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'A PROFITABLE MARRIAGE."

BROTHEL GIRL'S TROUBLES

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There is an eld Chinese saying that if a man marries a girl from a brothel, be will lead a „dog's file for the rest of his days. Whether there is any truth in the saving or not possibly may be gleaned from the case heard at the Summary Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice P. Jarks, when Mak Mo"Ching, a young woning of about twenty-fre, sued her husband, Chan King Po, for

$1,000,

Plaintiff was represented by He C. A. S Buss, and Mr. F. E. Nash appeared for the defendant.

In outlining his case, Mr. Russ said that the amount claimed was made up out of a sum of 8500 which plaintiff had lent to her husband an April 3rd, 1927. Defendant also took from the plaintiff a gold watch and chain, one gold coin, ose jade ornament, and one ricksha. the value of these articles being placed at $200 for the purpose.of the, case, although they were actually worth a good deal more.

Was It A Marriage? Continuing. Mr. Russ said that the plaintiff was formerly an inmate the Choy Far Brothel, West Point, and was married to the de- fendant from there. Defendant paid ny dowry to the girl, nor did he give any money to the mistress of the house for the girl. It was, therefore, a very profitable marriage from the defendant's point of view, Defendant had also told plainti that he had discarded his kit fat (real) wife and his first concubine for her sake.

After that, be also borrowed her GARDEN FETE FOR

ornaments, and from that day did

He not return to her house. treated me as a sorp of enemy then," she added,

Why He Cooled of.. Mr. Russ: Can you tell us any reason why he suddenly changed 1- As first I thought he was only tộc: busy, but anally I found out that he was living with a Chinese wait- reas.

CHARITIES.

NEW CHURCH FOR ST. PETER'S.

DISTINGUISHED LIST OF

PATRONS.

The recond Annual Garden Fete

ADJUSTING A SHIP'S COMPASS.

MASTER MARINER LOSES

HIS TEMPER.

CAPTAINS ARTHUR AND FINN MALM IN COURT CASE.

master

Mr Russ: That was why he

Any too could swing a ship cooled off, because he had got some of St. Peter's Church, West Point round in the Ehrbour if that ship will be held on the third of Novem-has twl screws" was the opinion one else -Yes. He did not even

ber.

Д Many will recall pay for my rice and firewood, an

very ot Captain Finn Maim, Continuing her story plaintiff happy event when the initial fets mariner, - given at the Summary said that she then went to the was formally opened last year by Court yesterday morning before S.C.A. and laid her complaints. At Mrs. W. T. Scuthorn on the former Mr. Justice P. Jacks, when a some the S.CA office, defendant had grounds of the Young Men's Club what anusual case was heard in said it was only a small matter."

House at 1. Oakland Path.

which the Wing Shun firm clairord Eventually she was advised to re- Through the courtesy of Captain the sum of 84023 from Captain D. turn home, the Secretary for Chi F. Bayliss, the Fete this year will G. M. Arthur for a launda hired nese Affairs saying that defendant be held on the premises of the for the purpose of adjusting a would mund his ways. She re- turned home, but the defendant Sailors' Home, on which grounds ship's compasset. still continued his relations with stands also St. Peter's Church. the waitress, and his conduct did not improve. She foally had to leave him.

A Tortoise Mother,

Capt. Arthur, in his turn, sought The aim of the Fete is to ruine to recover the amount from Capt. money towards the general funds Mali the ground that the

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of the Church and its organisa- launch was hired for the purpose At this stage Mr. Russ read ations, including the Young Men's of carrying out a job"assigned to letter which he had written to de- Club, which in its brief existence him by the third party, fendant concerning the allegations

Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared for the plaintiffs the Wing Shun firm, ned M:. 6. S. Hugh Jones was for Capt. Arthur. The third party.

nude against him by plaintiff. It of two years has been extensively was also mentioned in the letter used as the Parochial Hall of the that plaintiff had complained that Church for meetings and socials of defendant had said he would shoot various guilds, Sunday School, her if she ever dared to leave him and Choi, practices, as well as Mr. Russ warned defendant in the serving as a centre of influence for Capt. Malni, conducted his own letter not to molest her.

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Cross examined by Mr Nash, plaintiffsaid She was born and bred in Hong Kong. When her father and mother died, she chose to become a prostitute.

Mr. Nash: Were you sold Mak Li Shi, or is she your tortoise

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Plaintiff then went to stay with defendant. She was treated as a wife, but, Mr. Russ commented, he did not know whether it was a marriage or not. That, however, mattered very little, because a wife was entitled to sue in respect of terts with regard to separate estate. Mr. Russ went on to state that the couple lived quite happily for about year, when defendant's enduet suddenly changed. He used to wear the girl's jewellery, and one day defendant asked her if she wild lend him some money with which to buy a share in a steamship company. The plaintiff had 200, and went out to borrow another 8300 for her husband. She gave a romissory note for the loan. After defendant had taken away her orna- ents and exhausted all means of getting money from her he married tea-shop waitress. Plaintiff, was arated so badly that she made a complaint to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

5.0.A. Privileged From Giving Evidence.

Quoting from a previous ruling Mr. Russ said that he could not call the S.C.A, to testify as to what took piner.

Mr. Nash said that he would be quite willing for the S..C.A. to be called.

Mr. Russ replied that it would make no difference to the case, and he did not think the S.C.A. would de to testify as to what had been said in his presence, because anything said in such circumstances was confidential,

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It may be mentioned, in passing, that a tortoise mother" is Chinese slang for a procuress.

Mr. Nash: When you were grown up, you were put in the Choy Far Brothel No, I decided to go there myself.

Mr. Nash: From there you were taken by a man named Leung Hing Shing as a concubine 1-Yes.

Mr. Nash: And he paid $5,000 for that privilege 7-No, it was by our mutual consent and ne money was paid.

A Third Party Action.

of the Hong Kong Rays Scouts, Outlining the case, Mr. Ruse said the St. Peter's Branch of the Vie that Capt. Artlfur did not deny teria Diocesan Association, which that the amount was owing to plaiur has a heavy programme of activi-tiffs, and his only plea was that ties in planning a scheme to pro-

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in the winter months, the Blind They had tried to efect a settlement Home, etc..

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The New Church.

for payment, and the only answer With regard to the church, there Mr. Buss had received was a re- are two pressing demands, viz— the building of a new church and quest to address all communica the support. of EL permanenttions to Captain Malma's solicitor. chaplain.

Therefore the action became a third party one because Capt. Arthur had to sue Capt. Malm for the money. Launch Necessary,

The present church was built in the late nineties on the grounds of the "Sailors' Home, as it was to serve the double purpose of pro- viding a spiritual home for the The Next Man She Married. Inerchant sennen as well as the Mr. Nash Did he pay anything West Point residents. The former his client's part in the case, said Our suistress 1-No, nobody was need has now largely disappeared, that an order was received from

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Mr. Hugh Jones, in explaining

Mr, Nash: And you asked his position of the Church does not Capt. Malm to adjust the compasses. Lordship to believe that this man adequately serve the residents who of the s.s. Chun dr. To do that tonk you out of the brothel without attend the church. It is hoped in it was customary to hire a launch paying anything?-Yes.

Mr. Nash: You stayed with him in Singapore for about one year 1

Yes.

Mr. Nash: Then you left him and came back again -Yes..

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THE HICKMAN CASE.

FINAL PHASE.

The

SAN FRANCISCo, Oet. stb. They are going to bury William Edward Hickman, convicted kid- of the Government, to procure a at the expense of the agent in order papper and murderer, in the San site in a locality more convenient to swing the ship around. This was Quentin prison vermetery. to the needs of the congregation."

accordingly done. Capt. Arthur young man who once claimed front ordering the launch himself, and page space in every newspaper in. after the work was done signed the the country will be rented as a time-sheet in his own fame. pauper convict on October 19th the

day of his execution.

Much Needed Chaplain, Since the departure of a friend Mr. Nash: Then somebody else of the Colony in the person of the paid a sum of money and took you Rev. H. Copley Moyle, St. Peter's bur again and you lived with him has been without a shepherd. Much in Connaught Road West-No. the credit is due to the little flock" next man I married was the de-in pulling through, a very hard fendant.

Evidence was then taken from the manager of the Wing Shun firm, who said that the launch was placed at the disposal of Capt. Arthur ca two occasions, the cost of which amounted to 840.23.

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Capt. Arthur then went into the witness-box. He said he was partner in the firm of Carmichael and Clarke. He received instruc tions from Capt. Malm to adjust

feliruary 20th: this year. The

period in the history of the church. Mr. Nash: The defendant paid However, the activities are carried $2,000 to take you out?-No, not on, and there is a distinctly home even two thousand brass cash. ly feeling among the small con- Mr. Nash: Did defendant make gregation of worshippers, The you any presents I-Yes, when I was Church Council, with the Very in the brothel and he wanted me. Rev. Dean A. Swann, D.S.C., M.A. he bought me a diamond bracelet as its Chairman, has been trying watch, a jade bracelet, and a dia- to secure a man to take the chap. mond ring.

Jaincy. "Every man is worthy of Mr. Nash And also a dinmond his hire:" much as we need the bracelet -You go away! Do you chaplain, much more do we need think he is so rich as to be able his salary. The Church has a the compasses of the Chan A on to give me a diamond bracelet Chaplain's Fund, and we look to Plaintiff then added that she had this Fete to put it on a sound womtk was subsequently carried pawned these articles, with the ex-basia. ception of the watch, to meet house-i hold expenses.

War Office And High Explosives.

Mr. Nash: Would you admit that sometime during last year you possessed thirty shares in the Bank of East Asia-I don't possess them. Mr Nash Would you admit that you handed the shares to defendant to sell and that he handed the pro ceeds to you?-I deny that.

to ride in, and went to dufendant's I have to pay a lot of debts. house in a motor-car. She regard-" Mr. Nash then explained to the ed herself as a wife, because de Court that plaintiff had agreed at fenchent had told her that bis kit fat the S.C.A. office to return home on wife had died. Defendant had also. condition that defendant would pay:

The patrons of the Garden Fete out, and to do so it was customary are The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of have a launch to swing the ship Victoria, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kote- around in a complete circle. It wall, CM.G., LL.D., Mrs. W. T. was also the custom of the ship"

supply the launch. Southorn, The Very Rev. Dean A

Not having Swann, D.S.C., MA, Mr. W. L. made any definite arrangement with Pattenden, Prof. L. Forster, Mr. Capt. Malm, witness was under the . . Thomas Tam, LL.B. and impression that the usual procedure others. Preparations are well under held good, and had therefore order way, and a good time is in and the launch on behalf of Capt. ticipation for all. The tentative Malm. programme consists of the opening Money And Humility.

friends

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Plans, for the formalities after the execution have already been made by Charles Edwards, counsel

for Mrs. Eva Hickman, mother of

the youth who killed and backed τὰ μέντα 11-year-old Marion Parker.

for

Mr Hickman lives in Kansas City. She and other members of the family cannot afford to ship. Hickman's remains home burial, and San Quentin prison. officials have relieved them of that worry by announcing that they will take charge of "the burial.

Edwards stated to-day that he doubted if any of the family would visit Hickman before the execution so when the young man is dead, his body will be buried in the little prison plot with nothing marking his grave but a number.

Attorney Edwards is still fight- have the United States int Supreme Court intervene, but it is believed that it will prove a losing i battle.

Behave Yourself!

Mr. Sashid that it did make a difference, and he thought that the

.C.A. would come forward, "Yours Is Mine And Mine Is My Own." Continuing. Mr. Russ said that at the S.C.A, office, defendant did no deny owing the money, Ec simply said: Well, I am her bus band and I am going to keep it!" In other words, Mr. Russ said, "what is yours is mine," and what is mine is my own."

Plaintiff then went into the wit ness box to give her evidence. She was dressed in the latest Chinese Mr. Nath: Do you deny that you of the Fete by Mrs. R. H. Kote Asked if he had any question to wgue, with high-heeled shoes. Tell- now have $1,500 in shares in the wall, an open-air concert organised put to the witness, Capt. Walm At this stage Capt. Malm adopt- ing her story in a very low voice, Tung On Steamship Co.-Yes, my by Miss Capell, tea dansant, sup- said that he was not the agent led a very defiant attitude, and she said she was formerly an inmate sister and myself posera such per, carnival dance, and various of the steamer in question. He did when Mr. Hugh. Jones naked him of the Choy Far Brothel. Defendant shares.

side-shows. There will be many not instruet Capt." Arthur.

It was

further questions banged his fists courted ber and eventually married Mr. Nash: So you are not so

on the edge of the box and shouted Der She was given no sedan chair poor as you try to make out?-Wellstalls with beautiful and attractive the master of the ship who did so.

prizes which are mostly donated by He further added that in connec to Mr., Hugh Jones not to ask him

tion with the job, Capt. Arthur two questions at a time, took action against him for the Asked whether or not he had seen. sum of 8121 and costa. He paid the launch in action on the day altogether $185.40,

He paid witness said that he must have been The reason that sum under compulsion because blind if he did not. he did not receive a single cent why he did not interiere was that for the job himself.

leader is a leader," and if Mr. The Highest Certificate." Hugh Jones knew anything about to what amount of money she should said, at the S.C.A. He said that in toto the allegations. made again-t

Capt. Malm then gave his version enfaring etiquette he would not get for her monthly expenses.whatever might have been said there him. He said he had never borrow-of what happened. He said he had ask such absurd questions.

His Lordship told Capt. Malm. Whenever she wanted money she was confidential. It was just like ed any money or jewellery from not personally instructed Captain asked for it. We were quite a discussion in the War Offee about plaintiff. He admitted having had Arthur to do, the job. He only that he did not like his attitude, happy for about a year, and then some high explosives, and if such her ricksha, on which he had spent heard from the master of the ship and that he must behave in Court.

To Pay All Costs, he started to go elsewhere, and very discussions were to be brought out quite a good deal in repairs. She that Captain Arthur was going to often did not return home for the in Court in the way of evidence, could get her ricksha back whenever adjust the compasses.

Witness then went on to explain there would be no secrets. He then she wanted it.

In reply to His Lordship, witness to his Lordship that he would at night,"

To Turn Over A New Lazí. referred to a ruling made by Sir

admitted that he had received a any time undertake to adjust & Things were becoming unpleasant, Justice in Hong Kong, in ease in Henry Gompertz, formerly Chief

enble from the owner of the vessel, ship's compass for 850, and he she said, and there was no more

which the Asiatic Petroleum Co.

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instructions therein contained had the Colony. It therefore stood to engaged a crew and master for the reason that he would not instruct fendant told her that he would turn mentioned in that case and which

vessel. He also told the Court that Capt. Arthur to do it when he had over a new leaf by starting in contained office secrets was ruled

he was a master mariner, which was to pay such a heavy bill business. He asked her to raise a

the highest certificate a captain Judgment Was given against lean, of a few thousand dollars for to be inadmissable as evidence.

Capt. Malm and Capt. Arthur for him, saying that he wanted to buy

could get."

the amount claimed with costs by a share in the Tung Yick 8.S. Co.

the Wing Shun firm. Prior to becoming his wife, she had a little over $1,000 of her own. but the bulk of it had been spent in maintaining the house. She had about $400 left at the time defend- ant asked her for money. She gave him 8300, and when defendant said that that was insufficient, she went out to borrow another $3500 for him.

Mr. Nash: I suppose you want

the only woman for him, and that debts, which amounted to over! Yes.

Mr. Nash: It is very dramatic, he would not get another.

ลพ. Plaintiff went on to say that no Mr. Russ objected to the admis- of courso.

Defendant, in his evidence, denjed definito arrangement was made as sion, as evidence of what had been

promised her that she would be her $200 a month and liquidate her him to chop off a cock's head amount of humus "a certain when the Compasses were adjusted,

His Lordslip said that the case would have to proceed without re ference to the 8.C.A.

Chopping The Oock's Head, Whenever two Chinese are en- gaged in litigation, the unfortunate cock's head is always threatened. To plaintiff, Mr. Nash said: I put

No Brothels in Hong Kong. Cross-examined by Mr. Russ as to whether he had paid $2,000 to take the plaintiff out of the brothel, de- fendant said that he had...

Mr. Rusa: Have you a receipt to show for it-No, but brothels never give receipts. 4.

Mr. Russ: Oh, you are an expert in such business,, ch But do you know that it has been officially denied in Parliament that there are any brothels in Hong Kong De- fendant did not answer, the ques tion being ruled out as irrelevant.

His Honour eventually gave judg

it to you that you never lent dement for defendant with costs, fendant $500-Tell him to wear. saying that plaintiff had not proved

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Mr. Hugh Jones: So you do not think that a launch was necessary

In the third party action, judg to swing a ship round in the harbour Any fool could swingment was entered against Captain ship if the has a twin-screw pro- Malm with costs, and also with peller.

costs on the action brought by the Mr. Hugh Jones: You are plaintiff. In other words, Captain master mariner?-Yes, I am; Malm has to pay the amount claim

ed plus the costs.of. your client one?

nations.

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