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LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
од
Friday, the 16th May. 1941. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, Han- kow Road, Kowloon.
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A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising
Teakwood Dining Room, Draw- ing Room, Bed Room and Office Furniture, Hall Carpet Runners. Carpets and Rugs: Cabin and Wardrobe Trunks, Perambulators, Bicycles. Tricycles and Scooters, Portable Gramophones and Re-
GENERAL
ROUND THE Exciting Chase In Yaumati District
POLICE COURTS
AT CENTRAL
SNATCHER GAOLED
Told At Magistracy: Boy's Bravery
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Bravery on the part of a 16-year-old boy in arresting an alleged robber, despite the fact that the latter attempted to shoot the youth with a revolver, was related before Mr. 1. C. Macnamara at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
Accused was LAU FUK, 32, charged with robbing Tong. Yun-fan of $77.05 at the Pak Kut Rea- taurant, No. 9, Saigon Street, attempting to shoot the bay with intenk' possession of a revolver and fivs rounds of ammunition and breach of deportation order.
A 14-year-old schoolgirl, Shum
Det.-Sgt. 'N, B. Fraser, prosecut-fed round and attempted to shoot' ·Accused, then passed the gun to Wan-cheung, of No. 68, Peel Street, ing. said that accused went to the him but the revolver misfired. the Teft hand and pointed it at second floor, was complainant be-Pak Kut Restaurant about 11.50 As the alleged robber and the Wong Fat who gave the accused a fore Mr. Lowry, yesterday in a case p.m. on May 3. He ordered a meal pursuing party passed the monu-blow on the jaw and disarmed him. ir. whick Tsang Tan, 22, unemploy- and while he was consuming it the ment at the junction of Gascoigne“ A. Chinese constable arrived and ed, of no fixed abode, was charged foxis of the restaurant were closing and Jordan Roads, a pedestrian. took the party to the Yaumati with stealing a metal wrist watch up the shop. Five minutes before Wong Fat. tried to intercept him, Police Station. valued at $15, from her person at midnight, accused got the bill and However, accused pointed the gun
In answer to the first charge..de- Peel Street on May 14.
walked up the counter. He pro- and attempted to shoot but again rendant admitted that he had com- Det.-Sgt J. R. Sykes, who produced a $1 note for the payment it misfired. secuted, sald complainant was re-or the meal.
Defendant continued his fight to turning home, from school about As the accountant opened the the upward path leading to the noon that day, when defendant drawer to get the change, accused King's Park Refugee Camp as the came up from behind and snatched drew a revolver and threatened 16-year-old boy joined the chase. her timepiece away." Defendant him. Several folds of the shop at- was arrested by a pedestrian. Lt tempted to come to the accoun- Ching. 37. seaman, after a chase. cant's assistance but were also Defendant who admitted one held up by defendant single-handed. previous conviction was sentenced to three months' hard labour.
UNREGISTERED WARD
After taking $77.05 from the drawer, accused backed to the door and disappeared in the dark street CHASE GIVEN
It was alleged that accused again attempted to shoot the boy put the gun only clicked.
mitted a rubbery but in reply to the second charge said that be only red in the air so as to frighten those chasing him and he knew very well that to kill a man would mean to be hanged
UNSERVICEABLE GUN
DOUBLE BLOW
"Giving evidence. Sgt. G. J. Per- Apparently thinking that the gun kins. Police Armourer, said that the was only a toy pistol, the boy con- revolver was a very old 45 one' tinued his pursuit. On the path, loaded with five rounds of am- Wang Fat overtook accused and the munition. In his opinion the gun Ng KIL, 45, married woman, of The accountant and fokis raised boy caught up with him. The boy was unserviceable and the ammunt- cords, Electric Table Fans, Books, No. 184, Wellington Street, third the alarm and gave chase from gave accused a double blow on the tion was useless.
After evidence by the accountant Pictures.
before Mr. Saigon Street to Chi Wo Street and temple from behind. Immediately | Porcelain, Glass and floor. was charged
At one accused turned and pointed the and two tokis of the restaurant. Metal Ware. Ornaments, Cooking Lowry yesterday with falling to re-then to Gascoignie. Road. Utensils, etc.. etc.
port the possession of an unregis-time, a fokl, Chin So, got within a weapon at the boy who was quick (further hearing. was adjourned
until May 23, at 2.30 p.m. tered ward, Cheung Yuk, 12, girl, short distance of accused who turn- lenough to hold his arm tight.. on or about May 15.
also
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD. AND RATTAN FURNITURE
and
13- Volumes of Encyclopaedia
Britannica
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1 All Wave "Pilot" Radio "
Singer" Sewing Machine
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1 Cooking Stove
Insp. H W. Fraser, of the 8. C. A.,
tenants.
defendant for a considerable sun
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of the Defence Regulations the ac- cised were and $400 and $750 res- pectively.
A
TRANSFER OF CHILD
D.C
same
sald that two days ago, the little Lowry yesterday with obtaining fined $50 or six weeks hard labour, and the others $3 or seven days giri was found wandering in Des money by false pretences.
It was alleged that Chu obtained each. Voeux Road Central by a Chinese" male," who brought her to the the sum of $200 from one Yim Table money picked up amount-
Prosecuting Sgt. Innes said that Sau-man" at Queen's Road Centraling to $25.10 was ördered to be total of 2,000 tins of petrol 8. C. A.
According to the girl; she was on Mar. 10 as payment for a snare donated to the Poor Box.
cused's lighter when it was stopped turned out of the house by de-in a certain business, by falsely
Det-Sgt. J. Willison prosecuted.
by a Water Police patrol in.. Sul- fendant because she had stolen pretending that the Sun Tai Luk
HOTEL RUNNER DISCHARGED phur Channel at 6.30 a.m. on May;
second |14, and 4,000 tins on some scissors and $1 from fellow- Studio, Johnston Road, was for
sale and that he was going to buy Chan Piu, 32, described as cused's lighter in East Lamma On May 15 last. she was brought it, whereas in fact, the said Studio boarding house runner, charged Channel at 8.45 am the to Hongkong from the country by was not for sale nor had he such with possession of a forged inocula-morning the accused admitted On View from Thursday, the 15th her mother, who presented her to intention.
tion certificate purporting to have that they were bound for Cheung The case May, 1941.
was remanded until been issued by the Macao Govern-chan with the petrol.
of money.
Since then she had Baturday, defendant being allowed ment, knowing same to have been done various household tasks. {ball of $300,
forged, at the Tai Chung Boarding Defendant was fined $20 or 21
Det.-Sgt. J. R. Sykes is in enarge House, Connaught Road Central, on of the case."
May 3, was discharged by Mr. days' hard labour.
Lowry yesterday, when the Police offered no evidence against him. Two coolies in the employ o Defendant was represented by Alleged to have attempted to
Marsman Company were Ained Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ, while snatch a handbag from Mrs. A.
$100 or two months' hard labour Dét-Sgt. J. R. Sykes was in charges. C. A said that defendants were Wu, of No. 41, Morrison Hill Road, top door, Chan Kung-chau, 30. each by Mr. Sheldon, K. C. gester- of the case.
quantity of unemployed, or no fixed abode, was day for stealing."a
dynamite from No. 18 A. R. P. PUBLIC AUCTION. charged with attempted theft
before Mr. Sheldon K. C., yester-Tunnel, Shing Ping Street, Wan-
chal, on May 14- day.
Chan Siu, 24, was charged with banishment, defendant was ad¡larceny of 19 sticks and Chan Chisau-chun, allas Ho Tat-wan, 26, ditionally charged with breach of 23, 18 sticks. all of which were unemployed cook-boy, residing at
Terms Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.
AUCTIONEERS.
THE Undersigned have recelyed
instructions
to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
Monday, the 19th May, 1941
commencing at 10.30 a.m.
at their Bales Room, No. 35, Han-
kow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Terms: Cash on Delivery
RETURNED BANISHEE
For returning from 10-year!
COOLIES HEAVILY FINED
produced in Court. Both pleaded guilty.
Two women, Lam Chung-fa, 41. and Li Mui, 40, were charged be- fore Mr. Anderson yesterday with
unlawful transfer of a child for valuable consideration.
Inspector E W. Moreton, of the
reiatives. On May 13 they went WANCHAI MURDER SEQUEL to the S. C. A. and expressed the wish of adopting a child. First As a sequel to the stabbing inct-accused intended to give her boy dent that occured at Lockhart Rd to second accused as an adopted Wanchal, on Tuesday afternoon. Ho
son owing to poverty.
the deportation order. He plead-
No. 418, Lockhart Rd., And floor, was ed guilty to both charges.
charged before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Dei. Sgt. V. M. Morrison, whe KC. yesterday with the murder of Sentence of six months hard labor on the first charge and prosecuted, said that thes
were Lam Chung-chuen. explosive three months on the second, the arrested carrying the
Defendant was formally remand- terms to tur concurrenty, was in-walle leaving the A. R. P. Tunneled for a week, on the application posed.
ed,
Det.-9gt, V. M. Morrison prosecat-
THEFT FROM BARRACKS
or Det.-Insp. L. R. Whart.
AT KOWLOON
SNATCHER CONVICTED
Inquiries showed that 350 Was fnvolved in the transaction.
Accused were cautioned.
D. O. SOUTH
CAUTIONED
"I bought it for 40 cents," pleaded; Yuen Nang when charged before' Mr. 8. F. Balfour yesterday with the possession at 40 catties wild tree wood at Market Street, near
TO BE EXPELLED
SERIOUS CHARGES Another charge was preferred against Chiu Sin-kul, 37, unemploy- ed, and Wong Kwal-chong, 30, mar- ried woman, who were earlier The case in which Chán Chiu, 33, charged with two counts of unlaw- head arsenal depot coolie, was ful retention of postal packets,
Charged with snatching a purse Chunk On Street, Taun Wan, m charged with larceny by servant when they appeared on remand be containing $3.60 from Leung Sze, May 14. He was cautioned by the of a bar of tin and a quantity of fore Mr. G. T. Lowry yesterday.
33, married woman, in Reclamation Magistrate. solder to the value of $80 from the; The new charge accused them of Street near Pitt Street, yesterday, Wellington Barracks, and three having opened a letter addressed to Leung Ming, 25, and a 13-year-old other arsenal depot coolies, Majone Mrs. Cheung Hung and took boy appeared before Mr. H. C. Mac- An expulsion" order was made Ping-pui, 24, Au Kin, 27, and Ho out $20 between March 24 and May namara yesterday.
against Mok Kwad-hing" when he Kwan, 20, with receiving the stolen 7.
Sgt. Whitcroft prosecuting, sald pleaded guilty before Mr. Balfour property was heard before Mr. The earlier two charges alleged that at 3 pm, on May 14 the wo-yesterday to the charge of posses LAMMERT BROS., Sheldon yesterday.
man was purchasing vegetables sion of 100 cattles wild tree wood Mr. C. 1. Kwan appeared for No. 182, Jaffe Road, Wanchal, a from bawker in Reclamation at Castle Peak Road, near Ea Kwai first defendant and Mr. J. M. postal packet, which ought to have street when the boy struck her Chung village, on May 14. D'Almada Remédios for second, been delivered to Mrs. Cheung on hand causing the purse to fall on while the two others were repre-March 24 and another on April 21 the ground. The first accused then. sented.
Hearing of the case was fixed for picked it up and ran away AD A Chinese was charged yes- Det-Sgt. V. M. Morrison sald 11.30 am. on May 28. that on Apr. 29, fourth defendant Mr. C. A. Butherton Russ will be alarm was raised and both accused terday with the possession ut 225 piculs firewood without the per- were caught by passers-by. arrested by a defective in appearing for both defendants, who
First accused was sentenced to mission of the Controller of Störés Queen's Road Bast carrying afare on $200 ball each. In old temples and improvised rattan basket, which was found to
three months' hard labour, while preparatory to selling or removing the boy was remanded 24 hours for such wood from his possession, et matsheds,
China's education is contain the tin ingot. making steady progress in the wêr
Tuổi Nhung hay di May 14 sentence "In the Juvenile Court. As a result of questioning of
AUCTIONEERS.
China's Educational Progress In The War wa
as many new citadels of learning fourth defendant, the other three bura-hom --established and
more defendants were in turn arrested,
under most trying tʊndi troftă.
that they fraudulently retained at
Mr. D. C. W. Fitches, Superinten- dent of Malls, is prosecuting.
WOUNDING CHARGE
Lee Wing, 39, gardenet, was for:
FOOD HAWKERS
ac-
BOUND OVER
He pleaded that the trees came from the chinese territory and pro-
"We went to Tung Chung to wait
For failing to provide boiling duced a bill in support of his plea scholera are being trained; "often Because of lack of evidence for ther remanded für two days by Me,
conviction, first, second and third Lowry, yesterday on a charge of water to wash dishes etc., in At the end of 1940, the number defendants were discharged, while wounding one Huen Pul with intent cordance with the sanitary regu for the tide. We did not intend to of higher educational institutions | fourth defendant, who pleaded to cause him bodily harm at Aberations, eight food stall in China was 113. This compares guilty, was ordered to be remand-deen Old Road, The Peak, on May were each fined $10 by Mr. with 109 just before the war, oflea for seven days in Jall custody. 14. whitch-01--were either destroyed de damaged or otherwise tendered
useless. The total enrolment in
Det. Sub-Insp. Ja u 'Donovan, în' TYPIST DISCHARGED
asking for the remand, said that Lewis Chan, 21, typist, wäg di-although complainant was pro- these colleges and universities was charged by Mr. Lowry yesterday Bressing rapidly he would not be given: at 44:422 in 1940 as against on a charge of unlawful possession discharged from hospital until 31,188 lu 1937, according to the of a pair of handcuffs and an few days more.
same source.
electric torch at Lee Yuen Street
Of the 113 higher seats of learn-East, near Des Voeux Road. Cen-
ing, 41 were-national, 21 provincial tral, on Apr. 25.
The case is for committal.
GAMBLING DEN BAIDED
Fourteen persons were arrested
mara yesterday
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keepersland the trees," accused said. Macna-Defendant was found guilty and
bound over in the sum of $50 to cóme up for judgment within a
Egt. Mấy trokud
Ben-year.
AMAH GAOLED Wong Shun. 23, amah, was tenced to three months hard la-
bour by Mr; Macnamara yesterday for stealing a $500 note; the pro perty of her master, Lo Bit-san, engineer, of No. 48 Cheungshawan Road.
EXPORT OF PETROL
'MARINE COURT » Cheng Bing and Lai Fook, joint | owners of the steam launch Che Sang", appeared before Comman- der J. Jolly, R. N. R., at the Marine with
and 51 private institutions. Thirty- It was stated that there was no when a Police party carried out a eight of the institutions were uni- evidence to prove that defendantfraid on er alleged common gaming Lo Kun-yau, 46, steersman of Court yesterday. charged veralties, 42 colleges and 33 techni- had intentions to use them for an house for "pal kan" at the top floor lighter No. 1938V, and Cheung having permitted their launch to -cal-schools....
unlawful purpose,
of the South China Restaurant, Kau, 39, steersman of lighter Kotünetion while in condition that Chan was defended by Mr. M. A. Queen's Road Central, on Wednes-2705V, appeared before Mr. DJN. could be deemed safe, namely, by Although the 1940 figures · on
day night.
Anderson yesterday on the charge. burning all fuel in the boiler in. their development are not yet da Silva..
Before Mr. Lowry yesterday, Lam of attempting to export, petrol such manner as to expose the compiled, the number of middle schools in the interior province
Ping-kwong, 28, was charged with without a permit from the Con-launch to the danger of an ex-
plosion. keeping and the rest with gambling, troller of Trade. was increased from 1,898 in -1937
Six-absentees had their bell ot
'FALSE' PRETENCES
Chu Bau-tung. 30, unemployed,
to 1973, while the enrolment rose from 289,948 to 489,414.
of No. 9. Ming Yuen Street, West
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Pleading ulity through their so-
Both defendants pleaded guilty first floor, was charged before Mr. $10 each estreated, while Tam was licitor, Mr. H. L, Kwan, to a breach and were each fined $50.
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