SNATCHERS MAKE HAULS.
EUROPEAN LADY ROBBED OF HANDBAG.
CULPRIT FOLLOWED.
Sub-Inspector Rozeskwy charged a Chinese, named Mo Kong, be fore Mr. Butters, at the Police Court this morning, with having anatched a hand-bag from Miss Road at 9.30 yesterday morning. The defendant after snatching the bag went to Glenealy and
from there to Ice House Street. He was followed all the way by the complainant and her sister.
The defendant was stopped by an In- dian civilian near Zetland House and the bug was recovered.
VERBAL DUEL IN COURT.
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D'Almuda's recollection WAB utterly and entirely wrong,
Admitted Nothing. Counsel continued that he dealt full with every defence in .ne belief that they would be proved. So far as Mr. D'Almada's search was concerned they admitted
what use the argument was to be put to.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1930.
SUMMONS WHICH
FAILED.
ANOTHER MARINE COURT CASE DISMISSED.
EVIDENCE TOO WEAK.
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DIVORCE ACTION DECIDED.
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Divorce and Admiralty Division in a considered judgment in the suit Apted v. Apted & Bliss, This judg ment is reported in The Times newspaper of May 20, and after stating that it was not possible to Owing to contradictory evidence, formulate and limit with precision a case at the Marine
Court this the grounds on which discretion morning was dismissed by the Hon. was to be exercised, goes on to say Commdr. G. F. Hole, who held that that certain broad principles could
MARVELS OF A
LOST CITY.
| CARVED MONOLITH ON- WAY TO BRITISH MUSEUM.
MAYA DISCOVERIES.
Strange pyramids, a wonderful hill of terraces, and a carved monolith weighing a ton-all the work of a race long since extinct are among the discoveries made Gertrude Julyan in Upper Albert nothing because they did not know he could not convict the defendant [be gathered from cases which were in the Lost City of Maya by the
as the evidence given by one of the cited. The judgment then deals British Museum expedition. witnesses was very unreliable. with many decided cases and lays
The case was one in which Ip down that on a review of these, certo England on a cargo
The monolith is now on its way steamer Mr. Sheldon-My Lords, can it Shing, the coxswain of steam launch tain principles appeared: "The in- and it will be set up in the British fairly be said on the motes on this Fook Ley. was charged with fail terest of the community at large in Museum later in the year. record, there was any suggestioning to carry and show a red light maintaining the sanction of honest Difficulties overcome by the that the memorial was not whilst under way at 3.36 a.m. on matrimony was a governing consi-expedition in getting the monolith searched?
July 15. He denied the charge. deration; a strong affirmative, case from the heart of the jungle in Mr. Potter replied that he fully Sgt. Weymes, who prosecuted, was necessary before a judge was British Honduras to civilisation believed that at the proper time stated that whilst on duty at the justified under the statutes in ne- were described by Captain E. La Mr. D'Almada would have gone time he noticed defendant's launch Fativing their conditional prohibi- Gruning, the leader of the expedi into the witness box but to crossing the bow of his police tion: it was manifestly contrary. tion. suggest that Mr. Alabaster W with no port light-He showed his to law that a judicial discretion in induced to
that Worship the relative positions of favour of a litigant guilty of mis- evidence need not be called by the two launches when he first no conduct in the matters in question reason of any admission was ab- ticed defendant's vessel, pointing should be exercised where that solutely incorrect. What happened out that, fran. where he was, he course would probably encourage was that Mr. Alabaster said to could not have failed to see a red immorality, and if it was likely to Sir Henry Gollan, "I will call Mr.light if there was one on board. do so that was an argument against D'Almada if you wish," but Sir
Witness continued that he fol- leniency. Henry replied to, the effect that lowed defendant's launch and when "How, taking these principles as Mr. Alabaster would conduct his he got alongside, he found both the standard, does the conduct of Ho the petitioner entitle her to the red and green lights on deck. case exactly how he liked.
was positive, however, that the red exercise of the discretion of the one was not in the proper place when court in her favour? he saw defendant's launch.
Six months' imprisonment and
twelve strokes were imposed.
A Chinese received the maximum sentence on his appearance before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of snatching from a lady in the street, the defendant being alleged to have snatched an ear ring from an elderly Chinese wo man in Saigon Street.
The defendant pleaded guilty. Detective Inspector C. P. Fallon told his Worship that the complain- ant was walking along Saigon Street near Nathan Road shortly after noon yesterday when the de- fendant, approaching from behind, spatched her ear-ring. He was chased by coolte foreman and caught. The car-ring was found In his hand.
His Worship sentenced the de- fendant to twelve months' hard la bour and 24 strokes of the birch and complimented the coolie fore man on his capture.
GRANDFATHER TO BE
· CALLED IN,
DEVELOPMENTS IN CASE OF
STUBBORN GIRL
After giving the question due conalderation, Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning intimated that, in the case of the small girl who had refused a home at the Salvation Army Institution, he had decided to have the girl's grandfather in Court when the case was called on Wednesday morning.
It will be recalled that the girl had been before the Court on aeveral occasions, following her admission of a charge of theft, and notwithstanding pleas by Miss Raines of the Salvation Army, and suggestions from the Bench that she should consent to go to the Salvation Army home, she and her grandmother definitely refused to accept the offer.
believe that
Personal Honour. Counsel added: "I would like Mr. Jenkin to address you on this point because, it seems to me to come down to a question of per- sonal honour."
Mr. Sheldon argued it was, in fact, self-evident that
the mortgage could not have been ad- the Court unless the mitted to register had been searched, be
defendant admitted cause
the deads were in the hands of plaintiff. If it was going to be taken against him now that there was no evidence, and their Lord ships would not take it as a fact that Mr. D'Almada searched the memorial, then, he would ask their Lordships to make a note of it in case the matter went before another Court.
Mr. Potter again rose and said he wished to make it perfectly to shut out any argument, but what clear that he was not trying to he objected to was the sugestion that there was any admission on his part which would relieve Mr. D'Almada of going into the witness box.
"I strongly object and protest against the suggestion that the other side were in any way re- lieved of the liability of calling Mr. D'Almada if they thought they ought to do so," added Mr. Potter.
A Vital Point.
Lightly Treated,
Strange Faces. '
"We were anxious to secure this monolith," said Captain Gruning. because it will help us to make a further study of the Maya luu- guage, which is very little known. The stone is carved all over with strange faces and figures.
In order to get it away from the jungle city, we took a tractor with us,, but the journey of 40 miles cccupied a week. Not only did we have to get it through the jungle growth, which is very dense, but there were dreadful floods and about six rivera to
A Chinese coxswain, who was on "As I have said, this marriage duty with Sgt. Weymes at the time, does not seem to have been a happy first told his Worship that the oc- one except for the first two years, cross.. currence happened in the morning and I would add that the marriage"The city we were exploring is of July 14 and then showed the retic seems to have been treated light-almost covered with heavy jungle lative positions of the two launches, ly by both husband and wife. The undergrowth. We surveyed a re- His Worship observed that from letter of August 21, 1929, already markable terraced hill, which the positions given him by witness, referred to is not pleasant reading, dominates the south side of this it was no wonder that he (witness) The reason given for the adultery mysterious city, four miles square. of the wife at Harbin seems to be failed to see any red light.
"All over this hill there are After putting a few more ques-Inadequate; she was not forced to stone structures and sub-struc- tions, his Worship remarked that this line of conduct by any one, and tures bulit with hundreds of thou- he could not convict, as the evidence appears to have been a willing sands of tons of limestone. The of the second witness was so un-agent. I cannot see how the inter-construction and putting into reliable.
est of the community in maintain-position of these great stone
In another case, Chan Chuen, the ing the sanction of honest matri-blocks shows engineering of a master of a motor boat, was fined money is served by acceding to her high order. Round the whole was $25 for failing to show a green petition, nor do I consider a strong a megalithic wall. light whilst under way in the har-affirmative case has been made out. "We found some strange bout.
pyramids built on the hill. What they were for it is impossible to tell.
"Encourage Immorality." "Finally, I consider in this case that to excrcise a dis- sumption that if his admission contained the as-cretion
in favour of the the register and petitioner would 'probably en- memorials were searched by Mr. courage immorality, in that if it d'Almada.
were acceded to it would not deter Mr. Potter said it was asking for other wives desirous of divorcing a big admission, but he was pre-their husbands from behaving in a pared to admit that.
similar manner to the way in which Mr. Sheldon said that no in-the petitioner has bchived. justice was done by that admis- "Finally, as to the interests of the aion.
child of the marriage. It is laid made that admission because they Probate p. 20, that it is material for Mr. Potter added that they only down in Wilson . Wilson, 1926, though their Lordships desired it, consideration how the interests of They made the admission although children are affected by the petl- they had no definite knowledge or tion. I cannot see how the position proof of it.
of this child would be improved Dealing with the facts, Mr.granting a decree nisi.
Sir Joseph Kemp remarked that it seemed to him to be a very serious point as it might destroy the whole Sheldon said that the plaintiff "I do not see my way to exercise case. If there was no search of executed a lease to lease the pro- a discretion in her favour and I the register, there was no repre-perty. He executed a deed, and sentation.
signed his name in Chinese as the.
At the last hearing his Worship Mr. Potter:-Absolutely none, one lessor, and, for reasons given remarked that he wished to con- Speaking on the point. Mr. in his evidence, he wrote in Eng sider the question of the guardian-Jenkin said that his recollection lish characters, the name of his ahip claimed by the grandmother was exactly the same as Mr. Pot-son, the second defendant. and this morning his Worship in- ter's. Whether or not Mr. Alabas- timated, that he wished to have the ter had a reasonable motive for grandfather, who at the girl's first appearance, Was given two months' hard labour, for receiving stolen property, to appear in Court when the case was called,
OPINIONS ON INDIA.
* UNOFFICIAL VIEWS SOUGHT
BY VICEROY.
keeping Mr. D'Almada out of the witness hox they did not know, but they very much doubted the bond fides of the defendant, as they be
D'Almada to write
ing
Cases Cited.
In citing the law
171 registering of
[nust refuse a decrec.”
security was null and void because that document had not been regis tered,
A Bridge.
"Below the hill we discovered the remains of the only known These were the buttressed stone bridge of Maya construction. ends, the centre part having leng since disappeared.
"The community appears to have been the centre of a highly cultured civilisation from about
community was a religious one, A.D. 150 to A.D. 300,
"There is evidence that the Hill
and access
to parts of it were obtained by staircases which were cut out in the rock, it was obvious- ly a very important place, but what it meant is still a jungle-
secret.
we
"The only way in which could pursue our inquiries was to keep hacking away at the under- growth and felling trees and dig- ging. In
a cave we found a quantity of painted pottery, and in grave there was a number of jade beads.
clues, however, to the real pozzle we were trying to solve,
"There were act many
Another case was where a man would search the registers and memorials and take from them regard-facts necessary to, prepare the Sheldon put to the
deeds, mortgage and deeds and, being Who were these Maya people? Court satisfied, as Mr. d'Almada was in Where did they come from? the case of a man depositing, this case did not ask for the title
Where did they go to and why title deeds with 4 bank, who deeds, as he had obtained the in- did they go? for some reason, did not register, gister and memorials. executed a legal document, but, formation required from the re- In that
Missing Clue.
Mr.
believed he knew full well that Li Po-kwai's other name was Li Kan. Defendant instructed, Mr.
a letter to Liit. The subsequent mortgagee crcase the equitable charge of the "For some reason, they sudden- Kan at Li Po-kwal's shop and he purchaser bought that property, bank had priority over the lessee'sly disappeared and the lost city could only have done that by know- and made no enquiry about the security. The case seemed to we have just explored is only one ing that the two names belong to deeds. He was utterly careless, depend entirely on whether the of the great centres of their the same man.
They had wanted Mr. D'Almada to go into the witness box in order to put that letter to him, and Mr. Alabaster sounded the Judge as to whether he required Mr. D'Almada to be called, asking whether there was any question about the re- gister being searched. Mr. Potter
London, July 19. Lord Irwin, the Viceroy of India, yesterday had an informal discus Bion at Simis with many members of both Houses of Legislature. Those present represented all parties. The proceedings were pri was just about to get to his feet Fate, but it is understood that the to admit it when he (Mr. Jenkio) general situation was discussed in stopped him because he (Mr. a frank and friendly manner. The Jenkin) wanted to make sure that
Sharp Practice?
Viceroy expressed in his recent Mr. D'Almada was called.. spooch to the Legislature his desire to hear non-officiil opinion on the recommendations of the Simon Statutory Commission, and further occasions are to be found for con sultation with non-official opinion from several provinces.—British Wireless.
SHANGHAI TRAM STRIKE.
STRIKERS SEIZE "BLACK-LEG" WORKERS.
Shanghai, July 19.
matter among themselves
Their Lordships discussed the for a few minutes while the barristers were similiary engaged,
When the arugment was re- sumed, Mr. Potter said he felt so strongly on the point because seemed to him there was a sugges- tion of sharp practice.
it
Mr. Sheldon That is ridiculous and their Lordships know it is ridiculous.
Mr. Potter:-Their Lordships don't know what Mr. Sheldon has said to me down here.
Sir Peter Grain (with a smile): The strikers of the French Tram-Ard' we don't want to know, Mr. ways yesterday seized 85 substitute Potter. motormen and conductors who were ¿carrying out their duties,
There were exciting scenes and some disorder, four trumcars being rather, badly damaged.Our Own Correspondent.
Later, Sir Peter Grain said they were satisfied that nothing had been proved with regard to the search.
Never Proved.
[The China Tribune, a Hongkong Mr. Potter said he was willing Chinese daily, states that. Com- to admit anything his Lordship munist agents are stirring dis might consider desirable, but he content among the workers on the wished to emphasise the fact that Shanghal-Nanking and Shanghai- the searching of the register and Hangchow Railways. There is a memorials had never been proved, possibility of a strike.
Sir Joseph Kemp asked counsel.
He advanced his money, and document was executed or not. obtained legal estate, but his bank The hearing is proceeding:
"What college songs do you know, Slim?"
civilisation.:
"Unfortunately, we have not much knowledge of their language, but we are getting a bit more of it every year. If we could find a key then we should indeed have a marvellous chapter in stone. before us to read.
"Evidence of domestic life in this city were mostly lost. The people lived in wooden houses and they had all crumbled away. At every turn in this lost city one finds something that baffles.
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