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TRIAL
Sentence of four weeks' imprison- Allegations that he was the ment was imposed on Ho Yuk-mung, actual murder of a Chinese widow, unemployed coolie, by Mr. R A. D. Li Kam-yin, who was strangled to Forrest at the Central Magistracy, death in her cubicle at No. 26, Wai when he pleaded guilty to the theft Yan Street, Tarpo on December 27 of four milk bottles belonging to the last, were made against 20-year- Dairy Farm Co.
old Tang Holeung by Mr. EH. Inspector Hallam said defendant Williams, Assistant Attorney Gen was seen taking the bottles from eral, at the Criminal Sessions this the back door of a house in More-morning before the Chief Justice, ton Terrace yesterday morning. He Sir Atholl MacGregor. went to a vacant plot and there broke them
The accused was defended by the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, în- Mr. Andrews, of the Dairy Farm structed by Mr CD'Almada, of Co said that the price of broken Messrs. Leo D'Almeda and Com- glass had gone up from $1.30 a pany.
jury empanelled were pichl to $280 and it was profitable to break the bottles and sell them Messrs. J. P. Grose (Foreman), as broken glass.
HR de Pinna, L. E. Rosario, J. L Litton Wong Kim-hoong, - G. Pfeiber, and C. Leopoldt.
"VENUS" FIGURE OUT OF FAVOUR
K.C. ON CORSET- FITTING
The
CROWIN CASE
The Assistant Attorney General al- leged that accused attempted to bor row money from deceased but was un- successful About 2-month before the crime, the deceased's son, Wong Wong-chi, and adopted son, Wong Fat- Women and their waists were dischi, visited accused at his residence in Hillwood Road. It was there, during: cussed in the Chancery Division a conversation, that accused told Wong when Mr. Justice Bennett had be-that the deceased not only refused to fore him a dispute between two corhim for not paying debt incurred by lend him any money bat also abused
set manufacturers.
his late father. He asked Wong Fat- as chi to get someone to minder the de-
ceased.
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"Your figure is as individual your handwriting" was stated to be the slogan of one of the parties. Mr Trevor Watson, K.C., remarked that the Venus de Milo's was not regard ed by women nowadays as being the perfect feminine figure.
"They sometimes think they can improve on it," he said, "by putting the waist in a different place, or something of that sort. It is not a question of taking a woman with a bulging diaphragm and just fitting the corset exactly according to the measurements of that bulging dia- phragm; it is rather a question of correcting nature to a certain ex- tent by making the bulge less bulgy". (Laughter).
Mr. Justice Bennett: Is it fitting the lady to the corset or fitting the corset to the lady?..
Mr. Watson: It is a mixture of both. A corset is a garment which has a certain amount of rigidity, and the art is to make is not only comfortable, but also capable of cor- recting these unfortunate lapses on the part of nature:
HUNGARIAN STATESMEN LEAVE GERMANY
Berlin, To-day.
On December 26 at about 3 p.m. s. fish carrier, Leung Shiu, saw accused alight from the train from Shum Chr in the company of other men. Ac cused visited Wong Fat-chi and after a long talk, they left the house)
Before 11 pax, Wong Fat-cin re- turned to the house, but when the mur tsai wanted to bolt the door, he told
her not to do so.
MIDNIGHT ENTRY
At about midnight a mui tsaî heard the bolt being worked. Deceased also heard it and shouted out to Wong Fat- cm to see that the door was bolted.
That was the time, alleged the Crown, when wong allowed accused access to the house
At about 3 am, two mui tsais heard the sound of something being bangei against the partition, but took no no- tice. They also heard a choking sound from the deceased's enbicle.
One mai tsar heard a voice say "Don't make a noise, which she wa certain belonged to accused. She had known him for over 10 years and was sure the voice was his.
At 4.30 am, accnsed in the com- pany of another man was seen by the fish carrier, Leung Shiu, hurrying in the direction of Shum Chua
- A few days later, Wong Fat-chi was arrested and was later found guilty of complicity in the crime, for which he was executed
The case is continuing
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Han Sang Fong, af No. 224,
reported the loss of After a week's stay in Berlin, the than Road, has Hungarian Premier and Foreign two wrist watches, valued at $55, Minister, left last night for Buda- from her residence by a man who pest
gained admittance by pretending The visiting statesmen were seen he was an employee of the China off by the Foreign Minister, Baron Light and Power Co. Ltd. Mrs. C. von Neurath, and a large crowd: Trans-Ocean
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