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WHY TORTURE THE CHILD
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.
CASTLE PEAK TRAGEDY.
A GRIM CRIME RECALLED.
A story which reads like a 5- vel was recounted by Mr. T. 3. Whyte-Smith, assistant Crow Solicitor, before Mr. R, E. Lindsoll
yesterday.
mman.
COST OF WORKLESS IN 1926.
250,200,000. UNEMPLOYMENT
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BENEFITS.
MOSQUITOES NOT A NUISANCE.
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BISHOP OF LONDON ATTACKED,
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ANSWER TO COURT PETITION AT PAISLEY. That mosquitoes are not a public London, May 10-Th According to the report for 1920 of the Ministry of Labour, nuisance was the defence raised of London (Dr. Ingram han ro published last month, the average at Paisley Sheriff Court in answer turned from Australia weekly number, of persons paid to a patition by the Upper District Zealand to meet a violent atrak unemployment benefit was 1,046 Committeo of the County of Renon the part of Sir WJoynson
frew against the trustee of the Hicks. He was prosecuting in a case in The average weekly payment per late William Allan Woodrop. The Speaking at u meeting of the Na- which a Chinese was charged with head of persons actually drawing petitioners wish to have it declar- tional Church League, ho Homo murdering his wife, Close atten- benefit during the year was 184. ed that there exists on the lands Secretary accused the Bishop of tion was accorded him as he slow 6d. In all benefit amounting to of Muirend a nuisance within the alling the diocese of London with ly reconstructed the events which
Public Health Act because the mon with disloyal doctrines on re- £50,201,768 was paid. led up to the murder and the sub Towards the end of 1926 and ditches are in such a condition as formation, and yourself by forcing it to take sequent movements of the accused the beginning of 1926, the report to be the breeding ground for mos-Cries of Throw him out of the
Twenty years ago the accused states, there was a decided down quitoes.
Doctors in practice at Muirend do with him ward tendency in the number of and his murdered wife were in a remote Chinese village a little dis- cases of fraud: Coincident, how and Catheart said they sad been Sir W. Joynson-Hicks "No, 20. tance to the West of Canton. A over, with the large increase in un consulted by people in the, dis-I don't want to say hard words
trict for mosquitos.bites. year of happy married life was employment in the latter part of spent before the accused shipped 1926 the number of cases fterena himself away together with a numed, although the total for the year her of others to America to make was substantially lower than in his fortune. He returned after a 1925. separation of twelve years and The number of persons prosecu- rejoined his wife, living together ted during 1926 was 1750, of 148 in a house in High Street in Sham a month, compared with 2045 in Suo. A couple of years later 1926-an average of 169 a month. he bought a piece of land in the San Hoi district near Castle Pesk and there, built a superior type of Chinese, house, i
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parked their clothing, mosquito nets and bedding and the next day the whole party left the village and cubine's house in Cheung Sha Wan. From that time the defen- dant went once a week to Castle Peak to look after his affairs
Saving Face.
theirs.".
Continuing, he said that. Church-
Dr. George Buchanan, medical against his Lordship, but I wait officer for the county of Renfrew, the Bishops to realise that we have he had suggested that the our rights just as they have ditches should be sprayed with oil to make a film on the surface of the water and so prevent the larvae men were asked to accot, the new the sake of peaço, but tile Bishops coming to the surface to breathe, Prayer Book as a compromise for According to Dr. W. G. Gunn, should give an assurance that the The offer was turned down. assistant medical officer for Glas present revision would be final. gow, the ditches in the district of Thus far no such assurance had Muirend were the best broodingbeen forthcoming. "Let the Bla grounds he had found in Scotland hope say that the reformation was the work of God in the Church and we will help them to keep the peace.
The hearing was adjourned.j~ Wan. He made some effort to es powered.
sult of hanging one would have
That was about seven years ago. The couple to all outward appears accomplish all that castor oil can ances were quite happy and it took up their residence at the con- cape, but was eventually over because if death had been the ro
came as a surprise to those who knew them, that the man should, after staying a year at the house, take a concubine who lived in Cheung Sha Wan in Sham Sul Po
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Discovery of Corpse, Nearly all the ground around expected a break in the circle the house was dug up, but without where the rope would rise at the result. On May 24 the polles point of suspension. The woman found a pair of trousers in the appeared to be in good health and It seems that the man's wife and
On April 27, three weeks after middle of a mud pond in front of the examination disclosed nothing his concubine did not get on to-the disappearance of the deceased the house, and the mui tsai iden- that was inconsistent with the gether and in order to please both woman, the defendant called on tifled them as belonging to her mis-theory that death was due to
bor brother, a cobbler in Sham Sui tress.
strangulation and that it was sud parties they lived separately.
Coming to the actual events Po and asked him if he had heard A reward was offered for the den;"
The stomach was sent to Mr. which preceded the murder, Mr. the news that his wife had ab-finding of the body and on May 26 Whyte-Smith said that at the be conded with a certain man, whose a native of the place who had Dovey for analysis and be found ginning of April the household at name he gave. On May 7 he call been searching the billside in the no poison in the stomach which Castle Peak consisted of the de- ed again on his brother-in-law and hope of getting the reward divest could not be attributed to natural fendant, his wife, their three said that he no longer suspecteded his attention to a sand pit at Causes. The analyst would say children, two boys and a girl, and the man he had previously men- the rear of the house. He noticed that he had found nothing incon tioned but named a certain brick a spot that looked soft and Bogan sistent with the theory that poison On April 6 immediately after layer who he claimed was respon to burrow with his hands. Pre-of a certain kind might have been
sible for his wife's running away. sently he came upon some human used. the morning meal the mui tsai was
Mr. Whyte Smith. contended instructed to take two children to The brother-in-law suggested cal- hair and a little further on he the hillside to pick fir cones. Anng in the Police and also offering saw a head. He left the spo; and that the rope seen by the mui tsai was first planted by the defendant hoy later the defendant himself a reward but the defendant put off communicated with the police.
They dog the woman up and she so that he could attach the body arived at the hillside bringing these suggestions as worthless and with him the third child. Still likely to cost him "Iner."
was identified by the mu tsai and of the murdered woman on to it later several other villagers arriv A mouth after the murder aa relation as the mud there, a red later and give the semblance that ed. Whilst they were at their Chinese detective met the defen- slimy mixture, kept the body more she hung herself. Something un- foreseen, however, had caused the work a heavy rainstorm came on dant at Castle Ponk and having or less mumified.
defendant to change his plans, There was a rope round the wo- and the villagers ran down to the heard of his wife's supposed es-
With regard to the washing on defendant's house to take shelter. capade enquired why the defen-man's neck and another around They were friends of the deceased dant had not sought the aid of the her waist. Mr. Whyte-Smith re-the floor Mr. Wnyte-Smith said he wanan and they called her by authorities. The defendant simp marked that it was rather signi- could not bring forward any argu- name, but there was no reply and ly replied that his wife was in sant that the rope was of the same ment but could only make a sug
kind as that which was hanging gestion. The medical evidence- Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. the husband quickly told the vil- Hongkong, and went away.
lagers that she had gone for a The brother of the deceased wo-from the nail. An extra call of seemed to point against bloodshed, walk. The house appeared to have man by this time had his suspi-similar rope was found in the out-therefore there could not bo blood closed up and all the people, in- cions aroused and on May 16 pro house where the mui tsui had scen stains to wash off. The possibility. was that washing was to clean up. Tol. C.679. cluding the children, had to take ceeded to Castle Peak to make on the body in a basket.
shelter on the verandah.
quiring about his sister. He on- Dr. Dovey performeil a post excretion which might have been quired at the Police station mortem examination of the body. the result of fright. Mul Tsai Searches. Whether the defendant had made The organs were much shrivelleti Mr. Whyte-Smith concluded- When the rain subsided and the any report, and was fald that and he failed to find the cause of "My case, your Worship is that the there had been no report. The death. There was no evidence of deceased woman was either villagers had gone the defendant woman's brother then made an of external, injuries except a grove strangled, poisoned or murdered gave ten cents to the mut tai to ncial report at the Central Police round the neck, which went com- by some other way by the bus- buy cakes.
On the girl's return Station on May 19.
pletely round. The grove was so band." she noticed that the house had
The defendant-
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It been opened by the man, who after outside his house at Cheung Sha negatived the idea of suicide, fending. taking over the cakes from her, went out.
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After he had gone, the girl, who was evidently curious about the whereabouts of her mistress, began to search the house, the main building of which had a sort of attic on it and there were also outhouses attached, one on each side.
Ascending the stairs leading to the attic, she noticed that they were wet, as if they had recently been washed. When she got to the at- tic, she noticed that a rope was hanging from a nail in the roof. The floor space under the rope also appeared to have been washed.
She went to the outhouse on the right of the building and found the door closed. Entering through a window; however, she saw two large baskets, one inverted over the other as though forming a lid. She raised the lid a little and saw her mistress huddled up in the brisket with a rope around her neck. The mui tsai was so ter- rified that she went back to the living house immediately. When the defendant came in shortly af ter she was so frightened that she anid nothing about it.
That same night after the mui sar, had gone to be she heard the defendant cough and the cough seemed to come from the next room where she had seen her mis- tress in a basket. "At" seven the next morning on entering the kit chen she found the defendant dry- ing his clothing by the fire.
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The deceased woman was member of the Christian Church' at San Hoi. The Minister met the defendant in' the Main Street of San Hoi and the defendant en- quired, of the Minister whether ho had heard that, his wife had.pun away to Hongkong. That was the first suggestion that the defendant had made that his wife had ab- sconded. The same day. he told the mui tauż that he would go to Hongkong, to see if a certain friend know where his wife had absconded to. Evidence would be brought, however, to be shown that The never asked anybody in Hong- kong as to the whereabouts of his, wife
The day after the supposed visit to Hongkong, the defendant, his concubine, and her sister came to tho San Hot Village and they
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