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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1927.

THE CHAI WAN MURDER.

TRIAL OPENS AT SUPREME COURT.

SEQUEL TO BRUTAL ATTACK ON MRS; MACKAY,

CROWN CASE AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL

EVIDENCE.

Much interest will be centred on the Supreme Court during the next few days where two Chinese are being tried for the murder of Mrs. Rose Mackay, on August 8th, at Chai Wan' Road. The trial opened at the resumed Criminal Sessions yesterday morning, before the neting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) and the following jury: Messra. W. J. Morris (loreman). B: Stendall, J. O. McLaggan, G. Wragge, D. R. Kinloch, Lee Chung Chu and P. E. Basketti

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy is conducting the case for the Crown, and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, has charge of the defence,

Mrs. Mackay, it will be recalled, was attacked on her way home to Taikoo in company with her young newphew, Walter- Eckbert, and fatally stabbed,

The Crown are depending upon circumstantial evidence, but bloodstains on the prisoners' clothing, and the finding on one of the prisoner's of a win half of a forged,mote which Mrs. Mackay had and in her possession before the crime, are some of the points upon which stress is laid.

CASE FOR THE CROWN.

The time then seemed to be about

In the course of lengthy apen-eight o'clock in the evening. The ing of the Crown case. Mr. Fitzroy nephew ran for assistance, and met emphasised that although the pro- secution relied upon circumstantial evidence, he would point out to the jury the old adage You may lie, but circumstances, never." This was of the utmost importance to the jury in arriving at their

verdict."

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FALL OF HIS OWN WEIGHT.

SIR ROBERT HART'S STATUE.

PREPARING FOR ERECTION.

IN FRONT OF THE NEW CUSTOMS HOUSE.

"Those who have, noted the matshed

section of the Bund directly in which has been erected over a small

a Mr. Davidson, who tried to tele-been removed to the first floor, the CHANG TSO LIN'S OPINION. phone for assistance, but owing to lift at the far end of the building the telephone being out of order opening directly to it. In this caso this could not be obtained. The also, the change has proved desir-that there is no necessity for the Dictator Chang Tso Lin" believes matter was reported to Shaukiwanable, and the general arrangement Polfer Station ne nine o'clock, sad of the Department allows for a most Ankuochun to take positive fllitary front of the new Customs House-in

was significant, in view of one attractive display of both fa-niture action against Marshal Feng Yu

of the prisoner's statements, that

at that time only the boy, Mr. and farnishing fabrics." Mr. Fitzroy put in maps of the Davidson, the daughter Miss Kath- locality and photographs, includ-leen Mackay, and the police knew ing some of the path along which of the affair. Mrs. Mackay met her death. 1. When assistance arrived on the One photograph was of the second scene it was found that Mrs. Mac prisoner, showing a cut ja his right

kay was dead. hood. That was important. Mr. Fitzroy commented, because ho

Shanghai and midway between this

Hsinng or the Nationalists on the and the new Customs' Examination Tientsin-Pukow railway. He takes Shed will have surmised that the the-stand that the imperative need spot marks the new home of Sir of the moment is to consolidate the Robert Hart's statue which will be position of the Ankuochun and in-unveiled at the same time the Prove governmental administration. Customs House is inaugurated, This is the gist of" an interview says the North" China Daily News.

About the middle of December is with a confidential adviser of the

Shih Pao.

and the architects alike for the

would later ask the jurors to any out of the district, and in a side. Mackay's hand-bag, Mr. Fitzroy dictator quoted in the Shun Tien the date given by Castanis officials

that the band that rifled Mra Mackay's handbag was bleeding at the time, because of bloodstains which were found inside the bag, and the total lack of such stains on the outside..

The majority of the evidence, which would be adduced, would be of a circumstantial nature, as the nephew, who was with Mrs. Mackay at the time, did not seem to have

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the house at the time, and she took a certain amount of money from a drawer and placed it in her bag.,

Her nephew was carrying a amail rattan brake, which contained bathing costumes and towels.

They took a tram, and later walk ed down the path leading to Cui Wan, where they visited à certain Mrs. Barker. There they stayed until darkness began to set in, when they decided to return home. ACCOSTED AND ATTACKED. The path along which they were walking, was intercepted by steps, and just before they arrived at the steps two Chinese passed them, walking in the opposite direction.

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POLICE SEARCH, The police made a thorough comb lane, they found three 810 notes, three 25 notes, and one 81 note, all of which, with the exception of two of the 810 notes, bore blood- stains.".

The trousers of the second pri. soner bare fairly fresh stains of human blood, and in his possession was found a bloodstained ten cant piece.

On the question of blood on Mrs.

commented that Inspector Lanc would say that on August 7th, the second prisoner had a wound on his hand which was supurating, His voluntary explanation was that This resulted in a closer search" He had cut himself." of the path, with the result that they found a coupon for five conts,

Dr. Cannon, who had examined issued by the Wing On Co., and such as might have been caused

the wound would say, it was jus half of a forged 81 note.

The corresponding half of that by knife blade in delivering

blow with the knife firmly grasped.

of the first prisoner.

hand.

were cut into two pieces by Mrs. The prisoners had agreed that Mackay herself, to prevent, their they were together that evening becoming mixed up with good but in their statements denied the

that murder, saying c'clock, when the first prisoner was playing Tin Kau, the second pri- uner came in and they went out to

money.

Mrs. Mackay was in the habit of dealing with the Wing On Co., and after her death a bill was found

dated August 8th for the purchase of a rest and hair slide.

With that bill was issued a five cent coupon, and that was the cou pon which was picked up after the

and had been taken from the bag when it was rifled.

The prisoners were arrested on the next day in Kam Wah Street, Shaukiwan at seven o'clock in the evening.

It

The high Chinese official said Marshal Chang believed that the collapse of Marshal Fezy is a mere question of time.

opening of the new building. By that time is is expected that the the site. for Sir Robert Hart's atone paved island which will form

statue will have also have been com-. pleted. Mounted on this will be a` Nanking Crowd Taboo.

Seng Chi, the dictator thinks that tome House,

With regard to General Tanga granite pedestal of the same: material as the facade of the Cus-.

It will ensure 13 he can never co-operate with the feet high from its base to the base

bright.

be let alone so that be cannct

ONE ROBBER LESS.

agen anything that occurred be- note, was found in the possession The knife could not have been i military crowd at Nanking and that of the statue, which is eight feet in tween Mrs Mackay and her as

Two large new bronze sailants, owing to his having been Referring to the forged note, 3ir. very sharp, and the stab wounds sooner or later he will openly break panels, bearing inscriptions of Sir on the corpse could have been pushed into a nullah by one of the Fitzroy said that in July last year caused by the studente bet with them. Concerning Shansi it is Robert Hart's services to China and

a friend gave two such notes to the some. The Outlining the facts of the case, Mrs Mackay for a joke. They prisoner's hand might have been and that although. General Yen back on the pedestal. The bronze

wound on the the view of the Mukden high co- giving his distinctions and banor ary orders, will appear front and Mr. Fitzroy said that on Satur were known to be in her possession caused by the blade striking sonte Hai Shan has failed to respond to panels on the old pedestal of the day, August 8th, Mrs. Mackay, who because she had shows there to peo- thing hard, such as a rib, causing Mukden overtures for co-operation statue where it now stands on the was living with her husband at Tai-ple. Miss Kathleen Mackay would koo Dock, went with her nephew to tell the court that she had seen the the blade to slip through the against Marshal Feng is is in the Bund foreshore at the junction of interest of the Ankuochun to avoid the Bund and Kiukiang Road, will visit a friend Eving on Barker notes from time to time. They Island. There were workmen in

break with hin.

the sides of the new be placed on General Li Ching, Fang, one of the Shansi, delegates in Peking. edestal. The new panels, which declared in a Press interview that former ones are being made id are considerably larger than the General Yen Hsi Shan wishes to England at the present time, and accept the Mukden proposal to take the second, unveiling ceremony of are expected to arriye in time for tea together, after which they went against Marshal For the state to Chan Po's boat, where they spent lisiang. He added that it is the

Old Shanghai residents will re- policy of the Shansi Covernor to the night.

promate the success of the National collert that the original unveiling EVIDENCE.CALLED. revolution through peaceful meana ceremony took place ou the morn Expert evidence in connection and that if this cannot be realised ing of May 5th, 1914, when a large murder. It was stained with blood; with the maps and photographs was by the Mukden authorities the only gathering appeared on the Bund

then called."

hope is to let time prove the wis to do honours to the occasion and aailars from the various men-of-war Dr. E. P. Minett, the Govern-dom of this course.

in the river lined up along the meat bacteriologist, giving evid Mistake About Flag blood on trousers taken from both that Governor Yen proposes to dis-

enclosure of the statue as a part of ence, referred to finding human General Li denied emphatically the impressive ceremony.

The status was erected partly by At the Police Station the second accused, and declared that it was card the Kuomintang flag as a con- subscription by members of the They apparently exchanged glances man said that at about seven o'clock the solution until half an hour had the popular mind the Kuomintang Hart organized and developed; by fairly fresh. He did not look at cession to Mukder wishes. "la Customs' service, whith Sir Robert and passed on.

on the evening of the murder he elapsed, and was unable to say standard The boy would tell them that found a fellow countryman (the more than that the bloodstains were Third Internationale, continued ed; and by funds provided by the is associated with the the Postal Service, which he creat after they had walked on for a first prisoner) and they went out to short distance he heard footsteps ten together. They left the tea house not more than five days old. He the Shansi envoy. But this is a ratepayers of the Settlement. Mr. behind, and on looking round, wat ehout eight o'clock, and met an- received the garments on the 8th, serious mistake. As a matter of Henry Fegram, A.R.A, was the the two men they had passed com- other man who told them that and as that time they might pos- fact, the Nationalist emblem is the sculptor of the statue ing back after them.

murder had been committed at Chai aibly have been six hours old, or A short distance further on, the Waa. They spent the night on a anything between six hours and dame flag for the Chinese navy, which was adopted shortly after Ohiness overtook them, and the junk, where they had been invited five days.

the Revolution of 1911. There is taller of the two pushed in between. to

Hie Lordship: Is his evidence nothing red about it, nor is it true stay Mrs. Mackay and her nephew, and Mr. Fitzroy said that with the quite clear to you, Mr. Fitzroy that Stansi took to the Kuomintang Mr. Fitzroy: Yes, the stains are colour four months ago as a result the one man seized the boy and exception of the police no one knew Sung him to the side of the road of the murder at nine o'clock that cut out and conked in a saline of compulsion" from the Nanking into a mallah. For the moment the evening. Even the boy, when he blood is drawn out, and then it

solution. A certain amount boy did not know exactly what bad made the feport to the Police happened, but as soon as he had Station, did not know that Mrs. stop The time it stops deter recovered he climbed out on to the Mackay was dead, as he had left mines, more or less, the age of the path just in time to see two men her on the side of the mad,' alive.

bloodstain. going away round a bend in the

Evidence would be called to sow

Dr. Minett: If I had looked at road, and Mra. Mackay sitting on that the two men were often to the solution scoper, I might have the other side of the road.

gether and were quite well known. been able to place the age more In the meantime Mrs. Mackay

Mr. Fitzroy also referred to a accurately. I have been making ex- had received three wounds, being man named Chan Fo, who owned a perimente since. two stabs in the breast, in the ono jenk which the prisoners had said.

Mr. Fitzey: The examination cam the instrument having come they were invited to spend the can be reduced to an exact science i into contact with a rib, and "the night.

Dr. Minett: I wouldn't say you third one, which was fatal, in the On that day Chan Po was out could tell within hours, but within

fishing and did not return until daya certainly.

On a journey which will take him. Prof. Caldwell stated that one The length of the wounds was very 4.45 in the afternoon. He had having, found traces of blood on a mighty, Amazon River of South ly three years in the wilds of Brazil Dr. Minett also gave evidence of more than 1,000 miles up the of his colleagues, who spent near small. The doctor would say they two fokis, one of whom had gone Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank America, Prof. Ernest IL Caldwell, in a search for the white Indians were caused by a double-edged blunt and could not be found. While weapon, which must have been Chan Po went ashore to go to note found on the pathway, but he scientist and historian of note finally succeeded in Ending a small I bracelet which was attached market with his catch, one of the while to stato definitely now visiting in Shanghai, is pre-tribe of them. They were excred- to her watch was torn away and Jukis, who had also gone ashore, whether it was human or mamparing to leave this city for ingly shy, he said, and decidedly

returned to the boat and there saw the contents of her hand-bag had the two prisoners, with whom he tien of Dr. Minett, and dealt York, who are awaiting his arrival the greater length of both the America where he will join Dr. primitive in their method of living Mr. Sheldon began croes-examina and Mr Herbert Dickey, of New The searching party will traverse Mr. Fitzroy emphasised the in-

especially with the bloodstained in the United States. Prof. Cald portance

Amazon and boe: of the discovery of

THE TORN, NOTE.

They are first trousera He had not concluded his wall will join the Dickeys in New South Amer, UPÍDOCO rivers in bloodstains inside the hand-bag Speaking of the arrest of the examination when the Court rose Orleans and they will set sail from bound for Para and thence will and the fact that there were men, Mr. Fitzroy remarked that at tiffin time.

that part. none outside.

"The hand that the clothes of both bore certain

travel 1,000 miles up the Amazon His Lordship decided to adjourn robbed the bag," he said, "was blood stains. Inside bis vest pocket further bearing of the case until sentative of The Shanghai Times will employ native carriers ard bleeding at the time," and went on the first prisoner had three 81 bills this morning, it being decided that at his hotel, Prof. Caldwell stated will turn westward to strike the to say he was going to show that which were folded, together, and it was important, for certain mat that the object of the trip in to Rio Negro, and thence down the the second prisoner had a bleeding on their being unfolded half a note | ters raised in the case, that His find the famous White Indians of hand.

back to New York. Me forged note and was stained with counsel and police officers, etc markable people has been establish- White Indians have been report- was discovered. This was half of a Lordship, together with the jury, Brazil. The existence of these reco to the Carribean, Trinidad blood. At the time the prisoner should visit the scene of the crime led beyond a doubt but little of ed by natives from time to time in made a remark about having pick, This was done yesterday after them is known and nothing at all the regions near the headwaters of ed it up at Sai Wan Ho.

noon, and the trial will be resumed of their history and origin.

the Orinoco and it is there the (Continued on nezi "Column)), this morning, at 10.30.

search will be centred.

stomach.

very short.

been taken out

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The boy found Mrs. Mackay seri ously injured, and with his sasist ance she managed to walk a short distance, but eventually collapsed, although she was still conscious.

went to a tea house.

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Authorities."

PIKING, Sept. 14th, Chang Fei Hu, convicted of many armed robberies and murders in Peking, vas executed with two of his followers outside Chao Yang The three robbers talked loudly

the

the execution ground. The ringleaders shouted As he passed the Tung Shir Pai Lou, Come, my people! Here is Chang Fei Hu Know him by face. You are all welcome."Kuo Wen.

way to

BRAZIL'S WHITE INDIANS. Men, yesterday.

SHANGHAI VISITOR IN EXPLORATION PARTY.

TRAVERSING ÄMÄZON AND ORINOCO.

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In with a repre- to Manoas, At that point ther

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