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Lo Yok Wan. Yeung Yer a Tak
Kw. Care, were indteted for the af Leung San, at No 2. Pouning Br! 4 Stret, Hongkong, on November 9th
MI The Storms Cinneral (The Hon
Mc - K prosecuted tib'i defended the first two F ་ Jenkin the
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19TH.
regards the theory of suicide, said the Attorney General, the jury must note that it wrot possible for the man taj bave killed himself, because the girdle i with which he was atrangled was tied three times round his neck with three The second prisoner had
separate knote
further said that he had known Leung Saan for thre years, and they were very goud friends The girdle was tied to the bird in such a way that only Leung Sam could get at it. He denied cell.
Police ting the
that Tung Kwan Beardered Leung Bam
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YACHTING.
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The scoond of the series of races for the above prize was sailed off on Saturday last in a moderate East North-Easterly breeze
over the following Lyemun Beacon (P). Cast Ruck Buoy (P.), Channel Rock (P)---Distaner, 8 miles. The race resulted as follows:
Iap on Finishing Yachts
Couso.
Time. M. S. ...Beatch
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5.27.44
6.27.06
5.50.97
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TO BE SENT TO THE JAPANESE REFORMATORY.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a Japanese youth was
(Too dark, tine not taken)] charged, on remand, with stealing 2200 from his master, a Japanese residing on the Prays East.
kaut
H. M. S.
Corre ed Time. H. M. S.
Hefore the Magistrate the prisoner, Tung Kwan, had said that Leung Sam
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A not killed by him They all travelled Daphine to Wachow the sate bont Leung Haleyon
I'l Bam, who had done business separately in Wehov, said that he been robbed of Dawn
Lysbeth 1.200 by Boldiers On the fateful after. The Attorney General, in spening then, in Pennington Street, Hongkong- warned the jury that they could not when they were at the end of their muney mt nevount against any of or all j and wanted to find a way of getting back already to Wurbem, they all sat on Vie Basic which might be made, by the bed and naked Leung San to accompany Clut
tor tank for 24 hout Lung Sach Jas that's atherin inating each other
pleaded beadache, and the Dorothy evadene mught, on occasion, he turned against the peren who gave it, buy could
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the house. When he
Position (1) Bonita
(3) Ailsa (4) Dawo (6) Lysbeth (0) Gael
Points for race
16
Daphine
14
13
26
12
away, and, having: three of them went Found that a boat was leaving for W
regarded against each other The three prisoners and the deceased chow next day, went for a walk and re semed to have come to Hongkong fromfurued honte at about 3 p.
second pirtsoneer and be entered Buchen about the end of October; at
they found Leung Sam dend
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vate they appeared in the house in Ppt Street, where the murder
The deers to plan, shows that time
mother of the girl come in she told the Police that he (third prisoner) had mur „dered Leung Hamm If he had murdered
run away. The auther of the girl hated them be- :
eth gened a room there, but lived Leung Shum i would have
#artels at intervals, and seemed to be then leader
is
The first printer and wat wepted the cubicle rented by the dl, and the after two men såg in die outside. The principal wit to for the prosecution was the year de sanghter of the principal tenant of the Song on which the murder took place At about Jahi, on November 9th the xw
the three priguners and the deceased The other occupants of the Sour were the first priner's wife, the girl. another woman, who lived in the end room, and b baby The girl saw the three pris enen giảng into the room just before 3 p. and a little later heard a noise, which she had described my a
muro parSUKA
banging She looked through one holes in the wall, and saw the deceased being The strangled by ongor giri ras out to the Tobacco Factory, close band informed her mother. When she cat Lack she found the first and second prasumers king on the bed outside the entrele, and the third prisoner lying on the bed with what she thought to be un oth man, but what was really the body A report was made to of Long Sam. the Police and when they arrived the found the prisoners still there and agresi ed them
i
dus they had an money to pay for their board and lodging. She was lying when
she said that he (Tung Kwan) was lying
on the same bed as the dead man.
He
was in the cubicle. Furthermore, the girl
did not see them fighting with Leung Sam,
The
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Attorney General continuing.
of
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It was
Halcyon Ursula ...
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Toinette Teatr ...... Therin Dorothy Asthoro
Defendant stated that he took the money to purchase a passage t, Japati.
Mr. Wood informed defendant that the Japanese Coasul was going to send him to a reformatory in Japan. The Magis Points to date trate hoped that defendant would never
again get into trouble.
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Full Certificates: - Mr. M. F. O'Sullivan, the Misses Barbara Leonard, Carmen P. Garcin, Guiomar Romedies,
AN INCORRIGIBLE FISH-VENDOR.
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At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. C. Melbourne, six Chinese Theory: The Misses Lemar d'Assumpeso, pleaded guilty to gambling in No. D, Ethel Curry, Doris Curry, Maria E. Re-Wing Sing Street.
Inspector Watt stated that the Police medios, Maria Games, Etelvina Lopes, Graco T. Murray, Charlotte Wake.
raided the building, by virtue of a Elementary: The Misses Maria Gomes, warrant, and managed to arrest Dine Etelvina Lopes, Grace F. Murray, Dorothy men. There were over a hundred gam Murray, Charlotte Wahr, Valeska Wahr, blere present, but it was difficult to arrost Maria B. dos Rendios, Angela Remedios, them is they ran to the rear of the build Alda Remedios, Margret Ramsay, and Aldu)
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Witness searched the premises and found 84.84, including 80 cents in a box that besides defrauding them, wanted to soll was evidently the commission for the use the first prisoner's wife.
of the building. The game played was "Three Kings." Three, of the nine defendants arrested, had failed to appear in Court
Mr. Melbourne estreated the bails of
The following are the results of a Short- said that it would be noticed that there hand Examination, held in St. Mary's WILA a general denial of bad relations School, Kowloon :-
the three prisoners and the between
On the other hand, there murdered man
sisteme on the exiro
Mrs. M. Ardin story about Yang h, who Speed words per minute):
itroney. No F. O'Sullivan the Miss Barbara Leonard defrauded the ar
Carmen F. Qarcia, Guiomar Remedios doubt the jury must have wondered why
wards per
minutes): The Spers (60 they find dragged in the story about Yung
Kathleen Gourdin, Doris Carry, On, and what motive there could have lasse
Ethel Curry, Andrewing Forsyth, Leonar been for mardering Leung Bam best AL this stage, therefore, wo refer the d'Assumper, Irene Aivares. jury to the three statements inade by the prisoners when the charge was read out to them at th Police Station, two days The first prisoner, on after the murde that necasion, said that Leung Sam and he were doing apiom business together. After de ng husiness very fairly ou une sension, Leung San, on the second had conspired with certain soldiers and given them information to seize the opium, which belong jointly to continued thr All three prisoners,
Leung Sam and to him. Later, when Attorney General, had made long state-
ne had no money, Leung Bum #uggested ment to the Magistrate. The first prison
These statements supplied the motive er. said that he was only a foki of the that the two of them should go to Hong.
After making these second and third prisoners and another kong. When stranded here, Leung Bau for the murder.
at hamed Yung On. Their business, in had suggested that he (first prisoner) statements, the prisoners had an Wuchow, was in foreign dry goods. Yung should pledge his wife to get moneyportunity of speaking to each other. On had cheated them of some money, and subcient to enable him (Leung Sam) to Later, ther told a story that agreed in $5 each of the missing defendants, and
Wuchow, where he would the main details, and, having no doubt fined the others $2 each. ter, who said he was a dealer in opium obtain money and returo to redeem the realised the mistake they had made in
Leung Sam then and had many friends in Hongkong, first prisoner's wife.
saying that they had been defrauded by Leung Sam, they made up a story of having been defrauded by a shadowy
When the take his partner's wile out at night to believed the little girl, they would as first prisoner said he had a wife, Jaung pledge her, but he was not allowed to do that all three went into the prisoner's Mr. J. B. Wood, three Chinese were Sam told him to bring her along, as she so As they had no money, two
men cubicle and vented their spite on Leung charged with assaulting another Chinese. Mr. J. H. Gardiner appeared for the could work at making cigarettes. All five strangled Leung Sam to death, but he Sam. There was no other theory of any
defence. of them (the three prisoners, the first was not present. This statement, which kind as to how he was killed. The three
It was stated that a Chinese constable oner's wife and Leung Sam) then the prisoner had first made, contained prisoners were the only meu there, and one to Hongkong. They waited for not a suggestion about Yung On. The days while Leung Bam looked in vain deceased had done prisoner out of money, got there, the body
they had the motive. When the Police saw the defondants fighting outside a was still warmte-house in Shanghai Street and stopped for his friends, who would give him opium had tried to pledge his wife, and they as they said, they had no grudge attacking oumplainant, and the police- them. Later on, defendants commenced on credit. When they had no money and were at the end of their resources. At against the man, they would have done! had pawned everything they could pawn, such a stage, according to the prisoner, the first thing which any friend would Leung Sam suggested to the first prisoner the other two men strangled Leung Sam. that he should pawn his wife and so get
have done taken off the girdle and tried money with which to commence some hasi B. On the day on which Leung San died, the three prisoners weat out at 11a.m. and returned at.3 p.m. When they returned, the first prisoner went out to buy some tobucco, and, therefore, the other
later, when he met Leung Sam, the lat
return to
asked him to accompany him to the took the wife to pledge her, but fint Cotony, which he did. Leung Saan had prisoner said he wanted her back. told him a story of how he was robbed another occasion Leung Sam wanted to man named "Yung On." If the jury
of his optam by some soldiers.
On
He did not say he knew nothing about
to bring the man back to conscioustics.
it, though he did say he was not present It might be said that they were not when it was done. It must be noted, said
against anyone else.
The money
found on the premises were confiscated.
CHASED WITH AN IRON TRUNCHEON.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before
In the frat defend- man arrested them.
was found ant's possession truncheon.
an 100
Mr. Gardiner stated that the first defendant was a sanitary foreman, and,
Mr. Kemp, that there was no evidenes guilty because they did not run away noticing complainant taking away two The jury had to remember that murder buckets of sewage, was under the impres The second prisoner said, at the Polirners did not always run away. These masion that he was a thiof, and chased bita.
were strangers in 'n strange land, they He denied amaulting the complainant. two men went into the houso frst. As of Station, that Leung Sam and Tung Kwan had no friends, no place to run away to, entered, the first and second prisoners had been dealing in opiam. Ho had rais, told him that Loung Bara was dead. All ed $400 and gone into the business, and and no money to help them to escape.
Dr. H. MacFarlane said that he had of them were frightened, and sat on the Loung Ham had conspired with cortain
performed a post-mortem examination on e. They told the girl to go nud fotch soldiers to defraud them. As regards her parent, and when the latter arrived the murder, he did not take part in it.the body of Leung Sam. Death was
to sopbyzia. He did not favour the idea they told her to report the matter to the it was Tung Kwan who murdered Loung of suicide, owing to the bruises on the Police. There was no quarrel (the first Sam. Again, commented the Attorney prisoner added) between Loung 8am and General, there was no suggenion of Yung himself. Leung Bein bad not promised On.
to give them money to go home, though he wanted their time.
Thu third prisoner frankly said, what charged at the Police Station, that he
First defendant anid that he picked up the trunction whilo chasing the com plainant.
Mr. Wood fined first defendant $50 for being in unlawful possession of the trun- cheon, and the rest $10 each for massult
nook.
According to a London messiago of Octo. Questioned by Mr. Balilios, witness
bor Mr. Pemberton Billing, M.P., 4- said ho did not think that the strangling nounced to his constituents in Bishop of deconsed was the work of one man
Stortford (Hortfordshire) that he hat
The rutement made by tho neon kilted Loung Ban beanso he had de unlogs, either the decensed was sleeping both eiled to appear in court as a co- prisoner was very similar to that of the voured up their money by plots. He had first prisoner in ita in features. This defrauded them $1,200 and had induced mna, however, said that he did not know them to come to Hongkong. Leung Sam, whether Leung Bam killed bimolt.
(Continued at foot of next column.)
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