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TELEPHONE CO. COOLIE CHARGED

STUDENTS IN WATERLOO ROAD CHASE

Brown,

So Szo, aged 22, coolie, and Lo Nam, aged 26, salesman, were re- R. manded for 24 hours by Mr.

Two students, Anthony Edwards at the Central Magistracy 16, and Joseph Lin, 22, were warm- the Kowloon this morning, when they were ly commended at charged with larceny of a quantity Magistracy this morning by Mr. of lead and receiving stolen pro-Q. A. A. Macfadyen when they ap- in perty, respectively.

peared as witnesses in a case First defendant was employed which two Chinese, Yu: Loi, 18, and by the Hong Kong Telephone Co. Kwok Kwong, 19, were charged as a coolie, and it was alleged that with snatching and aiding and he stole a quantity of lead from abetting, respectively. the company.

Det. Sgt. C. Pope, who prosecut- Mr. W. G. Griffen, engineer of ed, said, that at 12.50 p.m. yester- the Company, was present as com- day a 21-year-old woman, Ching Wa, plainant, while Mr. C. Y. Kwan raised an alarm after her handbag was snatched by Yu which she was appeared for second defendant.

Detective Sergeant L. H. Oakley using to shade her head from the was in charge of the case.

sun whilst she was walking along Waterloo Road towards Nathan Road.

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. Yu, after snatching the bag, rán the

COUNTERFEIT COINS towards Homantin Street up

hill and was chased by Brown, first witness, who heard the alarm but Ching Shu Leung, aged 56, un- was stopped by Kwok, second de- left employed and Leung So, aged 40, fendant, who pulled Brown's married woman, were charged be-arm saying in Chinese “Mu_ Lai fore Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Kiu”—“Don't arrest him" Brown Magistracy this morning, with be broke away and continued the chase, ing in possession of counterfeit and was assisted by a constable in' coins...

arresting the snatcher. Second de- It was alleged that defendants fendant was later arrested by Lin, were arrested in possession of 134 second witness, who went up the seen Brown ten cent pieces and 9 five cent hill after he had pieces at No. 93 Wellington Street, pulled by him. second floor, and another 11 cent pieces at No. 19 Street, third floor, on last.

ten Apparently, the distance between Aberdeen the two defendants was approxi- Saturday mately: 100 yards and according to

their statements they

were un-

A remand of 72 hours' was grant-known to each other. The charge ed to Detective Sergeant H. B. of aiding and abetting against se Dewar, and Mr. S. Ng Quinn for cond defendant was not very strong,

and therefore the charge both defendants.

withdrawn. Second defendant was

OPIUM DIVAN accordingly discharged.

Shortly after seven o'clock last Friday night, Revenue Officer E.-T. Warden with a raiding party raid- fed an opium diván in Shek Ku-lung Road, Kowloon, where he found 34 smokers and seized nine taels of prepared opium and nine opium pipes.

was

The snatcher, Yu, was sentenced to three months' hard labour.“

HENNESSY ROAD ACCIDENT

Before Mr. H. R. Butters at the

The keeper, Chan Tak, was fined $665 or six months' hard labour by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at Kowloon Central Magistracy this morning, a Wong this morning when he pleaded | 27-year-old driver named guilty to possession and keeping.

Kwok Choi, was charged, with driv- ing motor lorry No. 2584, in a man- Bdn. Marshall and Pte. Fowler, her which was dangerous to the pub- of the Royal Scots, were treated at lie at Hennessy Road near Percival the Military Hospital after having Street. been bitten by a black chow dog,

יי

Sergeant F. G. Appleton said de-

at Murray Barracks yesterday. The fendant was driving lorry along dog was sent to Kennedy Town for Hennessy Road about 5.5 p.m. on

Saturday, when

Percival observation.

Street, he turned the car without warning.

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It struck another motor cycle and threw Mr. Choa Hing-kee, Sub- Inspector of the Flying Squad, Po- lice Reserve, off the crolea. Mr. Choa was taken to the Queen. Mary Hospital, with a compound fracture of the leg..

Defendant was sentenced to a fins of $75 or six weeks Imprisonment.

F. Carman, manager of Marsman and Co., Shanghal-Bank Building, hae reported that be- tween 6.45 and 8.45 p.m. yesterday, red his apartment by some one en

"'and stole a sum of an unlocked $480 in Shanghai eurrenay

Ho Siu Hung, of No. 189 Hen- nesay Road, reported that some per son entered his residence by break ing down the back door/ [midnight and

and stole money the value of $261.50.