NULLAH TRIAL APPEAL
ADMISSIBILITY OF EVIDENCE
CROWN ANSWERS DEFENCE PLEA
The admissibility or otherwise of the evidence of Mrs. Fairburn, the Crown's most important wit ness in the absence of Mary Pine, was dealt with by counsel in the continued hearing this morning trial of the Nullah murder appeal.
Appellant is Ng Loi-yuen who
death by was sentenced to
the
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Oct. 9. Oct. 10. William Klem, famove to thou-War Loan 31⁄4
redm, after 1062 £105 £100%. sands of Americana as the senior National League baseball umpire, and whose greatest claim to fame has always been that "I never made a mistake in all my games", kas blundered finally.
He has been fined $60 by Base- ball Commissioner Landia on a charge of using "over-ripe worda" to a player, Goslin, of Detroit Tigers.
This is the first time in fourteen Chief Justice, Mr. A. D. A. Mac-years that such a penalty has been Gregor, on September 9 for the given to an umpire.-Reuter,
murder of Michael Pine by throw-
ing him into the Albany nullah on June 21, and an appeal against the
sentence was begun on Monday ba questions of fact and law.
Mr. Justice Jacks and Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden comprised the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Assistant
Mr. J. A. Fraser, Attorney General assisted by Mr. 15, J. Lockhart Smith, appeared for the Crown, and Mr. T. P. K. Kemble, of Messrs. Wilkinson & Mr. R. C. H. Grint. Instructed Lim, Counsel for the accused.
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COURT'S POWERS. Dealing with the point raised by appellant that in the almence of Mary Pine, the main witness for the Crown, the evidence of Mr.. Fairburn should-not-have been put to the jury, Mr. Fraser said the point was not raised, as it should have been, at the trial, and it was not competent now for the Court of Criminal Appen to deal with it.
He submitted that the evidence was admissible as part of the Crown's case and also as showing how accused got into the nullah; defence the rebutting
and GA theory.
"She said she saw him throw two children into the nullah and jump Where are we going in hiniself. to stop If we are going to exclude such evidence rea peatue?" asked the Assistant Attorney General.
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The submission of the defence, that three children fell in acci- where the body of her husband lay Turner & Newall dentally, was not so consistent with covered with the Yugo-Slavin ing.
that the theory
This evening Her Majesty was accused pushed
escorted lo period of time
Paris by Monslear them in, as 12
with his Tardieu and other members of the elapsed commensurate
Government to receive having to catch the children and French
The King Peter. push them in one at a time.
The body of King Alexander Crown case was prima facie
was placed on the Yugo-Slavia case without this part of Mrs. Fairburn's evidence, as accused had destroyer Dubrovnik which this afternoon left Marseilles, escorted been seen on the bridge.
by French warships, for Yuge- Slavia,
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Mr. Lim submitted at this point that evidence of similar act. viz. throwing two children into the nullah, could not be admitted unless a prima facie case had been proved in respect of his throwing the other children in.
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In reply to Mr. Justice Hayden, Mr. Fraser said there was auf- ficient evidence in the case apart from Mrs. Fairburn's testimony, and it could not matter in what The following telegram has order the witnesses were placed. -been addressed to the Yugo-Slavia | Anglo-Persian Oi
"If you excludo the evidence of Minister for Foreign Affairs: these two children being throwns Majesty's Government in the in, the Crown case is still the same United Kingdom has received with because you cannot exclude her consternation news of the assassing evidence that she saw accused on ation of His Majesty the King of the bridge," he added.
Yugo-Slavia anil desire to express their abhorrence of this crime and their deep sympathy with the Government and people of Yugo- Slavia their great national loss."
British Wireless.
were
Later Mr. Fraser said that Mrs. Fairburn had said that she saw accused throw two children inte the nullah. He submitted that one of the two may have been Michael Pine. Sho was convinced that they the same children but she had no renaon to be convinced because she did not then know that other children were in the nullah. It was quite open to the jury to draw the Inference that either of the children was Michael Pine and that, in itself, was a ground for the admission of Mrs, Fairburn's evidence.
WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. Mr. Lim interposed that if it had been put to the jury in this way: "Was one of the children Michael Pine?" and they had answered "Yes," then the verdict would have been against the weight of the evidence. The evidence of Mary Pine was that the last two thrown in were two girls,
Mr. Fraser: That evidence is not before the Court.
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Mr. Justice Jacks said the appeal must, be confined to the Judge's summing-up.
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Whilst bathing in a pool at Kowloon Tong at 6 p.m. yesterday, Miss Lo Pul-yuen, a school teacher, of 42 Wyndham Street, cidentally drowned.
was ne
The body was later removed to the Kowloon Mortuary. No details of the mishap have yet been made public.
IN WIRELESS-TOUCH_._.
The following ships are expect. ed to be in wireless communien- tion with Hongkong to-day:- Tilawa, Terukuni Maru, Helikon, Haiyang, Porthos, Seattle, Achilles, City of Khois, Jufuku Maru, Isabel Moller, Silver Sandal, Linald, War "Sepoy," Sensan Mara, Van On the point of mentioning Mary Heatsz, Hongkheng, Foylebank, Pine's evidence in his opening, Yochow, Glenardle, Apocy,
Mr. Fraser sald objection should have been taken to the evidence at the trial, if at all.
Mr. Fraser said that some of what
ho had mentioned had been later The Empress of Canada is due here contradicted by Crown witnesses, at 4 p.m. on Friday.
and as to the remainder, the Court judiced. by the accidental mention must considor whether the minds
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of the jury must have been in-of certain facts, and in this case fluenced by it, or whether there he himself and Mr. Lim and the were sufficient other grounds on trial Judge had warned the
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