1930-08-26 — Page 7

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930,

THE CHINA MAIL.

QUARREL AMONGST RIKISHA AND CAR MAN WITH A DAGGER, 10 MURDERERS STILL

JAPANESE.

Charge of Alleged Murder.

PRELIMINARY TRIAL.

Fumi

io-clasi

IN CRASH.

Chinese Reporter as Complainant.

CASE AGAINST DRIVER.

HOW A PLANNED ROBBERY WAS FRUSTRATED.

GANG IN CUSTODY.

and

AT LARGE.

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Police Denied Last Straws of Evidence.

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Four Chinese were to-day formal- ly charged before. Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the unlawful possen- Mr. Lau Man-cho, chief re-sion of dangerous, weapons

Ten murderers who have com- Hagiwari, waa brought before's Mr. T. S. Whyte-porter of the Chinese Press, Pother implements which could be nitted their crimes in the last 18 months are at large in Britain unlawful purpose. Smith at the Kowloon Police Court Deared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell used for on a charge of the murder of Sogoro in which a young Chinese named Police in Triangular Street

to-day as complainant in a case They were arrested by the Wanchai0-day-unless any of them have 2nd

Hier natural deaths or are serving on priaen sentences for minor Mishima on board the steamship Lam Kai-tit, the owner of a pri- Saturday. and the men were Saka Maru in harbour on August vate motor car was summoned for charged separately as under:

¿ffences. failing to report an accident.

First accused: Unlawful posge3- Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the slon of a pointed iron. defence and pleaded "not guilty," His reply to the charge

Mr. Lau said that the accident "yes, a man named Shek Mong the Crown, while Mr. T. Murphy., occurred at about 12.30 p.m.. on gave it to me to go and take part who bludgeoned an elderly Reading]

At the time he was a fight." August 6. 2nd Assistant Director of Criminal riding in his private rikisha going

23,

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Public

Prosecutor, conducted the case for

was not legnify represented. alishida a curio dealer, was sworn in as Japanese interpreter.

WAS:

They represent all the worst) Lypes of homicidal criminals. One is a sceret poisoner, who killed off

three members of a Croydon family

with-arsenje. Another Is-a-ruffian

shopkeeper to death money in the till.

to steal the

pos-

He

The rest, with one exception, have killed women, and two at least of ever

these murders were committed by eex maniacs who may at any time pos-repeat their crimes.

Magistrate: Oh, you are very Intelligence, and Detective-Inspec-from east to west past the China frank about It!

Police Building. Suddenly there was a tor A. J. W. Dorling were

Second accused: Unlawful The accused bump from behind and his coole session of officers in charge.

4 small dagger. Mr. was knocked down by the impact. denied that the weapon had The sudden dropping of the shafts been in his possession, caused witness to fall out of the

Third accused: Unlawful rikisha on top of the coolie. The session of a pointed iron, a length rikisha was pushed forward for or wire and a potato. about 5 feet and this caused the coolie to be pinned under. ness's right forearm was cut.

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Possession Of Potato!

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Drinking Ashore. Opening his case, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said that ffagiwara, was a

He only admitted the possession modern English crime records. the Japanese

of the wire and potato. The wire.

It used to be the exception for a quartermaster on Vessel Sacha Maru, and Mishima was Explanation Demanded. he said, he had intended to wind murderer to escape the penalty of carpenter on the same. On August When he picked himself up, round his carrying pole which had his crime, but murder has now be 22, the ship was anchored lying off witness looked behind and saw cracked. The potato he had picked come so safe that the criminal has Co.), annual dinner and dance, Wanchai, when in the evening the car No. 2073 there, with defen-up on a ferry launch and was tak- good "odds-on" chance of going Segoro Mishima, accused, and two dant at the wheel. He asked him ing it home for cooking.

Fourth accused: Unlawful poe-1 others went ashore by sampan, for an explanation, as his rikishá where they visited a restaurant. was on the extreme left of the session of a pork butcher's knife, a They had drinks and evidently too road, and also told him that the length of wire and a potato.

There was a certain amount least that he could do was to re- much. of quarrelling on shore and on the pair the damage done to the return trip from shore to the Saka ríkisha. Maru by sampan.

Continuing, the Public Proseculor said that Sogoro Mishima's cabin was on the forehead foes'le on the deek. When the party got on board the ship, Mishima went into the quartermaster's cabin, where they seemed to be talking. An- other quartermaster on watch near the cabin heard a conversation, and

a noise which duggested that one of

the men had slapped the other In the face. A boatswain also overheard some of the talking.

Search for n Chopper.

Defendant's reply was: "You want too much. You can take my number and summons me!" With this the defendant Urove on.

Mr.

Lo: Your rikisha

hand side of the road?

WILS

Magistrate: Is that mrterial? Mr. Lo: That caused the acci-

At about two o'clock on the morn- ing of August 23 nceused roused the cook, and asked him where a dent. chopper was kept. The cook con-i Magistrate: It does not matter dueled the accused to the galley on who is to blame. The fact re upper deck, and there fram n mains that there was an accident drawer, necnsed took hold of and your client falled to report. knife. After that the cook went | IL. back to his bed and knew nothing of what followed.

He only admitted possession of the knife which he claimed was given him by the man Shek Mong to use in a fight.

Magistrate: A gang of robber? Detective Sergeant M, Murphy:

ed in custody.

HIRED BULLY.

SENT FOR TO COMMIT AN ASSAULT,

scot free.

Detectives Claims

All these murders in which the police live been unsuccessful wil be regarded as "unsolved" crimes, but the detectives in charge of the investigations in at least five of the cases claim privately, to have solved the crime.

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Their assertion is that the only To-day Majestic Theatre; Yes, we had information of an in-mystery which remains is how to "Half a Bride."

To-day Central Thostre Witness immediately went up to tended robbery at Yaumati. When bring home the erine to the mur- Central Station and reported the accosted by the Police the second derer in free of all the difficulties "The Four Feathers." Sports matter and subsequently a sum- accused dropped the dagger which and obstructions with which men raons was taken out against the form the subject of the charge of the Criminal Investigation De-

after wilneg had against him. All the other ac-partment have now to contend. defendant.

Traffic Office.cused were found with the weapons I would not go so far as to say visited the Police

I that the police. theories must be, Then witness had his rikisha re-and things in their possession, paired and produced a bill for am instructed to ask for a week's right in all the cases, but I am

formal remand.

confident that I could name at least $15.

The Magistrate granted the ap-three murderers whom the law can, swerving gradually to the right plication, remanding all the accus-not touch. states a writer in a& K. Wharf Godown Co.,

Home paper. The element of Kowloon, miscellaneous goods, s.1. dofbt in the other two cases is "Seagull," locomotive holler, and

steam crane, 10.30 am, small.

Every one who knows the truth August 30-At 19, Jordan Road of how murderers were caught is (2nd floor), Kowloon, household well aware why they are not caught furniture, 11 a.mt.

It is because of the any longer. way in which the police have been A BAD CHARACTER.

harried and hampered ever since the Mr. Lo (to complainant): The

appointment of the Royal Commis. Described as a "hired bully," sion on Police Powers and Pro- car just touched your rikisha?

Chan To, a wharf coolle, was to-cedure. Fixing the flame.

day charged before Mr. T. 5: Magistrate; I think, Mr. Lo, that whyte-Smith with having assault- alleged murder took place could not in view of the question of damed In Sui, an electrician, of 119, I have just made a tour of the

age, you' are entitled to try to fix Woosung Street. He pleaded various places where there are "un the blame.

colved crimes, and everywhere the Mr. Lo (to complainant): Your

Inspector R. H. E. Marka stat-police point of view is the same. rikisha was swerving gradually to ed that at 6.30 last night accus-

They say they are well-nigh the right hand side of the road? ed was arrested by the head dis- helpless, because so many difficulties

trict, watchman and accused of have been placed in their way. Replying to other questions by having snatched A gold wrist Witnesses are not telling all they and later collapse on the floor of Mr. Lo, complainant denied that watch from the complainant. En know, and no means can be devised the deck. The knife, which bore blood marks, was picked up and had his vehicle was near the centre of quiries were made and it was of extracting the truth from them. heard by Mr. H. R, Butters yes been handed to the Bacteriologist. the road at the time of impact found that the accused had been Suspects have to be treated so cir- terday afternoon in the case in The accused then went to the boat-e did not hear any horn sound sent specially from an electrical cumspectly that there is no hope which Kwok Chun-sing, formerly swain and told him that he haded behind him, and it was not shop in Mongkok to assault Ip they will give themselves away, and manager of the Health Service

true that his rikisha stopped aud-Sul.

no detective dares to "chance hia Intelligence Bureau, Wyndham wounded Mishima, and this brought the chief officer of the denly in the centre of the road.

It was found that the watch had arm" for fear of incurring hostile Street, is charged with the alleged Mr. Lo The car just touched dropped to the ground during the criticism.

forgery of a voucher purporting Saka Maru on the scene.

be

Collapse en Deck.

The exact time at which the

ascertained,

but evidence would

.be called to SAY that a quartermaster on upper deck looking down agang- way saw Mishima come out of his enbin holding his right shoulder,

Fireman's Evidence.

-No, it was on the left..

guilty,

'Police Helpless.

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FORGERY ALLEGED.

CASE AGAINST A FORMER MANAGER.

HEALTH BUREAU AFFAIRS.

Interesting: argument Was

your rikisha? No, a touch could scuffie, and was picked up later. The Ервот coroner had to be signed by one "T. K. Leung," not have knocked the coolie down The charge of larceny was drop to adjourn the inquest on Agnes who, the prosecution alleged, was and thrown me out on top of him. ped.

Kesson, the murdered. tenshop a fictitious person. Coolie Under Shafts.

The first witness called was a Japanese fireman on the ship whe

The accused said that the com- waitress, because somebody was As the case arose from a.docu- The rikisha was not pushed for-plainant attempted to assault one kepping something back.". The ment produced at a previous case testifled to having been ashore with the accused, Mishima, and another ward? It was, and the, coolie was of his clansmen. He objected and coroner in the Cheadle case of the against the accused, who was ac- man, and having had some Chinese pinned under the shafts.

they fought.

barefoot woman made the same com-quitted by Mr. A. W. G. H wine at a restaurant. The party. I put it to you that neither you The Magistrate "Well, you are | plaint. The Chief Constable of Grantham on numerous counts of that he cannot alleged embezzlement, etc., Mr. of whom the accused and Mishima nor the coolle fell?-We did, and evidently a dangerous sort of man Reading told me were both drunk, took a taxi to my arm was injured.

a man who has been convicted clear up the mystery of the mur R X. d'Almada, sen., for the de Owariya, 'a ship chandler at Wan- Did you know at once that your twice for assault."

der of Alfred Oliver because vital fence, entered pleas. of "not chai.

arra was injured?-No, not until Accused was sentenced to one information is being deliberately guilty" and autrefois acquit. At about 11.20 p.m. Mishima, to-after, when I felt my arm was month's jail, and bound over in a withheld from him.

Objection to Two Pleas Then I examined it and bond of $100 to keep the peace for

This is what is happening all over gether with the rest of the mem- painful.

In his submission for the prose bers of the party boarded a sam-found that it was cut, and there was a year.

the country, and experienced cution on the completion of evid- detectives, whom I have known for enco yesterday, Mr. M. K. Lo pan to return to the ship. However, a little blood. before leaving Mishima wanted to

they are at their wits end to knowed by the defence was not in ac years, have admitted to ma that argued that the double plea enter- how to face the new conditions.. cord with the legal authorities on It may be unpalatable, but the the point. He did not mind if Mr. truth is that, in many cases, there d'Almada withdrew the plea of Is no hope of convicting a murderer autrefois, acquit and plead not unless he can be trapped into con guilty, but he would object seri victing himself.

fight with Owariya'a assistant over

You did not show injury to de- fendant ?-No. I did not know:I] an umbrella, and 'also wanted to was hurt them. fight with the accused.

The case is proceeding.

THEFT FROM BABY.

JADE AND GOLD BANGLE

SNATCHED AWAY.

You demanded money from com- plainant as compensation?

Magistrate: He said it in evi- dence that he asked for compensa-| tion for damage to the rikisha.

Mr. Lo: I mean, he did not ask money for damage because there was no damage.

Damage to Rikisha. Inspector Alexander here inter. posed to say that the rikisha was not taken up to the Police Traffic

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London, August 6 The British lawyers proceeding to America, to return the visit made. by the American Bar to London, number 180, including, in addition to Sir John Simon, Lord Tomlin and Mr. Justice Macnaghten.

The party departed to-day.

HYDE PARK.

MR. LANSBURY FAVOURS FURTHER ALTERATIONS.

ously if the defence maintained both pleas and the Magistrate. de- cided against the prosecution. Mr. Lo also pointed out that the charge before the Court was one of misdemeanour and not felony..

The Magistrate thought that Sir John Simon," who is taking his....... first prolonged holiday since he

autrefois-acquit, would be admis- Another improvement in Hydesible with a plea of not juilty, bot undertook the chairmanship of the Park is likely to be the provision of not with one of guilty Simon Commission, has accepted more convenient refreshment places, Mr. Lo disagreed and quoted lavitations to speak at a number of Demands, have been made for authorities on the point that there places. He said he would probably little tek-houses scattered all over could not be a double plea He A Chinese youth who gave his reported to him. I can't say, how be expected to say something about the park in order to prevent lang alsojaaid that Mr. d'Almada had day lended guilty" before Maragistratex. What was the Indian

The party will be the guests of

THE BIRCH ORDERED,

once.

Complainant: 1 brought it out and left it outside the charge room. Inspector Dick was on duty and I

walks to the contral refreshment Coorg under the Larceny Ordin

house, offs brought

R. E. Lindsell to a charge of damage?-One wheel was bent, and Viscount and Viscountess Willing The position will certainly be ante precluded subsequent pro- anatching a jade and a gold a rubber tyre came off. It cost don In Ottawa mounted rattan bangle from the me $15 to get a new wheel. //

wrists of a baby which was being Mr Lo The bill does not men with that. It is beside the poin carried on its mother's back at tion, the nature of repairs? No. Mr. Lo: Of course, Fean the function of First and Centre but I can get the repairer to give how far-ho wa Streets, West Point, at 8.80 a.m., evidence on that:

but the article.

yesterday. After the theft the There was an article the Tapeared; accused ran down Centre Street. Yung Fo (a Chinese paper} about

The child's mother raised the thin incidi

ajarm and a Chinese Constable sible,

gave chase and caught, the ac-

cused. Both | bangles

covered. The Magistra

the accu

the bir

véré.

improved," said Mr. eorge Lans ceedings under the Forgery burs

Ordinance, and claimed that this

"I should very much like to see was raised in addition to and net these refreshment,

up as a part of the autrefois acquit They would be

plen

APs often have s cep

samp

the sur

Kensingto

the one Bubmission of Defence. partly clo... In his reply Mr. d'Almada said 101 like that his submission was that, hay- ***ing elected to proceed under the go around Larceny Ordinance in the previous tea-houses case, the prosecution was pre

the park bluded from bringing further pro-

ceedings under the Forgery Or dinance on the same set of facts. His Worship reserved his dec Eton intil Friday.

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