THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JULY
19274
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FATAL FIGHT.
CHINESE KILLED IN BOARDING HOUSE FRACAS.
Shortly after six o'clock yester- day the police received a message to the effect that a feki of the Yuet Tung Hoarding House of No. 151 Connaught Road Central, was in a dying condition, as n result of "fight which he had with an- other fokl.
Detectives were immediately sent to the scene but, despite the fact that all that could be was done for the man, he died a few minutes after the arrival of the police.
From enquiries made it was learned that the deceased was a man named Tiu Mun-tak, 25 years of age, and a native of the Tung Koon District: His assailant, who was about the same
WEST POINT CASE.
POLICE SERGEANT GUILTY
OF ASSAULT.
evidence that the officer exceeded his duty by striking defendant, which I find as a fact he did."
A HONGKONG BOY.
11
AS AN ARCHITECT."
CORONER'S ENQUIRY.
TO DEATH.
"I also find as a fact that de MR. GEORGE HALL QUALIFIES COOLIE WHO WAS CRUSHED fendant did resist or obstruct the officer, so much so that he had to put defendant. on the ground in arrest. That
The many friends of Mr. G. A. V. will be glad
to Major C. Willson announced his order to effect his
would not have been necessary i Hall
as in
qualified not strongly hear that he has
returning decision yesterday afternoon the case in which Percy Sidney the defendant had Lai was charged with unlawfully resisted. On that charge I bind nu architect and is resisting search in Queen's Road defendant over in West and with wilfully obstruct bond of $100 to be of good be- "I do not agree with Mr. Brutton ing and resisting Sergeant Hey-haviour for twelve months." wood in the execution of his duty.
that the two charges are practic Jally the same."
There was a counter-summons against the Sergeant for assault
The defendant was represented by Mr. Geo. K. Hall Bratton.
The Finding.
of 1900
Solicitor's Protest.
personal home.
Dr.
IMPROPER DRESS.
PEKING POLICE ENFORCE
RECENT ORDER.
CADETSHIPS.
REASON FOR SHORTAGE OF CANDIDATES.
In the course of the discus at the Colonial Conference on recruitment and training of now lonial Civil servants it was st
seon
(2) the largely increased n ber of posts with sim prospects in East and Africa, which can be
com tained without a tive literary examinatio It was explained that the
The first arrest has been Sitting as Coroner, Major C. carried out by Peking police for Willson yesterday held an enquiry infraction of the "Modest Dress" into the death of a Chinese earth order, and a young woman coolie who lost his life when a
pines in prison awaiting trial, says that the recruitment of officers the Cadet Services in Bri rock weighing over a thousand
the North China Standard.
Police officials are still ahudder-Malaya and Hongkong by the Mr. Hall is a brother of Mr. pounds fell on him while he was
effects of the tem of open competitive exami tion had proved unsatisfactory J. R. Craig said de- ing from the William Hall (architect) and of digging at Morrision Hil
in ceased suffered numerous mul- patrolman's harrowing story in
which he told how the young miss recent years. There was a Messrs. Alfred and James Hall (solicitors). He was born
abrasions
lacera- 'and
had allowed her arms, her neck serious shortage of qualified right arm from Hongkong and was prominent in tiple W regard to the summons local sport. A few years ago he tion of the
ar-which the muscles were torn out. and the upper part of her bosom,didates, attributable among of
(1) the increased demand against the Sergeant for assault,
: University graduates as I have alated, I find that proved went to England to study and imposed a fine of $10, but 1 chitecture at Liverpool University, There was considerable hemorrand & tremendous expanse of leg reasons to
business, both at home would add that, in my opinion, whence good reports of his pro-hage from the arm. There was in the plural, to appear before the
abroad; and unnecessary and uncalled for progress have come. Yesterday his also a fracture of the right upper public gaze. In the South City
for has passed hiafracture of the right leg. The lated, men who had never George vocation was given to the defend brother was advised by cable that arm and a very bad compound amusement park, the constable re- Jant by Lal.".
bachelorship of architecture and man was suffering from consider leg before, stond mesmerized as
company with two young men. has been admitted as an Associate able shock. A minor operation was the Chinese girl paraded past, in In the height of the excitement of the Royal Institute of British performed but the man died.
the Evidence was given by a fore- Architects.
scene and was almost overcome, man who said it was his duty to the policeman strolled on
he explains, by the exhibition. dangerous rocks. On the day of the accident he had no time to go His own statement is illuminat-vernor of the Straits Settlem
on the hill and discover any on his rounds, being kept in the ing. He said that a long pair had accordingly been asked
of stockinge took the place of his views on a suggestion
Malayan Cadetships should; for office with accounts,
A Chinese constable stated that trousers.
In Fantastic Fashion, experimental period; be filled. geant stopped the man not for the was tried it went against the purpose of searching for arms bathers, but an appeal resulted in before dying the man had stated
The police asked her and the the system of appointment b and therefore it was impossible to the higher court reversing the that he had dug the mud around
but they demurred; declaring that Tropical African Services. "The complainant stated in his convict his client of obstructing decision as it held that the men the rock and that he was "dying twe students to leave at once,lection already in force for It was generally agreed evidence that he suspected thethe police in the execution of their were not originally arrested for through his own folly.""
The jury returned a verdict of the police had no right to inter- defendant of having stolen some-duty, if the policeman claimed that assaulting the police but only for thing, not that he suspected him that duty was a search for arms. indecency, which was quite a dif-death by misadventure and added fere with their personal liberty. this position required early c It is clear He contended that the second ferent charge. The higher court that there should have been more. This reused the ire of the guar-deration by the Governments of carrying arms,
dian of the law who told the girl cerned.. in blunt language that she dress- therefore that this section does charge was merely put in by the held that the defendants were supervision by the foreman.
ed in a manner bordering on the not apply and the defendant is polica to amplify the first one and entitled to resist.
Mr. Brutton stated that the same
nude and deserved arrest in ac- therefore discharged on charge that once His Worship had found.
cordance with the recent "police "A"
order against women's queer.dresa. As the girl still tried to argue by Judgment for respondent was with the police, reinforced given by the Lords of the Judical this time, they had to arrest her companions, At Committee of the Privy Council and her two
Major Willson's finding was as follows:
"The first charge against the defendant is brought under Sec- age, disap-tion 23 of Ordinance 2 peared immediately after the fight. which reads as follower Nobody in the boarding house anw the man leavo by the front en- trance, and it is surmised that when he realised the gravity of his offence he made his exit through the roof and gained the street by descending through an unoccupied house nearby.
'Every person who obstructs, hinders or resists or assists in obstructing, hindering or resist
scarch 0% Arrest ing any authorised by this Ordinance shall be liable to the punishment prescribed by Section 28."
Mr. Brutton rose to ask his Wor. ship to re-consider his decision in
Mr. Hall is coming back to join second charge regard to the against the defendant, in which his brother William in the firm of he was bound over in a personal Abdoolrahim, and Co. - bond of $100. He said that his Worship had found that the Ser-
that the first one could not stand thing appiled to his case. The the second charge must all to the defendant was arrested for resist
ing a search for arms and found ground,
guilty of resisting the police under quite different heading.
His Worship: It is an alterna- tive chargo.
MANILA CIGARS.
AN APPEAL TO THE PRIVY COUNCIL.
LOAN TO GERMAN
AMERICAN BANKERS T ADVANCE G.$30,000,000,
New York, July.
It is further learned that the two men were employed prior to the 1925 strike at the Wah Kiu Chinese boarding house in Con- naught Road Central. This board- ing house has since closed down, but while the two men were em- ployed there they were frequently noticed quarrelling. The deceas-
"With regard to the second ed was employed as a room boy) a house. and the other man as
charge, section 27 of the Police
Mr. Brutton continuing said that coolle.
Ordinance reads as follows: When the Yuet Tung Boarding "It shall be lawful for any police the Magistrate was not justified house was opened about three
officer to stop and search, and in coming to the decision that the
A credit of $30,000,000 mer found weeks ago, the two
if necessary to arrest and detain defendant resisted the policeman
Mr. Brutton: Your Worship on an appeal from H.M. Supreme the preliminary examination in
girl been arranged for the Go employment there. One of them for further enquiries, any per in the execution of his duty. The
son whom he may find in any law, added Mr. Brutton, did not cannot have alternative charges. Court for Shanghai in the action the police quarters the worked on the first floor, the other
The obstruction occurred in the of Carl Franz Adolf Otto In-stated that she belonged to a Gold Diskont Bank by a New on the second. Employees of the
street or other public places, support the decision.
course of the Sergeant's duty. If genohl against Wing & Co. Ltd., local school. The oxamining off-business group as a resul Schacht's recent vi boarding house stated that about
or on board any vessel, or in any
Legal Procedents.,
your Worship, does not find him Shanghal.
cer doubted this claim and said Herr five o'clock yesterday the two men conveyance, at any hour of
Appellant appealed the case
he had yet to see a girl student Reuter's American Service. Many legal authorities were guilty of the first charge how can who The day
in Buch dressed
a fantastic were seen to quarrel. When the
acts in D suspicious manner quoted by Mr. Brutton to support you find him guilty of the second after the advoree judgment on
April 22, 1925. The action con- fashion. She is now held for fur fokis gathered on the ground floor
mark on "or whom he may suspect of his contention. Particularly in charge? for their meal the two men, did
Major Willson: I have done it. cerns plaintiff's trade
ther examination. One of having committed or of being teresting was a caso in which
Mr. Brutton then quoted at Manila cigars and involves the not present themselves.
of certain usor about to commit or of intending policeman, accing the fok's went to the first Ador
swimming early in the morning, great length from other authori-sale of war time confiscated restrain the
brands or trade to commit any offence."
marks used by and there saw the deceased In
attempted to arrest them for in- ties to show that the second charge patents.
This was an appeal by the the appellant to denote his own great agony. He notified others
decency. He told the bathers that was unreasonable and should not who at once rendered what help
"The Sergeant therefore was, he wanted to arrest them and be upheld. He again asked his plaintiff in an action brought in cigars by affixing them to other deci- His Majesty's Supreme Court for cigars, and the user, in the des they could to the unfortunate man
China at Shanghai to restrain the cription of such other cigars, of The action was and the police was telephoned for. perfectly justified in stopping de-named the charge. One of the Worship to reconsider the
His Worship agreed to eventually the A superficial examination of the dendant and questioning him. It two bathers then assaulted him,
recon respondents from passing off certain words. body showed that there were no was his duty to do so in the cir- but
had been also for infringement, of trado knife wounds at all and it is sur- cumstances. He was perfectly in managed to get the two men to the sider the decision on charge "B" cigare not manufactured by the one to restrain passing off and
$100 will be held over...
manufactured by him, and also to mark. mised that the man was killed by order up to this point, but it ap- station, where he preferred and in the meantime. the bond of appellant as if they
pears from the weight of the charge of assault. When the case his opponent with a bare fist.
or
night,
Exceeded Ills Duly.
two
2
persons
sion,
constable
POLAR CAKE
IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS
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