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THE CHINA MÁIL, SATURDAY, JULY, 10, 1948.

HAVE, YOU HEARD HOW THE CRITICS HAVE BEEN SLATING MY PICTURES

Opium Divan Per Discovered By Accident

On their way to demolish some unnumbered sheds at Sal Yee Street on July 8, Publis Works Department ofcers dis- covered an opium divan and notified Sub-Inspector An drews of Mong Kok Police Station.

Lee Sang, 47-year-old "coolie, was arrested together with six smokers, and five pipes, 10 lamps and a small quantity of oplum selred.

Charged before Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday, Lee was fined 2750 (or four months' imprisonment), and his smokers $35 each.

huts at

Three unnumbered Shek Kip Mel, Village werą, raid- હવે by -Detective-Inspector, C. Dowman on Thursday and nino. men were arrested in connection with opium offences.

Law Fat, charged with keeping a divon, was fined $150. (or six hin three

and

weeks' ghoÌ),, smokers $25 each, The two pipes | and two

two lamps were confiscated. Pang Wah, pleading guilty to keeping a divan and possession of two opkum pipes and two lamps, fined $100 (or four weeks

was

COLONEL

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The Student Tricked

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SAYING

Judgment Reserved Taxicab

On Wood Murder Murder Conviction Appeal Appeal

A Full Court comprising Mr. Justice T. J. Gould (Puisne Judge) and Mr. Justico J. Reynolds (Appeal Judge), reserved judgment yesterday on an appeal by Làu Hội állai Lou Yun-hot and Ho Chouk-kui against their conviction for the murder of Mr. Lytton Bovis Wood on February 11,

Mr. A Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, assisted by Del. Insp. Imprisonment). His two custom-H. T. Matches, represented the ers were fined $20 each.

Pleading not guilty to the charge of keeping a divan, Chan Fong-luen was remanded until this morning. His friend, denying the count of smoking was also remanded for 24 hours.

J. S. Howarth Sub-Inspector was the prosector in all cases,

Burglary Attempt Failed

Arrested by Detective- Sergeant The Yung within 45 minutes of an unsuccessful at- tempt to break into the second door of 548 Shanghai Street ini the early hours, of Thursday | morning, Chow Pei was sen- tenced to a year's hard labour and recommended to be banish- ed by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr at Kowloon yesterday,

Sub-Inspector J. S. Howarth wild that Lo Wing, occupier of the Shanghal Street address, was awakened on July 8-4 the sound of someone breaking e lock, of the fron grille and

He looked through a hole in the door, after switching on the

Crown.

Both accused were represented by Mr. D. A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr. P.J. Grimins of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist...

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Drivers' Offences

An appeal in connection with the "taxicab murder" at Victoria Road on, Chinese, New Year's Day was heard yesterday by a Full, Court comprising Mr. Justice T. 3. Gould (Puisne Judge) and Mr. Justico J. Reynolds (Pulsne Judge).

Police Into Arresting Coolie

Cheung Wal-sun, à' teen-age-student of the Lai Chak Middle School of 12 Tok Hing Street, misled the Yaumati C.F.D. and was respon- sible for an innocent casual coolie being or rested and charged, with him, with demand- ing money by threatening leftor.

careful check muda - by Jat.. Sub-Inspector, W.G. Mor

san and Detective Tadi TK- wing on the movements of the golla at the material times sed to, the withdrawal of the charge against him on June 26.

Cheung charged, bators Air, W. H-Latimer as Kowloon venerday with ultering a letter demanding $200 with menaces fraps, Leung Chung, foreman of the shipping fee of phl Bag Transportation Co., at 88 Reclamation Street, committed for itat: floor, was rial

TC.A bütherton Russ is Mr. appearing for the defence."

DSI Morrison said that on the morning of Tupelo Leung amoh Wong" Lal, say and picked up a a letter which was lying about two feet inside the door of the The appeal was lodged by premises. She handed it Loung. Wing anit. Leung Nga Cheung, brother-in-law of who were sentenced to death, by Loung,who brought it to the Mr. Justice E. H. Willams (Chiefice at David House to hand to

the complainant. Justice), when found guilty by i Jury on

on May 7, on a charge of having murdered Ip Woon-nin

represented by

Chan Yui, master of the Tung). town, wan·

The

The appeal was based on the following grounds: (1) That the Shing Wood Shop of Canton admission made by the accused Road, was fined $50 by Me. W. Mr. A. Lonsdale, assisted by Det, was wrongly admitted: (2) That A. Blair-Kerr at Kowlooh yes- Insp. G. E. Willerton, the Chief Justice misdirected and terday when he pleaded guilty nondirected the jury on the to the charge of driving private evidence relating to the taking of car 1134 without a

driver's certain statements, which evi licence.

The

denco was relevant on that point of, the weight to be attached thereto by the Jury: (3), That the Chief Justice failed to put the

evidence.

Mr. B. A. Bernacchi, fhslructed by. Mr. J. C. Stewart of Messrs Teo and Hodgson, represented both accused.

The appeal was based on the

Shortage Of Money

addressed to Launs, Chung, said, The Lotter, dated June 12 and Ar our socity is facing a short age of money, we now ask you for a loan of $200. If you are generous to comply with our request, put, the money in the first, hole in

Reckless Driving Summons

Alexander Block of 42, Stubbs Road (ground floor) was summoned at Central'yes- terday for driving his motor cycle recklessly on Gloucester Road, on May d...

Divisional Superintendant T. E.. Clunie, of Eastern Police Station,

complainant, sald that, he was driving along Gloucester Road and when searing O'Brien Road he saw defendant, riding a'cycle with a young girl on the back, come from O'Brien, Road.

When, he came

into

Road he was on the wrong aldo Gloucester of the road, and but for the fact that wliness applied his for the for

would. brakes and stopped, there have been, a herd on collision.

Mr. Clunie sair he sounded his horn and defendant, stopped.

Defendant said that when Mr. Cluale came over to him he said what the b-1 do you mean by coming round the corner so fast?" to the second [ât deferidant.

Sub-Inspector J. S. Howarth following grounda: (1). The Judge staircase leading wall of the bur...Clunlo' denied having swore

sald defendant was seen by a misdirected the jury in not leave

the ・ weight, of the

floor al 11 pm today.

...

Failing to comply, it is advis, Defendant denied having come the jury and (4) That the verdict driving the ear in an erratie (Hem; (2) The vordlet was should take care; Signack........ Blom, travelling of 10 miles an hour. Case for the defence fully before constable at Mission Road on July; ing the verdict of manslaughter.tp that, all of your poople colind the corner nt. 25 miles an hour and spid thint, he, was only was against the weight of the manner. When asked to produce trary to

The case was then..ndjourned his licence, accused showed the evidence: (6) The circumstantial bers of the Tang Yeo Tonga constable

on, which Laccused

the Learner-Driver's Wright said that without

On a report being received, a the ctatements made by the licence which expires on June 15. were convicted was equally con- trap was laid by DSI Morrison until July 24 at 12 noon. sistent with tho Innocence

and und Detectives Wong. Yau, Sim accused, there was no other

Private car 253 was stopped by | 42;

(4) The Judgo wrongfully refused

Taul Tik-wing Ho and syidence produced by the pro-

Trame

Police-Sergeant 3007 at defence counsel'a application, to walch on the house. Shortly beforg convict the secution sufficient

Waterloo Road near Nathan Road soe certain statements without midnight, accused was seen com accused. These statements con-

cot and the driver, Ho Kam-po, a having to comply with conditions ing down the stairs from garbled ossunt of taingd everíte which had taken place shop fakt, was asked to produce and were untrue because they had been made under duress.

The Last Judges

his driver's licence.

tbb

Offered PC A Bribe

second floor, approach the help. imposed by Crown Counsel.

After lengthy

and take out the submissions on points of law by counsel for the dummy

Tal Chau-to, rickshaw putler, His ability to do so cost him defence and, prosecution, hearing He then returned to the

the upper The jury had, said Mr. Wright, $100 when he pleaded guilty be was adjourned until 10 am on flat followed by Dais, Wong and was asked by a constable to been asked to inter that the actore Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kow- Munday, when Mr. Lonsdale wil Taul. On bélny questioned, after produce his licence. Instead of cused. were guilty simply because loon yesterday to the charge of cantinue his arguments on the he had admitted the two detec. doing so, he took $1.80 in 10- the flat, defendant cents notes from his pocked they were present at the place driving without a licence.

w.relative to ground (4) of the tives into where the murder took place.

Inspector J. Orem prosecuted." I appical.

denied all knowledge of the and handed it to the constable. matter, and stated that he was ย · The-affence,' said. Inspector Ar Orem when Tei was charged, bo- student.

While his two colleagues were fore Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kow- Bim, who loon yesterday, was committed at upatalje, Detective was keeping watch in the street, Nathan Road near Nanking Road heard something strike the ground on the night of July B. and, on picking up, found it Tal was being brought to the to be the same dummy parcel Yaumati Pollte Station to bu handed to them by C51 Morrison. charged with causing an obstruc- Lion by leaving rickshaw 209 01 the roadway, when the constable waked him for his licence, offered, the constable $1.80 to lease him..

| staircase light, ond saw accused Asked by Mr. Justice Gould on

running up the stairs towards the to whether or not he was, sup." roof. A thorough search of the gesting that the, jury was able to roof by the Police proved stor-rule a statement us involuntary live.

17 when the Judge had, ruled, 11 to Three-quarters of an hour later, be voluntary, Mr. Wright said it Det-Sgt. 1se Yung saw accused had been done before and the lottering at Portland Street near jury themselves were the last Shantung Street and took him to judges of the facts. Lo Wing who immediately.klenti- fied in as the man who tried to break in

Mr. Wright also dealt at length with the evidence of the doctor relative to the scars on the fingers of first accused.

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Mr. Lonsdale said that where

Geese Gave judge had discretionary power

Alarm

STOLEN GOVT PETROL RACKET SMASHED

Petrol stolon by drivers of Government, Military

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Defendant was sentenced to three months hard labour for offering e bribe, and cautioned for causing an obstruction.

Same Handwriting and Naval lorries was delivered to 62, Larch At the Police Station defen- Street and re-sold by the soven operators there dant, usked to give a spec of his handwriting, wryto at $6 a four-gallon tin to “"regular" custom- Block characters. When he copies lowing art and $7 to "casual" buyers, said Chief

bart of the letter: In characters, it was found that the Detective" Inspector J. Johnston of the Anti- hardwriting was the same... Corruption Squad at Kowloon yesterday.

dp statement to the Folles on the

following morning, defendant The revelation was made by Tai Street and the vacant plece guide went out at 7:40 am, on va CD Johnston when he asked of ground where the petrol was June 10 and when I arrived at Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr, to take stored.

the corher auf the roadway out.

the Tai Kam On his instructions, Lee Man a serious view of the case in

side, the

Shop Tea In connection with the admis- which Mak Yuk and Wong sung went up to Wong who said, house, a Chinese male, aged about "I want one. plece." (CID. Johns; CUR asked me to write letter sion of a statement, as voluntary, Sing-lui (accountant of the ton explained that that was the which I did on the same date in the mattery, which tended to show Tak. Kee Transportation Co Chinese slang for the unit.). After the Summer House in the Roun that it was voluntary may or of 733 Nathan Road, third having his Jeep's tank filled from Chunk

questions of guilt. in ro

to, admit evidente, unless it could be, shown he was wrong in law, the, discretion, could not be chal lepiged on appeal, except in the samo way as a jury's decision on facis, that is, that it was un- reasonable..

The cackling of gecse awoke Chan Shu-ting, poultry store, mus ter, in the early hours of Thurs day morning.. Ho saw a men walking off with a "goose" under each arm.

Detained by Chan, the man, tha Wong Bau, admitted having

The Chinese malo then fold crate outside the Luen Hing Lung far as they were relevant for the celving a quantity of petrol on fendant tendered a $10.note, in mo to collect the packet at 11 payment, and Lee, not having any p., on June 12 from the hold poultry store at Shek Lung St.- jury to determitte guilt, then Defendants, who were con- small change, accompanied him on the stairway lending up to

When Wong was charged be they were matters of which the for Mr. W.H, Latimer at Kow-fury should have taken cogni.victed on the charge, were re-to-cigarette stall in the nexthe second floor of 88 Reclima-

tion Street. loon yesterday with larceny, In- zance and to be directed on by manded on bail of $1,000 to After Leo had given defendant

collected the parcel, spector J. Orem told the Court the presiding judge. If irrelevant, July 10 for: sentence. that acoused had two convictions then they should not be con- Detective Chan Keung, attach-back $4 change, witness arrested immedia day, plumed at the for larceny in 1947.

sidered by the fury,

d to Central C. L. D., said that accused, and brought him to the second-floor and closed the door Yaumati Police Station. The Police gave chase and i Defendant was contenced to six After Mr. Wright had replied shortly after noon on June 17 họ Witness, la reply to wecond ac threw the parcel into the street. months hard labour and recom- briefly, the Court reserved judg-went, disguised as a coolle, with cused, denied that Wong gave a mended to be banished.,

ment.

stolen the two geese, from an open not be relevant, to the ul- | floor) were charged with re-} the contents of u jerry, lin, dobi

Orchestra Rehearsals

Members of the Sino-Billin

Student Barricade

Kunming, July 9

June 17.

street.

est;

62 Larch traffic signal that he was going with: mnie: arts, appointinient

of conspiring to steal a, quantity

of

brought

a party of Police to

Chinese 'male to see him Street where they took into to turn left Defendant, he de agulhat 8 am on June 19. ul custody seven men on the charge

ted

definitely waved with as the corner of the roadway out hand.

teabouston, elde the mid- DST Mak In evidence, said that • hệ two hours later he saw About

driving up to them on did not know that the petrol wat says him a

and and later stolen. He

He was told by some Chinese larry 4521, owned by the Wing

fnds that

he could buy petrol detectives to Reclamation Siroet Tal

Transportation Co. and, asked

62 Larch Street, and when Where," outside house 34, he point Club Orchestra have decided to Students of the Yunnan, Uol the arrested men whether ther he got it, he paid the price of lo a man as thas otio who had continue rehearsals from July verify and A. pearby, middle had petrol for sale. Loo Mati-luis charged. In reply to the Magis forced him, aft King George V. 21 at50 p.m. at St Jan's Cathod-school barricaded themselve (who was sehtoriced, to three trate Mak said that he had been Park, to copy & letterh

months' hard labour on Juno rul Hall, Garden Road

in Hong Kong for 10 years and

Thuairies Zmidde by, the Polles, A new committee has been regulf of

barusuls of student demonstra replied in the nintmalive and have a wife and child in the ahdi check upp that mails, and

with Arrest of

witness, boarded· Mak's

country

Brtved conclusively that he elcated and, plans made, for the i tjàns and, as anti

pothing whatsoever to do with firat part of the 1948-49, season, five-youths;,"

Jorry, and drove to a vacant piece

the case and, after two remands; Residents' Interested and able to The students, was demonstra of ground, about 50 yards away

orchestral, instruments ener

Before Btida magistritë; he was 1 beküria agaliti. American where a number of lorry tins of pecially wood wind and trius [policy in

par

and developing

petrol were a who do not have an instrument, into a protest against the Nanking

Signal are requested to write to the lên, chvethment, retired to leave Leo, continued witness, took up Secretary (A.H. Bentley, 408;180-18eir school until their com-a, in, and poured the contents Koo Choy, Eld Tel. No. 33132 barilors were released from, at fnto the tank of defendant's lorry There is a possibility that instrui rekta

Montado Accuses then puid Lee $7, and ments may be purchased 'It play-14 ́At má zame Ume, word reach was arrested ere are available.

ed hard from Lanchow that slu-|-

Second defendant

suid, Détec The Orchestra had made onl

cent demonstrations there, cultive Réung Ming-tul (also of two appearances in fts first sea-lowing, the Paining again, west Central, C.I. DA, drove past the spn-Greater playing support. Is creaching alarming proportions, group, in a Jeep and signalled to Hecessary.

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LETTER OF VA THREAT Three, out-of-work their early 20s, Word ford Mr. W:A, BIRGER loon, westerday. "WIN letler demanding

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Not A "Regular Wong, declared that, he did not wave to the group of men the house but simply, savet left-lurn signal, He denied (haf| he was a regular cultomer and to got ble four-gallon tin for #4 || instead of an erinomine ka

To: the Court, defendant sald what no-was born in Hong Kong single, and employed gaan. accountant „ak: $300 per month, The Jeep. (No. (0034) was pur chased for

and belonged to 33,600

to members of this,

family, fibimes Requesting that a serious view be taken, CID Johnaton said that! without buyers there, would, b no thloves. The petrol was cleara od as soon as it was delivered to the dump, ty

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