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think such a thing would have been allowed to happen. I think it is a most extraordinary procedure for
ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE GIVES the Police to adopt.
* EVIDENCE
Not King's Evidence.
· FIGHTING PLAGUE
22 1933
AUTHORITIES SEEK TO' CHECK SPREAD
Dairen, Sept. 21. Tho Berlous proportions
to:
"As far as I am concerned, I A protest against the way in think I am entitled to know whe- which evidence for the Crown was ther this man la turning King's presented, was lodged by. Mr. Hin-evidence. I understand he is not. which the plague has reached are shing Lo at the Central Magistracy And he is not oven an accomplice. recognised in that evory health yesterday afternoon when the case He is a free man, and he can say organisation has been mobilised to Wa cope with it and to provent the in- in which two men are charged in whatever he likes in Court. connexion with the armed robbery can't expect to have such evidence fection spreading..
and at No. 275 Des Voeux West on received in any English Court of Travellers are scrutinised July 17, was continued before Mr.
Law."
Conferences aro Balfour.
Mr. Lo went on to argue that this quarantine stations are establish-
ed everywhere. Defendants in the case are Lau witness' peculiar position would constantly being held between the
Chung impose no restraint at all on him.medical authorities. Hung-yuot, a foki at the kling haberdashery shop where the He was not a man giving King's
The Chincas Eastern Railway robbery occurred, and Wu Shu-ovidence. If he was, then pressure! wing, allas Wu Ah-tauen, stated to could be brought to bear on him has announced its readiness to be a fruit stall holder aboard a that unless he told the truth ho suspend the railway services 85 48 river steamer plying between would not be pardoned. Ho was to protect a spread of the plague
Both not an accomplice. An accomplice to Chungchun and Harbin. Hongkong and Wuchow.
Fifty Dairen sanitation officers giving evidence could not give evid- were charged with robbery.
once against anybody else except proceeded into the interior to-day The case for the Crown was con-himself in an English Court of and eight others have been sum
Homoned from Japan. ducted by Detective Inspector M. Law. He was a free mon.
The infected area is bounded by Murphy, while Mr. Hin-shing Lo, might be banished after the case
Payintala, Taonan, instructed by Mr. J. M. Hall, ap- was over, but a weapon of banish- Saupingkai,
It is be- peared for the second defendant. ment was not enough to prevent a Taltsihar and Harbin,
miscarriage of justice. There had lieved that deaths amounting to been instances in the annals of many hundreds have already oc- criminal
cases where innocent curred in this area-Router. man had been convicted on the evidence of witnesses who perjured themselves. The sort of evidence this witness was giving raised a gravo auspicion, not against the
ed to be raging in South Man- I must strongly protest against Police but against the man himself. pneumonic plagues, which are stat- the way in which this witness has He was put up at an identification churia, are apparently unconfirm
and was not ed. been produced," said Mr. Lo. "This parade himself,
In the Taonan and Saupingkai witness was present at the identi identified by the inmates of the fleation parades of the two defen-house. It did not stand to reason districts foreign reports state that that he would make a full confes an outbreak of pneumonic plague mention dants, and yet no
sion two days afterwards. It was
is said to have occurred in villages made at all when Inspector Murphy an extraordinary thing for the man about 30 miles from Paomen, on opened his case. The defence was
to do. not told what sort of evidence this man would give to the Court. The main body of the evidence for the prosecution was over when this
At yesterday's hearing, the pro- secution produced a man Yung Kwok-aan, who was stated to be one of the gang who committed the robbery. This witness corroborat ed the evidence that had already been given before the Court.
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In his evidence, this witness the north-western branch of the atated that he was arrested in Chinese Eastern Railway-Router. Kongmoon and was taken to Can- ton from whore he was brought down to Hongkong? He recognised nude against him by the Palice. had made the confession the second defendant as one of his He gang, having been introduced to voluntarily.
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