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"SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE” PLEA,

Sentenced at Middlesex Sessions to two years hard labour for house breaking and burglary, Edward Monkhouse, aged 17, appealed against his sentence at the Court of Criminal Appeal before Justices Darling,

THE CHENDERIANG RAID,. Avory, and Salter

DETAILS OF DESPERATE GANG ROBBERY IN PERAK..

Monkhouse, who did not look his age, listened to the proceedings from the dock.

BOXING TOO STRONG FOR

*RUSSIAN NERVES.""

Omsk, March 15.-A party given by the 9th Hampshires in the spacious Town Theatre here took the form of a concert in honour of Admiral Koltzhak, and it was attended by all the elite and high officialdom of the seat of Goverment

The regiment provided urrexcellent programma, in which popular music hall songs predominated and were Mr. Schultess-Young, for Monk-

by appreciated

the Russian house, said that three lads were audience, not so much for their charged with burglary and enter og musical merits 23. for the houses at Acton. The other two rollicking choruses that descended The Times of Malaya of June 26 confessed to having been engaged in upon the occupants of the stalls. says: In one of the most elaborate robberies in Bond-street, and the from the upper regions. Humorous and carefully planned robberies yet justices seemed to have been under points went home easily, and it was perpetrated in Perak a gang of 50 the impression that Moskhouse was plain that some of the singers were Chinese, many of whom were armed, connected with that affair, whereas highly blessed in the matter of apparently further encouraged by he had nothing to do with it. the ease with which Banir and other

. When 14 years of age, added voice. The regiment, it should be said, is fortunate. in possessing a small villages have been raided and counsel, Monkhouse was bound over talented officer who orders its per- robbed, took complete possession of for receiving-someone asking him formances (He was responsible for Chenderiang in the early hours of to take care of a bag but nothing the party which so successfully this morning, and, with the small was stolen. For the last two years toured force of police helpless in the police he had been in the employ of the Mesopotamia last winter.) station, robbed the village to their Board of Education as a junior clerk. The second part of the programme hearts content, breaking open no He appeared to have been led astray was made up mainly of spectacular fewer than five safes in different by his two companions and by the items, and the physical drill done by

The Board of houses and securing in all cash and spirit of adventure.

a score of men in vests and white valuable estimated at a value of Education wrote to the magistrate's shorts regularly brought the house $20,000.

clerk stating that Monkhouse would down. The man looked fit for any have to resign and pointing out that thing, and their evolutions, in this he had recently been promoted on country of slow-moving people, were account of his good work.

a miracle of alertness. The observa- lated as being. "Holy Christopher 1 tion of a Russian near me was trans- wonder these British can fight!" A three-round boxing contest was watched wih great curiosity, for few Russians have ever seen "La

Arriving in. Chenderiang shortly after midnight, the robbers took elaborate precautions to prevent the news of their presence reaching the police in other districts, isolating the village by first cutting the telegraph and telephone wires, and then by posting strong, pickets outside the Post Office, the police station, and houses where there were telephones or motor vehicles.

"FRIGHTFULNESS."

Whilst many shots were red by the robbers in order to terrorise the inhabitants as they proceeded with their work of pillage, it is believed that no personal violence was done. Sevéral, shots were fired at the police! station but without effect.

I

In reply to Mr. Justice Darling, counsel said he did not know what his wages were.

A man sitting at the back of the court, who was wearing a silver badge, stood up and said: "I am his father. He was earning 22s. 6d. a week and a bonus,"

Counsel said that Mr. Monkhouse had been in France. where he was a sergeant in the Military Police, and consequently the boy had not had the benefit of a father's control cur ing that time.

among

the

troops

Boxe" though they have continually encountered it in their reading and in illustrated papers. They sat still whilst two bantams hammered each

when the protagonists shook hands other pink, and sighed with relief and departed from the stage. The comment of a local newspaper sums up the feeling about the British national sport: "A little too strong for our nerves."

JUDGE ON "QUEER DOCTRINES," Mr. Justice Darling: What strikes me about it is that the appellant is

Another newspaper, describing the employed as a clerk by the Board of Education. He becomes a burglar, concert, took the occasion to give and the Board of Education say that the regiment an article to itself. The he will have to resign. I should writer said that he knew England have thought he would have been only from books-Shakespeare, Scott, Byron, Dickens, Wilde, and Kipling dismissed immediately.

in

At the tim ore buying shop of Bar Tuan Leong, where the robbers secured $4,000 in cash, they had to break through three doors, and did so with a violence that wrenched the wooden casement of the main door out of the brick work. Other places Counsel suggested that Monkhouse-and lacked a clear notion of its robbed include a pawn shop and a

was actuated by a spirit of adventure, people. Then he suddenly, realized, chandu shop. With a surprising Mr. Justice Darling: The Board when, he saw the quick, elastic files! sense of equity the robbers did not of Education must be teaching very of English soldiers in the streets of raid any of the shops that had been queer doctrines if they think this Omsk >-- the subject of their attention on the sort of thing is to be looked on as a occasion of the previous raid. Inspirit of adventure.

They march (says the writer)-" march is the word-with the light sportsmen, Excellently one shop the robbers were about to Mr. Justice Salter: These three feet of burn some material, but when it was burglaries were committed within a clothed; healthy, frush. The faces pointed out by a member of the gang week. Are we to understand that of strong, determined people, ex- that the shop also would be burned he was engaged in assisting the pressing the blood of a nation. All they desisted.

education of the country during the seem young and at the height of day and burgling at night?

Mr. Schultess-Young: He fulled his employment with propriety, and suddenly in one week he commits these offences. I suggest it was a sudden temptation and a spirit of adventure, which, of course, I do not

their strength. They give the im pression of what we Russians call culture, and more, of freedom, simplicity, and naturalness.

Taking their departure about 3 o'clock this morning, the robbers were followed by a body of ten police men who had ventured out from their

They have spent four years in retreat as soon as it was safe to do so, and who endeavoured to keep in

India, and now they have come to touch with their movements. It was

this cheerless Siberia. Everything is strange to them, yet they walk not until about 8 o'clock-five hours excUSE.

Mr. Monkhouse again addressed about the town as if they had lived after the robbers had decamped-that information reached the police in the the court and explained that he was here all their lives, quietly, without adjoining districts and three different engaged on night work. My san open curiosity, nor do they lose parties under Inspector Neave, Mr. comes home from work at 7 o'clock, themselves as some foreigners do, Mills, A.C.P, and Inspector Farquhar and if he goes out at all comes back Their officers are simple and quiet, son, respectively, set out in pursuit of at ten. These things were commit happily good-hearted, noble,

the robbers.

"

PARTICULARS OF LOSSES INCURRED.

ted in one week about 8.30. It looks as if he has been led astray. 'He has been a very good boy since I have been in France he has been his mother's right hand.:

Mr. Justice Salter (to counsel): learned that, in addition to destroy. What was the age of the other two ing the safes, the robbers did con

same boys-About the siderable damage to furniture out of Monkhouse.

From later information it is

pure wantonness.

Ban Tuan Leong, $3,000 in cash and $1,000 in goods.

Yip Pak Cheong, $1,500 in cash and $500 in goods.

4

Wai Lee (pawnshop), $670 in cash and $620 in goods.

age.as

Mr. Schultess-Young: They were not found on Monkhouse.

The indistinct figure of literature is made manifest in these English soldiers, who know how to live and conduct themselves. So fresh, so affable, such good spirits, such strength of body and mind. Yes, a fine people the English are! These Hampshires make us feel that about them.

Mr. Justice Darling; I see that

The 9th Hampshires came here The following are the principal when arrested in the house they had losses in cash and goods, the latter cooked a supper of ham, and eggs from India, after a record "hot

find themselves mostly in jewellery.

and had drunk four bottles of orange weather." to wine. They had a very good stock. Siberia in a winter of almost un in-trade and were rigged up as a firm paralleled severity. They endured 115 deg. Fahr, in the summer; and six of burglars.

months later at Irkutsk on their way up the thermometer was registering -45 deg Reaumur (-69.25 deg Fahr, A KLEPTOMANIAC. Mr. Justice Darling: We may take or 101.25 deg below freezing point), None but the soundly constituted Too Han Chan, $50 in cash and it that Becker was the head of the

firm.

could stand such a variation in $650 in goods.

Mr. Schulteas Young: He was climatic conditions, and it is a proof released on the ground that he was a of the physical well-being of this kleptomaniac and has to go up battalion that it had a practically clean health sheet in India, and has every three months.

Mr. Justice Darling: If he is a suffered no ill here worse than kleptomaniac he will soon be caught frostbite, which is the eternal again. (Laughter.)

heritage of the dweller in Siberia.

Tong Hup Leong, $500 in goods. Loon Fatt (barber), $25. Owing to the absence of the manager, the robbers were unable to

Mr. Schultess Young I-am-not- responsible for that finding.

break open the safe at the premises of Thai Lee. For having refused to comply with a request made by the

Besides Mr. Justice Darling: Neither am L

those mentioned in robbers a man in the employment of

Giving judgment, Mr. Justice yesterday's China Mail as accom. Yip Pak Cheong was beaten but not Salter said that three serious and panying. the Governor yesterday on seriously injured..

impudent burglaries were committed an inspection of U Yam Lane where Big Chinese crackers, which had in a week. For the sake of excite the Government is resuming land, been fired to frighten the inhabitants, ment Monkhouse had broken into were Hoa. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, the house of three respectable and member of Legislative Council and and empty cartridge shells were inoffensive people. The three boys, Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Assistant Colonial picked up after the departure of the apparently in order to relieve the Secretary.

tedium of their lives, had stolen £60 robbera.

OF £70 worth of property. The only

One shot fired at a Chinese house reason Monkhouse had not been sent years would be quashed and 3 years' went right through the building and to Borstal was because there was a Borstal treatment substituted.

Monkhouse applied that the came out the other side, passing suggestion that he was not fit for through a picture in course of its treatment. There was now evidence sentence should begin from the date that he was clearly it for that of conviction, and the court granted fight.

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