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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,... TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932.

THE LATER. O..

YOUNG.

DEATH ENQUIRY HELD

YESTERDAY.

VERDICT OF SUICIDE WHILST

OF UNSOUND MIND,

The tragic discovery of the body of the late Revenue Officer Young on the hillside above Lai Chi Kok prison on November & sal year was recalled at the Kowloon Ma gistracy yesterday, when. Mr. J. A. Fraser ang as Coroner assisted by a jury consisting of Mr. F. T. Clemo (Foreman), Mr. Li Jor Soa and Mr. Fan Kwok Hong to sea duct an enquiry into the circum abancas of the death.

the last day he saw him. On"shap occasion he left his affleo at" about. 5.p.m. and walked up Shaoghal Straet

Distillery Allegations.

DEATH OF MR. F. T. LEE.

WELL-KNOWN IN LEGAL

CERCLES.

The death occurred on Sunday of Mr. Frederick Thomas, Lee, senior interpreter to Mesar. Wilko and Grist, with which Grm he had boun anunciated for over 30 years.

Another Chinese Revenue Ofear, named Li Fun, said that he was Working with R. O. Young for above two years before his death, On October 13 ye was with R. 10. Young and Mr. Lloyd at a dis. tillary on the Castle Ponk Bond, Mr. Lee, who was 13 years of age, and heard the licensee of the dis had hardly known a day's illness tillery say to Mr Lloyd: The until last year when indifferent health Inspector's bus ticket was bought.{

necessitated an operation which by me I have got it for him," same as a surprise to all who know He was referring to R. O. Young.

him. Subsequently he showed signa of substantial recovery but suffered Shortly afterwards he and R. O. Young returned to the office, and a recent relapse and succumbed at his residence No.. 294, Prince Ed R. O. Young wrote a letter, which was an unusual thing for him to ward Road, Kowloon. dor He appeared unhappy and Born...in Hongkong in 1888, Mr. spoke less than usual, Witness asked Loo was educated at the Diocesan Boys School and Queen's College. him where he was going to spend

By virture of his position Mr. Leo, who was better known to the leading Chinese business. men of the Colony as Mr. Li Fuk-tanu, came in- to immediate contact with a Wide circle of friends with whom hie staunch loyalty was a byword. He wae also highly respected by the many Europeans who know him.

Detective-Sergeant Goodwin isid in evidence that at about 8.30 am, the night and he replied that he After period of service. in the cr November & be was conducted did not know where he was going Imperial Maritime Customa, Shang- to the hillside to the north of LiLi Fun then asked if there was hai; he returned to Hong Kong and Chi Kok rond where he saw the any more work for him that night, joined the legal profession. ballly decomposed body of a Burs./and repeiving a negative reply went. Pain any clearing in the un-home for his meal. That was the dergrowth. Thoro Wat bullat last over saw of R. O. Young. wound in the right temple, and an In answer to Mr. Fraser, witness automatic pistol with a discharg said that the deceased had seemed cartridge case jammed in the unhappy only for a few hours pre- efector opening was gripped in thevious to his leaving him for the right hand. The undergrowth, was last time. of such density that the body could not be seen two yards away. He removed the body to the Kowloon mértuary where," at 9.30 am, the next day, he identified it in the presence of witnesses,

Detective-Inspector M. Murphy said that on November 5 he searched the body and found in the pockets

Widow's Evidence.

Mrs. Young, the widow, was then called, and was given a sent near the Cordner. Mrs. Young then ob- jocted to their being only one Euro. pan on the jury, but was told by the Coroner thas that matter must be left to him...

He is survived by a widow, three daughters and three sons, two of whom, Dr. George Les, medical practitioner, and Mr. Richard E. Loc, ARIBA, the architect, re- turned from England last year and are now in practica locally.

The funeral will be held to-day, passing the Monument at 5 p.m.

that he would like to do so if it

were possible.

of the clothing a wallet, bunch..of Mrs. Young said that she had live with his wife and did not keys, pipe, tobacco pouch, cheque Been, married about two years, and know what to do with her of him- self. Witness suggested that he book and bus ticket bearing the that until recently her married life might go home, but Young replied name, N. J. Young.' He was had been a very happy are. She handed so automatic pistol by Sgi lived with her husband until Octo

The Rev. Rogers said that he Goodwin, which he later passed bor 1 at a flat in Carnarvon Road!

gathered that Mrs. Young was not over to the Police Armourer at the Kowloon, when he left her. Fre willing for her husband to return, Water Polios Station In answervious to that date she had no in- and that there were matrimonial difficulties. Young left the Vicare to the Foreman of the jury, Inspectention of loving him, but had age after about an hour, anying tor Murphy said there was no been told by other people that he that he could see no way out of intended to leave her. He went, his trouble. He was greatly wor money on the body.

from one person to another getting ried, but apuke quite rationally, advice about the matter, and bad

Medical Evidence.

Medical evidence was given by Dr. K H. Uttley, to the affect that death was due to a gunshot wound in the skull, and thus the badly decomposed condition of the bady would have rendered ang at

been to a lawyer, though whether Allegations of Irregularities. he had taken the latter course with: a view to obtaining a separation. she did not know.

excited and said: They want to At this point Mrs. Young becanie blame everything" on to.me becau they want to whitewash the Revenue Department."

Mr. Pusher Calm yourself,

Chief Preventive Officer W. J

Ho Buller then gave evidence, Young rice 1950. He was very said that he had known R. O sober and above the average intei-

an efficient an

ligence, and was keen officer.

On October 12 one of the disti

terapt at examination of the intern-Mrs. Young. You will do yourselllery fokia Arrested for irregulari.

al organs valueless. It was. impor sible, id Dr. Uttley, to say whe ther or not the wound was self- inflicted: a bullet from the mutama.

sic pistol produced in Court could have caused such a wound,

Sergeant J. H. Scott, Police Armourer, mid that he made na examination of the automatic pistol handed to him by Detective Inepee or Murphy on November 5. It was a Remington 32 (7.05 m.m.) calibre seven shot automatic pistol, num ber 08238; license number 127. There was an empty sheh jammed across

more harm than good.”.

Objected to Chiness Visitors,

ties in connection with the distillery said: "Why should we be arrestéd and not the "pompan'.

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Defrauding the Government.

They were at the distillery) at Mrs. Young then went on to say the time and he told Young to say that a cause of the friction between as little as possible because he knew ber husband and herself was his what an excitable man the master. practice of having Chinese into of the distillery was and wanted their only reception room forcing, to avoid trouble if he could. bey to wire to the bedroom. With regard to the master of the dis tillary, she had seen him many Mr. H. N. Taylor, Government times at the flat, and sho had also Monopoly Analyst, said that for been to his distillery. Her husband some time before his dianppearance had told her that he was worried Young had been very depressed, about an offer that had been made and had told him that he had domes- two or three months before his death, the trouble and was very worried in oongation with this maúj about his wife,

worried Serious allegations were mad Mr. Lloyd to ask him to take her against Young on October 12 by a

About a year ago she went to see the ejector opening; and from a husband's automatic pistol away faki of the distillery, and again on position he would say that it had from him as he had been threaten., October 13 by the licensee,

He was at boon fired: the shell had not beening everyone with it.

that time suffering from boils in thrown clear because of improper the cars, but would not leave his

Mr. Fraser, in his summing up, eication. The magazine of the pia- job, saying there was nobody else referred to the unhappy domestic tol, which when fully loaded held to do his work.

life of the decensed in the weeks In answer to the Coroner, Mre immediately preceding his separa- sevon rounds, then bold six live Feung said that after her husband tion from his wife, and to the. al.

•had left her she was under the lagations made against him by the impression that he was living at foki and master of the distillory, the Revenue Officers' Mess, as he The Coroner gave a brief outlin was there before they were married. of the case in which this distillery She went on living at the Bat

rounds.

Decessed's Last Walk, Evidenco of the deceased, having passed Lai Chi Kok prison од October 13 the laas day he was seen alive, was given by Wardor W. R. Debear, of Lai Chai Kok prison, who said that at about 6 p.m. on that date he was on the verandah ci his quarters when be saw Young walking slowly along the road towards Tsun Wan smolt ing his pipe.

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Suggestion of "Mental Unbalance.

The Summing Up.

were proaccuted for making, ilicit liquor, thereby defrauding the government of hundreds of dollars He wanted her to be taken away factured on a great scale, and when daily. The illicit spirit was manu- and placed under observation as the distillery was raided a very ho said that she was mentally u ocnsiderable quantity of illicit li balanced, and for two days had quor was found on the premise. run after her with two doctors. Revenue Officer Young, when con So far as she knew her husband ducting previous examinations of Was worried about two things, their the distillery, either was so Yax domestic relations and the master in his duties that he made but a of the distillery, She had no cursory examination of the pro- reason to think that he was going mises, or knew of the irregularities to commit suicide. #

and had connived at them. Young theri identifie the property found on the deed the jury had to consider whether The Corongy went on to say that man, remarking that she thought the wound in the hand of the deceas tho gun was bigger and houvier than ed" was self inflicted, or whether it really was.

it was accidental or caused by some ether person. If it was Bali-inflict od then they ought to consider the

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Similar widenes was given bis Warder J. Johnson, who said that at about 6 p.m. he was walking along the rend towards Hong Kong when ho met Young, whom he knew quite well, coming in the opposite direction. He nodded to Young, but the deceased failed to recog nise him. Witness "said that he had The Reverend W. Walton Rogers state of the deceased's mind,mát Been Young frequently between said that he first met Mr. Young, the time of the occurrence. Mong Kok and Lai Chi Kok before, on Wednesday October 7 last year,

Suicide. but he had never seen him passing when she sought his advice because

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the jail. He was a man one cult she was in trouble about matri- The jury thereupon returned a nct easily mistake, and be had monial affairs He gathered that verdict to the effect that Revenue several times conversed with him her husband refused to live with Offer Young died as the result of on the Lai Chi Kok-Mong Kck her. He spent some time with a gunshot wound in the head whien Mrs. Young, and then endeavoured was self-inflicted, and that his mind: According to Chinese Revenue to get into touch with her husband. was temporarily unbalanced at the Officer Puu Pui, who stated that few days later R, O. Young time.

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had been working with deceased visited him, and gave him the im- Mr. Frasor: "That amounts to for a year before his death, R. O.pression of a man who was a verdist of 'Suicida, whilst of un- Young seemed in his usual spirits trouble. He said that he could not sound mind, I agree with the on Tuesday October, 13, which was (Continued, on atzi Column.), yerdiet."

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