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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 19th, 1928,

CRIMINAL SESSIONS OPENED

YESTERDAY.

BAMBOO POLE AS A PERSUASIVE WEAPON.

SEQUEL TO "WO FAT SHING" ROBBERS.

HEAVY SENTENCES IMPOSED."

The July Criminal Sessione opened yesterday and three cases out of four were concluded. The Chiarse stoker charged. with participating in the robbery of #30,000 worth of gold bare on board the steam launch Wo Fat: Shing was tried before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, and dentenced to three years' hard

labour.

Two Chinese charged with highway robbery appeared before Mr. Justice P. Jacks. It was stated by the prosecution that one of the prisoners had jumped inte a pond after the robbery. He was up to his neck in water and it was only through the gentle but persuasive "bamboo polce" of a number of peasants that the culprit was induced to get cut of the water.

THE "WO FAT SHING" ROBBERY.

PRISONER'S EXCUSES

REJECTED.

NEW STORIES OF MRS. LANGTRY,

"WOMAN WITH A MAN'S BRAIN."

BUSINESS GENIUS.

All the world has heard of Mrs. Langtry, the "Jersey Lily," famous as actress and reigning beauty thirty years or more ago, whom pre- ple stood on chairs in Hyde Park to see as she rode by, but few have. heard of Mrs. Langtry, the woman of business and brains. She is re vealed by. Mr. Edward Michael, formerly her manager, in "Tramps of a Scamp," a book of reminis- cences full of excellent stories, written in collaboration with Mr. J. B. Booth,

"One of the curious traits of a remarkable woman,' explains Mr. | Michael,." was that Mrs. Langtry never made an entrance'; no ap- parent opening or shutting of doors, not the slightest noise, no commotion. до effect and

碰 gold bracelet at Kowloon City near vision of beauty and grace sudden-

ly stood before me..

The the Blind Home.

vision approached me with a be witching smile and outstretched hand. And so you are to look after my business? I am sure we And now we shall get on together. are to have a talk about money- most unpleasant, is it not! But we will soon get it over. What are your views

According to the prosecution two girls, aged 14 and 16 reipec. tively, were

their way home from school. Suddenly one of the Au Shiu. who was at the time girls was knocked down from be of his alleged offence a temporary bind. One of the prisoners then stoker on board the steam launch produced a butcher'e knife and the Wo Fat Shing was charged before other knelt over the girl. He then Sir Henry Gollan with having taken part in a robbery committed on board that reesel on October 19th, 1997, in the harbour of the Colony.

...

Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., pro- secuted on behalf of the Crown He told the Bench that during the magisterial proceedings the prison

er had called a witness from the

gaol Thie witneee was also im. plicated in the same robbery and was now doing three years' hard labour in Victoria Gaol, He did did not know whether the prisoner would like to call the same wit nees again, and if he did, arrange mente would have to be made with the Gaol uthorities.

snatched a gold bracelet of her wriet. While this was going on, the other girì ran acrces the road and called out "Save life." Police whistles were blown and villagers gave chase to the two men. One of them ran into a vegetable garden and was arrested there. The other took a dive into a pond and was

made to come out by the "gentle" but persuasive mears of the bam boo poles.

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"Delightful Slavery."

her girdle," adds Mr. Michael, "I was another scalp added to

and from that moment commerc ed a long period of willing and delightful slavery

"Jersey Lily for some years, and Mr. Michael managed" for the

he asserts that "in business mat- ters Mrs. Langtry was that rare phenomeno

2. woman with a

"Possessing," he writes, "in s marked degres every feminine charm -wilea, fascination, and moods- she was at the same time possessed courage, and a gift of instant de- of an iron will power, immense cision which the captain of a 50,000

tom line in a critical situation

might envy.

with me always a matter of aur- Remarkably well read, it waa

prise that she found time for her Both prisoners pleaded not guilty, any topic-and I use the word 'any' reading; for I have never knowD The fret prisoner eaid that he deliberately-literature science, gave the girl d tap on the head arts, or any other subject, which because he was in danger of being she was unable to discuss. with

specialists. run over by a motor-car and all"Here was always a big and broad the thanks he got was this charge mind, which could not tolerate any

thing commonplace or futile, and His Lordship asked the prisoner being trumped up against him her favourite phrase is indicative whether or not he would like to The second man said that, he did of her nature: 'Don't let's fume ter until he taken to the voice, was a danger signal to those

who knew her." Police Station There a Chinese

She never used "even the smallest constable made him say that had In outlining the case, Mr. Alabas-had snatched something and that be (prisoner) had to fixed abode eter said that the prisoner wa accused of being one of the men and that be slept in the street. who took part in the robbery when

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LIVERPOOL. UNEMPLOYED

CHARITY.

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PRESIDENCY.

TOO HIGH COSTS OF

ADMINISTRATION. -

activities of the Loyal Liverpool Recent investigations into the

Unemployed Distress Committee,

5,000 AIR-TYRED OMNI- BUSES.

ADVANTAGE TAKEN OF TAX CONCESSION.

SAVING THE ROADS,

The London General Omnibus

fore the end of the year, seventy- Company will put into service, he

five new double-decked ommibuses,

have the same witness to testify not know anything about the mat-please,' spoken in a soft, plaintive which would appear to be an, or each weighing eight tons, seating

for him, and getting a reply in the affirmative, his Lordship made the order.

600 bars of gold ingote were stolen. Their total value WEL $30,000. The gold bars were being taken by the steam launch Wo Fat Shing to the ss. Prominent for shipment to Saigen,

WŁA

The jury returned a verdict of guilty against both men and his Lordship sentenced them to Ave. years' hard labour each and twelve strokes of the cat.

THE THREE LODGERS.

Prisoner giving evidence said that 'Eb man named Chan Wing com pelled him to take part in the MEAN ASSAULT ON WOMEN. robbery and promised to give him

one

Impressing-Businesa,”• ́ Mrs. Langtry knew what she was about. When she was playing in New York a woman reporter asked her to go to a function where she would meet a lot of interesting people.

Polica In Touch With It,

thousand omnibuses..!

ganisation of the collecting class. Afty passengers, and fitted with in the world of ragged tempers have brought the affairs of that giant paeumatic tyres.

"One hundred, of the existing behind the scenes, and detested body to a climax. ugliness in every form.

Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., M.P. omnibuses are being altered so that Power Of Reproof.

(Exchange, Liverpool), who per- pneumatic tyres, and if the experi they can also be mounted on And woe betide" says Mr. mitted, his name to be used as pre-ment is successful, this type of tyre Michael," the unhappy wretchsident of the organisation in the is likely to be used throughout the whose reputation as a wit depended belief that it was doing useful work company's fleet of more than five upon the coarse and risque story. She has always had the gift of ex- in Liverpool, wrote to the secre This step is undoubtedly being pressing disgust and quiet con- tary, a Mr. James Stevens, asking taken principally to enable the tempt more completely than any that his name should be removed company to secure advantage of

have ever known. She could

this year's Budget proposal to crush, destroy, and pulverise in from the records of the committee. reduce the tax by 20 per cent. on record time, and in the smoothest, Sir Leslie, in expressing a desire all goods road vehicles excociling blandest, manner."

to dissociate himself from the com two tons in weight, unladen, and She had a Napoleonic genius mittee, points out that figures sup on all public service. vehicles seat- for detail," it is added, and plied to him show that the adminis ing more than eight persons, if when planning theatrical camtrative expenses are out of all pro- these vehicles are fitted entirely. paige, and, indeed, in all business portion to the amount expended on with pneumatic tyres. matters, few things escaped her. relief.

Unsuitable Tyres, $1,300 for doing so. He also said Three Chinese who rented a She was as thorough in. A balance sheet has not yet been that he had been told, with threats, cubicle at No. 15, Temple Street, knew to within £50 to £30 what Berpared for the information of the suitably tyred motor vehicles on the financial as in other detail, and issued to the public, but one pré The destructive effect of -un- to get out of the Colony and that and described themselves as paint-credit balance was at any moment. committee is understood to show surface of modern ronda has been if he were to return, he would forers were charged before Mr. Justice And by some process of mental that last year the income derived viewed with grave concern for some feit his life. He had therefore left P. Jacks with robbing the principal worth of the house to within a few the management expenses £1,181

calculation she would estimate the from subscriptions was £2,069 and years past by the Ministry. o*:

Transport and the highways Hong Kong by the ss. Paul Beau tenant on May 20th. They pleaded pounds on the rise of the curtain.

authorities throughout the country, for Canton.

that they stole but had not, robbed.

and the tax concession is being The Chief Constable of Liver-made to stimulate the introduction The jury having retired for five Mr. Fitzroy told the Court that

pool, Mr. L. D. L. Everett, speak of pneumatic tyres, and to accele minutes returned A verdict of the men committed the robbery at

ing of the Loyal Liverpool Unem-rate the rate at which that proces is occurring in almost all types of "guilty" and added a rider to the night. They were living in the

ployed Distress Committee said:

heary road vehicles. effect that the prisoner had volun- same house and when the com

The question of defining tarily taken part in the robbery.plainant woke up, she found one

pneumatic tyre. for the purpose of

left in the Sentence of three years hard man was sitting over her, while the

been in the courts once and we Bill to the Minister to prescribe by labour was passed.

other two were engaged in ran-

still keep in touch with it.

regulation. It was considered that sacking the place. After binding

All those people who are on the a rigid definition in the Act of and gagging the two women in the

committee should realise their Parliament itself might be ham- house, the prisoners left. They

responsibilities, and if they do pering, in view of the possibility not feel happy the whole thing of technical developmenta were in the street when a police

should be wound up. The fact. It has been suggested in some patrol met them. They were chal:

that there has been a previous quarters, says the Daily Express, conviction makes me hesitate very that any rubber byres with air FEEBLE EXCUSEE AND SHARP lenged and on not getting a entis.

much to recommend it for the cavities should be clamed as pneu- support of the charitable public matic tyres for the purpose of factory, reply, they were taken to SENTENCE.

by reason of its past history. the police station. There the No.

earning the tax COBOCINION. 2 man blurted out a confession,

The organisation was founded as

Steel Tyzeką an anti-Communist society. Many Tu prosecuting two Chinese for They were then taken back to the

well-known local people gave it The majority of heavy road; highway robbery, Mr. Somerset house but before they arrived been appointed a Metropolitan came the Loyal Liverpool Unem as locomotives, were, until & few Mr. Bernard Campion, K.C., has their patronage. Eventually it be vehicles, particularly those classed Fitzroy told the Fane Judge that there, they met the complainant. Police magistrate to fill the vacancy ployed Distress Committee and years ago, fitted with steel-tyres, one of the prisoners sought refuge His Lordship passed sentence of caused by the resignation of Mr. people were sent throughout Lag and in many caste also with steel in a pond." It was not on ne five years' hard lahour on each of/ Vernon Gattie, who, it will be re-cashire and North Wales to maka | strakes or diagonal bars across the tyre. This did enormous damage. membered, was recently cited as house-to-house collections. count of the heat because no man the prisoner. Two of them were co-respondent in divorce proceed. In 1926 a man named Henry Pit to road surfaces RT would willingly go into the water also ordered to, receive twelve

inga.

man, who had been associated with The Minister of Transport, how with his clothes on and the man strokes of the cat. The third man son of Alderman S. 8. Campion was fined £25 for trying to obtain statutory powers to deal with the Hr. Campion, who is the eldest the organisation from the start, ever, although possessing no was only driven out by the permua had a conviction proved against J.P., of Northampton, was called charitable contributions by fraud question, approached the organisa sive bamboo poles of a number of him which had been passed when to the Bar 20 years ago, and has The management committee vas tions representing the traction en- villagers who had taken up the he was nine years old. He then 1990 and K. C. since 1923. statement of the Chief Constable suaded to fit rubber tyres to trac- been a Bencher of Gray's Inn since reorganized, but according to the gine owners, and many were per- hue and cry

received 9 strokes of the cat. In He became Recorder of North- and the úgures of income and ex- tion engines and tractors, The two prisoners were To Man this case, he was, however, exempt-ampton last August. Before bo-penditure already quoted it does The new tax concession is design- and Lo Lau. They were charged ed from corporal punishment was for several years a journalist carrying out the work it set out ment in the campaign to save the coming a barrieter: Mr. Campiss not appear to have succeeded ined to effect an even greater advanes.

with robbing a school girl of a medical gromde.

in Northampton and Nottingham. to do,

road surfaces.

#

ATTACK ON TWO SCHOOL

GIRLS.

"I was glad to go." said Mrs. Langtry to Mr. Michael," but when we left the creature wanted to interview me on the proceedings, and asked me if I was hot very too quaint. My good woman, mach impressed. That was really

said, you forget I'm in the im pressing business myself." "Daily Express

MR. VERNON GATTIE'S SUCCESSOR.

This is an organisation which does more for those who are em- ployed by it than for the persons

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