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THE SIX China Mail

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ROBBERY FROM A SAMPAN.

Man Faced With Crime Two Years Old.

JANUARY ASSIZES.

No. 27,699

PRINCES IN TRAIN

MISHAP.

Express Held Up Owing To Blockage of Line.

STEAMER DELAYED.

ESTABLISHED

1846

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR.

The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11%.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 1931.

SANITARY BOARD. DEATH OF MR. C. A. ROBBERS' APPETITE.

REPORT ON WATER SUPPLY

OF COLONY.

ORDERS OF THE DAY.

The following are the orders of the day for the meeting of the Sanitary Board at 4.15 p.m. to-

morrow

FULCHER.

Came to the Far East in 1892.

FUNERAL AT-5 P.M.

NOT IMPAIRED BY THEIR

CONSCIENCES.

Ride Safe

ON

DUNLOP

"Britain's Best."

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

FELIX VILLAS MURDER.

Houseboy on Capital

Charge.

THREE TERRIBLE WOUNDS.

TURKISH TYPISTS

INCINERATED.

Trapped in Blazing Store in Constantinople.

MANY ASPHYXIATED.

Constantinople, Yesterday. Over a score of persons were

BONHAM ROAD CASE.

In connection with the Armed robbery at 620, Boubam Road, second floor, where the robbers are alleged to have had a hearty meal Letter from Government relative]

and stayed the night, Lo Kit (44), ) to the erection of four additional

stated to be a building sub-contrac- į „/ The second of two cases on the

Bordeaux, Yesterday,

urinals at King's Building on

There passed away in the Kow-fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the fore the Acting Chief Justice, Mr.

tor, was this morning brought be

At the Assizes this morning, be- calendar for the January Assizes The train in which the Prince Marine Lot No. 287.

loon Hospital at four o'clock this Central Magistracy charged with E. Wood, the trial commenced of trapped in a blazing building com- was heard by the Acting Puisne of Wales and Prince George were

Letter from Government relative morning an old and very popular the larceny of a watch, three gold Chu Sul-mui, a Shanghai man who prising coommercial offices and a Judge (Mr. Justice T Jacks) and travelling to Santander from to the erection of three native type-resident of the Colony, in the per- anger rings, and eight pieces of is charged with the a jury this morning.

Paris to-day.

closets at No. 10 Su Wa aon of Mr. C. A. Fulcher, at the clothing, to the tutal value of $340. Chan Yee, a house boy employed at the commercial district.

murder of cinema film store in the centre of was temporarily water The accased was Wan Lin-yau, held up owing to an accident Terrace on Inland Lot No. 767 R.Page of 62 years. He had a parn- and the charge against him was earlier in the night to an express

Letter from Government relative lytic stroke yesterday afternoon, Meadows appeared for the prosecu-of. Saturday, December 12.

Detective Sergeant W. E. 9, Felix Viilas, in the early hours Saven were incinerated, three tarceny by two or more. It was train from Spain, which resulted to the erection of three European at his residence, Station Hotel.ion and applied for a remand of

asphyxiated, and 14 seriously in- alleged that on October 29, 1928, in a blockage of the line and water closets at No. 84 Robinson' and was removed to the Kowloon 48 hours which was granted. the accused boarded a passenger necessitated the transfer of pas-Road on Inland Lot Nos. 1260 and Ifospital sampan in the Harbour of Re- sengers on both the up and down 931 R.P. fuge at Yaumati, with Pun Tak lines to other trains. The prefec- Letter from Government relative connected with the staff of CAMPAIGN OF ARSON|junt., instructed by Messrs. John ist and work girla.—Reuter, and Ko Cho, and robbed Fun Mei, ture of Bordeaux, however, sub-to the erection of sixteen European Messrs. Moxon and Taylor, Ex- the mistress of the boat, of a sequently learned that the Princes and one native type water closets change Building, since 1921, in NEARLY 19,000,000 LBS. OF empanelled consisted of Messrs. counsel went on, evidence would purae containing a gold ring and had passed through Bayonne at and five urinals at a house in Boo-, which year he came out to the $140 in money.

12.10 p.m. and a telephone order ham Road on Inland Lot No. 591. Baet a second time. He was born was sent to Santander to delay Letter from Government relative In 1869, and was educated at the s.s. Oropesa's departure.

to the erection of fifty-two Euro Harrow, He originally came to pean and one native type water The case for the prosecution

closets at Regional Seminary on was outlined by Mr. T. S. Whyte- The mishap occurred at Mor-Rural Building Lot No. 315, Aber- Smith. Assistant Crown Solicitor. ceux, in the heart of the desolate deen.

The acused, who was not legal

ly represented, claimed trial.

ago.

Unusual Case,

Impassable Barrier.

sum-

Mr. C. A. Fulcher, has been

He told the jury that the case Landes district, on arrival at Letter from Government relative was an unusual one because it which the Princes were faced to the erection of eight European STOP referred to an alleged robbery with an impassable barrier of and sixteen native type closets and which occurred over two years over a mile of ploughed up track, five urinals at the Hostel—Staff | imposing a delay of five hours, Garden Lot No. 76; and one addi- Bungalows-Servants Quarters on They would hear in evidence, while a special train was he said, that on October 29, 1928, moned from the South and their tional European water closet at St. at about 9.30 p.m.. a beatwoman (highnesses, with their luggage. Stephen's College Hostel---Stanley named Fan Mei was on board her were transferred across the gap.on Rural Buliding Lot No. 821. sampan which was moored in the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter close to shore and alongside a coal hoat. She was alone in the sam- pan, her husband being on the coal boat,

Opium Search.

Prince Sails.

Letter from Government relative to the erection of forty native type water closets at the houses in Yik

3089.

Santander, Yesterday. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Yam Street on Inland Lot No. sailed on the Oropesa at 9 p.m.— Reuter.

Letter from Government relative [Santander, one of the chief to the erection of five European A small bont came alongside seaports of Spain, la 316 miles and one antive type water closets the sampan and two men board-north of Madrid by rail and is the at a house in Canton Road on Kow- ed it. They pretended that they terminus of railways from Valla-loon Inland Lot No. 532.

had

Kowloon Inland

PRESS

London, Yesterday. The death took place to-day of the Labour Member of Parliament, Dr. Ethel Bentham, who won a seat at East Islington at the last election, after standing thero thrice previously. She was a great champion of women's interests and said recently that women ware still in the hobbledehoy stage. "We are full citizens, but we are still seeking full emancipation in practice as well as fo theory."-Renter.

SUGAR CANE BURNED.

DUE TO INCENDIARISM.

cane

Mr. Someraat Fitzroy prosecuted 'jured, four of whom were mangled for the Crown, and defendant was whilst jumping out of windows. represented by Mr. Leo d'Almada The casualties include many typ

son, Stokes and Master. The jury

reated.

John Gardner (foreman), W. J. Brown, 0. A. Smith, R. E. Mac- show that prisoner slept at 28, Dougall,

He got up during A. Hyde-Lay, D. H. Kennedy Road.

· Cooper, and M. J. Bull. - ..

the night, wakening other men in Mr. Fitzroy, opening his case,

the room, one of whom saw him put briefly described the lay-out of the back later on, and then went out on his shoes and socks. He came Havana, Yesterday. Nearly 19,000,000 lbs. of sugar premises at 9, Felix Villas, BJ

once more.

He was not seen' again were burned yesterday in shown on plans put in. He ex- Matanzas, one of the Havana Pro-plained that there was

until about 7 a.m., in the yard at- a yard at

He was then ar- vinces, and is attributed to incen- the rear of the house which faced Kennedy Road. diarism. This is the largest con- on a scavenging lane. There were

Counsel' suggested that flagration in Havana for years.-two doors opening into the yard, there was a probability of his hav |Reuter's American Service.

ing gone to Felix- Villas In that whilst entrance to the house had to [Cuba is the largest sugar-be made through the kitchen door, time, and committed the murder. producer in the world, and the It was easy for anybody to get into counsel replying to His Lordship, After describing the wounds, sugar crop in 1929 was 51,156,159 the yard, however, without coming tons. Plantations cover 1,600,000 through the door, as it was possible said that no weapon was recovered. acres.] -

to climb over the wall, and then It was hardly likely that any as- sailant could have concealed him- drop down.

self in the house. On the night in question, evi-

The Fatal Blow. dence would be brought to show

Medical evidence given by Dr. that both doors, or gates, to the G. V. A. Grifiths, showed that the yard, were closed, bolted, and bar- dead man had abrasions on the face, red. Hence entrance could only be made by climbing over the wall. that the wounds on the hands might hands, and neck. His opinion WBB The doors communicating with the have been caused by grasping house were also, locked, and en-

PRELATE TO REST.

SUFFERING FROM SEVERE BOUT

OF NEURALGIA.

DUE TO OVERWORK.

London, Yesterday. trance to this part of the premises knife. The palm of the right band It is officially announced that must therefore have been through was deeply cut, and the top of the His Grace the Archbishop of the yard.

little finger of the left hand cam- Canterbury has been, ordered at

pletely severed. There were 'three Possessed of A Key. least three months' rest. He is

The first ran back- main wounds. The victim slept with his wife in wards along the right adde of the a small room on the left of the neck, ending in the spinal column,

.

come to search for opium. dolid and Bilbao. It is situated in Letter from Government relative, They found nothing, and then the fan inlet, in the Bay of Biscay, on to the erection of five European, two men put the boatwoman, Fan the inside of a rocky peninsula. type water closets at a house in Mei, into their own boat, where

Many of the houses on the Canton Road on they proceeded with a third man hay front and public buildings Lot. 632. talleged to be the accused) to were restored after the catas- Letter from Government relative the Far East in 1892, being in suffering from severe neuralgia, search the woman. her hand over a purse containing steamer Machicharco, laden with type water closets at a house in the Philippine Islands as an as-SOLDIER DROWNED.

They made trophe of Nov. 3, 1893, when the to the erection of five European the firm of Smith, Bell & Co. in due to overwork-Rueted.. kitchen. It was noteworthy, add-cutting through the external por-

1.,700 cases of dynamite, blew up Bonham Road on Inland Lot No.sistant. near the quay.]

692, section C., R.P.

$140 and a gold ring.

The woman's husband was quite close by and saw and heard all. He would say that he was

Chased by Husband,

Equally Guilty.

Poor Health.

BRITISH POLICY

NEW FORCES 'ANIMATING

INDIAN THOUGHT.

Rugby, Yesterday.

the inside.

of a uniform pattern, and one key second wound was at the back of ed counsel, that all the locks were tion of the jugular vein.. The would open them all. The Crown's the left shoulder and base of the Letter from Government relative He worked there for 27 years, FUNERAL OF PTE. MARSHALL case was that someone climbed over neck. It penetrated inwards to to the erection of forty native type but his health compelled him to prevented from returning to his boatwoman's husband and the ac-water closets at ten houses in Lock-leave Manila, and he returned to

the wall, and opened the kitchen the left lung. TO-DAY.

The third main boat "by men

door with a key that he bad in his wound was 5 inch deep. It was. who had boarded cused's statement when charged, hart and Hennessy Roads on In-Britain, where he remained for her. He did not take any action that the only conclusion they land Lot No. 2525.

this connection, above and to the left of the left The body of Private John Mar- possession.. In until the three robbers tried to could arrive at was that accused

two years.

went Mr. Fulcher came shall, of the Argyll and Sutherland the key to the kitchen door was nipple, and Letter from Government relative out to the Far East again in Highlanders, who fell into the bent, and could only be used from through the heart. ending at the completely escape. His evidence was thati prisoner was the robber who suc-

to the erection of one additional 1921, and joined the staff of Kowloon Reservoir while out on a was guilty.

European water closet at a house in Moxon and Taylor.

To open the door with diaphragm. Leeded in getting away with the

Prince Edward. Road on Kowloon)

cross-country run on Friday last, it it would be necessary for anyone Answering Mr. Fitzroy, witness purse. The accused got ashore by

Inland Lot No. 2204.

Of a kindly and genial disposi wna recovered on Saturday after-to put their hand through a nearby said that the heart wound would al running across the coal boat.

Here Mr. Whyte-Smith comment-

tion, Mr. Fulcher was extremely noon. Correspondence relative to the popular with

The funeral is expected to window, and use the key from the most certainly cause the Immediate ed that even if the accused was hours of opening and closing of the whom he came into contact, and afternoon.

everyone with take place at Happy Valley this Inalde. On the night in question collapse of the victim. He might

the key was lying on a bed out of lurch a few steps, that was all. The master of the sampan and only standing by during the rob Kowloon Tong Market.

It he will be greatly missed. In his

reach of the window. It could not was not possible definitely to state his wife would say that the other bery and afterward ran ashore with

Reports of the work done by the younger days, Mr. Fulcher was a two robbers jumped into the the purse, he was equally guilty of

possibly have been used, and there whether the blows were struck with water. They were chased by the the robbery as the two convicted Select Committees for the month of most amusing entertainer, being

fore the door must have been open-the right or the left hand. December, 1980. husband and pulled out of the mea. Apparently he did not come

singer of repute. He was also

ed by somebody who already had a Report from the Honourable very musical.

Might Have Called Out. of foki in the small boat with the other Director of Medical and Sanitary He had acted as British Vice- water with the aid

key on his person."

Cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada, These two men were tried for two, who hired the craft, and he Services on the water supply of the Consul in Cebu, and had a great

Continuing, counsel said that the witness said he thought the man joined them presumably from the Colony for the month of December, many friends in the Philippine

door to the yard at the back, which could not have remained standing It was only on December 3,jehore,

had been bolted the same night, was more than a minute after the blow 1980. 1930, that the accused was ar The accused's statement was then

Islands. Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports)

found open after the crime. It through the heart. It would be At the Final Plenary Session of They would not know read as follows:-

Fond of Games,

was evident that whoever from the Honourable Director of

com-possible for him in that time to "In this matter a number of Medical and Sanitary Services for and golf, and was the circumstances in which the

to- Mr. Fulcher was fond of tennis the Round Table Conference

mitted the murder escaped that groan or cry out. It was highly arrest was effected, because the persons went to take part. I did the weeks ending December 27, 1980 the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, make a statement of the Govern been the pricipal boy in the house, two minutes later.

a member of morrow the Prime Minister

way. Prisoner had at one time improbable that he could call out Chinese detective who took the

not go on the boat. I was 1 and January 3, 1931.

ment Policy. the street.

The tendency accused into custody was shot

At last two men Ko

Health Return from the League London. He was unmarried.

and the Thatched House Club, Lord Peel will also speak. Accord- and after the arrival of the other would be for him to double up and killed in a Yaumati. restaur-

Ki-man and Pun Tak were arrest of Nations, Eastern Bureau for the

man there had been # certain under the blow, which must. have ant about a week later.

ed by the Police. Ore-man, Kau weeks ending December. 18.

Out of respect to Mr. Fulcher, ing to the Observer, Kong-chal, ran away; and an-

the Stock Exchange is closed for donald will only indicate the broad amount of friction, and at one time been struck with very great force. Even All the wounds were apparently other was Young Mei-chal."

Record of Infectious Disenees half a day to-day, and the flag at lines of the Government's Bill, a free fight between them.

same sharp Instru Mr. Whyte-Smith commented that weeks ending November 12 and 19, flown at half-mast.

from the Ministry of Health for the the Hong Kong Club is being Lord Peel is not expected to give ually the owner discharged the pri-made by the

mere than provisional and limit-visited the premises from time to ed from the front, the assailant sonor, on September 31, but he had ment. If the wounds were inflict- they were dealing with. He it would be difficult to see how the 180, merely mentioned it to show that accused was innocent in view of Mortality Return for Hong Kong afternoon, the cortege passing ed to the Round Table Confer

The funeral will take place this ed approval to the declaration." time after that. it was impossible to produce evid- that statement and his indentifica for the week ending December 28, the Monument at 5 p.m.

Vicerby, Lord Irwin, referr-

would be right-handed. He was "All Was Silence."

of opinion the victim had tried to ence of arrest. Most probably tion by the boatwoman's husband.

On the night of the murder the defend himself, and possibly seized ence in his speech at the opening victim and his wife woke up a little the weapon, thus getting his hands. the arrest was the result of in-

of the Legislative Assembly at after 40.m. Delbi yesterday. He said: "Great few minutes, and then returned to

They got up for acuta. Britain has realised - as she has

By Mr. Fitzroy: The assailant bed. heard it at first hand from all aec-would state that her busband get out any blood spurting upon him.

About 5 o'clock the wife might have struck the blows with

Widow's Story,

robbery and convicted.

rested.

Mr. Whyte-Smith emphasised hat the shooting of the detective had nothing to do with the case

tive.

Identification Parade."

"

Blackmail, Alleged.

19

4

1930.

:

formation received by the detec-When before the Magistrate the December 27, 1930 and January 3, Rat Return for the weeks ending] accused made apother statement 1981. alleging that the charge against him was blackmail. The boat On the same day of the accus ed's arrest (December 8), an iden- people had tried to get $80 from tification parade was hald, them; and when he would not pay they brought the charge against hind.

came,

SHOT · EUROPEAN.

MRS, XAVIER REMANDED UNTIL NEXT WEEK.

accused standing in a row with cight other men of similar height;} build, and attire. Three wit Whyte Smith's opening statement

Evidence corroborating M nesses who were on the scene was given by the boatwoman, ber the robbery attended the parade, husband, and the man in charge of

MR. MANTON IMPROVING. but only one person identified the the small boat in which the robbers accused. This was the boat-

On the charge of having at woman's husband, who was quite

tempted to murder Mr. Alfred Detective Inspector Fallon depos- Joseph Maxton at 416, Lockhart definite about it. This was the ed that the accused was arrested on Road, on December 27, by firing only identification of the accus Information received by Chinens ed, but coupled with it was detective Tse On (since dead), on at him with a revolver, Mrs. statement made by the accused when he was charged at suspicion of having been cuncerned Jesuina Marin Xavier made her fourth appearance before Mi. In a robbery. The Inspector the station

said that the Informer was pro-Lindsel at the Contral Mr.Whyte-Smith said that duced to him and he took the Magistracy this morning, after hearing the evidence the man's name and address, and added His Worship: Any further news jury. would And that the accused's "In case he is nasassinated I am from the hospitalt Bevera -statement placed a very surpris | responsible," ang tationery system Heplying, Detective Sub-Inspec ning complexion on the case. Iffe, in reply to M. Whyte-mith the tor Murphy said that Mr. Manton was an incriminating statement Inspector said that the information was doing fairly well, and was if not actually a confession, and did not come from the boat people, now in the Victoria Hospitali Ho

itstowed that the accused knew

far too much about the robbery: He would, ask the Jure” to say

thefacen

Prisoner's Blory

The accused elected

I would be able to attend Court next

| week, but not until then, de **M*z-Lindéell aftő: deferkianty

Spremanded Knother week -tð January, 26721

FRESH AND FINE.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states: The anti-cyclone. is central over the Yangtaza Velloy.

Fresh monsoon prevails along the S.E. Coast of China and over the N.. China Sen.

Local Forecast:-N.E. winds; fresh; fine.MAY

Roinfall

De Rainfall to 10 am.to-day 0.11 inch against an average of nil Rainfall since January 1,

Temperature.

0.58

The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock WAS S

Hong Kong

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Pratas faland Kentitis

Foochow Amoy Swatow

52

will

Lord Reading and

"As Mac-

tions of the Indian Delegation up again. She heard a voice out- something of the new forces that side, which she did not recognise. are animating the political thought Her husband unlocked their murdered man,

L Yah-wun, widow of the

then gave con

of India." Ho described the Con- room door, and went to switch on roborative evidence. She said she ference as the turning point of the the light outside, in the passage. last saw accused previous to the constitutional, history of India The next thing was her hearing him murder, on November Kritish Wireless Service.

RESTAURANT FIRE.

DAMAGE DONE TO EXTENT OF $3,000.

cry out "AJ Yih, Al Yah."! all was silento.

Thon

24, at 9, Felix Villas. Describing the oventa. on the night in question, she said

·Direct Evidence. · ··

that her husband got up about 5 The woman then looked out inta a.m. He unlocked the door, and the passage. She saw a man was in the act of switching on the standing by the elde of the door. I light outside, when she saw him He was wearing a white jacket, disappear from view, with a cry of Although confined only to the white trousers. with a dark stripe,Al Yah Tho light was not cock-luft of 874. Shanghal Street, white socks and dark shocs She switched on, as he had no time be- (the Hop Yee Hang Restaurant) a was able to recognise him, as she fore he was struck. She then saw fire which broke out there did know the man. It was the pri- accused in the doorway, holding a damage to the extent of 83,000. soner. "There is thus absolutely knife in his loft hand, and looking The cause of the outbreak is un- direct evidence that he was there, backwards, as if at the prostrate known, and the premises are fosur, and apparently no-one else,”; xajd|man. B

CHAT BY Fitzroy; The woman was only Witness described the man's During the outbreak, Lal King eight or nine feet away, and she clothes and general appearance. chuen, master of the Tak Yee tea- had known him for months and She added that she waito mutil shop, has reported to the Police, months. He was not a stranger, he left, when she ran outalde, and some person entered dis cubicle, but someone, she actually know, and raised an alarmi?”. Her husband she and after ransacking it, got away whom there fil no question as to her found lying doubled up in the pars- "with money and jewellery to the being able to Identify.""

On the night of the murder,The case is proceeding."

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