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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
OPIUM THROUGH
THE POST
CHINESE CLERK
CHARGED.
dreased to Chan Hon-gan Esq., C/o the Education Department.
by
the the
OCTOBER 17, 1935.
SCOUTS CONCERT
ENJOYABLE FUNCTION AT CHINA. FLEET CLUB
and
On the afternoon of September 16, Mr. Taylor, accompanied R. O. Grimmitt, visited Education Department. in presence of Mr.. A. O. Brown and
The second annual concert of the through an interpreter, Mr. Taylor (the
4th Hongkong and 4th Kowloon Bay expinined to him that he
Seoul, at the China Fleet Club, Appearing on remanit before accused) was suspected of smuglast night was a great success. The
Accused opium,
waldhall was crowded to capineity Mr. W. Schodeld at the Central gling Magistracy yesterday afternoon, nothing. Its desk was searched the spectators gave the artists the Chan Hon-san, clerk in the and a quantity of paper similar fall due of applause.
The band of the East Lancashire! Education Department, faced to that on which the second letter
within, Regiment opened the programimo charge of unlawfully committing was written was found
er exporting Envelopes similar to those an act preparatory to raw opfum from the Colony to closed in the second letter and Jamaica, and
alao unlawfully the original envelope were with rending raw opium through the found, some with the address of General Post Office to Kingston. the Po Wo Hing firnt and others of the Lee Ching firm. A number Jamaica, on July 26 this year.
of other Chinese letters were also found,
The Assistant Crown Solicitor, Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith, con- ducted the case. for the Crown, while Mr. Leo D'Almuda, Jr., In- structed by Mr. F. H. Loschy of Messrs. Russ & Cp., appeared for the defence. Mr. II. A. Taylor. Government Monopoly Analyst, was also present in Court, presenting the Revenue inent.
The Crown said that accused's writing was easily recognisable, as he wrote with a steel pen with uncommon success.
an overture and "Selectona of Songs During the Past Fifty Years," Were well received. The which pupils of the O'Keefe-Montgomery School of Dancing gave their inter-
Valse, pretation of the 14th their graceful and perfect rhythm won
Miss for Miss Olive Joan Senth, she Anslow, and Miss appreciation of the audience,
The brisk stepping and clever
of the Rextatte of
jazz control
turn im- dancers who gave their mediately after, WHM lively
Pat
and
Accused was later taken to th. entertaining, Rocha, A. Ney and K.
A.
Central Police Station by, R. O. Waller, the Haiwailan re- Grimmitt and, was there charged the Depart by Arting Sub-Inspector S. G.
Smith..
In his opening of the case, Mr.
Shop's Chop Found Lockhart-Smith stated that on July 26 this year, a11 assistant
Taylor On September 26 Mr. supervisor in the General Post again visited the Education De- Offer
watching was
postmen partment, accompanied by Mr. cancelling the stamps on the 12.30 Lockhart-Smith and Mr. Loseby p.m. muil. All letters and papers Accused's desk was again searched for Jamalen were sorted out and and the chop of the Lee Ching put into their separate boxes. firm, which appeared on the back This man picked D a packet of the second letter, was found. of newspapers and Found that it WILA
Jetter.
In
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Mr. Lockart-Smith, declared that harder the first letter fairly reeked of than at the middle
the guilt, and the view put forward by in edges. He look to Mr. T. Lay, the Crown was that there WOR the Assistant Superintendent of an indisputable link between the Mails, and told him that he sus-parcel and the
the parcel to Jamaica he would peeled the parcel., He Was Inpresent kind of ease, it was with want to know if the parcel falled parcel structed to open it and inside circumstantial evidence only that to arrive? If I send
containing, hol contraband, but found very ingeniously ara conviction could be obtained. ranged next eut out, into which Counsel submitted that if his something valuable, would it not was fitted a small packet done up Worship held that defendant didbe natural to send an accompany- in lace. Mr. Lay took the packet. not post the letter himself. buting letter? If anything, I any that this letter points to the, complete opened one end with a penknife, that he advised the consignee of and found what was apparently what to expect, that in itself was disconnection between the parcel On the oplum. Mr. Taylor WAR com- an act preparatory to smuggling.and the letter itself.
Court municated with and he arrived Formal evidence
then evidence of the Supreme WAS shortly after 2.15 p.m.. with given by Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. interpreter, he says 'untoward Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt. Chan Kwok-ying, interpreter in was quite unnecessary in the-let- ter. His evidence is however. Prior to the arrival of Mr. Taylor, the Supreme Court. the packet was locked for safety Mr. Chan deposed to receiving very unreliable. in Mr. Lay's safe.
the two letters from Mr. Lockhart- Smith and translating them. Half Pound of Opium
Cross-examined by Mr that The packet of oplum was hand-D'Almada, witness admitted ed over to Mr. Taylor and it was the word "untoward" might have later found to weigh six tacle or been left out of the translation half a pound.. The supervisor, and no difference made. In reply Mohamed Ahsan, was instructed to Mr. Lockhart-Smith, however, to keep a lookout for other letters he stated that the first impression or parcels addressed to the same he had of the letter when he first place. The parcel was addressed saw it was that something serious per the steamer General Sherman was about to happen. to Miss B. C. Ching, C/o. W. M. Street, Cheng, 54, East Queen's Kingston, Jamaica.
letter
WILB
This concluded the case for the Crown.
"Turning now to the second letipr, the only sentence with which I am troubling your Wor- ship is the first one. On July 20
Letter And Parcel
that
sent you two bundles of news- papers, one sound of goods and one letter. There is no mention that this pound of goods was sent in two separate packages of half
pound each. It is queer nothing else was found between the time the parcel was posted Other evidence was given by and the second letter although the Mr. A. L...de Sousa, Assistant Postal authorities kept a lookout. Traffic Agent in the Eastern Ex-There was no other letter until Throughout that afternoon, tension Telegraph Company, of the some two months later which has Mohamed Ahsan, kept a lookout telegraphic rates between Jamaica no mention at all of opium. for other mail to that address, and and Hongkong, Mohamed Ahsan, Mr. T. Lay, Mr. Lo. Yan-pak, de- at about 4.30 p.m. came RCross
"You cannot connect the letter a letter which had been cancelled fendant's immediate superior, A. with the 3.30 p.m. chop addressed S. 1. Smith, the police station with the parcel, or the fact that iwo bundles of papers mentioned to Miss Chan Ping-ching at the interpreter and Mr. Taylor. Mr.in the letter were addressed to the Taylor deposed to receiving 6'tnels same address. This -handed-to-Mr.-Lay-who-put-it of raw opium which he said was same addresses on the same day. The Crown-suggestion_tv_in- into an envelope, scaled it, and valued at $18.
consistent with the desire for sent it by postman to Mr. Taylor.
telegram. When he was charged That letter rend as follows:
defendant made a statement, 'My "To my 80я or my daughter, I
daughter sent à letter to my wife send you to-day a letter and two
In his submissions, Mr. telling her to send some opium for bundles of newspapers, which you D'Almada said that if it was ineuring her discense-the in- will probably receive on the 27th fact considered that opium had inference is that defendant has or 28th of the next moon, I hope been sent through the Post some knowedge of the you will receive same. In ense Omee, the evidence did not sup- He might have given instructions you receive the letter and not the port the charge as worded. The for the posting of the bundles of newspapers, send me a cable. If opium was with the bundle of newspapers to Jamalen. Might it anything untoward happens, let newspapers, and the letter, the not have been possible for some- me know at once." It went on to subject of the charge, was
oplum not one else to have put the say many other personal things.
into the packages? posted until 3.30 pm. the xame
"You cannot by any manner of A slip enclosed with that letter day. Counsel could not see how SRAYS
had a telegraphic address the ovidence as it stood could sup-means infer that defondant sent the statement "Dorstone" on it, and the Crown port, the Crown. There were two the oplum from
in con submitted that the telegraphic meanings to "preparatory"(1) made. I say therefore,
all the address was the address of the. Po that which prepares for something nection with this case, Wo Hing firm, with which de following; preliminary; introduc- Crown has succeeded in establish-
ing in fondant
connected. The tory; (2), junior boys' school.
strong probability that Crown would prove that the letter
"Even assuming for the pur-defendant may be implicated in and some of the characters on poses of this case that this lum the dispatching of opium, and a that slip were written by the was put into the Post Office by strong probability is insufficient accused himself.
this man, sill the letter contains to convict a man."
FRED MACMURRAY
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was
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matter.
Mr. Lockhart-Smith went on to nothing to show that it was an Counsel quoted several authori- deal with the various points of act preparatory to exporting ties in support. of his submissions, reference in the letter to the opium, and if you look nt the Continuing, he said, "The only
parcels,
Second Letter Found
1
at all.
time the opium was sent, can you thing to connect the writer of the by any manner of means say that letter with these two parcels' is any act done subsequently to an that they were all addressed to On September 13 at about 3.30 earlier act is preparatory? On the same place. There is nothing p.m. Mohamed Ahsan found
that I submit that the Crown has else to prove the matter second letter for the same address not proved its case. On, the There is no proof that he posted In Jamaica in the mall box. On second charge my friend submits.
the parcels know anything the back of the envelope was a that only circumstantial evidence about them. It is never in- Chinese chop-the chop of the is needed to convict in this case.cumbent upon defendant to prové Lee Ching firm, another business It is not every kind of circum- his innocence. with which the accused had con- stantial evidence that can war- "Either the Crown proves the nections. Mohamed Ahsan kept rant a conviction. This is always man's guilt or it does not. There the letter until 4.30 p.m., as Mr.a principle of English law.
is no half measure. After (011-
PRICES MATINEES 20cts., 30cls., EVENINGS 20cts., 30cts., Goets, 70cts. September 16,
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P. M. Hynes, the Superintendent "For the purposes of a criminal sidering the case, I submit of Mails, was engaged; and inter charge, a larger degree of proof Crown has offered no evidence to handed IL over. He was in is required than on an ordinary sustain its charges, and defendant structed to take it to Mr. E. W. occasion. The issue must be must therefore be discharged." Hamilton, Superintendent of the established beyond doubt and it is
Crown's Reply Importa and Exports Department, not sufficient for the Crown to Replying, Mr. Lockhart Smith had together with several other pack-catablish a strong probability, submitted that the Crown ages. The letter was kept locked In this case they have failed to given a reasonable story which in Mr. Hamilton's safe until prove beyond any reasonable would be accepted by any reason- able person. The burden of The second letter said: "To my "Tho Crown submits three proof was upon the Crown The "on" or "ditughtor (and the Crown points (1) the bundles found in reason why mention was made in The output of this plant is forty- again suggests it was daughter), the Post Office (2) the letter the letter of a telegram was that on July 26, I sent two bundles of found addressed to the same por- defendant wanted to be warned at quoted several five million gallons of petrol an- nowspapers, one pound of goods son and (3), a letter addressed to auce. Counsel |nually and the process ensures work and a letter which I trust you have the same person six weeks later, authorities at length, and MR. MACDONALD OPENS"
at the factory for some 2,000 men, duly received. I hope you will Theas two letters refer in their cluded by saying that any other NEW PLANT
while the mining of the coal re-
push on with the sale of the goods, contents to certain goods: One story placed before his Worship London, Oct. 16.quired will account for the regular On no account must you be cheated "I send you two bundles of news-
Make enquiries in the market. of the letters-the first one-says was merely conjecture, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald opened employment of 2,000 men.
Mr. Schofield intimated that he yesterday the plant establleted at Thu,
by any person. I am doing this papers and a letter." There is would consider the ovidence, and a cost of £4,500,000 by Importal Chemical Industries near Stocker world to make petrol on a commor- notant or not register it. of oplum in the bundles.
hu, now. plant is the first in the because I cannot help it. When nothing in this letter to suggest also Counsels submissions, and ever you write back, whether un- the placing of the two packages deferred judgment till 11.30 4m on Monday, October 21., De bydrogenation, petrol' process.
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