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KUOMINTANG CENTRAL

EXECUTIVE.

ANOTHER MEETING NEXT

GOODS.

A HONGKONG TRAGEDY. OFFICE BOY MUTILATED IN BED.

ANOTHER BOY" MISSING.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 29TH.

early hours of yesterday morning, when in NO INTERFERENCE WITH FRENCH small back room, which forms part of the office suite of the China Commercial Company, No. 16, Connaught Road, Con- tral, an office "boy" sleeping there was discovered to have been foutly murdered in his bed.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] The Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, which met last May 15th in

session next month, at the request of some of the members. This Committee is the highest authority in the party.

The Kuomintang inistry of Foreign Affairs in Canton has directed the local authorities in Pakhol and other ports to instruct the Strike Committee pickets not to interfere with French trade and the

The room in which the man's body was

floor of the four-storey building that is, in part, occupied by the British American Tobacco Company.

The crine was committed, it is sur

In December, prisoner cama down to SEQUEL TO BANKRUPTCY.

$15,000, and the prospective buyers went CHINESE ARRAIGNED ON SERIOUS up to $10,000. Eventually they came to

CHARGES.

ALLEGED PERJURY.

terms for $12,500. It was only then that the prisoner said that he had a partner in Canton. Later, he said this parti cular partner had no interest in the Arm Färgedeum of

Judge) at the Criminal Sessions yer-money. Prisoner also told witness that terday, Chan Sui Lin, managing-partner he was only indebted to Jardine's

A BOMBSHELL of the Wing Shing Shun śrm, was

Replying to Mr. Jonkin, witness snid charged on three indictments, each con-

he was responsible for all the bad debts. corning alleged false statements in regard to the affairs of the business

owed to Mears Jardine. He agreed.

He was, fretly, charged with having

Canton is to have an extraordinary found is situated in the rear of the first made certain false statements to the that at the end of 1025 debts of Chinese | Official Receiver after a receiving order merchants to Jardine's aggregated be- He was active in getting these debts had been made against him. He is tween, forty and fifty thousand dollara.. alleged to have stated that he was not

'cleared. Witness knew that prisoner's a partner in the business; that cein

firm was in a bad way, but the bank- account books had beca, destroyed by white ants, and that certain payments ruptes proceedings came as a bombshell Sixteen to him. He agreed that that he had threatened prisoner with bankruptcy if and deposits had been made.

the debt to Jardine's was not paid; 7 suck items were referred to.

The second indictment, allcged perjury

MR. JENKIN'S CONTENTION. in an affidavit sworn before the Commis

Mr. E. L. Agassiz who was acting sioner and Official Receiver. ferred to material questions relating to Official Receiver in the early part of this the debts of the firm, that indictment year, said that a creditor's petition stating that be wilfully, knowingly and against the Wing Shing Shan firm was falsely declared to be true, certain debts fled in February. He went on to talk owing which were as set out, amounting of a creditor's meeting and was about

movement of French merchants.

AMERICAN PIÈCE GOODS, The Tai Sung Yuan Firm of Taiping. Road, Canton, complained to the Canton Merchants' Association that the Canton Strike Committee pickats seized a con- signment of American pioce-goods intend ed for them. The firm ask the Merchants' Association to advise the pickets that goods from the United States should not bo judged "imperialist."

mised, in the early hours of the morning, although two other office boys, sleep ing in rooms opposite to the one occupied by the dead man, state that they heard nothing unusual during the night."."

The body was not discovered until preparations were made by those on the premises to open the office. When the 100m as entered the body was found lying on a canvas folding-up bed. Blood from what appeared to be stab wounds had saturated the bed clothes and stained the floor. A trail of blood from the roomto $88,000. to the passage first attracted the atten- tion of the other two office boys," and after entering the room, the door of which was shut but not locked, they found the body, covered with a quilt, which had been weighted downt

KUOMINTANG PROGRAMME

The Manager of the China Commercial Members of the Kuomintang deny the ramours spread, it is said, by their op- Company was summoned by telephone. ponents that they intend to disarm the about nine o'clock, and he in turn com remnants of the people's and merchants'municated with the police.

Chief Defective Inspector T. Murphy, corps in the districts or to press coolies

with other detectives, was soon on the iuto war transportation work. The Kuo-1 ruintang, according to their own, pre-premises. The room presented a scene of gramme, desire simply to organise the much disorder, and it was evident that labour and farmers' co-ps as a reserve a very desperate struggle had taken place and to use the people's and merchants before the murdered man was inally militia as police during the absence of overcome by bis assailant. The cubicle, troops at the front. Coolies will be little less than ten feet square and the in which the crime was comfitted, is z gaged, when required, at regular wages.

few articles of furniture in it were strewn about in confusion, and papers. desk littered the door.

a

PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE. The next Chairman of the Kuomin- tang propaganda committee may be a woman, Mrs. Liao Chung Hoi, widow of the late Kuomintang labour lender. Mrs. Liao and Kan Nei Kuang, Tan Yen Kai, Tang Yin Tet, and Koo Man Tu have been nominated as the propaganda-com-

mittee.

from a

The body of the murdered man, which was terribly mutilated and bore several wounds, was removed to the Mortuary.

The only weapon discovered by the police, which it is thought may have been used to commit the crime, vas an instru- ment which is used generally for the pur pose of prizing open packing cases and

such articles.

A fourth office "boy," who usually slept on the same foor, was found to be missing from his post. Efforts are being made to trace him, and his description has been circulated.

This re-

The third indictment also concerned alleged faise statements, made, on oath and relating to the debts of the firm.

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith (the Acting Crown Solicitor) prosecuted, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin defended:

"A ONE MAN SHOW." "Outlining the case for the Crown, Whyte Smith said that in the first charge the Crown alleged that" prisoner had orally made false statements to Mr. E. Agassiz, the Oficial Receiver on April 14th, 16th and 17th The second and third charges were alternative counts, and prisoner could cat be found guilty

GOODS FROM SHANGHAL Chinese merchants in Shanghai have been informed by the Kuomintang in Canton that they may continue to forward An examination was made of articles goods to Canton without fear of their of likely value on the premises, but all being stolen by culprits misrepresenting were found to be intact.

As robbery was evidently not the motive themselves as strike pickets or Kuomin for the crime, it is thought by the police tang inspectors boarding incoming yes that the unfortunate man was murdered sela. For many months, it is said, im by an unknown enemy who had a grudge was very reluctant to do so.

against him porters in Canton found their goods under-weight on receipt; and for a time the shipping companies were held respon sible-for-the-losses,

ALLEGED CHANGE OF FRONT

....

to deal with statements made by the prisoner through an interpreter.

Mr. Jenkin objected, and urged that statements made before the official state. ment of affairs came into existence could not be admitted as evidence. If any statement, made at any time in relation to his business affairs was admitted as evidence, where would they draw the line? He submitted that the Ordinance confined itself to the statement of affairs which was prepared in accordance with the schedule.....

Mr. Whyte-Smith suggested that a much wider interpretation should be put

on the section quoted by Mr. Jenkin.

Mr. Jenkin in reply to his Honour, said there were no cases in point. One case allowed the admission of a statement made on oath in the public examination, but that was after the making of the official statergent of affairs.

Hie Honour said he had not considered the point before going into Court and he adjourned until the afternoon.

THE RULING..

or both. They referred to a statement He relied on the words "against whom

the Official Receiver on April 17th...... of affairs sworn by the prisoner before & Receiving Order has been made." The statement of affairs as prescribed by the Prisoner carried on business in the schedule would not be the only one after Wing Shing Shun Arm, sandalwood the Receiving Order had been granted. dealers, of 50 Shing Street. Mr. Ho Leung, the compradore of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., would be called as a witness and he would say that he had done business with prisoner for many ears. About November last, he found. out that the business was in a bad way He had always understood that the busi- ness was a "one man show," and that prisoner was the sole proprietor: He

At the afternoon hearing, His Lordship never knew of any other partner being interested in it. Prisoner owed Jardine's said that in his view the local ordinance between $4,000 and $5,000, and the com- which differed slightly from the Homs pradore desired to secure repayment. He Act, intended to include any mis-state- suggested to prisoner that he should sell ment relating to the affaire of a debtor, the goodwill of the business, but he whether those statements were included He told in the statement of affairs or not. If Mr. Ho that there were no other debts any mis-statement was a proper subject excepting that owed to Jardine's. Even matter for an indictment which was made THE SAMPAN TRAGEDY.

tually prisoner was persuaded to sell the to any person who had the right to re- SHOT BY A POLICE CONSTABLE. business and 819,000 wa paid. The quire such statements, then such mis- Lagreement for the talu was executed on statements ere-relevant. He therefore, MEDICAL STUDENTS STRIKE......... CORONER'S ENQUIRY CONTINUED. December 31st, 1925.

ruled against Mr Jenkin The students of the Kwong Wah Medi-

Replying to Mr. Jenkin, Mr. Agassiz The enquiry concerning the death of a cal College, one of the first schools in

said that the accused signed the state- Chinese pig dealer, named Lam Cheung Canton to teach the use of Western Lan, who was shot dead while in a sam- Prior to the execution of the agreements in his presence. Witness bad some medicine under a faculty composed of pan on the night of Friday, June 18th, ment, continued Mr. Whyte-Smith, pris doubt at first that the statement of debts Chinese who have received Western by a Chinese police constable, was con- medical degrees, are still on strike. The tinued at the Central Magistracy yester oner had always held himself cut as being was false. He believed them to be so, day afternoon by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the sole proprietor, but after the agree after he had heard the caso at the Magis trustees of the College have refused to sitting as Coroner with a jury. grant their request to remove the present It will be recalled that evidence given ment was executed, prisoner stated that tracy. The receiving order, he said, was at the opening of the enquiry showed there were two or three sleeping partners de long before the allegations arose dean of the faculty.

that Lam Cheung Lan arrived in Hong in Canton. He complied with the law, Witness had made no attempt to find the korg on the afternoon of the 18th inst. and the solicitors engaged in the trans creditors mentioned by the debtor. with a cargo of pigs for a local Chinese action Messrs: Lo & Lo advised the sale in the Government Gazette. This woke frm. He went ashore with a companion, raturaing in the evening to the Pray up the sleeping partners and several West (between Centre Street and Eastern other creditors Street) in company with the same man On February 4th a petition in bahk and his younger brother, together with ruptcy was filed by one of the creditors. two fukis carrying four kerosine tits On February 10th an interim receiving containing pig-wash. This was put into order was granted, and shortly after sampan, and the brothers also embark wards the Official Receiver took passes ed in the boat to proceed to their funksion of the firm's books. The Crown was DID NOT KNOW HE HAD BEEN The sampan failed to stop when ebal alleging that the books were not the

His Lordship asked if the books con lenged by the constable, who discharged genuine books of the firm. On March SHOT.

several shots at it, one of which hit and 30th a receiving order was grantedtradicted the statement of affairs. killed the pig dealer.

BET OF PEOPLE.

Mr. Whyte Smith said that it was not In connection with the shooting, in Des Chinese firm, to whom the pigs were con- and on that day and the 16th were not the genuine books of the forin

Yesterday, the accountant of the On April oss of creditors so, but the Crown were alleging that they Vieux Road on Donday night, outgrred, gave evidence of the visit of the Chinese of suspicious character, it will deceased, and his brother to the firm's and 17th, the prisoner on being inter. In regard to Mr. Jenkin's questioning be recalled that another Chinese was premises, and of them leaving with fokis rogated by the Official Receiver made the interpreter is to whether he had been

his intention was.. with pig-wash for their junk. Later that statements, which the Crown alleged to be sworn, His Lordship asked Counsel what

false admitted to the Government Civil Rosnight, he was informed of the shooting

Mr. Jenkin said that he would later The Crown further alleged that pris- utal suffering frou a bullet wound in the and made a report to the police.

The accountant said that one of his var modo tales statements in regard to submit that his client had not been law. thigh

Jakie acted as interpreter between him deposita stated to have been made with fully sworn at all It was thought that this man might and the younger brother of the dead man, the firm by various people outside. The Rossibly be one of the three men who who spoke a different dialect from wit belted when the Chinese detective cameness, and who made the report of the

shooting to witress- Billed. It has be to grips with the man been established, however, following in- vestigation by the police that this man was merely a bystander of edestrian and was in no way connected with the affair.

The curious thing about the accidental abooting of this man, however, is that the man walked for some time before he discovered he had been hit by a bullet He discovered that he had been wounded by noticing some flood trickling from his leg. He went to the hospital of his own Decord to receive attention. His wound 13 not serious.

SUNDAY NIGHT'S SHOOTING INCIDENT

WOUNDED MAN MERELY A PEDESTRIAN."

books showed deposits nouating to 269,000. The Crown did not allege that

Tsang Koon Fa, a interpreter at the Official Receiver's Office, deposed to having interpreted between Mr Agassiz

statement of affairs. and accused when the latter made his

Replying to Mr. Jenkin witness said that he swore some kind of oath fourteen years ago, before Mr. Orme, when he be tame an interpreter for the first time. Witness was handed the firm's books by

the accused

..

PRINCIPAL WITNESS ABSENT. At this stage, Mr. Whyte-Smith said "all these people were fictitious, but it that he regretted that he could not call did allege that the debts wete. More-Chan Ching Fong, the principal witness over, these creditors had proved to be in the case, as he could not find him, Hộ peculiarly elusive, set of people. asked permission to read the evidence he

had given at the Magistracy.

Hu Lordship Where is het

THE DEBT TO JARDINES

A SET OF LIARS. When the foki in question was put into the witness-box he denied that he acted interpreter and said that he did not

Mr Ho Leung, compradore of MERETE receive a report of the shooting from the younger brother and tell the accountant Jardine, Matheson & Co., was the first what it was Neither did he hear any witness called for the prosecution.

He spoke of having, known prisoner shooting, shouting or blowing of whistles

Mr Whyte-Smith: We believe him to be in Canton,

Mr. Jenkin: You must prove that--- Mr Whyte-Smith then called Sergt. on the Praya, ta be left before the for many years, and to having trans Meadows, who said he had made inquiries brothers had gabarked on the sampan for acted a great deal of business with him, concerning the witness at an address in their junk

In November last, prisoner owed Messrs. Connaught Road West. He was known Jardine between four and five thousand to the people, at the house, but they did dollars. His business was bad and the not know-his-whereabouts only hope of bic paying the debt was by Mr. Jenkin remarked that it was very selling the goodwill of the busines. Atunstisfactory

At this stage, the case was adjourned first he wanted about $30,000, but two friends of witness'a offered him 35,000. until to-day.

Mr. Lindsell, in view of the foki's denial of acting as interpreter, remarked that the accountant and the foll were

fing set of liars."

After further evidence the enquiry was adjourned until this afternoon,

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