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WOMAN'S ALLEGATIONS" AGAINST HUSBAND.

REMARKABLE STORY OF CHINESE LAND OWNER'S CAREER.

FIRST OWNER OF PEDDER BUILDING FIGURES

IN DOMESTIC DISPUTE.

"A very interesting case came up She was residing at the time for bearing before Mr. "R" E. Lind" at 29, Old Bailey, with her child- sel yesterday when Mr. F. C.ren by this defendant. Some years Jenkin prosecuted on behalf of a ago he took another lady as a con- Chinese woman named Wong Yung, cubing and from that day. forward who had taken out summonses for all practical purposes the bus-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1930.

No Legal Obligation. Continuing. Mr. Jenkin contended. that there was no legal obligatión on the wife in the present case to assign her property to defendant. Hy submitted with great respect that they should argue that point at the outset of the proceedings.

Me: d'Almada: I don't agree with that. I should like to cross- examine the complainant as to how she became possessed of all the money to buy these houses.

KWEILIN HEAVILY

ATTACKED,

AERIAL RAIDS AND ARTIL- LERY BOMBARDMENT.

NANNING HOLDS OUT.

Fighting has commenced in Kwangso, according to reports

Wuchow.

CORRESPONDENCE.

RICKSHA AND CHAIR FARES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONG KONG' DAILY PRESS."]

SIB,It is difficult to understand the refusal on the part of the Government to revise the scale of fares for rickshas and chairs.

Mr. Jenkin: "I am prepared to Following the bombardment of

According to the Colonial Secre- state merely for the purpose of Kweilin by the Canton air force, tary, these were revised in 1924, this argument that the husband pro-the Cantonese under Generals Wong since when every schoolboy knows vided every cent..

Yam Wan and Wong Chut Man that the cost of necessities has been Mr. "d'Almada: I want to prove attacked the city with heavy arti-going up prodigiously, so much so damage were done to the defensive recommended for a substantial in work. ::

against her, husband So Shek Chung, band and wife had lived apart. He that that money is neither hers nor lery on Thursday when considerable that Government employees were

who was represented by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, senior.

was an occasional visitor to his wife's residence at Old Bailey.

The Assault.

The defendant was charged with (1) beating and using violence on

"On March 23, the complainant, his wife with intent to cause her from the conduct of the husband, to part with certain landed proper anticipated the possibility of as- ties to him, which act, the com-sault. Whether she was right in that plainant was not legally bound to inference does not matter. She was do, and (2) common assault on De-

at that time in her sleeping kit and "cember 23 lust.

her hair was hanging down on her At the outset, Mr. Jenkin indicat-back. She went to the roof in order ed that he would drop the second to avoid the husband who was not charge and proceed with the first

Whilst looking over the rails she

go to the roof

was suddenly seized from behind by In outlining the case of the comhar hair and dragged some three plainant, Mr. Junkin said:-" In

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one which was taken out under the

Intimidation-Ordinance.

order to make my position clear, I think I should give some of the „salient features" of the relationship between the two parties and the bistory of the defendant prior to the assault.

Married for 30 Years.

accustomed to

four feet. She saw her husband

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hold her by one hand and proceed to strike her with closed fist on her Face and head and the upper part of her arm. She was thrown to the ground and her husband continued to assault her on the ribs.

"During this assault, he per- sistently called her to give him the four houses, claiming that they were his property and demanding that she should hand them back to him. She regained her feet when the defendant once again began to assault her.

The parties have been married thirty years and early in their married life the husband was em- ployed as a solicitor's clerk in various offices in the Colony, Taking advantages of the opportu- nities which presented themselves, he subsequently broke out A3 Д "During the assault, for the pur- speculator in the property market pose of appeasing the defendant, and for some little time prior to the wife said she would hand the the financial crash in 1925, he was, property over. He asked her to do with two other gentlemen, inter- it right away, but she replied that pated in the Pedder Building and that could not be done because the Queen's Theatre. There were three deeds were not at home. of them and they drew lots, and as a result of the cast of the lot the defendant became the sole owner of Pedder Building. For the purpose of putting up the building he secured from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company a mortgage of $500,000. A second mortgage from another person of $300,000 was obtained and a third mortgage of $130,000 was still later taken out making the total $830,000. He was, therefore, ön the face of it, a man of some substance at and up to the time of the 1025 crisis.

After the renewed assault," said Mr. Jenkin, "the second son came to the roof: On seeing him the defendant released the woman's hair but continued beating her. The son came between them and from the father and to some extent Attempted to shield the mother succeeded. The wife then left the roof and went down to the general room, but was followed by the bus- band, who again assaulted her and asked her when she would be hand- ing over the deeds. The son agair intervened and toid the father that if he wanted to give vent to his anger by physical assault, to hit the son and not the mother. The father subsequently left the room.

his but that it was trust money of his father's given to the defendant, and that speculation and thrift furnished the money.

Mr. Jenkin: I will concede that not a cent came out of her pocket.

On the same day, a large body of Kwangsi troops which had been sent to Kweilin from Liuchow as reinforcements were routed at Yau- Granting that she did not pay one ments were nearing Kweilin, a large Mr. Lindsell (to Mr. d'Almada); | shoa. On learning that reinforce-

benny to the purchase price of these force of Cantonese rushed to Yao- four properties, do you still argue shan where they encountered the that that would make any difference Kwangsi reinforcéments numbering to the law on this subject },

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Mr. d'Almada : I makes no

I am not seeking to get evidence in difference to the law on the subject.

another case.

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Mr. Lindsell: Do you agree that

after that assignment that she is the sole beneficial owner?

the registered owner and I am not Mr. d'Almada: I agree. She is

disputing that.

Not Entitled to Use Force. Mr. Jenkin: It must follow from that that the husband is not entitled to use force!

Mr. d'Almada:. My client is not admitting that that force was used ba her.

she is the owner and no one can Mr. Lindsel: Do you agree that

use force on her î

Mr. d'Almada: Yes.

he confined to whether the assault Mr. Jenkins Good, we will now did take place and whether or not there was the intent.

Mr. d'Almada; F am prepared to plead guilty to common assault.

Mr. Jenkin: I shan't accept that plea. Do you agree to all the facts save this, that you did not make the demand?

Mr. J'Almada: Yes.

The complainant then gave evi dence in the course of which she Jenkin had outlined. Under cross- repeated practically what 31r. examination. by Mr. d'Almada although living apart, furnished her witness said that the defendant.

with money.

Mr. d'Almada: Liberally and generously?

Witness: Not too liberally. Magistrate: Did any wife over admit that she gets enough t (Laughter.)

Answering further question wit- ness said that she did consult her

over 3,000

Fighting ensued and lasted several

ed heavy casualties and fled back to hours. The Kwangsi troops sustain

Liuchol.

crease of pay, and got it.

A minor reason for refusal is that the licence-fee for rickshas-plying for hire in Hong Kong has been. but lately reduced," Assuming for a moment that this small reduction disposes of the question of revising

the scale of fares so far as Heng about the chairs in Hong Kong and Kong rickshas are concerned, how

the rickshas in Kowloon i

crament employees feel the high I beg to submit that, since Gov- cost of living, ricksha-men and chairmen must feel more acutely in the same direction. And this is Extortionate Demands. why I cannot understand the at Merchants in Liuchow, the head-titude of the Government. quarters of the Kwangsi armies, have become very uneasy in view of the threatening situation. The extortionate demands for war ex-

penses by the Kwangsi commanders have led to the suspension of busi- ness in many shops and the de- parture of the wealthier merchants and their families from the city.

cover

Incidentally I am reminded of the

mitted the Kowloon omnibuses to increase the monthly fares by forty" per cent. The juice they con- sume costs more, but the same can be said of the juice that goes to generate

energy. Yours,

fact that the Government has per-

etc.,

human

LET LIVE

Hong Kong, August 1.

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SERVICÉ.

(FROM OUR OWN COBRESPONDENT.)

CANTON, August 1.

The question of an air service

Apparently, the Kwangsi troops are short of both funds and am- munition, and it is not expected that they can squeeze" sufficient funds from the poverty-stricken CANTON-HONG KONG AIR merchants in Kwangsi to their war expenses. The supply of ammunition, etc., is difficult due to the lack of lines of communication. It is said that each of soldier has less than 100 runda of ammunition. of Kwangs, has not yet fallen into between Cantoa and Hong Kong is

Nanning, the provincial capital

the hands of the Yunnanese. The again being 'mooted in official and city is strongly defended by about commercial circles here. It has 4,000 Kwangsi troops and the Keen pointed out that such' a pro- people's militia. "The Yunnanese.ject, aside from affording the great- troops are not making any vigorous est etanomy of time and conveni- efforts to capture the city, and it is understood that they have again dispatched a delegate to ask Wei Yun Chung to surrender the city so as to prevent bloodshed.

WONGSHA RAILWAY

WORKSHOPS.

REMOVAL COSTING - $800,000 FROM BOXER FUNDS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, August 1. Plans are being made for the removal of the principal workshop

ence to the busy traveller, will be a most lucrative one, considered from a business standpoint. Both cities have excellent aerodromes from which to make the starting and landing, and as the distance between them is less than a hun- dred miles, not more than an hour's time fill be required for "each trip. It is reported that the Far East- ern Aviation Company of Hong Kong, which have supplied some of the planes now in use by the Can- ton Government, is 'greatly interest- ed in the project. Plans for the realization of this latest mode of travel are said to be in progress. | Fa A trial airplane will probably start for Canton sometime in September, and, if proved successful, a regular

husband over the proposed sale of "Unfortunately for him, before

and except for one occasion when Street, but the husband made no

one of her houses in Fat Hing and bead office of the Canton Fair service will be maintained. the building was completed, the they appeared before Mr. Grant-reply. She denied that the husband general strike took place and he ham, they had not seen cach advised her not to sell and, that found himself in considerable finan. other.

she told her husband to go and cial difficulty. The first mortgagees

mind his own business as she was through with him. Answering an exercised their power of sale and She was considerably bruised. other question, she said she did the property was sold for $850,000, On the following Monday she left not know why her husband assault- which was not salicient to clear for Canton, but previously took the ed her. the third mortgagee. Consequently precaution of having her hair cut same time in 1920 he entered into so that at present she has what we

Properties, of Her Own "Parallel with his case is that

"

"Bobbed " Her Hair,

took out this summons.

In answer to Mr. Lindsell wit- ness said that the husband had

Defendant's Story,

Mr. Jenkin: We have all met an idiot in our experience!TM

Counsel repeated the question and defendant replied in the affirmative. Answering another question by Mr. Jenkin, witness said that he stayed with bia wife every night, but was away most of the day.

Sometimes I could not get entry to the house," he added."

Mr. Jenkin: I am not surprised

Saitsoon station, according to Mr. Hankow Railway from"Wongsha to Chen In Man, managing director of the Railway, in an interview with the local Pressmen, this morning. Wongsha is too crowded with houses and too close to the heart of the city to render it suitable for the purpose. Moreover, the Rail way is in need of more space to Accommodate its rolling stock. It also as to have

a bigger round-house, as" the extension of the permanent way is being made northward through Shiukwaa into Hunan to be connected with the southern terminus of the Peiping Hankow Railway. But no auch space can be had in Wongsha with out the demolition of the dwelling. houses and shops adjacent to the station..

service between Canton and Hong The idea of inaugurating an air

Cecil Clementi in March, 1993, in all 'Kong was first auggested by Sir public speech delivered here. The then Governor of Hong Kong came invitation from Marshal Li Tani to Canton in response to a cordial Hsin, then Governor of the two Kwangs The distinguished visitor from Hong Kong had then pointed out the necessity for such an air service, maintaining that it was Air services are bound to come.

maintained, he said, among the there was no reason why there principal cities in Europe, and should not be a service between the two great commercial centres in South China.

a scheme of arrangement with his called bobbed hair. She return-never before asked her for the creditors and paid them in fulled here on April 13 and subsequently houses. : settlement ten per cent.

"All this, was very unfortunate, Mr. Jenkin, continuing, said :-? 1 but it resulted in his dropping from want to meet in advance a sugges- The defendant in his evidence a man of some considerable position tion which has been made that said that he did not ask his wife He admitted as- amongat property owners to a man although the assault itself. might not for the house. of no substance at all. So far as have been warranted the asseult saulting her and said that he was we can ascertain he has, since that under this particular. ordinance very much provoked by her retort. day, recovered alightly."

would be warranted in that there Mr. Jenkin You desire, if you might be an obligation on this can, to put it out of her power to lady's part to assign this property sell this property in Fat Hing Street

Some twenty mow of land ad. | NEW FORM OF CONFIDENCE because that was something she was and make a fool of herself -Yes. jacent to the Saitsoon station will bound to do. It cannot be disputed And one way of preventing her

TRICK. cf his wife. In the year 1910 she that the four properties stand in from making a foul of herself would be bought back from its private | started to acquire certain properties the name of the lady. They have

owners for the purpose of erecting of her own, with the result that in been registered in her name. The would it not I have heard of cases

be to get her to give you the deeds, then, the round-house, workshop WOMAN MULCTED BY CLEVER

ROGUE, 1998 ahe bad properties to the deeds are in her name and, more. where houses have been sold without and general office of the Railway. coproximate value of $100,000, HÓ

This removal and enlargement of that on the one side of the picture over, they are in her possession, the deeds. you have the husband who has un- The lady's case is that she acquir-

working space will involve $300,000, A Chinese married woman resid- according to Mr. Chen. This sum,ing at No. 67, Stone Nullah Lane, fortunately fallen from the successed these properties with her own ful position in which he was, and money. I anticipate the defendant's

huge as it may seen, vil most has been made the victim of a the wife in the unusual position of case will be that with regard to

Boxer Indemnity Funds to be re- In a report made to the police, likely be appropriated from the confidence trick which cost her $40. being in a comparative state of the first property he purchased it

turned by the British Government. she stated that on Tuesday & man affluence. This state of affairs may in her name and that in the case

It was decided to devote twothirds who introduced himself as Lu assist you, sir, on the question of of the second, third and fourth pro-

of this British returned indemnity Hing came to visit her and said the intent which was at the back perties, although the assignment int

to the construction of railways. that he was a good friend of her of the assault which is the subject each case purported to be in her

Calculating on this basis, $4,000,000 brother-in-law, who had lived-in of this charge, although I will name, in truth there was no money

will be placed at the disposal of the London for a number of years. prove the intent from words which paid and that he put the properties

Canton-Hankow Railway. to hear that. You are not the first the defendant used at the time of in her name for the purpose of 'the assault. The fact that the creating a trust in his favour pr. husband who has been shut ont.. husband found himself as a man in somebody else's favour.

At the close of the case, Mr. without property and his wife as The law," said Mr. Jenkin, Jenkin; in the course of his remarks "is quite clear... By a strange co- n woman with property might have

to the Bench, said: "I have rankled in the defendant's mind. incidence this matter has heen dis-specific instructions from the wife, On March 28, 1930, a very foul cussed at great length by the Chief not to ask for anything in the 26sault was committed by the de- Justice at the Supreme Court, and nature of a salutary punishment." ferdent upon bised the time, clea that is a Mr Lindsell am not satisfied the wife owned four properties; either purchases.property in the that the defendant athrted "No. 15, Uranasi sabte 19 property, home ofthit passes his

which she had acquired from a property into the name of his wife stranger), 222, Des Voeux Road in the guise of an assignment to West, 0, Fat Hing Street and 20, her, the preeuroption in law is that Old Bailey (all acquired from her that is an advancement to the wife husband). She had other proper and that she is the beneficial owner ties, but had disposed of them, but of that property and as beneäcial she was possessed at the time and owner, she is prima facie in the is still possessed of these four pro- eyes of the law, absolutely entitled

to that property,' perties.

sealt with dry intention of timidating the complainant. I am "inclined to think that he did de- and the deeds but only as in- cidence of the assault. I will con- viet on common assault and fine the defendant 950

Defendant was further bound over to keep the peace for twelve months in a personal bond of $200,

The construction of the round house and general workshops at Saitsoon will require about months,

CANTON - CITY; C.E.C.

(Wah Top Tai Pan).

pangustiar

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Lau afterwards said that the woman's brother-in-law had asked him to take her son to London.. The woman agreed, whereupon Lau asked for $40 for the passport fee for her son.

The woman told the police that she believed him because he had produced her brother-in-law's photo Before departing bho won told her that he was staving in the Peking Hotel

At a meeting of the Central Executive Council of the Kuomin

Next morning the woman went tang, it was decided to appoint to the hotel but was told by, the Au Yang Kui, Chen Chak, Lam hotel clerk that no one of that name Yik Chung, Lam Shib Ching, Lak had stayed there. She then made the Yau Kong, Fen Ki Mo, Tam Wai report to the police, and a search Fat, Chen Hsueh Ku nnd Fu Liang for the man was made, but it was Chu as members of the Canton City found that he had left for Canton on the night he received the money. Kuomintang Executive Council,

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