1939-01-25 — Page 4

SHOWING TO-DAY

KING'S

At 2.30, 5.10, 7:15 & 9.30 P.M.

13 GAY STARS in ROMPING- ROMANCE!

BEG BORROW

+

OR STEAL

WITH

Frank Morgan

Jebe BEAL Flerence RICE

ALSO MUSICAL · COMEDY

Frank Morgan'in his most kinghable rais......... as the "phony" who comes through_le_kalp kio daryktora mad, merry-marital, min-up

Produced by Pindartet

“THE CANARY COMES ACROSS ”

NEXT CHANGE ———

'LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY

SURPRISE PICTURE OF 1938

with MICKEY ROONEY. LEWIS STONE. JUDY GARLAND

4 SHOWS

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7.15-9.30

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A COMEDY ROMANCE THAT'S TRUE TO LIFE !

"I'M 171 I'M NO BABY, DAD!"

She thought she knew all about love and life ".......and then her roman- Ha world tumbled about her! Laughs, thrills, heart-throbs...in a dra- ma as warm and moving as "Ab Wilderness!"

YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE

with

LEWIS STONE CECILIA PARKER MICKEY ROONEY

Directed by

GEORGE B. BEITZ

FRI.

A picture that takes its place among the stirring, unforgettable. human dramas !

SAT "BLOCKADE”

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VE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 25, 1939.

YOUNG WOMAN SENTENCED FOR INFANTICIDE

FOUND TO BE ENCEINTE

EXAMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT PREMISES BY DR. L. D. PRINGLE AND DR. H. T. BEE AND FOUND TO BE WITH CHILD, A 22-YEAR-OLD CHINESE MOTHER, LAU SHUK-HING, WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AT THE CRIMIN- AL SESSIONS THIS MORNING BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ATHOLL MACGREGOR, FOR THE MURDER OF HER 18- MONTH-OLD BABY DAUGHTER.

""There is only one sentence which I am; empowered to pass on you and that is that you be confined to imprisonment with such labour as you are fit for, for a term as long as your natural life.

"I will support the jury's strong recommendation to mercy and you may rest assured that the sentence which you will serve will be consi- derably less than that which I have formally passed on you," rémarked the Chief Justice to the prisoner.

In the witness-box this morning, accused' stated that she had form- erly studied at the Yeung Chung Girls' College. She married when she was eighteen and was taken by her husband to Kongmoon, where her mother-in-law was in charge of the household. Her husband returned to Hong Kong and sent money to his mother. was given $2 monthly but was con- tent with this amount..

JAPANESE BOMBER CRASHES

Tungkwan, To-day.

A Japanese bomber crashed in flames near Tiehmen station be- tween Sin-an and Shengchih on the Lunghai Railway in Honan yesterday afternoon presumably owing to engine trouble. The two were killed.-- Japanese airmen Accused

Central News.

HUSBAND SUPPORTED ALL

birth to a In 1937, she gave daughter when living in Square Street. In November last she mov- ed to Kowloon and stayed with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law Street. Her

at No. 5 Shantung husband supported all of them.

when she was dead, as it would not go to anyone else but her, she gave the the baby what remained of opium to drink.

I "Since she was part of me, thought I would die with her so 1. gave her two spoonsful of the opium."

On December 7 at about 7 a.m. Accused said she was in a very when her husband came home, she sad state of mind but had no in- asked him for $5 to redeem a pair tention of killing her

of earrings which she had pawn-She

ed for household expenses.

He

He

daughter. had no idea of how much obtained for the opium she had

gave her one dollar but she refus- dollar. ed it as it was not sufficient. replied "No more, if you don't want

it, leave it."

and

HER WISH

After midnight she beganTM vo- Accused continued, "I insisted miting and her sister-in-law awak

Accused asked her to take my mother-in-law came into ened.

her my cubicle and scolded me, saying the baby to hospital to save that since he had come home from life, and refused to go herself.

Cross-examined by Mr. Whyatt, work, why bother him about money and to let him sleep. I told her Crown Counsel, accused said that that the matter concerned me and she knew the opium was sufficient asked her to mind her own busi-to cause death, and that she gave ness. She replied that it did con- the baby the opium because she did cern her as he was her. son, She not want to leave her behind as then left and went and cried on the the baby would suffer. bed, saying she had better move.

"My husband suggested that she move and said he would pay her her maintenance."

She wanted the baby to die with her and that was her wish.

· Addressing the jury, Mr. T. F. Lo, counsel for the defence, plead- ed that the jury give the case com-- passionate and merciful considera- While she was lying thinking in tion. He said that the act was on bed that morning she thought of an irresistible and emotionable im-

THINKING IN BED

the hardship of living as her hus-pulse. (Chief Justice, summing-up,

band would now.

have to support The

two families when her mother-in- told that jury that what they main- law moved. She decided to visit ly had to decide was whether the her mother in Hong Kong and on death of the child was caused, by her way she got a coolie to buy the voluntary act of the prisoner, her $1 worth of opium.‚·

and if so, was that act intentional. After seeing her mother, she re- The jury retired for about 10 turned home and, that evening, minutes and returned a verdict of strong recommenda- while her sister-in-law was sleep-guilty with a st ing in her cubicle, she mixed the tion for mercy. opium with boiling water and Accused was then taken from the drank it.: At that moment, she dock and medically examined. heard her baby cry and thinking

that the baby would suffer a lot

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