ld was arrested by the police in the evidence, surely, considering during the course of a routine the bad light, the fact that it was search of his premises, an un. raining and the crowded street at numbered hot. in Tai Hang Road, the time there could be a mistake on Sunday last.
without a Heence from the police.
Their names are, LA Hoo, nine
wind Kapan.
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