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CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
[atroen THE CHIEF JUSTICE (812 HELY DOLLAN)}.]
ARMS ON A JUNK
JUNK MASTER SEXTENCED,
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24THS –– 1924
The wife of the shipbuilder herbalist said Ho Fui called on her on the day of the pilferage Cross examined: He was not panting then.
The shipbuilder herbalist said ha had previously supplied Ho Fai with herbs; a woman gave evidence that she was the
LOCAL SPORT.
GOLF AT TANLING.
JASPER CLARK CUP.
The Jasper Clark Cup Competition was decided at Fanling yesterday, the win
CANTON NEWS. {TROX OUR
The Chief Justice passed sentence on person for whom Ho Fai promised to offer being Mr. I. W. Shewan, with Mr Accided. Since the 20th of November
Saturday morning on the master of stain herbs, and her husband declared he
Junk, who was found to be guilty of the possession of armst
.
His Lordship said that in his opinion wery little went on board a junk that the master did not know about, and though he would giro consideration to the Jury's recommendation to mercy on account of
the man's age, he would pass a sentence of three years' imprisonment with hard
Labour.
OIL
CARGO FILFERAGE CASE. -
EXEMPLARY SENTENCES, -
The hearing on Saturday of the pilferage case concerning cassia oil belonging to Messrs. Botelho Bros, was vontinued on Saturday and the Court sat until it was concluded at 3 pm..
Lo Yung and Ho Fai, cargo boat masters, were indicted for stealing the contents of three drums of oil, part of a shipment of 13 drums, worth altogether over $15,000. It was alleged that Lo Yung endeavoured to secure the collusion of besars. Botelho Bros. No. tallyman who however, reported what was about to occur to his employers, with the result that the police were informed and the junk was boarded while the oil drums wort actually being emptied. The opera tions were conducted while the junk was dreing towed across the harbour, with the police watching at distance from a motor boat. The junk was faken to Cheung Sha Wan, between Sham Shui Po and Laichikok, where most of those on board, on seeing the police, ran ashore Lo Yung was still on board when the police took charge, bat Ho Fai was alleged to be one of those who ran ashore, to be captured after punait. by
Chinese constable.
Mr. H. K. Haimes, Crown Solicitor, con ducted the case for the Crown; and Mr. P. C. Jenkin (instructed by Messrs. Leo D'Almada and Nephew) defended the second prisoner, Ho Fai.
Mr. Jenkin cross-examined the No. 2 allyman of Messrs. Botalhe and suggested that long-standing eamity existed be tween him and Ho Fai over a The witness denied it, and also that his evidence against Ho Fai was fabricated
roman.
asked Ho Fai to get the herba.
A VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES.” Mr. Jenkin asked the Chief Justice to rule as to whether the tallymah cams within the category of police spy or Accomplice,
The Chief Justice: There is evidenco that he told somebody beforehand. I do not think there is anything on which I can tell the Jury they can find he was an accomplice. This trap-if you like to mall it so--was prepared on information riven by bim. He was there, having declared In his address to the Jury, Mr. Jenkin himself by giving this information. pointed out that Ho Fat was not impli cated by the tallyman in the conversa- arranged. The only evidence that he was tions which led to the theft being
on the junk was the evidence of the tally- man. Ho Fai was the victim of a most ring present when the police were chasing anfortunate chain of circumstances in be. the runaways from the junk. Perhaps on seeing that he had been captured, and having a grudge against him, the tally an implicated him in order to "make would result from police intervention up the bag which it had been expected Ho Fai's defence was indicated from the sufficiently char and connected to make it beginning, was corroborated and was a certainty. At least the story raised a reasonable doubt on which the jury should returu a verdict of
not guilty."
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JUDGE'S SUMMING-UP.
Crown, the Chief Justice, in summing-up, Mr. Holmes having replied for the suggested that the fact that the tally man deliberately refrained from implica- ting. Ho Fai in the preliminary plot was rather material. Had he felt enmity he might have been expected to accuse Ho Fai in this respect also. Mr. Jenkin did not mention Ho Fai until the end of had emphasized also, that the tallyman his list of those on board the junk. Again, that line of criticism seemed to be a double-edged weapon," for if the ed to mention Ho Fai first. tallyman felt enmity he might be expect
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Witness admitted that he was himsell Cheung Sha Waight, so it could
..
men
ashore at
The story of the visit to the ship builder-herbalist the Chief Justice des
ribed as
very remarable coin- sidence." It was not suggested that the tallyman knew the prisoner Was in detained by the police for ten days.
or that the police Detective Sergeant Dorling said that officer knew him four
hardly be suggested that his arrest was Бус OF Cheung sha-wan, but agreed in cross-trap. The Chief Justice also called examination that what be said in the attention to the weakness of the defence Police Court namely four
and the conflict of their evidence, more likely to be the precise truth. The in the matter of the second prisoner's reason the tallyman was detained by the exhausted condition; also to the fact that police
for a time was that it was thoughts actual share in the theft of the oil he might be in some danger if he went
on the junk, during the time he said he Large
was on the mainland, had been described to the Court,
at
mea"
WILK
The Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) elicited that the talman was paid by his employers during the time he was detained by the police.
The Chinese sergeant who arrested Ho Fai said he caught the man near a shipbuilding yard. He said he was "go- ing to a shipbuilding yard to get some berba
As to the first prisoner's defence, the Chief Justice commented briefly on its manifest impossibility: it was an explan ation which could not be regarded seriously.
THE VERDICT.
A. B. Stewart runner-up.
The following 16 players' qualified the Championship:
I W. Shewin
A. B. Stewart
100
E. J. R. Mitchell
170
R. A. Camidge
179
Capt L W. Bennet
AH. Fergusça ................
176
H. U. Ireland"
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Lieut. Alexander
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
189
184
O. C. Stark A. W. Franks J. B. Roff
G. Murray N. L. Smith
Capt. Meredith
W. Galloway A. B. Parvia
LAWN BOWLS.~
CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. Į THE CONTROL OF THE ARSENAL Who will control the Awangtung Arsenal at Shekcheng among the forges in Canton is a hot question still na hoth the Cantonese, under General Han for Chung Chi, and the Yunnanese, led by General Liao Heng Chao have been rush- ing troops there. The Arsenal was re- cently enlarged by the addition of equip. ment ordered through the Davia & Com pany of Hongkong and installed by en gineers furnished by Rabbit and Com- pany of Canton.
UNSECURED BANKNOTES.
The Central Bank at Canton, which is issuing $10,000,000 worth of banknotes without specie security, being much embarrassed by the refusal of the troops to accept this form of money 23 wages The fitin stations at Wongsha, conducted. by Yunnanese mercenaries, have offcially announced that they will accept only silver coins in payment of duty.
DR. SUN YAT SEN.
A special committee of six Cantonese, CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY two each from the Kwangtung Provincial
WON BY C. GREEN
Assembly, United Merchants Associa tions, and the Koh Chieh Chiu Yach At the Kowloon Cricket Club bowling Canton, has left Cantor for North China Hoh Hui, or League for the Salvation of green on Saturday aftemoon capital to publicly inform the people that Dr. game was witnessed when C. Green Sun Yat Sen has lost confidence among (Craigengower) defeated D. Gow (Kow-right to speak for the Cantonese on his fellow provincials and that be bas no
of the Colony championship.
on Dock Recreation Club) in the final national questions.
After tea Mrs. R. M. Dyer presented the prizes, and was the recipient of a floral spray, in silver holder, which was handed to her by bir. Tacchi, Secretary of the Lawn Bowls Association, as a memento of the occasion.
The scores were as follows:-
HBADS.
C. GREEN.
D. GOW.
Ist
2nd
3
3rd
5
4th
3
5th
title
8th
Bith
10
10th
11th
19th
13th
14th
15th
18th
17th
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18th
SABRE-RATTLING. BY SUN YAT-SEN.
FORCIBLE UTTERANCE ON ARRIVAL IN SHANGHAI..
HIS RIGHT TO RESIDE' IN FORMION..
CONCESSIONS.
THE WATER RATE.
water rate collected by the Canton Water The extra charge of. 20 per cent, or the Works the last six months as a war tax will be abolished when the period is up, posed extension of the period. The extra as the residents are objecting to the pro charge is Fielding to the authorities but $70,000 for the period; after the expenses for the service are paid.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
The Canton Reconstruction Committee, an organization of Reds among those out- side the Kuomintang Executive Com mittee and the General Headquarters of the Red Generalalissimo, on November 20th, resolved in favour of limiting the Volunteer organizations in the districts to one unit for each. village, town, or city; forbidding regular troop comman ders to demand the servico of the volun- teers prohibiting regular troops to station in communities where the volun. teers are capable of preserving peace and order.
A "SPECIAL WAR ASSESSMENT." For the second time in 1924 the authori ties in Canton are forcing residents to contribute each a sum equivalent to his monthly bouse rent, or ten times the amount of his monthly: house tax, for police purpose. By this special war as- sessment, about $1,100,000 may be raised by this imposition.
The Kwongtung Electricity Supply Company of Canton, by contributing $200,000 to the General Headquarters, has secured a stay in the nationaliza tion scheme.
The Reda in Eatshan are demanding an the merchanta other $120,000 from en maue, the acting chief of the Army declaring that the first $120,000 exacted was in lieu of arms and ammunition which the Fatshan Merchants Volunteers failed to hand over when surrendering, ed as a fine for having opposed the occup. ation of the city by the Army.
Mr. Jenkin; That is remarkable be../from the Court, returned a unanimous Wei Ju, Yui Yu Si, Chu Ho Ching, Lu but this second assessment will be collect. I
cause, as the Court will ses later, it con- firnis our defence from an unexpected quarter.
Re-examined by Mr. Holmes, the officer
the prisoner
exhausted and panting, so he said to him, "You say you are going to get herbs: look at the state you are in
said
Was
An interpre.ur gave evidence that all Ho Fai said in answer to the charge was, I did not steal." in reply to the Judge, expressed a desire At this stage the Jury to continue the hearing during Saturday afternoon in the hope of completing the
CASC.
Crs.
SHANGHAI, November 17th. Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Generalissimo of the Canton Government, and his party, ona sisting of Messrs. Wang Chós Ming, The Jury, after four minutes absence Huang Chang Ku, Shao Yuan Chung, verdict of guilty
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against both prison.
Shi Hua, and Chuo Chao, arrived here this The Chief Justice then addressed the morning and immediately proceeded to Prisoners as follows:-
"You have been found guilty of a very the headquarters of the Kuomintang has become exceedingly common now, and viewed by a representative of the Eastera serious offence, because pilfering of cargo Party in the French Concession. Inter- is very difficult indeed to detect There fore, when people are convicted of that News Agency, Dr. San stated that his serious notice of it. What makes the already been manifested in a proclama- offence the Court is bound to take very views concerning the situation had
he endeavoured to get an employee of parture for the north. offence of the first prisoner worse is that tion he issued in Canton prior to his de- the prosecutors to take part with him. Refering to the outcry raised against in this larceny. I sentence tap first his entrance into the Settlements of prisoner to three years' imprisonment Shanghai, Dr. Sun said in part:- and the second prisoner to two years'
"It is to be pointed out to those who and six months with burd labour, imprisonment, both attempted to oppose my presence here that Shanghai is China's territory, and that we, Chinese, are hosta and foreign residents our guests, receiving our hos- citizen of Chins, have every right to pitality. This being the case. 1, as a
reside in my territory, whereas foreign residents in this country, as our guests, have no authority whatever to oppose the presence in any part of China of their hosts.
A SHIPBUILDER HERBALIST.
undefended, elected to give evidena. He Le Tung: the first prisoner, who was made no reference to the alleged conver- A large concourse of the Chinese boat sations with the tallyman when the crime ng population listened to the proceed was said to have been arranged, but the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, ings throughout. The Secretary of merely declared that the junk was board. ed at Cheung Sha Wan by man who who attended during the hearing of the brought empty drums with them and that, as informed the press representatives these men
pilfered
that special measures will be taken to the cargo. (Earlier evidence had been to the
ensure that the Chief Justice's observa effect that the police were close by when tions are published widely in the varnaca- the juak reached Cheung Sha Wan and
iar press. forthwith boarded her, whereupon those on board scattered, and the three drumas were found emptied.)
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FATAL QUARREL OVER THREE CENTS.
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***II, therefore, foreigners should dare to oppose or obstruct my presence in Bhanghai, I, with the support of my countrymen, am determined to take some drastic steps to deal with them. Be it remembered that we, Chinese people, are not to be trifled with so long as we dwell in our own territories.
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"TIME FOR ABROGAZION.**
MERCHANT ROBBED
OF $2,500. ···
A Chinese merchant named Wong Lai Kwong, of 49a, Caine Road, has reported to the Police that in an armed attack, be was robbed of $2,500. He stated that on Friday night three men, armed with re- volvers, stopped him on the stairs leading up to the Tsai Yick Club at Lee Yuen Street, East, searched him and took the money from an inside pocket.
HONGKONG IMPORT TRADE.
The following reports on the market are from the latest fortnightly ciroular issued by the Hongkong General Chami- ber of Commerco:-
Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods. Since last reporting, small sales of Grey Shirtings have been effected. White Shirtings still remain neglected. Mr. Jenkin asked the prisoner if Ho
Forward sales of Fancies including Phiz Fai was on the junk and he said “No.”
Poplins and Dyed Twills are mentioned Mr. Jenkin then proceeded to set forth
but aggregate quantity of all descrip Ho Fai's defence, which, he said, might As a sequel to a gambling quarrel at
tions is negligible. "Latest Cotton quota, appear to the jury cock and bull No. 75, Bulkeley Street, Mr. E. W. Hamil
tions received are those from Liverpool atory. It was possible, he said, for ton held an inquiry at the Kowloon them to take the view that the story had Magistracy on Friday afternoon into the Foreign Settlements in our
Indeed, the time has come when all of 19th instant-Mid. Am "Spot" 13.85
-Egyptians Bakellarides 26d. been concocted for the purpose of meet death of a paintscraper named Eu Choi should be abrogated. Should the retroing bas prevailed here and a limited busi Country Cotton Yaru.-A somewhat better feel- ing the charge, in the period since pro-It was stated that a dispute arose over cession by the Powers concerned of their mess was put through at previous rates. were begun. Therefore it was three ceata which a man named Chung concessions in China be delayed any Market has steadied up and continues interesting to how that, when arrested, Tung lost, whereupon the latter longer, I am afraid that some unhappy Market beby with Shangbai. Yaro Ho Far told the sergeant that he wasdeceased and a second man also hit him. in Cheung Sha Wan for the purpose of
insident will happen, for every Chinese getting certain herbs from a shipbuilding caused by blows struck by Chung and that China has already been infringed No. 128 8230/240; No. 168 $240/245; No. The Coroner found that death was patriotic citizen has come falls to realize and prices have advanced $1 to $2 per bale." Quotations are:-No. 103 $225/239; Jard
another man, and said he would issue upon by some of the Powers long enough 20s: $230/245. Arrivals: 750 hales. Ship --so long that she can no longer tolerate menis nil. Unsold stock: 4,400 bales. such a state of affairs.
Bargains: 2,000 bales.
HONGKONG PHILHARMONIC
SOCIETY.
"THE YEOMEN
Ho Fai then gave evidence denying all warrants for their arrest. complicity and denying presence on the junk. He went from Yaumati to Cheung Sha Wan that morning to get herbs from shipbuilder who had a reputation as a barbalist. He wanted the herba for a friend's wife The shipbuilder herbalist was out and he walked along the road to- wards where the man's wife said he had gone. He heard a man running after him, looked round, and saw 0, 4 who acrosted him. He knew the No.: tally- rust in this case and had quarrelled with him over a woman
Cross examined: The policeman did comment on his exhausted state. He
GUARD.”
THE
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Raw Cottons.-There is no change to
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"Accordingly, I am, as I have always
Woollens. With cooler weather clear- done, doing my utmost to accomplish the cherished, fervent desire of the Chinese ances have improved, though they will people in order to do my service to the have to be much better if there is not country.
and with this end in view, I will to be a considerable carry over. There still continue my every possible effort
have been a fow enquiries for June July for the sake not only of our nation but of shipment though we have not heard of the foreigners residing in Chips as well, saything but very small lines. Booking for the opera "The Yeomen of the good-will and friendship of the Chin-report
because of the fact that it is by winning. the Guard' opens at Andersons this ese people at large that foreign trade
Metals Market quiet. A little more morning.
measurable with China can eventually reap menquiry but no transactions reported. Aency.
profita Ea
-Eastern News Flour-Stock: About 1,400,000. Mar-
Mahal ket quiet, When questioned as to the accuracy
Window small rates reported at said that the contents and ideas were
Sugar-Market dull at reduced rates, correctly stated, although the English Saltpetra-Stock 7,000 bags. Strong version, is a translation from Chinese demands forthcoming at tempting rates characters.
froni Pakboi and Kwong Chow Wan
The production will represent the first attempt to present English light opera in Hongkong since the production of
(prisoner) in reply ascribed it to his The Gondoliers" in 1912, and Where can of this interview a friend of Dr. Sun 18.20. Market closed weak long walk
Mr. Jenkin (sympathetically);. I see be no doubt in the mind of any one who you are coughing this afternoon. Have has seen the rehearsals that the coming you suffered from chost trouble?
The Prisoner: No.
presentation will maintain the best tradi tions of amateur art on the stage.
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