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GUESS OUR ROMEO WENT OVER WITH A BANG, BUZZ - BUT IN TH' EXCITEMEAT, WE LEFT OUR PÉT ALLIGATOR, ALBERT, ASLEEP IN "TH' THEATRE-.
FLASHING
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
CHINA EXHIBITION.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS PRESENTED.
GRIM MURDER.
SEQUEL TO CHEUNG CHOW ROBBERY,
BOYS KIDNAPPED.
TWO MEN CHARGED AT THE MAGISTRACY.
"Get On or Get Under".
Efficiency. Is the key note of suc cosa, and to bo efficient the mind must be alert and the body in por feet working orden Pinkettos, At the final.
"You have given your evidence used when necessary, are a groat. general com- What appears to have been o mittoo melting of the China Ex-brutal armed robbery and murder exceptionally well and you have aid to efficiency because they pre- the first door shown algns of great intelligence" vont and dispel constipation, hibition, the statement of ac was committed on
been circulat of No. 8T, Taishan Street, Cheung was the compliment which Major banish billods attacks, sick band- counts, having
members, was Chow Island, early yesterday morn-C. Willson made to a Chinese boy acties, livorishness, keep the skin ed among the taken as read, and carried by un-ing, Fokis of the shop on going to who gave evidence in his court clear and the breath pure, relleva
discovered their elderly animous vote. The Rev. W. W. work
yesterday. Rogers was in the chair, and men- master, Ho Yee-hing, age 65, lying toned that the exhibition from dead in a pool of blood, apparantly the financial side had been an unkilled by unknown robbers, who doubted success, as they had in made off with about $1,000 in H.K. bank notes, a' diamond ring worth hand the sum of $1278.89, with an $300, another diamond ring valued amount of $358.25 that had not at $200 and other jewellery, a total yet been received, which would value of $1,500. bring the total up to $1681.64, a return that was certainly not ex pected, but nevertheless very praiseworthy....
It was suggested that this sum be divided among various institu- tions in the Colony, and elsewhere, preference being given to Medical and Educational efforts, not all
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The deceased was the owner of general store situated in 'the basement of the house. At about
a
Piles. Your druggist sella Pink- The case was one in which two attes, or post free, 60 cents tho Chinese were charged in connexion vial, from The Dr. William's Medi- with the kidnapping of two boya cine Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shang- from their homes and with attempt- ing to sell them. The defendants' names aro Ah Fook and Choy Lin, the second of whom was represent ed by Mr. F. H. Loseby.
The story of the kidnapping, as related by Wong Tal-kau, the boy
necessarily of distinctly mission-floor above and it was not until raya East and were the sons of a
ary character.
After discussion the following amounts were voted: Chinese Mission to Lepers $200.00 Alice Memorial
and.' Nethergole. Hospitals .. 100.00 Kwong Wah Hospital,
Kowloon C.M.S. Blind Boy's Home,
Foochow
To St. Andrew's Church, for electric Lighting, repair of furniture and lawn
100.00
nine o'clock on Thursday night he who was complimented by the retired to his bed in a cubicio on Magistrate, was to the offect that the first floor of his house, while on March 28 the two boys left their six or seven fokis stayed in the home for a walk in the central dis shop below. Throughout the night trict of Hongkong. They lived in none of the men sleeping in the shop Wanchat with their mother at 74 heard any startling noise on the
o'clock the following morning when one of the folis went up to awaken the old man that he found him with his throat gashed, his head being almost severed from the body. The bed clothes were saturated with blood.
Coupled with the tragic sight was the disorderly condition of the room, bills, small coins and other 100:00 odd and ends being scattered in every direction, the safe having been opened and the money and Jewellery extracted. Near the on- trance of the cubicle and on the side of the safe bloody Anger prints could be distinctly seen.
300,00
(This represents out-of-pocket expenses only).
The balance to be sent to the Church Missionary Association for their disposal.
Chinese named Wong Kit.
Their wanderinga took them near a Chinese Theatre, the name of which they did not know. Here they met a stranger, who, they sub- sequently learned, was called Li Cheung, who pretended he know them very well and told them that ho was an old friend, of their: father, whose name he gave, HE asked the boys whether they were, anxious to see the play, but the the elder of the two Boys replied, that they had no money.
A Free Show.
On hearing this, the stranger of fered to treat them to a free show, and despite the fact that the boys
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The gruesome find startled the foki and he immediately rushed down to the shop and raised the wanted to leave the theatre at Simply Peo On Chir wo Herba.
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about 10 p.m. the stranger manag-Catarrb, Nervousness, Constipa- The use of this balance, Was The crime was immediately re-ed to induce them to stay to the tion, Bronchial Asthms, Bran subject to the following commen-ported to the Cheung Chew Polico end of the performance, when he chítia, Rheumatism, Dropsy, In- dations by the general committed, and officers were despatched to took them to the Yaumati Ferry omnia, Diabetes, Bright's Disease,
31 investigation. They Wharf and later to Yaumati.and many other silments. as appeals from the institutions mako
On leaving the theatre, the boys mentioned below had been receiv. found one wide bladed-knive. ed by the Chairman.
It is generally conjectured that were afraid to go home, the hour the purpose of the crime being so late that they feared their The preference be given to the
robbery and that the parents would object. The strange, G.M.S. Leper Home, Pakhoi; the was Victoria Home and Orphanage,shop owner was murdered whilst er offered them sheller in Yaumati, Kowloon: City: St. Hilda's Girls in his sleep to prevent his rais and that was how they went over, School, Canton; Holy Trinity Col-ing an alarm and arousing the without protest, lege, Canton; St. Stephen's Hall kis in the basement. It le not known how the thieve made their (Women University Hostel) Hong entrance into the cubicle. kong,
"Interesting information regard- ing some of the places for which help was approved was given. The Blind Boy's Home in Foo- chow, was putalde the diocese, but it was felt hat in view of the great need of the work that it was doing, help should be sent. St.
da's Girls' School, Canton, has continued its invaluable work ail through the troubleus times in Canton, while Holy Trinity Col lege has been closed since 1925, and is just about to re-open under
A photograph of the deceased and of the tragic scene. was taken, and the body was removed to the mortuary in Hongkong.
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Following the discovery tho Cheung Chow police lost no time in raiding suspected houses on Cheung Chow Island. A number of the craft were also searched.
INADEQUATE FINE.
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Here the first defendant, Ah Fook, came into the story. visited the shop the day after the boys' arrival and later took Li Cheung and the boys to. ten, fol- lowing which the whole party went to Ah Fook's house in 76 Reclama- tion Street. The second defend- ant is also alleged to have visited the house in Reclamation Street, during the boys' stay at that ad-
dress.
Three days after their absence from home, the boys were taken by Li Cheung and the second de- fendant to the village of Choung Muk Tau, proceeding there by train. The party lived at a board- the Rev, and Mra, H. A. Witten- MAN WHO AIDED LUNATIC. Ing house where the boys were in- bach. The work that the Kwong
apected by prospective buyers.. Wah is doing is so well known,
London, May 18.
Apparently the price asked was that comment is needless.
Mr. Bastone, who was charged too high, or the boys did not satisfy The Chinese Mission to Lepers, at Hastings with aiding and abiet-the requirements of the purchas- under the patronage of Sir Shou-ting the escape of Prince Seifeddin, era, for they were not "sold" from son Chow, and Dr. S. W. Tso, two was fined £20 the maximum penalty the boarding house. The day after of the gentlemen who assisted at under the lunagy act, which the their arrival, they were taken to a the opening of the China Exhibi-Chief Constable described na total-farm where a woman looked them tion, is a purely Chinese effort that ly inadequate considering the over and bought them from Li is organised for the stamping out of nature of the offence which the Cheung. The price was said to be this dread disonse. It is felt that accused pleaded guilty-Reuter. grants to these various societies
and associations will meet with universal approval.
ing was adjourned, 'sine die' as the In a few closing words, the Chairman remarked! Chairman mentioned that he had
Statement of Accounts,
By loans
Receipts.
heard from all sides congratula- tory remarks about the exhibi- tion, which remarks he passed on to the general committee, for it was due to their untiring efforts Entrance to Exhibition that the success of this unique Taklugs and.rent event was made possible,
Total
He read the letter from the Bishop of the Diocese, in which the Bishop, after congratulating the committes on the undertaking, expressed the hope that the ex-To periment would be repeated in the future.
Mr. Rogers then conveyed his best thanks to the Committee for their work, and with a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meet-
(HE'LL BE OK, SAM-JUDGE BACK TO THE KNOTT IS GONNA STAY AT WI
THEATRE, WE THEATRE TNIGHT TILL HE MAKES
UP HIS MIND WHICH OF THE SHAKES FIND THE OLD PEARIAN PLAYS WING THE10000- HE'LL LOOK AFTER ALBERT —,
JUDGE TRYING TO MAKE UP HIS MIND AS TO.
WHICH WAS ¡THE BEST PLAKY.) ** ALSO,ON" SECOND LOOK,
WE FIND 11 ALBERT JUST" SHADING OUT":
OF A
To come:
$150 for the elder boy and $110 for the younger.
The Restoration,
The youths were then taught to tend cows and grow rice and plough fields. Exactly how long they were out at the farm, the witness could not say, but after a $700.00 time there arrived at the farm a 1008.05 man who produced a paper which 5137.78 stated that the boys' father was
looking for his sons, whose photo- $6842.78 graphs were printed on the paper. The boys then accompanied this $368.25 man, who restored them to their
parents. Expenditure.
The younger brother, in a man- Repayment of loans ..$700.00 ner equally lucid, substantiated Construction, repayments
this story in almost every detail. to stalls etc.
4869.39The case was then adjourned by 1273.39 his Worship until Friday next," Lalance
when the prosecution.will giver $6842.78 evidence of the arrest of the de-
fendants.
Total
Looks Bad for 'Ein
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