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December 29, 1938.
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DRIVER DISCHARGED
No Evidence of Going At Excessive Speed
A charge of driving without due care and caution against Tso Kan, licensed lorry driver, who it was alleged knocked down and killed a sixteen-year-old youth on Novem- ber 20 in an attempt to avoid collit- ing with two others who had run out Into Queen's Road Central, was dis- missed by Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy yesterday, when Chief Inspector Saunders, of the Traille Department, presented, and Tro was defended by air. C. A. S.
the case was resumed,
Runs.
wan
BOGUS POLICEMEN
Daring Hold-Up Of Lorry At Shaukiwan
The holding up of a motor lorry by six Chinese in Shaukiwan on November 5, had a sequel in the Criminal Sessions yesterday, when Yiu Kim-kwong, 29, clerk, and Ho Ching-ling, 32, theatre attendant, were charged before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl McGregor, with having robbed (together with others not in custody) Chan Wun and Yeung Tit of 20 bags of wolfram ore, three baskets of eggs and three bags of duck feathers. Second accused was additionally charged with receiving the wolfram are, knowing it to have been stolen.
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12-12.20 pan. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.
12.30 Cortot at the Plano.
Ballade No. In A Flat Major, Op: 47 (Chopin); The Little Shepherd: Golliwog's Cake Walk (from The Children's Corner Suite Debussy); Prelude No. B-La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (Debussy); Prelude No. 3- Le Vent Dans La Plaine (Debussy);
12.16 Philadelphia Symphony Or
It will be remembered that at a previous hearing the charge
The following comprised the Jury, he was standing near the Kowinon omended from the original one of
Mr. R. E. Farrell
(Portman), Godowns in Canton Road, he was dangerous driving, by Mr. R. E-Chung Kum-chuen, Pun Yun-hol, asked to take three baskets of eggs wards, after the case for the prosecti-
Anson Yao, A. Hussain, J. M. O. dosto 206 Shanghai Street. Ho went to tion had closed.
Remedios and Lo Hu-kee.
this dress, and found another lorry Defendant, it won alleged, w!!!t
Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, outside the place and eggs driving along Queen's Rand on the
being remarkable for loaded on to it. two night of November 20
The crime Boys ran out from under a verandah,
disclosed that carly that morning chestra,
Enquiries made inter at the address In an attempt to avoid them, he swerved into a pillor, but knocked and took place in a populous district about five or six men came to the door with several small bags of eggs and feathers, As these
Festival In Seville (Albeniz, arr. caused an Stokowski); Tales From The Vienna
when
A
down a youth who was standing on the pavement,
said the case was
nore than one reason.
was committed in broad daylight
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X
"Iolanthe" Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classen....Chortts of Men; The Law Is The True Embodiment
George Baker and Chorus of Men; Oli, Foolish Pay...B. Lewis. and Chorus of Girls; Tho' 'r'ups i May Incur Your Blame, Winifred Lawson, Derelt Oldham, Darrell Fan- court and Sydney Granville; Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray! ....Charis 117 Men In Vain To Us You Plead Nellie Walker, Alice Moxon, Derek Oldham, Darrell Fancourt and Chorus of Gleis; "Pirates of Pen- zance Now For The Pirates Lair: When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold....Derek Oldham, Peter Daw- son and Dorothy Gill; Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire... Dorothy Gili. Derek Oldham and Peter Dawson; Sa
Is Prepared!; All
Stay. Fredric, Slay ....Elsle Grin and Derek Oldham; "Patience" Hear the Soft Note of the fette and Mixed Chorus: But Who Is
Echoing Voice,
This? w.
G. Baker, R. Mackay, M. Eyre, B. Lewis, D, Oldham, D. Fan- court. M. Green: "Trial By Jury" For These Kind Words; When I. Good Leo Shefeld and Chorus: Swear Thou the Jury! ...Arthur Hosking, George Baker, Duck Old- ham. Leo Sheftekl and Male Chorus; Where Is The Plaintiff? .Arthur Husking. George Baker Winifredi
.Sex-
La N. Briercliffe, L. Rakls,
in Shaukiwon. There were six men one of whom was armed with a re- Evidence of defendant's speed was volver, and who pretended to be obstruction, they were told to take | Woods-Waltz (Strauss)....conduct- Friends.. given at the previous hearing by a vested with all the authority which them away, and about fifteen minutesed by Leopold Stokowski.
Chinese witness who described him- self un a marine hawker, and who said that defendant's Jorry at the time of the accident was telling "faster than a bus and slower than a motor cat."
At yesterday's hearing, Mr. Russ admitted that defendant had no case
the police normally had. However, if the allegations of the Crown were true, two of there men had been brought to book and part of the pro- perty had been recovered.
later a lorry and a taxi-cab arrived and removed the goods.
All the wolfram
ore dealers in Sham:biupo and Mongkok
were
1 Time and Weather,
Early on November a junk or- visited, and in the Wing Cheung shop ↑ Her First Dance (Heykens)... Marek Lawson and Chorus of Bridesmaids.!
with the goods, consigned to San rived in Shaukiwan from
Cheung Chiog and Cheung
engaged a motor furry, and on
accused
7.45 Studlo—Z.B.W. Orchestra,
accomp.
by
1.03 Marek Weber and His Orches- tra and Walter Glynne (Tenor).
The Music Comes (O. Strauss); Melin Shamshlupo some folcis were the found shifting bags of wolfram ore Where Wishes Water Glynne (Ten-terval Pastorale (arr. Lane Wiles)
Weber and His Orchestra; The Valley to answer because there was no evi-ins, of Wing Hing Street.
Yik in the cocktof, the second
True (Eather- 1. VisionWaltz (Malvezzi); In-i was discovered, and the
ley-Elliet). dence with regard to the speed de- The meters of these shops
owner for) with Piano; Musical Box (Hey Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) were the shop, Chit Kwok, sal be had fendant was said to have been travel notified, and they detailed Chan Wun just purchased the wolfram ore from ens): Springtime Serenade (Hey with Planer ling at.
George kent M Marek Weber Mr Ilouston held that there had and Young Wit to go to Shantiwan and him. Accused did not say anything Orchestra; A Dream Of Paradise Avitable).
and His Reeves: . Carovana-Festo (Luigi been no evidence of defendant's torry collect the goods. Chan and Young to this, but when the detective sald Orch
Old ar- he was making enquiries about Bridge By The Mill (Skelly).... (Gray and Littletah): Rustic having travelled :12 an speed, but remarked that the case for the cargo to the vehicle.
excersive riving at Shaukiwan beran to trans-robbery in Shaukiwen, he admitted waits Glynne (Tenur) with Organ ments.
After he did take part in a "squeeze." had been properly brought by the
this was done, Chan returned to the Traße Department. Mr. Houston re-
Enquiries continued, and eventuale and Male Chorus; marked that there should always be
next to the driver, but just as they moved the merchandise from
Stolen My Heart-Tango (Gruthe) an inquiry after a fatal accident.
were about to drive away six men dras in Shanghat Street, was
Marek Weber and His Orches- came rushing up. They said they located. In consequence of what he
with vocal refrain, Ira wae potive ullivers and were going said, the first prisoner was arrested
1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, to take the party to the Central
Weather and Announcements. Police Station.
1.10 Max ler, almale Rodgers. Judy Garland and Jay Wilbur and Ills Band.
BELIEVED DROWNED
Cyclist Who Rode Into The Harbour
holy of the lorry while Yeung sat ly the driver of the inrry which re-¡ (Lenso-Valerio); Zanight--Tango
men
Armed With Revolver
Although ther
were not in uniformn, hoth Chan and Yeung felt they had some authority, for the first Three young Chinese, Ho Cheung, recused was carrying a revolver and 10. Ah K, 15, and Al Yuen, 18, the second had a police whistle at- hired bicycles in Wanchai on Tues-tached to n chain. The pseudo day and went joy-riding, They policemen boarded the lorry and on rode along Gloucester Road, when arriving at Taikou Duck, the first ac Ah Yuen Rot too close to the test gave instructions to stop, and on the north side, and losing control, then turned to Young and demanded went into the harbour. He was not money. The second prisoner, who seen again, and is believed to have was sitting in the body of the lorry, aho got elf and re-inforced the de- mand by saying "gui" (water), which wen Chinere slán; for money,
been drowned.
The bicycle was later recovered by the police.
FALL FROM BUS
the
Kowloon City on November 12. e said a police reservist had asked him to follow him, but did not sny he was going to rob.
The case was adjourned to 10 am. ito-day.
HONGKONG'S MOST FAMOUS PIRATE
(Continued from Page 6.)
Ma-chow Wong. There some entries in Chinese of moneys received from or for Mr. Caldwell."
are
You Have
Dance Orchestra--I'm Happy When You're Happy-Fox-Trot
(from
Time, Weather and Announce-
8.03 StudioZ.B.V. Orchestra.
Boston 3. Intermezzo (Jessel); 4. Waltz (Weber); Interval Nail D'E- pagne (from Scenes Pituresques--- Masachel). Georges Thill (Tenor) with Maurier Faure at the Pana; 5. L'Arlesime Suite No. 1 (Bize). 8,30 London Relay-At The Black Dog."
Mr. Wilkes at home in his
own
Hile and Seek'); The First Time I bar-parlour. Presented by S. E. Rey- Saw You-Fox-Trot (from Toustnolds and Pascoe Thornton.
Evans
9.15 London Relay-World Affairs.'|
of New York')....Jay Wilbur and 9 London Relay--larry His Band, Comedian-The Christmas And Plano, Dinner (Miller); Just Another Sally (Carlton)....Max Miller with Or-
A talk by H. Wickham Stred. chestra: Dunce Orchestra-Sympathy
9.30 London Relay The News -Waltz (from Firefly'); That Old 0.50 Elena Gerhardt (Mezzo- Feeling (train Vogues of 1930)- Soprano) and Yehudi Menuhhu (Via- Fox-Trot...Jay Wilbur and Ils | Ha). Band with vocal refrain: Yodler-- Fisher-Ways (Schubert); The Prairie Lullaby (Hill); Down The Fishermalden; The Steret (Schubert) Old Road To Home (Harvey). Emmie Rodgers with His Guitar; By this time, Yeung was more than
Voen---Swing. Mister Charlie auspicious that there men were not what they purported to be, and
(Brooks);
Stompin' At The Savoy therefore although he had $80 on him
LTHOUGH every effort was! Sampat
Sampaon)July Garland with made by interested parties | Orchestra;, he pretended he had no money. le
Dance
Orchestra-With went on to suggest that he be allow to prevent the case from being trafford, Ives); So Many Memories
"Mary Tattooed
Arm fell from a bus which he was ht-fed to go to his shop to get it, and to brought to Court, the evidence (Woods)...Jay Wilbur tempting to board in Prince Edward give an air of truth to his story he was such that it would have Band with vocal chorus.
and Is Road. He suffered cups to the headarked the driver to lend him ten
cents for his tram fure, This was been highly injudicious to have done, and Young was allowed to yo, made any further pretence of
Inmediately afterwards, the roi- concealment. Consequently, Ma-' bers gave instructions to the driver lehow Wong was to continue towards Wanchai. Menn September Criminal Sessions of while. Yeung had boarded 'ʼn tram-
An Indian, A. Rahim, was taken to the Kowloon Hospital on Tues- day for treatment to injuries received
when he was.e.ther knocked down or
and Inte.
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10.05 Econ Petri at the Plano, Sonata in C Sharp Minor ("Moon- light") (Beethoven-Op. 27, No. 2).
10.21 Beethoven-Symptrony No. 7 In A Major, Op. 92.
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestraj Gllbert and Sullivan Ex-conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
11 Close Down.
2.1 Close Dawn.
A
Studio-Children's Hour,
7
Closing Local Stock Quotations.
tried at the
7.0%
cerpts.
than ever.
on the
the Chinese military
eur and on looking back, saw the loo for "confederaling with forry following. After the lorry had pirates," and was sentenced to and he was more closely watched of the fifth rank, if he would paset
he got off and telephoned his firteen years' penal servitude at master. He was told to report the matter
nt the Bay View Police the prison settlement Station, which he did.
Island of Labuan Continuing, Mr. Whyatt said that North Borneo. when the lorry arrived appostle the
Bak Kwok Hotel, Gloucester Road, Mr. Caldwell
✰ Bear British E years passed by, and gradually his spirit came to
consent to serve Government in Q capacity.
Sadly, however,
he refused
was naturally be broken. At length in 1869, this tempting offer, and return- the driver was again told to stop, grief-stricken at the course of Sir John Pope Hennessy (who once more to Hongkong. All The robbers then said they would take the goods to the Timshatsui vents, but he still managed to subsequently become Governor he wanted now was to end his Police Station. Instead of Central, e able to exert his influence so of Hongkong) and Mr. J. R. days in peace and tranquillity marcordingly the first accused that his protege did not have to Howard, the Superintendent of under the flag of the nation ergasted a motor-beat. Chan Wen. by this time, had become strpicious bit to the indignity of hav- Convicts at Labuan, prevailed which had
He managed to escape and rush to- wards the No. 2 Police Station where be made a report.
Chan run away, he did not seem to
treated him
30
31uw.「je-
and he struggled to get away from his handsome queue docked, upon the Home Government to onerously. He had the lorry, The robbers attempted to as was then the custom with award him a free pardon. Upon come a thoroughly reformed par him into the motor-bont, but Chinese prisoners in the gaol.this being granted he returned, and thought only of atoning to the Colony, whence he had for his past misdeeds. The Finally, on November 13. 1858, been sent away more than ten Chinese Government never en- Ma-chow. Wong, in company with Although the driver suddenly saw fifty-nine other convicted Chin-is arrival here, he was arrested, war with France in 1881, it again Lirely forgot him, and during the years before. Immediately on realise what it was all about, and he ese felons, was sent away from but upon presenting his dis- offered him a military com- obeyed the orders of the robbers to the Colony, and after being in drive to Murray Pier. When they got Labuan for a couple of years, he charge papers from Labuan he mission if he would serve the there, the robbers left the lorry mul
once more came into the lime- to take up his residence
was released, and was permitted cause. transferred the merchandise to n
here Once more, Wong refused, sampon, The driver asked the first light as a result of acting as the
ho again. However, scensed for his fare, and received the ringleader of an attempted up things vastly changed. Piracy think of
found stating that he was too old to reply that he we from Central rising in which it was planned was no more. The administra- poverty was now his lot, he was honours. Although Police Station. Nevertheless, the driver persisted in his demand, ard to release all the prisoners and tion of Sir Hercules Robinson far happier than he had ever eventually the first prisoner signed murder the European wardens ehit for it.
Ind effectively cleared up the been. Besides, it would not be jand Indian guards,
augenn-like corruption of the long before he would be called Reports having been made to the got "cold feet," and, appalled by le protector and
However, one of the convicts previous decade, and his erat- to join the souls of his departed
business ancestors. ed, and the masters of the two shops the callous slaughter of so many nasocinie, Mr. D. R. Caldwell was The old ex-pirate survived Went to the Vehicular Ferry whart in people that the successful per- now living in retirement at his until the year 1802. His pass- an endeavour to trace the driver of petration of the murder-plot residence in Hollywood Road. ing was the Inst link which the lorry. They succeeded, and in would entail, went to the Prison consequence of what he told them,
Wong thought of proceeding bound the modern Colony to the
Goods Traced
Police, enquiries were at once start-
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