1936-05-20 — Page 9

SEQUEL TO GAOL FRACAS

Chinese On Serious Charge

PRISONER DIES AFTER

KNEE/WOUND

"

A sequel to a fight between two prisoners in the Laichikok Prison on the morning of February 18, last, which resulted in the death of one of the men on April 2 last, was the appearance of Lau Fong. aged 19. before the Acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden. at the Criminal Sessions this morning. .on the charge of the manslaughter of Tsoi Tong, aged

35.

Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, was for the pro- sécution, while the following jury") as empanelled:-Messrs. H. H. Pethick (foreman). C. W. L Spradbury, G. L Fenton Wong ¿Sul-hi Pong King-cheong. Lo

hwan-wai and R. J. K. Walker.

Indecen Assault Alleged

la giving a outline of the case Mr. Abbott said that the trouble started on the night of February

17 last, when, according to the ac-

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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

cused, the deceased tried to com- Colonel A. C. Marsh and Officers, Bench in the Second Court at the By kind permission of La-; Mr. C. B. Burgess occupied the mit an indecent assault on him. The next morning the two men the band of the 2nd Battalion, The Central Magistracy yesterday- it had a quarrel and came to blows, East Lancashire Regiment, under place of Mr. S. F. Balfour, who is

the conductorship of Mr. A. B. indisposed. day, another prisoner, Luk Sai- Tule, will play a special program- fan, said that he was returning me of music at the Peninsula Hote! to the mat-making ward, where Sunday next, beginning at 9 the two men were engaged, when P.

and about 16' a.m, on the same

sec

Mr. J. P. Schlotter, of No. 28

Conduit Road, was this morning

|fined $10 by Mr. C. Burgess at the Central Magistracy for allowing The R.M.S. Empress of Russia his dog abroad in Conduit Road is due here from Vanconver

viajon

May 7 while

not

properly Japan ports and Shanghai on the muzzled: and Pay Comdr. S. K. morning of June 4. and will leave Lloyd RN., of No. 5 the

Peak, the same evening for Manila. was fined $15 for allowing this dog Jon Stubbs Road without muzzle

shouting heard somebody he "ghting again" or words to that! effect. Luk went over 10 what was the matter, and saw the accused squatting down, using knife, while the deceased came over and bent, over him. The ac

a

The RM.S. Empress of Canada for lead on the same day." eused, said Luk, then struck the is due in the Colony from Shang deceased a blow with the knife hai to-morrow morning and leaves but he could not say whether the for Manila at 6 p.m. on Friday.

blow took effect or otherwise.

The RMS. Empress of Japan

couver on the morning of June 19 After telling the jury that the

The m.v. Victoria. which was and will sail the same evening for Indian warder on duty had denied due to arrive to-morrow morning. Manila. that there had been any fighting will berth at Kowloon Wharf at Mr. Abbott said that knives were 6 p.m. to-day and will sail for issued daily to those members of Shanghai at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow. Repulse Bay Hotel to-night the various mat-making parties

who were entitled to them, but! At the Kowloon Magistracy yes-i they had to apply for them when-terday G. E. Dudley. 11 Kent) ever one was required for their Road, was fined $17 for allowing work. In this instance, Mr. Abhis two brown chow bitches to bott said, the accused had made wander on Cornwall Road at 1245) no such application. that morning-p.: on April 27 without muzzles.

Conflicting Evidence

Defendant stated that they had said been inoculated

Continuing. Mr.

Abbott

that while the prisoner Luk had stated that the accused was squat-

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IN MEXICO

President Fears Influence Of Fascist Organisations

reason

for

no

Declaring that there is

the cxistence in Mexico of such organisations as the anti-Semitic "Golden Shirts,” the President, General Cardenas. has ordered the heads of all Government departments to use every legal means to curb their "destructive activities.”

The President stated that the chief aim of this and

other similar Fascist organisations wax to split the ranks of the workers.

ון

is due in the Colony from Van- BULL-FIGHTS

IN KEDAH NO

LONGER LEGAL

Abolished By Royal Decree

There will be a dinner dance at

LOCAL SHARE MARKET

to-day.

H.K. Stock Exchange Official Summary

issued at 12.30 p.m.

Very little business was tran- sacted during the short session The Imperial Airways plane and the market displayed signs of

brought over being on the easy side. ting down, using the knife, the Dorado yesterday

Hong Kong Banks $1,565 sa Antamoks 32.80 s. Baguio Gold N cts, sa.

Indian warder. Ahmed Din, was: 30 kilos of mail to Hong Kong equally emphatic that the accused and three kilos of freight besides deliberately bent down to pick up one passenger. Mr. M. Marcsu. who is on his way to Shanghai to

over the At the time of the incident, Mr. take

Metro-Goldwyn- Abbott said, those responsible had Mayer agency from Mr. Dunlap. not thought fit to make enquiries,

the knife.

and between that date and April A public lecture in English will 2, when the deceased died, six be given by Maulana Muhammad weeks had intervened, and it was Abdul Aleem Siddiqui. the Mus- quite possible that in the space oflim theologian who is visiting the ́those six weeks, memories might Colony, at the Gloucester Hotel to- have become blurred, hence the day at 5.30 p.m. The subject of his address is "Universal Reli-: conflicting evidence,

gion." All will be welcome.

Wound Infection

The

"Mr. Abbott said that it would

3.5. Bhutan is due here only be fair to the accused to say from Shanghai at 6 am. next that the wound, being inflicted on the knee joint, would not, in the ordinary way, be dangerous and

Friday.

The m.v. Gneisenau sailed from

would probably not have resulted Shanghai this morning and is ex-

in the present proceedings, but pected here at 6 a.m. next Friday. infection had unfortunately taken She will sail for Europe

place.

via

In conclusion Mr. Abbott Manila, Singapore and ports at 8 said that it might be held that theip.m. on the same day. accused was acting under the]

greatest provocation. but до

amount of provocation he submit-

ted, could render bomicide justi- Gable.

The case is proceeding..

RIOTING AT ZANZIBAR

(Continued from Page 1)

LAST BULL-RING IN EMPIRE NOW CLOSED

last month.

Alor Star, capital of the State of Kedah (Malaya) has for many years been the only British poeses-] sion in which bull-fighting was

CAPTAIN'S PLUCK

NATIVE CREW

ATTEMPT TO ·

"NACET BLADES

LEAVE SHIP 50

Frightened Sailors

Seize Lifeboat

SKIPPER DRIVES THEM BACK TO DUTY. WITH AXE

The Dutch-owned tug Mohesi (196 tons) was saved from disaster in a storm by a man with an axe. The man was the captain. He confronted his na- tive crew with the axe when they threatened to desert.

The story was told by Captain H. Bos, the master, when the tur was towed into port at Durban.

The Mohesi was bound from Tanga (Tanganyika) for overhaul After putting into Beira (Porto- guese East Africa) for supplies.} she left. escorted by another} Dutch vessel.

A storm arose, and the decks or the little tog were constantly awash. There was a breakdown in the steering gear.

The crew's quarters and the engine-room were flooded, and Captain Bos was helping to keep the tug head-on to the sex.

Climbing into Lifeboat

He turned round to find the na- tive crew of 15 climbing into the lifeboat and about to put off..

"They were panic-stricken "and praying aloud," said Captain Bos.), "One of them had a knife and was about to cut the ropes to let the boat into the sea. My pistol was in my cabin. I seized an axe and forced them back to their quar ters.".

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CAR ROLLS OVER FOUR TIMES

Driver's Escape In Race Crash

40-MILE SPURT AND 42 SECS. WIN

مجھے 23

SENTENCE ON ACROBAT

Once Earned £34

A Week

GUILTY OF ROBBERY

An acrobat who was stated to have once earned a salary "like..

a Prime Minister," and

that of

Castle Donington. 3. L. Handley, famous Then the helmsman "tried to de-racing motor-cyclist, but unlucky who declared he had spent £30,000 sert his post. The captain bad tu in cars, had a narrow escape last which had been left him, was sen- stand guard over him with the month. He was pulled almost un-tenced to three years' penal ser- vitude at London Sessions Jast hurt from the seat of his car Morning came with the dis- after it had crashed and rolled month.

Francis John Merritt, aged 46, covery of a leak in the engine-over four times. room. The water

The rose rapidly

half-had been found guilty of break- accident occurred

a West End fur shop and put the fires out.

way through the

British Empire!ing into A mountainous sea swept the Trophy race of 250 miles, fought with two other men and stealing

a quantity of fox furs. picked cars on bridge, carrying part of it away out between 30

Seatence had been postpon- the winding and difficult circuit! and wrecking telephonic com

jed, when be appeared be- fore Sir Eerbert Wilber-

Handley had just taken over as

The gates of the last bull-ring in the British Empire were closednication with the engine-room in the park of Donington Hail.

After signalling for assistance, the tug was then taken in faw spare driver the grey Riley car in force, the deputy Chairman, on a which Freddy Dixon, last year's further charge of being an habi- with some difficulty.

tual criminal winner of this race, had been ly-

Merritt pleaded not guilty to ing third.

the new charge. He said that until 1925, the beginning of his At a fast turn at the bottom of downfall, he was earning £84 a a dip, known as Hairpin Bend, week as an acrobat. He had Handley went off the road, crash-jspent all that money and a £30,000 ed, and the car rolled over, and legacy.

Previous Conviction the over, the driver still in the rock-

pit.

Since a conviction in 1925 he

not banned by law, but, in his pic- Royal Household of Kedah was He watched from the [turesque palace at Alor Star, the present. Benguet Exploration 21 cts. b. Sultan of Kedah recently signed Royal Enclosure, which was gar-

a Bill which makes bull-fighting landed with flowers.

The Last Fight punishable by a fine and imprison- |

At the Last ment.

Demonstrations 88 cts. b. 89/90

cts. sa.

Northerns 30 cts. b.. 33 ets. sa. Itogons $1.28 b..

bull-fight

Hairpin Bend

་

Alor Star is known throughoutjanimals, handfed and pampered, He sustained two cuts on the had endeavoured to get work, and

for 17

San Mauricio $14 sa. United Paracale $1 b.

the world because of its import-showed little inclination for fight. ance on the England-Australia air They were goaded until one bull, face, and was taken to the infirm-shortly before the shopbreaking Venz. Goldfields $4 b.

route. People who have travelled which had grown tired of thejary for examination. The car was offence had offered his services to Wharves $91 s.

wrecked.

a circus for "his bare keep." A fine race, marred only by Cross-examined. Providents (old) $1.05 b, $1.10 from England by air and have had poise and painful insult make a

Merritt said time to drive into Alor Star, have desperate rush at its opponent.

five passed a dilapidated collection of Finally one of the animals, an-this accident, was won by R. J. B. that since a sentence of

Seaman on a Maesrati by the years' penal servitude in 1925 he thatched buildings and a buil able to bear the pain, turned tail

been out of prison and ran.

A gate was opened and smali margin of 42 seconds from had

African, months. the fair-haired South 100 arena on the roadside.

On the festive days when hull-jhe rushed through.

Pat Fairfield, on

What an ERA. car. The Deputy Chairman: jfights were beld at Kedah's The gate was banged in the face

first and third was that crime? Italian cars were

It sounds like second and blackmail-Yes, that was a des- picable crime, my lord, and de- served five 'years.

Merritt was found not guilty of being an habitual criminal, and was sentenced for the fur rob- bery.

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Ewo Cottons Sh.$8% sa. Hotels $1.85 b. H.K. Land 4 Debentures

H.K. Realties $42 b. Hong Kong Trams $11 b.

b.

Humphreys $8.55 $3.

Star Ferries $90 s., $89 sa.

C. Lights (old) $10.85 s.

C. Lights (new) $7.40 b. Singapore Traction 23/- b. Cements $9.80 3.

Watsons $3.45 b. Govt. 4% Loan 6% Prem. b. Govt 32% Loan par. b.

JUDGE COMPLAINS

One European police officer and "Court Like Railway

INDIAN VICTIMS OF (one

WILD ANIMALS

Tigers Responsible

Asiatic officer died from

wounds

[23

received during riots.

the only

to the late King.

Station"

fourth.

capital, these primitive buildings of the victor, who had to find a and British cars were decorated and filled with ex-challenger. cited crowds dressed in costumes The loser was guided with con- that were picturesque and colour-temptuous flicks of the whip back ful

to his village, to end his career | Sometimes a member of the lin the shafts of a wooden plough. English drivers ranked

$10 Fine For Selling Port Wine

"Great Struggle.

Seaman, who is one of the few as first

class on the Contineat. had a great struggle to catch Fairfield, to whom he gave 1min 40sec start. The fun began after the refuel-

Without Appropriate Licenceling, carried out by each very

smartly.

P. J. Saery Siryk, of the Publi-get a proper receipt from Mesars. gan a prolonged spurt, overhaal

city and Commercial Bureau, was (Eondon.

With 40 miler to go Seaman be-t

{ing Fairfeld by two to five sec-

BELGIANS DRINK MOST BEER

British Coine Next On The List

fined $10 by Mr. W. Schofield at Instead of this the agent Issued ands on each 2-mile lap. Fair the Central Magistracy for sell-a receipt of the defendant's firm field made every effort, but he

The Belgians drink more than ing 13 bottles of port wine on and signed it. The agent had was caught and passed on the twice as much beer as the people which broke out in Nairobi ezrly: Judge Beazley, after telling a March 2 to Jimmy's Kitchen with since been discharged.

eighty-seventh lap. Results:

of any other nationality, accord- in February, following agitation man at Barnet County Court to out an appropriate licence for the Mr. W. M. Thompson, for the British Empire Trophy and 250: ing to a report on "nutrition" re- against the Government's rules for remove his hat when he walked sale.

prosecution, said that he under-R. J. B. Seaman, Maserati, 3hr 54min

ceived by the League of Nations. For Most Deaths. grading copra.

into a court, said:

atood that two cases were bought 16see: speed 66.33 mph. The European officer was Mr.

Canada Trophy and £100: P. G. "Nowadays

Defendant "said that in a court is like a

the from Rondon by defendant for his

Each Belgian man, woman and Rolleston, aged 34, acting railway station, and a

Fairfeld, ERA, 3hr 54min 58sec: Almost every week of the year,

second course of his agent's canvassing own use as defendant's wife was speed 65.62 mph.

child drinka on an

average 210 a man, a woman or a child is kill-District Commissioner. He was class one at that. People slump for advertisements he was told by sick, but later, finding that he had Australis Trophy and £75: P. S. pints of beer every year. ed by a tiger in Bengal

son of Sir Humphrey about with their hats on. But I Messrs. Eondon that they had a too much, he sold the balance to Wilkins, Alfa-Romeo (driver, W. G.

Next to the Belgians-bur - a This fact is revealed in the Rolleston, physician extraordinary suppose one must be grateful that stock of wine for sale. The agent Jimmy's Kitchen.

Everitt), 3hr 59min 13ser; spend 64.92 m.p.h.

long way behind come the Bri- Bengal Government Report on

they put their cffarettes out." came back and told defendant of Defendant then admitted that India Trophy and £50: Cyril Paul, tish, whoʻzverage:128 pints an- In addition to the officers men- Forest Administration for the

the acting

this and asked his permission to he had bought two cases and that ERA. tioned above, year ended March 31, 1935, now Commissioner, Mr. L. E. Skinner,

as a broker. Defendant ack-one had been delivered direct to Isated

led Messrs. Rondon whether it Jimmy's Kitchen. Mr. Thomp was seriously wounded by sword, Mama" Tigers were responsible for the cuts, as also were

The body of a London:stocks was in order for him to sell. The son said that it did not much mat- several native deaths of 45 human beings during police. Many rioters were killed broker, Capt. W. E. Delves-agent subsequently negotiated a ter whence the wine was deliver

European civilians enrolled as Broughton, aged 50, was found sale to Jimmy's Kitchen and camejed. Leopards killed three men and special police to aid the regular on the railway line last month be-and told him. He then went to Mr. Thompson further stated

'tween St. John's, Woking,~ and Messrs. Rondon and a case was that he was not presa' ig the case,Įderer" is one Wild elephants killed four men The Police Comuniasioner at Brookwood. Capt. Delves-Brough-delivered from the firm. Pay-but it was necessary that the|corating the walls and ceilings of given for the past 50 years, will Tanganyika flew to Zanzibar from ton, who lived at Everland's,ment was not made at once and public should know that sales like two cells in Nurenberg Prison be carried out for the last time at Thirty-seven tigers and three Dar es Salaam in view of the seri-Mount Hermon-road, Woking, is the defendant told his agent that this were not permitted. It was specially intended for the accom-this year's Royal Tournament at cubs were killed by hunters dur-jousness of Mr. Skinner's condi-believed to have fallen from a he should be told when payment possible that the defendant had modation of persons found guilty Olympis this month, as the horsesA ing the year under review. ition.

Iwas to be made so that he couldļdone everything in good faith, of spreading false reports. lare being replaced by tractors.

this period.

one woman.

and a woman.

officers.

Police!

STOCKBROKER'S DEATH

train.

act

PRISON "DECORATIONS”

nually. The Gezzoans are third |with'a consumption of 120 pints.

LAST MUSICAL DRIVE

Berlin I am a Tulgar sian-

The Royal Horse Artillery mu- of the mottoes de-aical "driven, - which have been