1913-10-30 — Page 3

SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, 20th October...

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

BEFORE HIS HONOUR THE CHIKU JUSTICE

Cotton Mill employees.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 1913.

hanged herself in the way in which she was found

CANTON OFFICIAL CHARGED

FUTURE OF CHINA,

LST THE

JAPAN'S POLICY,

COMING DEVELOPMENTS.

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They had not got an outside person in the case at all As soon as the girl was missing it was made public among the mill employees, and these people were those who provided the whole of the evidence. Speaking of the belt, Mr. Joakin said there was nothing sufficiently distinctive about it for them to say, beyond any reasonable doubt, that it was the belt which the What have you got to say why sentence The case in which Mak Tong is charged accused was wearing, and wearing in of death should not be passed upon you with the murder of a Chinese girl was June when a witness slept in the house the accused was asked by the Clerk Mr. R. F. C. Mastor, of Messrs. Johnson, the irreconcilable naturo of the internal: watumed, this being the think day of the where accused was also sleeping. This this. Mok Tons burst to

(SIR WAREES DAVIES, K.C.).

CAUSEWAY BAY MURDER.

ACCUSED SENTENCED TO DEATH.

hearing,

The suniming-up of his Lordship

WITH EMBEZZLEMENT, occupied about an hour. The jury M E A Hazeland, Chung Sau Nam, At the Magistracy yesterday, befor retired for five minutes only, and upon fuserly Superintendent of the Govern- their return the foreman said that they ment Mint at Canton, was charged with had been manimous in finding the embezzling on the 2nd August, and on neensed guilty of murder, and they mado divers other dates, at Canton, then being no recommendation

servant of the Chinese Government, the

of $150,000

Stokes, & Master). appeared for the Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C. (instructed by

prosecution, Inspuntar- Watt represented the police, and Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton defendant. On being charged, the defen (of Messrs. Brutton & Hett) was for the

SENTENCE OF DEATH,

have

mention projects for hydraulic power, new roads and other city improvements. Very few cities in China havo water works or drainage system, although these are, Fmuch more necessary than electric light, and the difficulties of financo seem to be

with most-responsible quarters, and an are only too willing to co operate; but at present insuperable. For all muni-

now able to give the renders of The Daily municipal institutions are so inchoate in cipal undertakings of this nature British 1 have just completed conversations and other capitalists and manufacturers Telegraph some inkling of the new China that only in rare insturices can position created in the Far East, first, proper security be granted for the disappearance of taxation; secondly, by by China's failure in Snance, and the employment of such capital.

struggle

FAULTY ORGANISATION,

person had said that he recognised the through his subs remarked - I have Mr, Jenkin, addressing the jury in belt. I do not know," proceeded nothing to say." behalf of the accused, said that that case,

Counsel for the defence, whether you the Attorney-General had classed it are students of facial characteristics, but when he was addressing them, and Li Ping did not have the appearance black cap and in solemn tones addressed His Lordship then Assumed the properly classed it, was a brutal murder of a man who would be particularly the accused as follows, through the inter dant said that he took the money, but did openly in Mongolia, which she has pal enterprises as of railways, mines and

capable of noticing trivial matters of

this kind. He was handed one belt and Peter:-" The jury have found you

not steal it

bauging from a tree was indisputable then said that is the belt. It was guilty of one of the most brutal murders plea of not guilty,

the first time that he lind heard that it is possible for anybody to he guilty of. coolies' waist-bolts wore such attractions de not think st was possible

terminated, continues indefinitely, and tion to the inherent weakness, of in the H.M. Consal at Hungchow, in his which, though nominally annual report för 1919, has called atten- is breaking up the country into sections; trial thirdly, and perhaps from the inter-insufficient capital on which business is

organisation in China,

of quiescence of the Russian advance, These remarks are just as true of munici important, the resumption after a decade amateurish methods of administration. national point of view the most started, the wasting of reserves, and the

virtually annexed, and surreptitiously in factories. As regards the development of North Western through the agency of the new Belgian argument is that, as foreign capitel

and

Central China, the resources of the country the Chines railway concessions, which form a com plete network from outside the Great tions of foreign supervision and control, Wall to Chengt, in Szechuan province, which leads to

cannot be obtained except under condi loss of independence, north of the Yangtze, and I probably involving a total altimate expenditure be employed. But the result of tho use

Naturalis, Japan is the Power most. of a thousand million frames.

of Chinese capital with Chineso methods FULL FREEDOM.

as above described is that Chinese capital is no longer forthcoming, and the argn called a vicious circle."

to their friends, that they would notice for anyone who has heard the evidene formal renant, as the Crown Solicitor ng the Yellow Sex at Haichow, 200 therefore none bat Chiness capital can

to have arrived us any other conclusion What your motive was in taking away

His Worship-1 shall enter that as a Inspector Walt asked for a week's

was not prepared to go on just ret,

Mr. Brutton accordingly asked for bail, His Worship asked Mr. Sinde for whom

answer

Chinese girl of seven years, must receive another. He thought they might say the life of that little girl we can only he was appearing, and as Counsel concerned in the present development. 1ment becomes what the old logicians

if it was a murder at all. The fact that the girl died and was found dead

What they had to solve, if they could, was whether the girl's death was caused by murder or whether she took her own life. He would ask them to believe that

if the strap was missing or that the buckle even the possibility of suicide by a

was missing, or notice one belt more than

some consideration at least, even if it that they were not satisfied with the was not possessing their minds altogether.duntity of that belt. That case was one They should not shut out any possibility of considerable difficulty, and one which, in considering whether on not, bayond if the evidence wholly was believed, alf reasonable doubt, that man had been was rather black against the acensed. If proved guilty of that most brutal murder. they believed he was seen going up the There were three possibilities:(1) The hill they had gone some way. minn in the dock committed the murder; believed that the strap by which the girl If they (2) somebody else committed the murder; was hanging was his strap, they had gone further. But that did not conclude the mattor. Before to-day crimes had been committed and other people's property had been found upon the spot where the crime was committed, and they had, in time been charged on suspicion because their property had been found at the spot. And Ecople who had been charged on evidence of that description had also been acquitted before to-day, The jury could not say that the case had been proved to the hilt against the accused, even if they believed the fact that come property alleged to be his was found there. Accused's story about the strap was that he left it in the kitchen in the house in Bowrington Road. A woman was called to say that she did not see the strap there. They had also this fact to consider. If tae man did commit murder he did it

(3) she took her own life. He would like to show, before he dealt further with the chac, his own personal standing in the cave. It was the custori in this Colony, us it was at Home, in certain cases where the prisoner was a poor prisoner, for the earned Judge to appoint Counsel to act for him. In that capacity he was acting in that ense. He was not necessarily advocate for the accused as he would have been were he being paid by the prisoner for so doing, He hid been merely appointed to assist the Court and the Attorney-General in finding out, if they could, whether the accused did or did not commit the nuurder. He was there to put the evidence for the boy and endeavour to

come to soing conclusion.

Mr. Jonkin went on to say that in a

conjecture and you alone must know,

My duty is merely to pass upon you ther. Betton said he must object to Mr. sentence of the law, and I may inform Slade appearing as he had no incis you, that so far as I know, there enn be little hope for mercy in this world. The

standi. sentence of the Court is that you be taken Solicitor had becs unable to attend that Mr. Slade explained that the Crown came, thence to the proper place of day, and he lind referred the matter to from hence to the place from whence you execution. That you be hanged by your the police, and they were referred neck until you are dead, and your body Mr. Master and himself were in for legal advics to Mr. Master, and he buried in such place as His Excellency fact representing the Crown Solicitor the Officer Administering the Government at that Court, thought he (Mr. Slade) had shall dira May the Lord have merey formal instructions from him. The on your soul." sobbed loudly, as did also his relatives had left his work for somebody else to do, During this dread recital the accused Crown Solicitor could not appear, and in Court. He was, however, quickly Therefore he (Counsel) believed that he hurried away,

sds perfectly correct in saying that he

best if her ability, calmly and deliberately have the highest authority for stating that she will meet the situation to the

SUPERVISION AND CONTROL The fallacy lies in the failure to resuming the rivalry which one costly differentiate between that no Russo-Japanese agreement what certain other exceptional enterprises u war only

the Becessary succeded in temporarily degrees of supervision and control. In obscuring

It is necessary to announce the case of railway construction and in correlated moves The Japanese disposi inay be expected that experience will ever exists covering Mongolia or the solution has already been found, and it tion, have previously been only devoted teach young Chinn that in all industrial full freedols to take any countervailing necessary. After all, the danger of the strictly to preserving the status go in undertakings certain modified degres steps that may be deemed necessary, Manchuria, and therefore she possesses of foreign control is for the present sig confusion in China, can be summed subjection to foreign supervision, in up in a few worris-viz., planting garri. specified industries, but in the failure

Japanese policy, in view of the

loss of independence lies not in the prevail

thereby guaranteeing the integrity of ments failure which in present cir sons without territorial cases, and to redeem obligations to foreign Govern

Hanko garrison, which temporarily natural resources of the country can be China by forestalling others. Thus, the enmstances seems inevitab'o unless the amounts to nearly 2,000 men, will be successfully exploited. the great Tayeh iron ines near by, whilst alicst certainly Japanese

A special concession ander Japanes police control will be demanded for

crent of troubles arising at Fouchow, Amoy, and elsewhere in the Nanking, which policy will be repeated Railways, in assist, will also be demanded, whilst not which it is hoped British capital will only will there be a reinforced fleet based on the Yangt, but more freedom will be given to the battle squadrons, which will shortly include Chinese waters within

The hearing enpied two and appeared for the Crown Solicitor. The retained. Another may be planted at

days.

CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT YUAN,

now TWELVE WIVES OF CHINESE OFFICIALS,

Chinese officials sent a letter of con Twelve European ladies married to gratulation in French to President Yuan on the Inauguration Day through Mr. Lu Cheng-hsiang, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Le Journal de Fcking

prosecution was at the instance of the Chinese Government and he was appear ing for the prosecution. He appeared instructions did not come from the Crown for the Crown, although his direct

his authority whenever they pleased. Solicitor. The defence might challenge

My Bratton-The same as we had Mr Bowry appearing for the Crown, now we have Mr. Blade

Court of Law, when murder was com with extraordinary rapity. He went publishes the letter, of which the follow We shall bearing for the Crown, their usual steaming radius.

up the hill, committed the crime which was the motive of the murder and then murdered the girl. After this he went back to Bowrington Road for his chow

initted, they looked at the facts, at all the facts, and then they tried to se0 whether those facts pointed indisputably to the man in the dock. The suggestion he was going to make in that case was that all within the space of an hour and a the witnuses. being natives and, lynen half. Was it possible, asked Mr. Jenkin, not professional people had gone in for such a boy to be so callous and brutal the other way to work. They had come as not to show any indication of how to a conclusion in their minds that he had been expending his time, after this man had committed the crime. And he had returned to the house in Bowring- then, having done that, they started ten Road We agree, he went on, thinking out the facts, and they arranged that this is a mest brutal and filthy these so that they fitted in with the con- affair, and if the right man could be clusion to which they had come, That found, then the law should avenge the was the state of mind of the witnesses, murder. But you are not here to avenge and it was possible that that was the murder, but to say whether a murder cause of the inconsistencies and the has been committed or not, and not we unnecessary extravagances which had must have somebody. Your only duty, happened in the witness-box. In wurder should you hold that a marder has been cases, as his learned friend had pointed committed, is to say whether the boy is the

ing is a translation

wives of the Chinese officials who are now

The undersigned European in Peking, beg to present to His Excel lency President Yuan Shih-kni their of his election to the Presidency of the warmest, congratulations on the occasion Chinese Republic. They further her to

express

every soliciter in the Colony appearing for the Crown shortly,

Mr. Slade-Yes, and why not!

Mr. Brutton-Well, there are men who that Mr. Slade appears for the Chinese are paid for it. We have already heard Government, and now in the same breath we hear he is appearing for the Crawn),

instructed by the Cautsin Superintendent

"Mr. Slade-It is perfectly correct. Inspetor Watt said to had been of Police, on the Crown Solicitor's representations, to oppose bail unless it covered the amount concerned in the charge. $150,000

their arst ardent wishes for

of Chins,

their adopt Proud to be not less most fervent prayer to the among

counted the citizens of China, and less devoted to the new Republic, they Almighty that blessings may descend upon His Excellency. benediction upon the work of regenera

They ask for tion and reorganization to which His a patience and abnegation which have Excellency has consecrated himself with their admiration and that of all his Mr. Brutton objected that that was people. My China. under such A Chief reasonable and prohibitive. He sug- prosperous, and be numbered among the gested that $5,000 was reasonable bail. All Executive soon become flourishing and most enviable of the nations. The under the money concerned was in the Russo- signed take this opportunity to express Asialle Bank, and they could to His Excellency President Yuan their touch it

not The defendant had as much con- devotion,

BRITISH INTERESTS. *7*

interests if Great Britain displays her There is no danger in all this to British usual flexibility. Great commercial changes have already come in Japan

facturers or British bank shown, without harraing British manu proper as my Tokyo messages bare

The future must to-day Fre faced

Chuidly and dispassionately. Peking is no longer the capital of China in the old

Shanghai, Nanking, and Hankow, and, sense, for the loss of Mongolis and the are rapidly rendering it entire absence of the usual intercourse

in fact, the Yangtse all his must impotent

daily

engender a suhtle struggle from which more important. This foreign nations cannot stand aloof.

Japan: has to-day the whole Chinese revolutionary party virtually under lock and key at Tokyo. She holds out her hands to England, knowing that the alliance is more important and more necessary than ever. I believe that there will presently arise an opportunity of far-reaching importance which should. furnish, brilliant results, as I shall in a

out, they very rarely got witnesses who murderer, The evidence taken is wholly sentiments of profound and respectful right to that money as anyone else it subsequent message attempt to outline-

very properly say that on the important matters the credit of the witnesses was so shaky that you are not satisfied that this man deserves the penalty of the law.

October

dootel re

Signed g

BERTHE LU CHENG-HBIANO. ELIZABETH LLOYD CHIC MARIA LIOU FOU-TCHENG. RUTH WANG YINT'AI

LOUISE WAND HOUNG-YOU Louise He DUIN.: DOROTHY LUI CHING-TU, KATHARINE Kwoo SING, YVONNE OU THIN-SHUNG. STEPHANIE ROSES HOA.

Ho. ΤΕΟΥ

the second year this action was tried. The defendant ways: The money is mine, and the Chinese Government now declared it belonged to. them. It was not for ins Worship to say to whom it belonged at that stage. The fact that defendant claimed that the money belonged tu

Lim was, he submitted, sufficient to keep the defendant in the Colony, and there was no necessity for hint to put up another $130,000. He could not return to China, because they wanted him there, So far as his instructions went this money now in the Bank was all the man ho had not a fair chance to prepare his possessed, and if he was kept in gaol

THE POSITION OF SILVER

Samuel Montagu & Co.'s circular dated We subjoin extracts taken from Messrs. October 2nd

defence

PROGRESS IN CHINA

REPORT OF THE BRITISH COMMERCIAL MITACHE

The following information is from the report by H.M. Commercial Attache at Peking (Mr. W. P. Ker) on the foreign trade of China in 1912-ga

INTIMATIONS

FACE AND NECK

ALL BROKEN OUT

In Blotches. Got No Relief, Only Smarting and Pain. Work Out of the Question. Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment Cured;

410, Glasbouse Row, Wrockwardine Wood, Wellington, Salop, Eng. "It was kn the lutter part of 1907 my face was puffed and swelled. I called at the chemist's and ho said it was wink they called blast in the face. It got wube. I got no relief only smarting and pain. My faso and neck were all broken out the blothes. I could get no Text night or day. Work was out of the question in the house. Then I tried Cutt our Soap and fitment and they cred nie and I love felt nothing of it since," (Signed) Mrs. Furence Elizabeth Lowe, May 24, 2

COMPLETELY COVERED IN RASH

304, Parle Road. Loughbourgh, Leicester- hire, EngSpots made their appearance. until I was completely covered in a rash of

·largo red pimples. They got so large and I would rab myself until I was liku a fire Bud the spots would burst at matter would llow fru

them

ard of course this made them sprrad. At kust I read abuus the Ca- tientra treatment and after using the Outl cura sample and one more tin of Cuticura Ointment and ane tablet of Culeur Soap I was completely curt."

(Signed) Miss W. A. Taylor, May 1, 1922.

Cuticura Soap and Catteur Ointment aro sold throughout the world. A sample of each with 82-p. Skin Book frie from nearest depot: F. Newbery & Sons, 27, Charterhouse- 84 London: Potter Drug & Chem, Corp.. Burton, US. A

Tender-faced men should shave withi Cutleurs Boop having Stick, Sample frey,

[96-3

LIMITED.

As in the case of railways, the year has been prolific in paper schemes for manu- Hunan is, as usual, to the fore-in con factories of all kinds. The Erovince of MAPPIN&WEBB, pany promoting, and the industrial projects recently discussed there include paper factories, cotton-spinning and vice-hulling establishments, a cloth-wearing mills, four-milling and cement. cigarette factory and a glass factory. factory, timber sawing factory, a besides such further enterprises as leather

and felt. The lack of native capital and boot making, hat making, dyeing, printing, silk reeling, and the manufacture of sugar

NEW CONSIGNMENTS

the opposition to foreign capital pro- STERLING SILVER WARE clude in nearly every er the possibility ef carrying these projects into cffcet: indeed, the only ones which appear to

be able to take the father's evidence and criminals of recent years, Dr. Crippen, tendency on the part of one of the great ng from the usual and reasonable labave passed heyend preliminary stages

aptually saw this crime committed. The circumstantial, and apparently evidence was put circumstantially and tradictory. Therefore you can, without of Peking it or Join they had some facts, and with those facts violating any principles you may have, they had to come to the conclusion which was necessary, but without any reason able doubt. The difficulty which assailed them in a murder case, which was greater than in any other case, was the serious noss of it all, and they had to devoto The Attorney-General contended that it was not remarkable that any man's greater care and attention to the evidence. Mr. Jenkin went on to say behaviour after a crime, if he committed that though the witnesses had fixed allt, was so callous that he did not reveal the things up in their minds, and held remorse or surprise. The history of that Mok Tong was guilty of murder, the ordinary life which they saw in the they made some direct contrasts in the Courts gave them many examples of cases more trivial matters echnected with the in which criminals exhibited what to ense. They naturally were at one on the ordinary people appeared to be remark- all important point, but in other things able absence of nerves. Some were highly they were absolutely opposed to each sensitive and highly organised persons, other. A lot hinged on the mother's who were horrified at the sight of blood. The weak spot during the week has been evidence, and be submitted that her Others had less sensitive organisms, and China, whence selling orders have head he was following the usual practice Eis Worship, in fixing bail at $130,000, evidence they were quite clearly able to were not the least upset by scenes from sent with some freedom. As Bapt disbelieve altogether, And if they were which a mere intelligent person would the effect of these sales would have been of money concerned,

In a normal all-round market probably of granting bail according to the amount able to disbelieve the mother they would shrink.

One of the most notorious felt lors, but, at the present time, with

Mr. Brutton-Your Worship is depart often only ons buyer in the field, any

on the subject of bail.

a bust-making factory, started His Worship That is my order, any January, 1912, a glass factory established on a small scale for the manufacture of bottles, lamp glasses, etc., and a cotton mill at Changala, for which a site has ethers. Mr. Jenkin pointed out concrete added the Attorney-General, of appar

The list of factories

orien reported as having instances where if the mother was not ently no class. Therefore it is not

been actually opened in 1912 is a small false she was making the grossest remarkable for a person who has com

one in addition to the above may be mistake." Naturally she was nervous, mitted such a crime to exhibit any

mentioned leather factory at Chung and perhaps broken-hearted and imagina unusual demeanour Proceeding, he

tions between the N.Y.K. and the Brifah at Tientsit. The installation of machi In view of the failure of the negotia- at Shasi, and a Franco Chinese tannery king, & weaving factory and a flour-mill

tive, but they were bound to bear in said that neither was there anything of its currency with some degree of con-of the two companies on the Calcutta Liner for tin-smelting works at Ko Ch

India Steamship Company, competition mind the inconsistencies, Counsel then really funny in the fact that most of Gdence. went on to point out what he described the people concerned in that case were The Indien bazaars have been trans Japan Gazette. In this connection, the

is expected to become keener, says thennan, was completed, but operi- as the tenrious number of coincidences" cotton employees. The district concerned fining their operations to covering sales determination to carry on the competition was erected in 1912 in the Fresh extr

tions have not yet begin. acting little business on this side, con Japantes company is credited with a

MUNICIPAL PROJECTS. in the cas It was a very curious thing was full of workers at the Cotton Mills, previously made. Thero is less nervous, the bitter end, though an increase in copersion at Tientsin. Electric light was CHS. J. GAUPP

a A new and purerful electric light plant that most of the witnesses, if not all, were Touching upon the suggestion of suicide,ness as to the quantity of spet supplies the number of steamers employed on the installed a Yitauenfu, and there are either caterers at the cotton mills, or he said there could be no reasonable doubs available, and on the 20th ult. the prices Line is supposed to be a matter of inpos electric light projects at varicus stages employees. It also struck big as being that that was not a case of suicide. It for cash and two months delivery became siblity at the present time

of advancement in a dozen other cities. very curious that Chan On, when he went gemed that there was no conceivable urtking, another heavy shipment this flukute-maru (o 1935), Toid-mara to have a system of electric tramway- identical Government is The Kareyasu-maru. (6,237 was decided two or three years ago to look for the accused and the girl, went reason why the child should have com- week; the total is expected to be as least (5,623 tuns), Kim muru (8,801 tons); in Peking, and foreign financial assis to the very house in which was living the witted suicide, and further than that they equal to last week's consignment from Ceylon-mar (5.069 10), and man who saw then going up the had had it must clearly from the Police £580,000 to £535.000. The offtake is lower on the Line. Of these versels, the quarters, but the terms of the concession

the stuck in Bornbay has fallen from felemto-dr (4,709 tons) are emplyed tree has brez promised from many hillide. Everything Eeened to have happened amongst a very small circle of

as compared with £6,140,000 last week. at 50 bars a day. Woulombe mqrs will be replaced on Novemuse of foreign capital, and no progres are apparently, such as to preclude the Shanghai reports a stock of £0,405,000, her 1st by the Sanuki-maru (6,111 tons), is made. Canton Lag also a big tramway

nów on "the American run.

sebeme under consideration, not to

way?

LINE.

to say that his evidence was in fuvour. of the prisoner. The mother's was, in a wife, with whom he had been living for plies rendered it an easy matter for the was so cool and collected after killing his consuming countries to contribute sup great many instances, diametrically opposed to the evidence of the father and bered and cut her up and put her in his sell, prizes are likely to sag away, but THE RATE WAR ON THE CALCUTTA been scared.

several years, that he actually disment buyer to let prices fall, er for u Chan Oo.

So long as China sells, or threatens to She also contradicted absolutely the evidence of some of the own box. And he was not a Chinese when an exchange level is reached at China may begin to cover, and thus afford which operations cease to be advisablo the market the stimulus of competition. A

The later rains in India have proved") favourable, so that within the next few weeks, the Indian Government will be in a position to tatimate the future needs

'Was

it was impresible for the girl to have Inspector that so far as he could judge

as

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