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PWD Witness Admits Altering Statement

An admission that he had altered his original statement to the police in the course of com- mittal proceedings at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, was made yesterday by Charles M. Rowe, electrical engineer of Pacific Air Main- tenance and Supply Company, at yesterday's hearing of the PWP larceny trial. The trial involves Kwok Kwong, foreman, and Austin,Spory, Grade 1 electrical inspector, who are charged with 12 counts of larceny by public servant, obtaining money by folşe pretences, and conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment.

had Rowe, who was recalled for saying that this statement

been put in arising out of the cross-examination by Mr. V.

cross-examination by Mr. D'Allon L..

for D'Alton, counsel J

o a siulement which, was Inter Spary, told the court that incorrected. Counsel submitted that his statement in the police he the statement was not evidence hnd mentioned felephone so far as bla client was concerned. Mr. Houton replied by stating k with Spary when, in fact,

tut, since he had not been able to con- tact Spary at that time.

Giving his reason for tvg- wile explained that all ae bud been very vague to hit The kind of straigh ork he had to do a Kal Tal ot that when the meetrini in

Angled to never museeted in the is one semen and the for tiptred him at R, A

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Wines further admitted th hen he had het fime to reflec on the matter inter on, he de- ended bin had nol spoken to Spar at all and that sighsequently he had said this in evidence in the Lower Coui,

Banished

For Life

Admitting the charges of keeping an opium divan and posspasion of opium, Chan Fu was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and ordered to be banished for fe, by Mr. W. A. Blair-Kurr at Kowloon yesterday.

When the divan on the roof of 421A Reclamation Street war rakled by police party, led by Tieteetive Sub-Inspector C. Pope. on January 12, 10 smokers wer found on the premises.

One of the dy but was to escape from re-arrested after

altempted

@ short chose That man, Kwok Kwel-cheung. n 35-year-old coolie, was fined

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DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP

The daring daylight hold up $100, or four weeks' imprison of R. G. Bllantine and C. J

the smoking charge

had ment, ori the intement arisen out of cross-examination it could be used as evidence.

Crown Counsel submitted that he was entitled to clear up what "the on: the witness meant by

h the gold teeth."

Objection

At this stage, Mr. Chen objected

the way the question was be My put, and submitted that t te purjudicial to his client.

He then made a formal applica on that the present jury be dis

a new trial be ordere and that the accused be granted | separate trials.

same magistrate with possession of 55 pots of prepares oplum.

This becused was sentenced to nur months' imprisonment and

ordered to

year.

be banished

According to the charges pre-

Larceny Of Lorry

As business was bad, Hau Kam-lau allas Hau Lau alias Hau Tin, aged 32, of the. Tung On Garments Co.

of 84 Yu Chan Street, first floor," sold! the lorry left in his care by his friend, Lui Man-kl, and, applied the $400 to his own.

use.

That was what he pleaded when harged by Detective-Inspector C, Dawinan before Mr. W. A. Blair Kerr at Kowloon yesterday with arceny by bullee of the forry? He further claimed that he did not steal the truck but sold it under Instructions of the complainant

TRAMWAY magistrate, in which he stated TRAMWAY

CASE

ferici by Detective-Inspector Dand Mr. P.C. Woo

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This was rebutted by Det.-In-- spector Dowman who referred to: Lui's complaint, sworn before the that he did not give accused per- mission to dispose of the vehicle. 6ix Hau was sentenced to inonths' hard labour. The court also ordered that "whatever is Defence counsels' cross left of the lorry be returned to

the complainant." examination of a prosecution's

Det, Inspector According to witness continued in the hear

nishop- can-Doyman, Lui Man-il, ing of the Tramways' and an additional six weeks on Maybeth, both of 131 Boun-

Street. the escaping count. The other dary Street, while they were

driving

along Military Road spiracy case before Mr. F. X. keeper of 69 Womung

ground floor, bought lorry 0706 18 smokers were fined $100 each.

To Yuk, who lived on thr near Tai Hang Hau on Janu-d'Almada at Central yesterday.en August 20, 1947, and left it in on the care of defendant when ho Fourteen inspectors and second floor of 412A Reclama-ary was recalled yesterday

was alleged to be when two men were charged conductor are being charged with went to Canton. tion Street, the man who supplied Chan Fu before Mr. W. A. Blair-Kerr conspiracy to defraud the Tram- with the opium for his divan, with armed robbery.

ways Company. They are being defended by Mr. Marcus da Silva when To was charged before the

On his return to the Colony on and Mr. Mr. A.J. Clifford Davies, Sit Ting, aged 22, and P. A.L. Vine are representing the April 4 last year. Lu! found both the defendant and the lorry gone. ants Tin. aged 32, with another Tramways Company.

custody.

robbed, while for 10 inn not in

Ho Yau was questioned for the He reported to the police, and Inquiries revealed that the lorry armed, Ronald George Ballantine

was sold by defendant to me Ho and Cherrie Julian Maybeth of best part of yesterday's heating.

Ho

Mr. Yau was questioned by

Yan on March 13 for $400. $40, a silver cigarette case, a a pair

da Silva

on the refunded amounts

Two or three days later, Ho of Aying glasses, a combined

Company for sums alleged to have kwan for $680. Leung was traced Inan's wrist watch, a blue pull-been paid by six conductors to the and the lorry found in the stage

and uvor o gold wedding ring. Inspectors, on February 27

of being dismantled in a garage. diamond ring, and March 5 last year. ulalinum and

Further, breaking-up operations an enamel brooch.

Mr. da Silva tried to prove in were stopped on the instructions These two men were also this cross examination that facts of the police. Further evidence was heard leged to have stolen from the per showed refunds were due to only On January 8 this year, Detec- yesterday before Mr. W. H.Sunt of Olga Nickolalvan Yard at Ave of the conductors, one having lives Isang Kwok-Jesing and Lau at the Clear Water Bay Road near Tabeen dismissed on February 24, You arrested accused at Lalchikok left the company a month ridicated the first accused in the Latimer at Kowloon

Counsel also claimed that wit-Road near Kwellin Street. Ques- continued committal proceed-Hang Yiu Village on December 12 40 a handbag containing whether he asked to speak to ings on the charge of murder fast,

Ave men and that ho (witness) the lorry and said that he had knife, a hair net, n chronium- to which witness answered that jam. Spary when he phoned the PWD preferred against Wong Fuk-cents, two lipatlek edils, a fruit as evidence mentioned only toned, he admitted having sold

plated pryder compact, u pencil. Was now saying the number was spout the $400 he got for it.

six, only that his story would voice who answered the It was alleged by the prosecu wo woman's handkerchiefs, tally with Cheung Sang,

who then referred phone, e male one, did not give tion conducted by Charles bottle of scent, and some personal prosecution's chic witness,

Mottram Assistant Director of

that bad given in his evidence (Kow Investigations

Defendants were also accused there were; six: Forneal the witness had said when he loon), assisted by Detective Sub-

Mr. de Suya said, that the story rang up the exchange he was told Inspector CJ, Askew, that Wons of being in possession of a Smith

conference. You, foster-father of defendant, and Wesson .32 revolver and sive of the trap laid to apprehend the that Spary was in

Witness agreed to this.

wna murdered by accused at Man rounds of ammunition at an un-inspectors was fabricated to avold numbered hut at Tin Ha Wan Ho You (witness) and other wit- The next witness, Ho Ting, Cheung Po.

The motive was stated to be Village, and of the articles stolenesses being designated as accom- Wanchai foreman of the PWD

to having vengeance. The Crown, and wil from O.N Yard, at the time of plices.

Det.-Inspector arrest by workshop.. testified

Witness denied these allega- nesses, including Li Kan-mui, al- their gone, in April or May, 1948, to the leged that Li Kamu-mui, the con- Davies. Det-Set. Tain Chuon and tons. Hearing was adjpunred un-men.

Club

Wu Chun ch on til today. cubine of the dead man, and de- Det-Cpl. fendant were on intimate rela-January 11. tonship.

Witness

stated

that O.E

The application was refused by Mr. Justice Reynolds, after which Crown Counsel went on with th question.

Witness, in reply to the ques- Juk bin, who had given evidenetton as to whom he had referred at a previous hearing. had been

to as "gold teeth" in his statement, clerk at the CPA, but that he trad

dock.

r two ago. Asked by Counsel why he left, Iowe replied that ha

Julelin refined to take a better Jo not know, but that he thought portion elsewhere.

the

I

Mr. D'Alton Julebin's cross-examination, which Julchin had said "we res ferred ka the men working on The hulans Spary's men," and that when asked who the term "we" ment, Julebin had said it meant towe. Harris, and himself.

The Jury then asked witness

Evidence In lighter and propelling pencil, made to him by the Tramways sold the vehicle to a Leung Yick-

Murder Case

him any name at all.

Mr. D'Alton here relained that Criminal

Hong Kong Yacht

Rowe was then asked whether he himself had referred to the men worklog at the huts as Roval "Spary's men," to which witness with Spary. replied that, to the best of his knowledge, he had not,

Witness further disclosed that at the time the jobs at the huis were being curried out, Harris was in charge. Harris present position, he added, was Manager of the Pucille Air Maintenance.

Asked whether he knew if Har- informed the police when he teft the Colony on December 29, withess said he did not know, but that he Lought Harris did not do so, it was en the insistance of the company, witness went on. that Heris If Hong Kong for a holiday, so he had been workinit with the company for some line and was quite run down.

Ho stated he was told by Spary to inspect the wiring in the clab. Mr. Forsythe of the Club was also present, he said, as well as chargelund, Tang Ting.

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Estimate Ordered

Witness went on to say that he was later ordered to make an es- timate of the materials required for the job by Spary. This he dil and handed the estimate to Spary, About 10 days later Spary toid him to begin the work. Winess said he asked Spary from where to get materials to which Spary is alleged to have replied to get them from the second floor of the workshop at Wanchal.

Six-hundred yards of wire were

then taken out of the workshop and sent over to the Yacht club,

One Month Or Longer Counsel inquired how long Hur-witness stated. ris was going to be absent. and

papers.

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At the request of Sub-inspector

accused were

го-

It was further stated that when J.H. Evans, Li complained to accused of illi monded for two days in custody. treatment received at the hand of Wong Yau, accused said that hel would kill the

On old man,

August 31, actured visited Liat DANGEROUS GOODS Wusung Street and told her that! Wong had been chopped by him with a vegetable chopper.

Hearing was then adjourned to February 2.

Clothing Stolen

on

tho

BAD MEAT

A brief lecture on the con- sequences of eating unwhole- some meat was alven yester- day at the Central Magistracy by Mr. Hin-shing Lo to three

The men were arrested by a Health Inspector at West Point.

Gold Seized They had in their possession 10

At Railway

catties of dog meat, described as "unfit for human comsumption." The men were warned that they would be recommended fork banishment should they again on a dimilar charge...

They were fined. HK$250 each or two months' hard, labour.

come

Reminders

Today

Queen's College Speech Day, 28, Kennedy Road, Sir Robert Ho Tung presents prizes, il

A total of 24 taels of gold was seized during the last two Under cover of darkness, days at Kowloon-Canton Ball- two boats set sail for China way Station.

cach Wednesday night,

Four men from North China with a load of kerosene on were arrested at the railway board. The boats were inter- terminus on Wednesday for ex

Tso Lam-sang had porting gold. cepted by the police at Junk one gold bar and four rings, Fung Bay at 8.30 p.m. The two Cheung-kong, ane bar and fve -boat masters were taken into rings, Cheung Sing-ing... four

custody.

tuels, and Yue Hal-to, seven toels. Master of boat No. 3298Y, Wong Arrested on Thursday morning, Shing-kau, and master of boat Cheng Kwal-fong had two gold Cheung Choi and

Tsang No. 3082, Ree 6ze-lee, came be- bars, amounting to 10 taels.

fore Mr.

On the application of Revenue W.H. Latimer at Kow- Chuen reported to the Kow- loon yesterday on

of Inspector D, H. Knox, the gold charges loon City police

on January breach of dangerous goods regula was ordered to be confiscated Spary was then alleged to havn 11 that between 1 p.m. and tions, failing to show red light when the five men came before Dr.

while carrying dangerous goods Mr. W. H. Latimer at Kowloon handed over to witness 8280 as 10 p.m. the previous day some "tea-money" and to have told

the night and one broke the lock of the door during

loading yesterday.

Arriving from Amoy on a CNAG witness that it was for those who of 2 Sal Tau Village and stole goods for China at Hung Hom, place, Tam Chipo, 42-year-old worked at the electrical job a four pairs of trousers and two which is not permitted. started last August, when inquiries

women, was searched at the Kal Wong had 3 tins of kerosene the club. began to be made, you made a

Winess also testified having jackets.

on board, while Ece had 31 tins.fak Airport on Wednesday mor statement it the police. Later in

Investigations conducted by When charged at the station, ing.

That was what he pleaded when the course of committal proceed-one into the Hong Kong Football

bath admitted loading the goods ings you changed that statement, Club with Spary some time after Detective 10ay led to the arrest o

the re-wiring at the Yacht Club, Cheung Chen-cho, 30-year-old at Hung Hom and that they were six tels, were found on her per

pop. When charged at the star which was three or four months unemployed, at Prince Edward heading for San Mel, China.

on January 12,

On the application of Inspectortion with importing gold, she sell that she brought the Rold from The arrested man, Sub-Inspector JH. Evans whined to be confiscated. Both defen- tion of having it made into Cheung was charged before Mr. dants were discharged with

Blair-Ket at Kowloon caution. yesterday with house-breaking. Sai Tou Village where three pairs brought the detective to a hut at of trousers and the two jackets

found.

witness apled that it was tenta- tively cne month or longer.

Mr. 13'Alton: When this case

lil you not?

Winess: Yes.

Would it be right that your later. Witness said Spary, told him 1 Road at 9.45 am recording J. Orem, the kerosene was order- § Manila 10 Amoy with the Inton-

original statement was that you Jung up Spary-Did I mention Spary's name?

It seemed so in the statement you made to

to the police. Did you mention it7-Yes, I did.

Subsequently you changed your

to putu front of the canteen room in front

Witness at this point corrected

as to the dates of th himself jobs done. He stated that the job at the Hong Kong Football Club was done sometime in 1847 and

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statement la the effect that you that the one at the yacht clubt then brought the deri

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Ho further testified that that you did not speak to

went in Te Spury

Witness also admitted that in office in the Gloucester Building the Lower Court, the Crown had some time in July, er August, wanted to treat him as a hostile 1947, in company with Spary, and

that' witness as a result of the altera- he was there instructed by: tion.

Spary to alfer the position of cer- Rowe then explained to the Lain lamps and put up wo court that as the kind of work duorescent lamps.

nt Kal Tak was a strenuous one And as he had

Witness said that the two lumps

where the fourth-pair of trouse were recovesed.

Accused was sentenced to nine months hard labour and ordered to be banished for lilo..

to concentrate a were cbfained from the Waialul BOAC To

good deal, he did not take much interest in the electrical jobs bo- Ing done.

workshop later on, and put up as instructed by Spary.

Yuen Ki, on assistunt of Ho Witness then read aloud the Tins, then went into the witness statement which he had made to box to give evidence pa to entries the police, after which Crown into the material entries book, Counsel, Mr. Hooton, asked after which he was cross-examin= whether in the statement he had ed by the defence.

Hearing referred to the foreman as "the one with the gold teeth.”

thorning.

At this point, Mr. Chen counsel | for Kwok Kwong, objected to this,

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EXPLOSION OF AMMO DUMP

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D.P. Dobson lectures on "Local Government", Club Lusitano, Ice House Street, 0 p.m. Yolce Trial to All vacancies in St.

John's Cathedral Boy' Choir, at tlie Cathedral, 4p.m. Sino-Brilish Club meeting address by Colonel Sir James' Slec- man, PRO Joêlure room, 5:45 p.m.

Talk on "The English Language“, by Mr. Robert Bruce, Chinese YMCA, Bridge's Street, 1.30

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jewellery but as her stay in Amoy Oil and Water Colour paintings was short, she had no time to do so and decided to bring it to Lul's complaint, sworn before the Hong Kong, and then to Manila. A. Blair-Kerr to answer the chargo yesterday, her ball of $28 was estreated. The gold was con. seated, on the application of RI Knox

were sympathetically dealt with by Mr. Hin-shing Lo at the Cen- yesterday. Magistracy tral They were given a chance of claiming back their goods scized by the police.

Channing' KAWY

OPIUM PIPES IN GUNNY SACK While conducting an erms raid huts of Most of the defendants pleaded on some unnumbered gulity to charges of hawking with- Wuhu Street at 6.50 am, yester-

Inspector out licences and causing pbstruc- day, tion on pavements. Fines ranging Kong 520, 41-year-old. tllor of from HK$10 to HK$30 (or 10 days 38 Bulidoy Street, ground floor. imprisonment) were imposed cunning out of one of the huis

Óny couple was fined HK$30 or carrying a gunny sack

Kung was stopped. The guns 10 days' imprisonment for elling mussels, contrary to Health re-ack was searched and found to

contain 10 optim pipes. gulations.

Sub-Inspector E.S. Thompson prosecuted.

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DISCHARGED

Held without ball since Decem bar 22 Inst; Chan So-pang, and

Charged later in the morning kalore Mr. W, A. Blair-Kerr with possession of the pipes, Kong was sentenced to six months' hara

Labour and banishment for life, after "Sub-Inspector 1. Hi Evans had revealed that accused. had à previous conviction for keeping an opfilm divan, on July 28," "1047.

*BOAE, which begon operations Nan Chi-yung two ricksha DUMPED RUBBISH second ammunition dump here in 1945, said is carried a pullers were discharged by Mr. Hong Kong's "keep your city) plosion in less than two weeks partonger load of 13,000. In 1940, W. H. Latimer at Kowloon yolean" campaign." resulted in In Rosario, Union, In North) 3,910. In 1947 and 4,500 In 1948 terday when the prosectionnes of HK$30 each, or 10 days' West Luzon.

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One defendant than 9,000 tons of

New York, January 12:

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