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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
CHATTEY TRIAL OPENS
FROM PAGE ONE
Interpreting the phrase
rase "in the in-
And the boy. The driver healtated
and said that it was not his business to find the boy and the Accused op- parently, got angry and slapped him on the back of the head.
tle. He
was
May 22, 1941
H.K. Trade Controller Replies
FROM PAGE ONE
position but it was within the juris dletion of His Lordship in criminal The taxt moved off and when it proceedings to order that the trial be got into Nathinn Road the driver attempt to control trade so that, while heard in camera if it be in the stopped li and blew his Police whis-honest British trade may be facil- interest of justice so to do.
then Bear his Com- taled, trade to eneinles wherever Mr d'Almada submitted that in pany's offices.
they may be living may be strangled. The Accused then asked to be is for this reason that Licences must terest of Justice the widest con-driven to the Shamshuipo Barracks
undergo strict scrutine sklerations must be taken into ac-and salt that he would sign a chit
"He says,
there
In certainly some- count not only of such mattera as for it but was told that this would/ Mereng in the department for justice at the trial proper but justice not do.
It happened that Sergeant without giving any reason. If this or refusing licences in its
widest sense.
Alexander was duty in the Defending Counsel said that as His vicinity at this time and on seeing to she is in possession of more in- Lordship knew, the Accused was a crowd around the taxi hice State who had ordered this,
formation than the Secretary of member of a Regiment stationed in th Hongkong, and he submitted that Hla he saw the Accused inside and th
there and looking into the vehicle Lordship would have to take into Accused said "These people consideration the unnecessary pub seem to trust licity to that Regiment which would
Mr Williams sold that Carrying on, result from the trial of the proceed the Sergeant know the Accused by Ings in the normal way that ta, Insight and he assured the taxi driver,
open Court.
The Sergeant left but on seeing the Continuing, Mr d'Almada said that taxi still there he returned to it and justice did not require such adverse after
1 Reneral conversation he publicity more particularly at a
time
looked into the taxi and noticed that letter, the fact that I have taken due "As regards the later part of his like
he would submit. Although the Accused was sitting without any notice of his complaint is shown by Hie Lordship may know that an sp-trousers or cont and he asked what this interview I have given. As to plication had been made before the the matter was and the Accused re- the reasons for secrecy, if he will Learned Magistrate at the prelimin-plied "Some boys in King's
don't!
Park
to the fact that unreasonable hitches "In the same paragraph he refers and questions ure raised owing to personni whims. I would be glad if he could produce evidence of this to me. in which case I will take this, I would suggest that he owes an rastie netion. If he cannot produce apology.
ary proceedings and had been turned had stolen my clothes." When ask only be good enough to come and see down, the same. that application arguments against ed about the value the Accused re-ine, I would be very glad to go
would not apply for this reason. The Magis-Asked if he wished
agilled that it was only a few dollars, better with him so far as can
done. to make trate might have thought, although Accused replied "No," The Sergeant to handle two to
a report. "No one seems to remember that he did not say so, that publicity at spoke to the taxi driver and another licences a day is a very big task three thousand int time was desirable because fur driver drove the Accused back to when all require careful scrutiny. ther
evidence might be
be available Shamshulpo and there a chit was from either one side or the other. signed.
"For the convenience of the public Wo endeavour, when Mr_d'Almada said that the pro-
we take to
give slip in return, to put them through,
In the morning. presented by late afternoon, and if presented in the afternoon, by the next morning. "Unfortunately, this seems to have been taken as a guarantee instead of hoped to do.
ceedings had been sufficiently ven-i dugeant Alexander continued his Jeences at our receiving office and
illated in the Press and no almitar or better purpose could be served by a similar publlelty of this again.
Application Refused
and subsequently returned to the Yaumati Police Station.
The little boy, continued Mr WI- linnts, would say that he wore the trousers and cont as best he could and went back to the Jordan Road
wharf and put the cont in a basket.
Boy Examined
A Chinese constable eventually the took the boy to the Youmat! Folice Station. Sergeant Alexander was
In refusing the application, His Lordship said that he had considered carefully the arguments which Mr d'Almada had advanced Learned Magistrate who committed the case to trial and he would like to say that he had considered it with the most sympathy,
there at that time and the boy was asked about the clothes and in con-
sequence of his statements the boy Is Lordship said that he had was taken by Sergeants Alexander Authorities but he and Pope to Dr Gosano for examine searched for could find no Authortly in support of tion. After this the two Sergeants Mr d'Almada's application. He had made further enquiries and examin- found many Authorities which were ed the taxi. directly against Mr d'Almada's op- plication and therefore, His Lordship was afraid, he very reluctantly must refuse the application.
Crown Case
as an announcement of what it is
faevitably lead to delay and how long "Any question over permits must that may be it is impossible to say.
"There is one point on which the public office, everybody tries to recover per- can help. In the Issuing malts at 9.30 there is an enormous congestion for 2.30. Result. is that about an hour or so, and after that, as often as not, the office is empty and permits are left waiting.
ог
certain Another Forthright Statement By Pepper
Medical Evidence Dr F. J. Farr, Government Radlo- logist, said he examined negatives of photographs on April 25 to ascertain the boy's age. He came to the conclusion that the boy was between the nge of 13 and 14. X-rays examination of the bones for age was fairly accurate, and was very, definitely accurate in younger
Opening the case, Mr Williams re- ferred the Jury to the two charges against the Accused and
of one which alleged that he had committed
FROM PAGE ONE
an unnatural offence on a 14-year people. In older people it was im-isolationist, answering Senator Pep- old Chinese boy, In King's Park on possible. April 22.
Dr E. L. Gosano, Kowloon Hosplial, Mr Williams said that the facts gave evidence of having examined a of the case would show that the Ac-small boy at 8.10 a.m. on April 22. cused
called this small boy lato a taxi Cross-examined by Mr d'Almada, and took off his clothes and the Ac-witness agreed that in certain stages cused's own trousers and coat.
of intoxication, a man may not know As the Jury had heard, continued what he was doing. Mr Williams, the Accused wus an Mr_d'Amada: A mạn may be Ofteer in a Regiment stationed In intoxlented to such a degree that he Hongkong. The boy, Yeung Kam-hi, is reckless as to the consequences of
his age as 14 years, Chinese his action? Witness.-Yes. reckoning, and his age may become material and the Jury would hear evidence on that. The boy had See X-rayed and he was found to be not 14 years old.
Newspaper Hawker
per's statements, asserted that the letter was endeavouring to "make · a farce of representative Government. He proposes complete abdication of Congress." n system exceeding the Nazi system.
He asserted that Senator Pepper had become the "Administration's mouthpiece for foreign policy" and enunciated trial balloons. He de- nounced Senator Pepper's earlier suggestion that Congress should em- in-power the President to suspend all rules regulating the States during the auto-national emergency.
ان
The same condition may be duced by hypnotism?-Yes.
And his notions are purely mutic at the command for the hypnotist? Yes.
Effects of Drugs There is a third possible case The boy's father was dead and his this "blackness" shall I call it? mother lived in the country and the Drugs may induce that. boy himself lived on the streets and be a vietin and in these man may circum- made his living by hawking news stances, may do something without papers. His beat Was near Jordan
the knowing what he is about?—Yes. Road ferry. He would tell
Quite frequently when a man has the Court that on April 22 he was fall he suffers
11
from concussion
say
that n
A
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C.N.A.C. PLANE
LATEST
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
Hugh Woods, pilot of the CN.AC. CHUNGKING, May 21 (UP).—Mr
Douglas plane which was attacked, yesterday, revealed to the "United
was damaged by bombs. machine-gun the plane, but that it
outside an hotel where there was a without realising it. The immediate Press" that the Japanese did not taxi stand attempting to make some effect of the fall may be to daze money by opening doors of taxis and him a bit, after which he thinks no calling for them.
y-be-after- Mr Woods declared: "When I land- About that time he saw the Ac-more-about-it. There may
effects from that blow. Would you pursult planes were very close, hence ed at Suifu I was told that Japanese cused come along in n ricksha and when it was passing near the stand
a man having so suffered concussion is likely to be more easily
there was
was no time to take off and the boy snid
"Hullo, Laxt, Hullo affected by either alcohol or drugs? the passengers and crew left the taxi?" The Accused replied "Yes" and got down from the ricksha and The effect of the concussion would plane which was casily sheltered by
have to manifest itself in some way Bombers dropped paid off the coolie. At the same or other before I could agree with bombs, one of which damaged the the time the Japanese were overhead. a number of time the boy opened the door of the taxi and also said something We have been talking generally right wing; however it did not the coolic. The coolle told the boy about drugs without mentioning any damage the motors and there were something and the boy got into the one. Would your answers be the no casualties," taxi also.
sume if the drug was opium?-Oplum depresses more than exaits.
to
you
oplum.
or
The effect of opium on various in- dividuals varies?--Yes.
Mr Williams said that the driver of the tax knew the Accused by Opium After Alcohol sight and he proceeded to drive the Accused to the
Oplum taken after a fair quantity Shamshulpo Barracks, The boy would tell the Court that of alcohol would produce this state in a man without him knowing any- he was sitting directly behind the taxi driver and the accused was on is possible?-It is possible with
The thing about it. Do you say that that the left. After the driver had pro- without ceeded and was coming near to the Alhambra Theatre the Accused (old him
turn down Gascoigne Road and turn into Road
this King's Park, und
WAS the Road which led up the A.R.P. Club.
As the taxi was going on its way. the small boy would say, that the Accused took off his clothes and he would say that he could not resist and carape because he was in the taxi and the Accused held his arm, The Accused also took off his own trousers and cont and put them on the spare seat.
off
Would you go further and say that the possibility is greater if the per- san concerned had previously suffer- to ed concussion within 40 days?--It is
tribute to the effect of it. possible. The concussion may con-
Answered As Layman Re-examined by Mr. Williams, Dr
answered Gorano sald he had
the questions on hypnotism as an ordin ary layman and not a doctor.
tloned about certain conditions of Mr Williams: You have been ques- Mr Williams said that when the drunkenness such as to commit aa7, taxi arrived at King's Park the Ac-pe without knowing it. Would eused told the driver to stop. They you expect the person to show signs sat in the taxi.
of drunkenness say about un hour
At this point Mr Williams told the after? Yes. Court what the boy would say in And half an hour lafer would you
expect the
the person to glve any The Accused subsequently naked rational statement on, the matter?....
Definitely no.
evidence.
the driver to turn on the light and
Dr A. E. Alvares, Assistant Gov-
ns he did so the driver at the same ernment Bacteriologist, gave evidence time glanced back. Accused and something about "O.K. ·OK.!" but analyses undertaken.
Yeung Kam-kit, who gave his age
of
the driver did not know whether leas 14 in Chinese, corroborated the
opening as given by Crown Counsel.
Cross-Examination
Italo Balbo Was Shot Down
A photograph of a document pui porting to show that Marshal Balbo, the former head of the Italian Air Force, met his death in Libya when Italian artillery and 27 anti-aircraft guns fired on his plane in error is published in the "Glornale d'Oriente," an anti-Faseist newspaper published
Egypt.
In
The document, states the news paper was seized among the papers of the Itallum headquarters staff In Cyrennica. In it an Italian soldier declares he was a witness of the death of Marshal Balbo, who was shot down by the Italian guns.
LATE NEWS
Coolies Marching Towards City
noon.
or the small boy was being address- ed. The driver shut off the light and left the taxi and stood in front
- Another demonstration was staged of it. He would say that he saw Cross-examined by Mr d'Almada, by ex-night solt carriers this after- everything that was going on in the Yeung said he had been in the Colony .................taxi, said Mr Williams.
for about two years, and until this them had gathered at Rutter Street Police reported that about 300 of "After referring to alleged incidents incident, had been looking after him in the upper levels and at about a In the case, Mr Williams said that self for the last two months by sell- o'clock started marching towards the Ute Accused also lifted or took the ing newspapers and working as a city, possibly heading for the Urban boy outside the taxi to a grass bank,,ahoo-black. He had never ridden
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put the boy down on the bank and with other people in taxis, and had District Council offices.
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{strugetar beskle the boy, The boy never had his clothing taken off
Bay
and the taxi driver would before,
that he saw the boy struggle He had struggled with Accused in throughout.
the taxi, and had tried to shake off Mr Williams said that the Ac-Accused, but Accused succeeded in cused's trousers and coat had been taking his clothes off. He had pro- brushed to the ground. The boy tested, but did not call out to the struggled and ran, and he picked up driver. the clothes and ran down the bank Into a nuliah and hid there,
Slapped Taxi Driver
The Accused then got back into
the tax and directed the driver
to
Young was questioned a number
of mes by Mr d'Almada as to why he did not call out to the driver or
try to attract his attention, but only repeated that he did not do so..
The case is proceeding.
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