1934-09-05 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1934.

NULLAH OUTRAGE TRIAL RE-OPENED TO-DAY

GAMBLING RAID HELPS TO SWELL POOR BOX COFFERS

"We Haven't Had A Haul Like This For A Long Time"

For keeping a gambling house at No. 11 Buch Street, Sin Sing Kee,

53-year-old married woman, und her 20-year-old son, Lo Luk, were fined $30 each by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

. Eight others were charged with gambling, four of which did not appear, their $3 bail being entrent- ed while the other four were fined $2 each.

"We haven't had a hadl like this for a long time," said Mr. Wynne Jones when Detective-Sergeant Kennsly stated that $21.27 had been picked up from the floor. The money was put into the poor box.

STAMPING OUT

LOCUST GAINS

WORLD NOTICE

UNREGISTERED

MUI TSAI WAS

WELL TREATED

ONLY NOMINAL FINE

ANOTHER RUNS AWAY

Summoned for keeping an regis. tered mui tsal, Tam Fun, alias Hing Fa, 12 years, Fan Ki-cheung, a merchant of No. 8 Yuk Ming Street, was fined $10 by Mr. E: W. Hamilton at the Central-Magistracy this morning.

Inspector H. W. Fraser, said that the girl was presented by her mother for the aum of $90, when she was six years old, in the dia! trict of Nam Hoi. She was brought to Hong Kong in 1932, and since then she had been very well treated by the defendant and a nominal fine was asked by Inspector Fraser to be imposed on defendant. "Pinched And Slapped" The summons against Yu Chu

shi, a 58-year-old woman, for keep-

AN INTERNATIONAL ing an unregistered mui taai, Tam

CONFERENCE

IN LONDON NEXT WEEK

London, To-day.

Ngau, 11 years, at No. 41 Bonham Road, was remanded until next Monday morning, when the facts were revealed by Inspector Fraser. Inspector Fraser said that on August 10, the girl accompanied by

WARNING TO JURY CONSCIENCE

ON CAPITAL

PUNISHMENT

Closely.

Dr. Valentine

Cross-Examined

INTOXICATION POINT DISCUSSION

Close cross-examination of Dr.

D. J. Valentine, medical officer of the Government Civil Hospital, on the question of toxication, fen- tured the opening of the re-trial of Ng Loi-yuen, charged with the murder of Michael Pine aged 8, at Albany Nullah on June 22 last, before the Chief Justice, Mr. JA. D. A. MacGregor at the Su-

preme Court this morning.

A special jury, comprising Messrs. W. H. E. Thomas (fore- man), E. Coek, Wong Tak-kwong, W. G. Goggin, Sum Pak-ming, F. M. Ellis and J. Fleming, was empanelled for the re-trial.

Mr. J. H. Fraser, Assistant At torney-General, who is prosecuting for the Crown, stated that hel

Mr. R. C. H. Lim, instructed by Mr. P. P. K. Kemble, of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, is again ap paring for the defendant.

The third International Locust her brother-in-law, reported to the Conference will meet in London on S.C.A. that she had bean pinched Miss Mildred Dawn, who will make a welcome reappearance with her might ask for the jury to visit the September 1. Invitations have and slopped by defendant, and that partner, Marty Sands, in Cabaret fes tures at the Roof Garden, Hong Kong scene of the crime. been issued to the Governments of she ran away from her mistress. Hotel, on Saturday. locust-Infested countries in Africa Inspector Fraser added that and Western Asia, and leading ex-mark had been found on the girl.

Mr. Hamilton remanded the case perts in the question of locust, re- search and control will be present for the appearance of defendant. to discuss steps to be taken to who was represented by her son) reach a solution of the problem.

The British Government repre-

this morning.

sentatives will include Sir Guy PEAK RESIDENT

Marshal, Director of the Imperial] Institute of Entomology.

ROBBED

Servant Boy Bound' Over

по

'To-day's Short Story.

Reincarnation

one

By John Talland

After the jury had been sworn- in, the Chief Justice said that if any member of the jury had other views on capital punishment and felt that it would be against their conscience to BOTYU on & jury where the 'verdict might result in the death penalty, they were in- vited to say so and their views would be considered.

No objections were made. Case For The Crown

Mr. J. A. Fraser addressing the

Murder

CENTRAL

THEATRE

SHOWING TO-DAY,

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.80

[Framed! Because he dared to love!

SHADOWS of SING SING

MARY BRIAN BRUCE CABOT COLUMBIA PICTURE

NEXT. CHANGE

BELA “DRACULA” LUGOS!

IN

"NIGHT OF TERROR

SACRIFICE!

оде,

As these Roses Sacrifice their lives for decorating your garments, so we Sacrifice all our profits to repay you for all your past favours in making us so success- ful in our first year.

The devastations caused by

TAMES GRIGG had made up years old, and a failure. He knew locusts in Africa and Western Asia

his mind to commit suicide. he was a failure. Nothing he had during the past few years were so

had been successful. As he threw one leg over the ever done great that the necessity of dealing

wooden fence that bounded the Endowed with average intelli- with the locust problem in a com- prehensive way became obvious. Fung Yo-kuen, a servant boy em-railway cutting, he paused, not gence he lacked resolution. He The committee on locust control of ployed by Mr. Scott-Harston, of from want of determination to had, as he himself expressed it jury said that the trial of murder was a grave issue and he would' the Economic Advisory Council, ap-j

No. 529 Peak Road, was charged make the final moves of his re- "no guts."

That lack of "gute" had damned ask them to put out of their minde pointed in 1929 by the Prime before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the solve, but in order to take

had heard before this trial. Minister to study the locust pro- Central Magistracy this morning, last swift look around at the him throughout his life: the shy anything that they might have

It was a hesitating, nervous manner blem, soon come to the conclusion for the theft of a bottle of malt, world he was leaving. that its solution could not be ap- two cigars, cake decorators, a lea- fair world. The trees were just always made him the butt of was wilful killing of another hu strict territorial ther cigarette case, a neck tie, a in leaf, fresh green, and casting ribaldry. He had lost one position man being, and suicide and tals- proached if a

shadows where

was ing another the after another, and now he

to death with basis was preserved.

brush and a cigarette lighter, to dappled

The workless and penniless. He had was also murder, if the person Owing to the distribution of the total value of $39, the property strong noon sunlight fell.

sky was blue, flecked with high never marred, for the very good survived. "And this is the post- reason that he had never asked tion alleged by the Crown," said locusts over territories of many of Mr. Scott-Harston. different countries, no organisa-! After the articles were identified white clouds. Birds twittered.

There were no other noises in anyone to to marry him.

Mr. Fraser. tion could hope to elucidate the by Miss Scott-Harston, accused was

In the war he had been selecti

It was for the jury to decide origin and migrations of locusts bound over in the sum of $50 to be the countryside. It was a peace- unless it secured the co-operation of good behaviour for a period of a spot, well chosen for the pur-ed, from almost the first day, to after hearing the evidence whether pose. On the left the cutting be an office orderly, and having the Crown had proved its case or deepened sharply as the ground never left England, had known no whether it was a case of extenuat rose, until, not two hundred yards fighting. A bomb dropped in ing circumstances. One instance of distant, the gleaming metals rap country field near a South Coast

circumstances extenuating in the round black hole of a training camp had simultaneously drunkedness, but it was to be-de- deprived him of his arm and kill-cided whether the circumstances tunnel's mouth.

ed a cow. At the time it had of drunkedness was extenuating or seemed to him that the cow's whether, on the other hand, the timely demise had created

crime was aggravated by taking most interest.

drink merely to carry out a purpose The balance sheet had been easy which, while sober, could not be to make up: James Grigg, work-faced. "Obviously that person is less and friendless, forty and a failure, had made the one big re- solve of his life when. he had de-crime in cold blood," said Mr.

of the countries concerned.

Extensive investigations are now in progress in a number of coun- tries, both British and foreign, and the results so far obtained give de-

six months.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

finite grounds for hoping that the A Dinner Dance will be held at locust problem will ultimately be the Repulse Bay Hotel to-night. solved. Co-ordination of the inves-The "Andetonians" Band will be in tigations is effected by means of attendance. International Locust Conferences,

the first one of which was held in

A Mixed Whist Drive will be held

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "An Anecdote," by George R. Preedy.

Rome in 1931, and the second in at the Kowloon Cricket Club, on

Wireless Paris in 1932.-British

Friday, September 14, at 9 p.m. |---... Service..

Members and their friends are ask-

LIUCHOW CHOLERA SCOURGE Stringent Rules To Curb Disease

FLY-CATCHING CAMPAIGN

[From Our Own Correspondence) Kwangsi, Sept. 4.

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the

was

.

no less despicable and equally guilty

as one who committed the same

Fraser.

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LORRY DRIVER FINED

ed to give this function their hearty There was in James Grigg that cided that to go on trying to evade support. The entrance fee of 31 animal instinct to carry wounds, by passive resistance the difficul per person, includes light refresh-for hurts, into some dark place, ties that loomd against him, all ments.

away from the world. He wanted through his life, was not worth no spectacular exit, but a quiet the Indefinite future.

The end was not to be difficult. which painless passing to whatever wait- For picking up a purse

his mind he He had only to walk into the dark! another pick-pocket had throwned. In making up away in Swatow Lane last evening, had fully weighed the arguments mouth of the tunnel-well into it) Chau Yan, unemployed, who was for and against, writing his rea-safe from curious, praying eyes, European Woman As charged with the larceny of a sons carefully down on

from molestation, like a a clean safe

Much To Blame He purse, the property of Liang Shld, white sheet of paper, in his neat rabbit into its burrow, and

down on the railway line and was sentenced to six weeks' hard handwriting,

Yau Yeung, driver of lorry No. labour by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at This was no case of insanity. wait. It would be swift and easy.

right-hand waistcoat 1986 was fined $10 by Mr. E. L The officials in the Linchow dls the Central Magistracy this mora-He realised that. He was in full In the trict

have adopted stringent Ing. Sergeant Fitches prosecuted, possession of his senses, but life, pocket of his navy blue serge suit Wynne Jones at the Kowloon methods to curb the spread of dis

the completed was a screw of paper with four Magistracy this morning for fail ease during the cholera scare The Ladles Club of the 1st, Bn. balance-sheet, was not worth v-sleeping tablets in it. He had ing to give a signal while turning there. The sale of over-ripe fruit South Wales Borderers, will hold a ing. With one leg over the fence, tried them, swallowing two out of into Nathan Road from Shantung

absolutely prohibited and Whist Drive and Tombola at Mur-he steadied himself and drew the his original purchase of six, and Street at 12.55 p.m. August. 8. ---

Mrs. G. Bogdataky of No. 95 Tai farmers and shop-keepers convict ray Barracks on Friday, commenc-folded paper from his pocket. He was satisfied that they were ed of offering over-ripe fruit for ing at 8.80 p.m..

had nearly forgotten that before efficacious. In a little while he Po Road also summoned him far sale are dealt with severely by

going into the tunnel, that last would take the whole four-they failing to drive with due care and Then he caution, but on the evidence given the police authorities.

Ki Sun Taoi, who tried to complece of evidence had to be des were quite harmless.

would lay himself down across the in court Mr. Wynne Jones said that case, where a farmer mit suicide on March 31 by jump-troyed.

she was as much to blame and so brought a boat-load of peachesing off a pier and was picked up The tiny, fragments fell from his metals, and wait.

There was no slackening of pace dismissed the summons. with the intention of marketing by a boatman and sent to the fingers and were gently scattered

fumes them in Lluchow, the entire cargo Mental Hospital, was charged to into the grass by the faint breeze. as he stepped from sleeper to of fruit was dumped into the day before Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones Then, with stiff movements he sleeper along the track toward acrid stale

He shivered slightly, but pressed river after having been examined at the Kowloon Magistracy for at pulled himself with his left arm toward the tunnel He dreaded caressed him from head to foot. and found to be in an over-ripe tempting to assault his brother, Kt over the fence and slid down the most disappearing Into condition.

Sang. The case was remanded for bank to the permanent way. The blackness. No courage was need on, and presently he grew ac- A rather novel method of rid-seven days, for medical examina- right arm hung limply by his side ed for the rest. ding the city of flies has also been tion. inaugurated. The police have offer-

Is

In one

of smoke,

that

customed to the smell." It carried

It was a wooden arm covered at He slightly braced his shoulders memories. It reminded him of a

the extremity by a white cotton and swung his one sound arm with time when, as a little boy, he had military precision, the other hang-been taken to the seaside for a ed twenty cents an ounce for and delivered to the Sanitary glove.

holiday. With gaudy, palated fles delivered to the Sanitary De-Department. School children Except for his infirmity, he was ing at bis alde, and so, without a partment. That the campaign is tending the Middle Schools, each a man one would never notice. His backward glance and scarcely a bucket and wood spade firmly a success is evidenced by the ap student being compelled to bring face was gentle in its outlines, his backward thought, he marched out clutched in his small hand he had in of of the sunlight into the round hung his head from the CarriATO pearance of many different kinds at least six files to his teacher eyes mild and blue;

window inhaling deep breaths of of fly-catchers, some of them dally, as evidence that he is stocky build there was yet an in-portal-of-the

mmediately;" cold, dank whiff the engine a "smoke. showing real Ingenuity, and bun actively engaged in the fy-killing determinate air about him, a cer

(Continued on Page 10) tain irresolution. He was forty of dreda: of files "are" cáught" - daily, jcampaign.

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