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WING ON CHAND-

LERY CASE.

QUESTIONS REGARDING

RECEIPTS.

BIG TURN-OVER BUT SMALL

PROFIT.

THE OFFER ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN MADE TO DEFENDANT.

Some side lights were thrown

'ESCAPE FROM" PIRACY,

BRITISH GUNBOAT ARRIVES IN TIME.

EXPERIENCE OF THE

**SHING ON."

The as Shing On, a steamer plying on the Hong Kong-Wuchow run had a narrow escape from being pirated on her last trip from this pert to Wuchow.

upon the working of the chandlery department of Wing On & Co. yes terday, when the case of alleged conspiracy against the former sub-manager of that department was continued before Mr. R. E Lindself at the Central Magistracyt a hand of pirates, carrying Arriving at Uakortsul in dark

It was stated that in spite of the big turn-over of $100,000 a year, the net profit was only £3,000.

A BOURNEMOUTH TRAGEDY.

SOLUTION ÄFTER MANY DAYS.

REPRIEVE MYSTERY

RECALLED.

KAIPING COAL

FOR HOME, FACTORY, & POWER HOUSE

BOURNEMOUTH.

HOME, FACTORY

A murderce who was sentenced to death in London in 1919 for shoot-

The Shing. On does not carrying his sister-in-law, reprieved on passengers, but when the vessel left the eve of his execution, released Samshui there was on board an old from Dartmoor Prison in Juse this Chinese lady, believed to be the year, and two months later found mother of the owner of the Shing dead in a bathing costume in the on, and it may be that the pirates sen near Bournemouth-uch are intended to kidnap her and hold the main tragie incidents ia an un- her for ranson.

precedented drama of life and

and which has no equal in the an death which has just been disclosed,

Eghted torches and brandishing nais of English criminal history.. | fes were seen to be preparing to The murderer's name is Arthur attack the stranier. The Shing On Pank. He was a man of imposing denvoured to escape and two strength, and when he committed stature and of great physical launches came in pursuit, while the the crime of which he was found Pirates ran along the banks demand-gitilty at the Old Bailey he was

sergeant in the Military · Foot ing that the Shing On be stopped. Police home on leave from India.

As already reported F. Chan, formerly the sub-manager of the chandlery department, is charged with having conspired with others to injure the Wing On Company by filching away a remunerative con- tract. Defendant is also charged with having induced other emado, both pirate launches, and the service and, good conduct medal. ployees in the same department to

terminate their services with the Company. It is alleged that Chan, having started business on his own account, increed the prices quoted by Wing On, add submitted lower quotations dobis own firm's name, and so took business away from the Wing On Co. "'

Defendant is represented by Mr. M. N. Lo, and the case for the prosecution is being conducted by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. E. Davidson, of Messrs. Hast ings, Denny's and Bowley..

It would have gone hard with her but fortunately a British gunboat

ove into sight and without more

pirates on the banks hurriedly made

themselves scarce.

The details of this escape are given prominence in the vernacular Press for the crew of the Shing On are emphatic that had not the gun- boat arrived the opportune moment they would certainly have fallen into the pirates' hands.

He was thirty-six years old, un- married, and lived in Marden-road, Bermondser. He wore the long

"I Have Shot A Woman."!

Arthur Pank had two brothers with whom he was on terms of great friendship. One of them, George William Pank, married a and they lived happily together in woman named Beatrice Downes,

Suffeld-road, Tottenham.

on

On the evening of April and, 1919, Arthur Pank went up to a police constable in Tottelham. have just shot a woman,"

he said quite coolly, and producing a re- volver and fre cartridges he add- In reply to further questions puted, "You had better take charge to him by Mr. Lo, witness said of these," that Yueng had been with the Com- pany for Bfteen years. He was a At yesterday's hearing Mr. Lo

brother-in-law to the managing Cross-examined witness call director. He also said that out of ed by the prosecution at con- the turn-over" of $180,000, a gross siderable length with regard to profit of $13,000 was made, and rs. George Pank, who was still the Wing On Company's practice after deducting working expenses ot issuing receipts and bifs, and the Company only profited to the elicited the information that the extent of 83,000. Company always, gave a separate Mr. Lo: Is it, true that eng receipt for every payment, the was actually instructed, by Mr. counter fails of such receipts being Phillip Gokchan in April, 1997, to kept by the Company for refer-increase the price in view of the net profit being so amat-No, he was not.

ence.

Mr. Lo: Would you have taken the defendant back with open arms" if

police station, and Divisional De- The policeman took Pank to the tective Inspector Davis-who has since retired

a pension-im- mediately went to the address given byak. There, in a bedroom on the racer, he saw. the dead body

Downes. She was lying on a bed known by her maiden name of fully dressed and had been shot through the head.

anger.

There was no doubt about the had gone to the house and shot his facts of the murder. Arthur Pank sister-in-law in cold blood. *His explanation was that while they were in the house alone she had made & suggestion to him which had so angered him that he shot her dead with his revolver in order

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A SKIPPER'S DIFFICULTY.

HOW TO DEAL WITH PIG COOLIES.

MARINE MAGISTRATE'S

ADVICE.

How to deal with pig coolies so that they do not contravene, the

of passengers has been the probiern Ordinance governing the carrying

of ship masters whose vessels ply between here and Hoihow, Kwang ports. In a case which came up Chow Wan and other adjacent before Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., a ing, & solution was put forward by the Marine Court yesterday morn

the Magistrate, which, if acted upon, would go far to prevent many law-suits.

The case concerned Mr. C. H. Demawongre, who was summoned Spland, master of the h for carrying more than the twelve When the case was first beard on passengers permitted by his licence. September 17th, Mr. G. 9. Hugh- Jones, for the defence, argued that the additional men on board were coolies who accompanied their ship not passengers, they were ments of pigs to the Colony. The that the question might be argued case was then adjourned in order whether a pig coolie could be con. aidered as a passenger,

When the case was resumed yes that he would not go an with the terday, Mr. Hugh-Jones intimated

in the hands of the Magistrate. defence, but would leave the matter

ENGLISH" TOBACCO.

HARVEST.

HAMPSHIRE CROP COMING ON WELL

Farm workers have been busy in the fields near the little Hampshire village of Church Crookham taking up a harvest which has its counter. part in only one other English

county,

The orop was tobacco, which has been cultivated with increasing suc- cess in recent years in this district.

Experiments which have been in progress since 1811, when tobacco- growing was allowed in England years, have shown conclusively that for the first time for more than 250

the climate and certain soils in the ' South are favourable to the culture of the plant.

A substantial part of the Hamp shire crop is used on its own merits

for brands of cigarettes and pipe tobacco which are becoming well know.

Hampshire leaf, too, is being tried with satisfactory results as a filler for a British-made cigar.

Mr. A. J. Brandon "has bad 20

be expects an average yield of dis. aorge under tobacco this year, and posable dried leaf of 650 th an time to grow, the crop could be aere. If the demand should con- increased, and its cultivation and haddling would provide employ- ant for considerable number of workers.

Mr. Lo then, produced a set of bills issued by the Wing On Com- pany, the payments for which were covered by separate receipts. The he had been willing to return to As he afterwards, asid, to save the essential to the working of the of development.

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the Wing On Company 1-Yes, be- fore we knew of the tricks he had played.

+

Mr. Lo: When did you, for the

|honcur of his brother.

the Samos and Burley varieties, a The tobacco now being cut is of Turkish type used for cigarettes.

Capable of Development, Millions of pounds of tobacco are His Worship, in Ending the day and as the English-grown leaf is in imported into England every year, fendant guilty, said that he had any case valuable for blending, and considered the case very closely and: realized the dieulty which cou- fronted the ship master. He admit

is subject to a duty only be. Tid. alb, as compared with a duty of ted that pig and cattle coolies were America, the industry is capable 8. 10d. on stripped tobacco from

vessel and said that he was fully His trial for murder came on at cognizant of the fact that there was the Old Bailey on May 1st, 1919,

no means of signing the coolies en before Mr. Justice Darling (now

as part of the crew as the other a plea of insanity. One of the withe advised all ship masters to sign Lord Darling), and the defence was end of the run, In view of this themselves. If this who declared that the prisoner way towards establishing the bon

were done it would go a long realised the seriousness of his fides of the master concerned that crime, but considered that the con-he was not carrying the men as duct of his sister-in-law was no

passengers. ing her dead in defence of his he discharged the defendant with a gross that he was justified in shoot

In view of the difficult position, caution.

medical officer at Brixton Prison,

A

Pryor and Golden Queen, which bers heated by steam pipes. Blue- This is cured rapidly in cham-

vested later and are cured in a ere American types with much larger and broader leaves, are har great drying shed some 250 ft. long.

The laths bolding the cut plants

of oak logs are started in holes dug and when the shed is filled, fires are hung from "racks in fivo Gera,

in the ground-

bills were receipted with a chop of "the Company and a five-cent receipt stamp.. Witnesa replied that he would not call them "proper re- ceipts"; if his Company had not first time, know of the tricks benesses he called was Dr. Hickson, the men on given separate receipta, it

was had played 1-Not until August 7th, obvious that the usual procedure when the price list was found in his had not been complied with.

drawer. Mr. Lo: Do you deny that Yueng Mr. Lo: After you had found out has in fact been giving receipts his tricks, did you then say he was like these for the last two years 1-a criminal and should not be treat brother's bonour. The counterfoils showed that Yuenged civilly -No I laid the matter Mr. Justice Darling, in his sum did issue formal receipts, and had before our solicitos, and after talking up to the jury, said the real

Curing is an important art, and point was whether Pank knew the

oak logs have been found to give not taken them to the Generaling things over with a barrister, nature and quality of his act at Two days later à inbourer named the best results. The process occu Office for signature.

we knew that he had committed a the time he committed the murder, Turner was walking along the pics about six weeks, and is fol

ehad Mr. Lo: Do you agree with me crime.

and he thought all the evidence beach between Branksome Chinelowed in October by the stripping went to show that the defence of and Canford Cliffs when he saw the of the leaves from the stalks by that the counterfoils you have Mo: Then what you mean insanity had failed. relate to business done over a year is thWhether or not the Wing the jury adopted this view, rit, outing in about a foot of leaves are made up in bundles,

body of a man, dressed in a bathing girls in a rehandling shed.

The tobacco is then graded, the ago 7-They covered the last two Onsidered the defendant à ed a verdict of guilty, and seater.

Turner waded in, pulled scoundrel depended. OR legal of death was passed, inzibe the body out of the water, and sent freshly moistened with steam, and, year".

opinion 1 We do not know the form

for the police. A suit of clothes, packed into drums for removal to Mr. Lindsell: Can you say whe-law, so we had to get legal opinion. Sentence Commuted bowler hat, & pair of

bond until they are required by the ther or not he has issued any Witness admitted asking his

handkerchief with the of such a For some unexplained rendon P" in the corner, a macintosh, and last year's crop has still to

manufacturers. A. separate formal receipt this year 1-solicitor to make an offer to the Arthur Pank was not hanged. The white collar worked Pank,

Tobacco improves by keeping, defendant to give up his business date of his exemtion was fixed, but No, this year he has only receipted and rejoin the Company again. If the Home Sepiary, after review. let containing the 10s, notes and attendance, and the weight of leaf a grey shirt and tie, a leather wal- reach the smoker. Whed the pack. the bill and has done so without he did so, it was agreed no step ing all the circumstances of the same cash, and a watch were found attendance, and the weight of leaf

would be taken against him and ease, decided to advise his Majesty on th, and they evidently in the drums is closely checked. any damage which the Company to commute the sentence to one of wer Mr Le: When a sum of money bad-sustained would not be claim penal servitude for life.

In the the property of the dead is received, what is done with ited from the defendant. This offer ease of murderers, who are declared Dida't Yaeng take the che and not to condone that which the to be sane this usually means re- rued as the quickest way to twenty years, but insang mur to the general office for entry the damages caused to the derert. Are the wounder of the body of a man unknown, a ver aise him The inquest was held on Yes, with the department book bompany.

Broadmoor

of Found drowned" was re- not necessarily with the bill.

Mr. Lo Then up to September their lives

turned, and still the mystery of the Arthur Fank had beeciared man's idity was unsolved. lat, there was no suggestion of a criminal prosecution for conspiracy to be sane and in purse of time Dr. Olvey, who examined the vessel of his own construction,*: In a tiny, submarine-like steel -No.

he was fred from Tentory, he body, sad the man was thoght x built during his spare time, Won. Mr. Lo I put it to you. that to Dartakerture, of course, he years of ago, and his height mix Oldham, of Warrington, Lanca formal receipt had been issued for whole idea of this prosecution was treilea all conficts of his feet. Death, he said, was due to shire, proposes to set out shortly

asphyxia by drowning. Mayhewhen the Home

our knowledge..

Every effort to trace the identity NOVEL ATTEMPT TO CROSS of the man was made by the police,

the bill for which the money is prepidant had done, but it was at the ead of not loss than but nobody came forward to 'recog. i

制

Mr. Lo: Do you deliberately want the Court to believe that the

Laundry Mark.

THE, ATLANTIC.

A COMPANION WANTED..

LONDON.

on an adventurous voyage from Dover to New York. The boat is only 12 feet long, with a beam of

Company did not know that no

this year covering the $130,000 basi-Ouompany would not do such a

The blackmark the defendant 1-classe verminal there patil

ness done 1-I do not know that. thing

Secretary decided that Papild Mr. Lo: Then the $120,000 re- Mr. I suggest to you that suffered long enough for the It looked for a time as though ceived this year has only been re-this is porsccution and not prosgender he had committed light years the dead man would be buried in 3 feet, will be propelled by a savi- ceipted on the bills-Yes,

tion 3-No.

before, and released him on tickes a pauper's grave without a name, gator with a pedal mechanism much At this stage Mr. Le pointed out

but just as the police were giving like cycles operating the two-bisded Mr. Lo the drow his Worship's of leave.

Fank went to Tife with one of up all hope of the mystery being propeller. to the Magistrate that there were attention to the amended charge many Wing On's employees in which read that defendant and his brother, but later be thought solved they found & laundry márk A windmill' geared to the Court and as he did not know who other persons unknown did con- it would be better if he lived with which caused them to make in shaft will relieve him when the the prosecution were calling asapire, etc. He submitted that the brother whose wife he had mur- quiries in South London for some wind is fair. Two persons ess be witnesses, he asked his Worship to particulars of the other persons dered, and in June last he went one of the name of Pant

accommodated, although there order them from the Court. Mr. had to be given

to reside with George William The brother, living in South won't be full length sleeping quar Phillip Gokebun, the general.

Mr. Lindsell: How can you give Pank, who had married again" and London, all unconscious of the tera. There are six water tight. manager of the Company, was in particulars when the other persons lived in South London.

tragedy at Bournemouth, was compartments and four gun metal, Court, and his Worship ordered him are unknown?

They lived together amicably for found, and be, was invited to view { window. Oldium will be able to- to Icave.

After further argument. the some weeks, but on August 28th the body. He at once went by batten himself down when the wed- Mr. Lindsell then asked Mr. Lo Magistrate said that he would note Arthur Pank suddenly left the train to Bournemouth, and as soon ther is bad and keep a lookout from if he could prove that the price Mr. Lo's objection, meanwhile house without saying where he was as the dead man's ince was uncover a small econing tower."....... He bas list sent out in July was the true asking Mr. Jenkin to look up the going. He had some money and it edhe recognised it beyond all estimated, that the trip will occupy one issued by the Wing Oa. Mrr authority, on this point

was supposed that he had gone doubt as that of the man who had" 40 days, and he is desirous of finu. Lo replied that he could.

The case was then adjourned until away for -

bollday.

committed the murder to save his ing some one to share the hamarda brother's honour. Friday afternoon.

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with him.

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