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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY,
CONCUBINE STABBED complainant that she should con-
CHARGE AGAINST THREE-
CHINESE OUTLINED
tinue to earn him money in Hong- kong, which she refused to do. While in America, the complain- ant had bought a small boy and girl, and she brought them with her to Hongkong.
Return to America
APRIL 24, 1935;
FOREIGN WINES
LICENSE FEE INCREASED FOR WHOLESALERS
Nanking, Apr. 29. A tale of a husband's alleged procurement of others to incapaci
The Finance Ministry to-ny tato his concubine in order to
gromulgated a revised wet of regu After some time, not having iations governing the jasue of prevent her from going to Ameri ea, was unfolded before Mr, Wany source of income in Hong tabacco and wins licenses, which Schofield at the Central Magis kong, the complainant proposed are to be brought into force In tracy yesterday afternoon, when returning to America, and this Lower Court proceedings were the firat accused did not want her various provinces.
The revised pointa include the increase of the seasonal llcense fee commenced against Chan Shing to do. The complainant occasional-
ly went to Canton where she was for the second class license Issued
shun, Ng King and LI Chung. under medical attendance for to wholesaler of foreign wines
The defondants were all charg-| some time before the offence was ed with having on December 23, committed, and latterly she used from $30.00 to $15.00.-Central
News Agency, 1934, and March 27, 1935, coun-
A to go to Canton about once selled, procured or commanded Wong Tal and Li Chan to wound month. There she met a former acquaintance from America, a
to
first defendant, who was also not
or enuse grievous bodily harm to man named Chan King-man, and second defendant, who was some- Yu Sze-mui with intent to malm, at her request he came down where nearby, got in touch with disfigure or disable her. The Hongkong and made certain pre very far away, and they went to second and third defendants were liminary arrangements for her re- also charged with having on turn to America. She had prete Police Station and made a re- March 27 at Wanchai wounded or viously broached the subject of port. The woman made her way to the second floor, and there got caused grievous bodily harm to the complainant, with others not her return to Amerien to the first the assistance of her mother, and accused, her husband, but whether the Pallco were exiled in. A ton- in custody.
or not he was going to oppose itant in an adjoining house had her Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At-or como to a compromise with her attention drawn by the screams of torney General, appeared for the was not
ho certain. However, Crown, and Mr. P. H. Sin appear-went with her to the American the victim, and looking over her:
verandal had BOCH two men ed for Chan Shing-shan and Ng Consulate in Canton, and she got esc King.
also
back her passport, which had been escaping. Police onquiries resulted At the outset of the proceed deposited there. She was due-to in the arrest of the three defen- dants, and in consequence first de- inge, Mr. Fraser made an applica-leave for America on March 30. fondant was charged with procur- tion withdrawing the charges In the meantime, accused was against the third defendant. In dead against his wife returning to ing the bodily harm, and second doing so he said that there was America, and is, alleged to have defendant with the same offence.
The second defendunt was no question of any pardon being procured the third defendant, L granted, but it was simply be Chung, to get someone to blind charged with being the principal. In the second degree to the stab- cause the third defendant would or otherwise incapacitats her bing, in that he did not do the give the evidence of an necom-The third defendant procured
actual stabbing himself, but was Lplice,
Recond defendant, who also pro-sufficiently near by to render as- The third defendant was a cured two other men. cordingly discharged.
Mr. Fraser said there was evi-Bistance to the felons at any time. Crown's Opening
dence that second and third de
Evidence Tendered fendants and these other two men,
Dr. A. Greaves, the Government Opening the case for the Crown, who had not been arrested, had Mr. Fraser said that Chan Shingon various occasions waited for bacteriologist, deposed to having shun and the complainant were complainant when, she returned roceived the two blades of the husband and concubine. He had from Canton, and finally third de-pair of scissors. The unbroken married her when she was fifteen fendant, learning that it was pro-one, he said, showed no stains of years old according to Chinese posed to stab complainant, either blood, but the broken one
or scraping revealed the presence of custom in China, and shortly through faintness of heart after had taken her to America. through giving up in despair, blood, but the quantity was too That was about 13 or 14 years age. dropped out of the arrangements small to say whether it was human
the blood or not. In America he lived on the earn- and broke relations with
Mr. J. Robertson, Government ings of his concubino. Ho also others.
radiographer, deposed to having taken two radiographs of
Stabbed on Stairs,
ሰበ
the
had another wife in China. The first accused had no occupation in! America. His concubine aug-
On the afternoon of March 27, women's body on April 3, show- mented her earnings by doing the two men not arrested walted ing the presence of a foreign various work such as dress mak-for complainant outside her house, metallic substance in the spine.
Dr. A. D. Wong, of the Govern-: ing, laundry work and may be she at Nu, 225 Jaffe Road. The com- was a waitress in a tea shop, and plainant returned after having ment Civil Hospital, described the may have had something to do been vaccinated prior to going to woman's injurios, and said that! with the preparation of Chinese America, and the two men follow-they had caused much risk to lifa. liquor.,
ed her up the stairs and stabbed Scissors blades were consistont
From her earnings, they amass- her with the two blades of a pair with having caused the wounds, ed a very large sum of money and of scissors, three or four times and he had formed the theory that the samo instru- in 1933 they both returned to in the side and in the back. The the foreign substance might have! Hongkong. A sum of about 810,-point of one of the blades broke come from
000 had been sent to Hongkong in off in the woman's body. The ment.
Inspector J. Fender gave formal
advance, and when they arrived men then fed. Previous to this,
the first accused drew out this they had associated with first de Police evidence, after which lic money, Besides this, the com-fendant in a Chinese and Japanese Shuel-king, a dancing girl, depos plainant had suficient to buy a hotel, and had left their hats ined to having seen two men run- house in Jaffe Road, and this was one of those hotels. The broken ning away from the staircase of bought in her name, and the first point of the blade was embedded No. 225 Jaffe Road after the stab- accused had nothing to do with in the woman's spine, and it was bine.
The hearing was adjourned un- it. They both lived on the second not possible to remove it without]
woman and til this afternoon, Mr. Fraser in- floor of this house. The first ac- the consent of the cused soon dissipated all his money without some danger to her life.timated that there were 14 more
Immediately after the stabbing, witnesses for the Crown. in gambling, and proposed to the]
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