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SUPREME COURT.

Wednesday, March 18th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 19TH, 1914.

IN CRIMINAL. JURISDICTION,

BEFORE THE OBIET JUSTICE, SIN WY,

A REES DAVIES, K.C.

THE GRAHAM STREET MURDER.

Pang Hin Tong pleaded not guilty to a charge of killing and muzdoting one Li Kam Loan and also Wong Wong on the 8th February, Accused was ongistant compradore at Mesra H. Stephenson & Company

The following were sword on the jury- Mesars. H. C. Sandford (foreman), V. 5. Ferguson, W. B, C. Drude, P 0. Roza, 6. Helmo, J. J. Gutierrez and A. A. Fyle,

The Attorney General (the Hon. Mr. |J. A. §. Buckaill) prosecuted, on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. Otto Kong Bing) defended.

The Attorney General, addressing the jury, said it would be absurd to suggest that that was not an extremely serious offence with which. prisoner was accused. In the early morning of the 8th February a terrible tragedy was enacted at a house in Graham Strest, which was very near to the Central Police Station. Counsel next went on to deal with the details of the crime

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notes were then in his possession. Point arrested by Inspector Garden at a houss in Wing Lok Street, and certain forged ing out the difference between forged and genuine notes the Crown Solicitor said there was light patch on Chan Kwing- ming'e features on the genuine notes, This light patch prisoners had endeav oured to copy, but the attempt was a failure, and on all the forged notes a blemish appeared.M

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should only be instituted to smash months ago, and when this was found in The following jury was empanelled his cubicle five chambers had been dis Mesers. G. A. Disa (Foreman), P. If that method were to succeed they could charged; and three shots were fired at Taylor, W. E. Ocker, H. B. Bridger, C. depend upon it the refles effect would I Dove, H. Larsen, and J. R. Forbes come with a rebound of vengeance that the old woman ani two at the wife of the The Crown Bolicitor said that the would shake the foundations of the accused. There was no eye witness of the prisoners were charged with being in organization from which it emanated and affair. The only person who could have pussession of forged Canton notes, finished of the self-assertive leaders of commerce. and unfinished, and materials and I was one thing to adhere to the been an eye-witness was the husband of machines which went to the manufacture necessities of the fluctuations of trade the old women, and he would say that of notes. All the things which appeared and lay up voluntarily, but altogether following his usual custom he got up and Village on the land of Laping by the

in Court were seized at Cheung Bau Lam different to form a combined despotism to capize the inexorable laws of supply went into the front-room of the house for police, as the result of a raid mads on and demand. They would run their

December 9th.

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take his mother away. Soras conversa. tion of this nature took place between the accused and his wife on the night of the He went out and did not tragedy return until 1 am, and the shots were heard between 5 and 6 am. Accused bad

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