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STABBING AFFRAY.
QUARREL AMONG INDIAN GUARDS AT THE AP.C
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928.
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provinco altogether. Of the 're maining four men, only one other Iwas from the Jhelum district.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED, Witness denied Mr. Lo's sugges- ON THE PENINSULA. The stabbing affair, at the Asiatiction that the witness and the defen-
Two children, aged eight and ton, Petroleum Company's, installation on Sunday last had its sequel in and actually came to blows without met their deaths through being run Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court yester either leaving the room, and that over by motor buses, at Yaumati and Shanushulpoo, yesterday. In day when Sald Wail, defended by was in the course of that quarrel each caso death was instantaneous. Mr. Horace Lo, was charged with assaulting and, alternatively, with cutting and wounding, Karam Dad.
The parties aro both attached to Mr. Lo: Were you playing for the Indian Guards section of the high stakes? Hongkong Police. Inspector Shan- non, Officer in charge of the Indian Guards, prosecuted.
tint someone else, and not the defendant, stabbed the witness.
Playing for Fun.
Witness: No.
Were you playing for money all 7--No.
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The first fatality occurred at ten minutes, to nine in the morning when a young girl named Pan Fung-ming, living at No. 141, Lai- chikok Itond, ten years of age, ran across the road at Nam
Chung Street in front of a bus operated by the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, Narrating the events which led Mr. Lindsell: Was it not over numbered 102. Although the dri up to the stabbing, Karam Dad in money that all this trouble aroso? ver applied his brakes as quickly the witness box told the Magistrate Witness: It was an ordinary as possible he was not able to pro that on Sunday morning last, game.
vent the vehicle from striking the shortly after 11 am, six Guards Mr. Lindsell: If you deliberate-child, whose head was crushed by Bat together over a game of cards ly He, you won't got much the nearside front wheel. She was rushed to hospital but life was the watchmen's quarters. assistance here: After only a fow hands, unpleasant- Mr. Lo: Do you mean to found to be extinct. ness crept into the game through suggest that the defendant would the defendant accusing witness of go to the limit of stabbing you it cheating, Witness told the defen- a game where no money came in at dant that since he was being all?We were simply playing for accused with dishonesty he would the sake of fun and not for money. not proceed with the game. He Mr. Lindsell; And yet, in spito was told by the defendant that he of that, you say ho stabbed you?
To this the witness made no must carry on, whereupon he threw In bis hand, Indicating that he had reply. no intention whatever of obeying the defendant.
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Young Boy Killed.
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The other child victim was, an eight-year-old boy named To Man- hul, living, at No. 406, Nathan Road, Kowloon, and the mishap oc- curred at about 7.20 p.m. within a LONDON SÈRVICE few yards of the corner of Public Square Street and Nathan Road.
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One of them said that the the driver was unable to avert a sequently maying very slowly but return again two or three minutes' lator with a large penknife in his defendant accused the complainant catastrophy although he applied his hand, big blade of the knife of cheating, whereupon there were brakes immediately. The bus ran
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