# SPECIAL EVENTS (CRIME).
Seizure of forged bank notes and printing plants:-
31. On 10th February, 1938, police simultaneously raided premises at No. 184, Des Voeux Road Central, 2nd floor, No. 109, Wellington St., 2nd floor and No. 70, Connaught Road Central, 2nd floor and at these addresses seized:
(a) 2,008 forged $1.00 notes of the Canton Municipal Bank.
(b) 2,394 forged 50 cent notes of the Yu Ming Bank of Kiang-Si.
(c) A large quantity of blank paper used for making these forged notes.
(d) A number of unfinished forged bank notes.
(e) Printing presses, plates and other paraphernalia for making these notes.
32. Four Chinese males and one Chinese female were arrested in connection with these seizures and at the March criminal sessions the ringleader was sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment with hard labour. The woman was sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment with hard labour and the two men were each sentenced to 6 years' imprisonment with hard labour. One Chinese male was found not guilty and discharged.
33. Prior to these raids large quantities of forged Yu Ming Bank notes were seized from time to time at the Kowloon railway station as they were being smuggled from the Colony to Chinese territory.
Manslaughter:-
34. On 17th February, 1938, Special Guard No. 9 Hayat Mohamed was beaten with a brass-mounted stick and subsequently died from injuries so inflicted. Deceased's death was the result of a quarrel over a $10.00 wager between Special Guard No. 3 Sher Zaman and deceased regarding the manner of fixing a typhoon bar.
35. Two Indian Guards, Special Guard No. 3 Sher Zaman and Special Guard No. 18 Fateh Khan, were charged with the crime of murder. At the March criminal sessions, the charge was reduced to one of manslaughter and both defendants were found guilty. Both appealed against their conviction and on 4th May, 1938, the appeal of Sher Zaman was dismissed and the appeal of Fateh Khan was allowed and his conviction quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
Murder:-
36. At about 12.25 a.m. on 11th March, a Chinese male named Huen Kon Wang was found staggering along Tin Hau Temple Road with bullet wounds in his body. It was found that the wounded man had received his injuries in a cave on the hillside above King's Road. On examination the cave was found to contain the body of Huen Kon Hing, a brother of Huen Kon Wang. Subsequent enquiries revealed that deceased and his brother were members of a gang who were committing crimes in the Colony.
The gang suspected that the two brothers had given information against them, and in consequence shot them, leaving the bodies in the cave believing that they were both dead. Huen Kon Wang was able materially to assist the Police in clearing up this crime before he eventually succumbed to his injuries 12 days later.