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THE
DETAINED BY CANTON SHOOTING AFFRAY.
POLICE.
.Witnesses for Defence
of Accused Men.
COURT SENSATIONS.
CHINA MAIL.
RED ROUT.
INQUEST ON CONSTABLE'S WIFE.
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Mr. A. W. G. II. Grantham and
.Canton, Yesterday. a Coroner's fury yesterday after- News has just been received noon held an inquiry on the victims from the north-eastern sector of There was more sensation in Mr.of the shooting affray in Elgin Kwantung, relating to the suc R. E. Lindsell's Court yesterday Street on May 30, when a Shantung cessful suppression of a large afternoon when hearing was re-constable named Lui Po-chi band, of "Reds" numbering over sumed of the case In which the stated to have shat his wife and 2,000, on the Kwangtung-Fukien Canton La...... Canton authorities are seeking the then committed suicide by shooting border. extradition of three alleged fugi- himself in the head. tives from justice.
It appears that the "Reds" A fellow
the house were committing outrages Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for the alleged testified that the couple had lived usual in those out-of-the-way dis-Chins Fire Ins.......$400 fugitives, again entered a strong there for a couple of months before tricts, unaware that a large com H. K. Fire In.......$ protest against the high the tragedy, and during that short bination of garrison troops, police handed action of the Can-space
of time there had been a forces and local militia were be- ton Police in arresting and in number of quarrels. between them.ing collected for their annihila- terfering with witnesses engaged At 3 p.m., on the day of the tragedy tion. The "Reds" some time ago Douglass... .. 124 to go to Taifoo village to obtain the man came to the house in a bad overpowered the authorities at H. K. Steamboats...$ .... photographic exhibits for the de mood. He smashed a dressing box Yungting, and after having com-tado-China (Pref.) ...$
belonging to the woman, cut up pletely plundered and destroyed
jacket and a mat, and then the food supplies and the re-shelf Transports/ He returned at about 6 sources of the people, they pro- Union Waterboats....$ o'clock. The couple were in their ceeded to carry out their work of cubicle for a little while and then destruction at Yeungmoon, witness heard three reports. She Kuchuen and Looshih went into the cubicle and saw the bodies.
fence.
Counsel said that as the result of representations made since the last hearing of the case, four of the five detained men, two of whom were photographers, were released on Monday. One of the two re- leased witnesses was badly Injured through being seriously assaulted by the Fatalan Police and is now lying in Canton. The third wit- ness (the fifth member of the party) who is an elder brother of the third accused, has not yet been released.
Mr. Lo suggested that it might be argued by Canton that this man had committed a felony, but that should not preclude his production before the Court on a writ of Habeas Corpus. He asked the Court to view the case in the same way as that of an ordinary person brought out of Victoria Jail to give evidence.
Mr. Lindsell:
a
left.
The combined forces encounter- ed and fought them on June 12, Summing up, Mr. Grantham said with the result that they com- that the evidence clearly showed pletely disbanded the entire gang that the man was very hot tompered, and killed more than 400 and and when a man was hot tampered captured over 100, the rest hav he was apt to throw things about. ing fled to Yungting, on the On that occasion the man had a Fukien-Kwargtung border.-Can- loaded revolver, and it was not ton News Agency. difficult to surmise that, in a fit of temper, he had shot the woman and had then turned the revolver on himself.
The jury returned a verdict of murder and suicide.
What power has WOMAN ATTACKED.
this Court to order the Canton Gov- ernment in this matter?
EXCITING AFFAIR IN WYNDHAM STREET.
Four Remedies Suggested. Mr. Lo said that in the alter- native, he had four remedies for the situation. The first was that, with his Worship's assistance, he could indict Tam Thong, the man then
A Chinese named fu Cho-hol is giving evidence on behalf of the in the hands of the Police as a re- prosecution in the box, of pervert-ault of an alleged attack upon his ing the course of justice by prevent-wife (Yeung Yuk-fn) an amah em- ing the defence from bringing down ployed by a Chinese family at 2, necessary 'evidence. The second Wyndham Street remedy was that the Court At about 6.16 last night the wo- might take notice of one man was seen running down the of its witnesses having com- street with a man In pursuit. She mitted an act of the- highest suddenly collapsed at the mouth
On order of polluting the source of of
Lan Street and It justice. The third
then found that she was remedy was was that his Worship had power to at- wounded in the right breast, right tach such a witness If, as in the pre- arm, and leg, although not seriously. sent case, he had committed an act
against the Court by bringing about the arrest of the person referred to in the constructive presence of the Court. And lastly, a motion could be made for an order nisi.
Counsel reserved to himself the two measures of attaching the of-i fender or moving for an order of nisi to show cause why he should not, be attached. "These two It- medies are cumbrous things and are not generally proceeded with on account of delay," he said.
Canton Police Reply."
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Mr. Somerset Pitzroy, the Public Prosecutor, in reply to the Magist-
Severni Europeans attended the woman, who was later removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
It is thought that the alleged attack took place on the staircase of the house. the weapon used be- ing a pair of scissors.
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Shanghai, Yesterday. is reported that General Fu-chu, the Nationallat
which the fugitives' solicitors had Officer commanding the Nanking addressed to the Inspector-General | forces
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Mr. Chiu Ming-chu has been appointed District Magistrate of Pao-shan in succession to Mr. Wu Chia-nung.
A reply was received from the Public Safety Bureau of Canton in which they acknowledged receipt of the letter sent to them and suggest- ed that they did not know that the men had
The been detained. village was in the district of Nam- hol and a copy of the letter was sent to the Namhol Magistrate with the a few days to repair the graves of instruction that he deal with the his ancestors
matter satisfactorily. Four of the
Mr. Wang Yung-pao, Minister to Tokyo, will leave for Soochow in
five men were relaaaad on Saturday, Colonial Secretary's Office to H. B the day after the sending of the M's. Consul at Canton, stating the letter. The fifth apparently was detained man's case and enquiring detained, but of that he (Mr. if they had cause to show for his Fitzroy) had no knowledge beyond detention. Failure by the Canton
what his friend said. It might be, authorities to release the man or Mr. Fitzroy suggested, that the show such cause would attach great man still being detained was one of suspicion to their case. those on the list wanted ju con- nection with the murder.
His Worship suggested that A letter should be sent through the
Mr. Fitzroy promised to take up the matter through the channel fa- dicated by his Worship.
The case was adjourned.
The question is raised of the choice of a successor to Lieut.- General Sir Webb Gillman on the completion of his four years' tenure of the position of Master- General of the Ordinance.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, speaking at a dinner of the 1912 Club, rer ❘ viewed the history of the Conserva
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