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THE CHINA Mail, Thursday, APRIL 7, 1949.

FURTHER EVIDENCE IN POTTINGER ST. MURDER

At the third hearing of the Pottinger Strøst mur. der trial yesterday, evidence as to the gen- cral character and nature of the accused was given by his father, brother, a friend, and a Roman Catholic priest. - The accused in the dock is Ngai Pak-chuen, 26- year-old shop assistant, who is charged with the alleged murder of Lo Kin, his cousin and colleague, at 26 Pottinger Street on Septem- ber 29, last-

Ngai is alleged to have stab- ] bed Lo thelee with 2 neut- knife after the transaction of certain debts incurred during # mahjong gume played with other fokis of the shop.

Defending Ngni is Mr. Percy Che instructer! by Mr. A.SK. Lau. Conducting the prosecution.

Crown Mr. A. Houtin, Comsel, assisted by Detective in- spector T. Caslanan.

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After Robert and the friend find left for the shop, the witness went m, he himself phoned up the shop and made further inquiries to Lo Lo, the witness claimed, told Tot. him that the condition of the

wounded man was very serious. As a result of this, the witness inself went to the shop in n taxi...

The Accused's Brother

Robert Ngai, the witness'a 'kort, testified as to having answered the phone call from La Tat that night and he was told that his brother had had a fight with Lo

The winese also said in reply to a query that his brother, the nectised, is of the retiring and quiet sort.

At the beginning of yesterday's heating, Mr. Chen arose and mode his opening address to the jury, In the course of which he stated | Km. that the prosecution case relied on the tart that there had been no fight between the accused and the decessed. The defence, he declared, was going to rely on the very statements of the prosecution witness marte mediately after the incident, when ench and every ne the witnesses mentioned tha ere had been a light.

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Robert Ngal'a friend, Raymond John Spencer, who had accom- panted him from his house to the Fottinger Street shop on the night in question, corroborated Robert Ngal's evidence.

tha

Spencer

asserted

be habitually dropped in at the Pottinger Vitreet shop. The e- cused, he snic, in reserved sor sort of chap, while Lo Kin, the deceased, was very talkative and

sinile perpetual bad

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Mr. urther submitted that; the prosecution had set out to prove that the occused was the Mr. Chen stated that be wind prove to the jury that it was the dead who had lost a sum of money that night equi- vident to half his mentlily pay-¦ fore, $25 or more tr anyone fund rea- Reverend Father Peter Ngai, n son to be satisiird with the cousin of accused's father, whe Luteine aust transetion that had hot known the accused for 18

the years since unken pluer that night, he said, if

latter's return was hit the accused, but the desirum Anam, testified censed,

First Witness

The first witness for the de- fence, the accused's father, Ngas Kwok-leng, the proprietor of the Wah Da Company, stated that he ved at 10 Morrison Hill Rout, savond floor, with his wife.

Ngai went on to say that the neeused as a child was always in poor health. At 15 or 16 he suf fered from heart disease. Every now and then the necased always complains weeting dizzy.

He was 18 then.

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to the general demeanour of the accused. Among his other brothers, the witness rald, he is the chillest one. Replying to a question. Father Ngad told the court that the ne used has been an obedient boy.

After legal subnissions ad been given by both sides, Coun- sels Have their closing addresses.

Hearing will contlue at 9.30 this morning.

No Foul Play In

Three Fire Deaths

Continuing, the witness disclos ed that after having gone through certain primary schmois, the c-

The death inquest of three cused mully went to Wah Yan College for a short period 11e young children victims of the however, had to leave schoul attire at 203 Temple Street on the fall of Hong Kong la 1941 the night of January 15, end- and yesterday when Mr. Blair- Questioned further, Ngai stated Kerr returned the verdict of that the accused was by nature death by misadventure. quiet, and seldun speaks. Ile is The Inquest which had been hot of the energetic type, he said. heard

on March 21, by reply to another question, was

Inspector the witness told the court that as

when

a bereav far as he knew, the accused ander mother, one of the witnesses, the deceased got on very well to alleged foul play in the binze. gether at

Inspector Waldron wanted time sip. Iteferring to the early morning to make further inquiries. of September 20 last

year, the

Yesterday, in the witness box. wimmens sild that at about 1 A.M.

aun. DSI Wail stated that he was at there was a telephone call at his

the scene of the fire and had in- home, which was answered by his vestigated it. In his opinion, he other son, Robert Ngai who lives stated, the fire was started by ac- with him. As 4 result of that rident when an old woman grop-. call, he said, he sent Robert and ed in the dark with a lighted a friend of the latter's to the shop at Pottinger Street,

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DISASTROUS FIRE AT TAIKOKTSUI

The fire at Taikoktsul yesterday raged for more than four hours. Picture shows the blaze about its final stage. Note the burnt of windows and roots of the premises in the back.

ground. ("Ching Mal" Photo).

Two Tenancy Disputes End

An appeal before Mr. Jus- tice Reynolds to set aside 0 tenancy tribunal decision end- ed in a compromise yesterday between the disputing parties. The appeal was made by Wong Kwan-cheung, cure of Verder and Company, China Buildings.

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Wong was evicted by an order of a tenancy tribunal, presided over by Mr. W.H. Young, from

piece of land known as Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1421, Kwong Woh Sucel. turing about 25,000 was using square feet which he a vegetable garden.

The evletion was granted on the application of Wo Kee, who said they required the land fur building purposes.

The appeal yesterday was ou the ground he bad to titre t defend his care at the texaney tribunal as he was not served with notice until after the bear- ing had started.

Three Killed, Five Injured In Fire

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Eight casualtios, including three fatal ones, wore claimed at Taikoktsui · yesterday,, when an area of more than 25,000 square yards, en- closing a once busy centre of textile factories, machinery manufacturers and timber yards, wont up in o costly blaze shortly before dawn yesterday.

The fire started a little before 5 o.m. and raged

furiously for more than four hours, reach-

Personalia

Mr. Brayton Wilbur, Chairman

the of Sab..

of the Board of Directors and Federal Reserve Agent for Federal Reserve Bank Francisco, arrived yesterday SOAC from Bingapore.

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Mr. Wilbur is President of the Wilbur Ellis Company and ils Ballinte Company, Connell Brothers Company, Limited. Ho of Vie Sun is also President Francisco Museum of Art,'

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Mr. D. P. Khesta, India for the United Develop- ment Company, Limited, arrivin vesteriny by Pan American from 'Tokyo.

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Mr. G. W. G. McConachie, Pré- silent of Canadian Pacific Air- lines, left yesterday for Shanghai. Aftur short stay there, he will return to his company's Montreal head office.

Air, Ling Chih-kung of the Chinese Embassy at Ottawn. Canada, left yesterday by PAL for Monile.

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The Honourable Dr. S. N. Chinu left yesterday by PAL for Manila and San Francisco.

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The Reverend Mr. S. Shechun, Reverend Mr. J. Nenneny,

Mr. and Mrs. Abashidze, Messrs. W, S, G. Milne, A. R. Lacbrook, and S. S. Melines left for Sydney

Quantas yesterday by

Emphre Airways.

Mr. and Mrs. M. Spouner, Miss

P. A. Chan, Messrs. E. S. Stutz,

J.

1. Y. Zee, N. D. Jones, J. Joelsun, J. Brennan, N. .C. R. Gelkie, J. C, Turner, C. Y. Lee, C. F. Von Sytlow, Y. Y. Liu, Koo Sum- chin, Lu Kum-chin, and F. A. Smal lett for Shongbal yesterday by BOAC.

Departures from the Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday included Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Dersham, Mrs. L. G. Grant, Mrs. S. M. Gutridge, Mrs. Raymond Chan, Messrs. T.

B. Y. Suo.

Among the new arrivals at the

ing its fill of destruction before being sub-an, Y. F. Lam, A. Gilmour dued by the Fire Department whose third alarm brought fire fighting assistance from all quarters of the mainland including the Military.

In its wake, the fire left an of twisted metal ugly scene and charred remains of huts and sheds, driving out several The settlement resched pro- hundred squatters from their vided that halt of the area would wooden houses. be given back to Wong witin 30 days, and the remainder within, three months upon the expiration

of the 30 days.

dismissed by the Court.

This was the second tire in the same vicinity. The Arst Tulkok- isti fire some two rannths back

f.vnded

whole

community o

Officer H. Tiphudy Added to the force came the Army fire service from Shumshulpo who, together with the No. 3 Firenost, attacked the flames from the Western part of the area, aiming their hoses from the Hong Kong Shipyard,

Police parties also helped el- ciently arriving at Taikoktsui under ASPs 1.5, Haig-Brown

The appeal was Bewordingly took a heavy toll in lives when P and G. A. R. Wright-Nooth from the Yaumati and Shumshuripo Mr. B.A. Bernacht, instructed squatters to level the area om- |Distelets, empectively. by Mr. Peter Sin, represented | pletely. Wong: and Mr. D'Alton, In-

structed by Mr. C.A.S. Russ, was The blaze yesterday morning the whole area while constabl for Wo Kec.

Another Caso

In another tennney dispute, also heard by Mr. Justice Reynolds, buth parties agreed to set aside a tenancy tribunal decision, which granted an eviction order to the applicants.

The order affected the second floor of No. 128, Austin Road, occupied by Rosa Lam, married. woman, Noma Lam, Pacife Men- dosa, and others.

was of such magnitude that the alow was clear for miles around the Colony. One carly riser, itving Bowen road, likened the scene the inferne to

to a glorious gun- ise in the middle of summer.

of

The Police aron cordoned off

were engaged in warning neigh- bouring dwellers, some of whom were funt asleep, of the danger.

Main dificultles encountered

Peninsula Hotel on Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. S. 11. Langston, Mr. and Mea, C. Coy, Mesars. W. A. J, Buyne, C. A. Reedyk, K. F.

W. Lafferty, C. Word, W. Allkon, ÿ, K. Feng, W. E. Clarke, C. G. armes, and Fred J. H. -Elliet.

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Mr. Elmer Davis, international news commentator well known in the United States and abroad, arrived here yesterday by Pan American plane from Shanghai,

Reminders

Today

talk ori "Life in England

by the Police and other helpers Kowloon Rotary Club luncheon,

hysterical people who insisted in returning to

were

their

homes to collect their belong. Ings.

re-

Three persons were killed in the fire. One was found dead. Another an old woman, about 60 усата old, was discovered in

When

the "China Mall" a critical condition. She was

visited

this scene late yesterday rushed immediately in an am-afterna, the Bremen were stil hutanca to the hospital but pinying their hoses upon the succumbed to her burns on the

smouldering debris. way.

Boy Believed Dead

The appeal yesterday was on the ground that Rosa Lam was in Honolulu

when the tenancy tribunal proceedings were heard. Mr. PC. Woo, for Rosa Lam, ted that the tenancy tribunal asked

The third person killed decision be set aside because of stated to be an infant boy. irregularity, adding

Coolie under the supervision of the Sanitary Department began pultlag up barricades around the 25,000 square yard Ares until a was | suitable ilme when the debris will The be cleared. An offcial told' the that this remains however, could not be "China Mail" that it will take at would not affect the merits of the recovered although Sanitary In- Jeart a week to clear the area

case.

have made spectors Hon. representing rearches.

detailed

Mr. Alfred the owner To Yuel-ming, mer-i The cause of the Are has not i chant, of 134 Wing Lok Sireet] been determined. The fire once West, 3rd floor, raised no onjec- started, blazed away with rup tion.

fury and was helped by a North Mr. Justice Reynolds granted Easterly wind that blow the application, and gave an ior ames Southward,

be reserved in case of a re- hearing of the tenancy case,

Cost of HK$100 was awarded against respondents,

the

the along

Kong Shipyard,

WEDDINGS

The forthcoming wedding has bren announced of the follow- ing:--

Mr. Jay Russell Gelb, Jr., of Standard On Company, Shameen.

today" by Mr. A. Holias, Peninsula Hotel, 12.30 p.m.

Club Y's Men

luncheon, Roof Garden, HK Hotel, 12.43 p.m. HK Council of Women, general

talk meeting, by

Mr. Walter Fletcher, PRO Lecture Room, 5.15 p.m.

St.

Mollurs' Andrew's Church, Union Buliding, 10 a.m.

Inter-port Sub-Committee, meet- ing at HKFA office, 530 p.m. Screening of film on Steel In- dustry In Britain, Heleum May Institute, 5.30 p.m.”

HK Hockey Association meeting nt SCM Post board room, 5.30 p.mT).

Coming Events

TOMORROW Gramophone Recital by Music Group of Sino-British Club, -European YMCA, 8.45 p.m.

der that all the opponents should visional Oficer, V.C. Sey- | Canton, China, and Miss Chris- Social Morning, Women's Section,

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mour of the Mongkok Fire Sta-

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SATURDAY the scene after a first alarm har

AL. Alec Charles Barton, League Soccer reached the station. Several ap- pharmacist, of 137 Waterloo Ronel,

cer matches,

SUNDAY Among the passengers who left pliances were put into operation | Kowloon Tong, and Miss Mary Classicni Concert, Toe H Club. Hong Kong yesterday by the 5. and, in spite of difficulties the to Smith, stenographer, of Mal- Talbot House, 50, Macdonnell Astyanux for Shanghal were Mrs. the poor accessibility to the scene, bourne Hotel, Kowloon.

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Road, 8.30 her three were soon operating their fire Mr. John Percival Prettejohn, daughters, Anne, Mary and fighting devices, to effect.

newspaper reporter, of 'European Loule, Mrs. E. M. Duff, Mrs. J. Later, the Kowloon Terminus] YMCA, und Misu Joma Loketta Englund, Mrs. J. M. Caldas, and Station arrived with their squat Ip. of Melbourne Hotel, Medy Mrs. E. R. Richardson,

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