1934-10-30 — Page 9

Self Defence Plea In Murder Trial

Accused Tells Of Knife Attack By Deceased

SLEEP BROKEN BY FEAR

A plea of self-defence was raised by Tse Sam, charged with; the murder of his mistress. Lam Wah. at Lokmáchnu on August 25, at the continued hearing before the Chief Justice, Mr. A..D, A. MacGregor at the Criminal Sessions, Supreme Court this morning. The accused, in his statement, said that the woman attacked. him. with a knife and he used a pole to parry off her attack. She was struck by the pole, but he could not say how many times.

During the morning's hearing, evidence was given by several of the accused's, fellow-employees who spoke of the bad temper of the deceased woman and of her attacks on her husband, a young The Crown in its opening had mai tsai. and other employees. also referred in the bad outbursts of temper displayed by the woman, who on August 21, had administered a severe bealing on The accused for apparently no other reason than that he refused to gamble.

Mr J. A. Fraser. Assistant At-) forney-General, prosecuted, and Mr. Thomas Tam, instructed by Mr. C. E. R. Sanderson, was for the defence.

The following jury was empanell- E. C. ed:-Messrs..

Frederick, (Foreman), B. O. Anderson, F. A. Joseph. W. C. G. Knowles, Hang Chik-liang, A. . Minu, and J. A., dos Remedios,

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At the close of the case for the Crown, Mr. Tam, addressing the jury intimated that the plea to be raised by the defence was one uf He put his client in self-defence. the witness box to tell his own story and the jury would have the oppor- tunity of getting a glimpse of the accused's frame of mind of the night of August 21, and, they would see whether he had any intention of harming his mistress.

PHILIPPINES REPLY TO LOCAL CONDOLENCES.

His Excell ney. The

Governor

hns reedved a letter from His Excellency The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands express- ing his gratitude for the message of sympathy which His Excellency sent on behalf of the Colony of Hong Kong on the occasion of the rreent typhoon.

THOMAS'S TOES AGAIN

Ambassador Arouses: Oklahoma Senator

LONDON SPEECH SEQUEL

Washington, To-day.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1934.

Testimony that King George, V of England attempted to prevent

his company from selling munitions

to l'eland was presented to the Senate munitions investigating committee in Washington by Mr. Louis L. Driggs, President of the Driggs Ordnance & Engineering company of New York. Mr. Driggs is shown as he arrived at the Senate hearing in testify.

Kidnapper Birched

Deserved To be

"Let Down"

Small Boy Brought

From Canton

To-day's Short Story.

THE

SCOURGE

THE Rev. James Hurdie emerg-

By Robert Ormsby

A minister in a remote Scottish

ed from the door of his parish, whose stipend depends on vestry and walked with an un- the price of corn, must perforce be Stole in the matter of clothing. faltering step to his pulpit, hold-Mr. Hurdie's wardrobe - had ever ing his arms, as he walked, in an been a meagre one.

odd stiff fashion, well away from Mr. Hurdle had been content' to This body. As the last notes of leave the matter entirely in Mrs. the organ faded away Mr. Hurdie Troon's hands, for had shò not as- rose and announced, in a firm Bured him that she had always pur- chased for her late husband. Mr. clear voice, that they would start Troon, however, had been a hedger. their worship by singing the Mr. Hurdie was an elderly scholar.

Mr. Hurdie was filled with mis- hundredth Psalm. "Psalm num- ber one hundred: All people that giving as soon as he saw the formid- able garment. It was one of those jon earth do dwell.""

heavy blue-grey affairs with red

Mr. Hurdic, who was a tall, clean-edging and with the consistency of shaven man with scanty white Harris tweed. Nevertheless Mr. locks and kindly eyes that had no Hurdle put it on, an act which he need of glashes, stood for a few instantly regretted. But he lacked moments regarding his congrega- ition as a farmer might regard a strip of soil for sowing. Mr. Hur- die had the satisfaction of knowing. that he had worked his way through thorns to prepare this ground.

Still holding his arms in an odd uncomfortable manner Mr. Hurdie sat down and reverently covered his eyes, for it was his custom, dur- ing the singing of the opening!

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will he

"The Return Of Faik-Din." by John Kent.

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Psalm, to pass the time in a little the moral courage to complain about plous reflection! The door of the it.

Mrs. Troon would have been kirk was open, on account of the offended, and if there was one thing heat, and the bright sun, streaming Mr. Hurdle desired it was to keep through a stained window, throw on the right side of Mrs. Troon, for upon Mr. Hurdle's black gown

she was a quiet, sensible-soul who

great splash of scarlet which in seldom went out; and a good house- some unaccountable way, reminded keeper, like a good wife, as Mr. little Johnnie Reid of God, but only Hurdle well knew, la a blessing to made the Misses Ann and Sylviaja righteous man.

Mr. Hurdle was

As he hatched on his seat at the Kowloon Hurdie reflected not for the

a man who

and in many strange ways, but the

Mr.

problem of an itchy semmit wa

one that he had never before tackled.

first

He knew, of course, that many a

both her husband and other em-W. Bingham, made on October 23,agistracy this morning. Mak, lime that morning, that he had made pious man-before him had gavo in}

withdrawn.

sackcloth and ashes but to bind

onsself back again to God by tor

turing the flesh had, as Mr. Hurdie was well aware, no part in the ritual

Charged with kidnapping and Tinny, who occupied the front seat harbouring Kwan Po, a 7-year-old of the gallery, more certain than sought, and very often found, moral hoy, Kwai Pun, a 34-year-old un- ever that Mr. Hurdle was a man of consolation in many strange placea "Mui Trai" Beaten

employed, was sentenced to six sin. months Imprisonment, with 12 Accused referred to the many In. cidents of bad temper displayed by The plea of the United States strokes of the birch, by Mr. E. I.

Wynne Jones his mistress and of her attacks on Ambassador to London, Mr. Robert ployees. On August 10 she beat a for the stabilisation of the pound Ngan, a 60-year-old widow was also a great mistake in allowing Mrs. mui-teat employed on the plantation and the dollar. has roused Senator charged, but owing to lack of evi-Troot, his house-keeper, to do his because a thermos flash had been Thomas, of Oklahoma, who has sent dence the charge against her was shopping. broken, hitting her with a rattan a message to Mr. Bingham, remind- stick. The woman also pushed thefing him that Congress alone is em- girl's head against the rough wall, powered to decide the value of the causing her nose to bleed. Witness country's money. attempted to help the girl and was He adds that a recent tour of the beaten by the deceased for his paina. country has shown that the masses Describing the events on the of Americans are not ready to tie night of August 25. witness said the dollar to the pound.

While Administration circles have that he saw his mistress leave the plantation with a pole in her hand. already indicated that Mr. Bingham He watched her and noticed that she had official approval for his state hid-it-behind-a-wall-on-the edge of ment, it is believed in some quarters the plantation, He could not skep for that he is flying a kite.-Reuter, fear that his mistress was going to

thrash him and got up after some

FOREIGN DEALS ON

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Stock Exchange Probe

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The defendant pleaded that A

man named Cheung Chung had of

STOCK EXCHANGE of his church. He had decided by

BUDGET

1933 Expenses Exceed Income In New York

the time he reached the church for fered to pay him some money if he

the morning service that unless brought the child down to Hong

some solution occurred" to him he Kong to sell him, saying that ho

must resign himself to wearing the had already received $100 in ad-

garment for a fortnight--for that vance for the boy. He had brought

was the length of time he wore hia him down and was staying at the

more intimate garments and he felt that if he refrained from press- place in Castle Peak Road with the

The Securities Exchange Com-ing his arma too closely to his sides boy and Cheung Chung.

Cheung had often asked him to mission has made public figures and from wondering too much what sell the boy, but he had refused showing that the New York Stock it would feel like to have water saying that he was the boy's uncle Exchange's 1933 operating ex- poured down his back he would be and therefore could not sell him. penses were U.S.$7,683,917, incind-able, by the grace of God, to sur He had asked Cheung many times ing subsidiaries, against an income vive. to give him some money to return of U.S.$7,484,794.

Washington, To-day.

to Canton, but this was refused The Exchange's physical net

worth is U.S.$27,570,288.

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Mr. Hurdle proceeded with the

service. When a man

time and went to the edge of the plantation where he found the pole- He was about to put it away when he heard his mistress and another

him.

Then one day Cheung had left thei The New York Curb Exchange's either spiritually or

la riven, _employce_returning. He attempted

house-saying-that he would inform (1933 income was U.S.3893,389 and some sign of it will appear on hia physically, to get back into the plantation

(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra the police that the defendant had its expenses U.S.$880,044.-United face, in his voice, in his gestures, no without being seen, but the women hic Messages Ordinance, 1894. He kidnapped the small boy. "I knew Press per S. E. Levy and Company-matter how much he may strive to suddenly rushed forward in his "rived October 30, 5.14 u.m.)

that the police had been informed, direction. Fearing that she was

New York, To-day. going to beat him, he cried out for The Stock Exchange has request-but I did not run away," said the defendant, "Cheung Chung has let help.

The woman drew a knifeed members to submit complete from her sleeve and approached. statistics and information of for-me down." He got hold of the pole and held her cigners' transactions in 1938 and The woman stooped 1934, for internal revenue purposes at distance. down and picked up some stones-United Press, per S. E. Levy and! which she threw at him..

Company.

Terrified Flight

The woman then rushed at him THE GOLD VALUE OF SILVER and he ran, waving the pole to

keep her at distance. He was very frightened and could not run

(Continued from Page 1.) Deflating yesterday's quotation to

"Yes, and it serves you right, you deserve everything you get. have admitted that you knew all the You

*time about the sale of the boy," said

Mr. Wynne Jones.

COTTON MILL OWNERS PROTEST

MUI-TSAI'S LEAP TO DEATH

Coroner's Inquiry Held At Central Magistracy

conceal it; and though this may pass unobserved by the majority It will not escape the notice, of those who are eagerly looking for such a [aign.

For thirty years the Misses

Tinny had never tired of telling each

other and of hinting to their neigh-|

hours that Mr. Hurdle was an Im-

moral man, and they were sure that Allegations of unfair treatment one day his sins would betray him. by her mistress were made at the. Each of the sisters had hoped, in death inquiry-held yesterday at the early days of Mr. Hurdie's

fast enough, and cach time the approximately 60 per cent, as the Nanking, To-day-Firm opposi Central Magistracy of a mui-tsas, stewardship, to become mistress of woman approached him he stop-gold value of British currency has tion against a further increase in Mok Tai-choi, aged 21, who jumped manse. They had been bitter ped and waved the pole threaten-been deflated, it would mean a quo-the consolidated tax on cotton yarn from the verandah of No. 66 Bon-enemies then, but when it became ingly to ward her off. In running tation around 14%d., making, an is, expressed in a petition made to bam Road, first floor, on October 14, apparent that neither was the least away again he fell into a ditch, advance of only about 11 per cent, the Government by the National receiving injuries from which she likely to occupy that position, that but clambered out and ran back in silver's gold value.--United Chinese. Cotton Mill Owners' asso-jinter died.

to the plantation. As he was run-Press, per S. E. Levy and Company Iciation of Shanghal-Reuter,

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was still very afraid and could

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He had no intention of hurting his mistress, added witness."

The hearing was then adjourn

ed for tiffin.

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