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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1931.

JEWEL ROBBERS.

ALL PLEAD GUILTY AT SESSIONS:

SERVANT WHO ROBBED

HIS EMPLOYER.

FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE.

„LATE MISS DAVIES' FINE

RECORD.

PIONEER EDUCATIONIST, ` .

ASSETS

£13,000,000

VOLAIMS - PAID

£40,000,00

Ying Wa Girls! School. Even more important is the an. I. G.8565 in first class neommodations nouncement by the Dollar Steam-and 0.8297 in the excellent special In 1928 a now school building ship Line and the American Mail class cabins, available only on the var orested on an adjoining e at a cost of over $100,000, to which Line of summer round trip rates. Dollar Steamship Line and Ameri

ne and the Government contributed applicable to both first-aines and | cân Mail Line steamera. 250,000. This new building was special-class tickets covering trans. These reduced round trip fares. formally opened just neture her portation Hong Kong to the United are being introduced at the instiga- retirement last year. Miss Davies, States or Canada and return. Durtion of the Robert Dollar Company was thus able to me the dreams ing the months of Junio, July and

to meet the long-felt need to on- of a life time fulfilled and to hand August, 1032, tickets at these sub-

courage tourist travel to the United Staley and Canada from the Oriont. over to her successors & school with mer round trip rates are sold at over three hundred pupils, and A brief announcement in our buildings worthy of the school. Although Jurors were present at

The school is now known as the the opening of the Criminal columns last week with regard to

Ying Wo Girls' School and Sessions yesterday before Mr. Jus- the death in England of Miss Heleris

graded from kindergarten tice Lindsell, they were not callad viss recorded the passing of ano a matriculation standart. The to serve qing to the accused' per-

headmistress is Miss D. Hutchin B00% on trial in various casseld resident of the Colony.... pleading guilty.

Miss Davies was appointed by Tam Hor Kam admitted the offence when he was charged with the London Missionary Society to larceny of a quantity of jewellery Hong Kong in 1888 and arrived in from his employer, Mrs. Wench the Colony about Christmas of that Krogh Moe, of 18 Peak Mansions.

Mr. Somursst Titaray oxplained year. Apart from short absence that the theft. took place on June 28 on leave, Miss Davies spent forty while the accused was employed as two years in the Colony cagged a house-boy..

The accused broke opan a jewell-in eduentional work. Her life may ery caso and stole 84,000 worth of be described as a life spent freely jewellery. He decamped and went for the education of Chinese Girls tos house in Yue Chow Street, Yaumati, where he took a cubiclo in Hong Kong: Horo he handed the jewellery to a woman, who had already been con- victed of receiving stolen property, und she pawned them for him, Following the accused's arrest, over 91,000 worth of stolen jewellery bad

been recovered.

Sentence of twelve months' hard labour was passed.

Disiguring a Woman. Throwing sniphuric necid on woman and disfiguring her was the charge against Fung Yee, which he Ladmitted.

Miss Davies began her work in

Miss Davies never sought, pub--

licity, but in the Colony, in the province of Kwangtung and other parts of China, many of her old pupils will learn of her death' with sorrow, coupled with thanks giving for her life and sterling character. With one aim and purpose running through her life, Miss Davies, throughout her forty- two years of service, worked for the education of the girls of the Colony and saw many of her pupily: take positions of trust and hon our. Many Chinese women of to- day will hold her name in honour as long as memory lasts

those early days of the Colony when it was not the usual practice of Chinese residents to send their daughters to school. With charac | PACIFIC FARES REDUCED. teristic self-discipline, she prepar-

ed here if for this work and as soon as ber knowledge of the spoken language of Kwangtung al- lowed, she undertook the superin- tendence of several small girls' day schools. It was not long before Mr. Fitzy said that the incidunt she began a boarding school in one of the L.M.S. chapels. Eleven necirred on September 7 near the years after her arrival she moved Pole ground where the woman was the Girly Boarding School to a new waiting for a bus. Apparently the building on Bonifam Road for accurat had not known the woman which abe raised the necesELTY previonaly and was unknown to funds and superintended the build her. He suddenly dung the acid on ing. From then onwards during her, burning her clothes and face her long residence in Hong Kong,

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The Doliny Steamship Line and American Mail Line advies that effective, November 15, special re- duced round trip fares are being

quoted on all of their steamers from the Orient to the United States and Canada. These round trip fares.will be valid for one year from date of issue and will be one and three- quarter fares, or 25 per ocut re-

duction or return portion. minimum round trip fare will be trip applies on first-class tickets

The

The Anid just missed the woman's Miss Davies gave herself to the 0.8656.25. This all-the-year round oves, otherwise she would have been

blinded. Some of it fell on her neck and some on her back. The acensed appeared to have been hir rl by some can to do this, but the Police have been unable to discover the insligator. It was a bad case And much netá required stopping.

Remarking that it was n very Farious offence, hin: Lordship asked if accused had any cause to show why he should not be heavily': punished. Accused replied that he had nothing to say, and he was sentenced to four years hard Inbour.

Hard Labour and the Birch, Chan Yau and Tsang "Shu plead- ed guilty to robbery of a quantity of jewellery at Mongkok on August 10 while Chung Wah Yeung ad | milled receiving platinum wrist watch The second accused also ad- mitted a separate charge of robbery on June 8 at Wangkoktaui

It was aluted by the progrention that the nan chniged with robbery, on two separate occasions was arrested together with the first ac- based, while the third was taken into custody Inter and a pawn ticket was found on him relating to one of the stolen artieles, which was the only thing recovered: Mr. Fitzroy said that the victims were women, and a certain amount of violence had been used on them by the robbers.

The first and second accused were pentance) to three years', hard Jabour, and the third accused was xiven twelve months for receiving stolen property.

Addressing the rond areused, Tsang, in regard to the August robbery, his Lordship said that as it was the second robbery in which be had been engaged during three months, he would be sentenced to five years and 13 strokes of the hirch, the sentence to run consecu- tively with the three year term.

There are two entes remaining on the calendar, which will cors for hearing before the Chief Justice this morning.

GUESTS AT REPULSE BAY HOTEL.

The following guests are staying at the Repulse Bay Hotel: Dr. M E. Asger, Mr. L. Alltree, Mr. H. P. Bailey, Mrs, M. Bird, Mr. and Mrs. Bonnamour and child. Mr. W. G. Bree. Mr. and Mrs. A. Brostedt, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cholot, 31r. and Mrs. T. M. X. Chollow and two children, Mr. and Mrs. H. Corra Q. sun two children, Mrs J. Cruickshanks, 31r. A. K. Dimond, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Darrow, Mr. and Mrs. A Drouth. Mr. S. 1. Duff, Mr. D. D. Edgar, Miss E. Edmondson, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. H. Efferace, Mr. and Mrs. Erlanger, Mr. D. Tinne, Mr. A. H. Gordon, Miss.B. Gordon, Mr. W. D. Harris, Mr. G. M. Hemsworth, Miss S. Higgins, Mrs. Hollyer and two children, Mr. F. N. Jester, Miss D. A. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs John Kempf Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Langley and child, Mr. Lataste and child. Mr. F; M.. McBain, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Norris and child Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Pareons, ira H. C. Pullen, Mrs. MS. Rose, Mr and Mrs. H. J. Sheridan and four children, Mr. P. Smart, Mr. and Mrs E Etoun, Mr.; L.G.. Scolt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sykes, Mr. and Mrs. E. Sweet, Mrs. 0 E. Tatlow and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, G. 3. S. Thomson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tully, Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Taggart, Mr. 9. M. West, and Mrs, and Miss Wilder.

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