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CHOPPER ATTACK
BY HUSBAND..
MAN GETS LIGHT TERM
AT SESSIONS
WEDNESDAY, JUNË
Dr. GH. Thomas, of the. Government Civil Hospital, said Li Hung had extensive though not vory serious wounds on his head when admitted to the hospital.
In the witness box, Li Hung said he was asked to call at the houso by Lam's wife but ha did A chopper attack by an infuriat- not recall the Invitation until some given and it ed Chinese who told the court that hours after it was his victim was in bed with his was 2 a.m. when he got there. He wife, was related at the trial of was lying on the opium bed and the husband at the Criminal Sog- the woman was lying on the other yesterday. The Pulane bed when accused burst into the sions Judge, Mr. R. E. Lindsell, presid-room with a chopper in each hand and attacked him with a shout ed.
of:"One of us must die!".
Lam Tai-yung, alias Lam Kan, of 8, Gilman's Bazaar, pleaded not guilty to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm, Li Kwok Hung, known as Li Hung, of 154, Des Voeux Road Central, at the former address on April 22. He also entered a similar plea on a charge of malicious and unlawful wounding.
Mr. R. H. Lim, instructed by Mr II. C. Lee appeared for accused, and Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted.
The. Jury, consisted of. Messrs. F. F. Duckworth, A. H. Harbord, G. Duncan, Jar., G. R. Payne, 8. Feldman, Yeung Kwong-chul, B. C. Field.
Chan Ying-pan, police reservist Bald he was on duty when ho mot A man covered with blood running down Abordeon Street, chased by accused who was armed with two choppers.
Threat To Kill.” Formal evidence was given by a Chinese constable, the owner of choppers, Sub-Inspector the Chester-Wood, and the Central Magistracy interpreter.
The boy who lived with accused and his wife, testified that Ll. Hung had threatened to kill him if he spoke of his visit to cubicle in the husband's absence.
the
Mr. Lim said he had just been informed by the Crown Solicitor that, he was not calling the wife to give evidence.
The Judge: They connot.' you must have reallked Surely from the form of Indictment that she could not be called?
Former Friends, Setting out the facts of the case, Mr. Holmes said the three persons chiefly concerned wore the accused, the wounded man, and the former's wife, who was the "woman in the case." By this phrase he did not wish to make insinuations against the woman, but she was involved, application for the wife to be call and how far she was involved woulded and said she had previously be a matter for the jury to de-given evidence. termine..
Mr. Lim then made a special
he
Mr. Holmes: 1 certainly could because Li Hung and accused were not call the wife now
Is no allegation that formerly fokis together in an opium there
It has been business which was apparently (accused) struck her. filicit because it was raided at the laid down quite recently that the beginning of this year. The two Crown cannot be forced to call men remained acquainted however, any witness. It is not because I after their business relations don't want the woman to be call ceased. Accused, his wife, and aed that I object-I have no objéc- small boy who was related to them, tion to my friend taking any ad- hero, of her presence Ilved in a front cubiclo at 3, vantage Gilman's Bazaar, and on April 21, that he could. He can call her the husband returned by the night himself if he likes.
The Judge: 1 held. Mr. Lim, boat from Macao where he had spent some days. He visited that the Crown cannot be com friends on his arrival in Hongkong.pelled, even on your application, and it was not until 3 a.m. that he to put the wife into the witness returned home,
box.
Jealous Husband. According to his own stalement, accused discovered Li Hung in bed with his wife, the small boy niso being in the cubicle. Li Hung would seek to give -un innocent explanation of his presence there and would say that the woman hind acnt for him because he was going back to the country and she wanted him to take n message to ker mother.
The Silent Wife, The case for the Crown being concluded, Mr. Lim said that he wished to submit that there was no case to go before a jury. The that accused witnessed in scene the cubicle was one which in law justified the wife killing Li Hung because the suggestion of the de- fence was that Li Hung was about
21,
1933.
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to commit a crime on her. It did the men fighting but she did not not matter in such circumstances know why they were fighting.
In reply to Mr. Holmes she re- whether it was the wife or the
peated that she could not husband who did the killing and
tell WES
Without doubt, Lam Kan was jealous of his wife and suspected her, and his account of what in this case it did not go so far what happened because she followed was probably an honest as that. There was no evidence aloep.
In his address to the jury, Mr. account. He would say that he that the wife was a consenting Lim said that if not justified. heard his wife tolling Li Hung party. --
that her husband had not returned The Judge: The implication from the country, and that she from the evidence before the added rather a disparaging nick-court was that she made no outcry I hold that there is a case to go before.the Jury.
name.
Accused became vory angry and, going quietly down to the kitchen,
'Lost Control. he obtained two choppers and The accused then entered the returned to the cubicle. After an witness, box and confirmed the unsuccessful attempt to scale the previous statement made by him, partition he forced open the door outlined in Mr. Holmes opening and fell upon Li Hung, with He said that when he burst into chopper in
cach hand, inflicting the cubicle he lost control of him several wounds on his head. The self and sruck at Li Hung with wife intervened and managed to the choppers.. hold her husband while the wound- ed man ran into the street but nceused broke away, and continued and arreated by a police reservist, the pursuit until he was stopped A Late Call.
After
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accused's actions were excusable owing to the state of mind he was in, at the time.
Summing Up. Summing up his Lordship sald: -"You will realise that the wounding is admitted. The whole crux of the situation is the motive that actuated prisoner. Mr. Lim has made a suggestion that fie thought his wife was going to be ravished. I put it to you that that suggestion is utterly impro- bable. Even if it was so, the Jury would have to be satised'? considerable, pressing, ccused admitted that he waited that it was necessary for him on the stairs because he suspected (prisoner) to get choppers to there was a love affair between his stop such a crime.... The ran!
motive wife and the visitor. Ile had once believed they were committing I suggest was that he before discovered them together
adultery together... If
you It n statement made to the and had struck his wife on that
think prisoner thought adultery police, continued Mr. Holmes, occasion.
was being committed and lost his accused had anid that he Mr. Lim said he wished to call head as a reasonable man might, had been married for several his wife, and there was a stir in you should find him guilty of the years and had come to Hongkong the court when she made her way lesser offence." the previous year. Describing the to the box.
After a short retirement, the events of the early morning he In a scarcely audible voice she Jury announced a unanimous ver had said: "I walked up the stairs stated that she sent for Li-lung diet of "guilty" on the lesser quietly and stood listening on the to give him a message for her mo- offence, viz., wounding malicious stairs for half an hour. I heard ther and when she let him in at 2 ly; and "not guilty" on the charge He added a.m. she told him this message and of wounding with intent to do voices and laughing." that he had persuaded a man who then lay down on her bed. He grievous bodily harm. wore. wooden shoes to walk up the lay down on the other bed and His Lordship anid he was satis- Binirs with him so that his wife witness went to sleep. As far.08 would be unable to recognise his she remembered, nothing unusual trend. After the attack and the happened. chase, ho returned to the house
and with the policeman Hung coming out of the house with some clothing under his arm. The Injured mun fell down with a cry that he was dying.
fed that accused had great pro- vocation, but his action was not Justified in law and he had 'assis- When pressed witness recall-tance to hand. The sentence of saw Lied that there was little fighting, the court was three months' hard The Judge: Nothing unusual!labour, the commencement of the Fighting and choppers in the period to date from April 22, the middle of the night?
date of the offence.
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