HIGHWAY ROBBERY
TRIAL
TWO MEN GET TWELVE MONTHS.
"BULLY AND BRUTE.”
Sentence of twelve months' hard labour was passed on each of the two, defendants who again appear.
MAJOR SUES EX-M.P. FOR LIBEL.
SEQUEL TO A DISMISSED CHARGE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928.
SINGAPORE MOTOR ARRESTED AFTER TWO
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CHINESE ROB A JEWELLERY STORE,
FORMER GARAGE EMPLOYEE CHARGED.
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MEASURES BY THE SINGAPORE AUTHORITIES.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, and a 'special jury, in the King's Bench Division resumed $10,000 WORTH TAKEN.. Magistracy this morning, when a the hearing of the netion for dam- ages.for alleged libel brought by Major Francis Gordon Small, of Prince of Wales's-mansions, Bat-
YEAR'S ACTIVITIES.
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An offence committed over two years ago was mentioned before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon
former employes of the Duro Gar- Singapore, July 6. age, of Nathan Road, was charged secret societies
The following reference Five Cantonese, armed with with larceny of $1,740.99, sald to Straits Settlements Colonial Secre- is made by the
and held up the 20 employees of a dant on behalf of the complafgant, Chinese jewellery establishment in Mr. W, S. V. Curtis, manager of Selegic Road at 3.30 yesterday the Garage. ables to the estimated value of afternoon and got away with valu-) $10,000,
ed at the Central Magistracy, be- tersen, '. S.W.,, against Sir John pistols, drove up in a motor car have been collected by the defen-tary in his annual report:
fore Mr I. E. Lindsell, this morn- Pretyman Newman,
of Eaton ing, in connexion with the Kennedy square, S.W., a former M.P. for Town highway robbery on Tues-England and Finchley.
The allegations were contained day last.
Inspector Fallon in, two letters written by Sir John
prosecutod, Owing to the fact that the comto a Mr. Karl Henki, who was a
and, in asking for a remand for a plainant could not remain in the friend of both parties and of a Mr. Road end of Selegie Road, and there were a number of documents The shop is near the Wilkie week, informed his Worship that Colony, the case was dealt with Kromschroder, who financed the everlooks a thoroughfare that is at to be examined. There was the summarily and the defendants Perfecta Meter Company in which all timen a busy one. Nothing un possibility, after all the papers were charged with larceny of $190 both parties were interested, and a gold ring from an emigrant. Sir John referred in the letters toward was suspected when a car had been scrutinised, of the sup After evidence had been given to a pending charge of being drunk was seen to draw up at the pave. involved being increased to $2,500, by members of the Sam Hop Hagin charge of a car which was pre arouse suspicion in the appear- ment, and there was nothing to shop, in Belchers Street, into which ferred against Major Small, andance of the five Cantonese who rector Fallon, was arrested on a The defendant, continued ins- shop the defendants ran after which was eventually dismissed, alighted. Immediately they enter warrant issued by the Kowloon the robbery, his Worship asked the Sir John wrote that Major Smalled the shop, however, pistols were Court on December 11, 1925, and defendants what they had to say, could not be allowed, even assumdrawi, and levelled at the assis-Signed by Mr. Y. J. Lockhart
ing that the case was dismissed, totants in the frost portion of the Smith, who was then Magistrate's Defendant's Denial.
continue to act as managing direr-shop. They were herded into a clerk. tor of the Perfects Meter
Com-corner and those at the back were also guarded, while other robbers raided the show cases.
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The first defendant stated that he was at a thief at all. The ex-pany.
At the close of Major Small's plained that there was a fight besi tween four men and the complain-case, Lord Hewart held that the ant. The fight was the opleme letters were privileged, but said of the complainant's refusal to that the question remained whe Tend money to a man urnamed ther, because of malice, Sir John Chan, who eventually anatched the bad abused that privilege.
notes away.
Mr. Handset:It is guriotia you.
should know all about that...
Defendant: 1 whi ene of the feur nien who fought."
Why did you fight? Because the man named Chan engaged the
to fight.
up.
Bully and Brute.
knew
The defendant had disappeared Jone month before the issue of the In a few minutes the robbers warrail and was not seen again had driven off in their car with yesterday, when he was jewellery to the value of $10,000. pointed out and arrested in Water The methodical despatch with Street, West Point. perienced thieves, while it was which they worked indicates ex- noted that they went straight to the show cases where the most valuable goods were kept.
Addressing the jury, Mr. Stuart Beran, K.C.," for Sir John Inn Newman, said that Sir John, las nominee for the investment of Mr. Kronhrader in the com-
It has since been discovered that pany, felt that he was in the number plate on the car which ponsible position, although kia they used was a false one. Even own Cash interest was stall,
"Fifty-Fifty" Chance.
with this handicap it is highly probable that it would have been. possible for the Police to get on hi evidence, Sir John. Protyman the track of the escaping andits, You are a nice, cħarajler, Cha that admission alone you deserve Newman, asked why he decided to were it not for a foolish delay on gaol. You are a mere buy and suspend Major Small pending the the part of the victims in-report- brate why would take anybody's result of the trial, safi, "It was ning the occurrenen. Instead of employment to heat anybody else serious charge, and made more immediately notifying the nearest seytous by the fact that the case Police Station, it is reported that That's what you are. The serund defendant la mhad been referred to London Ses-one of the employees dashed-up to a lorry and induced the driver to be
nothing stons. I thought it better that he hout the matter at all. He ran should not function."
follow the ear. He desisted, how- into the shop because he saw his, Mr. Boyan How came you to ever, after going a short distance friend go in and when the police write that what Major Small had on learning that the occupants
armed robbers, appeared they arrested him ag wolk, done "droits of little excuse were
The the Str. Lindell And quite right, I was referring to the fact that he employee then made for
"bad got himself involved in such nearest garage and tried to get on proceedings. The mab was the track of the already vanished nunaging direntur, he had a good fear, which, he was told, had made salary, a good club and home, in the direction of Geylang, In Instead of going to his club this he was unstresstal, and home, he had been' in this public then, only, were the Police inform house; drinking port as hy as I ed. There have been no arrests Jean make out for a certain length so far.
of me.
too.
WELSH VALLEY ROMANCE.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE IN BAPTIST CEREMONY. Mr. Loyal George recently an veiled one of the most interesting metaorial in the British Isles,
It was a tablet marking the spat where stood the first Baptist Church in Wals at Iston, a titty, village 7 miles from Swansea and beating in a valley bordered by thickly wooded hall.
Cross-examined, Sir John sald that Major Small showed him . letter from his solicitors in which the letter quoted the opinion of Sir Henry Curlis Bennell, K.C., that Major Small had a " firty" chatre.
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BANGKOK OPIUM · SEIZURE.
-CHARGE AGAINST DANISH OFFICER DISMISSED.
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for one week, the defendant being If Worship adjourned the case allowed bail in the sum of $3,000,
DEATH OF X-RAY MARTYR.
WORK CONTINUED, THOUGH - HE KNEW HIS FATE.
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The Cantonese societies · gave little trouble from August, 1926, until the end of the year, mainly owing to internal dissensions and police supervision. A foud then Heng' and 'Kwan Y groups and broke out, however, between the there were several shooting affrays in the public streets involving loss. of life among members of the gangs and innocent civilians.
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A General Round-lip. Gangs of the "Heng" and "Kwan Yi' groups were also responsible for mans robberies during the first nine months of the year... general round up of Canton- ese suspects was, therefore under- taken in July and the city was tima freed of large numbers of notorious had characters, Two important raids by the police in July and September against, the “Kwan YP and Hung' respectively resulted in the arrest of pearly 40 members and criminals. The ac men, including several leading tivities of the leg group were
aftucked in October, by which fine the most troublesome socio.
ties were reduced to a state of
quiescence. Up to the time of writing there has been no further serious outbreak.
Tiơ`Chiu Fighting. **
As in the case of the Cantonese,
tin tends to fighting among the Teo Chit fac- become an anpud setthat if January, 1927; but there decurrence... The 1926 feud was.
was a serious recrudescence, lo
"He was a martyr, to selence, for, knowing his fate. he never failed to do his best for those who came under his care," said Dr. Arthur Davies, pathologist, of September of that year, due to Harley-street, at the inquest at Deptford on Mr. Arthur Augustus various minor diapules. A large Parsons, aged 51, of Hyde Vale,er of murders and attempted Greenwich.
murders were perpetrated.
Mr. Parsons was radiographer at the Seamen's Hospital, Green- wich, for over 20 years, and for six years previous to that he held similar position.at Westminister Hospital.
Was
Hoth the police and Chinese Protectorate failed to secure any detailed information which would enable them to attack the opposing, factions and no assistance rendered by the public. The dis- pute Wha eventually settled It was stated that he was one through the intervention of lead- of the pioneers of his professioning members of the Chinese com- in Landon, and in the course of munity, who, however, were en- his duty contracted careloma tirely able to give any infoy- Although he realised his cond-mail which would help to pre- tion he carried on his work be-vent farther outbreaks or streng tween various flincses. · Two years
then the hands of the authorities. Until the police are able netually tay punish the criminal element in these factions, this feud is liable to break out at any time on the smalled pretext.
ugo he had a Auger amputaled, and some months later had to undergo a further, operation, . Asked whether he thought. Major
Mr. Arthur Jantes Fisher, a re- Small was inument, Sir John 2
Niss has been received in presentative of the Seamen's us tied thought with Sir Henry Hongkong by cable to the effectpital, said they considered he was Curtis-Bennelt that he had a good that the chargy against the Danish one of the finest men of his pro- By the side of the newly-engeleda elance of getting off, #laughter) chief officer of The .. Bintang. fession in London.
Internal trables among variðna stone tablet and the cambling || Tidoph there was a very strong Jin connexion with a discovery of
The Coroner, Dr. W. 11. White Hokkien societies kept the police ivy-covered ruins of the orpind | eusses a paint him.” church tounded about 15-19, by Jodaja
Toplum aboard the ship at Bangkok, house, recording a verdict of acci-active through at the rear. There Questioned about le view has been dismissed.
fental death, told the widow that was a good deal of fighting and Myles. There are to be preset veil | which in had expressal about in the enclosed ground.
Major Small being in the public dat, 580 tarls of opin were was to serve the public.
It appears that, on the 1st in her husband's whole object in life shoning, but foxgaately none of the disputes developed on a scale house, Sir John, said, “An exfound in the cabin of the chief officer of the British Army, and over in taral of the Mr. Parsuns heroism an effort is of the Cantonese and, Țeo Chin,
It is understood that in view of comparable with the dissensions managing director should not be Bintang at Bangkok from long-ling made to secure the interest drinking in a public house and
Thung. then have an altercation will the
of The Carnegie Here Fund on be- The chief oliver was subsequent-half of the widow. ly prosecuted by the Opium De- police when he gets outside."
atment and committed for trial, bail being allowed in a sam 27,000 ticals,
concluded, for Hawaii to participate in the
For over 60 years the ruins bay been the object of many pilgrims ages originated by the Baptists of Swan., Mass., where Mylos lyd and died after his expulsion from Great Britain.
Sir John said that he had never been in the plaee referred to, which deserthed itself as a restau- rant. He passed it only yesterday.
"It we had come here in the day of Archbishop Laul," said Mr. Lloyd George, “amb it End come to the wars of that 'wily pre- Jale, we should not have been allow e to come as far as this,
"We should have been stattered. prepared there.
Our president would have been fUD inta
The trial has now
of
Sydney, July 12. The cruiser Brisbane has left
He did not think much food was and the defendant has been disi-centenary celebrations of the
Mr. Birkett-Did you not smell charged.
Swansen gaol, and I should the food preparing? (Laughter.j have had the honour of an interviewThe smell would be chiefly beer, with that ruthless prelate, which I think. (Laughter.) would have ended in my losing my head.
Certifientes for Speakers. "Well, politicians lose their heads even in lege days, but in those days the operation was final. Laugh ter.) Now you enn repeat the experiment-mostly at the ex- pense of other people." (Laugh ter.)
Mr. Lloyd George recalled how the pulley of the Puritans in Crom- wellian days was the suppression of the theatres, of sport and of the taverns.
Dora' was then a young lady, and I do not-mind telling you that she was more aggressive and less attractive when she was Young. She has mellowed a good, deal with youra, but the, English people do not like her yet,"
Mr. Lloyd George recalled how, in the days of John Myles, the ser vices started at 7 in the morning and lasted until 11. There were two sermona of an hour cach.
Dr
What time was it when you pass- ed?-About half-past four...
Mr. Birkett-It was a bit early for dinner..
Lord Ilewart-And a bit late for lunch. (Laughter.)
The hearing was adjourned.
RASPUTIN'S FATE.
GRAND DUKE DIMITRI AND THE MURDER
Paris, June 17.
The Grand Duke Dimitri Pay lovich, against whom, together with Prince. Felix Youssupof, Rasputin's daughter is bringing an action for twenty-five million Franes. (£200,000) damages for her father's murder, has for the first time opened his lips on the subject of the events of the night of December 16, 1916..
The effect of sermons
The Grand Duke states that the speeches depends upon the con- conspirators hoped by the removal tents and not upon the length. of the "Saint" to strengthen the very often think there ought to be certificates Issued Lo publie apeakers.
Emperor'a hand. It had,, In fact, the opposite effect, '
The Grand Duke bitterly blames "I would start every speaker, Prince Youssupof for writing a whether on the platform or in the book on the subject, and has on pulpit, with a certificate entitling this account wholly broken with him to speak for a quarter of a the Prince, The Grand Duke hour.
states that he did not actually take "If he did well, then I would give part in killing Rasputin, being, him a second certificate for half an with three others, in a room on hour; and if he still did well I would the first floor at the moment when give him an unlimited certificate, Rasputin was shot downstairs. because you can depend upon it he But it was with the Grand Duke's knew how to judge his congregation revolver, lent to Prince Youssupof,
(Laughter.) or audience.'
that Rasputin was killed.
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Mr. Thomas Sharples, formerly a Mancester chartered accountant who died in 1924 directed that his residuary estate-valued at £110.- 000 should be applied to the es- tablishment of a charitable trust for the help, and maintenance of nged poor men and women bearing the Itumes Sharples Hes- mondhnigh.
Counsel for the Public Trustee (who was appointed executor and trustee) said yesterday the will directed that the estate should accumulate for three years: thore should be six trustees appointed bearing the names of Sharples or Het mondhalgh; an office, should be maintained in Manchester, Boltan, or some other Lancashire town,
Claimants must be born or living in Great Britain or Ireland.
Lawfully entitled to the sur- names of Sharples or Hesmond- halgh, 60 years of age, not have more than £40 a year income.
Trustees each year had to ad- vertise in Manchester, Bolton and Blackburn newspapers, inviting applications for pensions.
The Vice-Chancellor had the pro- visions amended to miake the maximum pension 450 for a single person, and £76 for a married couple. He also required the In- come under which people could benefit should be £60 per annum for a single person, and £100 for a married couple.
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