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1927.

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STORY,

MORBID WOMEN LEAVE. THE

COUNT.

When the Castle Peak marder case was resumed yseterday after noon at the Central Magistracy be fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the Court raom was packed Inrgely with smartly dressed Chinese Indies, and as the little mat fani unfolded her,

in the deck. story, attention centreil 'on the man Some of the fadies made a hasty exit when a basketfal of exhibits was put in by the pro- sectition. The exhibits were the

off the deceased. And, as the In- trousers, jackets and girdle taken spector lifted them ap piece by

KOWLOON MÜRDER TRIAL.

SECOND DEFENDANT AT CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

POLICE AND TREATMENT OF

PRISONER.

SOLDIER'S EXTRAORDI-

NARY.CONDUCT,

ENTERS - - HÕUSE ·AND- SEARCHES CHINESE.

SUSPECTED THEM OF HAVING

A REVOLVER,

At the Criminal Sessions at the Supreme Court yesterday, before

As a sequel to entering No. 139,` the acting Chief Justion (Mr. Canton Road, on Saturday, starch- Justice J. R. Wood) and a jury, the ing the inmates and refusing to trial opened of Leung Cang who is leave the premises until the arrival accused of the murder of a Chinese of the Police, Private Phillip woman at Chuck On village, Kowloon Henry Moore, aged 21, of the 2nd City, on April 6th. Another man Bain, the Welch Regiment, was who was charged in connection with charged before Mr. W. Schofield st "this murder appeared" at thethe Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Sessions last werk, and was dis with disorderly conduct, searching charged,

a Chinese tally elork, and alter- natively with assaulting the com- plainant.

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy was for the Crown, and Mr. H. S. Lo for the prisoner.

huils. These super-marine Napier The Canton police are employing craft are to be stationed at the new many more men now to patrol the air base at Singapore, and will be West Bund, the landing place, of flown out there by way of France, most of the Hong Kong-Canton down the Mediterranean, across the boals. Pickets are still trying to

Sugz Canal, round India, giving

The defendant said that he prevent Chinese from going on to demonstrations at various points,

Outlining the case, Mr. Fitzroy searched the defendant so as to the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Singapore and the Dutch East

said the murdered woman was the make sure that he was safe to enter Steamboat Company's vessels but Indies, round. Australia, then back picée for identification, the atmos concubine of a dairy owner who the house.

Divisional Inspector Aris point so far they have used no violence to Singapore. Each bont will be Phero in the Court room was made had his premises. at Chuk 'Un |

almost intenable. Handkerchiefs village. His concubine lived in aed out to his Worship that the de- and, as a consequence, the Police driven by two. Napier engines, were brought at once into contact matshed near the dairy premises. fendant had no right whatever to

have not considered it necessary to interfere,

For the past few days not, only

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The men also had a kit fat wife living at Tsai Po and on April 6th

the man visited her. -

enter the house nor had he any authority to search the occupants.

The Inspector said that at 10.30 p.m. on Saturday the complainant and a foks were returning to their residence in rickshas. They were asked by the defendant where they were going, and they replied that they were going home.

totaling 1,000-horsepower, and will with the hose, and as the day was be able to fly on one engine alone.a sultry one many of the audience Commander L. A. W. Spooner, went out into the compound for n

He was awakened after retiring Canton, but also in Swatow. who last served afloat in command change of air.

The 12-year old mui tegi con for the night, and, returning to the incoming passengers from Shanghai of the Petersfield, tender to the flag- tinued her story of the previons dairy, found his concubine lying in and Hong Kong have been very ship Hawkins, in China, was to hearing. She said that after the jured on her bed. The woman was closely watched. This is due to the join the department of the Director disappearance of her mistress, she taken to the Kwong Wah, Hospital and died later. The prisoner was rumours, which still persist, that of Naval Ordinance on June 1st for

"taken into custody by the police.

The defendant followed them the HankowReds" are taking duty. Commander Spooner served

Sub-Inspector Dorling, "in" evi- into the house where there were action to seize again the control in during the first year of the war

once, said that he received certain three others. He searched the com- Kwangtung.

in command of the gunboat, Pro-gather some peaches. She had been information early in the morningplainant and his friends, and when Canton agitators have been instrctur, gunnery training ship in shown a pair of trousers which had of April 7th and in consequence queried he replied that he suspected | formed by their friends in Swatow the Australian Navy. From May, nised them as the pair deconso arrested the prisoner. When ex- that after Jnly 1st no more Japanese 1915, he was gunnery officer of the goods or goods arriving in Japanese monitor Abercrombie, and from ships will be unloaded in Swatow..

June, 1917, of the cruiser Caledon,

It is said that some of the mero-flagship of Rear-Admiral Waltor bers of the Kuomintang Ministry of Cowan in the Grand Fleet.. Finance in Canton were able to get away with a sum of $1,185,000. in Central Bank of China notes.

Not much actual loss is feared be-

AN EARLY MORNING CHASE.

She returned to Castle Peak on one was taken to Cheung Sha Wan.

occasion when the defendant, her master, took her there to help him

been dug out of a pond and recog. had worn on the day she disappear ed. She also recognised the other clothing produced in Court.

visited 593, Shanghai Street, and them of having. a revolver,

amined he found the man to have nine scratches on his shin.

During the afternoon hearing

In answer to the Magistrate,

After she had discovered the various witnesses were tendered by This man proceed the complainant!

the Crown and were cross-examined at longth by Mr. Lo.

dead body of her mistress' in à basket, she was afraid to tell any- one, but some days later, she told. her story to a girl friend.

Cross-examined by Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, who is appearing for the defence, sho said that on that

enuse the Ministry of Finance has SUSPICIOUS CONDUCT AND eventful morning when she was sent

A SHARP FIRE.

out to colleet fr cones, the defend- ant did not go with her. She went with the eldest child of the deceas

announced that 'bank notes of a

certain issue number are mull änd

The alertness of a Chinese detec void and will not be redeemed. Live led to the appearance in Courbed. But about an hour later, the This is all very well for the Ministry at the Central Magistracy yester but it may mean considerable in day, before Major U. Willson, of a Chinese charged with others, not convenienee for the general public

in custody, with assembling to as, after a certain period, no one gether without lawful excuBO. remembers which note numbers are. According to the evidence, the

good and which are bad. In any country with a stable government and well-conducted public offices the gigantic loss in bank-notes would create a sensation and the facts

would be featured in all the news papers. Not so in Canton. Bank notes cost little to print and as they can easily be declared void, very little importance is attached to the matter.

The Information Bureau of the Kuomintang Ministry of Foreign Affairs, founded several months ago to issue statements in English to the forgiga press

on affairs in Canton, is to be abolished early next month. Future activities of this character will be undertakert.by the Foreign Office in Nanking.

The Soristy for the Promotion of

an Anti-Japanese Boycott is having another meeting this afternoon Several organizations in Canton - have announced their intention of ¦

Chinese detective was on patrol duty in Aberdeen Street on June 22nd, and noticed a man climbing up a scaffolding, while he niso saw two other men at the foot of the scaffolding. Guessing that

some-

defendant and his youngest child joined her. When they were driveti back to the house by a rain storm she found the house was locked. They sheltered on the porch, and the defendant made no attempt to open the door. She was sent out to buy some cakes, and when she returned, she found the house open, and the defendant was in the cook-house.

Child's Bitter's Crying. When asked what made her thing .contrary to the law was search for her mistress, the little planned, as it was in the carly girl said that she had overheard her hours of the morning, the defective mistress telling the neighbours that kept watch, but was apparently her husband wanted to kill her. noticed by the three men, for the She also had her suspicions on that climber descended, and then the day. When she was out gathering three men separated, each running air cones on the hill-side, she heard away in a different direction to the the youngest child of the fantils others..

crying in the house. The child, she said, was in the habit of crying,

The detective chased the accused,

who made for Gough Street, where but not so bitterly as she heard he stumbled and fell, cutting his him on the hill-side an that parti head, which necessitated his recular morning.

moval to the Government Civil. Hospital. He was discharged yes terday and on his appearance in Court he was fined $50, or оде month's hard labour in default.

ELECTROCUTED BY A FAN.

INQUEST HELD YESTERDAY.

The reason why she had confided what she had discovered to her girl friend was that the girl was discretion itself." "She would not broadcast what I had told her, and I was not afraid that others might come to know," said the

maid:

Asked by the Magistrate why the deceased should have worn so many

Yesterday at the Central Magis-irs of trousers, the mud tai said tracy, Major C. Willson, assisted that her mistress was in the habit following the examples of the stove by a jury, held an enquiry into the of wearing five pairs of trousers in the winter, and on the day she was murdered she had three pairs

on:

Man Who Searched For The Reward Evidence was also given by

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Moors said that he had followed a man of whom he had been sus- picious of carrying a revolver.

into No. 139, Canton Road, and on entering, the defendant sourched Striking Prisoner Denied.

the complainant as a precaution. Replying tay an! question

His Worship imposed a fine of Chinese constable denied that lies20, or fourteen days' imprison- struck the prisoner. at Kowloon

ment in default. City Police Station, and also denied tried to force prisoner to say ger that he, together with two others,

tain things. He did not see anyone, also strike prisoner.

The case was concluded for the. the Court for the defence, the case Crown, and-Mr. Lo-then-addressed.

the hearing today, when it will ultimately being adjourned for fur-

conclude.

WHITFIELD BARRACKS MURDER MYSTERY.

RETURN OF WILBUR

PLAYERS..

"ALIAS" THE ̄ ̄DEACON."-

AT THE STAR THEATRE ON SUNDAY.

"Alias the Deacon," the playi that ran for 250 nights at the Hudson Theatre, New York, and which has enjoyed long runs in all the principal cities of the United WHO SHOT INDIAN OFFICER States, will be the opening bill of the Wilbur Players at the Star Theatre on Sunday next July 3rd for two nights only.

NO, MOTIVE FOR CRIME.

The murder of Jemndar Gurmukh

-We are told that the play grips the interest from the out logue that takes place in a box Bet. It has ar uriusual pro car travelling across country, and

ia.

Singh, of the Indian Army Supply Transport, at Whitfield Barracks early on Saturday morning, remains a complete mystery.

the locale of the play then moves to Further investigations showed in, the throes of the blue law. a small American city which is that the Officer must have been shot element. The "Deacon lands from a distance of about four feet there seeking to sanctify the town by a 45 calibre Webley. It was

and fleece the populace at the same time at the poker table. also learned that the murdered Jemadar was on friendly terms with the men under his command, and no possible motive could be suggest ed for the crime,

.

The mystery is deepened by the fact that the shot was not heard by anyone. There were others sleeping on the verandah and only a few

feet away, from the stene of the

seen in the title role and it is one of Mr. N Anthony Baker will be

Printy will be seen as the "hobo his beat characterizations. Florence girl and Miss Florence Underhill as Mrs. Clarke the proprietress of will take the part of Willie her the local hotel, Miss Tove Lindan

Alias the Deacon " is now playing it's fortieth week in the Playhouse Hollywood. It has been

filmed and will soon be presented to

tragedy. A sentry was also on duty movie fans of Hong Kong. in the near vicinity."

Booking is now open at the theatre and at Moutrie's,

Other plays given by the Com- "The pony will be Spooks," Вовагу,

The

Whole Town's Talking," "Her Unborn Child and Rain."

A stablo guard said that he be lieved he had beard a shot fired, but there is considerable doubt to whether he really did so.

No arrests habé Béén mađe,

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and

as far as could be ascertained no- thing was stolen from the Officer's property, so robbery was not the motive.

dores in, having nothing to do with death of a Chinese youth, aged 18. Japanese goods and shipping frem It transpired from the evidence July 1st. Contributions towards the that the deceased who reside at boycott fund include 8750 from the 42 Des Voeux Road Central, met local Kuomintang. Several Japanese his death by electrocution on June gunboats are on their way from 16th at about 1 p.m. He went into Chinese who found the body. He PHILIPPINES EARTHQUAKES Tientsin to Canton.

the kitchen to tako a bath bringing said he was out of employment and

TWO SHOCKS AT BAGUIO. Yesterday, afternoon the Kinshan un electric fan with him. He was lured on by the reward offer- brought from Canton 10 European placed the fan near the water taped by the Police for the discovery

Two slight earthquakes were felt of the body. After digging the hill at Baguio, one at 0.40 p.m. on and 8 Chinesd. The Lungshan ar- and while in his bath, his left hand side just at the back of defendant's June 17th, and the other at 8.05 rived in the evening with about 20 came into contact with tho fan. house, he was attracted to a spot. on June 18th. The shocks were The The fun when examined by Chief by a sunken patch which appeared considerably slighter than the one passengers from Hong Kong, are Inspector Clarke, an olesctrian of to have been recently made. He last month.

borrowed a spade and after digging An earthquake was registered by still being set on by the pickets and the P.W.D., was found to have de-a bit, he found the head. That was the Manila observatory at 8.57 .m. having their clothes marked with fectivo insulation. It was a 110 enough for him and he rushed off on Saturday, believed to bo the terme of abuse. Cargo is being volts. fan but had been re-wound to to the Police with the information,

samo one reported from Baguio. The dock was felt over most of the carried as usual but the position as 200 volts.

northern provinces and its centre regards passenger traffic is unchang-

is believed to have been about 500 kilometres from Manila.

Chinese and 7 Europeans.

ed.

After evidence of arrest and identification of the body had been The jury returned a verdict of given, the case was remanded until accidental death.

to-morrow afternoon.

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