WRONGFULLY HELD IN CUSTODY?
A TAIPO FISHERMAN'S COMPLAINT.
INSPECTOR BLAMED.
ward.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
STOLEN BLANKETS."
COOK SENTENCED FOR THEFTS ON "STANLEY."
WEDNESDA
WOMAN CLAIMS A STOLEN SHIP'S ROPES.
MOTOR CAR.
ALLEGES MECHANIC REFUSED 'TO GIVE DELIVERY.
QUESTION OF DEBT.
· MAGISTRATE ORDERS RETURN TO OWNERS.
AUGUST 29, 1928.
CANTON CINEMA" DISPUTE.
EMPLOYEES DEMANDS NOT UPHELD.
PROPRIETORS FINED.
Pleading guilty to a charge of
An application was made by larceny of nine woollen blankets
Sergeant Fowlie, before Mr. W. from on board the steam launch
Schofield at the Kowloon Magis- on Stanley, the Chinese cook
triey this morning, for an order board was sentenced to two
for the return to the rightful of months' hard labour by Mr. W.
the following property:-140 The case in which
A claim for the return of a a Taipo Schofield at the Kowloon Magis-
fathoms of Manila rope to Messrs. The movie houses of Canton flaberman claimed against three
Bughtti molor car, valued at other Talpo Chinese, for $1,000 tracy this morning.
$8,000, or payment of a sum equal Butterfield and Swire; 92 fathoms which suspended business for damages for wrongful imprison- It was stated by Sergeant Fowlle to its value, was heard in the Messrs. Jardine Matheson and some time will shortly re-open ment, was continued in the Sum-that on August 19 the blankets Supreme Court this morning be- Co. Ltd., and 207 fathoms to the their doors, according to reliable report, the authorities having mary Court this morning, before were put in a drawer and on the fore the Chief Justice, (Sir Henry Java China Japan Lijn.
Mr. A. H. Naismith, chief officer stopped in and forced a settlement Mr. Justice Jacks, when the case 26th they were missing. En Gollan). The plaintiff was She for the defendants, was put for-quiries were made and it was Lai-sze, married woman, No. 118, of the 8.3. Ka Ying, appeared in of the trouble, says the Canton
discovered that
Court, to represent Messrs. Butter- Gazette, the defen- Kowloon Tong, and she claimed held and Swire; Capt. D. Skinner, The Departments of Civil Affairs. The plaintiff, Lao Wo-huen, of dant was seen to take some parcels against Mr. G. Jorio, motor me assistant marine superintendent and Reconstruction were under Wo Hop. Shek Village, Talpo, ashore on August 23 or 2.Techanle, 67a and 67b, Des Voeux on behalf of Messrs. Jardine, Instructions from the Provincial claimed against Cheung Kang, cook was questioned and admitted Road Central, first floor. shop assistant at the Wo Iling that he had pawned the blankets. Mr. Leo D'Almanda, Jur., Instruct-Mathesan and Co., and Mr. A, Y. Government to investigate the dis- pute, and to this end the operatore Ling fish shop, Taipo; Lai Shing, His Worship-How did he geted by Mr. J. M. D'Almada Reme-amond for the J.C.J.L.
Sergeant Fowlle, in making the fof the picture houses were order detective, Talpo Police Station, at the drawer?
dius, was for the plaintiff, while the and Cheung Tai Kwai, of the Wo Sergeant Fowlie-It seems he defendant was not present, neither application, intimated that the ed to furnish explanations of the Shing Hing Lung fish shop, Taipo. had a duplicate key or had access was he legally represented. The rope was stolen from on board the trouble from their view-point.
8.5. Ka Ying (B. & S.), B.9. Sul It was alleged that the defendants to the original key.
case was heard ex-parte.
Employees' Demands. wrongfully arrested the plaintif
In her statement of claim the Sang (Jardine's) and a.s. Batoc It was staled that the blankets On June 27 and caused him to were pawned it five different plaintiff stated that on March 17, (J.C.J.L.), between August '1 and be imprisoned for two nights,
Ma..el Arcalli was for the shop for the total sum of $20. this year, she purchased from Mr. August 24. Two warrants were the Mechanica' Union, in whose pinintif, while the case for the At one place, four blankets had Lam Tak-ming, fi, Wongnelehong executed at the Tak On Marine ranks the picture house employees defence was conducted by Mr. G. been disposed of, while at the Road, Happy Valley, a Bugatti Store dealers, of 36, Tung Man are numbered, demanded the pay- second two were pledged. In res- motor ear. It was brought from Street, on August 23 and 24. One ment of a "Public Welfare" fee of cent per tleket sold. This S. Hugh Jones.
In opening the defence, Mr. pect of these two places his Wor-Canton. to Hongkong on or about an was taken into custody, but, ofte High dones said that the two ship ordered the blankets to be dune 13th and had since been in the instructions of the Publie was a most unreasonable and un- Prosecutor, he was subsequently justifiable demand and could not freleasud.
be countenanced under any cir-: Cheungs agreed that, the plaintiff returned to the owners as the ac-possession of the defendant
His Worship made the necessary cumstances. Another cause of the had been wrongfully arrested and countants should have been more Marble Hall, Kowloon. On June of A INJU pawning, plaintiff's kusband, She Shiu-|
friction was the unruly behaviour Imprisoned but added he would suspicimus satisfy his Lordship that it was more than one woollen blanket. choy, 20, Des Voeux Road Central, order.
of the employees, who, taking No order was made in respect of called on the defendant at the
advantage of their numbers, threa- not done by the netion of the two Cheungs. It was, he stated, due the other three shops, his Worship Kowloon Hotel and tendered pay- to the action taken by the Euro- remarking that it was possible
tened the exercise of force to penn Inspector and the Chinese that defendant owned one blanket. detective, as the two Cheungs did not ask für the plaintiff to be arrested or specifically authorise It.
Complaint Laic
BATHING SHED EXTENDED.
Evidener was given by Cheung Tal-hwai to the effect that the OWNER FINED AT KOWLOON aum of $300 was owed to him by the plaintiff. This man also
sold
MAGISTRACY.
The legal extension of a
without permission.
at
ment for storage charges and re-UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS. quested delivery of the ear. The defendant refused to deliver it
and had since persisted in that CHINESE RESTAURANT FINED
refusal.
The plaintif claimed (i) return of the war, or, alternatively, (b) payment of the sum of $8,000, be ing the value of the car. Car To Pay Debt.
THIS MORNING.
According to their statements,
secure compliance with extortion- ate demands; the habit was widely
practised of admitting numbers of
frends without payment of the requisite admission fees.
The two Departments. making the investigations recognise the justice of the owners complaints, and the Bereau of Public Safety has been instructed to put a stop to the mal-practices complained of.
Cinemas Fined.
With regard to the engagement. proprietors have been advised to observe the rates provisionally drawn by the Government for the
In Chinese business eireles, when money in paid it often hap pens that no official receipt is niven, the receiving firm generally siening an acknowledgment on the Counsel for the plaintif ex-pages of the receipt book of the plained that plaintiff was a sister-paying fir. To, conform with the to sheep belonging bim, without his knowledge, matshed on the Kau Ta Pang in-law of Mr. Lani Tak-ming to loral law, a recoipt stamp is for which the plaintif obtained beach at Laichikok was mentioned whom in February, 1920, she left. affinest in the book against each of and dismissal of employees, the $140.. Defendant later discovered before Mr. W. Schofield, at the the sum of $10,000. On being ask-such items of acknowledgment.
ed for payment of the sum Mr. Las When the police examined the that the plaintiff was making Kowloon Magistracy this morning, reid $20 and for the balance receipt bank of the Lock Sin plans to go abroad so he went to when the owner was charged by handed over a Bugatti motor car, Restaurant, of Possession Street see the District Olleer at Taipe. Mr. G. d. Chambers, Land-Bailid,
in return for achich she gave him recently they found several cases guidance of workers and em- Being unable to see the District with trespassing on Crown land, back the promissary hole and in which the firm had paid out players. The proprietors are held
Assist not Officer he visited the
made out a receipt for the pur-myney without getting a stamped to account for the suspension Superintendent of Polive at Talpo,,
Mr. Leo D'Almada appeared for chase of the eir,
acknowledgment. The recipients of their business as they did not who told him to report the matter
From April 11 until April 22 the of such payments were charged invoke the aid of the Department to the Thapelor at Taipo Police defendant and explained that
his client possessed a permit to plaintiff was in possession of the before M. R. E. Lindsell this of Civil Affairs in seeking a solu- Station which he did. Defendant did ne ask for the plaintiff's arrest a matched to accommodate car which was kopicat a Kowloon morning for not affixing a stumption of the dispute, mal although the different movie houses were hathow at the beach, but during Tong garage but she did not use to their receipts. rest but merely made a complaint.
Fines of $10 were imposed on not closed simultaneously on the As a result of his part, cone man's absence in the country it. It was then sent to Canton
extended. Mr. ¦ with a view to a sale by Mr. Lam. each of the defendants. tinned the defendant, and knowing the erection was that the plaintiff was staying at Almada asked for the imposition Apparently Mr. Lam was unable the Wing Tee Fung harding house of only a nominal fine,
Me. Chambers gave particulars In Hongkong, the inspector in- structed defendant to take Lalf of the extension and informed his Shing, the defective, Lo Homekong Worship that the Department took point out the plaintif, and re- serious view of the ease. quest him to go back to. Taipo. A litte of $50 was imposed and Defendant went on to say that Jan order 29ade to the effect that those who came to Hongkong were the shed should be built to comply himself, Cheung Kang and the dewith the measurements given in
for the the permit. teelive. They wailed plaintiff is the boarding house who agreed to go back to Taino to settle Cheung" Tai-wai's debt.
Use of Purce Denied, Defendant deuind that the plain- tir was held in any way or that he was struck and added that they were all so friendly that they went out le "tiflin" together. At
SNATCHER CAUGHT.
KNOCKS WOMAN VICTIM
LENCONSCIOUS,
same date still the effect was as if à lockout had been declared, thus violating the provisions of Article No. 11 of the Labour Dispute Law. For this infringement the proprie tors are fined $50 each with the exception of the San Kuo Man Theatre which had been ordered by the Bureau of Public Works in have its building rebuilt.
The movie house owners have
to sell it and it then went into the possession of Mr. Borandi
Shanghai, Aug, 29. In view of the scheme for the Cezer, of Canton, who held it for some time, after which he sent it disbandment of superfluous troops to Hongkong and placed it in the having been aneessfully carried out are of the defendant who kept in ever provinces, a party of de- it at Marble Hall, Kowloon,
legates representing various public When the plaintiff's husband vanisations of Fakten Province has arrives at Nauking and for- called on the defendant and asked arded a petition to the Military been ordered to effect payment of for the ear to be delivered the du fendant stated that he could na Council requesting that the dis-their fines to the Department of deliver it until he had the anandment scheme should be carried Civil Affairs within five days of Jout in Fukien as well. The petition the announcement of the decison thority of Mr. Borandi Cezer, 10was banded to General le Ying of the Government sent them whom, I appeared, Mr. Lam Takeling by the chief delegate an Men-through the Canton Theatrical ming, owed $1,000.
da and General Ho promised to Trade Maintenance Union, and the consider the request.--Nam Chung picture houses are to be opened 『344,,
Refused to Deliver. Counsel concluded that a date) was fixed for delivery, this being
Charging a street coole with June 2rd last, when the plaintiff's After proof of service of the a husband turned up at the appoint- writ had been given, his Lordship Taip, the plaintif admitted that snatching an ear-ring from he owned money to defendant hut woman in Morrison Street, yester-ed hour and tendered storage pointed out that it would be neces gid that he had no money and a day, the police informed Major charges. He was then told by theary to prave service of the state- one to guarantee him. Defendant. Willson, at the Central Police defendant that he could not de-ment of claim and notice of trial. and Cheung Kung returned to Court this morning, that it was liver the ear because Mr. Cezer Mr. D'Albaida applied for an difficulty that had told him to hold it because adjournment, for this to be done their shop leaving the plaintif in with considerable
of tlu: $1,000 owing by Mr. Lamand an adjuornment was accord- custody with the Inspector at the the mum was arrested.
Tak-ming. Police Station,
After snatching the ornament
ingly granted. Bufondant added that he did from the woman, he ran away and not at any time ask the Inspector was later found standing before a to imprison the plaintiff and over Truit stall, contemplating its con- lald any charge against him. Any tents. The woman struck at him thing that was done was done on with an umbrella and, in retalia- the initiative of the Inspector who Lion, he flung a board at her and had since retired and gone Home. she fell to the ground, being ren-
Judgment was reserved.
dered unconscious through being struck, on the head. Then, stil being followed, he ran into Nam: Pak Hong, where he put up a des- perate struggle with two police guards, before being arrested.
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"CELESTIAL DOG."
ALLEGED GAMBLERS BEFORE MAGISTRATE.
A game which Is literally des cribed as "Celestial Dog," what- ever that may mean, came in for considerable discussion this mor- ning when 25 Chinese from Shau- kiwan, including the woman who is the principal tenant of the floor on which they were arrested, were charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with contravening the Gambling Ordinance.
A Chinese delective who enter- ed the premises it a moment when the alleged game was in full swing, said he saw ton men gather- ed around a table with others watching from a distance. He further saw commission being rak- ed into a tin box, but there was no money in it when it was seized by the police. The game then being played was tien kau, ilterally mean- ing "Celestial Dog," and he describ ed the values of the various hands exposed,
Witness said only four bands were exposed, and he had his atten- tion drawn to the contradiction which this offered to his previous statement that fen men were play- ing when he first entered the pre- mises.
Commenting on the unsatisfac- tory nature of the testimony, his Worship discharged all the defen- dants. A sum of $5.62.acized by the police on the playing table was returned to the chief tenant of the floor.
Mr. O. E. C. Marton represented a number of the defendants.
Mr. T. J. Whooley, a rich mer- chant of Philadelphia, has given £2,000 to the poor of Bantry, Co, Cork, where he has born.
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