THE BEAUMONT CASE.
The Prosecution's
Allegations.
CANTON AFFAIRS.
Chan's Latest Suggestion.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
OPIUM CHARGE.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 3. · 1922.
Application for Rehearing. DAIRY FARM
In connection with an opium
case which came up before Mr. R. Our Canton correspondent E Lindsell yesterday afternoon, states that some troops have (when a Chinens was sentenced to EA. Beaumont again appeared already started for Shinkwan, twelve months' hard labour on bafora Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the and it is rumoured that Sun Yat-two charges of importing, or aid- Magistrasy this afternoon. Heen will proceed thither on the ing and abetting to import, 140 is charged with having absented 5th. instant
taels of prepared and 185 pounds himself from the Calong with General Li Lish-chan's forces of raw opiums by the Taikwa intani to defeat bankruptcy have been ordered to proceed to Maru, Mr. M. X. Lo this maro- proceedings which bad bean
General Hsuing, acting on behalf of the de- the front and brought against him.
Shong-chi's troops are notified fendant, made an application for Defendant was legally repre- sented by Mr. C.A.3. Russ, that they must be in readiness to reversal of his Worship's deci- sion on the ground of certain whilst Mr. Leo D'Almada and reinforce the farmer.
[legal points which he raised. Mr. G.G.N. Tinson appeared on
It is now reported in Canton bebalf of interested parties.
that Chan King-ming will be view his Worship held was that Mr. Lo said he understood the Mr. G.N. Orme (Official Rewilling to return to Ganton pro- although no direct evidence had ceiver), outlining the facts of the vided certain compromise terms been produced that the stuff that case, said the charge was brought are accepted, one of them being was directly imported was known under subsection 4, section 82 of that he should take an army to to the defendant an opium, yet by the Bankruptcy Ordinance. The wangsi to suppress the baudits virtue of the onus placed on him oans would be on defendant there.
|requiring that de must disprove to show that be had good To-day's Cunton Times co-possession, conviction would reasons for leaving the Colony.tains the following raports - hava to be recorded, as that onns Defendant was carrying on busi- General Uban Kiug-ming, had not been discharged. The ness in the Colony du ing 1919-20 Minister of War, has been man-ooly ground on which Mr. Lo under the designation of E. A. tioned by Sun Yat-sen to lead based his application was that no Beaumont and Co. He also had the First Army of the Northerd existing law could place the onus a branch at San Francisco. He Expedition. It is reliably re-lon the defendant in this did business in rice, in 1919. ported that the General has particular CAIC. What be having connections with the recently sent his personal repres-wanted to submit WAS that Government. Defe-dant was in-fentative to interview Sao. The the only statutory enactment terested also in other branches. representative expressed Chan's that could be brought by the piece goods, etc. In October, intention to leave his home prosecution into the case was 1919. he went to America and village for Capton soon to take section of the Ordinanca of then on to Europe, leaving Me.jup the command of the Northern 1917. bat section, however,
Expedition.
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Castro in the office.
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As Shiukwan will be the mili-circumstances of the case, and TRES basis of the Northern on the finding which his Worship would call him to prove that Expedition, the different Consti-arrived at, the defendant was during April and May. 1920, he tational armies are concentrating entitled to a discharge. was away and while in Shanghai at that city. General Li Lieh Reading the section under be learned that thera
were chun, Chief of Staff to Sun Yat- which the defendant was charged, difficulties in the firm. sen after paying his family Mr. Lo said that every person He returned to Hongkong and visit in Hongkong, returned here who was proved to have in his! after baring
into ja few days ago, and has left Can-¡possession or under his control or matters, communicated with Mrton for Shinkwan. It is reported custody any receptacle contain- Beaumont, who was then in Paris.that General Limet a detachmentling opium shall, unless the con-f Mr. Castro asked defendant to of his army in Samshiu district, trary be proved, be presumed to return and this defendant did on ad is expected to be in have been aware of bis possession Aug. 24th, 1920. Mr. Beaumont Shinkwan soon with his men.of the stuE The submission was remained in Hongkong for seven General Li will be io charge respectfully put forward to his days, during which time he wantjof all preparations in Shinkwan Worship that Section 7 could not into the accounts with Mr. Castro for the arrival of Sun Yat-sen at apply because when the stuff and at the same time drew money that cits. "According to a report, which was found in one of a for his own expenses to the
troops of the Second Canton Army number of tins containing amount of rather over $5,000, and General Li Fu-lim's soldiers camphor consigned to the defea- the evidence went. After a week, are quartering at Shiakwan wait-dant, it was theoretically in the on September 1st, Mr. Beaumoni ing for instructions from Sun possession of the captain and ENGLISH MADE again left the Colons, telling Mr. Yat-sen.
therefore in his control. In the Castro that he was going North
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The Second Division of the absence of this provision, the to settle matters and asking Cantonese Army has been in- prosecution would have to Castro to do his best with structed by Sun Yat-sen to pro-show. that
only the creditors.
ceed for Shiukwao. It is report-tin in question was in his room A fortnight after this, Mr. Ormeled that the Headquarters of this but also that it contained opium, continued. the bankrupter division has been established in to 2 knowledge. On the petition was entered and a re- Shiukwan, and Tai Wing-fun, evidence it was to all outer ap ceiving order made. When the chief of staf to the Commander, patrances a legitimate consigo-|| accounts, were gone into the will be in charge of the command meat that was being shipped to assets were found to realise $3,630 of the division during the absence the defendant. And the liabilities, so far as proved. of General Houng Shao-lin, Com. $200,000, together with some steri-1 mander of the division.
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MUI TSAI CASE.
Alleged Cruelty.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
**Taking Silk,” as promotion to the rank of King's Counsel is, called, is & costly proceeding. Fees amount to about £100 to
The
Referring to an analagons case which recently cane balora a liabilities to the extenti Since the entire control of the former Magistrate (Mr. G. N. of £12,000. No further
com Navy has been taken over by Sun Orme), in which the master of a munications were received by Yat-sen. 巳 number of naval certain vessel was charged with] the Official Receiver, and, except officers have been dismissed for not reporting the importation of for a few casual communications, insubordination.
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on bis vessel within Mr. Castro heard nothing further. vacancies Sun Yat-sen bas issued four bours after its arrival,
No more eteps were taken until a mandate appoi ting the follow-the March of this year, Mr. Orme ing new naval officers: Wu Chi-the skipper that he was not aware went on. Mr. Beaumont was chin, Commander of C. S. Haih-of the nature of the contents, Charges of sustained cruelty adjudicated a bankrupt and in sing: Wen Hsiu-teh, Commander otherwise he would have complied were alleged by a fourteen-year- March of this year & warrant as of C. 5. Haichi: Ting Pe-long, with this regulation, as in the old mu-ti in Mr. J. A. Fraser's which must be added nearly issued and defendant was brought Commander of C: S. Yunghsiang; case of tobacco. The prosecution Court this morning in a charge another £100 for silk gown, full- to Hongkong. The Case was Feng Shao-chan, Commander of in that case argued that the she brought against a Chinese bottomed wigs, court costume simply: Did defendant leave C. S. Yungfeng; and Cho Kwei-charge concerned not so much woman, forty-five years of age, and silver-buckled shoes. the Colony for some other chang, Commander of C. S. Tso- the advertised contents of the who recently came into
the new "silk bas also to dip purpose than to defeat OF 50.
cases as what these cases actual. Colony to escape possible war at heavily into his parse for custom- delay the proceedings against
ir contained. Supposing, as an Canton, and who was living at ary tips to subordinate officials, bim?
{example, that be (Mr. Lo)ber daaghter's house at Caine and by an unwritten law be
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provide
faithfol his a legitimate purpose into the took it into her mind, to chastise clerk with a frock coat suit and Colony, and this opium were the girl, who was in the custody an immaculate silk "topper.”. found inside the engines or tubes, of the daughter. having been concealed there ent The interesting fact WAS The latest woman candidate for application of creditors.
The case is proceeding as wel A sequel to the collapse of she was not to be convicted or mulai herself who first reported secure election, to be well go to press.
wall of a partially domolished fined on the charge of importing the matter to the police. Her equipped for duties as an M. P., house at Gege Street on Monday the opium inside the car. The report was to the effect that at 8 states & London paper. She is last, when one woman was killed onus laid by the section could not p.m. on Monday she was given a Miss Helen Fraser, who during and two others removed to Hos- reasonably apply, because the car severe beating with the bamboo the war gave no fewer than 300 pital, was the bringing of a charge at the stage of its journey was end of a feather duster, because lectures in the United States on of manslaughter against the con- ont of his custody and in the it was stated that she did not at British war activities, and also tractors and foremen concerned, possession or control of the ship tend to the wants of ber mistress. helped American Cantonese Troops in Mr. J. A. Fraser's Court this ping company or its officers. On The punishment lasted until 9 organise their own war work.
Surrounded.
morning. The defendants were this same point he could have a 'clock by which time the duster Thereafter she did good service Chan Chik, wha originally legal claim for compensation was split and the girl was mass under the War Savings Com- According to sur Canton cor- contracted for the job, Chan Mo, should anything happen to the of weals. These still showed mittee. Now, after a second tour respondeu", information from the subcontractor to whom the car, through carelessness, damage when on the following morning in the States, she bas Wochow states that the bandita actual work was entrusted, and or theft, which occurred whilst the girl want to the Station forward to io Kwangsi are creating great their respective foremec, Chan the car remained aboard. M: and reported the It-treatment. trouble. The smallest gangs num-Sam and Wu Lit.
Lo submitted that his client's She added that she was made to
application WAJ the warrant
issued?
Mr. Dem? replied that
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salesman tried to make London bandits and forced to surrender of the scaffolding and the dia ternational statue, and applied Sub-Iospector Patterson told business men appreciate the value posal of the materials when de-only to the time when his client the Court that he examined the of that invention. A letter to W. Ngoi Hoi, a large village near molition was being carried out. bad actual and physical possession the girl and discovered D. Howells typed by Mark Twain Kongmoon, was attacked by a It is beld that it was the accum of the case of camphor in which no less than 22 bruises on her on December 9, 1874-the very b'g gang of robbers on ulation of a large pile of beams the drug was found. The onus right leg. There were also wesis day the machine reached him is
night of the
29th. in a precarious position on the was not on the defendant in this on the arms and elbows which still extant. I don't know," Fourt, en houses were partially demolished wall that case. The prosecution failed to when exposed for the Magistrate's he tells him, "whether I am visited in succession, six people caused the collapse.
discharge it and the defendant inspection, confirmed what the going to make this typewriting were killed and many wounded, The bearing of the case was would, under this circumstance, Inspector had said.
machine go ornto; that laat word whilst the robbers got away with adjourned for the preparation of be entitled to a discharge.
Aformeladjournment was given was intended for n-nut; but 1 buge booty.
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