THE BATTERY PATH" AFFAIR.
ACCUSED:ON TRIAL.
THE HONGKONG telegraph WEDNESDAY AUGUST 23, 1905.
THE PRISONER'S STATEMENT.; No one except the prisoner was really in a position from ocular evidence to say what actually happened between himself and thu What may be described as the cause ce tbs of dead man, but the prisoner had given his ver- the present Criminal Sessions in Hongkong sion some ten days or so after the occurrence began to-day when Aaron Ellia was brought upon the day he was arrested,vt it to stand his trial on a charge of having caused the death of a private in the Royal Garrison Artillery, on the 17th July."
The Court was crowded with spectators, among whom soldiers greatly predominated. One feature of the audience was the exception ally small number of Chinese in Court. All told, the Chinese in the Audheriam tumbared thirteen.. "'A'few saifars, including Navy mes, and a sprinkling of clerks and; others made up the reinainder of the audience,
The prioser's name was called, and he emerged from the vicinity of the small Court room and answered to the call. The Registrar read the charge, which alleged that on the 17th July, 1905, the prisoner Aaron Ellis "did kill and stay one Richard Sampson." Asked whe. ther he was guilty or not guilty, the prisoner in a clear voice responded—"Not guilty."
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The Attorney General, then read the state- ment made voluntarily by the prisoner, aud which has been printed in our columns.
Proceeding to speak of the position of Battery Path, the Attorney General reminded the jury that there was a kerb some two or three inches high running along the side of the Path,.......
UP, and
CHINESE HOUSEBOY ON THE SCENE. At the time the prisoner came when he followed the soldier up the Path, and when he was speaking to Miss Desbien, there happened to be on the scene a Chinese houseboy. He saw the deceased speaking to the woman, but he did not see the deceased strike her, although he heard her cry out. Then the deceased left the woman and walked up the Path. He saw the prisoner go up the Path and he saw Mias Desbien go after him. The soldier was on the ground and Miss Desbien said "What's your name?” No answer. The theory of the prosecution was that the soldier at this time was stunned. The Chinese houseboy saw Miss Desbien touch the soldier's left shoulder and then return down The following special jury, was empanelled: the Path towards Thomas's. The housebuy —Meters, George Lohmann Tomlin, Albston | walked along, saw the soldier lying down and O'Driscoll Coardin, Charles Robert Scott, walked on to Wanchai, Edward Albert Ram, Henry Wallace Robert- son, William Joshua Saunders, and Alexander Rodger.
The Attorney General (Sir Henry Berkeley), instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Bowley, appeared for the Crown; Mr. E) H. Sharp, K C., înstructed by Mr. P. W. Goldring, represented the prisoner; Major Party, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, occupied a seat at the barristers' table,
On the application of Mr. Sharp, the prisoner was accommodated with reat in the dock.
THE OPENING STATEMENT.`
The Attorney-Genera, in opening the case for the Crown, said the prisoner was charged with the crime of manslaughter, the name of the person whom the prisoner was accused of having unlawfully killed being Richard Samp. son, who was a guaner in the Royal Garrison Artillery. The injuries which caused the death of the soldier were, the Grown alleged, inflicted by the prisoner on the evening of the rath July. The medical evidence which would be put before the jury wou'd leave no doubt in their mind that the man Sampson 'died from a fractured skull the result of a fall. The issue which they would have to determina
would be whether that fall was or was not the result of the unlawful act of the defendant. "There would be put in evidence a statement voluntarily made by the prisoner-voluntarily but belated-in which he admitted that he
AN IMPORTANT FACT,
That evidence that he saw the woman stoop down was important because it was borne out by Miss Desbien herself. She said that she touched the man with her foot to rouse him. As she got no answer and in order to know the man who had assaulted her she bent down and took off the badge "R.G.A." which he was wearing on his shoulder.
"I attach importance to that fact," said the Attorney-General, and I ask you to remember that it is sworn to by a Chinese witness and admitted by Miss Desbien herself."
The badge was fastened to the shoulder by a pin, which this woman appeared to have known how to remove. When the body was found, the ladder" of the badge was found near him.
AT THE R. A, O. 1.
After the incident at Battery Path the two women took rickshas and went to the Owl Grillroom, leaving the man prostrate on the ground. It was not quite clear how long they
remained at the Owl, but afterwards they went to the Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes, at the corner of Arsenal Street. They roused knocked the man Sampson down on Battery up somebody to get refreshments. They had
.Path, at 17.30 am, or thereabout on the morn.
ing of the 17th July.
THE DEFENCE.
It was not quite clear from the statements disclosed what the defence was, but he gather ed that the defence would put forward a hypothesis, that although it was proved that the prisoner knocked down Sampson that fall did not cause the fracture of the man's skull, but that the deceased, must subse,
quently have risen from the ground, walk da short distance up the Path, slipped and fallen.
been refreshing themselves previously, but no doubt the experience they had lately passed' through led them to desire another drink. About 1.30 they returned in rickshas to The mas's Grillroom, but instead of going into their rooms in the Annex after paying off the rickshas they went up Battery Path and looked for deceased.
Á SIGNIFICANT ACTION, Now the acts of the prisoner at this time had in be weighed and considered. If it was true there was no apprehension about the con-
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close, but who would throw an insinuclive light on the question of the prisoner's innocence. Later on, he said, a witness would be produced from the Owl Grillroom who would say that while there he heard the prisoner say" He had no business to assault the girl. I gave him one and that was enough for him;":
THE EVIDENCE. Evidence was then led,
An'busistant surveyor from the Public Works Department submitted a map of Battery Path
Major Parry' spoke to the character of the décensed.
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· Sergeant O'Sullivan, after giving the evid ence already published, said he examined the vomit in Battery Path. It did not smell of any spirituous liquor. When the deceased man vomited at the police station, his ejection imelt of beer,
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-I am asking you to assume that the man's mouth was open otherwise the prisnner's knuckles would not have been bruised?! don't see how it is possible to strike the mouth without striking the lips also,
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THE RUSSIAN DESTROYER'S ATTACK."
The purser of the steamer Soryo, which arrived at Moji on the rath justant from North Korea, gives the following account of the experience of the steamer, Kaisho, which, it will be remembered, was recently attacked by a Russian destroyer and had a narrow es- cape
in reply to a question by the Judge, Major Shortly before 5 o'clock on the morning of Parry said-A man in the evening might the 4th Jnstant, the steamer Keisho was op fake alittle more than was good for him, butproaching a north Korea port, when so long as he behaved himself and went to Russian destroyer suddenly appeared and
Sergeant Craig repeated the mory he told before.
his bed and annoyed nobody be would notopaged a heavy dre. The steamer could do be reported. The deceased's character was nothing in defence, and all on board, believ
very good."
ing that they would be taken prisoner, pro ceeded to change their clothes and donned their best. To a short while, the steamer was struck by tea shots, in the upper part of the engine room, the funnel, and the upper deck.. The Captain was killed, bis body being carried away by a shell and seen no more; the chief steward and a saloon boy, who were changing their clothes beside the captain, were 'ulso hit
Mr. SharpThere is a strong feeling in the Company against this defendant?—Yes, there ❘ is a vindictive feeling.
AN HONOURED BREACH.
A soldier comiade of the deceased said be had seen the gunner more than once the worse for drink. On the night of the 16th he had drunk two pints of beer. He was perfectly sober. He had been on police patrol duty when he took the beer.
It is contrary to the rule of the military police to drink on duty-It is, sir.
But it is the practice to do so?-Well, sir, it is the practice.
and their bodies torn into pieces. The pro bridge, while others went through the vessel's jectile which killed the Captain shattered the hull, but none hit the engineroam and the steamer escaped sinking and safely reached port. The object of the Russian destroyer in venturing out as thought to have been to find a. the vicinity of Ung. place for landing troops keni.wan. Although the Keisho suffered extensive damage from the Russian fire; ber The Chinese houseboy gave evidence, repeat-steaming capacity was in no way interfered ing the main facts which he gave before at the with, and she at once returned to Gensan.- preliminary inquiry. He stated that he was
Jupan Chronicle. employed at the Soldiers Club as a private boy, In cross-examination, he said that when he saw one of the women going up the Path he went after her, but he did not stop when he passed her. He passed the body, but he did not slop there.
You saw the soldier's face?—Yes,
Were there any signs of blood on it ?-No. You did not stop, you say?—No, I went on, and down the stairs and on to Wanchal.
On the day of the funeral he spoke about the matter for the first time. He asked the son of Mr. Blake, "Whose funeral is that?" and the answer was "A soldier who died on Sunday" Then witness said—"I saw a man hit a soldier on Sunday."
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Is it true you said that ?-1 did not say so.. Weren't these depositions read over to you? I said I saw a man go up the hill.
Did you say to Mr. Blake's son" I saw a man hit a soldier on Sunday"?-No.
And as a matter of fact it is not true that you
That seemed to be the defence. In other dition of-the soldier what took these people saw a man hit a soldier ?—No, I did not, words, the issue before the Court was whether the death of Sampson was caused by an accid.
back to look for him? Why, when they see the wound on the gunner's face?--I did The Attorney-General-You say you did not
come back-an hour after the occurrence-
eat or by the act of the prisoner? Did he from the R. A. O. B. do they go up, the Battery not see the wound, but I saw some blood near
fracture his skull by a slip of the foot, or was his skull fractured by the blow he received from the prisoner?
THE SOLDIER'S APPEARANCE.
Path to see whether the man who got the blow was lying there still? "It is the suggestion of the Crown that the prisoner was aware from the first, that the man was zeriously injured," added
the Attorney-General. Three soldiers were
met coming down the Path. They had seen the deceased lying on the Path, but they thought the man was drunk and took no heed of him. Alier supper they returned to see the prisoner and two women coming down the Path.
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FOR THE JURY'S BENEFIT.
A question arose as to the exact position in which the body was lying when seen by the
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The Attorney-General remarked that if ne cessary the jury could be taken to Battery Path and the exact spot pointed out to them.
An Indian police sergeant gave evidence as to the finding of the soldier lying on Battery
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The prisoner was a native of Hongkong, he believed, and was now before them. The de ceased gunner was a tall, powerful man, about 6 feet 2 inches in height. The 16th of July was a Sunday. On that day the gunner had been on duty, from a quarter to nine o'clock in the evening till nearly midnight he had been on patrol duty. He returned to the Provost Prison, near the cricket ground, at 12.10, or thereabout. this: Au Indian police ser, cant on patrol short-lath. A pipe, a walking stick and a broken At that time be left the Prison, and it would ly alter one o'clock in, the morning found'a be suggested that he did so being, attracted by gunner of the Royal Garrison Artilley lying on a couple of girls who passed the Provost Battery Path. The head was lying in a pool of Prison at that time. Near Thomas's grill blood, The sergeast called out to an indian room he was seen speaking with a woman constable and together they put the deceased by the name of Lilian Desbien, with whom in a chair and sent him to the police station, he seemed to have had an altercation. At where he arrived at a quarter past one o'clock in cording to her evidence, he wished to go home the morning. The gunner was taken almost with her, but she refused. At this time a immediately to the Civil Hospital, unconscious. friend named Blessie Radcliffe came up. These He never recovered consciousness. The Crown two women, ar girls, had dined earlier in the said that that unconsciousness existed from story, and said that when he saw the soldier evening at the Owl Grillroom, and after the time that he fell on the ground as the lying on the l'ath the man's face was smeared dining there the two went to the Metropole result of a blow by the prisoner. Near with blood. Until his attention had been call Hotel, returning to the Owl Grillroom at mid the spot where the body was found there red to the body lying there he had not noticed night. The they look rickahas 10 Arsenal was
quantity of vomit, one of the usual anything unusual on Battery Palk. The soldier been sent to Saghalien for murder and while Chairs $1; Stalls $t; Gallery (Chinese only) 50 Street and got back to Thomas's grillroom consequences of cerebral injury. The deceas-when picked up smell of liquor. about 12.30. Apparently they were on their ed man vomitted at the Police Station and at "The Foreman of the Jury-Did the witness
the hospital. This question of vomit required hear anyone vomiting there? investigation because on it would be founded the suggestion that the deceased got up after he was struck, vomited, walked a little way up the path and then fell on the path, and Cracked his skull. The vomit was 24 feet from the place where the body was found.
way home.
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From Arsenal Street to Thomas's grillroom the rickshas must pass the Provost Prison, and while passing that place the deceased observed them. It was, he thought, quite clear that the deceased did accost Miss Desbien and did ask her to go with him. In doing that the deceased might not be entirely blamed in the circum. stances, but the girl resented the attentions of a gunner of the Royal Garrison Artillery and
THE POST MORTEM.
On the day after the man died, on the 19th, a post mortem was held by Dr. Bell, who found that the deceased bad a severe wound over the
Witness-7 he man smelt of liquor, Another Indian witness, a constable, told his
The witness-No, I heard no vomiting that night.
Dr. Bell, Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital, stated that a gunner of the R.G.A. was brought to the Hospital on the 17th July. He was unconscious. He had a wound on the left eyebrow and bis įskull was fuctured. He died that same day at 9 p.m.
Was the fracture a bad fracture in the sense
that it required a heavy blow to cause it?
he appeared to have taken hold of the 'ricksba. et eyebrow, that the skull was badly frace Yes, it was a bad fracture.
It was not perfectly clear from her evidence tured, immediately under the wound, and ex-
Could such a fracture be caused by the blow
what actually passed, but she said that intended right round the skull. At the barn of of a bludgeon?--You mean hemmorhage also?
Queen's' Road the soldier struck her on the the skull beside the wound was a large clot of mouth and proceeded to walk up Battery Path blood, and it was certsis that death was due to
"WHERE'S THE 'SOLDIER?"
a fractured skull. had been a severe blow that fractured the man's skall.
Almost immediately afterwards the prisoner came up to the 'ricksha and was told what had happened. He said "Where's the soldier?" The woman, pointing up Battery Path, said #Up there. The prisoner went up Battery Path after the artilleryman. Miss Desbian said that she started to go after him, but she stated that she stumbled and fell on the Path. The fact that she stumbled and
AN INTERLUDE.
The Allorney-Genèral gave a dramatic-des- cription of how the blow which killed the soldier might have been delivered, illustrating it by hitting himself on the face,
Mr. Sharp made a suggestion that the Attorney-General should strike harder.
Everything?-No.
about the effect you saw?-The most likely What was the most likely cause to bring
cause would be a fall.
Would it have been caused by falling against
ACCORDING to the Singapore Free Press, when the French mail, the Tonkin, (on the journey to Europe) carrying a number of Russian officials formerly at Saghalien and refugees, was in open sea one of the warders reported to the Chief Superintendent of Pri- sons on board that three men, convicts from the settlement who had escaped, had paid their passage money at Saigon for Singapore. There wore so convicts on the bat besides these trio and the fact that they were there caused considerable anxiety. The Russian. Consul at Singapore declares that two of these men were second time murderers, that is to say they had there committed murder again. The Captain of the steamer was informed and was requested to have them placed under control, but he refused. He explained that they had paid their passage and in his eyes were ordinary passengers. Of course, when the Tonkin incored at the Borneo Wharl they disappeared The Singapore police were acquainted with the circumstance and three of the warders on the steamer were sent to assist them in the search. Only one was captured, and the other we are still at liberty,But instead of these two in question to others who left Sagkalien when the Japanese opened the doors of the prisons were captured, and had but a brief spell at large. If captured these men cannot presumably be dealt with as convicts as there is no one to identify them and no papers to connect them with the Russian prison system.
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only on her evidence that they had it the soldier struck her on the mouth. The prisoner ran on up the Path after Sampson. At the time, on the testimony of Miss Desbien, the prisoner was wearing rubber shoes—a fact which she appeared to have ehembered.
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