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FOUR MEN AGAIN BEFORE CHINESE EX-SEAMEN, WHO
MAGİSTRATE.
SOUGHT RANSOM.
Further evidence was given yes-The hearing was continued yes terday, in the case in which four terday afternoon before Major C. Chinese, Cheung Ping, Lut Hing-Willson of the case in which Ho chol, Teang Sze and Chan Wai, Tin, a Chinese ex-seaman of the are charged with the piracy of a President Monroe, was charged Chinese junk on January 25 off Fu with attempting to obtain $4,000 Tau Mun. Armed with rifles, re- from two women in Hongkong, by, volvera and daggers the pirates pretending that he was authorised assaulted those on the junk and to collect this money, for the re- stole money, Jewellery, property lease of three of the women's rola- and the junk's cargo to the total tives who were arrested as sus- value of $2,240,
pected Communists in Shanghai.
Mr. C. A. E. Russ defonded, the prosecution being conducted by Sergeant Donovan..
Police evidence was given yes, terday to the effect that a raiding party headed by Acting Inspector. John Murphy proceeded to Joss Yug Man-sang, one of the cap- House Bay on receipt of certain tured men in Shanghai whose re information. When the party flease was brought about by nego: arrived at the Bay they observed tiations with the authorities there, a junk lying at the extreme end of said that he proceeded to the the bay. The raiding party saw northern port on June 14 last. He A small boat, with four men on started a shipping business in board, pull towards the shore. Shanghai and catered for the from the junk and on innding the coolle hiring business. On De men made off into the hillside and cember 18 he was arrestias a kept on until they struck the Tin Comminist and was not released Hau Wan Road. The Inspector until January 22, and his party went into pursuit. The Police detailed one of thair men to watch the motor boat by which they went to Joss House Bay and the rest of the party busied themselves in routing out the fugitives.
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Witnesa said that his sister-in- law went up to Shanghai to pogo- tiate with his captors, following: which witness and several others were released. A certain sum of money, which witness stated was between 83,000 and $4,000, changed hands before the release took place, and witness added that of this sum the relatives of the dif ferent captives paid a share.
The story of the shooting of one of the pirates was related by a Chinese detective who aid that he went with Inspector Murphy's raiding party to Joss House Bay Regarding the defendaut, wit- where he saw four men get ashore.css and that he knew him six. He stated that the robbers Tan years ago, when' witness was an past a ridge in the hill and seemed interpreter: on the President boats to head for Tin Hau Wan. Wit and defendant had been a member ness gave chase and soon became of the crew: During his detention isolated from the rest of the police. In Shanghai defendant had visited The detective proceeded to Tin him in gaol and had told him not Hau Wan where he made soma to worry too much, Ten days after enquiries, and he received informa- the first visit, the defendant came tion which led him to hide in a again and this time he said that thicket and keep watch.
"money was required and that $4,000 would effect your release."
After a short while a man emerged from the thicket about, thirty yards from where he was hiding. The detective shouted to him to stop, but to no purpose, for the man fled without paying any beed to witness. Witness thereupon opened fire on the fugl tive, not daring to go too near for foar that the fleeing man might be armed. After two shots he saw the man disappear and witness thought he had again gone into hiding.
By cautious detour, witness reached the spot where he saw the fugitive disappear and it was then that he saw the man apparently dead. Witness returned to Joss House Bay and later took the In- spector to the scene.
The hearing of the case was ad- journed until Thursday morning at 11 a.m. In addition to à charge of piracy against all the defendants, the third defendant. ls to answer a charge of returning from banish- Iment.
MILITANT AGAIN.
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London, Feb. 7. Veteran' suffragettes who had been imprisoned for the cause of Women's emancipation, celebrated the tenth anniversary of the move- ment by dining in London, on the 4th Inst.
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Witness told the Court that he told defendant that he had no money but that a number of busi- ness people, would be willing to guarantee that he was no Com- |munist. Defendant replied that that would mean the "chopping block" as no one could explain any- thing without money. To this the witness said "If they want to shoot me, they can do so, but never let my people know of this."
In answer to his Worship wit- ness' said that he meant by that to tell the defendant not to tell his family in Hongkong of his misfortune.
Major Willson: Did you give the defendant any authority to try and raise money?
Witness: No...
"Mr. Runs: Can you say what the defendant apent in order to get Into gaol to visit you?-I bave no idea.
In answer to further questions, witness said that the exact amount paid for the release of witness and his friends was $2,000. Defendant had asked for $4,000. The nego tiations were carried out by n
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woman named Chan Kwok-chan, London.
who got certain people in Shanghai to do something on her behalf.
At this stage the case was ad- journed, Sergeant Donovan indi- eating that the next witness, who was an important witness in the case, was indisposed.
The further hearing of this case will be continued on Saturday morning at 11 am,
WALL COLLAPSE.
THREE WOMEN BURIED UNDER DEURIS.
Amsterdam, Holland.
Missionaries' World Congress,
June 26th-July 7th. World's Dairy Congress.
July 28th-August 12th. Olympic Games.
Cambridge, England. July 14th-25th.
Munich, Bavaria.
A fatality at the M. B. X. coal Vienna, Austria.
Their successors, the numbers of the "Young Suffragists" start- ed active operations this morning. The gates in Downing Street were closed in anticipation of an inva- alon bat only four quiet young women arrived and left at the Prime Minister's door a petition asking that the Equal Franchise Bill (giving the vote to women at yard in Yaumati on January 8 was. twenty-one) be the first measure the subject of a Coroner's inquiry on the statue book this session. nt the Kowloon Magistracy yester- Four others Bimultaneously day afternoon, when Mr. W. Scho- tried to deliver a letter to the Kingfield, assisted by a jury investi- at Buckingham Palace but were re-gated the cause of the deaths of fused admission. They then tried three Chinese females who were strategy. One passed" the letter killed in the collapse of a wall.
The jury consisted of Messrs. C. to a comrade and engaged the police in conversation. The com- P. Marcel, Ho Shu que and Chan rade slipped into the quadrangle Bing-fange and run toward the "door but a At the outset the Coroner inti- policeman intercepted her and mated to the jury that in order to carried the kicking and struggling save time the inquiry would be held girl outside the gates. The de-into the death of Leung luk only. putation did not persist but took Dr. K. C. Cheng, Medical Officer the letter to the district messen-of the Kowloon Mortuary, gave ger's office-leuter.
evidence of examining the deceased on January 3. She was uncon. sclone and suffering from internal abdominal Injuries; She died et 4 p.m. the same day,
UNDER A CLOUD.
WU PEI-FU HELD UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
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Dr. J. E. Dovey said that the cause of death was a fracture of the pubic bone, internal haemorr. hage and shock, Witness described the injuries sustained by the de- ...Peking, Feb. 7. ceased, remarking that there were. The fortunes of Wu Fel-fu are no external bruises,
page under a darker cloud than ever, Mr. V. H. Owen, engineer of according to foreign despatches the Public Works Department, eld from the Upper Yangtze, which that he agamined the walls of the state that the Hankow Governisent two coal yards belonging to the had urged Yang Sen to arrest WuM. B. K. The walls wore built Pol-fu and bring him a prisoner to of lime mortar, there being no cement in the composition. One Yang Sen. In view of his long wall averaged seven fest in height friendship with Wu Pef-fa, did not while the other averaged six. ogreâ to go so fáz, but ag à com♥. In several places the coal was promise disarmed Wu's bodyguard heaped against the wall, which gn January 4, since when he has acted as a retaining wall with only been keeping him and Mrs. Wu the lower part of the plies against Pei-fu under surveillance in-Wan-it. The wall would not be strong halen, Reuter.
enough to stand a powerful side.
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Amsterdam, Holland. International Physical Education
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Sydney, Australia.
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September 3rd-9th.
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September 12th-17.
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thrust but it had probably stood was always a margin of safety in walle was dangerous the owners such strains in the past
the designing of any walls, which would be notified to remove mich The Coroner: In your opinion theoretically would not stand cor- piling. would it be safe to use the wall tain tests but which In practice The walls of the M. B. K. Coal: that way? we would not be dangerous under yard had collapsed on three dif
ferent places on January 3, Witness: No, it would not be these tests. safe theoretically, but it would In reply to the forman of the At this itago, the inquiry was in practice,
jury witness said that if it was adjourned and the jury and court Witness explained that there] noticed that any piling against visited the scene
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