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still held on to the documents and was threatening to go to accused's father and make trouble if the money was not forthcoming. Accused was trying to avoid payment but must have realised that Sam Poo would not be put off and the only way to get out of paying was to get rid of her,
TUESDAY,
Satisfactory Finances
No Long-Term Loan By France
APRIL⠀⠀ 27, 1937.
NAZI-FASCIST ARMED ACCORD NOW LOOMING (Continued from Page 1.)
Paris, Apr. 20. The Cabinet has agreed to a Cham- ber debate on general policy on April 30.
After a Cabinet meeting 10-dar, and the Vincent Auriol,
Finance
M.
of State, told the House of Commons fo-day that the British and French Governments had recently Invited the Prime Minister of Belgium to under- take Informal inquiries as to trade and the possibilities of securing a general relaxation of obstacles to international commerce.
M. Paul van Zeeland, the Belgian Coming to the day of the murder,,
Premier, had accepted the invitation Tounsel and that the woman left her'
Government was of the 'house about'noon wearing green long coat and red overcont and cer- sinted that the Treasury situation was opinion that the result tain jewellery. She had bobbed satisfactory, and the Government had vestigations should be awaited before hair. Sam Poo visited a mah jongg no intention of issuing any long-term the question of summoning a world school at 43 Keclung Street, and loan other than that offered on March conference was considered. Reuler
Special. to be accused, came to fetch her to launching a special loan of while playing there a mun, believed
It is learned that there is no ques There was evidence that she paid 100,000,000 for financing a scheme he strangled her by using force and a hurried visit- to her cubicle probably to get the documents, and went off with accused in rickshos
CRIES HEARD
Shortly after 2 p.m., a
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Colonel's Car Rifled
Two Youths Charged With Theft
Two youths, Shum Hol, aged 17, and Leung Chan-in, aged 17. un- licensed bootblack, were charged be- rore Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning with the theft of a camera, a suit of clothing, wo of his in shirts, a hat, razor and other articles of apparel to the total value of $230.40 fruma molor-cur parked in Chater Road on April 24, the property Li-Cel. A. B. Austen,, of No. Algburth Hail, May Road. •
of
Shum pleated guilty to the charge, and said he took all the property. He declared that Leung had nothing to do with the theft. Leung denied stealing. Detective-Sergeant T. Cashman,
I was threatened me with menace. therefore compelled to submit to what he had done. He actually committed a murder and robbery. With a view to destroying the dend body he set Wong Hop, who was nursing her and wallet containing articles of jewel- i did not make a noise was becouse the/mand in police custody, and this was fire to burn. The reason why I prosecuting, asked for 48 hours re- granted. all in the sum of $250 incident had taken place in my own
each was allowed defendants.
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child in the passage way of 325,lery which were later identified Reclamation Street, second floor, the property of deceased, were found. heard footsteps going up the common A hammer was also discovered her
to the floor in company with the stairway to the vacant floor of 323. the scene of the fire.
deceased. That was the reason why She looked out and saw a woman,
ACCUSED'S MOVEMENTS
I did not dare to make a noise. At with bobbed hole, and a man, whom
that time I did call out 'save life' and Էլի recognised (18 accused. Im- Tracing the movements of accused told him to refrain from so dolng. mediately after the flap of the door since his disappearance from the floor, Unexpectedly he threatened me with on the vacant floor had dropped. Mr. Williams said he went to then knife saying thus 'If you make Weng Hop heard a woman's volee house of a woman, Chan Fong-chan, noise I will stab you to death as shout "Save life!" but she then who was formerly an amah of a well.' For this reason I did not hurried into her own cubicle and relative of his, at 400 Shanghal Street, dare to make any more noise." heard no more.
second floor. He stayed there the Meanwhile, another woman, Wonit night and the following morning he Lai-chan, living on the floor just asked the woman to cut his hair and
In concluding his outline, which below the vacant not, heard the noise shave his head, which she did. He of someone running about upstairs remained there all day, and the next lasted nearly two hours, Mr. Williams ask you to belleve and shouting. She looked out but
the jury: said to Carey at that the accused's object was to have but morning Detective-Inspector saw nothing.
placed him About 25 minutes rived and
under arrest, Inter she heard noise
When told what he was wanted
If he only wanted to for her killed. licavy object Fome
be-accused's .was
A stupify her to get the documents, it Amoy in the flagship Cumberland add $200,000 to Reinsurance Fund ing dragged, and 50W
coolie latter's reply was: "I know."
Fal and stating that is obvious that Sam Poo was bound He will proceed to Pagoda Anchorage and $400.101.30 to would say come down the stairs. The Crown the only way the writer could avoid to find out they were gone and ac-to-day on his way to Welhalwel for Suspense Account.
that the object of this man misfortune was to
to flee to the try cused would have been in no better the summer stay in the North. leaving the premises was to murchase was found on the premises and there position. The evidence will show charcoal: He and accused were also
Was also a new suit of coolle clothes that accused was a willing partner. the killing, le seen by the latter's eldest brother Dealing with the medical aspect of if the principal in standing in the doorway.
the case, Mr. Williams said the re-says he shouted "Save life!" but no- About this time an amah, mains were examined
Ined Dr.
man made Cheung, employed by accused's wife, Begbie. The body, which was identi- determined efforts to keep people out fed by fragments of clothing and of the floor. Accused did not explain prisoner carrying something in front gold capped tooth, was burned all how side. He is guilty of mur- Poo's Jewellery came to be In his сир of him to the vacant premises. She over the surface and on removider on his own statement for he d did not know what it was, but the the skull cap a layer of heat-coagulated Crown's case was that "I was pro-w
blood clot was found over the left mits that he intended to stupefy the A drill display given by all the bably a box into which deceased was side between the bone and outer woman and in English law that is classes of St. Mary's School, 102 later put. About three-quarters of membrane covering the brain. Thea crime second only to murder and Austin Road, Kowloon, will take place an hour later smoke was seen coming limbs were burn: right down to the is punishable by life imprisonment. In the school grounds to-morrow at Joint. The sicul! If is killed All parents, and smell of burning. The anal looked cracked in by the heat cond person assitan understy friends of the pupils are cordially in-
and there was a fracture above the murder.
vited, as well as any one who takes blood clot, which had occurred during
Mr. D'Almada said he reserved the an interest in the school.
The function will last about an they were burning charcoal to pre-life and was probably caused by right to question the translation of P. O. Box 717. pare a feast in celebration of his blow from a hammer.
hour and a half. No formal invita- a certain part of accused's statement. mother's birthday.
Death had probably occurred before burning, but the cause of death could Before hearing the evidence he would tions are being issued.
like to know the exact submission not be determined though there were of the Crown with regard to death Tang Shiu-cheuk, husband of three possibilities, namely, fracture of Wang Lal-chon, climbed on to the the skull, inter-cranial haemorrhage following an attempt to studety. verandah of the vacant floor by resultant on the fracture, and asphyxia, His Lordship sald he understood it means of the fire escape, as the doors
On March 23 accused was formally to be that: If the facts are as des- to the fat were bolled.
you know what effect sugar or cribed by the accused in his own Looking charged with murder. through the verandah doors he saw
statement, that he intended, in con- glucose has on these poisons-say accused who immediately attempted
cert with To, certain nets against the a person having a lump of sugar in to boil the doors but Tang wrenched
the deceased women, and, to his surprise, his mauth? I know there have been them open and forced his way in charge was "Now, I do not admit the certain other consequences superven cuses In Hongkong where people have Accused put out his hands to stop charge of having killed this girl be-ed, then Mr. Williams's proposition is taken sugar as an antidote to the him, at the same time saying, cause I did not kill her with my that if you assume the statement and polson. There were two cases lust "Burning opium only, it is nearly own hand. I can admit the fact of the evidence bears it oui entirely, year. Anished. Tang pushed him aside having taken the
deceased
Cheung th
the offence amounts to murder by So anybody having sugar in his floor. When the
them. both of and went to the kitchen where he Yuk-ching, up to the floor.
mouth would be somewhat saw a fire burning fiercely. He did deceased was murdered 1
also I was
The first witness called was Mr. tected?I don't know exactly the not notice anything else but ran present and witnessed the murder. v. C. Branson, Government analyst, effect. back
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MURDER DENIED Jis statement in
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DRUGS NAMED
There
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MEDICAL EVIDENCE Medical evidence was given by Dr. R. S. Begble. He said he found the body was burnt, some parts very deeply. The scalp was burnt right down-to-the bone...The bone.on_the_
In the time a crowd and collected longing to me in order to prevent her in the location of carbon monoxide in the street and the Fire Brigade from laking legal proceedings against had been summoned. Mr. C. W me. The way in which I intended to Brand-and-two Chinese-fireman-camoget-back-the-written-
-proof was slo. Mr. D'Almiała, in cross-examina- on to the floor and Mr. Brand saw make her insensible by blowing upotion, referted to a visiting card bear left side of the skull showed numer- accused who tried to impede him. her
her stupefying smoke and to get back
ous superiicial cracks, and in addition Mr. Brand Instructed one of the fire- the written proof without causing any in Chinese characters which he
there was a fracture, men to inspect the charcoal. The danger to her life. The person I em- suld, included the names
Internally, the air possages were Jatter lifted up a wooden paling ployed to apply the stupefying smoke following drugs: hibiscus matabilts, and
Waman. He chamomile, lemna gibba, stramonium congested and contained some mucus, what seemed to was one called To
but Mr.
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Mr. Branson agreed that datura detected. The lungs were very con- sheep,
fire- but roasted
the
he could which Stupefy
stramonium, and belladonna were gested. The heart showed small pin- anybody
causing man shouted out that it was a human mcke with
without
Winess did not body. On hearing this Mr. Brand danger is his or her life. He said vegetable poisons, the former being head haemorrhages.
find any evidence of disease sufficient turned to arrest accused but four
It was necessary for him to apply the used in the cure of asthma.
the roll
Icaf Into
Indications the to account for death, that he had disappeared.
smoke with his own hand and that possible Subsequently, the police came on
I wanted to stupefy anybody he form
and he agreed that an the scene and confirmed the fremon's could do it for me. I promised to give that cigarette and take the drug were that the fracture of the skull were those of human body. The for the recovery of the written prod, way the drug was used, nor that it condition of the body rendered it al-
suspicions that the charred remains
hands and legs had been fled with electric flex. Around the throat was also a piece of flex. Accused's cublele was Edarched and a ladies' handbag
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