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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"
FIRE INQUIRY...
THREE LIVES LOST AT "KENNEDY TOWN.
1.
and
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930.
snuffing out the fire in the chetty by spreading a layer of ashes over
it.
He could only suppose that the from the fire was communicated chetty, charcoal having the knack of exploding and sending out sparks.
floor, gave, detailed testimony re- garding the lay-out of the building. She said that the building was divided into two parts by an air shaft, bridged over by a passage which connected the two portions
DANISH ROYALTY.,
After a formal welcome, they proceeded in a special train to Tokyo where Baron Shideharn und other distinguished officials greet- ed them at the station in the name
and will
During their stay In Tokyo the Royal party will reside at the Kasamigasek! Palace social entertainments, beginning carry out a busy programme of this afternoon with a visit to the Emperor and Empress. Reuter
VISIT TO JAPAN'S EMPEROR AND EMPRESS.
Tokyo, Mar. 18. The fatal fire which caused the loss of three lives at Kennedy
His business had shown a profit Crown Prince Frederick of Den- Town last week, was the subject every year since started, including mark, Prince Kaud and Prince and of a Coroner's enquiry held by last year. The stock in trade Princess Axel arrived at Yokohama on board the m.v. Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magis usually carried was worth $2,500.
in this morning This was fully covered by tracy, yesterday afternoon.
surance, together with the fural-Fionin. The following Jury were emture and fittings. The Insurance pandled: Messrs. Willy Saenger Company he added, had agreed to pay the full sum except for a de (foreman), Ivan Molteberg
duction of $100 on account of de- Chan Kwan-yuen,
preciation of furniture. At the outset, the Coroner ex-
Chan Kam-kuk, wife of of the Emperor.: plained that the object of the en-labourer, who lived on the second quiry was to investigate the cir cumstances
of the death of a Chinese woman named Ng Chan, who together with her two children, a boy 2 years of age and a girl 12 years of age, lost her life as the result of a fire at No. 12, Smith- field on the 12th instant. The evidence would make it quite clear that this woman and her younger son jumped from the back window of an upper floor, and it would be within the province of the jury to was determine if any person criminally responsible for their deaths. "I will explain in due She herself, slept on a bed placed course, continued the Coroner; in the verandah overlooking the air- "how such criminal responsibility shaft. On the night in question, may herein arise, or whether any she had got up to feed her baby such person is worthy of censure in son, when a blast blown on a police connexion with the sad circum-whistle made her promptly get out had been nervous stances. In any case, you may of bed She make such recommendations as may ever, since a recent fire which broke BAW flames seem to be due in connexion with out next door. She the building in which this dis- shooting through the back window astrous fire occurred."
of the shop into the airshaft.
She was principal tenant of the rear part, which was again divided. into four small, cubicles, with as many bed-spaces in the passage outside these rooms. Ng Chan, the deceased woman, occupied the rear most bed space, with her two sons, aged 6 and 2 respectively.
Dr. A. Cannon, Medical Officer Escape Down Staircase. in charge of Victoria Mortuary, de-
Witness went on to say that when scribed the injuries he found on
she and her family were escaping the bodies at a post-mortem ex-
NS amination, and said that the fn-down the staircase, she saw juries were consistent with the de- Chan in the act of strapping her ceased having jumped or fallen child to her back and had advised. her not to wait until she had done from a height.
so. She did not see the deceased after that.
How the Fire Occurred.
Some eight or ten persons had escaped. into the street down the. one staircase serving the building. before it became alight.
A coolle employed at the Tai Lee Joss-shop which occupied the ground floor where the fire originated, said that on the previous night they were making wax
Questioned with regard to the candles, for which purpose a chetty movements of the inmates of the was used, a pan containing the sub-other cubicles, witness said that the sub- stance being heated over a charcoal 12-year-old girl who was are. The shop put up its shutters.sequently found lying in the back- at 10 p.m. and before retiring for yard, apparently after having the night, the fire was drawn, leay jumped from the floor, was living ing a few embers. They could not in the front cubicle with her have fallen out during the night,
parents. "She attempted to escape as there was a shield arrangement with her father, down the stairs." over the chetty, and he could only she said, "but she was too slow. suppose that the pan-it was an old The father ran down the stairs. one had been leaking during the leaving the child behind, and she night and the wax had caught fire.jumped out of the window."
He had gone to bed, in the shop, when at 1 a.m. or so he was aroused by the heat, and discovered the rear part of the premises furiously burning, around the spot where the chetty was.
Witness also said that Ah Mui, the other 12-year-old girl who was killed, lived in the third cubicle.
Street Coolie's Evidence. Tse Shu, stated that with his wife and family of three children, he lived in the front cubicle in that part of the floor of which the pre- was the principal
He escaped with the other fokis into the street, and could say that the staircase became alight within ten or fifteen minutes of the out-vious witness break.
Proprietor's Escape.
tenant. He was a street coolie.
The Coroner: A street coolie staying in a cubicle? That is un-
Li Kong, the proprietor of the usual. joss-shop, who lived in the back part of the premises, being separa-
Witness said that after discover-
ted by an airshaft from the fronting the fire, he collected his family and went with them down the stair- part, related how he escaped with
his faraily through a back door case. He carried his son while his
which
narrow gave out on to a scavenging lane.
wife carried their younger daughter. Their 12-year-old
had gone into
The girl Hospital.
is recovering from her infuries, and it was stated by In- spector Bloor, that she would be out agalit na wock's time, to make a statement on the subject.
Li Seen, a coolie employed at a charcoal shop dt Eastern Street, whose wife and younger son were killed in the tragedy, said he slept away from home that night. Being informed of their deaths, he later bodies in the identified.. their Mortuary:
At this point, the enquiry was adjourned for a week, when it is indicated two other witnesses will. speak of having actually observed the fatal jump from the building, these being Police Sergeant Wynns and the girl Tse Tool-shum, who is now in Hospital.
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