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Winning Ticket Vanished From Box H.E. VISITS
Dockyard Odd-job Coolie Bought 38 For
Pearce Memorial Cup
A special jury empanelled to determine the lawful owner of
a cash sweep winning ticket worth $873,180 were told this morning that that ticket was found to be missing from a box kept by a former Naval Dockyard odd-job coolie. Mr Lawrence Leong, representing the former coolie, Lee Sin, said also that another ticket had been substituted in place of the missing winning ticket inside the box.
Goldsmith Steals Employer's Gold
was
The aclita is being heuri belore Mr Justice C. W, Rucce, Acting Chile Justice,
Supreme Court
the
The Hekes in question is respect of te Pearce Memorial Cup cash swee; held by the Club U11 Hongkong Jockey Jumiary 25
The former Dockyard coolie was named ny plain in the prest; issue, Tang Chik-yan, cinirant of te lekel, was named as the defendant. On the same day he
At the outset hearing to employed by a gold deal day. Mr Justice Reece told Mr Mr John McNeill, er, 1 young goldsmith Leong and
QC., senior Counsel for the de- made off with two and half fucks of 14 carat gold.ce, that a member of the
seven-man Jury was in hospital | He WITH arrested five
His Lordship said he was eine powered to start the case with days later.
six-member
jury,
unless that they Counsel indicated specifically wanted otherwise, which case he would arrange for another juror to be sworn in.
The goldsmith, Ng Sung, of 198 Tung Chol Street, Arst floor, sppeared in court this morning charged with larceny by ser Vani, before. Mc.T. Yung at Kowloon. The defendant, who pleaded guilty. was remanded for four days in Poller custody In order to give him time to
make ployer.
a
Counsel on both sides szid they were prepared to start the case before the six-muan Jury.
Opening
for the case
th told the Bar Leone Jury that the issue involved was simple.
restitution to hiem-plaza.
ENTRUSTED
On August 1, the defendant
was employed by a man called
38 Tickets
He and his client was very sweekess.
Yin Ying, at Fiat D. Cham-rd of buying
Lee went on to say U11 person called Leung Kwong did odd jobs in the sloreroom, like cooking lea and sweeping the door. He was classified 43 it csolle.
Leung was the first person to arrive in the storeroom every box morning. Leung's metal and his own were about four or live feet apart.
The plaintiff then
gave evidence of how he wrapped the tickets he bought and placed them in his box, and how ho the numbers of the 30 lickels onto The an envelope and threw wrappers in a dustbin near Leung'a box.
subsequently wrote down
After he had
the pinced envelope with the ickets inside. his box, be locked it up. his actions were done la Letng's presence, Leo salil,
un envelope
He identitled huded him as the ens in which (-he-nad-kept the 38-tickets.
Comparison
where he
Mr Leong drew Lee's atten- Bon to a particular set of num- bere on the envelope, and asked bought that ticket, Lee sold he bought it at the Chater Road office of the Jockey Club during the first 10 days of January,
Plaintif went on to tell how
pagne Court. Be began his He had bough. 38 Lickee for the he went back to work on the
Memorial Pearee
Cup. Eacn
first day's work and in the evening, was entrusted with 2.6 time he bought a batch of them, Luels of gold to make a certain he type of ornament, He appeared with the gold.
would wrop them up dis-separate packs and put them
Inside a metal box.
He was arrested by the Police
This box had a padlock, and
#21 a storeroom
on information five days later. was depositor
Mr Leung said
At that time he had only 4.4 of the Dockyard.. mare at gold left in his posses- slon. He admitted he had soki habit to wrap the gold to a number of shops.
Bonus
Realty
Issue Plan
Approved
Monday following he draw of the sweep and then compared the numbers of the tickets he had in his envelope with those published in a newspaper. Hearing Is continuing. The defendant is represented was Lee's by Mr McNeill and bit D. A. L.
Wright, instructed by Miss Luseby, of Russ and Co.
Mr P. L. Lam is instructing Mr Leong for the plular. the
Mr Leo d'Almada and Mr are holding a Oswald Cheung watching brief on behalf of the Jockey Chiu, on instructions of Mr D, B.
Evans, of Johnson, Stokes and Master,
Live!
the tickets in
paper sup Chinese-style toilet plied by the Dockyard. On each
copy occasion, he would
The tickets in numbers of packet onto the wrapper itself. On the morning of the sweep, a Saturday, Lee took out all the the Uckets puckets containing
copied the trum la box and numbers of the tickets onto the back of his pay envelope.
Then he compared the num- Lere he had written on the en-
will:
the those อน velope
the tickets, He wruppings of also cross-checked by comparing the Uckets the numbers on themselves with what he had
written on the envelope
Mr Leong sald Lee next pu: the envelope with the tickets into the box and threw away the toilet paper which had served ba wrappings.
Hongkong A meeting of
Realty and Trust Co, Ltd shareholders today agreed to capitalise $600,000 to finance a bonus issue. The 800,000 $1 shares will be issued in the proportion of one for ten and will be allotted to Phareholders
registered on nugust 7.
Lee The following Monday, capitalised The sum
went back to the Dockyard be- part of the General Reserve.
The meeting then passed a tween 7.20 and 7.30 am. Special Resolution to include immediately opened his box in hls ticket two new clauses into the Com-order to compare pany's articles DI association numbers with the results of the dealing with capitalisation of draw.
profts and reserves,
were Mr G.
forns
Substitute
Hu
"The ticket which he thought Those present at the meeting had won the sweep was missing place a Marden and he found in is 13.
tickel be hud not (Secretary), the Hon. J. D.substilule Clague and Mr J. L. C. Pearce bought," sold Mr Leong.
Counsel stated that his client (Directors), and the following
of this shareholders, Mr C. W. Grange, checked the number
found he Mr P. O. Scales, Mr D. S.substitute ticket and Phelps, Mr F. R. Zimmer, Mr had not written down its num- J. B. Food, Mr E, G. Smither on the envelope. Wright and Mr Mok Tong-kle.
Turning to the law regarding Afessrs John D, Hutchinson the duly at proving ownership and Co Ltd. (represented of the dickel, Mr Leong referred Mr J, L. C. Pearce), Messrs Jury to legal authorities and said that to prove a civil case, one Wheelock, Marden and Co.
of
Ltd. (represented by Mr P. O. had only to go to the extent of
proving a preponderance Scoles), Shanghal Loan and Investment Co. Ltd. (repre- evidence, as opposed to proving stated by Mr W. J. Lees) and an offence beyond all reasonable the Yangtare Finance Co, Ltd. doubt in a criminal case. (represented by Mr C. W. Grange).
Me Donald Black represented the Auditors Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co.
Man Robbed
A man
"Our case is that some person
or persons unknown took the ticket and that it eventually got into the hands of the claimant," he assorted.
The plaintiff testifled that he used to work in a department of the Dockyard that had to do with divers, but had since re- aigned.
The storeroom where he kept walking in Put Man his box was exclusively used by Villege, near Tang Tou Village the people in his department -market, Kowloon City, last alght There were about 30 people in was accosted by two other men that department. Each of them and robbed of a wrist watch and had a box, with a key and pad-
lock. a wallet.
Printed and published by PETER PLUMBLY for and on behalf of South China Morning Port Idmited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria In the Colony of Hongkong,
down,
In last night's high wind. part of the steel scaffolding on the Peninsula Hotel blew
Here workmen are seen ́re-erecting R-China Mall Photo.
TROPICAL STORM NOW
MOVING WEST
Gusts of up to 61 knots were recorded by the Royal Obser- vatory during last night, and windy showery weather is the forecast for the rest of today. A total of 1.18 inches of rain were recorded from midnight to noon,
མ ཏ པ ་ 1:|:ཀྱལ བ པྟཱཿ
Three Months
For Stealing Woollen Vests
was sen.
is now The tropical storm beginning to move In a westerly direction. 120 miles south of Hunglong at six kaols. During the night. Wagion reported con- tinuous strong winds with gusts up to 54 knols.
The winds are not expected to increase, bat will continue to bring showers and rain to the Colony.
were called to but there were no
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The Trame Department the Hongkong Poller, this morning diverted traffle along Middle Read.and Hankow Road, back onto Nathan Road.
Colony Ship Stays Put
In Colombo
on
Manila, Aug. 7.
Wednesday night to re- for looso US$190,000 3,000 Filipino Moslem have been pilgrims who stranded in Colombo due
to a misunderstanding with owners of the ship bringing them home from Mecca.
On Tuesday morning, Chan
During the night, the sent- Chun-ngai went to the folding on the Nathan Road counters at Lane, Craw-side of the Peninsula Hotel fords and ofter nosing was blown down by a strong The Cabinet decided about for a few minutes, gust. At about 2.30 am, the stole two woollon vests Fire Brigade
he zevne, and put them in his bag.
castables. At Central this morning, Chan, unemployed and 24
came be- fore Mr Hin-shing Lo facing a He charge of simple larceny. pleaded
guilty and need to three months,
Inspector P. M. Yeung said a watchman of Lane, Crawforda watched the movement of the defendant he entered the shop. The watchman saw the defeud- ani taking the two woollen vests
the
The Dr
counter whilst 3. M. Mackenzie, from Director of Medical and Health salesman's attention was divided Services, will give talk over among other customers, Rediffusion
As the defendant was leaving at 7.30 p.m. this
premises, the Radio Hongkong the company's
him walchman detained at 0.10 p.m., on the current evening, and
landed him over to the Police. polio epidemic in Hongkong.
Talk On Polio
D.
Purse Snatched
A Chinese woman had her purse snatched on the staircase
and
Early this morning there was house collapse caused by the was at 22 heavy rain. This
Nam Kwok Road, Kowloon, The Fire Brigade were called to the scene, but again, there were no casualties.
Fuse Box Fire
FIRE STRICKEN
AREAS
His Excellency the Governor,
Sir Robort Black, this
morning visited Shck Wu
From the Filos
25
years AGO
Hongkong": The recent
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referenees to a cool dung Hui in Sheung Shui dis- at Kowloon, the Port develops trict in the Now Torriment schemes and the descrip-
tion by one correspondent torics.
the paper of our "ridiculous into the carlier plans and pro railway" prompts some research
jects for railway communicas more lian 300 luts were tion between Hongkong and destroyed and more than 3,000 other parts of the world. people were made homeless. One person was killed.
In 1850, this area was hit by two disastrous Ares. The frat occurred in February when
We find that a long overland Two days before Christmas, railway scheme was mooted a 1050, a second big'ire swept | good many years ago. In fact through the shopping aren o!
scheme for connecting Sheung Shul, killing a family Calcutta, Canton and Kowloon of three, and making more than by rail was once seriously 1,300 homeless
Nearly 200 shops in the aren
was accom-
considered.
A
In 1850, Str Macdonald were gulled by the fire,
The Governor
Stephenson suggested such panied by Mr D. R. Holmes, Chamber of Commerce. Subse
schemo lo the Hongkong District Coramis doner,
New
Territories, and he inspected quently, after completion
the progress of development un
certain railway undertakings in
this former Are-devastated urea, India, he visited Hongkong In He me the chairman and vice 1804, and cohibited a wall map chairman of the rural committee of another scheme which he Calcutta, of Sheung Shul and
trad for connecting later In-
Hongkong and Peking. spected the nearby squalter area
of Tsol Yuen Chuen,
Sir Rober was to have gone
The suggestion was, however, regarded as premature as it met
by helicopter from Happy Valley with no encouragement on the this murning, but due to Lud Part of the Chinese government, 50 that nothing inore w35
weather, he went by car.
Faking
Sir Robert spent 45 minutes In heard of it.
where he laspected progress in the development of He was met on arrival at Shek' Wa Hul
the Shek Wa Hui area.
a very
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shipping companies by Mr W. Segrue, Acting Assis CHINA lon: Commissioner of Police, Logabilshed and deeds rotted
according to
nid | NT, Mr J. C. C. Walden, Dis-
custom have always maintained trict Officer, Toipo, Mr B. W. more than one compradore in Old, Land Bill, Taipo, and offeints of the Rural Committee, After recelving a briefing of The plans for the re-buliding of The market in Shek Wu Bul the Governor visited a block new two-storey private Buts.
From the roofton, he surveyed the squatter area of Tsol Yuen Chuen. Later he went to Talpo for an inspection and conter- ence in the District Office there.
LETTERS
TO THE
EDITOR
Cyprus
thele service, and those shipping companies are generally divided into two sections, the pusJON HT and cargo deperiment, but owing to this system the owners are practically In the hands of which mokes the compradores it diffent for them to conduct business. A drelsion has now been taken by the Communica
to
com.
tions Department of the Chinesa governmout abolish pletely the compradore systems but it is anticipated among shipping circles that this "olot custom will be difficult to eradicate and that I will
require some time.
Major Cassel
ng
out
द्भ
19
CUR: I am of the opinion that
"White British League" o suggested for Hongkong try would not be workable. Though appreciating The cabinet asked the Cen-
his scheme for fostering employa tral Bank to send the money to
ment for the British White the
Joz Philippine. Consulate
Hongkong, the majority of Bris Hongkong to pay the Pan Pacie Sir,-I would like to thank tish Whites In Hongkong would Transport Ltd. of Hongkong, you for your "Comment of the never tolerate the idea of cut- the Hongkong-bean which owns the boat chartered Day in yesterday's China Mall, by the pilgrima.
I did my National Service in British subjects, which of course The pligrims were travelling Cyprus during the Emergency, unthinkable, and as far s the Middle East and like most of the others he can gather the Hongkong- horne from
as proud of the Colony as we A fire broke out last night In when the ship owners ordered felt exactly as you described born Eurasians and Chinese asp
tied hand and foot by politi- to stay put the Lorraine
Britishara aro
such and an electrical fuse box, at 100 Colombo until the charter fee
clans, always in the wrong, and scheme could only be workable Wellington Street. The small
hardly ever given the slightest for British subjects
only, and what Mr Alanto, the National Inte encouragement In
we might be given the name "Brit by the Fire Brigade, and after ration commissioner, explained were trying to do and
otish League instead of "Whilo it was put out it was discovered that the representatives of the course paid considerably less British League BRITON. that the fuse box and a length
pligrims concluded a contract on the Regulars with us for had been destroyed, of cable
with
the Hongkong shipping doing the same job, There were no casualties.
firm for transporting the Mas It is good to know lems to Mecca and the service someone is on our side. would be paid for in U.S. del-
M. A. JARRETT. Jarė.
Hub-Caps Stolen blaze was quickly extinguished was paid.
Four hub-cops were
stolen
of No. 892 Canton Rond late last from a private car parked in night. The purse cintained $200 Hok Yuen Road, Hung Hom,
yesterday. in cash.
·Governor To Open New
Jaycee Island Project
The new cllale.
ON SATURDAY afternoon at The need for such a clinic was
Excellency
3.15 p.m. His
Sir Robert B. the Governor, Black; will, formally open the Hongkong Jaycee Peng Chau Clinic.
This $75,000, eight-bed cinle
will be the first hospital-dis- pensary on Peng Chau Island and will make it possible for talanders to avoid a tiresome
water trip over
to Cheung
made known to the Hongkong Junior Chamber of Commerce by Government and the Peng Chau Rural Caminitieg In 1956, when the Joycres were looking for 6010 worthwhile rurul project which they could help realise.
༤་
The challenge accepted, a Jaycee archilock, drew up the plans for the clinic. Chau island for simple medi- The Jaycees and the Feng Chau Rural Committed organised
cal treatment,
their
raised
However, it appeared that the Government was made to believe that payment, could be inade in Philippine pesos. Upon learning this, the Lorraine was ordered to anchor at Colombo until the payment for the ser- vice in dollars is made.-U.FL
Stole Carton
Of Cigarettes
that
THE half-naked boly of a young Shanghai girl tourd in a trunk aboard the Shunghái Japan-China express
American Woman liner, when the ship docked in
Knocked Down By Car
on 2 of one
Kobo from Shanghat started police of two nations search for perpetrators of the most gruesome crimes in local
customa annals, Kobe officers found the torso after no one had claimed the trunk A 07-year-old American tourist, which was in the first-class_hag-,
Car
Alra Jennie Edwards, was gogo room. The trunk was found knocked down and Injured by Į to have been put aboard the ship a private In Carnaven a few moments before it left Road near the Jansion of Shanghai on Saturday by Cameron Road last night, Japaneso man who looked about Mrs Exdwards, who is staying 30 years old, with the assisIANCE months by Mr Hin-shing Lo at the International Hotel, is of a gang of cookies. at Central Court this morning now in Kowloon Hospital.
A shop Bfier was given four
for stealing
P carton DX The hospital authorities stated cigarettes from a counter at this morning that Mrs Edwards Sincere Company last Tuesday, condition is satisfactory and
The defendant, Ng King, 38, that she is resting comfortably. Tite that occured st unemployed, had 10 provlour
convictions against hum for simple larceny, drug offences,
breach of deportatión order and
other minor crimes.
Missing Car Found 7
Sh
Paul's hospital of ME "Jacky" Hung, the fourth son of Me Hung Hing-fat, after a short iling. He was a brother of the well-known local sportsman Mr W. C. Hung, and was him-
In addition to the prison sen- tence, he was fined $100 or 14 A private car reported missing sell a keen cricketer. Ho play separate fund-raising days for breach of band which from the North Point distric: ed for Craigengowe Juniors.
was localed He was employed by activities, whose goals were was imposed on him in April yesterday evening
Mesars constantly being
asis year for failing to report by the Polloe two hours later Gilman & Co. construction costs rosa. Gov to the police while being an Thompson Road, Wanchal: ernment undertook to provide | supervisor,
A mdio in the car was found the necessary medical equip Irepecter P. M. Young said a missing.
A Chinese was subsequently watchman employed by the
White walking aleks for the Sincere. Company saw the do-arrested in a private cur in Work on the bulking began in fendant lifting the cartos from possession of the radio. Further blind will see them safely
May this year, and only the a pile of cigarettes. As he was investigallons, by the Folled rough traple here under new Installation of the equipment making off, the watchman called disclosed that pile of the tyres police regulations. All nów remains to be done,
'meat, staff and supplies.
►
LGTE
from another private) blows a whtitla srid extends hia The defendane ran and was like Jalolen The public is cordially invited to cut to the defendant to stop of the second car had been must halt when a blind person
silcad the opening ceremony, ¦ tercepted by a detective, vehiclo last month;
white cane horizontally.
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