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SEIZURE OF HEROIN - PILLS.
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The big "drug ring" ease, Involving the seizure enormous quantity of heroin pills and the arrest of four mon, opened before Mr. R..E. Lindsell at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon. Police and Revonuo Officers related how a turn in the
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1928.
fokis seemed to know the man, who simply said, "Allow us to leave the box here before they depart- ed. When the friend of the her ballat appeared a second time, "he gamo alone, unaccompanied by the other man. The herbalist had by that, time arrived at the shop, and It was he who, at the request of his friend, told witness to take up the box and carry it for him. This was after three o'clock that aftor- noon.
NEW MOTOR ROAD.
NEED OF RESIDENTS OF
· MID-LEVELS.
from
endeavouring to get what will be Jan undoubted blessing to ovory-
body in these parts.
not think there will be any difficulty Association Funds, collections from
HAS SIX CHILDREN,
AND KEEPS THEM ALL WELL, WITH BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
'No other medicine is of such ald to mothers of young children as is Baby's Own Tablets. The Tablets are the very best medicine a
Children's Playground. Another matter you will seB WE The third ordinary general meet have again enquired about is the ing of the Mid-Lovels Residents' desirability of providing for a at the Ladies Recreation Club, sent, children have to be content Association was held last evening Children's Playground. At pro- Peak Road. Mr. W. A. Dowloy pro- with playing on the paths, for want mother can give her little ones elded, supported by members of the of a better place, and although the during the dreaded teething time, Committee, including Messra, J. T.matter has been represented to because they regulate the stomach A Game of Hide-and-Seck. Bagram, AH, Ferguson, J. H. Government before, we think the and bowels and thus drive out con- Brister, A. Shields Mrs G. time has come when something destination and Indigestion; prevent Detective Sergeant Whant stated Harman and Miss Russell, and the finite should results i
colic and diarrhoes, and break up investigations, enabled them to that two days proviously he went Hon. Secretary and Treasurer (Mr. Following representations made colds and simple fovers.
row" of
Concerning them Mrs. John A. T. A. Martin),
to the Association, we asked the connect the different. seizures to Hok Sze Terrace, a made during last week Into one houses of which No. 11 and No. 19
The Hon, Sterotary having road Telephone Company if they would Patterson, of Scotch Village, Nova Case which was now presented only appeared to be occupied.. against all four men, notwith Looking at No. 1 from the outside, the notice convening the meeting, instal a call box at May Road Scotia, says: "I have six children, the Chairman said: Ladies Tram Station. This will be done and all the medicine they over got standing the fact that each one of one would have thought it was thom was arrested at a different vacant too, but for two pieces of and Gentlemen, you will have if the Association guarantees the ls Baby's Own Tablets. I would the report that fangual subscription. I suggest so nothing else for them and can our membership at the end that, with your consent, we pay strongly recommend the Tablets to time and at a different place. The clothing which were hung out to sten
the dry on a line strung outside the of last month was 56. I do the first year's subscription out of all other mothers deposed te prosecution
Baby's Own Tablets are sold by existence of a syndicate with effec- first floor. tive shipping arrangements for Having noted that the windows
Taw were whitewashed half-way up so in raising this figure to 100 when 10 cent calls being for the Asso-medicine dealers, or by mail at 60 of the the Importation
that the Interior was screened all newcomers to these Levels get clation's account. If members sup-cents per vinl; from the Dr. Wil- material into the Colony.
from view, witness became sus to hear about the Association and pont the idea, three, calls a day liams Medicine Co., 60, Klangse
its objects. In fact we had a only are necessary to pay for the Road, Shanghai. ・・ The four men were:
tho Young Hung-hing, who was plelous and went across to
from round-up during the past week and outlay,
Another mattor in which your charged with the posesssion of other side of the street
Committee was asked to assist 172,000 heroin pills as well as where he kept a Watch. After two applications to join are now coming
Since our last annual meeting, related to the unsatisfactory water 46,000 other pills in the process minutes he saw a man's face in daily.
The of manufacture containing heroin, appear above the whitened half of
оп Secretaryship and also four ounces of heroin. the windows. He then crossed Mr. Joseph had to give up the Hon, pressure to Mid-Levels.
leaving the Water Authority informed us that Further he was charged under over and tried the front door Colony, and it was passed on to as only two complaints had boon the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordia-which was found to be locked.
Returning with a private watch- Mr. Brookes; he also had to resign received, further details were re- unce with manufacturing danger- ous drugs at 11, Luk Fung San man whom he found in the ground on taking furlough, but we think quired for investigations to be Street (which is generally known floor of the adjourning house, wit- the Association has now found a male. All members affected will nass instructed him to ring the "home" for some little time to come, doubtless supply the Secretary as Hok Sze Terrace).
During the period, we brought with full details at this meeting.
With these ranarka, I now beg Loung In-chit, who was charged (bell while he again crossed to the with aiding and abetting the first other side of the street and watch our Committee up to full strength developments. After
five by Inviting Mosars, T. Bagram, to propose that the Report and defendant in the manufacture of ed
minutes of further waiting, the. Dunbar, A. H. Ferguson, Henry Accounts as presented be adopted. the pilla.
Humphreys and O. Steenstra to
Committee Re-elected. Foon Fung, proprietor of a na-watchman called out. A tive drugs store, who was charged then opened the door, holding a key join us..
The accounts show a balance in
Mr. A. G. Coppin seconded the under the Dangerous Drugs Ordine in his hand. It was Young Hung- anco, with having in his posses-hing, the first defendant. Yeung hand of $188.12, which, I think, is Report and Accounts, and theso
were passed unanimously. sion at No. 14, Matheson Street, was questioned, and he replied ample for our present needs. a quantity of heroin pills, and also that he lived in the house with with having in his possession, at his employer, who was out at the No. 8, Russell Street, certain drugs time. and a machine for the manufac- turo of heroin pills.
LI Sam; a cock employed by Poon Fung, who was charged with the possession of one box containing heroin pilla.
The second and third defendants were represented by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, who appeared on instructiona from Mr. C. A. S. Russ, of Messrs. Russ and Co.
Fourth Defendant Discharged.
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On the motion of Mr. T. s. EDUCATING Morrison, seconded by Captain A. I will now deal with some of the W: Davison, the existing Com- What struck witness's attention matters considered during the year. mitteo was re-elected on bloo. It was that Yeung's hands were First and foremost, there is no includes in addition to the meme. stained a plak-red; and the ques-doubt in the minds of all that we bers already named, Messrs. L tion witness then put to him was, badly need up-to-date facilities for Dunbar, Honry Humphreys, 0. "What work are you doing to make travelling to and, from our rest-Steenstra and J. H. Backhouse. your hands so red?" and he re- dences. Government were again Matters raised in the Chair- plied that he was employed as a written to asking for definite in man's speech were then discussed. definite dis-formation as to when a motor road (One member asked if a A cook. Pressed, he made paraging remark about "there be- might be expected and we have been spot had been allotted for the ing nothing in It." He offered no informed that the work will be playing ground. for the children, demur when witness expressed a included in the 1929 draft Esti-and the Chairman replied that a desire to look through the house. mates. Although the need has piece of ground near the tram Except for a bottle of methylated been urgent for some considerable station was now being considered. Various suggestions were put At the outset of the proceedings, spirits and a bottle of glycerine, Ume past, we have refrained from Mr. H. A. Taylor, Assistant witness could find nothing of a worrying the authorities panding forward for the layout of the pro- CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS
ground an improvement in the Colony's pored motor-road, one member Superintendent of Imports and suspicious naturo, in the
ARRANGED. Exports, who conducted the case floor. In the first floor, however, finances, To-day, with new blocks stating that the route could be best for the prosecution, applied for he found most of the exhibits now of flats on May Road lately put up started from Magazine Gap Road
charge produced in Court. On realising and fully, tenanted, the necessity to cut through Queen's Gardens. leave to withdraw the
Finally, the Chairman said the against L Sam, the fourth defen more or less what the paraphern-for a motor road is oven greater. dant, who would then be produced alin was for, he rang up Head- Further, the Colony's finances are Association was in communication quarters. Later, Mr. Taylor, the in a very healthy state. Mean- with the Government on the sub- Assistant Superintendent of Im- while, Sliek O and the Peak have feet and he proposed the forma ports and Exports, came and took their motor roads, great things are tion of a sub-Committee of the anticipated in the way of roads for Association to deal with the mat- charge of the articles.
the New Territories, but our own ter. needs in the fast growing locality of the Mid-Levels seem to be over- looked and we still have to run the risk of being shut out of the tram, or depend on chair coolles, or what is more often than not, walk,
as King's evidence.
On Mr. Lo intimating that he had no objection, Li Sam was taken out of the dock and transferred to the witness-box, from where he gave an account of his arrest.
also a lump of heroin. Other
Mr. Bagram said he thought the Government had the scheme from the engineering point of view already worked out.
As regards water-pressure, the Chairman informed the members that individual complaints would be considered by the Water Au- thority. They were to be sont through the Hon. Secretary of the Association..
172,000 Heroin Pills. He stated, in examination by Mr. Mr. H. A. Taylor depoced that Taylor, that he was employed as a the whole outfit found in the floor cook at the Man Wo. Tong her was for the manufacture of heroin balial's shop at 14, Matheson pills. There was a hand polishing Street, of which the third defen- machine in the ground floor, and in order to give greater weight to dant, Poon Fụng, was the pro- in the rat floor when he came
to look through it, witness dis-our demands, I appeal to one and prietor.
On the 24th of last month a covered 172,000 heroin pills, in all living round about here to join friend of the herbalist brought a addition to other pills at all stages the Association and support us in black box into the shop and left in the process of manufacture, and It there during the latter's absence,
The next subject that came up He reappeared later, and witness goods seized Included a large quan-seizure of the black box in Rus- received instructions from his tity of drugs for making heroin sell Street, a Chinese constable for discussion was the proposed master to take up the box and pills, a bottle and six packets of brought the box to him. It was telephone call-box at the May Road heroin, moulds and cutting ap- found to contain nine scaled tins, Station. The meeting approved earry it for the friend.
As they were going through a paratus, The 172,000 completed each containing 10,000 heroin of the Chairman's proposal that elde lano into Russell Street, with heroin pills were packed in square pills. Both the tins and the pills the Association's funds should be the friend following behind, they tins with labels containing an in- were identical with the ones seized used to meet the first year's sub- met a constable who asked what scription to the effect that the pills in the house at Hok Sze Terrace,scription, the Association to re- At the same time, another conceive the first year's ton-cont the box contained. Not knowing were made by "The Awakened what the contents were, he could Lion" and Company, of Hongkong. atable brought to witness a pack-pieces from the receipt box, in not satisfy the constable, and as In a jocked drawer in the sleeping case bearing the mark E. W." reimbursement. he put down the box and looked Ing room in the first floor, the on both sides. It contained a num-
Star Ferry Incident,' round for the other man, he found officers also found a registered ber of things, exactly correspond-
letter containing a
Referring to the recent case of No. number ofng to the list contained on an that the latter had disappeared.
Mr. Taylor explained that the documents and also a formula for invoice seized in Hok Sze Terrace. the telephone boxes at the Star witness had told him that his the manufacture of the pills. The Furthermore, three cutting ma- Ferry being rifled by a coolle, in abbreviated chines were unpacked from the necessitating the placing of the master was following him, but last-nbrued
| English.
which corresponded with cash receptacle in another position witness did not say that now,
Examined by Mr. Lo, witness Witness said that on examina- those seized at the same address. and a long pipe to connect up with In reply to Mr. Lo, witness it, one member expressed his said that it was at noon that day tion of the defendant's hands he that the box was taken into the found they were stained with the agreed that most pill-cutting ma- anxiety lest their own telephone shop by the friend of his master. same red colouring matter adher- chines were about the same in ap-receipt-box should receive similiar Witness aald he could not reing to the other pieces of para-pearance, and that the actual ap- attention from thieves.
pearance of the pills were also colouring waS
The Chairman said that that cognize the friend if he saw him phernalia. The now, but he could say that a second utilised to conform to the descrip- about the same. The same appli- matter was a mere detall which man who went into the shop with tion of "red pills" by which these ed to the size and colouring and could be taken up with the Tele- pills were called on the market. practically to every other detail, phone, Company when the call-bor him was the second defendant.
Those seized in the case were not was installed. He stated further Replying to another question: by
Another 90,000.
that the cost of installation would quinine but heroin pills. Mr. La, witness agreed that hie master was not there when the
Was
Three days afterwards, that was box was brought in. None of the 'to any on the day following the
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