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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1961.
DOORMAN'S SHOUTS NOW, UP
STOPPED GETAWAY
A 21-year-old British soldier trying to escape after robbing with violence a 21-year-old woman at Kowloon, hailed two taxis but the drivers refused to take him when they were warned by a doorman of a bar.
Lost $3,600 of
employer's money playing mahjong
An employee of a shoe shop who was given $3,600
He
to put in the bank, lost it all in mahjong games, a court was told today.
A
Jaited for three month by Mr Derek Cont Central Court this morning.
The 45-year-old man, Wong Man, of 139 Kwong Man Village. Section 7, Lane Nă. 3, Tai Hang West. Kowloon, pleaded guilty
to fraudulently converting the money 10 his own use and beneitt.
a
Belective Inspector Ko Po- kwan sald Wong was employed by the Crane Stores in Des Voeux-road Central monthly salary of $80, plus approximately $90 commission, fund and lodging. Wong's duty wan to do odd jobs in the shop and depozit money in the bank.
DISAPPEARED
On February 4 Wong was told by his manager to depășit $3,600 in the Mongicok branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank but he disappeared.
A
to the report was made police and Wong was arrested ina Kowloon boarding house
Tuesday, about 011
three months later.
Wong admitted under caulion Dhat he had lost all the muney in mahjong rebools in Kowloon.
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Quarrel made her jay-walk
A woman, fined $10 for
told Dr T. Jay-walking,
1. Yang at Causeway Bay Cuticl this morning why she did not use a zebra crussing.
just She said she had quarrelled with her hus- band and refused to use the same crossing.
The woman was Tang Ngan-wan, 42, of 3, Wing Ming-street, first Reor.
She
found Was walicing yesterday King's-road.
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Visiting U.S. professor
This was stated before Judge B. J. Jennings at Victoria District court today.
When
Trooper the soldier, Murray Alexander Brownlee Stanners of the 17/21 Lancers, got into a third taxi the police arrived before he was driven
Chief away, sald
Inspector
W. P. Apps, prosecuting.
Stanners, who was represent- ed by Major D. A. Boyle of the Amy Legat Services, pleaded qulity to robbing Mak Po Chu.
But after hearing the pro- Judge Jennings scention case
said he did not feel justilled in of guilty accepting the plen
and would accept a plea I not
ult
inspector
Apps
sald 01.
February 15 Statners and Mak BALLed to go to the Tavern Hotel, Bennissy-road.
On the chin
$20 but
Slanners gave Mak later punched her on the chin and took the money from her handbag it was alleged.
Mak started to shout "Snatchre" and Stanners
funk
the quilt from a bed and put it over her head.
In Henney-rond
the door.
man of the Top Hat Bar zaw Slanners run from the entrance of the hotel and heard the shoul of "Catcher"
Stauners called a taxi but the drorman worned the driver,
Stanners ran further read but the doorman
same thing again.
up the did the
As Staniers fot Into the third tax the police arrived and he was arrested.
One exception
Major Boyle said the facts, were execption
With One admitted.
Stanners said that after the blow had been struck Mak threw the $20 on the floor in front of him.
The woman had agreed- 10 spend an hour in his company, bul snid Slanners, after 20 minutes she said "It is Chinese New Year, I am oft"..
became Stanners and hit her.
GO
RENTS
The proposed increase in property tax annoaheed in the budget last week has brought about a new crop of rent increase all over the Colony.
Increase: vary from seven and half per cent to 50 per cent.
"We the lambs are shern
again," vald one tenant, "Obviously the landlorda are qutek lo seize on the opportunity not only to pass the new tax burden on to the tenants but to increase their profits."
Shopkeepers in certain districts have already re- ceived
Owncra property notice of increase in rents as from April 1,
It is expected that there will be
a general rise in commodity prices in the Colony,
fo adding general cost of living.
the
Importance
of insurance
stressed by economist
Insurance is the most im- portant means of raising and
mobilising privato savings in a country for its national economic development.
Dr E. F. Szczepanik. President of the Hongkong Econemiz As- sectation said this at the second convention of American Interna- tlonal Assurance Company's Litchfield Producers Club at the Miramar Hotel this morning.
He pointed out that insurance
should companies
co-operate with the Government to cligninel their funds Into Industries of national sigrilleance.
Mr
also gave a brief Szczepanik
Survey of the economic annoyed progress in Southeast Asia for
The case was set back until March 20, Stunters glving a $1,000 personal bond to appear.
Professor Gregory Pincus, Research Director of the Worcester Foundation for Biology, Experimental Massachussetts arrived from
this Singapore
five-day morning on
lecture tour.
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He is also a world experi
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the Family Planning Association lo-
morrow.
All cargo discharged to the prs: mises of The Bangkang will be Kowloon
Whart & Godown conveyed, faruled and stored there,
the sole risk and
expense of
Prof Pincus also attended the recent meeting of the World Health organisation in New Delhi
as an observer.
He was met on Arrival this Consignees and will be subject to morning by Mr William Voce
EXHIBITION
OF PAINTINGS
the past year.
About 200 goles executives and Company officials from Thailand, Singapore, Malaya, British Borneo, Sarawak and Hongkong altended the meet-
ing.
In the afternoon delcgates will be guests of Mr. G. M. Hughes, President and Mrs
residence Hughes at their Mount Davis.
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Brothers Judges asked
assault boy with hammer
Two brothers aged 16 and 14 wounded another boy on March 7 in Wanchai,
Both boys pleaded guilty before Mr T. L. Yang at Cause- "way Bay Court this morning and the elder of the two was sen- tenced to nine weeks jail while the younger was remanded for two days for a medical report to see if he was it for corporal punishment.
Insp. Y. C. Lam sald the com- plainant Chan Shu-kwong was accosted by the elder of the two brothers who demanded payment of 50 cents which Chan owed him.
When Chan sald he had no
boys struck money the
to examine handwriting
There has never been a reported case of a person
being convicted on uncorroborated hand- writing evidence as happened in Criminal Sessions last month, Mr Brook Bernacchi, QC, told the Full Court today.
and
Mr Berracchi was appealing
of on behalf
a 10-year-old Chinese boy, Wu Kul-chun, Ogainst his conviction sentence of two years' inll for with demanding
mt noy menaces by uttering a threaten- ing letter."
Wu
alleged to hove written a letter last November to Mrs Li Ping-chuen demand- himing US$250 in which he said three times. Defendant then think the lives of your children are worth more than this?"
100k up a chopper and chased Chan.
The letter was signed "The Flying Tiger Party".
The inspector sakt Chan ran away but later returned to the same place in Queen's-road Mr Bernacchi, assisted by Mr East.
Leong, spent Lawrence
this dealing morning
with the Chan was again assaulted busevilence of a police handwriting this time the two boys
were expert who had tak that the separated by the defendant's writing in the threatening fetter and in a sample of Wu's hand- writing were the same.
father,
Chan then went to a barber shop but the two brothers fo)- lowed him and later in the street, while the younger of the two held Chan's arms, the elder
brother struck his head with a hammer twice.
Chan struggled free but was assaulted gain by the brothers,
KNOCKED
DOWN
BY TANK
Two men were Injured, one they were slightly, when knocked down by Army lanh at Route 1, Near Sek Poon Ho village; at about 2.35 pm yesterday. One of the jured
men, Ilui Keung, 34, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital.
in-
A 31-year-old maa was m- Jured when the van in which he was travelling collides with a. private ear at the Junction Gaseolgne-road and Chatham-road, at about 8 pm yesterday. The injured man, Law Ying, of 70, Kowloon City-road, seventh floor. was admitted to Kowloon Hospital.
AT CATHEDRAL GOVERNOR'S VISIT
An exhibition of Chinese clas- sival paintings by Mr L. S. Shaw, an eminent painter, was held at the St John's Cathedral Hall at noon today.
Mr Ma Kam-ming. Chairman of Po Leung Kuk, performed the opening ceremony.
On display were a hundred
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TO KOWLOON WELFARE AGENCIES
The Governor, Sir Robert Black, this morning visited
three Kowloon voluntary welfare agencies.
They
Vocational were the Training Centre for the Blind, Church World Service Head- quarters, and ther Precious Blood Babies Home.
Sir Robert was accompanied by the Director of Social Wel- fare, Mr D. W. B. Baron.
On arrival at the Centre for the
Hunghom, Bund at
Sir Robert was met by Miss I Williams, Secretary, Hongkong Society for the Blind, and Miss Ho, Principal Officer, Special Welfare Services, Social Wel- fare Department,
Together they made a tour of the building.
GREETED
Overseas
interest in
Colony transistors
Electronics continue
bring
to
NOT ENOUGH
Mr Leong pointed out that had only learnt Chinese up to the the export, a police detective,
nge of 13 when he transferred to an English school. He submitted this was not sumcient education for a man to claim himself to be an expert on Chinese hand- writing.
Addict
given
a chance
A young drug addict said at Kowloon Court this morn- ing that he first acquired the habit by smoking doped cigarettes offered him by people he knew. "That was four when he was 18.
years ago,
Now at 22, he satisfiet his addiction by injection and it syringe on the staircase in the was when he was using his
rear lane of Cameron-road on March 6 that he was arrested,
The police charged him with the possession of 1 of a gram of heroin and a syringe and needle.
Kam-
From the Files
25
years AGO-
March 1936
LOOM
overshadowed
legal circles yesterday morning and there were uni- versal expressions of regret when it was known that Mr F. C. Jenkin, KC, had been found dead in tragic circumstances. He was dis- covered shortly after 7 am in his residence, 409 The Peak, He had taken his life with a pistol.
He leaves his wife and three doughters, these being "Wendy Barrle," the well-known cinema star, Miss Paddy Jenicia, populor stage actress and Misy Hazel Jenkin.
Mr Jenkin was 53.
Many are the
reminiscences
of Mr Jenien's skill in court, end his telling cross examina- tions; whether in confounding witnesses, jn proving that handwriting
experts are not infalible, or in other ways, Yet he never went beyond the iourals of An advocate's Reence, and one felt that he was scrupulously far in any comment or eriticism.
Among the numerous murder trials
Mr in which the late Jenkin figured as counsel for the defence it will be recalled The defendant, Wong
the that in August, 1927, at loong 17. Honot-road second Criminal Sessions, when de- floor told Mr A. J. Sanguinetti that he had iniended to rid himself of the drug habit and had been getting privata medi- cal treatment.
Mr Bernacchi then invited the court, comprising the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Hogan and Mr Justico C. W. Reece, to examine the handwriting.
He said the court of appeal was in, as good a position as the jury to do this, and quoted
MAY NOT LIVE cases where this hod actually
A doctor this morning tola been done.
Tho judges
the magistrate that Wong Kein- then equipped loong had been attending themselves
magnifying clinic regularly a few days be glasses
Lore his arrest. characters had alleged ties between the writings,
Enlarged photographs of cer- tain characters were also in court, which had originally been produced by the Crown to show alleged similarities,
ed
to
with
extmine various which the Crown showed similar
Lwo
hand-
were
OTHER GROUNDS Mr Bernacchi, however, point-
out what he said obvious dissimilarities in the writing in the letter and in the sumple.
to
He invited the court to say Urat there was not sumelent similarity between the two Justify Gjury convicting Wu of the charge.
The other grounds of appeal are that the verdict could not be supported by the evidence and that the trial judge mis- dirceted the jury and falled to present the defence adequately in his summing-
up.
Mr W. S. Davidson is
Crown. presenting the case is continuing.
cast
to- The
Big increase in air freight
from Colony
de
fending a Chinese charged with the murder of his wife at Cas- tle Peak he startled the Court by asking permission to erect "gallows"" in the shape of a door frame six feet ten inches high.
He fastened u rope to the top sofa beam and showed how it was severed, first with a detec- tive swinging on It, then with- out any weigh!,
with a full sized dummy
and lastly with dummy suspended
3 few inches from the floor and while it was held so as to re- duce the tension on the rope.
Mr Sanguinetti fold the fendant, "I am going to give you a chance. Rid yourself of this habit otherwise at this rate
you may not live to be 30."
Wong was bound over in $300 for six months and imprisoned for one day.
$2 BRIBE
CHARGE
the
Counsel showed the Jutr that the result of the expeli- ments: was that when the ten- sion was taken of a rope and it was cut, the rope did not fray, In his closing speech he said that on the evidence
of the roper alone there was abundant material on which any tribunal could
Say that
hanged herself.
10
He dwelt exhaustively
woman
with
the ropes and showed what the appeared effect of cutting was and how
A police constable
before Mr Derek Cons at Central Court this merning the two ropes could a' one time have been joined His com- on a charge of corruption,
ments on this point alone oc- The policeman, Li Mun-ming, eupled half an hour. He sub- 36, of Nga Tsin Wui Village, First Lane, was alleged to have corruptly received $2 from Lam Yiu as a reward for or other- wise on account of forbearing the accused. to Arrest Lam for carrying vegetables in his lorry without permit at the Jordan-road Vehicular Ferry Pier on March
2
7,
Mr Charles Young Slu cho represented Li who appeared on police bail of $250 and was remanded for five days for further inquiries.
Detective Inspector Chan Slu-shun of And-Corruption Bureau is in charge of the case.
No plea was taken.
Envoy's wife for Peking
Thero has been "a tremen- dous increase" in the volume of cargo air-lifted out of Hongkong by com- morelat airlines during the first two months of tho your, according to
Mrs G. Parthasarathi, a mem Miss Rosalind Henwood, ber of the Indian Upper House, Chairman of "Flying arrived by Air-India today for a two-day visit before joining her husband in Peking. Mrs Partho-. and better quality goods," Miss
serathi is the wife of India's Kenwood suld, "naturally there Ambassador to Peking. are increased overseas buyers,” Mrs Purthasurathi had
Mirs Henwood, who left for in New Delhi since the latter the United States today by Air- part of February attending India was on the first leg
Indian Upper House of her annual round-the-world there.
She said she
buyers AYO$5003 and potential manufac- turers to Hongkong re- gularly,
Interest is still centred mainly
Corgo."
"When one produces more
At the Church
World Sex on the manufacture of transistor vice, Prince Edward-road, the radios, but at least one overseas Governor was greeted by tie visitor to the commerce and in- Rov, A. E. Small, Chairman of dustry department recently was business trip. the Council, the Rev. Elbert | thinking in terms of morā ad would be away threa and a Jr., Director, and Mrs E, Gates, } vanced Items. Government half weeks. Manager of Work Projects. statement said today,
1.30 am assault
been
an
session
Cheap suits stopover
After visiting the Church "Several representatives af building. to Governor was very large United States 05- driven to tho Precious Blood gonisations visited Hongkong Dables Homic, Un Chau-street, in January to explore poble
Ai about 1,30 am today a where he was welcomed by the investment of either capital or
man entered, No. 41 Kimberley- Mr D. MacAskill, an Ameri Sister Superior, Suster Katherine technical ability or both in now-
rond, third floor, Kowloon, and can metallurghat engineer from Sister Tereza Wong, or existing manufacturing fields aulled a woman on the pre- San Francisco, especially broke Lu, and Superintendent.
In the coloby,"
mises Tho woman suffered his business trito Tokyo to "At least one American Armslight Injuries and was treated come The throa visits, which start- has set up an offled here for at Kowloon Hospital but not I have heard you have. cd nt 10 am finkhed at about { this purpose," the director of detained.
mitted that there was gufficient death in this to suggest that was not due to strangulation by
The jury found the accused not guilty.
Another famous case in which the late Mr Jenkin appeared the appeal against the decision of the Governor to Issue a deportation order against Sung Man-cho
alleged Annamite evolutionary in 1931, the legality of which order was strenuously contested by the late Mr Jenkin.
an
The case went to Privy Council and the man's appeal was allowed.
He was also concerned in the famous trial of Cheng Kwok- you on a charge of procuring the murder of George Fung.
It can be stated now that for several years, he Inserted
D small advertisement under д box number in the SCM Fost, asking anyone who felt lonely or friendless to attend a Christ-
mas dinner which he gave at
his Penic rosidence. A number of people replied and were made to feel thoroughly at home,
That whis but one of the several manifestations of Mr Jenkin's charitable nature and inherent kindliness, Ho zave generous help too to needy people seeking Justice.
Almost 25 years ago in Heng- kong he was offered an official post in the Straits, but rejected il and remained here to become onc
of the Colony's most *genukely repected residents.
Among the passengers who arrived in Shanghat
Hongkong from on the President 10 Mr.W. Keswick,
Pierce
ma
to Hongkong "because Director of Jardine, Matheson
good tailors and their prices are Co Ltd of Shanghai, mak- 12 noon, when the Gornor commerce and industry, Mir A man has been detained by very reasonable." He told re-ing a business trip to Hong- returned to Government House, 'II. A. Augun, said today,
the pollee for questioning.
porier this today at Kal Tak kong.
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