1934-06-18 — Page 9

FORGER GAOLED

· FOR 3 YEARS Calculated, Deliberate

Offence.

COUNSEL'S ELOQUENT PLEA UNAVAILING

"You

culated, well thought-out. deli-your next theft. Yours is the

our, Mr. Justice A. D. A. Mac-sentencing

a Chinese,

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1934.

MAH JONG DEBT

NOT PAID

Chopper For Protection Against Creditor.

Chan Kun and Chung Hing-wan were brought before Mr.. E. W.

Hamilton at the Central Magis tracy this morning, and charged

To-day's Short Story.

THE BODY IN By Grenville

THE BROAD

Robbins.

33RD CONVICTION

Theft From Harbour View Hotel.

APPLICATION FOR FREE HAWKER'S LICENSE

There seemed to be no way out were out of jail only

HAVE never been a violent supporter of the theory and of it except for one of us three to "To my mind they were cal-three weeks when you committed for being in possession of a chop- always felt that, if one really triangle. I had no intention of com- practice of murder, but I have be out of this accursed human berate and repeated offences, and most terrible record I have ever per and for disorderly conduct, feels compelled to commit a mitting suicide even in my wildest after giving full weight to the seen. Thirty-two previous con- respectively, in Lockhart Road.

murder, one might just as well alcoholic moments. Neither of I Sergeant Fitches stated that eloquent plen of your counsel. Ivictions involving dishonesty.

make it an artistic one. So them was worth that. Neither had cannot see my way to impose think it is about that Society got Chung was a former employee of many otherwise excellent mur- the slightest intention of murder- other than a sentence of three a rest from your undesirable at the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, ders have been completely spoiling my wife. No. It was obvious years' hard labour on each of the tentions," said His Honour, Mr. and that he came to know Chan, ed by lack of attention to detail. that Gilraith was the one who must three charges. the sentences to Justice A. D. A. MacGregor at the who was a patient of the hospital Some silly little thing seems al- be removed.. be concurrent." said His Hon-Supreme Court this morning in suretime ago. About a fortnight most invariably left behind I came to this decision long be Chan ago Chan loat $200 to Chung, at which eventually implicates the fore I Intended to put it into prac- gregor, at the Supreme Court Wing, to five years' hard labour mah jong. Chan paid Chung $180. culprit.

tice, and spent more than six months this morning when imposing for larceny from a dwelling.

The idea, I may say, had occurred contriving things so that every pos- Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At-pressed for the remainder of the to me long before it was borne in sible contingency was provided for.. sentence on Tong Yue Cheong.

and sum and threatened to attack alias Tong Wing-sheung, who torney-General, prosecuted,

one me that it was inevitable that Gilraith must die. That was; of Chan, if it were not paid. · pleaded guilty to six chares of the jury empanelled consisted

I myself, in fact, should commit a certain. But it was equally certain; When arrested yesterday, the forgery and uttering of forged Messrs. James Hunter (foreman),

murder. I should also like to add that he was not worth hanging for, were having a friendly that there may be no justification of so I settled down to plan out the documents.

H. R. de Pinna, M. V. Neves, C. de V. accused

ner was found hidden in Chan's der cas inevitable. I am just try-- pocket. He stated that he carried ing to give the bare facts. it for protection, in case of an at-seemed to me then, as it seems to tack from Chung.

Sergeant Fitches said that the me now, that it would be a decent thing to remove James Gilraith, The accused went on to say that Police are not pressing the case from the world. of mortgage deeds on property alj he did not mind admitting, even and asked hat defendants be bound K.IL. 1693, the property of Mr. Ng before the beginning of the case, over. A personal bond of $100 on Woon-tong on January 31, March 2 that he had been to gaol on many each, to be of good behavior for a and August 11, 1933.

He had lost period of six months, was made Entering a plea of mitigation on two teeth in a struggle with seven by Mr. Hamilton. behalf of the áerused, Mr. D'Almada men, he added. said that he went to America as a Accused's objection to the mem- young man and started a laundryber of the jury was over-ruled by business. After years of thrifty His Honour.

and still owed him $20. Chung

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At. Ribeiro, H. Dreyer, and Fung Kau talk in Lockhart Rond, but a chep-my belief that this particular mur-"perfect" murder.

torney General, prosecuted, and Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Junior, was for the defence.

The charges against the accused were in reference to alleged forgery

Yue.

The accused created a sensation at the outset of the proceedings by objecting to the presence of one of the jury.

previous occasions.

saving he returned to Hong Kong The subject of the charge where he took up dealings in land against the defendant was for the in which he met with success. theft of two pairs of flannel trou- In September 1931 he was intro-sers, valued at $20, and a lady's duced to the complainant by one of fur cont valued at $90, from Har- his own clansman as a trustworthy bour View, Chatham Road, on May business man. After the purchase 13. The property belonged to Mr. of the property had been executed. W. Gardiner and Mrs. W. Gar- the complainant left for the country diner.

EXPULSION ORDER FOR GIRLS.

Two From America Miss Liner,

NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY HOTEL BILLS

It

I disliked him personally. I dis- liked him for the effect his per- sonality bad on others. I disliked him especially for the effect his per- Įsonality had on my wife.

·TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The Shuttlecock Of The Ritz-Ritz" by C.. Patrick Thompson.

She and I had been very happy I pondered over the problem for for the first couple of years of our weeks, and at last I had drawn up married life. Then came Gilraith. the perfect scheme. Gilraith would He was my immediate superior at just disappear from human sight the Anglo-Bengalore, a prosperous and no one would be a penny the trading concern in Leadenhall-wiser except myself. Not even the police or rather especially not the

street.

I had got a position' there some police. months before I was married (in As soon as I had contrived my fact, it was the excuse for our mar-plan I started the habit of spending Iriage). I was, In effect, second-in-my week-ends on 2 good-sized

Miss Paula Burton, 23 years, of command in Gilraith's department. wherry on the Norfolk Broads. My and Miss Al-And, so long as he remained Gil-wife was quite content to stay at leaving the accused in charge to Evidence was given by the No. the United States, collect the rent," which obligation! boy of Harbour View, who said bertina Haley, 20 years, of Nicara-raith to me, everything went on home and listen to the blandish-

ments of Jimmie. the accused never failed, said Mr. that he saw the accused in the rua, appeared before Mr. E. W. pleasantly enough.

Central Magis- D'Almada, even after the alleged basement of the building and gave Hamilton at the offence had taken place.”

chase. The accused had the fur firacy this morning, on a charge of The downfall of the accused came coat under his arm and the trou-entering the Colony without with the depression which hit there in the other hand. He runvalid passport. Colony two or three years ago, when towards Hung Hom, but was stop-

his creditor, and he had not suffi

cient means to meet his abilities

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OPIUM It was a private

SEIZURE

Sequel To Thrilling Harbour Chase.

BISHOP'S ADDRESS AT CATHEDRAL.

"The Individual And The Community."

Then he became James. I invited And so I started the innocent him to my house.

habit of going off and burying my- Then he became Jimmie. My self in Norfolk every week-end. I wife fell for him at the start. She had bought outright a wherry and was soon hopelessly infatuated, and had it moored in Swifthouse Broad. Detective-Sergeant C. Mottram

so was he. Unfortunately, he was near Wroxham. he fell into difficulties over a loan Ped by a Portuguese and handed stated that the girls came to the married, and so was

Colony on June 8, on their way to

she--and so broad, probably the smallest of all of $7,000. He was hard pressed by over to the police.

was 1. That was the crux of the broads, and very little used. I had intimated at thia Manila, by the s.8. Tatsuta Maru. situation.

a car, and so I used to drive down point that the gentleman in ques- As Hong Kong is the terminus for tion had not come forward to give the Japanese liner, the accused let things remain as they were.

They both seemed quite content to every Friday night, returning his name to the police.

had to transfer to another boat, was not I.

So London, late on Sunday night. Another boy of Harbour View and they were planning to take the

This habit became so regular that also claimed to have seen the de-s.. President

it practically ceased to be noticed Hayes. Having fendant. while Mrs. Gardiner tes-missed this boat, however,

at all. I kept up the custom right they tified that the property belonged registered at the Trocadero Hotel,

through the summer. At last there employed Chinese, were charged be- to her husband and herself.

came a Friday towards the end of Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the; and the case was brought to the

"The Individual and the Com- October when I thought that the C tral Magistracy this morning, munity," was attention of Mr. W. R. Scott, Assia-

the subject of an time had come to carry out my plan. for being in possession of 50 taels address delivered by Bishop R. O. Superintendent of Police,

through setbacks in business.

It was at the instance and sug- gestion of his ereditar that the accused concerted the scheme so as

to get money to repay the loan. In

this case the money from the mort. gare Wns paid over to the creditor and the accused did not re-} ceive one cent, only the satisfaction of his debt being clcured, anið Mr. D'Almada.

sel.

Accused's Admission,

"A Terrible Record."

Manila.

TWO ACTRESSES ROBBED.

Banishee Who Wanted Picture Frames.

Chan Cheuk-wan, alias

.A banishee,

Plk-lin.

to

TWO ACCUSED REMANDED

Li Lo and Ho Kam-fook, two un-

The previous week, when I was of prepared oplum and 3,120 taels of down in Norfolk, I had realised that raw opium.

a year.

"SPORT AS A MENACE TO PEACE."

Hall at the Cathedral yesterday.

the He explained the futile attempt to

#ombine the teaching of the Ser. mon on the Mount with the con. duet of a nation or another group

this

and Australia, which he said were

control was impossible.

The accused's record showed tant that his first term of imprison-when Miss Burton applied for re- ment for dishonesty occurred gistration. when he was 9 years of age. From

my wherry was the sold tenant of It will be recalled that on 1965 to 1933 he had 32 convictions have not enough money to pay for Cheuk-wan,

Both the girls said that they

Ng the broad. The weather was still morning of June 11, there was The complainant first came to and with the exception of 1928, their hotel bills, and

was pretty fine, but the season proper thrilling chase, led by revenue hear of the maiter through the ae-had on record an offence for each have wired for some money from Fadyen at

that

they charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- had finished. On that Sunday officers in the harbour, before the eused, who frankly admitted to the year since 1995.

the Central Police night, as I sat on the roof of my accused were arrested. offence after borrowing the title He admitted each one and added

Court this morning. for the wherry In absolute silence, I rea-; A motor-boat was seen the night in relation to a parallel autonom- decus. No action, however, was the request that his Lordship give order to be made, which he said from the Misses Fung Mun-ha and not and a single flaw. Point No. westerly direction, and upon in-

Mr. Scott asked for an expulsion larceny of two framed pictures soned the whole thing out. I could before coming into the harbour from ous group. taken until a month later, during! (Continued in next Column.)

#that ali was necessary, BA the Chiu

The Bishop enlarged on which time the accused made no al-

two Cantonese 1: I looked after myself on my formation received two revenue terapt to abscond. Mr. D'Almada, documents of titles to land is a crime girls know how to take care

of actresses, on the Yuen On Wharf wherry, and had done so for nearly boats were ready to make a search point by making a reference to themaclves. went on to stress this as a point in which the law regards, and properly

yesterday,

Point No. 2: The place A warning signal to the suspected sport, and gave auch instances as the accused's favour. He fully so, with utmost serlousness. After Orders of expulsion were made:

Inspector J. Murphy stated that was quite deserted, Point No. 3: craft to heave-to for the purposes the Far Eastern Games at Manila realised the gravity of the offence, giving all weight to the eloquent by Mr. Hamilton for Saturday.

the complainants came from Can-The wherry was moored to the bank, of a search passed unheeded, and as the Test matches between England but was prepared to meet the charge|plea of your counsel I cannot see my i

ton yesterday, by the 8.8. Kwangsi, Point No. 4: It was approached by the quarry accelerated speed, the and its consequences, suid the coun- way to impose other than a sen-, him a free hawker's license as he bringing the two photographs path all the way from Wroxham, chase took on the aspect of a race?

tence of three years' hard labour cu wanted to go straight..

with them. Accused, who WEN which, though rough, yet took a car across the western section of the a menace to peace, in that moral accused's statement in the police sentences to be consecutive", said trates and police had used every for a period of 10 years, was seen had been quite dark for the last few craft ultimately had the effect of

Mr. D'Almada also added that the all three charges of forgery, the Mr. Fraser said that the Magla-banished from the Colony in 1927 quite easily, as it indeed had to harbour.

every week-end. Point No. 5: It Warning shots from the revenue court might possibly be placed his Lordship.

effort to induce the man. to go carried the pictures away. against him, but counsel observed) A sentence of one year's hard straight, He was British born and Sentence of three months' hard weeks when I had arrived on Fri-forcing the suspected boat to close that the feelings of so heavy a dis-labour was also imposed on the first thus they were unable to banish labour was imposed on the theft day night. Everything was exactly ipahore. Two men leaped from the

Personal Para grace on the accused had forced him charge of uttering, to be concurrent him from the Colony, said Mrs. charge, and nine months' hard right.

bont on to the Praya, but at that into offering an explanation rather with the first sentences.

"The nature of Swifthouse Broad moment a car appeared along the The forthcoming wedding is an- The last Frase.

labour for returning from banish-suited my plan to a nicety. than be completely condemned by two charges of uttering were with- His Lordship imposed sentence ment, the terms

to run consecu-though it was, it was deep, and even

Tiny waterfront and knocked down Họ his many friends whom he had but drawn by the prosecution.

'tively.

Kam-fook.

[nounced Although not vėry

of Mr. Phillip James recently met on a level standing.|

quite close to the bank the water seriously injured, he was unable to

Ivan Neubronner, an engineer, of He was also not legally assisted in

went down to a depth of 15ft. to make his escape and was arrested, No. 28 Jordan Road, fourth floor, 20ft. Moreover, theree was no tide together with Li.

Yaumati, to Miss Bianca Antonia The tiny sheet of water was land- The oplum was dumped into the Parraga Azan, aged 26, of No. 186 locked except for one entrance lead- harbour which was dredged the Fa Yuen Street, Kowloon. Ing into the river which was not next day. more than a few yards across.

Dr. Klang Kang-hu, professor of“, Here was the nucleus for an iden Lo, while Ho Kam-fook is not re-Chinese studies at McGin Univer- of how to get rid of an inconvénient presented. Revenue-officer A. w.alty, will return to Hong Kong to- body. And then, on top of that, a Grimmitt is prosecuting.

day, from Canton's He is expected lonely wherry in which I had lived! The case was remanded until to stay here for two weeks before! alone every week-end for months, Thursday afternoon. and which could be approached at night by car without fear of detec- tion.

those proceedings, said counsel,

The fact that accused had a wife, three children and an aged mother! was also brought forward by Mr. D'Alamada as another point meřit- ing consideration in his favour.

Mr. D'Almada said that this was not à ense of a hardened criminal. but one of a man who had hitherto always been a hard and industrious) worker. His first fall was followed only too easily by others.

"The diagrace and degradation. which faces him now must be ample punishment for his misdoings and it will be hard for him to face life in the future," said Mr. D'Almada. Eloquent Submission.

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His Lordship, addressing the ac- cused, said that he had chosen wise- ly to enter a plea of guilty through his counsel who had made. eloquent plea on his behalf. It was only right, however, that it be noted that certain matters which advanced in his favour wore matters which could not be properly taken into consideration at all..

werd

To my mind they were calculat ed, well thought-out, deliberate and repented offences. The forgery of

of five years' hard labour.

Troops Called, F. D. Petitioned, In Alabama Strike

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For the second time within a month, Birmingham, Alas becomes the centre of militia: move- ments, following the calling out of troops to prevent disorders in the iron ore mine strike. Two were killed and cleven wounded during the trouble, and Governor B. M. Miller sought intervention of Pre

sident Roosevelt,

I had reasoned it all out. There would be no danger of detection that! |«nd-ones I could get him there.

Mr. M. Silva is appearing for Li

OPIUM POISONING

CASES.

..

leaving for Shanghai, from where he will sall for America in August.

Capt. A. U. Willis, D.S.O., RN,, who recently went home in the HMS. Kent from the China Ste-

Women Figure In Queertion, has temporarily succeeded

Coincidence.

I could drive up there in the

Capt. P. Macnamara. In-command dark In the ordinary way, and, even

of the flagship H.M.S. Nelson, and if anyone saw the car, which was

Two Chinese women, from separ-H. D. Boyle,

as Flag Capt. to Admiral Sir W. extremely unlikely, there was chance of seeing that there were Government Civil Hospital yester Miss Maisle Martin, of Sydney,

noate rezidences, were taken to the two of us inside. I should arrange day morning about 8 o'clock by who has come to the Colony for that part. Once he was on the wherry the rest would be easy, the effects of opium poisoning, kett, arrived by the Changte on the same ambulance, suffering from her wedding to Mr. Herbert Mus It was getting him away from said to have been self-administer Saturday. Miss Martin was ac- London without letting anybody know that was the difficulty. And The women were Leung Mal of A. Martin. The happy event,

ed."

companied by her mother, Mru, M. here our renewed intimacy was the No. 222 Hennessy Road, and You

last link in carrying out the per- Shang, of No. 150 Tervola Road. one postponed, is now expected to fect murder.

take place on Saturday at 8t. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,

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Their condition was reported. not serious,