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STUDENT ACQUITTED.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
FAILS.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1928.
SALT REVENUES.
CONSIGNEES NOTICES.
· HEAVY FALLING OFF LAST OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY,
YEAR.
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Consignees per Company's Steamer,
AENEAS
From UNITED KINGDOM via SINGAPORE,
In the Second Court of Criminal
Peking, Feb. 16. Sessions, before the Pulsne Judge yesterday, LQ Chi-hing
The total net salt revenue lodged charged with the manslaughter of ell to $5,380,000, a decrease of was in the Group Banks in 1927 amount- Ho Kwong-hot at the premises of
$11,266,000 the South China Athletic Associa-1926. Excluding the amounts re
compared with. tion, China Building, on Christmas tained locally and credited during Day. Mr. H. Ke Holmes-appeared that year in the Group Banks by} for the Crown and Mr. F. C. Jen- special arrangement, the revenue kin for the defence.
retained by the provincial authorl-[are herby notified that the cargo will The evidence was conflicting ties in 1927 amounted to $52,567,- be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kow- and the jury without retiring gave 000 against $47,672,000 in 1926. loon, where it will lie at Consigneo's) a verdict of not guilty, *
The following” jury - waa
The lodgements in the Group risk and subject terms and con- panelled. Mr. J. McCubbin (fore Banks and local appropriations ditions of storage at Holt's, Wharf. man), and Messrs. L. Jack, D.amounted to $67,907,000, a decrease The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 10th of $6,379,000. McWhirter, F.X.M. Xavier, F. G.
February. Horridge, C. E. Xavior, and Shi that the decrease la dug to civil The report of the Gabello Boys
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Optional cargo will not be landed In opening the defence Mr. Wars and military Interference hore, unless notice has been given Jenkin referred to Dr. Cannon's Only the Chihil and Shantung dia-prior to steamer's arrival, but carried tricts in 1927 remitted revenue on from port to port to the final port evidence which, he said, showed the Group Banks,
call to which the option extends. that a blow with an open hand
With the exception of $2, All broken, chafed, and damaged would not kill a person. The 750,000 paid as subsidy from goods are to be left in the Godowns, defence contended that the blow the Group Banks to the Chihli whore they will be examined on any was delivered under the place on the temple as stated by the wit-tupan thore was no release for the Tuesdays and Fridays between the nesses for the Crown and Dr. general purpose of the Chinese hours of 10.45 a.m. and zoon within
Government, whercas $8,808,000 the free storage period. Cannon's evidence again showed was so released in 1926.
No claims will be admitted after tho that a blow below that line would not have had a' fatal result. ·
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reorganisation loan 1913 was Ar- showing that death did not occur ranged in the first instance by the must be presented to the undersigned All Claims against the Steamer in consequence of that blow.sait administration but subsequent-fon or before the 7th March or they Also the deceased did not staggerly refunded in full by the customs. will not be recognised.
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, February 10, 1928.
CHILD'S DEATH.
THREE-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED BY BUS.
or lose, his balance. Lo Man-pun, The scarcity of funds has pre- the brother of Le Chi-ming, was vented the full payment of foreign the only witness who said the obligations secured on salt, while blow was delivered with the fist, the usual service of part of the while Lo Chi-ming himself had Hukungs and the full service of stated that he got up from the the Crisp Loan were paid from sofa. In conflict with that was balances carried over from the pre- the evidence of other witnessen vious year and the lodgements with who had said he did not get up. the Group Banks.
Medical evidence for the de- The 1927 funds are insuf- fence was given by Dr. J. W. An"]ficiënt" to meet the instalment derson, who said that the effect fur the 'amortisation" due could have been saused by other 1927, and the Anglo-French loan means than a blow on the face. amounting to £125,000. The ba The death of a three-year-old Such injuries could be caused by lance in the Group Banks could not Chinese boy, who was killed by a a fall without necessarily breaking be maintained at the former sum of motor bus at the junction of Soy the skin. Such death could not $7,000,000 and amounted at the end and Shanghai Streets on January be caused by a blow with the of 1927 to $1,014,000 compared with 28, was investigated by Mr. W. open hand. A fall could occur $4,800,000 at the end of 1926. Schofield and a jury at the Kow without external injury provided
Reuter. that the skin was protected by! something which would break thej impact.
The defendant repeated his story of being punched by the deceased and of seizing him and alapping his face.
Witnesses were called who cor- roborated his story..
In his concluding address Mr. Jenkin remarked that it was ill for the Crown to take only evid
CORRESPONDENCE.
ROAD MANNERS.
ITo the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
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loon Magistracy yesterday. The jury comprised Messrs. W. Mac- farlane, J. K. F. June and Ngen Choon-chiaw. pa
The medical evidence showed that the boy died as the result of a fructure of the base of the skull and laceration of the left lobe of the brain,
An eye witness was stated, to have left the Colony and the state- ; ment sho had made to the Police
Sir, My letter published by you was read to the jury. The womun
•No one
ence that helped their case, and on Wednesday was primarily one throw out other evidence. Seven of gratitude, witnesses bad spoken of the blow, Of these five said definitely it was delivered with an open hand, one was not aure and another said it was a blow with the fist. He
said that the boy had been playing.
on the pavement in Shanghai
Street and ran into the road. in an blamed but myself for leaving my bus, which was travelling very was to blame or was attempt to cross to the other side. repair outfit in the garage while fast, knocked the child down. the spare wheel was being mended.
As a student of human nature, The evidence of the bus driver asked the jury if they could dis- your correspondent, "Solution and was that the boy suddenly rushed regard those five witnesses, Mr. Patches," will, I hope, forgive me into the roadway, witness not see- Jenkin reminded the jury that the for misquoting to him, ""To err isng him until he was about a foot boy had told his mother that he but human, to help is divine (in from the bus. The vehicle was had fallen. Before they could llongkong)."—Yours, etc., convict the Crown had to satisfy them that the Ind's death was the result of that blow.
Prisoner Discharged.
After his Lordship hii kummed
AUSTIN -7.
Shanghai Feb. 16. Hwang Fu left for Nanking this
up the jury returned a verdict of morning to take, up the Foreign "Not Guilty" without retiring and Ministry-Reuter. the prisoner was discharged.
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The jury returned a verdict of necidental death.
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