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So This Was Old Hongkong!
Attempt To Poison The Foreign Community
THOSE residents of our modern
or
When 42 Chinese were crammed into the "Black Hole of Hongkong"
white armente into the dough of the And will it be belleved, too, that the Colony who perhaps may be
daily batch of bread. The time, more miserable wretches subjected to this. of the impression that life in
over, was well chosen, and depended brutal treatment are not condemned Hongkong some seventy
upon Cheung's departure to Macao felons-no, for them the best of treat- eighty years ago was idyllic in
with his family upon a short busi- ment is reserved; but men under no ness trip. The fact, too, that he had charge
whom the charge-against
most peacefulness need to be remind-
purchased some 1,000 bags of Call- active enquiries by our active ed that history proves otherwise.
fornian flour for which he paid cash, Attorney General, enilsied heart and Robberies, piracies, and mur-
was looked upon suspicious, and soul in the cause, have been unable to ders were frequent; for Hong-
actually advanced as a clever attempt ferret out even a breath of suspicion to cover up his flight. kong was then the happy hunt (arsenious
them old men tottering to- of ~~~some Itts behaviour in Macno seems to their graves, some mere boys yet in ing ground of all the disreputable pound of bread, and the quantity point to his innocence; for when the their teens. It is true they un- criminal elements from the necessary to destroy life, while it British vessel Queen arrived, and fortunately happened to be in the
trioxide) was in every
hinterland. The outrages com- two or three grains. All caters of Portuguese authorities, Cheung was
varles, is stated to be no more than demanded his surrender from the employ of the Esing
The
Аг at the time mitted by some of these old-time this bread experienced the dangerous appareatly most willing to return to
the late diabolicat attempt to
the community: but gangsters were truly shocking, symptoms of arsenie poisoning, sick- the Colony in order to prove his in- affords no grounds even for their de- that and if they took place nowadays, ness und
the nocence; for 0% he stated why tention, secitg there is not a vestige Stubbs Rd. would be given banner head, stomach fellow distress of
by violent voinit-
should he attempt to poison his best of proof of their participation in the lines in the press the world over. st
ing and severe colic pains. The customers?"
for which their muster is now most seriously affected One of these happenings which Bowring, the wife of the
Lady In the meantime, the whole staff of
landing on trial for his life before Governor, the bakery had been rounded-up,
Supreme
me Court; and at all events, would have delighted the thrill Sir John Bowring. She apparently that is all except the one who was it can afford no excuse for such satiated newspaper reader of the toasted the bread and white she no doubt the actual culprit-the fore brutality as that to which they have 15, 1857. But let contemporary anything so glasily as a dangerous his escape and was never apprehend once, than to have exposed them to with ment. He managed to make good deported, or hanged, shot them at accounts tell the story:
dose
of poison. It is related that ed; but that did not prevent the au- such frightful sufferings as they must "A diabolical attempt Was made while all the other victims
remainder have this morning to poison the
thorities from placing
undergone during twe
twenty days' foreign covered without nny apparent ill under arrest. Those moralists who suffocation in this Black Hole of residents of Hongkong, by means of effects, Lady Bowring was afterwards are
find fault with the Hongkong the walls of which are apt to arsenic in the bread issued from the subject to stomach cramps, which no way the cuse principal bakery in the Colony. The doubt shortened
and newly erected, and the plaster and was handled, and her life, and drm
the her especially
shocking known by the title of Esing, death in England years later
treat floor not even dry."-The Ching Mail, was ment bestowed upon
prison- February 5, 1857. proprietor being a
well-known alleged to have been Induced by the ers in custody must consider the clr- compradore named A-lum, long re- arsenic she swallowed in her bread cumstances of the time; for in fact, sident here. The sufferings of many on that January morning in Hong- the terror of those who partook of the bread kong.
at- have been severe; but the quantity of at-poison mixed with the flour seems to
present day occurred on January naturally did not associate it
noted is Laste WIS peculiar, stre man of the dough mixing depart been subjected. Better for to have
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1038.
NEW WATER CHARGES
re-
$14
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some three or four hundred
the
of
at
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Th
'che
ed wholesale poisoning of the
for their
By T. PAUL GREGORY
Σε
ኣ፡
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BC-
British of
Justice. The
Mr.
Thomas
engendered by
by the
ΟΝ N Monday, February 2, 1857, the case formally commenced in the Government's vigorous
community rendered the Supreme Court, Cheung A-lum, as Government
Inept to pecularly
firm tempt to correct the anomalies have been too small for the purpose THE A-lum mentioned above was impartial reaction. The most suitable was adjudged the chief defendant,
to the proprietor of the bakery of the Colony's water supply intended, and we are happy to say T one Cheung A-lum or Cheobi; explanation of the general attitude and the innocence or guilt of his fatal Allum, who was a familiar figure to would be fo.ascribe it to "blue funk," employees apparently rested upon. and charges is certain to meet we have not heard of a single
case. The circumstance
A-lum the residents of the Colony and some of the more unpleasant either his
or conviction. with a mixed reception, though having settled many of his out- during the early
Aftics, having angles of the affair were due to just It may be assumed that the cose an analysis of the comparative standing accounts yesterday, and settled here about the year 1847. He this.
was a cauIC celebre, and in fact was taken his departure for Macro with first advantages and disadvantages his family this morning before his counts as a "boy" employed by dif- was notably on instance of
appears in contemporary ac The Colony's first Chief of Police one of the most amazing trials ever suggest that the reform will, in customers'
this held in Hongkong. Thirty witnesses breakfast hour, when ferent foreigners, and during the be neurasthenic state, and much that had been subpoened by the Prosecu- the long run, prove beneficial to discovery, and his consequent apginning of his sojourn on the Island was particularly reprehensible abuut tion, and
these were largely those those sections of the comprehension, would have been certain, he worked for a number of the in- the general behaviour towards the who had partaken of the
poisoned munity which have hitherto has afforded strong reasons for be- fuential settlers. He seemed to have prisoners may be blamed upon bread and were rendered ill thereby. suffered hardships under the with his cognizance and sanction, if acumen; for he soon graduated from responsible
lleving that the act was performed been a man of exceptional business him; for he was directly It might be expected that under the so-called fren allowance system. not by his express orders; and
incarcera- circumstances, their testimony would be particularly blased, and that it There is, of course, a principle | Queen has been despatched to Macau
would have been unusually difficult involved, and it is in its inter-in search of hun."-The China Mali
10 sure a fair trial. Fortunato*** pretation of this principle that January 15, 1837.
however, both the prosecution as well Government is certain to
as the defence
were comprised of "boy" to a small merchant, and then tion for twenty days within a cell the ablest men in the Colony at that ceive chief criticism. For at
ultimately went into the bakery of such dimensions that existence least five years Government has THE poisoned bread was eaten by business, opening a firm under the within it must have been us time, and it is to their efforts that
ex- the outcome was in
complete been warning the community of the European residents of the Colony, yet presing-simifying "Abun- cruciating a torture as any attributed cordance with the traditional ex- its intention to make the water and it was certainly providential that enterprise was phenomenal; for he manticists associate with the Spanish Attorney-General,
Prosperity."
y." His success in this to the mediaeval oubliettes wilch ro- cellence service self-supporting. Sir no deaths occurred; for one drachm soon became the contractor for the Inquisition. The local press was Chisolm Anstey, and the Crown William Peel, in a public speech (60 grains) of white arsenic Commissariat of the British as righteously indignant about the rod by Mr. G. C. Turner represented the Solicitor, Mr. Hickson, assisted by four years ago, said that he had
well as American navies, supplying distic plinses of the treatment meted by promised the Secretary of State
an average of for the Colonies to bring about reasonable use of water. How. annually to esch,000 lbs. of biscult out upon the suspects in the case, and Prosecution, whilst the Delente was
commented upon it in no uncertain equally notable, being cond
conducted by It can be realised that a man who terms:
Dr.-Bridges, the Colonial- this position in Hongkong. He ever, the high rates which the was engaged in trade with
Secretary with Mr. John Day as Counsel, and wealthy house-holder pays pro- foreign community upon such a large "We mude the same point clear in bably entitled him to considera-scale could not afford to jeopardise witness to a
yesterday morning were Messrs. Gaskell and Brown, and Mr.
Ecene, such as his reply to the 1934 Budget
our H. J. Tarrant as Solicitors. Regard readers will have difficulty tion in the matter of water his interests by going so far as to
in less of how indefatigably speech, when he said: "I am
the pro- involved int dastardly crediting--one we can scarcely be- secution under
the aegis of the still of the opinion that the allowances. Henceforth all con- becu
polson plot. Fate, however, often lieve would be perpetrated unless Atto
Attorney-General laboured to bring principle of a free allowance sumers, with a few notable, and capricious, and no matter how car by the most savage and tyrannical about a conviction, the innocence of water is unsound ...on the generally speaking, deserving nestly one may endeavour to pro- government, and such as no one could of the prisoners was 50 obvious
there is whole a metered supply would exceptions, will pay for what mote a legitimate career,
have dreamt of seeing in a British that
Casc fell flat. After they use.
We allude to Forty-two the final arguments had been be more equitable."
circum- Colony. The question is: "Are they rder to frustrate the best of inten- long by 15 broad, furnished with on on Friday, February 6, the Jury re-
stances which
Chinese crammed into a cell 16 feet acem to combine in
for tired
half This has been the Govern- being asked to pay too highly?" tions. So it was in the of one small aperture for ventilation, brought in
casc ment's water service theme It might be argued, as Govern- Cheung A-lum. Certain of the dis- and
dis and confined there for Twenty days! Guilty, 5 to 1-t conclusion in ever since, culminating in April ment expects through
its reputable
clement, becoming in with the bare and damp
ground for a which the loanl last with the Hon. Mr. S. charges to make the water ser-censed at Cheung's continuous pros. bed; and in this space they had to coincided; but added "though we are Caine's proposals for the aboli-vice self-supporting, that the perity, and perhaps angered at his perform all the requirements of by no means satisfied of the
seeming lack of patriotism for the nature. Caves
they required none, soners' especially of A-lum's Coveries be supposed, the tion of a free allowance, the charges must be too high. This Manchu cause in the war against for, as muy
innocence; and would much rather, adoption of stand charges for is a dangerous conclusion if Britain, sought means to bring about den was in a perfect stew, the air-hole as we feel assured would the Jury water, and the use of meters based upon a superficial as his downfall. The expedient adopted being only 11 inches high by feet themselves, that the English law in all tenement floors. With sumption, for it fails
was cowardly to the extreme, and long, and placed in the extreme upper
had permitted them to return to take involved the bribing of one of the corner of the room. We assure our verd
nur verdict of not slight, but important modifica- into effect that Government has forty employees of the bakery frm to readers this is a fact, that can Strange to say that no sooner had tions, these proposals are, em- decided to charge Kowloon and introduce some ten lbs. of ordinary substantiated by several witnessess. the prisoners been discharged and bodied in the new bill which is Victoria consumers five cents
while they were in the act of leaving to be presented to the Legisla-less per 1,000 gallons than sug-
the Court, they were re-apprehended tive Council, and which will al-gested by the Hon. Mr. Caine in
and conveyed to gaol upon
warrant issued by the order of the Governor,
often a
concatenation of
the
most certainly become law in his memorandum of last April. GRIN AND BEAR IT
the near future.
The concession is an important one, especially when it is re-
If the Ion. Mr. Caine's es- called that Mr. Caine, in his es- timated figures for revenue and timates, argued that, in order expediture dependent upon the to permit a reduction in the new system are correct, Govern- Assessments from 2 per cent. to ment, at least, can claim to have 1 per cent. it would be neces- Hongkong's water service self-sary to charge a standard rate supporting. What still remains of 35 cents per 1,000 gallons.. to be demonstrated is whether Government, instead, has
the charges are capable of elected to retain the 2 per cent. effecting the benefits so greatly Assessment, and has met desired. Experience elsewhere opposition half way by reducing encourages the belief that the the standard rate to 25 cents adoption of meters, and the per 1,000 gallons. Peak and necessity of consumers paying mid-level. resident consumers for all their water, will act as a henceforth must pay for all strong deterrent to wastage. their water at 45 cents and 35 When a consumer knows that cents per 1,000 gallon's respec every gallon of water used is a tively. This will possibly further demand, upon his poc-silence the clamour of those ket, he will hesitate about using who hold that upper level re- it excessively. That old quip: sklents were given favoured "Spending money like water" treatment. The new bill may will take on a new meaning. It not be the ideal solution to a would seem, too, that the all-complex problem, and its prac pay system will liquidate that tical effect may yet prove to hit the alleged injustice of the free the poor classes adversely, but allowance principle, whereby theoretically it seems equitable, the rich, because of the rateable It would appear capable of stop- value of their property, received ping water wastage, and at the
time same
should realise water free, whilst the poor, vic Government's desire that the tims of the same process, havo Colony's service should be self- to meet excess consumption do- supporting. Thus the measureš mands although only making are worthy of trial 9.A.G.
practically unlimited supplies of QUEEN'S
be
the
heard
and
an -hour verdict of Not
entirely
proven."
pri-
By Lichty Sir John Bowring. The reason for this but seemed to entirely
I've only an hour before train time--so you take in one side
and I'll run along the other "
sequel was not then
pro-
have been what would be explained nowadays as the "laking into tective custody of those who were suspected of being undesirables. The outcome of the unpleasant affale was that the prisoners were
deported from the Colony en masse, most of
life. Meisie
on
them being declared banishees for as they were walt- ing the
of the
Governor which would determine their future, the principal In the sordid. case, Cheung A-lum realising that his stay in the Colony was soon to be terminated, decided to wind up his business, and so accordingly publish- ed the following advertisement the China Mall of March 12, 1857:
Notice
All persons having Claims against or being Indebted to, Cheong Allum; late of the E-sing Shop, Victoria, Hongkong; are requested to forward particulars to Mr. E. K. State, Solicitor, &c., Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong,
March 1857
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Cheong Allum
HISTORY records that Cheng- A-lum ultimately settled in Annam, where he was credited with again atmassing a fortune. There la also the strange story that the Man chu Government took an especial interest in his welfare, - apparently considering him as a hero forsit bestowed upon him a comfol pension, and indirectly ears to set himself up? ask Smi merchant 1
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