JEALOUSY MURDER TRIAL
(Continued from Page 1). not many days later she was living in the Kowloon Hotel aa his wife.)
CHAUFFEURS INVOLVED.
[aware of their associations at that
friends with the deceased then. time and the accused was good
It was clear that in that year
THE
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HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1932.
they encouraged the accused up to GENERAL STRIKE
a point in his foul dċaign with the Intention not of accomplishing Fung's death but by some means getting hold of the money that the accused. was willing to pay if that death came about.
The first of those two youtha,
OF BELGIAN MINERS
the accused intended to marry the Edward Zimmern, the black sheep. Government Peace
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Mr. Lindsell feared, of a well-known Hongkong family, became sequaint. ed with the accused on March 20 when he accompanied Che to the extra race meeting which was buld
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know of the Lai Ming Fay affair. cume Cheng's bodyguard.
Zimmern knew Fung, but did not the mediation of the Govern-
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Winterbottom). Following a period of unrest in ed later told him of the whole cir-the coalfields, involving numerous The Merry Brother (Gennin)
B.D.C. Wireless Military Bans D1126 cumstances and also emphasised the sectional strikes in the past month, fact that although he had lived with
Bir Dan Godfrey conducting the Journe
mouth Mugleipal Orchestra, 0821. her, she was still a virgin.
an extraordinary meeting of the Mention was made by Mr. Lind- cided to-day to declare a general. National Congress of Miners de- sell of the desire of the accused to obtain a knife with which he in-
strike. tended to arm himself before pro- eceding to have it out with Funk at the Hotel Nathan. The serused was nervous, worried and excited, but Zimmera managed to pacify him and took him home.
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The walk-oul will take effect to- morrow and will involve all the Bel-P gian coalfields.
girl. This was shown by one ac "It will be the Crown Cane, casion when he took her to see a continued Mr. Lindsell, that the house which he informed her he accused immediately took steps to had purchased and which he in- get his rival killed. It will be tended to occupy after their mar shown that he used his chauffeur ringe when he became of age this put the matter in the hands of Wongneichung Road, to 50, Village Lau Hing, and that this chauffeur year. They removed from 79, Another chauffeur."
Road. At this point, Mr. Lindsell Soon
mother after that, handed to the Chief Justice a list girl friend of Lai
Ming - of the principal witnesses.
He ex Fay,
named Annie Au plained that the two men engaged came down and stayed with them. to do the killing were Chul She soon learned of the state of Yun-aham and Wong Nam-sheung affairs that existed between the At the time Shui had girl and George Fung and inna- hia POARCASION two automalle much as she became, later, good revolvers,
friends with the accused, it was The murder was finally com-reasonable to suppose that she told mitted on March 24th after an him what was going on. At any attempt five days carlier had, rate, towards the end of the year failed.
the accused was distrustful. **The evidence in regard to this, mure than one occasion and warn- crime falls into three divisions".d the girl, Lai Ming Pay of her as-
Speaking of a further converan said Mr. Lindsell.
sociations with Fung. He once tion which the accused hind with EVIDENCE OF MOTIVE.
received an anonymous letter and Zimmern, Mr. Lindsell said that be taxed the girl, but she succeed-, Cheng told Zimmern of the fakejected. "First there is the evidence fed in altaying his suspicions.
telephone call and at the same time motive. This will be mainly the Those conditions existed until told Zimmern that he had two wo The Congress vote in favour of evidence of Lai Ming Fai who willi February 2 when accused, after a
men dogging Fung's footsteps and animous,--Kender,
A general strike was almost un-. also give evidence of the actual quarred, left the house with the re-ring in wait for Fung. Zimmern mark that he was going to Can asked Cheng if he SAN paying ton.
these two men, and the accused re- plied that unless they give Fung the lotus seed holder, which the Assistant Allorney Generni under- stood was slang for the gun" they would get nothing.
death of the accused.
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STRIPPED OF JEWELLERY.
art
Secondly, there is evidence of the accused's deliberate desire and; intention to get George Fung gut out of the way by one means or Later Lai Ming Fay, on receipt another. Under This heading of a telephone message, was on comes the evidence of the two her way to Repulse Bay to join Eurasian, Zimmern and Christie, Fung when she was met at Wong- especially the latter.
neichung Gap Road by the arctised The third point is the evidence who was driving his own motor of the plot engineered by the cart Austin Seven No. 4. The two accused's own chauffeur, its result} cars stopped, the accused went in the murder, and the complicity | across and accused the girl of trea- of the accused.
chery and ingratitude. He strip-
"Lai Ming Fai will tell you shej ped her of her jewellery and pro- first came to know the accused in reeded back to 50, Village Read. 1928 when she came from Shanghai There he appears to have become to Hongkong as a member af
"a excredingly angry and after fur- theatrical troupe, a troapw.of which ther recriminations he struck her her father was manager. Per several times and toll her to leaye formances were given in Canton, the house, Hongkong and later in the Straits! Settlements.
The next morning Lai Ming Fay left and threw in her lot with
George Fung who took rooms with her and her mother and two con sins who had come from Shanghai, in the Nathan Hotel
hack.
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DEFENCE OBJECTION.
Mr. Potter here interposed and said that Mr. Lindsell should inform the jury that this evidence was not given at the trial at the Magistracy, but was only disclosed subsequently. Mr. Lindsell confirmed what Mr. Mr. Potter had stated,
After taking the jury over the evidence concerning the meeting of Zimmern, Christie, Souza, Pao Pet Sing and the accused outside the Majestic Theatre. Mr. Lindsell men.
lined the subsequent gathering at the restaurant and the plan to in dire Fung out
of the dispute submitted by the
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in view of the evidence which the man, Tsui Yung-sam, would he giving in connexion with the case, that he be granted a free pardon on any charge In connexion with the murder. At the present he Song was serving a term of imprison-Negro of firearms, ment in Hongkong for possession
Mr. Lindsell then explained how. the two men met Lau, necused's chauffeur, how versutions. that Lau
they hind CON- paid Tsui $60, and that he and the bus conductor took the same ferry across to Kowloon on which was George Pung the deceased, how they followed him to the Nathan Hotel, occupied
opposite and watched Fung's movements.
Tsui had two automatic pistols of these was used by the man of the Spanish pattern and one Wong to kill Pang,
a
room
After satisfying themselves that they would be able to recoguise Fung again, the two men rented Road, close to Village Road, and
cubicle at 17. Shau Kwong made this the base of their opera-
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ENGAGED IN SINGAPORE. The accused was so much taken
of hix with the girl that he followed her
KO that Cheng
could to Singapore and lived in the same
Mr. Lindsell referred to the save his own face by house as the girl and her father subsequent
smacking meeting (3 the Fung's whilst the others held him. Not long afterwards he took her girl and the accused at the Hong- Following the failure of the plot. and another girl on a three weeks kung Hotel, where the remaining Cheng brought up the question of trip up country and during that part of the jewellery was handed Christie bringing about Fang's trip proposed mariage and was
The girl requested the ardeath and he offered $10.000 for accepted subject to the father's used to let betones be hyegones, the deed. Christie mentioned po the night of the murder. He told P. Spaniels Informational Period. consent. He gave her an engage-ever let the girl and the deceased crossed to Hongkong and had or the principals-how Shui reach- but his reply was that he would tassium cyanide and after the par- ment ring.
to Singapore, tive happily together. He would breakfasted they went to a boarded No. 17 at 7 o'clock and found Lau 7.30pm. On their return
ing house and further discussed there, along in the cubicle. Shuj the father agreed to the engage-spend all his money to prevent it. ment. It was agreed at the time later, the plot to kill Fung
would the plan. the jury
would tell how he saw Wang and They subsequently went to con- that the marriage should not take ad heen hatched. The accused's ult solicitors on the question of
Kwan pat rolling in front of No. 14. placo until the accused was 21 years of age. In the summer or frame of mind would be indicated homicide by a youth undee 21. On out of the house and watched Kwan He saw Fung and the girl come their way they called 1928 the troupe returned to Shang-by the evidence of Zimmern
Queen's Dispensary, the King's hired car he followed in the rear.
at the and Wong follow them. In his hai and the accused accompanied
Dispensary them as far as Hongkong.
and the Pharmacy. Potassium cyanide and a hypoder mie syringe were purchased and handed to the accused,
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SINO-JAPANESE CLASHES.
CHINESE VOLUNTEERS CLAIM SUCCESS
THE FATAL SHOT, When the couple reached the junc- The following day the accusedtion of Wongneichung road and e told Zimmern he had tested the Yick Yum Street, Wong overtook
Peiping, Aug. 7. hypodermic syringe with excellent Fung and the wiri He heard an Chinese telegrams continue to results, and a larger syringe was Xplosion and saw the flash of a claim successes by the Chinese Pan, but saw nothing to indicate volunteers who are fighting the what happened to Fung and the Japanese. girl.
It is stated that they are now moving in the direction of Chin- between Shui and the gunmen, Mr. going on
After referring to conversations chow and desperate fighting is when, he alleged, Lau paid Shui Great Wall.-Reuter's Special. Lindsell passed
along the Peiping- to March 25th Mukden Railway outaido the
ed if the plot were successful. One $2,000, the sum previously. promis-
note was changed the same day and others subsequently."
SWINDLE IDEA. This was the end of the project so far as Zimmern and Christie had no idea of harming Fung, and were concerned. They themselves
with Fung's connivance to swindle in fact both were ready to work
the accused of $10,000,
sell, that he paid Wong $500 and
Shui would say, added Mr. Lind
bers of the gang. made other payments to other mem-
Mr. Lindsell concluded his ad dresg ni 11.45 o'clock.
The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest on the south-east
the south of Naha, moving N.N.E. of Japan, and relatively Iow over China. The typhoon is situated to
Local forecast:-S.W. windn, mo- derate; fair generally, local rain.
the
pollee moved the from 73. Main Street,
yesterday, the building
weapon was discharged at a dis- tance of at least three feet,
Mr. Lindsell went on to mention. A few months later the accused bore no significare in the mind of three incidents which, at the time. went to Shanghai ang alayed with Lai Ming Fay but the significance the girl and her father,
would appear later. The first was At this time George Fung was on the morning of March 18 when also in Shanghai and was on a bogus telephone message brought friendly terms with the accused. Lai Ming Fay out of her room at It was fairly evident that he was the Nathan Hotel.
On their re-purchased. not then attracted by the girl.
Turn, they saw the necused in the room with his arms folded, staring at the girl. The second invidunt About February of 1930 the was on the night of the 19th when girl's father left for Peking and she and Fung visited a friend at agreed
extraordinary, Shai Kwong Road and when an arrangement of leaving his amah the wife of Cheng's chauffeur daughter in care of the accused. brought a letter. The third They set up house and lived tourred at 2 am, on the 21st when gether for some time.
she was aroused from her sleep in
Christie faded out of the picture "The girl will say," continued Room 402 at the Nathan Hotel by a Zimmern would say that accused on the day of the murder when Mr. Lindsell, "and she wil} be knock at the door. An attempt was supported by the evidence of men made to get Fung out of the room.
was very irritable and nervous. who heard the accused say so him-
Detailing the movements of the self, that no intimacy took place |
NIGHT OF MURDER.
accused and Zimmern on the fute
"It is the Crown case," said Mr. between the pair either in Shang- Speaking of the night of the ful day, Mr. Lindsell spoke of ne-
Lindsell, "that the accused, from hai or at any subsequent date in murder. Mr. Lindsell mentioned used winning $150 at gambling the moment Lai Ming Fay left him, building,
Owing to the dangerous state of the Hongkong.
that the couple had visited friends in the afternoon, of how the pair determined to revenge himself on occupants "The two seem to have lived at 14. Shan Kwong Road. A tele-had a meal at Jinung's Kitchen in George Pung. It must have been Kowloon City. This was none too fairly happily except for a few phone message arrived for Lai the evening, then went on to the the accused who through Las pro-collapse. quarrels over the accused's asso. Ming Fay from the amak of 50, Pauline Dancing Academy, return-cured the services of Shuf and the clation with other women. Once Village Road, her voice being re-
ed to 60 Village Road, in order to assesin Wong." she threatened to leave him and he cognised by the girl. That showed according to accused, secure money threatened to shoot her.
that a member of the accused's for gambling at West Paint. Continuing. Mr. Lindsell said household, the wife of his chauf- "though it is hurdly a sufficient that on or about April, 1980, the four knew of the whereabouts of excuse", added counsel, “in view
Mr. Potter remarked that he had accused returned to Hongkong, Fong and the girl.
of the fact that he had won $150
no questions to put to the wit- having run through the whole $88,-1 The assistant Attorney General that same afternoon", and thence
He suggested that as there 000 and also being heavily in debt. then described the murder and the
on to West Point.
were several witnesses, whose About June, on receipt of a cable subsequent arrival on the scene of Zimmern would also tell theni
evidence would be irrelevant, their from him, Lai Ming Fay joined Dr. S. C. Ho who was at the Yelong Village Road, and passing of how accused, after driving
evidence given at the Police Court him down in Hongkong and lived Wo Nursing Home at the time and two Chinese who were detectives,
be read over to them to save the some months under his protection heard the shot. The assassin fled accused cursed Zimmern for ex-
time of the Court and the jury. in a flat in Nathan Road, Kow-down the tane behind Man Chung pressing nervousness at their pre-dence relevant," he said. "It must witnesses were giving evidence be His Lordship remarked that he could not do that, but when the loon. Towards the end
of the Kwong and discarded a revolver be-sence, and told him "from now be obvious to the Crown that they could make his notes of their testi- year, she returned to Shanghai and hind one of the houses where it was there she again met the deceased, subsequently found by a police shut; Fung is dead."
on you must keep your mouth
are not entitled to prove a case of mony snort. George Fung. In February, 1981, officer. she came back to Hongkong, ac-
After arriving at West Point Christie's when a man is charged for tillin.
conspiracy such as Zimmern's and The hearing was then adjourned There was one, further point in by a companied by her mother, amah counexion with the girl's evidence. cused gambled and
very circuitous route, ac on another count, unless they can and also a school friend named She would tell the Court that as far gave Zimmern $50 and another this case."
at 4a.. make it relevant to some issue of Bessie Au. They all lived together as she was aware Fung had no $10 for Christie and told him it at the accused's expense at 79, other person who might have done would be better if he disappear- The matter was not argued, at Wongnoichung Road.
ed with Christle to Canton. The this stage and the first witness was two men left the following morn- called at 11.55. iny.
Mr. D. G. Womack and Mr. C. A.
and final phase. On June 20, the and Inspector Vincent, police photo- This brought them to the third places connected with the murder, Grimes each produced plans of
police, acting upon
cortain in-
grapher, produced formation, arrested two mon, one having a bearing on the case.
photographs a privato chauffeur and the other
Dr. R. S. Begblo certified the a Hongkong Hotel bus conductor cause of death to be haemorrhage PARDON ASKED FOR WITNESS. following bullet wound and shock. On close examination of the The former openly admitted clothing and the wound, witness being an accessory before the said that there was no evidence of fact of murder, and the Crown the near discharge of the weapon. were going to ask the Court thate formed the opinion that the
DEEPLY IN LOVE.
bim any harm.
TAINTED EVIDENCE. The day after her arrival in the Colony, she met George Fung was the desire and deliberate in
The second part of the evidence again at a party at the Hongkong tention on the part of the accused Hotel. In a month of two they had fallen deeply in love with each to murder George Fang. other and disclosed their mutual love. Through the summer she went out quite often with Fung, but not alone, the girl Bessie Âu vạ- ually being with them. Tho
ac-
cused himself gave them overy opportunity as he was often absent
This point was based mainly on what he (the Assistant Attor ney General) could not describe otherwise than as tainted evi- dence.
This was the evidence of two in Macao or Canton. He was not Eurasian youths, who admitted that
OBJECTION TO EVIDENCE,
Mr. Potter: would like it nuted now that we shall object to the admission of the evidence of Zimmern and also to Chris tie's evidence.
"It is incumbent on the Crown to show how they make this evi-
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