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CHIEF JUSTICE'S STRONG COMMENTS ON POLICE METHODS
THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ATHOLL MacGREGOR, STRONGLY COMMENTED ON THE METHODS EMPLOYED BY THE POLICE AND THE MAGISTRACY IN UNNECESSARILY DELAYING THE BRINGING UP FOR TRIAL OF AN ACCUSED, AND STATED THAT AN OBSERVATION FROM THE COM- |MISSIONER OF POLICE WAS DESIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CASE OF LI TAM-WAI WHO, ARRAIGNED BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS THIS MORNING ON A CHARGE OF HAVING PARTICIPATED IN AN ARMED ROB- BERY ON A JUNK OFF PING CHAU ISLAND, WAS FOUND- NOT GUILTY AND ACQUITTED.
The accused was alleged to have boarded a junk on October 19 last and together with three other men to have robbed Wong Che-kwong and Li Kat-fai of rice and gro- ceries.
Accused pleaded not guilty, and the following Jury was empanelled to try the case: Messrs. J. R. Jones (Foreman), W. A. Tanley, J. Adam, H. R. Wells, J. E. da Rocha, Laï Kwong-hing and L. G. Rozario.
PLAN TO
ASSASSINATE SLAV PREMIER
Prague, To-day. Prague newspapers yesterday evening published · a ́ ́ sensational story of the discovery by the Czech police of a plan to assassinate Stojadivovic, the Yugo-Slav Premi- er, who is now on a visit to Ger- many.
Dr.
After the evidence of the two complainants was recorded, the Chief Justice pointed out that the accused was arrested on November 29 and was not brought for trial. until December 10, which automa- According to this report, a 36- tically delayed him from being year-old Yugoslav citizen named committed to the. current month's
Marian Mustapic was arrested at | Criminal Sessions.
Oderberg, on the Czechoslovakian frontier, as he was about to board a train for Berlin.
CHIEF JUSTICE'S COMMENTS
«"There are some things which are better said publicly from this Bench than anywhere else,” said the Chief Justice, "and I think I am `justified in saying what I have said,"
His Lordship commented on the unnecessary delay of one month for which the accused had been kept waiting for his trial.
he continued.
The police, whose suspicious" hád been aroused, found upon examina- tion that he was in possession of a forged passport. Upon being in-
to terrogated the men confessed being a member of the terrorist group known;
the Pavelic Terrorist group, which had laid
plans for the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia.
Mustapic arrived at Oderberg the same day the Yugoslav Prime his
"The Ordina less cases are Minister passed through on
|“provides, that
committed by the 10th of the month, they will not come up for trial on that month. It imposes on those responsible the duty of see- ing that all cases are dispensed with without delay,”
The Chief Justice instructed the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. E. H. Williams, to make inquiries into the matter and added that it was a grievious thing that people should be:
way to Germany. He denied that his intended journey to Germany was in connection with the present visit to that country the Yugoslav Prime Minister, but as some of his other statements are contradictory, the Czech authorities are tinuing their investigations. Trans-Ocean.
AND kept waiting for trial BIGGER
unnecessarily. The case concern-
ed, he pointed out, was short and BETTER CHILDREN
as far as the delay was concerned
it was as bad as could be. The IN ENGLAND
accused was charged on December
9 and for no reason at all was
London,
con-
dday.
aver-
remanded for 24 hours, no sugges- Increases of two inches tion being given and besides there age height and seven or eight was no application by the police pounds in weight of school children for an adjournment, which deprived in the last 30 years, were mention- accused of the right of being tried at the December Criminal Sessions.
UTMOST IMPORTANCE
ed by Lord Stanhope at Nottingham last night when he spoke in support of the National Health Campaign.
Such signs of improvement in physique, however, should not give "I regard this matter," conclud-rise to placency, and he said that ed the Chief Justice, "as being of the Government were making a utmost importance. There should great effort to ensure that health be no delay in bringing a person services were fully used-British to trial. Every man is innocent Wireless. until he is pronounced guilty, and
on
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and him. He was not brought before concert party of H.M.S. Dorsetshire the Magistrate until December 9 will be in attendance. and... în this connection I should like to have the observation of the Commissioner of Police also."
In summing up the case the |Chief Justice warned the jury of the unescapable danger of con-
victing a person on circumstantial evidence which the evidence of the witnesses amounted to
The jury retired verdlet of not fullty,
returned
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