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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.

Three Junkpeople Cut Up In Propellors Of Chuenchow

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Three bodies are lying in the Public Mortuary and two persons, seriously injured, in the Queen Mary Hospital as a result of the tragedy which occurred in the harbour yesterday morning when the s.s. Chuen Chow while berth- ing alongside the Po Tak Pier on the Praya ac- cidentally crashed into a junk.

The vessel from Macao arrived in the harbour shortly after 11 a.m. and, as she was being turned about so as to berth with her stern towards

the Praya she crashed into a junk smashing it to splinters and throw- ing the seven occupants into the water.

A police launch in the vicinity, speeded to the scene and with the laid of some junk-folk picked up the

victims.

FORGED NOTE CASE FAILS

Arraigned before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Crimin- Life belts were immediately al Sessions this morning on three

and thrown overboard but before the charges of possession

uttering two forged $1 bank-notes, Ng Tin, 23, of engine could be stopped four

was found not guilty and discharged. the victims were badly cut up by

-The jury were Messrs. W. J. Geall the propellers.

(Foreman). W. F. G. Harris, A. Vago, W. E. Kirby, Chan Kai-sin, Mak Shiu- ping and Fan Chi-kuen.

It was alleged by the Crown. rë presented by Mr. J. Whyatt, Assistant Attorney General, that at 7 p.m. on January 2 last, accused-tendered a cents $1 bank-note and bought five worth of sugar cane from a hawker The bodies of two men were ter- in Keelung Street. This note yas ribly mutilated, their limbs sever-later found to be a forgery. ed by the propellers of the ship,

Half an hour later accused appear- while two others were also

ed in the same vicinity and tendered badly

another $1 bank-note to another hawk- : cut up.

One of them died on theer and bought sugar cane. This note way to hospital, and the other is

was found to be a forgery and accus- said to be in a serious condition. ed_ was arrested.

The remaining three members of the crew were only slightly hurt and were not detained in the Hos- pital.

WOMAN GAOLED FOR TWO YEARS

"You have pleaded guilty to a very cruel offence, depriving a mother her child. It is fortunate for

you

stated that he obtained the notes from In answer to the charge accused

the Sheung Lung Mah Jongh School.

The jury retired for a few minutes and found the accused not guilty, having being warned by the Chief Justice, in his summing up, that it would better for a dozen guilty per- sons to go free than for one innocent man to be convicted.

COUNTERFEITING IMPOSSIBLE

Four years' hard labour was im- by the Chief Justice, Sir

that you were wise enough to give posed the police assistance," remarked the Atholl MacGregor, on two Chinese, Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, Lam Yiu and Lam Tim, who plead- to a 35-year-old Chinese woman, Wonged guilty to charges of possession Fung, who was sentenced to two years of 11 moulds for unlawful purposes hard labour for kidnapping Li Yip-hoi. nine-year-old girl.

and of 118 counterfeit 10-cent coins when they appeared at the Crimin- al Sessions this morning.

Accused said she committed the offence owing to poverty.

Mr. John Whyatt, Assistant At- Mr. Whyatt, stated accused assisted torney General, stated that the the police to recover the child from a counterfeits were not convincing, village about eight miles from Shum

Chun. Without her assistance, this it being impossible to counterfeit would have been impossible.

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