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(PEFONE IS HONOUR THE PUTINE JUDÕE MR. JUSTICE GOMPERTZ)}] THE TERROR OF SHAUKIWAN. BULLY WHO WAS "KILLED BY ONE OF HIS VICTIMS,

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INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB,

A

·N EXTRA GYMKHANA MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 1st DEC EMBER, 1923, commencing 245 PM.

for Admission to the Public Charge Encloure will be 31. Soldiers and Sailors in aniform Hall Price

The

Members are advised that they must show their Badges to obtain Admission to the Members Earioenre.

Each Member has the fight of introducing

Yesterday morning Lam In, a paint scraper, of sutalt delicato appearance and. aged 22 years, was indicted for the mus der of Wan Leung at Shaukiwan West. The 'Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. Jon-members to the Members Enclosure, II. Kemp, K.C.) conducted the ease for the Crown and Mr. N. T. Brewer defend ed the prisoner.

The Jury empanelled for the case were: Messrs. W. H. Coole (foreman), R. C. Chatterton, E. W. Duggan, E. V. Mde Sousa, E. H. B. O'Farrell, R. M. Smit, and JP. Pereirn.

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for whom can be obtained from Messrs. LINSTEAD Davis at $3 up to Friday, November 30th.

The Stewards invite the Ladies of Hongkong

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HONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD.

NOTICE OF MEETING. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the FIRST ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of THE EONGKONG ENGINEERING AND CON- STRUCTION Co., Lrv, will be held at Th Bexuxoya HOT Poddar Sirest, Hongkong,

a WEDNESDAY, the 28 DAY of "NOV-" EMBER, 1933, at 12.00 Neos, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Dir ectors, and & Statement of Accounts for the period from 8th October, 1922, to the Suth Jane. 1923. and of electing Directors and Aucitors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ill be CLOSED from the sand to the 28th November, both days inclusive.

The Attorney-General said one of the. two principal witnesses for the Crown waso seriously ill in hospital and he would ask permission for this man's evidence to be rend. According to this man's evidence. on the evening of October 2nd he was standing at the bottom of the Lam On Fong lane, in Shaukiwan West, with the decensoil and two frienda when he heard a noise and a thud, and he saw that the deceased: Wan Leung, had fallen to the ground. He also noticed the prisoner strike him with an axe. The prisoner went away toward's Sai Wan Ho. Another witness (Chan Tung) would give cor- roborative evidence. The injured man was found propped up against a wall at the end of the inne by an Indian con- stable. In the compung of Chan Tung the Police Jound the prisoner in boat-Nolders in the above-named Company shed No. 48 and arrested him. The pri- soner afterwards" took the police to shed 34 and pointed out a corner and there the axe (produced in Court) was found.

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By Order of the Board,

S. COURTNEY COOK,

Secretary. Hongkong. 15th November, 1993. 11575

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the

S.STAITO MARU": PIRACY NEAK 'WEAMPOA of 14TH NOVEMBER, 1993.

were very severe. There was a cut on the heni penetrating the brain and in the above named Company bott in London cut on the thigh which splintered the and in Hongkong WILL REMAIN OPEN. UNTIL THE 30TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, When charged at the Police 1923, for the purpose of

Transfers registering Station, the prisoner said: "I did strike of Shares after which Date the said Registers will be Closed and the Liquidator will proceed him by cutting him twice with an asc to a Distribution of the Assets of this Com because he struck me many times-several pany among the Persons appearing as Share- times this your und several times last holders upon the said Registers in accordance

with their rights and with the said Extraordi

Relation year. He struck me last year because I "refused to join his club, which is a Triad society." At the Police Court the pri soner said: "Wan Leung (the deceased) tried to squeeze me. He demanded $30 from me. He wished me to join his Triad society but I refused to join He threatened to kill the in the future. That night I met him. If I had not cut hintons of Ends Unscreened Cest, No. that night he would have killed me. He threatened to shoot me with a revolver That is all. That seems to be a clear confession, commented the Attorney Gen- eral, of an act which in law amounts to murder. There is no suggestion that prisoner acted in immediato defence of his own life. The prosecution are not prepared to contest the prisoner's state- ment regarding the threat; in fact we are prepared to accept that statement. How far there was any real danger is problema. tical As a natter of fact, that there" was danger does not reduce his crime below the very serious crime of murder, but you are"always at liberty to hu anything you may think fit in your, ver- dict.

Mr. Brower, for the defence, said that according to the prosecution, the accused eme behind the deceased and deliberate: ly struck him with an axe. "But I think I will prove," said. Counsel, that the deceased was & most notorious character.

WO Bills of Lading (No. 1 covering 505 covering 2,495 tons of Kase! Unscreened Coal) with Consignees Covers by the above having been presumably purloined by pirates or some unauthorised persons. WE HEREBY Laling GIVE NOTI, E that all snais Bilis of originally issue in Keeing have been ean- celled and Owners of the Steamer are making their

arrangements, with Receivers. Anyone able to give any information with regard to the above Lost Bills of Lading kindly Agents, the Owners' communicate with YAMASHITA KISEN KOGYO KAISHA,

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Hongkong, 19th November, 1923. [1588-

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS.

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The Steamship **BENLOMOND.” CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform

that Goods are being landed at their risk into the, hazardous wid/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., when-

He was a man who terrorised the whole neighbourhood, and was head of a Society which shirked nothing in the attainment of its objects. The leading witness for the prosecution-who, unfortunately, is not here is also a leading member of, and/or from the wharves, delivery way be this Society."

Continuing. Counsel said his Lordship had ventured to say during the cross examination of the Crown's witnesses that with the death of Wan Leung the terror of the neighbourhood would be removed, but he would dare to say that the terror of the deceased had not been removed, for the Society still existed and it still terrorised the neighbourhood. The prisoner would tell how he originally net the leccased on the bridge on the Fraya and that the deceased, with his com

The prizoner panions, assaulted him.

made his escape and was pursued to the passage-way where the deceased met his death. There the prisoner, by the light of, a house across the way, saw an axe

obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods are left the Godowns, and Il Goods remaining and elivered after the 94th inst., will be subject-

rent.

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 8th December, or they will not be recognized.

All be left in the Godawas, where they will be broken, chafed and damaged Goods are examined on the 24th inst.

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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

Agents GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO, LTD, Hongkong, 19th November, 1993. (1592

ying on the ground, and with it struck. C. E. WARREN CO., LTD,

the deceased who, with the others, was pursuing him,

The appearance of the prisoner," con- tinued Mr. Brewer, speaks for itsel His appearance is more in his favour than

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The Attorney-General, addressing the Jury, pointed out that the onus of proving that be was justified in killing the de- ceased rosted on the prisoner, who had Estimates Free for all kinds of Sanitary not discharged that obligation. The pre-WorkMonumentul Works in Italian dominant fact against the prisoner's case Marble and Hongkong Granite... was that he did not say a word either af

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The Jury, returned a unanimous verdict of “ Nót. Giúlty,” and" the" prisoner, was | discharged.

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