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THE ARMY CONTRACT CASE. DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY.

À LEVIEST BENTENCE.

The case came before the Chief Justice

nt the Criminal Sessions yesterday which Wong Kant King was charged with

went wrong for the first time in his bust- mess career, and instead of going to the authorities and pleading for leniency he "wont to Staff Sergeant Hawkins and offered him a hribe of $100. The way

in which he had bet that case was, he evntended, consistent with the defen-

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19pm, 1915.

SISTER SUSIE'S SEWING-

AND A LITTLE HONGKONG

* ROMANCE.

Until war broke out, and certain good ladies set to work, to do their bin This vast struggle of nations, the Indy

tempt to incite and indues Staff Serg. Hawkins, chief clerk in the A.SC, collude with him in defrauding the Government of a certain quantity of ent to be supplied to the Government. A April 15th de did feloniously utter and Court defendant alleged that Staff Seabridge stunt

realise more than myself what this means. to a young lady of Susie's "temporament, She revelled in a succession of tennis partica and now dresses which had to be, worn in the san; a perfect embodiment of goudhalance and living without any real ideal; but very charming all the samo, This has been sacrificed, fortunately

second count charged him with that ention to the fact that when in the Policeing partica, with, here and there industriously producing soldier garments, |

aud,

that on April 6th he did unlawfully at-dant's previous mode of living and the whom I shall hereafter, call Suzie, for sacrified, 1 may add, and many of her course he had adopted was taken entirely many reasons. was just a churning

lady friends who previously shared with topon his own initiativ Having been replica of most young ladies in the East;

detected he admitted everything and her existence was not really lazy her the same light existenco have shared threw himself on the mercy of the Court,coa: it was a mixture of good honest in the sacrifice. When sons young His lordship called Mr. Potter's aften-rest mingled with tennis and bath ladies are at tenais the changed Susie and her equally changed colleagues." are Frequently being and, personally, I have become quite an a certain forged undertaking forgeant Hawkins asked him for a lean of most burdensome and practical be put off

hurthermore, dandoning, I lectured Susie on her butterfly tacking (that is the correct expression, accomplished hand at drawing out the the payment of money, to wit, am 1.0.U. $100, for $100, purporting to have been signed instructed the selicitor who appeared for existence, the non-productive and non-I think) of finished shirts, snipping off by Staff Sergeant Hawkins with intent hiri at the Police Court, to cross-examine useful mode of her existence, and of her the stray end of wool from socks of all thereby to defraud. In reply to the the Sergeant on those lines..

That had inability to even darn a pair of socks sizes, and making myself general charges defendant pleaded guilty to the naturally been published and permis | without causing excruciating pain to the misance in an employment which is thef first. As to the second the Attorney suspicions had bisen roused. 'He consider ed that that was a serious clement in the General entered a nulle, prosegui.

Mr. Eldon Potter appeared on behalf case in spite of what he (Mr. Potter) had said as to the defendant making a clean of the defendant. -

first, it was obvious.

reverse of anything I have previously bon accustomed to.

but when in a thoughful mood my heart We make heaps of fun out of the work,

The Attorney - General' explained the "breast of the thing. He did not-do-o at two-vary pretty lips. Took extr.md5-gees-out to those ladies who-have readily]

Mr. Potter remarked that he could

raully.

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one who was unfortunate enough to sub sequently wear them. Bus argument of this kind was always useless where Susie was concerned She would merely pont

sheepish, and then fly into real rage and

given up a lot of leisure hears had gen threaten to throw me from the Peak-side dwelling to the macndmised rats oferal social pleasantries in order to "do their bit" in war. It is a noble and truc Hongkong. However, I confess even new hearted effort, and though another Susic that her existence was just a butterfly one, with no ideal beyond a good hard tennisd her socks have been made the themo of a comic song which I often recount to game or a sail with como adventure in it. Had one asked Susie in those degenerato y Susie, the writer was only hiding days she is different busit now, let me under a light exterior the came feelings alato--to create a pair of socks, or which I also have for the thousands of to produce a man's shirt, the task would Susies who are thinking in a most prac Addressing the defendant, his lordship not only have been far beyond her limited tien! manner of the brave men who are said that he had pleaded guilty, and he domestic powers, but the suggestion would ready to make the supreme sacrifice. My had no doubt he was well advised, to the bare been treated with a scornful laugh, Susie is not an isolated example in Hong kong Many ladies are working really chargo against him. His learned counsel bad made an urgent appeal on his half, But the Susic of to-day is a new Sinsie.hard each day in order that a regular and he was so far to be able to meet This fuct was emphasised as recently as supply of parcels may be scat from the It was true that defendant was young. Sunday last. Sunday being an acknowl. Colony to the men in the trenches. And and he was prepared to accept the assuredged day of rest, Susic and I always the particular Susie I am referring to hüs to my way of thinking done a really ance that hitherto defendant's character looked upon it as the day specially set had been an excellent one. Nevertheless, it apart for as much excrease as possible good thing for herself. A lady who can was his duty to cusure that a thing that Quito carly on Sunday morning I called make shirts and socks like Susie is quite sort should not occur again. It appeared on Susie with all the paraphernalia of good enough for me." that it was defendant's contract with the tennis. Government, and it was urged on his

Are you ready, Susie ?! "No, I shall be busy all day to-day.” behalf that he entered into a contract which was not going to be remunerative. and he sought to help himself out of the We both shall, my dear girl. So-and- difficulty he was in by attempting to bring so and so-and-so intend wiping the about a state of affairs which, if Stafi foor with us to-day, so you buck up and Sergeant Hawkins had been a party tu it, would have been a very serious matter don't forget all my directions when you for the Government of Hongkong. Houre up at the not.” the Chief Justice, felt it his duty to draw attention the fact that at first defen dant made charge against Staff Sur geant Hawking to the effect that the a déliberute attempt to defraud the Gov-money was really money which was loaned ernment, and was unlike the case of a

fness of the case as given at the Police Court hearings. Defendant contracted to supply the Government with coal, and announce now that defendant absolutely the first delivery was to be made on April cxonerated Serat Hawkins from all 1st This first delivery consisted partly criminal connection with the offence of screened and partly of unscreened coal, Absolutely no suggestion was now made whereas the contract required screened against Sergt. Hawkins, and the attitude coal. This was pointed out to him. The which the defendant now adopted would, econd delivery which was made on aprihe thought, remove all stain and suspicion 4th consisted of screened coal according from the suggestion which was made at to contract. The third delivery was made the Police Court. en April 6th and the events then look pince which were the subject of the The Attorney-General read charges. Serg Hawkins' account of what hap perided at an interview which he the bad with the defendant, and went on to say that the offer which defendant made of $100 a month was no unsubstantial one. He then referred to the points which led the Government to view the ease ni a most serious one. First of all, it was a deliberate attempt to corrupt an officer of

Defendant inis good and tong service. took his man, but it was not inconceivable that a person might have been found of weak moral sense, and defendant might have succeeded in leading that person into crime had subsequently to discovery, a court-martial and then disgranc. was obvious, also, that defendant's own Blicit gains in the proposed arrange ment would have been at least a great as he had offered to the Sergeant.

It

It was

man who was offering a bribe to get some ere to assist bim in obtaining a contract It was a deliberate attempt to bribe Sergeant Hawkins and to conspire with

kyofondsat mh his

He

I shall tell her so after the war.

C.R.

HONGKONG SANITARY

DANA BOARD.

The usual fortnighly meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary Board was held. "No, my dear boy, I shall bo sewing all yesterday, the President (Mr G. N. There were also pre- day; I have two pairs of socks and ane Orme) presiding, shirt to finish off for this week's parcel." sant: The Vice-President (Hon. Mr. W.

My laugh was out short by a most Chatham, C,M.G.), the Hon. Mr. E A..

Oh Cardon Hall

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to give defendant an opportunity or scornful look from" "JustC DỰ ĐO`YETE" retracting, unreservedly, the suggestions; I am not going to play tennis. Dr. Fitzwilliams, Mr. P. W. Goldring: which was made at the Magistracy. accepted defendant's assurance that this 1 shall be sewing all day, so go away." was ut so, but regretted that an allega tion of that kind should have been made

But my dear, Susie." "Oh, please, don't you understand

Mr. Chau Kai Ming, Mr. Ng Hon Tez, the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. W. W. Pearse) and the Secretary to the Board

hun to systematically defraud the Govern- without any justification. He would deal King's English (and this with emphasis) (Mr. W. Bowen-Rowlanda).

ment under the contract, and to attempt to defraud the military authorities, was avery serious matter, especially at a time like the present when it was important that all the resources of the Colony should be buskanded. A man who was attempting to defraud the Governmeus in this way the present time was really helping th King's enemies,

with the defendant as leniently as pos sible, as he was anxious that defendant, I am going to be a producer, the butterfly being a young man, should have aliis about to make shirts. Funny, isn't it t opportunity of retrieving his character when he came out of prison, and he hoped Come along with me." that the short sentent which he was abou to pass upon him would inspire him, whey he came out of prison, to live as he had done before, in a straightforward and honest manner. He would be sentence to six months without hard labour.

SHANGHAI.

AT

The Shanghai Hereary of the 11th inst.

says:-

Mr. Potter, on behalf of the prisoner, ANTI-GERMAN FEELING said that there were certain facts which ought to be put before his lordship. The case was a sad one in many reape.ts

The latest piece of German brutality because the young man in the dock, up: to the tire when he committed the acts the sinking of the Lusitania with over alleged in the charge, had led an 2,000. inpuc ut people industrious and an entirely honest life,aused intense indignation and bitter-

•Counsel then proceeded to explain the facts which led defendant to deviate for the

first time from an honest CourZO.

on

board-has

ness in Shanghai not only amongst Britishers and their Allies but amongst considerable number of neutrals, and the cons quene is that feeling towards the German members, of the community,

I followed Susie to her "library" and found the table heaped with men's garments in various stages of develop meat, shirts, socks, mufers, wool caps and so forth, and was forced to realis at quoc that Susie the butterfly had settled down seriously to the work of war; women's work in war. She also un- folded to me a little romance which had been evolved purely on the initiative of one whom I had looked upon as lacking

all the essentials of this quality Read this," she said. handing me a mud-bespattered piece of paper, very crumpled, and with some printed matter relating to jums, etc., as the ene side,

straight from the trenches; isn't it due t

Dear Madam,

ÈDOKUN POO SCHOOL FOR INDIANS..... There was a short discussion on the adjourned application for permission to erect six water-closets and eight urinals at the propised school for Indians at Sookun Poo.

Hon. Mr HEWETT proposed, and Colonel GORDON HALL seconded, that the application be refused:

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS said he thought this was intended to be a big school, and it would be very deterrent to the hygienic training of the boys if they had to maks user of the out of date and inseritury-con-

veniences.

The PRESIDENT said it wre estinated that there would be about 200 at the School, the bulk of whom would be

scholars.

The MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ad-

"

The Attorney-Governl had submitted that which has been generally peaceful since And then you ask me to waste my timevised the putting over of the matter until was a deliberato attempt to bribe Sergt. the outbreak of hostilitics, is now running playing tennis !?!

It is recognised, of Hawkins It was deliberate in the sense extremely high.

The writing on the slip of paper was the Public Works Department had been that all crime was deliberate, but he course, the this is an International thought he would be able to satisfy his Settlement, and that an open show of big and straggling, and this is what it enabled to lay a proper sewer which would

hostility towards enemy subjects is not said:

not discharge into Chuis way Bay. The site of the School was consider lordship that it was not deliberate in the desirable, yet at the same time incidents sepes that it was thought cut and planned of a displeasing nature are bound to hap

Me and my pals out here wish to thankable distance up the valley, closs to the ред. At one of the leading clubs this at any length of time before the offenes norning, according to report, quite a

you very much for what you are doing for were committed. Defendant entered into little scene occurred between a Briton and us. I ant not much of a ekap for writing. Japanese Crematorium, and at the pre- the coal trade for the first time on Feb-a German. The majority of the members I found your vote pinned to my last sont time there was no sewer. Although

new shirt I thought as how I would like to Wing On. Defendant had had no previ nationality and the German. in question, my pals, what you ladies are doing for us, the cost of a sewer, he was told that no ruary of that year, the firm being the of the Club in question ara cf British reply. We very much, appreciate, me and comy trouble had ben taken to estimato on appearing at the club house, was and when we know that even so far away steps had been taken as yet to construct ous experience of the trade, and defen- politely informed that, in view of the as Hongkong you kind ladies are doing dant realised, after he had secured the latest German atrocity, certain members for us it makes things go a lot more easy.

The VICE-PRESIDENT said that under aring contract, that if he carried it out of the club did not desire to be further Vatil I received your shirt (the one Susie

associated with him, This remark was made for him, he means), I had not changed existing conditions I would be impossible according to the contract he would los: resented by the German who, however, for two weeks, so you can tell what I thought a great deal of money on it. Hoteld was promptly shown the way out, and out about it. Some of my pals also had litt to permit the installation of water

notes in their shirts and socks, and, really, closets, Staff Sergeant Hawkins that he could not he went. It is stated that members of supply the coal at the contract pries wi, Certain other British Clubs are agitating we did not know whether to laugh or cry.] for the removal from the list of mem.. Shanghai is pecu⋅ brs of all Germans, liarly situated, no doubt, but it is felt that there is no reason why Germans should continue to be members of British Clubs,

Gut great less, and that was the cause of the trouble. This young man, rowly started in this line of business, suddenly found himself in the position in which he must either carry out the contrac at a loss, and perhaps at such a luss as

this

tha sewer.

We all thank you very much for so kindly thinking of us. We are a well just here. Yours faithfully.

The PRESIDENT-I think it would be advisable to refuse this application, and in the happier days to which some mem-" HENRY THOMAS.

bars of the Board look forward, and when There were big tears in Susie's eyes when I looked up again: I asked to beseer is provided, they can make an-

other application,

Amend With the nination of the Govern forgiven for by levity, and for most of

Dr. FITZWILLIAMS moved an nens tenanes, the White City, in that day I sat watching Susie stitching

ment that the application be adjourned to mean his financial ruin, or else he must London, at the end of this month, will hand knitting away with an energy which eine die, and Mr. GOLDRING seonded.

devoted to the provision of the factory was surprising. I discovered. Chat, in give up the contract.

Four members voted for the motion, In reply to his lordship Mr. Pettaecommodation to much needed at pre-

sent. The property erected for the common with most of the other ladies wher and an equal number for the adjourn said that defendant was the Wing France-British Exhibition is specially are doing their own particular "bit" in scnt, and the amendment was carried.

firm, and went on to say that defendant's

right course was obvious, and he would not deny it. When he found that he could not carry out the contract without fan cial ruin be should have gone to the authorities and told them so, and then That was the right asked to be let off. course, but unfortu ately the def.ndit

adapted for this purpose, as concealed the war, Susie also pine little notes con- within the decorative plaster coverage taining good wishes, etc., on the garmen's

are rain structures of steel, designed to

Recently

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front. Of twenty-six offers who fell machinery with the minimum expenditure up the fine fellow in the trenches whoming to the average age of officers at the of time and effort. The buildings Tre it happens to reach,

I also realised the during the course of the Neuve Chapelle admirably arranged for use either together cause of Susie's complete metamorphosis, engagement, ages ranged from nineteen to forty-eight, with an average of a trifle or separately, and vary in size from and admired her deeply for it. Fow can i

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