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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1949.

Challenges Crown In-Extradition Case

"I challenge Mr. Lonsdale to say that of the evi

donco adduced in this case he could indict day man.

Australia Day Celebrated

"A 100 years ago the rule of a scintilla of evidence being sufficient was exploded and I will go so far as to say that the facts of this cose

Australia Day way colebrated in Hong Kong with a cocktail party are only consistent with Mr. Hsu's innocence.” at The Hong Kong Hotel Annexe, Sb anid Mr. Eldon Potter, man, who had served the Govern-attendel by more that 400 peo- KC, when he made his subment faithfully for 20 years and pl milkrións before Mr. F. X. who had acted if high-positions Lending the many distinguished d'Almada yesterday in the with honour, if nothing else but a guests was the Governor, Sir extradition case."

My Potter salt. that file gubi-

thision would be overlapping the Lido Almeda chuttery it

do d'Almada KC, that there was

no cake in anewer,

the Hay Chi-chwang, who is wanted by the Chinese Govern- ment for alleged embezzlement of Griddiment funds while Director General of the Postal Remittance and Savings Bank and who is facing extradition proceedings.

common thier.

blc.

Alexander GrantXXX,

Mr. Eldon Potter was represent that is deplorüble' and contempoyally end" devotion to the King] Hung Pb-fat, witness for the and acknowledged her faith in the prosecution, said that He was rid continued prosperity of the Bri- other than Powell and if Crow - Empire,

and sti witness should have been arrested immediately ht, left the witness Bog, and charged with perjury, Hau is also defended by Mr. Les d'Almada KC, instructed by serious hope and his serious in

Mr. Potter sald that it was his Mr. Mureur da Silva, Mr. A. Lons-vitation to Mr. Lonsdale, if he had duld is for the prosecution while been in court, to get on to his feet Mr. Peter H. Sin is for the Chin- and to afficerely support his sub-

mission and to say that the fugi Commencing

supation tive had really no case to answer yesterday, Mr. Potter sold here and thus refore their faith in the was not then nor is there now any administration of criminal justice cose for his client to answer and in this colony, that the magistrate oven after he' Hith ruled that there was a căre fo' answer, could change his mind, aven after the case had been put to the jury.

ése Government.

"Facts Twisted"

Ho added with all due respect,

that the ruling the magistrate made was perhaps a blessing in disguise, because it had brought about that.. remarkable Cross-

Large Hauf Of Wireless

Police Arrest Alleged

Transmitters |__

*

Robber In 24 Hours

One of the largest hauls of Within 24 hours of the crime, Datactive constoblo wireless transmitting sets, was

Yip Ching-tak of. Shamshulpo, arrested one made by a police party, under Sub-Inspector J. W. Mac of the men alleged to have participated in Donald, on Monday night' an armed robbery at 24 Boundary Straat on when, in a' raid" on the Chani

January 7 Woo Hing Store, Kowloon In land Lot 1167 Tal Kok-Taut niño abti and fdür obéilläi ||grüblers were deized,

of

the então,

hia

The

man, who was pointed out to the defective by one of the victims, was taken off a bus. near the 181⁄2 milé post, Castle: Peak Road, and, when searched, was said to be in pos- sessiort of some of the stolen property.·'

At the conclusion of com- outside ille door. On the follow-

mises.

Doletilvá-const Yip Ching

Detective-Inspector C. Downin yooled me place

that

tho

When Chen Yau-shun, aged 45, was charged before. Mr. W, A Blair-Kerr at Kawloon yesterday |

This suggestion said Mr. Polter,

Mr. H. Rankine, Acting Aust-with passertion of tas bis with was made. without a scintilla of all Trade Commissioner, who cut a licence Mr. D.B.L. Gr

roof, on the evidence of perjured was host at the function, informh- Caler Inspector of the Telecoff witlessés, on the suppression of ed the othering that it was the munication Department, asked for mittal proceedings yesterday, ing morning he found the revolver evidence and a twinting or wet 181st birthday of Australia; Aust- very serious view to be taken the man, Man Kani alias Man behind, the meat-safe on the pre-

Tang, 25-year-old mason, was ralla, he said; ro-affirmed her

Mr. Grow and that He had committed for trial by M tak testified to going out with Ng checked up on defendi's story W. A Bible-Kerr on the Hung-rong to the New Territories that the sets were left in place by a friend, and found that charges of armed robbery by on Junuary 6, and to Ng pointing these rels had not bech entered in two or more, and possession to accused: wife was on a bus near as one of the at Mauser autoratle piston the 1339 The friend; sqld"Mr. Graw, wor] Government and in splto at what a licensed dealer in radies The represented the polleo. Defendant the

When searched, accused was Mr. Lonsdale had' said he must authorilles belleve, but could not was not legally represented.

for crons-examination, ensure the attendance of witnesses prove, that the fibh has beeh Mr. G.AR. Wright-Nooth. Divi- found to be in possession of a gold dealing in telecommunication sets stonal Superintendent, said that at wrist watch, a gold ring und a Mr. Lonsdale stiduld Have told and was in the habit of purchante identification parade held at fountain pen and pencil set. The the Nationalist Government of ing, and selling such set with Shamshulpa on January 10 ad- watch or me ty, h China "You must ensure the dt-out troubling to enter sue trans-ethod was idehilfed

fed by Ng Hunk stolen from Ng Hung-Kay, the pen tendince or witnesses, otherwise actiens in his books. the Crowny will wash ity Hands of

As to the present sets continue one who said, "When I was taken, and pencil set from Ng Hung τόσπι lout from my

another fothand the ring from the miller” ***

Mr. d'Anda had applied for Mr. Greve he was quite convited than, I saw this man guarding my mother.

that defendant. was connected brother of the House. None of and sister-in-law in the postponement this cross-with the Heended dealer thu that front Hồ. Half three proposition to examination of Hing Po-ut, but the sets were sent to his premises the other witnesses picked out

HOLIDAYS Mikke

ME Lonsdald opposed, and the for sif keeping Thy Verb he thecused

The Department of Imports and dismantika, later Mr. Lam Slu-cheung inter- Export wm Bb closed on Satur- Change His mind even arter of his discretion granted the post- and

telecom preter,

said that when charged on day and Monday, for all purposes ruling that there was a' cała" to potidment.

www.dr.

licensed stations.

cused replied, "Fel Tsal (Fat Boy) ships manifests Between 9 a.m. Secondly, he said, following the up and the authorities made it

Defendant pleaded that the sets Hung took me there to rob. All and 10 a.m. on both days. principles of In governing com clear that his evidence, was in-

The Marine Department mittal cases, it is a magistrate's admissable, and again did not tell are bought by his friend, it the things were taken away by To the count of

ALSO ba closed on the two' days boundeh duty jiot to commit un him that at a later stage the Na- nuction-sale arid left in his pre-Fel- Teal Hung" leks a prima facie case had been Wonhlist Governmidit could not,mes. The friend, he saleh re-postcasion: of arms and ammunt-

away the time to wanted to in pot able to let the Mauser Marine Licensing, comet ne any he do pistol did belong to me, If be Entry and Clearance Office which

to Pel Trai three weeks

Hung" After defendant had been dried Mauser pistol were in fair worke tlie maximum of $9,000, Mr. Growing order, and capable of being;

COLLISION: Finformed the court that, as the dred and that neither of them had Two Vortions

serial numbers had been taken off, been fired for a long time, whe A colitalon Between a tram occurred Supposing, sald Mr. Potter, that he was not in a position to say the evidence of Sub-Inspector car and a motor bus Hung's evidence was admissable whether the sals had actually 3.C. MacMillian, police armourer outside Windsor House vester-

been he had fold in the morning one bought in an auction or Ng Hung-hal, aged 91, stated day. The tramcar was badly

Air Force that he lived at 24 Boundary damaged. the tifan adjournment, probably be confiscated to the Gentra) Post mother, brother, and a female for some time and attracted

The court ordered the set to Street, first floor, with his wife, Both vehicles were entangled after a chat with an emissary Office. It also ordered that 26 per servant.

Nationalist Government, he

crawd of pedestrians. The of the asked for leave to change his to the informer.

cent of the fine, I paid, be given

The first is that » judge còn mágistrate' in the proper exercise and fled

three degree of creat

This Hung Po-fat did not turn muilleation sets and sölf", to' un-file còlint of armed robbery' aé“ (except for entry and clearance of

will

and

suggestion as to the guilt of the nesses entitled to a reasonable back to complete His evidence by 80. They had been there for abouk what both the sevolver and the will be open from 9 am to 11

fupitive on any

of the charges.

Not one of the crucial points In these charges had been touched upoff by Mr. Lonsdale, he said, and it was possible that Mr. Lonsdale felt that, as honourable gentlefiion, he should in the state of the proseculion, not put the crucial points to Hsu in cross examination.

i would like to believe that there wore Mr. Lonsdale's honourable motives,

He added that he would chat- lenge Mr. Lonsdale to say that on the evidence adduced he could indiet any man.

Alice In Wonderland A 100 years age, he said, the rule of a scintilla of evidence be ing sufficient was exploded and he would go so far as to say that the facts of this case were only consistent with Hsu's Innocene.

cross-examination. If Mr. Lods dale was as gullible as to bgløve that, he for one would not.

story and in the afternoon; after

evidence' and

be merely defending. Hsu but very importatit point, that i topposite verhion-diametrically

crucial

He submitted that he would not. The third point," he said, is a

. would be the accuser against, the was interided that the magistrate Nationalist Government of China should not accept Hisu's evidence, in living produced perjured wit-Hsu must be cross-examined on

points. nesses and twisted the true facts

In extradition cases, he said, of the ease.

bound to consider his the fugitive te is bound to heat story and if not cross-examined bound accept it.

Mr. Potter said that in

to

The case against said

Which version were they to accept, were they to toss the coin for it, heads for die ver- for slon" and talia the other? Crown Counsel, be said, was ant there to win a case, but to see

Longdale aleged that Hiu broke

ceny of the bonds....

Judgment In Tenancy Case Reserved

aim, on Monday only,

At 9 a.m. on Jenuary 7 he henta' frunder and motor bus were someone knocking at the door travelling Eastwards when, the When the door was opened by Hisneeldent decurred. Noils of the wife, o man nement with a revolver passkilgēls was injured, xitwear óp to him and ordered him

into the front cubicle f

Outside the doop of that cubicle, ld witness, Ho saw accused

guard with a Maurer In

his hand. In the room ho saw his

fe, So Lam, tre servant, add

beling, his back,

Two of the

WHAT? WHEN? WHERE?

tntral thatz viet on the ni Payment “will be, made far` ni: Stand; mood. Pletbig day, W night, ta

32312 OR 24354

Justice was done. darkest days of the history of the

Contibuing he did that. Mr colony. When it was under the

the painter were soon brought jo heel of a ruthless' enemy, Hsu, Jn

Judgment: was réserved at the cubicle. *foreign exchange regulations, but

They were inter June 1142, at the request of Mr. Potter, was going is, sal rhews that relevent to the case the tenancy dispute Yesterday Joined: by his brother, Ng Hung- Gimson, took docu-

a fan-

of inrceny

in connection ments out of the colony for de-tasy, like Alice in Wonderlarid,

with premises fons, who had his hands tied He had looked in vain for at No. 4 Minden Avenue, Kow- Domanded Monay spatch to the British Government, and just as Alice woke up and Potter, his fate could easily be Jack of Hearts had collapsed like connect a breach of foreign ex-Estate and Finance Community for the money. He told them

Had he been caught, said Mr. found that the case against the suggestion by Mr Lonndale that

this is releveht and, he failed to loon

The applicants Humphreys The three men? then asked him surmised and he is now the man a house of cards Mr. Lonsdale chungu regulations with the lur- Limited, of second floor. Alexan wat he hp rege and asked them Crown Counsel is charging as a should wake up to the complete collapse of this case for the Nat common thier.

dra' Building, chihi that 4 Minden to Go andisepron He would ask Mr. Lonsdale to Avenue was let on a monthly then left the room but returned tionalist Government of China.

At the outset of the case. Mr. what issue thevidence

busis tora Mrs. Tam Edi-hing on soon after and threatened to kill Feter H. Sin; in opposing Ball sold breach of fordign oxchange re-condition that no sub-letting of him if he did not divulge the hid that HK$5,700,000 was involved, can it be proferfed to prove the would be made without the writ At that moment the street bill CHINESE NEW YEAR

gulatioris was directed and how amignileht of the

premises,ing place of the money. but when the evidence was ad- duced, they found that not only larceny of the bends, unless itten consent of the applicants. roog and accused went to open was there that amount involved,

led was merely for the purpose of Applicants allege that Mrs. the door. He returned shortly but there was not a brass farthing villifying Haup

Tam Lal-hing was no longer rewatter with Wong Mul, the 18 to all our CUSTOMERS! owing to that miserable Goverb-a "Miserable Case”” siding at the premises, but had year-old mother of wliness. They Chinese Now. Yedy Items Jast ment of China, and as a result

"transfered" ind, semianty, Again, he sat, if this was a

They searched the old woman and took Arrived Are: relevent polit, why was not was not-Tam bal-Ring at all, but hide then tried the and ups in clear and "Fastel

claim thus that the lody in court some money and gold rings from Glass and Porcelain Central Bank official caller t

hër.

['FLOWER' VASES; from' 60k. $3,00 -pitve te point

"No Proof" Continuing, he said that it is now suggested by the Nationalist Government of China that this

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Crown's Position

At the tifin interval people must have been” discussing, how much of that HK$$700.000 wont to Leo, how much to Potter ahd how much to Marcd

He had several preliminary points to mase

in regard to the nosition of the Crown in extradition cases.

The Crown. He mid) is therely

the mouthpiece of the Chinese

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hords of the inmates Behind their colours. He said he could tel because transferred. the premises.

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The applicants therefore ask backs, and gagged them, with the FLOWER HOLDERS, meta! prove it out of thole

for any, eviction order

exception of witness's wife. Bo FLOWER HOLDERS, glass 4galhit the oppatient. mouths that the Coíítral Bank

fore leaving the robbers said. TEA CUPS & SAUCERS Yesterday, A witness sub- "Keep quiet. Let us so." Witness SANDWICH PLATES, $2.00 to : had in fact given approval,

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