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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FEEDING INDIA,
TERRIBLE ASSAULT
CHOPPER BLADE BROKEN ON
· WOMAN'S HEAD"
"SQUEEZE” ALLEGED.
GIGANTIC NEW DAM INDIAN CONSTABLE ARRAIGN.
ED ON SERIOUS CHARGE OPENED IN MADRAS A chopper attack so dastardly g
An Indian constable, Guti Mour, that pieces of the blade' of the
Madras, Aug. 23. P.C. DIG, was charged before Mr. weapon broke off in the victim's The gigantle Mottur Dam, mak-Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the. Central skull, was described in a charge ing possible the more extensiva Magistracy yesterday afternoon, with of wounding which commenced be- and unfer cultivation of 1,000,000 having accepted a bribe of 40 cents. fore the Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. acres of land in the valleys below from a street hawker, Yun Chi. A. MacGregor, at the Criminal It, was oponed to-day by the Gover Sessions yesterday.
Chau Yau pleaded not guilty to the charge that he, with one uther person, wounded with intent to do grievous bodily harm, a woman named Ng Hing at her dwelling place, 363, Des Vacux Road Wost come.
nor of Madras, Sir George Stri-¡ p.m. on August 13, Inspector Androw":
Mr. L., H. C. Calthrop, Assistant Superintendent of Police, conducting the prosecution, said that about 0 It in one of the greatest of tish engineering feats in India and of the 3. C. A had occasion to go a work which will win the grati- to the second floor of No. 12 Sa tudo of many million souls whom Street. Looking down into the street the produce of the reservoir-suck- from the verandah, lie saw a row, of acres will feed for years to about twelve hawkers, who were causing obstruction. Ho sisa saw, the on June 20.
The cubic content of the dam la accused approach one of the hawkera. Accused was unrepresented in 54,000,000 cubic feet and the Chi and after a few minuten conversation, saw him accept some the case, which was prosecuted by structura embodies the largest mone the Assistant Attorney General, single block of masonry in the Mr. A. J. Fraser and heard by a world.
Inspector Andrew Immediately told ia district watchman to apprehend the
Tho!
jury comprising Messrs. W. From Its towering height a hawker, while he himself went atter Sharpe, foreman Kwok Sau-hin, waterfall drops a shoer 05 feet the constable. The hawker attempted Lee Woon-foo, Mohammed Noma- over a width of 630 feet, and to run away, but was arrested by the zee, M. E. Politi, and A. J. Dennis. donhos Itself into a cloud of spray watchman, Inspector Andrew came up Accused, who looked about 25 in the reception reservoir below with the constable, and asked him
the dam's faco, years of age, pleaded not guilty.
On the opposite why he had taken money. Outlining the case. Mr. Fraser side of this wall of concrete, mil-accused denied the offence, and at the same time threw some money on said that Ng Hing lived in allons of gallons of water await the ground. Inspector Andrew picked eublele with an amah, who was one tapping for the cultivation of hun-un the money, and found that it con- of the sisters of the prisoner. He dreds of farms. Reuter Special. used to work-in a nearby house, chopping, fish tendons with a chop per and frequently visited his sister, the amah.
The day before the attack on Ng Hing, he learned from his sister that all the inmates of the house were to visit a Chinese Theatre next day.
All except Ng Hing did in fact, go to the theatre.
Unseen Assailant.'
i
DR. ALFRED SZE.
RETURN TO OFFICE AT WASHINGTON
London, Aug, 22, Dr. Alfred Sze, and his family, returned to Washington to-day,
The Chinese Minister had been in London for the wedding of his Bon, which was one of the most colourful social functions of the [year-Reuter,
afstad of three ten cent pieces and two five cent pieces.
The hawker, said Mr. Calthrop, would give in evidence that this was the third occasion on which he had collected money on behalf of the accused, and he had been naked to de it because he and the other hawkers would be charged 'with obstruction if ho did not collect the money. Eight other hawkors admitted having given: 34 cents xitogether to Yun Chi. They all told the Police that this had been going on for some time, and that it they did not give the money they would not be allowed to hawk,
Regular System Alleged. Mr. Calthrop, in concluding, suld that after hearing all the ovidence, the magistrate would see that a re- gular system of collecting money from the hawkers had been established. It appeared that it was the habit of
Accused and another man pre Bented themselves at the door and knocked, whereupon Ng Hing, re- cognising accused, let them in. wrapped in a newspaper, in which Neither of the non showed that it had evidently been carried.. they had weapons on them and the Prisoner had made a statement other man stayed in the passage, to the effect that he and another defondant to employ a collector, as whila Ng Hing and accused went on man named Ah Yuen went to theit rendered the chance of detection to the verandah. While Ng Hug Rat but he, accused, did not go In-lex great.
Laken, after
Yuen came down the stairs and which defendant, in the witness box, said he had chopped a woman.
anid that he wanted to buy a watch, Evidence was given by Mr. C. promising to pay him back later.
and had asked Yun Chi for $1.60, A. Grimes. Dr. R, S,
Ho Augustus Din Wong and Adalatall for $6, and was afterwards told Begbie, bought a watch from a man in another Khan before the injured woman that the watch was too was called up on to testify.
expensive. He accordingly returned the watch,
had her back to accused she was aldo. Ho hoard a shout and Ah Evidence was then suddenly, struck a heavy blow on the head. She put up her arms to defend herself but received a rain of blows on head and arms, which caused her to faint. She did not actually see who struck her.
When she came to she cried out for help. At the hospital, it was She bore painful signs of the and received nyo silver dollars back. discovered that pieces of the blade attack on her head, face, and arms He then met Yun Chi, and returned were embedded in her skull, whilst and corroborated Counsel's state-him, receiving fifty cents as change. another piece was found on the ment and said she had no chance day in order that the man,
The caso was adjourned until to- floor, Two choppers were dis of seeing who struck her.
from whom accused stated he had bought covered on the floor, one of them The hearing was adjourned to the watch, could be produced as with a chipped blade and the other this morning.
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