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MURDER CASE..
ANGRY MOTHER-IN- LAW.
LOOKING FOR A STOLEN
WATCH.
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(Continued from Page 1).
Between five and six o'clock: on the morning of June 21st, the oc- cupants were awakened by "ery,
An angry mother-in-law, who and it would appear from the was considerably worked up" on witness that the husband was seen discovering that a valuable wrist standing by the wife's bed. The watch had been stolen from her wife got up and, walked along a daughter-in-law, and was passage, when she was followed worried over the theft that obe by a son, who saw that she was was occupied for two days trying bleeding A police whistle was to find it, figured in a case which blown, and the prisoner was ar came before Mr. R. E. Lindsell rested outside the house, surround- this morning. ........ ed by a crowd of people. The woman was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, but died the next day.
It was atated that such was the woman's wrath, that, her sus picions falling on a young amah, sha bundled the girl out of the house after searching her belong inga.
PRISONER'S STATEMENTS..
The wound was in the left side
It then transpires that she re- of the throat, and was apparently gretted her hasty act, and spent inflicted with a chisel, Prisoner two days looking for the amah in said it was an accident, but, the the streets, not, it was explained, Crown said it was deliberately done with the view to reinstating her, by him. He was first of all but in order to recover the watch. charged with wounding and doing However, before a report of the bodily harm, when he stated "be larceny was made in the ordinary cause she has circulated particulars way, a pawnbroker called at the about the date, etc., of my daugh- Wanchai Police Station with a ter's birth without my know watch which he explained had ledge, I quarrelled with her. My been handed over his counter by daughter ran away for several days a girl who was now identified as and I wanted her to look for her the defendant in the case, ~*,
It was not unusual, he said, for and get her back." He also made! allegations against his wife's servants to be sent out to pawn morality and said he therefore used articles for their mistresses, but a chisel to cut her.
in this case his suspicions were That, continued Mr. Kemp, ap aroused by the frightened manner peared to be a clear confession. of the girl. He losisted that she When the woman died, prisoner was
should bring her mistress along if charged with murder and he alter her statement that she was-pawn- ed his story very considerably, ing the article for her mistress He replied to that charge: "I did was true; and the girl, without not intend to kill her. I had a waiting to take back the watch; quarrel with her and we struck each went out of the' shop. other. We had quarrelled and returned. struck each other before."
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After hearing the evidence, Mr. R. E. Lindsell convicted the de- fendant, and sentenced her to six weeks hard labour.
In a statement at the Central Magistracy, the prisoner denied the charge. He said she had the chisel in her hand, and they had been quarreling. She struck at him
TRAFFIC CASES. with the chisel, and he tried to snatch it from her. He over-
THREE CHINESE FINED. powered her, and she accidentally
With enough space on his own plunged the chisel into her own side of the road to have passed neck. He pulled it out and became the ramcar with sety, it was frightened, so he went downstairs.
He intended to go to the Police Sta- alleged, a taxi-driver persisted in tion to make a report, but a crowd getting on the tram-tracks and fa so doing was run into by a trata- collected and he was arrested.
car at the corper opposite Jackson They would, said Mr. Kemp, Road, Fortunately, the collision have to consider those statements was a slight one, otherwise it was very carefully, as the evidence for stated that a fare, in the taxi, a the prosecution proved beyond Mrs. Dunsmidth, might have beep any reasonable doubt that prisoner injured. Mult
killed her. Mr. Kemp drew the The driver, who appeared in. attention of the Court particular Court to-day,, had a clear recor ly to the differences in the and a fine of $20 was inflicted by prisoner's statements and then Mr. R. E: Lindsell went on to deal with the improb-
For failing to report an accident able points contained in those at the foot of Arbuthnot Road, in statements. He reminded the which he collided with a combipa- jury that the prisoner was former-tion driven by Inspector Ellis, who ly a carpenter and would remem: was injured in the ankle and foot ber such a thing as a chisel, and when caught by the splash board he suggested it was more of a of the car, a Chinese motor car man's weapon than a woman's driver was fined $10 by the Magis He also pointed out the unnatural trate. position in which the woman Summoned by Bergeant Baker would have to hold the chisel to
for not having proper control of wound herself. UZUN
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against whom it was stated that be allowed three friends to sit, "E. M. Minett, Government huddled an on the seat beside him, Bacteriologist, in the witness-box, was fined $10 shid, halreceived a chisel and a jacket from Sub-Inspector James
and found faint bloodstaing on the it being brightly polished. Jacket and upon doma) clot In reply to Mr. Hing Shing-lo wrapped round the handle of the witness and the blood was too chisel. The staids were too falafaint to be tested
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to tell whether theyli were of been more of it, he could have human blood or not. He found no traces of blood on the ch itself
made steht.
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