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THE
HONGKONG
ALLEGED ILLEGAL
ARREST.
STRONG COMMENTS IN CLUB CASE.
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931.
An "Informer."
"On the night there were two tables in the club. At onte of these tables there WAS A TOKI ahmed Tang Fu and another man by the name of Ng Kue-wan, who had visited that clab for the frat time that aight. During the whole of that dinner
man
The defence was opened, before Mr. Williams at the Central Police was pestering people to play.
want to
Court yesterday afternoon, in the kai. They refused and did not
fense in which a large number of
стояк
Non, 500 and 508.
one of
STO-
Kne-wan, ordered the members of the Sik Yue Club play. After dinner thi are charged under the Gaming the "boys" to get a table ready in Ordinance as a result of a raid placed on the table a
ta ,510. play to kai. The boy carried out on the premises at!!
a bowl, dice 606, 608 and 610 Queen's Road, at the long counters and Wirst,
thing else.. Then as no one
commisioneri Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton is appeared to play he jeuring for the defence and, dur-lhe bay to go round and ask ene
Individual ing the course of his
the club to member of examination of the witnesses for me and play. He succeeded in the prosecution, he alleged that are members, after he had!] the defendants had been illegally searched and money taken from charge that these people are all You will notice from the their persons by Chinese detec tiven who were among the party three with keeping
charged with gambling-the first of Poller raiders.
In opening his case for the deaming house on the second floor
201 510
Queen's Road fence, Mr. Brutton alleged that the other defendants are charged the defendants had been legally with playing in a common gaming zearched and hansdeuffed and ho
house. We are entirely confined subsequently had their fager by the charges here to 510. I sub- prints Inken under protest.
mit your Worship, that if I prove Mr. Brutton: This club in questo your satisfaction. Dit any one Lion at present, consists of 26 or the defendants ceupled members, all of whom necupy pubicle or any portion of 308 or nond positions in the Colony. The '50s he has been illegally arrested, Clubs is a social club where people that the warrant under which the meet, to meet their friends and to search was ande only called upon; meet each other and it is only re-them to arrest any person foundi cently that it move into its pre- in 510. So your Worship, if
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An amusing demonstration was carried out in a San Francisco court recently. A dog was charged with being a chichen killer. A hen was brought into court 5be cowed the Dalmatian with a look and then forced him to retire in disorder. The verdict was
Guilty."
"Not
seat premises, 506. 508, and 510 prove to your satisfaction Queen Road, West. -
the
certain people were never
"Absolutely legal."
that
"The facts, are, that on the night that table, at all. these people of August 5-6 several members should never have been arrested. came to this club during enurag of the evening and at seven o'clock there was a dinner provid- The handcuffing. searching, [te by the club at their own ex.which we allege, and the taking pense at which
renbers of inger prints, are absolutely present. This dinner is illegal and the police have given daily By the elub. At right whatever to handruff, search twelve o'clock there is a mid-night or take finger prints. The mem dinner served, which dinner isbers of this club are most indig- paid for by the members and not, at that they should have been by the club.
jout to the indignity of being handl.
Wate
fess
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"The method of paying for that ruffed, searched and their finger
dinner as follows: The peoploi iprints taken. We have got, in wba enjoy that dinner, assuming evidence, that no one attempted there are any games played that to escape from the premises an night, all contribute to the cook the only justification for hand. towards the expense of the and they have made an attempt to es- din effing Ray 1 aubrait, is when Each table costs $3 there are ten to twelve
rape or
or if there is a likelihood of persons one table so that the total cost of
their escaping. jong
two tables for 22 to 23 people "I shall give evidence that would be about $6. The winners was put to the Sergeant by som at the games will pay this amount of the defendants "You need elgarettes and fruits are pro-not hondeulf us, we will go with vided they are paid for in the you" If your Worship is sutir-
led on that point the handeuftingi same way.
"No admission whatever is ne. Is absolutely unjustifiable.
"The search, if it did take place, cepted by the Club as the receipts from Bubscriptions
and we say it did, is also absolute ($30 per month per member) is more than ly illegal, except perhaps in re sufficient to pay for running ex gard to the first, second and third entrance defendants and only if they were $200. There is no reason keepers. There is no justineation why the club shout charge any under the warrant for searching commission. The only contribu- anyone unless they are keepers. tion which is pald at all is that by With the exception of probably the winner at a majongg or any three men all the others at the other table to meet the cost of the time the police entered the pre- [[mld-night dinner and for no other mises and came to 510, were in
purpose.
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