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COURT TURNED INTO TEMPLE

Blind Man Alleged Sorcerer.

S.C.A. INSTRUCTIONS TO POLICE

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The whole paraphernalia of temple, including 19 gods and god- desses, food stuff, tablets, joss paper and sticks, were brought be fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morning. when Chan Chi-yan, a blind man, With summoned for unlawfully taking part in the maintenance of ia es- a Chinese temple which tablished contrary to the provi- sion of the Chinese Temple Ordin- ance No. 7, of 1928. at No. 21 Wes- tern Street, second floor, on June 15.

sald)

Inspector K. W. Andrew that he Was instructed by the S. C. A. to bring the case to Court, and that the temple was establish. ed contrary to the provision of the Chinese Temple Ordinance In that the temple in this case

was

not

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934.

Emperor Hirohito of Japan (right) as he loft the Yasukun. Shrine. Tokro, after paying his respects to the spirits of Japan's dead warriors. All oficial Japan attended the memorial ceremonies, which took place on the last of the regular three-day Spring festival.

MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VESSELS

HE DID NOT RELISH

A BEATING.

To-day's Short Story.

Late Retribution

By Kathleen O'Brien.

TT was an odd chance that had that day from Birmingham; Trai

Iled to Richard Trallias being tins had gone out with him for

called as a witness for the prose-drink during the afternoon. He cution in the trial of Murdoch was dead, his temple bashed in with Grimble for the crime that had a heavy iron bar that lay near him roused so much public feeling on the ground. Trallias, recover- and indignation: the crime ing with an effort from an over- everywhere spoken of as the powering nausea, went quickly into Warehouse Murder.

the adjoining office and telephoned) for the police.

sales

If he had not left his tobacco pouch in the tailoring warehouse

The police arrested the during the afternoon it would never manager, Murdoch Grimble, on al have happened. As it Was, he charge of murder. made the discovery just, when he

They had discovered that an in-} had finished his plate of fish and trigue had been going on between chips at the little Italian restaur-Grimble's wife and the dead man.{ ant of London Wall where he was Motive pretty evident, and pretty a frequent visitor, and was going damning. Also there was the ques- to light a pipe and dally pleasantly tion of the warehouse key. How over his evening paper.

had the man seen by Trallias to lock He remembered then, with a the door come to be in possession mental flick of annoyance, that he of a key? There were only three his overcoat pocket during the the chief, Mr. Chappell, one by afternoon when he wan. in the Murdoch Grimble, and the third by| warehouse, and put it on his desk. Tralliss

registered. Accused, he said, had Kent Due At Singapore! And That Was Why He had taken his tobacco pouch out of keys in existence; one was kept by

accepted feer from those who came to worship, and that he ad- vised others to consult him casting out devils.

On July 15,

for

BERWICK DUE HERE ON JULY 4

Was Given One.

CHINESE YOUTH ON THREE CHARGES!

H. M. S. Kent, the flagship of the China Station which is on her

Accused said that he is a for-i tune teller, and that he brought |

the gods from the country,

The Saturday morning for hearing.

himself, Neither

Mr.

He had intended to fill it from the Chappell nor Trallise had any con- tin he kept there, but had been call-ceivable motive for the act,

and ed into the office by the sales man- both had unassailable alibis. Mur- "I don't like a beating", said anger, Murdoch Grimble. to worry doch Grimble had a very powerful under-aged youth to Mr. E. W. case 'was remanded until way to Hong Kong after a refitting Hamilton at the Central Magistracy out a matter of a duplicated order. motive, and was unable to provide

and recommissioning at Devonport this morning, when he was convict an hour to unravel: then something was certainly strong

The tangle had taken them nearly an alibi. Circumstantial evidence will arrive at Singapore on July

ed on three charges, of keeping else turned up, so that by the time prisoner. 13.

H.M.S. Berwick, now at Wei-het-gambling house, for being in pos- he left the office he had forgotten

ecasion of 764 po pui lottery tickets his pouch. wei, will leave for Hong Kong and for writing po pri tickets, at June 29, and will arrive here

on No. 11 St. Francis Yard, first floor, July 4.

last Tuesday.

MUI TSAI TO BUY HER FREEDOM.

Hearing Next Monday.

Appearing on summons for keeping an unregistered mui too Chan Kwan, a 33-year-old widow, of No. 29 Chi Lan Terrace, was manded until Monday morning for hearing.

H.M.S. Sandwich is on her way) to Hankow, and will arrive there jon June 26. H.M.S. Bridgewater will leave Shanghai on August

"If I knew you liked it. I would

go back for it. The place was only There seemed nothing to do but

Ove minutes away, and it would be

not give it to you", rejoined His for a whole evening. He called for a nuisance to be without tobacco Worship.

for Hankow where she is due et fence, three years ago, received 12 dank November air.

The boy, who had one similar of shivering

his bill, settled it, and went out, a little as he met the August 8.

strokes of the can for the

H. M. S. Grimsby, the new addi-charges. tion to the China Station, whichi Mr. C. Y. Kwan pleaded not

was recently commissioned guilty on behalf of defendant, on Devenport, The ground that the mui trai was October. presented to his client.

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H.M.S. Whitshed and

It was stated that the girl made Wren, now

H.M.S. Witch and H.M.S. NO WAGES PAID

Veteran will leave Wei-hei-wei on For failing to pay wages to her

July 8 and will arrive in Hong! registered mui tsai and falling to report her change of address, Lam Kong on July 12, Kiu.. a 57-year-old widow wae charged before Mr. E. L Wynne Jones.

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Queer, thought Tralliss as he waited to be called, that he should He was approaching the ware-be in this grim place giving evid house along the quiet back street fence that might mean life or death Three other men, LI Sang. Chan where it lay when he was surprised to old Murdoch. All because of a Tin and Luk Chang-kin, in connee to notice a light through the chink forgotten tobacco pouch. He won- isition with the case, were fined $100 of the street door. So far as he dered how things were going in the cach, in default two months" hard knew the warehouse had been clos-cburt. Although he could hear H.M.Sabour, for writing pa pui tickets.ed, and the two packers had gone nothing, except now and then vague al Wei-hei-wei, will Inspector K. W. Andrew a report to the S.C.A. that she could leave for Hong Kong, arriving here cuted.

prose-home before he himself had left the sounds of feet walking across a only have her freedom by redeeming on June 30.

office. Almost immediately the floor, of a dispassionate lawyer's herself with a fee.

light went out and the warehouse voice, caught as a door opened and door wai opened from the inside. shut again, he

was aware of the A man came out of it, locked it, and tension that must be charging the walked quickly along the street the atmosphere enclosed by the four! other side from Tralliss.

walls between which a man's life Trallies noticed that he was of hung in the balance. middle height, that he wore a dark He wondered how old Murdoch overcoat with the collar turned up, was sticking it. Not that old and a felt hat pulled over his eyes. Murdoch was particularly old; He could not see his face. Puzzled about forty or so, probably. Tral- and vaguely disturbed he walked liss, who was twenty-five, had got quickly to the building, took out his into the habit of thinking of him Evidence was given by Kioto, a warehouse key, opened the door as old Murdoch in a way half in Japanese quartermaster of the s.s. and switched on the light.

friendly, half-contemptuous. Calcutta Maru, in the charge He gave a guap of horror. Lying Queer chap, old Murdoch. He against Nand Singh, a passenger, on the floor, his head in a pool of seemed a timid, ineffective little REGULATIONS OUTLINED FOR Wei-hel-wei now. H.MS. Suffolk, of cutting and wounding Banta blood, was a man Trallies recóg-man until you saw him in one of his H.M.S. Cumberland, H.M.S. Corn Singh from the Sikh Temple, be- jnised as one of the firm's commer-rages. Then you saw a demon of

fare Mr. E. 1. Wynne Jones at the cial travellers. He had come H.M.S. Cham Tai, a 60-year-old widow, wall, H.M.S.

Kowloon Magistracy this morning. H.M.S. was fined $26, for bringing an un-Eagle, H.M.S.

The witness stated that he had H.M.S. H.MS, seen the two Indians on the deck of the Calcutta Maru. They were H.M.S. Yo Chan the 13-year-old mui taai, Veteran, H.M.S. Medway and 11.M. pushing one another about, but he said that she had been well treated Submarines,

will leave for Wei-hei-wei on July Inspector Fraser stated that the 2. where they will arrive on July 7. while H.M.S. Wishart and wages owed were $66. $1 a month for the first year then $1.50 a month H.M.S. Whitehall will leave Hong for the next three years.

Kong on July 6 for the same de Mr. Wynne Jones said that she stination, arriving on July 10.

H.M. Submarine Otus has left would have to pay Wong Kan. the)

and will arrive 18-year-old mui thai, the wages in Wei-hel-wei

(Hong Kong on June 23. The following vessels

three equal monthly instalments. She was fined $10 on the second charge.

WELL TREATED

Berwick, Adventure, registered mui tani into the Colony, Falmouth, H.M.S. Keppel, by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Whitshed, H.M.S. Bruce, Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

H.M.S. Witch,

Wren.

and wished to stay with the defen-(Orpheus. Odin. dant.

Inspector H. W. Fraser prose-

cuted.

GIVEN AS DAUGHTER For keeping Fu Lan, a 16-year- old girl, as an unregistered mui tsai, Wong Sam, a 42-year-old mar- ried woman was fined $150 by Mr.

E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

are

at

THOUGHT TWO INDIANS WERE SKYLARKING

NO LICENSE FOR PISTOL

European Fined $5.

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AFFIXING STAMPS

the Sixthly, Both parties transfer are responsible for affixing

cigarette ash Trailise had dropped who has been realdent here for three stamps to the required amount, ex- over one of the new model reach.months immediately preceding the cept in the case of transfers to the me-downs of light gents' suiting. therein is situated in the United transfers prior to 9 p.m. yesterday. transfer, or if the bullion interest

United States Government and very easily brushed off.

States at the time the transfers were wherein the responsibility renta Old. Murdoch's rage had ended

with the transferor and transferees. as quickly as it had begun. Mut-made or were agreed to be made. way with blood on his face.

Summoned for being in posses-tering an apology to his astonished

TAX APPLICATION

The liability ceases when the ness found spots of blood on the sion of an automatic pistol with subordinate he had relapsed into fere made on and after May

Thirdly, the tax applies to trans- deck and washed them off. He did out a license, Mr. Werner Prang, the quiet, colourless little fellow of

a little while later Barta Singh was seen running down the gang-

Oswald,

Rainbow

Olympus, and

thought they were only akylarking,

Perseus.

LOCAL ESTATE.

60-Year-Old Chinese Leaves $68,700.

Wit-

wards.

16, stamps are cancelled by the collec-

tor.

not see any instrument with which of Schmidt and Company, was fin- everyday life. Trallias had heard 1934. Separate regulations govern

Seventhly, transferors of in- the damage might have been done. ed $5 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at afterwards a curious story about transfers completed before 9 pm.

Sub-Inspector C. Poziskwy stat-the Central Magistracy this morn- him, something to do with a queer!

yesterday and those completed after-terests in allver bullion between January 15, 1984 and the time of ed that Nand Singh was returning, and an order for the confisca strain in his ancestry, that probably ing to India after being 20 years tlon of the pistol was made.

Fourthly, the tax applies to trans-the enactment of the Bill must file explained the outburst. Letters of administration for the in Canada. He had known Banta was stated that the case come local estate, amounting to $68,700, Singh while in India, so on his to the authority on June 6, when enough little beggar in the main. for delivery to the United States

Still old Murdoch was a decent fers to the United States Govern- return on or before July 18, re-

ment except transfers by deposit porting the transfer. of the late Mr. Chan Ying-lim, of arrival to the Colony he went and Mr. Prang applied for a license, about as capable of murder as a No. 35 Queen's Road, Central, who stayed with died on August 31, 1923 at the age on June 8 ithey went to celebratelony for 12 months, it was report him at the Temple. The weapon had been in the Co-

canary, and the only grumble Tral- of 60, have been granted to hand got drunk and

went aboard ed. widow, Chan Tse-ahi of No. 17 and started a light. OPIUM DIVAN ALIBI Stanley Street.

case was remanded until FAILS.

When asked why she did not re- gister the girl, defendant said that the girl's father had given the girl to her as a daughter,

Trespasser At Detective Office Fined."

The

Fung Chung-shi, a widow, late of Monday. No. 53 Caine Road, died on Febr Juary 21, lust, leaving local estate <1

valued at $14,400. Letters of ad "FLYING DOCTOR" IN

ministration have been granted to Fung Wel-ching, her son, of the same address.

Prosecuting Lam Fook, 22 years.

Probate has been granted to Ip before Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the Central Police Court this Mak-shi, of No. 28 Bonham Road, morning, for trespassing at the widow of the late Ip Kwat-wen, of

No. 56 Far Nin Street, Katahan, whoj Central Detectives' Office yester died on September 22, 1983, leaving day, Sub-Inspector Dredge that what accused wished to tell local estate, valued at $64,600,

said

the Police was only an excuse for

being in the Detectives' Office.

Accused was found by one of the principal Chinese detectives,

an

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BULL RINGS AS THEATRES.

as had about him was the way he

hung ОП

sales- to his job as manager, keeping him. Tralliss, in a permanently inferior position. There were only the two of them in the warehouse office. For some

New Project In Spain. time Traillas had writhed under

what he felt to be an unfair 'differ- ence in their status and their Madrid, salaries. There was 'no doubt it

mint.

(A) Under the proclamation of December 21, 1988, relating to the coinage of newly-mined domestic silver or a similar proclamation of the President, (B) In compliance with any executive order which may be issued under Section Seven of the Silver Bill,

MEMORANDUM UNDER OATH Eightly, persons transferring in- teresta in allver, bullion after the enactment of the Bill must deliver to the transferee a memorandum under oath giving details of the transaction, which must be trans- Imitted to the Collector of Internal

Revenue.

*

If the transfer is taxable, stamps must be affled prior to delivery of the memorandum. PRICE 'DEFINED

Nincly, the regulations provide Open air theatrical performanwas he and not old Murdoch who of the amount by which the price certain cases where the proft (A) Fifthly, the tax is 50 per cent. for abatement or refund taxes in cen in all the bull rings in Spain had the energy, the wits, the for the interest in the silver bullion is realised by the transferor's nor may become a regular feature of shrewd concrete imagination.

ver for industrial, professional er artistic use and (B) It is offset by Josses incurred in silver foreign ex change transactions hedged by sil ver on which a profit is realised. Router.

the National life in view of the Somewhere inside himself he was transferred exceeds the total cost, mal business or by furnishing sil Sydney, N.S.W. (success of the play given in the

aware of a natural driving-force plus allowed expenses. Dr. Alan Vickers, known affec-Madrid Bull Ring during the Reconstantly running to waste for

(A) The price is defined as tionately by hundreds of grateful|publican, Anniversary celebra- lack of outlet. He knew he could the amount of the money már. {patients in out-back Queensland as tions.

have done old Murdoch's job on hii ket value of the property other "the flying doctor,” has been ap- The Minister of Education, Don head and Improved the sales depart-

than money received by the pointed as the first "fying doctor" Salvador de Madallaga states that ment fifty per cent. in six months.

transfer or directly, or

In- under the new national system. he will do all he can to make the He suspected that Mr. Chappell directly, in consideration there-

He will take charge of the Port project materialiso-Reuter,

of.

Wong Lau, wandering about the Privates, Booth, Roberts and For- place, and when he was asked what ley of the South Wales Borderers Headland district in Western Aus he wanted, he said that he want-who are facing charges of highway tralia. Port Headland in about, SCHOOLBOY'S DISHONESTY ad to lay information about an robbery and assaulting ■ Chinese 1060 miles north-west from Perth, *oplum divan In Kowloon, He chauffeur, Lo King, near Repulse and about 100 miles south of was further questioned and found Bay on the night of June 16, wen Brooms-Beuter/

that what he said was only alibi,

A fine of $10, in default

'days' posed.

imprisonment, หน

new it, too.. He had overheard him (one day, discussing the two sales- men with one of the buyers, who |bad evidently brought up his name, “You're 'right · about · Trallias,”

Li Cho-vin, a 21-year-old student of La Salle College, was food $25 Mr. Chappell had... said. “I know an remanded in prison custody. until

by Mr. E. 1, Wynne Jones, at the he's worth more than he's gelting |to-morrow afternoon when the bear- The P. and 0. liner... Bhutan Kowloon Magistracy this morning, at the moment, and believe me, he 14 ing was adjourned at Central- Mi-|left Shanghai for Hong Kong to- for attempting to us at monthly knows it too; You're not the only Im-gistracy before Mr. Q. A. A. Kao day at 9 alm., and is due here at 4 ticke; which be "had picked up in one who's spotted him as a live

fayden 'yesterday.

p.m. on Friday,

the street.

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(B) The cost is defined as the amount paid or agreed to be paid by the transferor in money etc, other than money. exchanged by him for such in- terest......there are certain axceptions governed by special

A.S.C. CAFE STOLEN

Sentence of one mouth's hard labour was imposed on Li Shal, un- |employed, by. Mr.. E. W. Hamilton at the Centrál Magistracy ́ ́Efla morning, for the theft of a waber - provlafons...

proof cape, valued at $4, the pro- "(C). Allowed expenses in-perty of All Akbar, an Indian of the clude storage, insurance, trans- Army Service Corpa,