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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1956

TWO YEARS FOR

FOOTPAD

Lady's Experience At Happy Valley

THIEF WHO USED LIME

at

Chan Tung, aged 44. junemploy- ed, appeared the Criminal Sessions yesterday afternoon be fore Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell charged with having assaulted. and rubbed Mrs. Winifred Beatrice Penney at Happy Valley on March 12. Mr. H. E. Williams

GERMAN MINISTER

STILL MISSING

Desert Search Continues

Cairo, To-day

Baron TOX The report that

Minister, who Stohrer, German was lost in the desert on Sunday, has been found, has not been The desert is being confirmed. searched by air and also the camel corps and cars belonging to the frontier administration. --- Reuter.

appeared for the Crown, while MUNITIONS IN

the prisoner was not represented. į He pleaded "not guilty" at thei outset of the hearing but, after Mr-Penney had given evidence. admitted his guilt.

to

The

AMERICA

Senate Committee Reports

Washington, To-day.

BRUTAL HAMMER ATTACK

Earth Coolie On Grave Charge

VICTIM NEARLY DIED

**Sa brutal were the injuries inflicted on Wong that the ac- cused is very lucky he is not standing here on a capital charge. The victim very near- ly died, as the doctor will tell you in his evidence," said Mr. M. J. Abbott, the Assistance Crown Solicitor, when he con- ducted the case for the Crown, at the Crimina! Sessions this morning, in which Yik Shing, an unemployed earth coolie, was charged with wounding Wong Chuen, a pig breeder, with intent to maim or dis- ¡figure him.

The case was heard by the Act-

The expansion of naval dock-ing Puisne Judge. Mr. Justice be yards so as to permit the Gov- Hayden, and the incident forming

of all the charge ernmental construction

In sentencing the accused two year's hard labour His Lord- ship remarked that if it were not for the prisoner's condition, would have ordered him to

occurred at Lung! whipped as well as imprisoned.

Kowloon City, on The following comprised the United States naval vessels is Chau Tsing. jury: Messrs. G. A. Smith (fore recommended by the majority February 4 last

Messrs. man). F. L. Rapley, L. D. Walsh, report of the Senate Munitions The jury comprised

Scott

A h (Foreman), Committee signed by Senators H. H. H. H. Scott, Lan Chong-che

Pope. Clark and Bone.

Minu. Wong Yu-cheung, G. Al Fong Shiu-hong and C.-L. Rocha. 2 Other recommendations in Low, L. D. Wakh, Fung 'Siu-hon

Mr. Williams recounted how clude the nationalisation of a and Lam Chong-choong. Mr. Penney, who was carrying aisufficient part of the munitions. Giving an outline of the case. handbag and a packet of tomatoes, industry to supply all peacetime Mr. Abbott said that the first after getting off a tram near the arms and ammunition for the meeting between the victim and Monument, in the company of a needs of both the army

and the accused W3.8 in December friend, stopped to chat with her.! navy, Government factories, 1935, when Wong went to the hill- when the prisoner came up, threw and a prohibition against the side near his hut to plant some atsale of American military in-sweet potatoes on a piece of land

some lime in her face and

tempted to seize her bag. but,ventions abroad. Reuter. which belonged to his sister. The

being unsuccessful, ran off

the packet of tomatoes.-

with

Ladies Give Chase Both ladies gave chase, shout-

"thief" ins

and "snatching." Their cries were heard by Mr. H. F. Hopkins, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company, who was; coming down Gap Road on a bus."

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accused was employed there at the time and they became quite On February 1, 1936, the accused went to Wong's but and asked if he had a place to let and, when told that there none, then left.

Sudden Attack Continuing, Mr.

was

Abbott said that on February 4, when Wong:

On being

Was 20 money

then leapt over the wall on The Premier of New Zealand, in had just finished feeding his pigs the waste ground, and gave chase an interview with a deputation of and was sitting before a fire in He overtook both ladies, and cinema proprietors, said: "The

his hut, the accused entered, with) !eventually caught up with the cinemas in this Dominion are

In this. accused near some matsheds. The practically controlled by American basket in his hand.

basket was a hammer, and no accused then threw. lime in Mr. finances We are not going to

Booner had he entered the hut- Hopkins' face.

have our cinemas run from offices Mr. Hopkins was blinded tem in New York Legislation will be than Yik began to ask Wong where

to the passed porarily, and called out

deal with the matter in be kept his money. ladies to try to do something. as order

the New Zealand toid, that there

by New about the place, Yik suddenly took he thought the substance thrown cinemas may be

the hammer from the basket and at him was pepper. Mrs. Payne Zealand.” picked up a brick and struck the Other trades will also be affect hit Wong on the head.

About an hour later a man who accused on the head with it, which led by the legislation, especially

to Wong stopped his struggling. Mean- the meat export trade. which is lived in the next hut while, Mrs. Payne had gone to the largely financed by Americans heard groans and went to tell an- other man about this. The latter Civil Service Cricket Club where Reuter's Bulletin Service.

went into Wong's but and found she saw Chief Inspector R. H. E.

him lying in a pool of blood. They Marks and Sanitary Inspector C

then sent for the police and Wong- Strange, who accompanied her

was taken to the Kowloon Hos back to the scene.

pital, where he recovered Com- sciousness some three hours later. He was

detained in hospital for six weeks and his head wound was so serious that he is still receiving treatment and it is quite likely that he will have to be under

The ladies

Case Ends

and Mr. Hopkins were later taken to the Govern-'

ment Civil Hospital where they

were

examined by Dr. K. H. Uttley. The coat, trousers and

rap

AIR SERVICES

IN AMERICA

Increases Passed By Representatives

Washington. To-day.

air

pre-

:

of the accused, which The Rogers Bill, authorising medical care for sometime to come. bore 2 whitish

increase in the army substance, an

Accused Identified were sent to Mr. V. C. Branson, corps' strength from the Government Analyst, as also was sent 1.800 planes to 4,000 with- The accused was arrested on Mr. Hopkine's' coat. The sub-in five years, has been passed February 7, said Mr. Abbott, and March 20, an identification by the House of Representa-on tance was found to be lime.

Mrs. Penney was then called, tives, who have also passed the parade was held at which the com- and after she had given evidence McSwain Bill for the organisa-plainant in the case immediately corroborating Mr. Williams'stion of an air reserve training picked out the accused as the man who struck him. Mr. Abbott con- the įstatement, the accused, in reply to corps. Reuter.

cluded by saying that at

to a question by His Lordship as

WEI-HAI-WEI

to whether he wished to cross SUMMER CRUISE TO Lower Court proceedings, the ac examined the witness, admified having thrown a whitish sub-) stance into Mrs. Penney's face.

Morning

His Lordship: Do you admit Fleet Leaves Port This that you threw the powder into her face in order to assist you in snatching her handbag?

Accused: Yes.

His Lordship then stopped case and directed the jury to tura a verdict of guilty,

The whole of the fleet stationed of two here, with the exception the destroyers which are remaining in report for anti-piracy duty, left this morning for their summer cruise to Wei-hai-wei, making a very im pressive spectacle as they steamed out of the harbour between 7 a.m.

aircraft carrier, HMS. Hermes, was the first to leave and was followed by the three cruisers,

FOUL PLAY AT and 8 m

SOCKUNPOO?

Man Found Strangled On Footpath

The dead body of an unknown Chinese male, aged about 30, was found yesterday at 9.30 am by a Sanitary coolie,. Chan Fat; on s footpath running through the

The

ensed said that he struck Wong' because he had reason to do! so and so brutal was the attack

that the accused is very lucky he is not standing here on a capital charre."

The case is proceeding.

INTACT TOMBS FOUND

World's Most Ancient Mummy

the

Cairo, To-day. HMS. Kent. Cornwall and Dorset

Four intact Egyptian tombs, shire, and the destroyers. The Medway and submarines followed one of which contains

world's oldest mummy, have been discovered near the Pyra- later in the morning.

mids by Selim Hassan, Profes- sor of Egyptology at Cairo University. They include the mummy of Chefrén, the builder

WEATHER REPORT

coffee plantation at Sookunpoo. Pressure is highest in the of the second pyramid, “and a Death appeared to have been Pacific in the vicinity of the perfectly preserved mummy of through strangulation, as two Bonins?

the depression has a pregnant woman completely pieces of cloth were tied round moved eastwards to the east of swathed in bandages. She was the neck There were also two Hokkaido, and another is indi- the wife of the highest noble! wounds on the body, one in the cated to the north of Shantung. next to Chefren.

When the bandages are re- abdomen and the other on the A typhoon is situated within 250 lower part of the back. From miles east-south-east of Manila, moved it will be the world's South most ancient mummy, since all all indications the man

North-west. was the moving victim of foul play.

winds, moderate; fair generally, that remains of others of the No further developments in the was the forecast for to-day, as same period is mere bones with- case had been reported up to the issued by the Royal Observatory out the protecting bandages,

Reuter. time of going to press.

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