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COUNCIL MEETING.
TWO NEW BILLS.
Two new bills were latroduced at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, ono amending the Magistrates Ordinance and the other providing for the forma tion, establishment and regulation of the Hongkong Police Reserve.
Printers Ordinance.
The Attorney General moved that the first reading of a Bill in tituled An Ordinance to amend the Printers and Publishers Ordinance 1886, be adjourned until the next meeting of the Council;
The Colonial Secretary seconded and the Council agreed,
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927.
THE MORPHIA CASE.
Witness: I would not say that he asked me to do it. He said "If you can, there will be a little com-
Abused Confidence.
The third point is one of much less importance, but it is one which frequently occurs in the Police Courts. The Vagrancy Act of 1824 makes it an offence for a sus- PROSECUTION'S CASE CLOSES.mission for you." pested person or reputed thief to frequent streets, docks and so on When the.caso continued in the with intect to commit a felony. afternoon, Mr. Leask asked wit-
Mr. Leask: You know, and you Very often it is difficult to provo ness whether he knew a Mr. Kent-ave said, that the frac, defendant frequenting, because to prove fre-well and witness admitted that he has been on the Ching Coast for quenting you must be able to show did.
twenty years. What reason has inat tho
he to go to you to get introductions hag visited
to Chinese buyers? that street for that purpose at least more than once. On the other hand it may bé quite obvious from his known character and his actions that he can only be there for an unlawful purpose. In Eng land the law was altered a good many years ago and it was made I did not. an offence for suspected persons or reputed, thieves to loitar with the view to commiting a felony, That amendment, made in England
Hongkong Police Reserve.
Mr. Leask: Was he In Hong
met the kong about the time you Arst defendant in King Edward Hotel7-Yes.
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Witness: I can only assume that he thought I was safe. My Assumption is that, knowing I was At this meeting did you say to involved with his colleague in first defendant, "Kentwell is in London, he thought I was safe.à, frames Hongkong," you must meet him?" He apparently gave me very full
confidence.
Did you mention Kentwell's name to him?-Yes. Kentwell de-i fended your client in Shanghai.
Did the first defendant see him?
saw Kentwell once; he was coming out of the Savoy Hotel. We had a drink together.
Mr. Leask: Which you abused. Witness: Rightly or wrongly abused.
Mr. Leask: You mentioned also
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Magistrates Ordinance.
in 1881, is now to be made hore-Not to my knowledge. He said that you were told by Christie that The Attorney General moved the by a section of this Bill. I beg he would look him up.
a consignment was taken to Shang- THDRAFION. NO.3 first reading of a Bill Intituled Anto move the first reading..
Did you try to arrange any meet-hal by a man named Georgie. I Ordinance to amend the Magia-| The Colonial Secretary second-ing between first defendant and put it to you that Georgie was. trates Ordinance, 1890. He said:ed, and the Bill was read first Kentwell?-Certainly not. I only never mentioned in Hongkong.. This Bill began with one or two time. proposals to alter the Magistrates
"Georgie." « Ordinance on certain technical pokats. As often happens, the The Attorney General moved the Bill has grown by the addition of first reading of a Bill intituled An
A Journal's Fate. more and more proposals, and it Ordinance to provide for the for- now contains 25 clauses, Most mation, establishment and regula-
Have you tried to run any of these proposals are technical tion of the Hongkong Police Re-papers in Hongkong?-Yes, The matters dealing with questions of serve. He said: To a large ex- Ladies Weekly. procedure and they are all extent this Bill will repeat the pro plained fully in the Objects and
Reasons.
in England, and still is a matter of great difficulty and uncertainty
Witness: At the hotel I was told to get a telegram addressed to "Georgie" from the Eastern Ex- tension Telegraph Company. 1 told Christie I was known at the Telegraph Company. This con- What Was the fate of that versation was telephoned to the visions of the present Felice Re-paper? The fate was this, the so-police.
Mr. Leask: You recollect the called business manager, an Aus- serve Ordinance, but it does make. three somewhat important changes tralian, helped himself to I may first defendant and a man called in the law relating to the Reserve, embezzled sundry sums of Georgie negotiating for a ship, the in, the first place it will dispense money, and was convicted before Talbot, in Shanghai?-No. with the oath of allegiance and
Mr. Lenak: Have you never will substitute an undertaking to
Major Willson.
heard of the Talbot?--Yes, I have. serve in the Reserve and to obey
Mr. Lindsell: Did you. ever all the rules and regulations, in lividual's service. force during the period of the in-
There are, however, three points dealt with in the Bill which are of a more general character and which, I think, I might appropri- ately refer to at this stage. One is the question of the meaning of the term "drunkenness." Sections with offences by persons while of the principal Ordinance deal drank. The interpretation of this term, as is well known, has given rise to a great deal of difficulty in the Courts here and still more amissal, are abolished except when started on very limited capital, re- he Reserve is called out for active lying on advertising. A man service. It is obvious when it is called Trevor embezzled certain called out for active service, that sums of money and I could not these penalties must revive for the carry on the printing bill. period of active service.
To come to your evidence. You In the third place powers are said most of the time during your given in the Bill to the Governor-conversations with Christle was In-Council to direct that members taken up in talking about arms
the Reserve be paid when the Yes. He offered me $1,000 to pose Reserve is called but for service, as a man from Saigon to certain The regulations proposed to be Chinese coming from Canton.. made under this Ordinance when You will agree that at these
is passed have been published the Gazette. I beg to move the irst reading.
No breath of suspicion against you in connexion with it?—I cer- tainly don't think so, I saw the meet the man Georgie?-No. Crown Solicitor on the whole mat- ter, so the paper closed. In the second place all ponalties
Who closed it down? Was it for breaches of discipline, other, closed by the Authorities? The of course, than reprimand and dis. Authorities?
Certainly, not. It
Definition of Drunkenness, The British Medical Association in October, 1925, appointed a Com- mittee to report upon the intor pretation of the word "drunk" and of the tests for drunkenness. That Committee was a very strong one. It included various members of the British Medical Association, tiv. Stipendiary magistrates, five Police Surgeons and others, and in Feb ruary, 1927, the Committee made a Very full and careful report. In that report they suggested, a cer tabi definition of the term "drun kenness," and that definition hat been adopted in the present Bill. It reads na follows: "For the purposes of sub-sections (3)" and (4) a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much
The Colonial Secretary second- d and the Bill was rend a first
.me.
The Boy Scouts.
The Bill intituled An Ordinance o further and protect the activi
ea of the Boy Scouts Association,
meetings armis were chladly dis cussed 7-Seventy five per cent of the time was connected with arms. I think the question of arms was brought up by you, not by the first defendant? I was definitely ask od to act. --
Revenge Suggested.
I put it to you that you wanted to act and that the first defendant
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Mr. Leask to witness: I suggest the only time that Georgie was ever mentioned to you was in con- nexion with the Talbot in Shang- hal?
mentioned in Shanghai.
Witness: It was certainly never
Mr. Leask: Although you were reporting the enac?-Yes, I have my copies of the Shanghai Bfer- cury. It 's about an arms seizure. Mr. Leask: When you intro- duced the first witness, Au Yeung, to the first defendant, what die you introduce him as?-First of as "my, man" and then an a brother of a former pupil of mine.
An Oil Deni. Mr. Leask: And also 25 A wealthy merchant from the Straits interested in oil?
Witness: OH? Never! Oil was never, mentioned at any time. Was there no suggestion that this wealthy Chinese was going to open up. agencies in South China?
Witness: Certainly not. There was no suggestion of any deal of
Mr. Leask: Have you СУСТ
You say that on November 8, you saw the first and second defen- dant In St. George's Hotel?-When they arrived I was with Sergeant Baker,
under the influence of alcohol as to nd to, incorporate the Hongkon refused to allow you to take part? any nature in oil.
No.
have lost control of his facultic branch thereof, passed all remain- I suggest that it was for that heard of "Long Life" oil?-No.
His Excellency's. Thanks.
ndebtedness to the Official
to such an extent as to render hiring stages and became law. unable to execute safely the co- cupation on which he was engaged
reason-your not being allowed to at the time, in question." It is
participate that you reported to obvious, of course, a person may
At the conclusion of the busi-the police?-Absolutely no. be intoxicated to a certain extent
ness of the Council, His Excellency
What reason had you for re- and yet be able to carry.on hir ald: Before we adjourn, gentle-porting to the police?-I did not particular occupation with perfect man, I should like to express may wish to deal in arms or drugs. safety to himself and others
and did not wish to know Christic and whilst in another case, such as the Unofficial members alike, both of cannot afford to do so. I realise control of a motor car, a less de- tho Executive and Legisla now that I might lay myself open gree of intoxication will make him tive Councils, for the
to somebody "waking sleeping very a source of danger both to him- ready help and co-operation dogs," but I did not realise it at self and the general public. The which they have given to that time. test adopted is whether the state me at all times while I have What do you mean when you re- of intoxication is such as to render heen administering the Govern-fer to "sleeping dogs?"-Court him unable to execute safely the ment of this Colony in the ab-publicity. particular occupation on which he was engaged at the time in ques- tion. That is the first general
point dealt with by this Bill.
: Appeals.
The second deals with appeals
from magistrates decisione.
At
present various steps in an intend- ed appeal have to be taken before
sence of His Excellency the Gov- Does it mean that you were crnor. As it is probably the last afraid you might be implicated ime I shall have the pleasure of having had conversation with the meeting you all together for some first defendant?-No. months, I would like also to take "Mr, Lindsell: It certainly this opportunity of wishing you
Why did you not mention that Sergeant Baker was present, when you were giving evidence?—I was not asked.
It is not a question of being ask- ed. You volunteered a great deal of evidence, but you did not offer that.
こ
Mr. King: Perhaps that was my fault, I was leading him,
Haynes added that when Chris- tie was introduced to Baker, he Haynes) was nervous and shak- ing like a leaf.
A Friend from the Straits. all and the Colony a very pros-deal in drugs, or in arms and I Sergeant Baker?--Yes, as a Mr.
meant that.
Witness: I had no desire to Mr. Lensk Did you Introduce
perous future.
Paris, Dec. 1.
of
....
The Council adjourned sine die. I never wished to be on intimate Jessman. He loft shortly after or by the Magistrate appealed
terms with Christie; and in my wards and Christie was very keen from, and no provision is made
present position I cannot afford to. to know who he was and I replied for the death or "absence or ba- M. Violette, ex-Governor
My first inclination was to write that he was out of job and wanted capacity of the magistrate whose Algeria, on arrival at Marseilles him a chit,
to barrow $10. decision is being appealed from. declared that the losses in the been enough to tell Mr. King and gest that you were keeping and Mr. Leask: Would it not have Mr. Leask: Did you not sug- It is obvious that great hardship foods in Algeria are estimated at leave it there? I thought it would assisting him?-Certainly not. might be caused to an intended 600,000,000 francs. There were appollant if he found his appeal two hundred and fifty European completely blocked by one of these and probably 2,000 native victime. causes. Section 22 of the Bill, Reuter, therefore, proposes to provide that
end there.
Did you mention that he was a defendant at Victoria View on a down in the Straits? Yes.
At your first interview with the man. you had known years ago, Saturday, you say that three quar- In fact, did you say he was one if any, appeal is rendered Impos-
Calcutta, Dec. 1.
ters of the time was occupied in of those Straits "bums?"No I sible by the death, absence or in- Cholera has broken out in and then mentioned a
talking about a deal in arms, said he was a hanger on and that he capicity of the magistrate whose epidemic form all over Bengal heroin, in
deal ir was one of poor Frank Lammert's decision la appealed against, the except in Calcutta. There were
which the defendant pals Frank Lammert was very Full Court shall have power to 3703 cases reported last week of asked you to get in touch with well known for helping people. order the case to be heard de novo. which 2139 were fatal-Reuter.
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