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COMMITTED FOR TRIAL CORONER'S INQUEST
SEQUEL TO FATAL QUARREL
IN NEW TERRITORIES
A charge of manslaughter," was brought against Chong Ma-chuen, a young Hoklo, when he appeared be fore Mr. G. S. Kennedy Skipton in the District Office South yesterday afternoon, in conncetion with the death of a compatriot. Tho dead man was Ip Shi, and ho was killed, it is alleged, by the accused during a quarrel in tol Shan LI, New Territories, on June 26,
Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, Assis tant Crown Solicitor, appeared for the prosecution.
MAN DIES AFTER FALLING
DOWN STAIRS ·
JULY 17, 1935.
MOTOR ACCIDENTS
LORRY CRASHES INTO SHOP IN WYNDHAM STREET An open verdict was rolurned by The front of a vacant shop at 2DA Mr. Balfour when he conducted an Wyndham Street was completely. inquiry at the Kowloon Magistracy smashed when a motor lorry crashed yesterday afternoon, into the circum Inte it shortly before 3.30 p.m. yea- stances surrounding the death of
terday.. Ngai Wah, aged 30, n buliding, sub contractor, who diet as the result of injuries received through falling down the stairway of No, 14 Shanghai Street, first floor, on June 6.
The Coroner sat without a jury.
was conducted
The glans of both show windows
was smashed to amithereens, the framework was broken, and the fron grille was also torn away. The lorry was hardly damaged,
Dr. G. V. A. Griffiths, medical The vehicle at the time was carry- At a previous hearing, evidence was posed that when deceased was ad- wood, furniture and parts of a latlie, officer at the Kowloon Hospital, doing a load comprising planka of given by three other persons, includmitted to hospital on the evening af for a shop in D'Aguilar Street, and ing Two Chung-tsal, a young boy who June 6, he complained of numbness was to have been parked at the top stated he saw the assault.
The first witness called yesterday in the lower part of the trunk and end of Wyndham Street parallel to
lower limbs. Witness made war Det. Sub-Inspector L. Whant, examination and found symptoms that Street down to D'Agullar Street.
an the steps leading from Wyndham who deposed to having seen the de- the man was suffering from a broken ceased at the Kowloon Hospital bo neck. He died on June 8 and a poFord, No. 785, in a report at the fore his death, when he took a state mortem examination
Tsang Kang, driver of the lorry, a ment from him. He also testified to on the body.
Central Police Station state that receiving note of deceased's death.
he was driving eastward along Wynd- Evidence was given by Mak Yung,
bruising Apart from some step-mother of the deceased.
on ham Street and when turning op- She various parts of the body there was posite the Dairy Farm had swerved to stated that about 2 p.m. on June 26 a small bruise about the size of a ten- avoid a pedestrian. The vehicle she was informed that her son had cent piece on the right-knee-cap.skidded and the front portion mounted been injured. As she was going to There was a
fracture of the skull the pavement and crashed into the him, she met him by a ship-building about 4 inches long on the right shop. yard, so she did not continue further, hand side at the back of the head. He was on board a boat, and his face There was a large blood clot under-
The impact was accompanied by a was very pale. The boat had to cross lying this fracture, which was Fortunately no person was hurt.
terrific noise of splintered Klays. the creek before he could reach home,ween the bone of the skull and the Not being able to reach hill, she membrane, which surrounded the
Acting Sub-Inspector Brittain and went to look for his father, and re-brain. There was a fractured dia- Sergeant Clarke, of the Traffic De- tarned with him to their house, where location of the third and fourth spinal Partment, arrived on the scene later deceased was found lying in a bed, column of the neck and also a fraced when the load was taken off. A. He was groaning, and complained ofure of the body of the fifth.
S. 1. Brittain drove the lorry of the pain in his side. Witness did not
pavement, hear him tell of the assault, which he related to his father, us she was busy preparing medicine for him. She heard the father scold derensed, when he reprimanded him for damaging ather people's suit-beds, and injuring their crabs.
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A Pick-Axe
Cause of Death
Death in witness's opinion was duo in shock and haemorrhage following these injuries.
A
The shop, which is next door E Messrs. Q. K. Gidumal and Wadun- mull, exporters, was formerly occu pied by the Drb Feng Company and king been vacant for about two manths. Domage to the shep premises is esthinted at $135.
by failing from
The Injuries could have been enased small height. There were no marks in front of the body which might suggest deceased Hearing her son say he had a pick, had been fighting before death.
Kowloon Mishaps Axe, she went to Hoi Shan Li to re-
Chan Yau, widow, stated that on cavin it, and toerived it from a n in the evening. Witness
she saw deceased at her house to the puller at Mongkok that while Pang Ngau, aged 20, has reported Whose tome she could not remember.
saw him driving private She identified tha
Car 3271 along axa pred in Leiling on a bad under the staircase Canton Rund near the function of Caut as the que she received, Wit Witness's rephew, Wong Ping-yi Ngan-mul, ngel atx years, suddenly
with 社 man named
Weng Chlog. Argyle Street, ness could not recall seeing the axe
n girl, named Yung handed to the Police, but said it was
was in the ulicle. Witness did not ran across the road in front of the handed over by a small boy.
know anything had happened until car and was Derraned
normal
the deceased had fallen down the stair-front mudguard. She mustained
struck by the right #ppenred morning of
the attack. Witness
in- identified his body at the Kowloot hear any sands of fighting, nor did
Whilst on the floor witness did not Wah Hospital for treatment.
juries and was sent to the Kwong Mortuary on June 29.
In reply to Mr. Kennedy-Skiplan, witness admitted that she had at first refused permission to the doctor to operate on deceased's body, but after a few minutes,
utes, consented,
Road,
and
she see a fight between Wong Ping-lu Ng Kwai, of 2336 Canton and deceased. Witness came out of in a report to the police at Timahn the kitchen to get some oil and went taul stated that while driving publie witness heard a noise on the stairway when passing Haiphong Road, a back again. About ten minutes Intercar 479 along. Canton Road, I Cheung, husband of Mak Yung, and when she came out she found that coolfe, Chan Kai-choi, 30, ran and father of the deceased, next gave
deceased had fallen down the stairs.
front of the vehicle and was hit by evidence.
To aid deceased was still in the cubicle, but he came out Kowloon Hospital suffering from In- At that time Wong Ping-yiu was the mudguard. He was sent to the very well
ell on the morning of the 15 and went to deceased's assistance and juries stated to be not very serious.
him of
of the Rent for BARUlt, and on returning home he hospital. A ricksha to take him to the
Quit.
was leformed by deceased that he had been assaulted by
The next day Wong Ping-ylu went A Hoklo, WIL- ness reported the matter to the since. He gave no reason for going away and had not been heard of Police, and was accompanied back: home by a detective. He also iden tlfed the body at the Kowloon Mor- tuary on June 20.
W.
E.
Arrest Made Acting Sub-Inspector Delahunty officer-in-charge of Tal-O police-station, deposed to having
лиду.
CHINESE CULTURE
INTEREST OF INDIA AND CAUCASIA
in
Quarrel and Fight Chlet-Detective-Inspector A. J. W. Dorling (Kowloon), testified that in
Canton, July 16. from first Consequence of a message received
Dr. Woo Kang, D. LITT., Dean Kowloon Hospital where he saw Ngal National Sun Yat Sen University, witness he went to the of the College of Arts of the
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WANCHAI BULLIES
IRISH DISORDERS
ALLEGED MEMBER OF GANG, PROTEST AGAINST SEIZURE
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT
OF CATTLE
carried on a racket of "squeezing" An alleged friad society which
Cork, July 16. Women rioters and farmers join- money, by threats of violence, fromed in demonstrations at Macroom,
received a report of the assault on Wah. whom he questioned thorary member of the Grentèr prostitutes in the Wanchai Die attacking all those who failed to June 20, as a result of which he sent an interpreter. Decea viunt No: India Society, of Calcutta, which triet, was mentioned in a case be- comply with demands to close their
Friedman in.
and
some
Street
Ping-
can
a detective to deceased's home, who that he visited Wong inter
brought
ight accused back to the Station.
14 Shanghai relatives m
on the ives Juno 6, and that he had asked for interested in the study of the fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Cen-houses and shops in sympathy
evening of brought the
-Witness himself. later went to deceased's
me money, which had been refused. civilizations of China and india, tral Magistracy yesterday house, and also saw the removal of been a quarrel which was followed co-operate culturally.
also stated that there had and how the two countries
after with the protests against the accused and deceased by launch to by blows and during the exchange of
noon, when a man was charged seizures of cattle for non-payment Tsimshatsui, under charge of Ser-blows he fell down the staira.
with assault. The Greater India Society wants
of annuities.United Press. geant Wagland.
The defendant, Tam Pi, unem-! Evidence was also given by Leung no signs of a struggle or any marks to know about educational plans ings
Witness visited the house but saw the Sun Yat Sen University and began crying before the proceed- to exchange publications with ployed, a diminutive fellow, who
Six. Killed in Belfast Wing, the Chinose detective who was on the staircase.
Belfast, July 167 sent to deceased's home. He said he
wan actually commenced,
Flames are reddoning Belfast accompanied Ip Sheung, and on the Coroner said, "I
After hearing the evidence the and progress in China."
charged with having assaulted two this morning. way met Tso Chung-tal. They then verdict. Death was caused by falling stitutions are also interested
return an open, Other foreign educational In- women, Lung Luk and Li Tat, on
The rioting was renewed after went to
Hoi Shan Li where Teo down the staircase of No. 11 Shang-xiucational development in China. chai, and a tailor, Lau Wai-man, on were lasted.
in the nights of July 7 and 8 in Wan-| midnight and shops and homea pointed out the accused. Witness hni Street, There is no evidence to Professor Shepotief of the Univer- the night of July 9. arrested him and took him to the show how he came to fall."
The Police fired several volleys house whers deceased lay Injured. There deceased
sity of Caucasia at Tiflis wrote to According to Detective Sergeant over the heads of the crowds, but pointed
the accus ed as the man who had assaulted
out
Daan Woo and roquested him to Fitches, the two women were falled to check them. They ston- Accused was later taken to Tain of manslaughter to accused through let him know of books on Chiness formerly prostitutes, but of late ed the police in reply. Station, and witness was accompanied cautioning him.
Shing, a Chinese detective, and to civilization, especially relating to were being kept by sailors, and Armoured cars were called out by A. S. I. Delahunty back to de-made by arcused in which he said he University has no works on this i defendant was formerly a pimp demonstrators succeeded in watting Confucian philosophy, as his own lived at different addresses. The and patrolled all night, but the
geant I. J. Wagland, who testified to a few hours later. Accused denied supply the Russian scholar with certain amount of money.
Formal evidence was given by Ser-cused's) house, but deceased returned to Loroux Librairie, Paris to used to pay him and his ganga and Patrick Streets 'districts.
drava-decensed away from his (ae-subject. Dean Woo has written working for the women, and they are To Three houses in the York. seeing the removal of accused and having quarrelled with him,.
Six people have been killed and deceased to a police launch of which he had charge from Tai-O police the accused was committed to stand University and has written books
After formal evidence by Li Shing, books on Chinese philosophy.
From the time the women had over seventy seriously injured Dear Woo is graduate of Paris
ceased being prostitutes they had have been removed to hospital- station. He niso received the axe his trial at the August Criminalan Chinese philosophy and civiliza- money to the defendant and his from Leung Wing.
not been able to afford paying | United Press, Tam Wai-hin, sergeant interpreter, nothing to say and had no witnesses tion in the French language. gang, who repeatedly
Sessions, after stating that he had depased to having read. the charge to call.
threatened Central Prenu.
them with assault if they did not pay up.
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The Police, seeing that all the assaults were apparently the work of the same gang, went out, but Assaulted With Hammers the defendant only was caught. On the night of July 7, the two The two women saw the defendant women were walking in Jaffe Road in custody in the street, and they when they were assaulted by the also went to the Police Station and dafendant and about eight others. Identified him as one of the men They made a report to the Police; who had assaulted them on the pre- and gave the names of some of vious nights. The defendant took their assailants. On the following the Police put to trace the other night at Lockhart Road they were assailants, but they could not be again assaulted by the defendant | found. and his gang, with hammers and
Ugly Bruise Marks
stones, and again reported the matter to the Police.
Evidence was given by the two On the night of July 9, the third women, who deposed to having complainant, who was a tailor with been assaulted with hammers and a shop formerly in Lockhart Road, stones, They stated that the de- was assaulted by the defendant and fondant and his gang had come to his gang. The complainant had their house, and demanded $40 removed his shop to the Central from. them, and when they refused District because he was continuous- threatened them with ly harassed by the gang. Ap- Both women, further, showed Mr. parently, tailors who catered for Schofield several ugly bruises on prostitutes in Wanchal had also to their arms, as testimony of the pay a certain amount of "squeeze" assault.
-assault.
to people like the defendant, and The tailor also bore marks on if they did not pay they were his body, and a wound on the hond. "beaten up." The complainant, on Hie sald the defendant and his the night in question, had returned gang had demanded $28 of him. to Wanchal, presumably to collect When he refused they had threaten. some money from his customers, fed to assault him. That was in when he met the defendant and his December last year, and since thon gang. They asked him for money, he had removed his shop to the and he refused. They then as Central District... saulted him with hammers and All the witnesses identified the stones, and defendant was alleged defendunt as one of theiras- to have struck him with a shoo-sallanta. horn. The gang then ran away,
The hearing of the case was then and complainant made a report, adjourned until to-morrow morning naming defendant and two others, for further.ovidence.