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NEW DIRECTOR OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Mr R. V. F. Turner, Assistant Commissioner of Police has been appointed to the post of Director of Criminal Investigation, the Government Gazette announced this morning.
He takes the place of Mr Norman Fraser who left
the Colony un retirement recently.
Mr Turner was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in the
recent Birthday Honours.
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He began his Police career in Palestine in 1936, joining as a constable and rising to the rank of sergeant two years later, and acting assistant Superintendent in
1941.
He came to the Colony as an Assistant Superintendent of Police from Palestine in 1948. Four years later he was appointed Senior Superintendent of Police and in 1956, Assistant Cornmissioner.
He is a recipient of the Colonial Police Medal.
MR TURNER
Other Govt Appointments
The Gazette announced this morning that Mr P. R. Springall, Deputy Registrar at the Supreme Court has ceased to act as Registrar on the resumption of duty by Mr C. D'Almada e Castro.
Mr A. L. Leathlean. Magis- Mr J. Milner, Station Omeer, Me W. D. Lelghion, Marine Irate, ceased to act as Deputy Fire Brigade lws been appointed | Officer, 1206 been appointed
Marinc Registror at the Supreme Court | Diviaknál Offeer on trial, the Senior
on the resumption of duly by Government Gazette announced. | Gazette announced. Mr SpringaIL
Mr F. J. Azalow, Senior Executive Officer, Class 1, has been appointed Principal Ac- countant (Inspections), Treasury. Mr G. Agaber, Senior Execu- Live Officer, Class fl, ceased to as, Principal Accountant (Inspections), Treasury.
Act
PWD
Mr G. C. Dovey. Building Surveyor at the Public Works Department, has been appointert Archileel, PWD.
Mr A. 8. Webb, Engineer, PWD, has been appointed Acting Assistant Chief Engineer, Roads
· Office.
Mr Paul Detroffe, has been appointed Building Surveyor al the PWD on probation.
Medical Dept
Dr George Cheng Kwok-kan, Medeal, Oleer, has been ap- Acting Specialist
pointed да (Tuberculoals).
Mr Leune Six-bung, Senior Health Inspector, has been upa pointed Acting Chief Healih Inspector during the absence of Mr A. W. Fowler.
Officer, the
Final Submissions
Continue In Opium Conspiracy Trial
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1958.
105
Found
On
Junk
Polico intorcopted a mator fishing junk carrying 105 illegal immigrants curly today off Waglan Island
and
Magistrate later fined the mistrass of the vessel the maximum $5,- 000 or six months impri-
sonment.
The five members of the crew, including a woman cook, were gned $1,000 or two months' imprisonment each by bir K. A. S. Phillips at Central Magistracy.
The Junk was intercepted at about 1.30 am. Police found 105 illegal Immigrants hidden in the hold,
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without a permit, and cautioned on a charge
Sheaffers
NEW BALLPOINT WITH EXCLUSIVE
STERLING SILVER TIP
His Threatening Letters Asked For Money CONFESSION OF A SALESMAN
Judge Gives Him Three Years
Mr Justico A. D. Scholes at
the Criminal Sossions this morning sentenced a 35-year-old salesman to three years' gaol on 11 counts of uttering letters demanding money with menaces.
The judge described the man's act as "despleable".
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The salesman, Tam Yau, told the Court that it was due difeult living circumstances that "this silly idea struck my mind." He added that at first he just thought writing threatcalog letters was quite an ordinary thing," and had not realisert the seriousness of his acls.
Five Years
Mr WA. Blair-Kerr, Senior Crown Counsel, told the Court that the accused had committed the offences over a period of five years during which time The Junk mistress, Wong Ngan- he had written 11 threatening ho, was additionally fined letters demanding between $1,000 51,000 or two months impri- and $3,000 from Avo people. sonment for carrying passeng- The letters ran roughly along the same line with very definite
and that threats
the five who received them plainants were very much frightened.
During these five years, the accuser "had actually got away" with $100 in connection with one of the complainants, Lal Cheung-wing. The other com- plainants had done
very sen sibly by reporting the matter to the Poller.
the junk had been under way without navigationst lighia, The five members of the crow were: Ini Yeung, 54, seamani; scarian: Wong Tal-look, 21,
seaman; Wing Sing-tak, 47, Wong Fat-nam, engineer; and Leung Ah Choy, 44, cook.
Reynolds pro- Inspector N.
secuted.
American
Fined
On Pistol
Charge
com-
The accused had certainly exercised a good deal of cunning, Mr Blair-Kerr said. "He seerned to be very much alive end careful not to fall in the numerous trape set for him."
The accused was married and fund one previous conviction for
theft in 1930.
Clean Breast
spoke of his difficult livelihood
MPs Commended: Two Women Set On Man
Two Mary Policemen were commended by a magistrate this morning for stopping two women and a man Bghting outside Champagne Court in Kimberley Road, last night. Kowloon The Magistrate, Mr P. F. X. Leonard, sliting
Court, commented on the defendants, "Judging by your appearances, the man was to match for the women." The defendants, Cheung Man-po, 42, and the two women. Fong Woo, 31, and 14 Ol-ling, 29, all living at 181 Cameron Read, first floor, were found by the Military Policemen, fighing outside the Champagne Court at 10.12 pm, last night.
The man claimed that the fight was a result of monetary
matters,
The two MP's were, Lance Corporals D. Moses and A. Gregory.
$2,000 SAXOPHONE
STOLEN FROM
COLONY NIGHTCLUB
So Benefit Jam Sessions Are Arranged
BY A STAFF REPORTER
From the Files
25
years -AGO-
FROM Old Hangos
The
serious congestion at the local gaols these days, resulting in the deportation of many con- viets after they have served only a portion of their sentences, Auggests
ittle research into the system of dealing with con- victs in the Colony's carly years. The records show that shortly after the foundation of Hong- long, the authorities were em- barrassed almost much as they are today owing to the dif- ficulty of dealing adequately with the convicted criminals in their midst. For a time there was no desire to have European convicts in the island, and the Government were at a loss where to send them. It was provided in 1844 that convicts under sen- tence of transportation--- tenco existing In those days, based on the Indian Penal Code which had been adopted by the Crown Colonles-should be sent to Van Diemen's Land.
BGTI-
The following year, however, provision was made to accom-
these criminals in the modate Colony itself, yet in 1840 we find that certain convicts were sent to Scinde and to Penang and Singapore (the latter mainly Chinese pirates) suggesting that they continued to offer a prob- lem to the prison authorities. Over 40 years later, in 1880, we find records of European con- vleis from Hongkong, still being sent to the Cape of Good Hope, En practice commenced in 1848.
White convicts from the
garri- aon, after sentence of Court Martial, wore ctill being sent to Van Diemen's Land up to at least the early ninoties,
Filipino musician Marcelo Joseph is a saxophonist abate the malsance caused in
without a saxophone.
In mitigation, the accused and said he was now repentant. Early this month, the night after his band began an
"I would ask Your Lordship and the Crown Counsel to be engagement at the Ambassador nightclub, Kowloon, satisfed thal although
Marccio's $2,000 sax was stolen from the bandstand. words appearing on these Herold Clifford Sorrell, a Ielters were of a threatening The musicians had left their 52-year-old American, nature, yet I had no intention Instruments on the bandsland
CaTying out any such after the nightclub closed. who had in his possession threats," he added.
Next morning Marceto's sax had vanished.
banded
C unficonsod Brgvete Passing the sentence, Mr pistol was fined $500 by Justice Scholes said these crimes Mr T. Croodon at Kox, were not committed on the spur Now nightclub entertainers loon Magistracy
thir of the moment but with careful jand musicians have
planning. "It Is
most together to help Marcelo, morning.
despicable crime." Defendant pleaded guilly un-through Mr P. 3. Grimths, of
Wilkinson and Grist.
Mr D. E, Greenfield, Crown Counsel, this morning continued his submissions in reply to argu ments of no case to answer by the defence in the trial of an Indian merchant and an employed Chinese seaman charged with con- spiring to deal in opium.
the
He sold he also took into consideration that
the accused hod mado a "cicuz breast" be- fore the Court.
The accused was also ordered Lo bo placed under Police Supervision for two years after the imprisonment he served term. for
The Prosecution said that on Wednesday the Police acting on information found defendant in possession of the pistol in Astor Hotel, at the his room Carnarvon Road, Questioned whether he had a licence the platol, defendant replied "No.
His room was searched for
попе But
Mohindra Verma, 30, and Pui | concealed In bales of colion
be- waste imported from Kurochi, Sal-hung, 35, aro charged
Mr Greenfield dealt with the fore Judge H.H.B. How at the
argument by Mr John McNell, Victoria District Cout with con spiring between October last QC, Verma's Counsel, that there was no question of Verma year and February this peor.
being in "constructive son" of the cotton bales, by rmmunition virtue of certain aspects of the found. The
the Prosecution asked law.
serious take a Magistrale to
case na the pistol view of the
Verma is additionally accused of possessing 1,078.25 pounds of The opium on February drug was alleged to have been
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His Right
Mr Greenfield snid Crown's contention
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passez-
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the was lying in the hotel room in that the absence of the owner, and
the buyer of goods imparted it might have fallen into the abtained his rights to them wrong bands. direct from the vendor, not from the shipper.
Citing from law
In Shanghai
authorities In mitigation Mr Grimhs in support of his submission, sald his client was an Ameri- Mr Greenfield sold that as soon can citizen, and that he former us a bill of lading was trans-ly had business in Shanghol. In ferred to the buyer, the latter 1949 he left for the U.S. and jot that moment was considered had been there ever since. Ull to be in "constructive possession” his departure for Hongkong on
June 4.
of the goods,
in
The shipper and subsequently Counsel added that when his the godown where the cargo client was travelling to Hong- was kept held it on behalf of kong by alt, he was not lold of the buyer, he went on, and on production of the necessary do cuments, the godown keeper handed the goods over to the buyer.
The buyer then come in Im- mediate "constructive posses- slon," Mr Greenfield added.
Acting As Bailee
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Crown Counsel said that soon as the transportation con- tractor in the present cane took the goods out of the godown, he was acting, in law, as bailee of Verma, the buyer. Hearing la proceeding..
En Route To Lambeth
of
The wife of the Bishop Mid-Japan, Mrs Kurose. and Bishop Ueda of Hokkaido arrived in Hongkong this motn- ing for a short stopover, en route to London. Bishop Ueda is to attend the Lambeth Conference and Mre Kurose will join her husbond who is at present in London for the conference.
Colony They will leave the Tomorrow morning.
the prohibition of Aroarms Hongkong. He added that where his client came from, licences were only required if arms were carried on the person,
Mr Griffiths then asked the Magistrate to exercise his dis- cretion and not record any conviction, as his client had on -unblemished record.
The pistol was retained by the Police pending application for confiscation.
Man Fined
Two Shows
They will stage two special shows at the Ambassador at the weekend to raise money for a new sax.
Singer and dancer Miss Dinah Reed, who is organising the shows, zald today that all night- club artists in Hongkong had been invited.
$500 Fine
35-
Choung
revealed
Police have taken steps to
Pedder Street at night bu children begging and women pestering people coming out of the King's and Queen's Theatres,
rubber with squeaking
bout. One unlucky woman caught by the Police and cautioned by magistrate Wynne-Jones, WILE told by His Lordship; "You are a perfect nuisance with these toys and I have seen popping them in people's faces. You have done it to me.”
vou
Motorist like to effort
In order to obtain an entry permit for a woman and child from Ching a
CORRESPOONDENT year-old cook,
writes: "I should Tak-man, mode o falso valce appreciation of the statutory declaration and by the HK Automoblie Associa~ tion to solve the parking prob- was fined $500 with the
lem in the city. Not only is alternative of two months there better accommodation and In prison by Mr Hin- a telephone, near the Hongkong Club, but in the further end of shing Lo at Central Ma-
Chater Road, white lines havt gistracy this morning.
been painted to enable cats to The Prosecution
obtain some space on elther side that in the declaration, de-
when they park. Otherwise the Four bando from Colony fendant claimed that a woman parking was often so close that nightclubs and hotels will play Pau: Yee-ying and a child were
one could not enter a car, owing his wife and child respectively.to the impossibility of opening Jam sessions on both days.
dem On June 10 this year, Artists who
doors! will appear in
Also, there were the and in- 29-year-old salesman, the
Include Misu fendant was located
numerous shows will
cases of 'bumping' often Daye and ferviewed at the Polico Head and
other Hon Wol-man, of
damaging 68 Reed, dancer Holl
quarters in respect of the vehicles when parked in sardine declaration.
fashion." The nightclub will open floor, was fined $500 by a p.m. on Saturday and Sunday
in fact, Mr Hin-shing Lo at Cen- and the programme will start at Pau and Cheung were not hla tral
Magistracy
I wife and child. this 5 p.m. morning when he ad- mitted making o falso statement in an applica- tion for naturalisation as a British subject. Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Sik-kwong, prosecuting, told the Court that at the Supreme Court on June 10, 1956, the de- sendant made a false statement.
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Bonham Strand, second Flipino singer Anne Brazil, ni
He stated that he lived in Hongkong between 1030-34 and 1935-58, continuously.
On December Just Year, Inspector Chan added, the de- fendant was interviewed at the Police Headquarters in respect for, na- of his application turalisation DS a British sub- fect and he made a statement admitting that on several oc- casions he had left the Colony China and and resided in Japan for certain periods.
TWO SUSPECTS HELD
Pallee detectives yesterday arrested two men on suspicion of theft following Avo reports of satching and plekpocket-* lug offences,
One of the arrests was made as a result of enquiries into the matching of a sum of money. from a woman wulking in Nathan Road, near Nelson Street.
The other suspect was detained following ап unsuccessful attempt to sical a wallet from: a man walling at a bus stop
in Nathan Road,
A wrist-watch, valued at $500, was stolen from a waraan pedestrian In Nelson Street, near Nathan Road, at about 10,30 a.m. - yesterday. The snatcher escaped,
A handbeg was matched from a woman at the staircase of 3, 1 Chit Street early No. last night..
car in A passenger on a tram
Des Voeux Rond West lost a wallet when his pocket WAS cut at about 10.20 am, yester- day.
SIDE GLANCES
A
Ho admitted that,
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THE neputation of greater.
Shangbai, including the International Settlement and the French concession, is 3,154,010. Those living in the Chinese City and Its suburbs total 1,702,080.
As a result of past difficulties, the Hongkong Football Associa- tion earlier in the season decided to revise the rules and re- organisc the
Association's council. In regard to the management of the League it is proposed to pass a rule pro- hibiting the playing of people who are
not residents of the Colony, thus preventing Canton players from taking part in | league matches in Hongkong,
The construction of a new service reservoir at Yaumati Hill, adjoining the playing fields at King's Park, is proceeding apace, and when completed wit serve the Peninauta tolth water at an equal pressure,
As an everyday user of the buses on the Island, writes a contributor, I have been agreeably surprised by tho pailteness and courtesy of the new conductors and inspectors, They are full of tact and un- derstanding will even go so far as to negative the pässen- For's offer to show his trann
ticket, with 4 deprecating much motion of their hands,
as to say that for them Your personal integrity is not to be questioned for a moment,
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