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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1930.
NOT MUCH BETTER
· THAN KIDNAPPER.
DEFENCE DESCRIBES CASE
AS EXTRAORDINARY.
After a long trial, extending over nearly two months, the casè in which three persons, two men and a woman, were charged with being concerned in the sale of a girl, was concluded before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- gistracy yesterday afternoon.
CHINESE
TESTATOR'S
·GOOD' ADVICE.
RELATIVES URGED TO ADD TO ANCESTORS' GLORIES.
"You all must appreciate my im- partial and unselfish spirit through- out my life. Be affectionate, obedient, diligent and frugal, and endeavour to prove yourself be my good sons and daughters-in-law. By your so doing I can anticipate In convicting the defondants.that you will be able to add glories Mr. Whyte Smith said that he
to your ancestors and to ensure found it very hard to believe that
prosperity to your descendants."
the first defendant (represented by Mr. Arthur Covey) was much better than a common kidnapper. Mr. Covey relied entirely, for his defence, on the actions of a man named Man Chang and also to a certain extent on the actions of Lễ Sau-ku, the girl's sister. With regard to the man, Man Chang his Worship's opinion was that he was either a fictitious person or elsa was actually the person who had kidnapped the girl,
Continuing, his Worship said that the girl stated that a man had spoken to her in the street and asked her to go for a walk. He thought that it was possible that that man was Man Chang, whe was suggested by the first defend ant's solicitor to have been the paramour of Li Sau-ku and possi- bly the father of the girl.
The above is an extract from the will of Sung Yu-nam, alias Sung Lan-cheung, formerly of No. 19, Bonham Strand West, who died at Lam Shu Chung Village, Fa Yuen District, Kwangtang, on November 14, 1928, leaving Hongkong estate to the value of $37,300,
Probate has been granted to Sung Young-shi (widow) daughter- in-law, Sung Pul-chol, second-son, and Sung King-choi, third son, the executrix and executors named in the-will, all of whom ara living at the Bonham Strand address,
At the beginning of his will. testator states: "I left home for abroad while young and tolled throughout my life. With benedic- tion extended to me by my fore fathers I could only afford to build up such a family and create such a small estate. Both, in the country and in Hongkong I am possessed of some insignificant properties. On account of my crabbed age and fre- quent illness I cannot foretell when of my death all the property left I will meet my end. In the event
by me during my lifetime shall be dealt with in accordance with the Law Code of the Tni Tsing Dynasty of China."
Suggestion Not Supported. Now, proceeded the Magistrate, there was not a job or tittle of evidence to support that sugges- tion and he had to say he was rather surprised that it had been made. But even if Man Chang was actually that person and was on of the principal people in the transfer of the girl, the first de- fendant had absolutely failed to show that he had any reason to believe that he was entitled to take part in the transaction, even if it was a transaction for the adop-dinary ones that his Worship had tion according to Chinese customs, had before him. Unfortunately His Worship, however, described the question of adoption as being to appeal, but if he had he (Mr. the first defendant had no money ludicrous.
Covey) would certainly appeal in a-case like that.
Even on the first defendant's evidence, Li San-ku, according to him might be the mother of the girl but she was ignorant of the name of the adoptor and alzo of the whereabouts of the girl. The first defendant had failed to show why he had been concerned in the transaction at all, it having taken place at his house.
been concerned in and said it must be one of the most extraor-
With regard to the third defen- dant (represented by Mr. C. E. L Grist), his Worship said that he held that he had tried to buy a mui tani and he did in fact buy a mi-sai. He supposed the defen dant thought, by getting the red paper, he would get over the legal obstacles, but he did not even pre- tend to have been in touch with the sirl's parents.
Mr. Grist poisted out that the defendant had been told that the girl's parents were dead,
His Worship replied that he would know that she had guar-
Continuing, the Magistrata said that he did not have the slightest reason to doubt that Li Sau-ku had reported the matter to the Police at the earliest possible moment or at least within a very reasonable time. If her actions, as suggest- ed by the first defendant, or by his solicitor, were actuated by andians. elaborate scheme for "flying the
To Defendants' Credit. white pigeon," and recovering the child after having secured the
Continuing, his Worship said price, he must say that he thought that with regard to the third de- that scheme was about the most fondant he would put it to his clumsy that one could imagine. credit that he had produced the He would say it was incredibly girl. It was not like one of those clumsy. He did not believe the terrible cases where the child first defendant's evidence. He could not be found. He
would had called as witnesses his wife put it to the credit of the first de- and his employer, neither of whose fendant that he had reported to evidence did he believe. He had the police when he heard that also called a constable who had there was Home trouble. The no relevant evidence to offer. Magistrate rather imagined that the first defendant considered he An Extraordinary Case.
had safeguarded himself against Having held that the trans-legal consequences, but he did uction was not an adoption, ac- think that his reporting the mat- cording to Chinese custom, hister to the police rather took him Worship said it followed that the out of the category of being a kid. second and third defendante muatnapper or one closely associated be convicted also. He regarded with kidnappers. their offence as less serious. The second defendant was the go-be- tween and obviously had nothing to do with the original kidnapping, but, it had to be remembered, that if there were no go-betweens there. would be fewer kidnappers.
Mr. Covey Intimated that there was no evidence of kidnapping.
His Worship replied that he did not say that there had been. What he said was that the second
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His Worship remarked that the maximum penalty of twelve months' hard labour and 24 strokes of the birch would have been im- posed but for that fact, but as it was he sentenced the defendant to four months' hard-labour and fia- ed each of the other two defen- dants $300 or two months' hard la- bour in default.
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