1935-08-19 — Page 9

BRIBERY CHARGE

Sanitary Interpreter In Trouble

́SUPREME COURT CASE

The trial opened at the Criminal Sessions. Supreme Court, this morning, before Mr. R. E Lind sell, Puisne Judge, of the case in which an interpreter in the Sani- tary Department named Cheris Hing-Uis charged with accepting" a bribe of $50 from a pig dealer,

Ma Shing, on May 25,

was

The case for the Crowa presented by Mr. W. J. Lockhart- Smith, Assistant Crown Solicitor, and Mr. H. G Macnamara, structed by MK M. K. Lo, is for the defence

im

The jury empanelled to try the case comprised Messrs. G. Duncan it Foreman). Lam Kwong-sit

3. A. D'Ayevedo. J. A. Johnston. J. R. Paton. B. C. de Jonge and

1. S. Castro.

Mr. Lockhart-Smith

said that,

of

although the sum involved was small, it was a serious matter as it strikes at the very root Government. *. It was equally serious to the accused, as his re- "putation as well as his future employment in Government ser vice were in the balance.

Case For Crown

The case for the Crown was that on May 15 of this year a pig dealer named Ma Shing was fined $25 at the magistracy for keeping swine without a licence.

He was further ordered to dispose of the animals within three days. The prosecution was brought at the instigation of a Sanitary Inspec- tor who is unfortunately now on Home leave "The accused is an interpreter and one of the wit- nesses, besides keeping pigs, has shop and lives at No. 123 Nan Cheap Street, Shamshuipol

to

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1935-

Otis Lloyd, an attendant at Frank Buck's live-animal store- bouse at Massapequa, Long I is one of the few men to have been embraced by a python and lived to tell about it. He is shown in hospital after eight men had succeeded in uncoiling the snake from his body. The python, which squeezes its prey to death, is- seen, in a motion picture as it grappled with a tiger.

INGENIOUS TRICK ATTEMPTED

Shop-Keeper Proves Too Sharp

DOLLAR IN PIECE OF DOUGH

DIONNE BABIES

MAY APPEAR IN- COMING FILM

HAROLD LLOYD'S

NEGOTIATIONS

TO BE CO-STARRED

Hollywood. Aug. 13

To-day's Short Story.

The End Of By J. Somerville

The Play

THE

Walker

THE whole town was talking wealthy parents, had spent those about it. Every shop win-years in London. Now, with his dow bore 2 multi-coloured second book running through placard announcing to all and edition after edition. he was sundry that on the following coming home.

Saturday night the "Worthing He had written two highly sne- Players" would present Miss dessful novels, and was acclaimed Jeanette McDougall in the lead-ja coming man: all Jeanette had ing role of her own play, "Moon to show for her five years work Magic.

was this play. She had, of course, Jeanette could not look at those written much besides, birt only posters

without an unpleasant what she termed "weak, immature "sinking feeling." She

was stuff, not worthy of publication." frightened at her own daring. She But this play was good.

good. had written the play; she was cast Seeing it, Athol would realise and

for the leading role: eighty per acknowledge her a foe worthy of cent of the responsibility

Der cent was

was his steel. Hitherto his rivalry had.

hers alone. The remaining been tinged with condescension; twenty"

shared now at last they would meet on

of equal ground.

Was

by the twenty members the cast, and Jimmy Blair, who had { composed the lyrics she

to sing..

. If the play failed, it would be she who failed.

But that didn't bear thinking į about. It must not fail. there

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will he "The Frill by Pearl S. Buck.

were two big reasons for that. The first was the obvious one; for jer sake, for Jimmy's, for the sake. of the Players, the play must be

Through the five years separa- ja «uccess. But beyond that obtion they had kept up a desultory vious reason was another hidden correspondence. Athol writing of jone, known only to Jeanette

his work, his success, the eminent Athol would be there.

To Jeanette that meant every of the little, insignificant details people be met; Jeanette telling him

thirr

because she loved him of her home life, her days' teach- and because they were rivaising, the birth and growth of the Here was her chance to show him Worthing Players. Of her writing what stuff she was made of

she said little there was little They had been rivals in their to say. "I'm just practising," she university days, and. through the five years following, rivals they had remained, though half the world

apart. Athol, Son

told him.

Even now, unless he had learn- ed it from some other source, he of knew nothing of the truth. She i had told ham merely that she was acting in a play called "Moon ¡Magic.” ...As to its authorship she had said nothing. He had re- Edward Cecil Lascelles plied, expressing interest and pro-

At Age Of 48

OBITUARY

YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE EARL OF HAREWOOD

London, To-day

The death has occurred of

imising to be there. That was all

Now she could only wart

There were to be two perform- ances. The first .. a kind of try-out at Windy Hill, a small town some ten miles from Worth- ing, the second, a week later, in the "Players"" home town Athol

On the Saturday after the fine was imposed Ma Shing met the accused outside the Sanitary office at 105 Taipe Road. and it appear ed to him that the accused had sume, sort of communication make. Ma Shing is not a native of Hong Kong. Accused asked if the pigs had been disposed of An ingenious method of trick- and on receiving a reply in the ing people out of money was re- negative told Ma Shing that a vealed at the Kowloon Police Sanitary Inspector would be makhurt this morning. when a 47- The Dionne quintuplets may Major the Hoz Edward Cecil was to be at both. ing a call on him the following year-old Chinese male, Cheung soon be co-starred" with Harold Lascelles, the younger brother of Jeanette, suffering acutely from Monday- No money changed wai was charged before Mr. E-Lloyd in a flm entitled "The the Earl of Harewood, who mar stage fright, tried to comfort her- hands on this occasion, but when I. Wynne-Jones with the theft of Milky Way," it was learned here ried the present Princess Royal self with the reflection that the the inspection took place on the a 40-cent tin of condensed milk to-day.

(Princess Mary) in 1922 Renter Windy Hill residents were jolly, Monday, the pigs were nowhere to and with attempted larceny. by a It was reported that Lloyd, the BL Major Lascelles, D.S.O easy-going folk, asking no more of trick, of 80 cents and three books. well-known movie star of silent M.C. was attacked to the Rifle!

alued at 20 cents, from Chanfand talkie days, is

a play than that it should be a at present Brigade. He was the second son

good entertainment. Cho-chak, a shop-keeper of

They would No. negotiating with Dr. A. B. Dafoe of the 5th Earl of Harewood and not be critical

Burt Athol jconcerning the children's appear-was born on July 28, 1887. Prince Edward Road.

He would!... He would notice every Appearing for the prosecution. ance.

married Joan Eleanor Campbell. fanlt Inspector Chester-Woods stated!

daughter of the late E 1. A. Bal-tolerantly, perhaps. But certainly - and laugh! Kindly, that accused came from the Sailtudio His films are produced four and the late Lady Francis

he would laugh and from him Kung district, New Territories. by a company which he himself Balfour, in 1915. He served in {she could more easily bear hatred

be seez

Money Handed Over Together with a friend to act as interpreter. Ma Saing met the ac cused later in a restaurant and the sum of $50 was handed over

to him in four $10 notes and two $5 noter.

Mr. Lockhart-Smith asked the Jury to consider the intelligence of the witnesses and their de-

Lloyd is under contract with no

The Dionne's are under the

the European War. being men-1 tioned in despatches and gaining his two decorations. He was

MEAN THIEF GAOLED

than laughter,

In the moments before she went

beloved play seemed suddenly dall and uninteresting; the dialogue trite, the situations banal z And]

she was daring to present it to a

A school-teacher from the same formed. district gave accused a list of three books, which he asked a guardianship of the Canadian Master of the Bramham Moor on the stage. Jeanette wished her meanour in the witness box. feused to purchase. Acensed en-

Mr. W. M. Thomson, first clerk red complainant's shop yester- Government. All their earnings. Foxhounds and lived at Wetherby, self a thousand miles away. Her

from testimonials, etc are put Yorkshire. at the Kowloon Magistracy, was day and on presenting the list

aside for their future education:* the first witness called and he pro-to the complainant also placed a

-United Press. duced records to show that Madollar on the counter. Shing was fined $25 for keeping Complainant went to the back pigs without a licence and order of the shop to get the books, and to remove the pigs within gave them to accused and stated

that they would cost 20 three days.

In reply to Mr. Macnamara wit-Accused, it was alleged, then told ness stated that according to the the complainant that he had records there were 301 pigs, and iven him a dollar when he en- 31a Shing had been a dealer for 10 tered the shop, and demanded 80

cents change. Mr. A. K. Taylor, Chief Sanitary Complainant denied that he Inspector, was called, and deposed had received the dollar. where- to having taken a statement from upon accused

ed

years.

cents.

offered to allow

ALEXIS MDIVANI'S FORTUNE

About $5,000,000 Left Intact

Stole $50 From Needy Chinese Widow

crowded audience. Land Athol! Hardly knowing how she got there. she found herself on the stage. Applause shook the building.

A sudden revulsion of feeling A very mean theft, as the com-swept her mind clear of all appre plainant is a widow and only earna hension. The play was good; $9 a month and took years to save she knew it. She must make it so the money," said Sub-inspector real that the audience could not Madgwick, at the Central Police fall to feel its force.

In a Gerona, Aug. 13. Court this morning, when prose voice clear, rich, unfaltering, she Jose Maria Sert, the mural pain-jeuting Mok Chin Ho a 22-year-spoke her opening lines. Ma Shing after having received a bimself to be searched In the ter and brother-in-law of the late old unemployed, for the theft of In the audience Athol sat for- complaint on May 29. No one course of the search, the tin of Prince Alexis Mdivani, said to-day 250 from Yuen Choi Sik, a 50ward, watching her intently. His was present when he had taken milk was found in accused's bag, that the latter's fortune of $4,000-year-old widow, of No. 29 Elec-first thought was, "By Jove, she the statement. It was taken in but no money was found in his 000 or $5,000,000 was intact trie Street,

looks nice- -Cantonese, but, although he made pockets. Accused also had a divani was killed: near here Defendant was sentenced to Naturally tall, she looked, in the himself understood, Ma Shing was piece of dough in his possession, last week in an automobile ac-tone month's hard labour by Mr. long black frock, taller, slimmer: an imperfect Cantonese speaker.

and on it being opened the miss-cident. He was divorced recent-W. Schofield and ordered to re her hair shone deeply golden in the, Dealer's Evidence

ing dollar was discovered. "^^. ly at Reno by Barbara Hutton, the fand $4.50, the amount that had glare of the footlights: her face Ma Shing then took the witness stated that he was subject to a Associated Press.

Accused admitted the theft and American multimillion heiress. already been spent, or serve an-bore just the right amount of box, and stated that he was. 55

lother 14 days imprisonment. years of age and had come to the Colony from Swatow."

sudden temptation! At Sai Kung

he had property and relations

He knew the accused. and had accused was remanded for 4844 met him three days after he had hours for further enquiries,

Од S. CHINA TO CLASH

WITH YMCA

Water Polo Match On Wednesday

appeared at the Magistracy.in the Ling Yeung restaurant their way there they had picked up one of his friends to act as interpreter. His name was Lui Shek-shui. Accused told him to remove the pigs, as the inspector was coming on Monday. He had paid him no money but had pro- mised to make a payment the fol- The South China Athletic As lowing Saturday

sociation have issued a friendly The inspector came, and after challenge to the Eu he had left the pigs were put YMCA to play two water back again. The next day $60 games first and second terms was paid over.

at the South China Cross-examined by Mr. Macna-pavilion at North Poin mara witness stated that he had Wednesday, commencing at 6 not been fined before

There is every likelihood Counsels You have been the "Y" first team will rather lucky keeping an unlicenced invitation, but as the

ty for 10

have only second team. he fun

"Yes. will automatically b be cancelled

been ined once.

The case is

'Future Of Philippines

make-up: her eyes were dark with excitement.

Was this the Jeanette who had been his pal five years ago? With a writer's instinct Athol

Depends On Gt. Britain'sought for the right word to

The whole fature of the Philip-[her.

cribe her. Beautiful she was not for pretter fodious

Womanly?

Yes

*pines, after she had gained her in- Britain, however, was in a dif- though it was a ridien

dependence, depended on the policy ferent position. The present out-fashioned term. Great Britain would adopt, de look, to say the least, was uncer- something that cläred. Senor Pedro Guevara, tain. It was impossible to say cribed Jeanette special Filipina Commissioner to how her attitude might change in warmth of th the United States, who is passing the of another 10 years, and No. through the Colony to-day by the as Britain was so vitally interested Ks resident Lincoln on his

ers pertaining to Far

Sons, her

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Mr. Guevara is

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bed for the

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The prisoner was charged with jhaving robbed Kwong Holing of money and other valuables to the

otal value of $328.15.

g sentence His Lord- that accused was a obnoxious type of villain,

the man he had rob

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