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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.

LONG FIRM FRAUD SWATOW STUDENTS BAG SNATCHER AND

ALLEGED.

STRIKE END'S.

SIX CHINESE ON SERIOUS MORE ACTIVITIES AGAINST

CHARGES.

JAPANESE.

BURGLAR.

ASSISTS THE POLICE TO ARREST TWO MORE.

MAY ROAD BURGLARY AND OTHER THEFTS.

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Before Mr. W. Schuâqli at Cond) (From Our Own, Correspóndent.) tral Magistracy yesterday, HİN Chinese, with others unknown; were

SWATOW, January 17, charged with compiring to defraud

After lasting two wooks the Fox To, Mok Wai Ting, KWA students strike was called off on money and jewellery to n

An additional charge of theft of total Sau Chuen, Cheung, Kam, Ng the 14th inst, following a second value of 14s from 4, Thorpe Manor, Tung and Chan Sau, between

meeting of the Students' Association May Road, the residence of Dr. A. November 28, 1931 and January 3,

in the Union School on that day. V. Greaves, was brought against Ng 1082, by purchasing certain goods

Representatives of twenty-Aya Chak before Mr. Williams at Cen-1 from them on credit without having schools were present, and the pro- val Magistracy yesterday. Delen. any intention to pay for the goods woedings opened with a resumé by dant was on remand, having plod- The first four defendants were also the Chairmen of the previous meeted guilty earlier in the week to the charged with obtaining credit bying. Views wore again exelunged theft of a handbag from Mrs. Floyd, between the delegatos, after which of the Army Married Quarters, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith appeared the resolution to end the strike was Kennedy Road. " for the prosecution while the, fret)

put to the vote and a majority was defendant was represented by Mr.

returned in "favour of same with F. C. E. Rondall, Mr. AL..

effect from the 18th. A. da Silva was for the second defendant while Mr.. D. D. Evnos wins for the fifth. The other three men were not legally represented.

fraud.

The other resolutions agreed upon were:-After the students have re ported themselves to their respectiva schools on the morning of the 18th

There were two other men involv. din charges of receiving stolpu | property and theft. The second de used in charged with possessipu of articles of clothing stolen. from a matshed in Donbam Road, while! the third was charged with theft of construction in Fuk Wing Striel, Shamshuipe.

Mr. C. E. L. Grizs held & watching they should all assemble at the Sun spirit level from a house under 1

follow.

brief on the part of the second com-Yat Sen Park whence a parade will. plainant and the Mar Ngai K ting Factory. All defendants re turned pleas of not guilty,

On the 10th and 20th the students shall be engaged in extensive pro- paganda-work, the form of which has not been disclosed. The two daya following the students shall spend to search for, and examine of Japanese gooda in the shope-in other words taking stock," be

The first defendant admitted the additional charge of theft from the residence of Dr. Greaves, while the second alse" pleaded guilty to two counts against him. The third ad- mitted stealing the spirit. level, but denied receiving property stolen from 3, Torpe Maner.

Police Discoveries,"

Detective Sergeant Fitches told the Court that the first defendant as it has become known that was unremand in connection sit during the suspension of the the theft of the handbag from Mrs. tivities of the National Salvation Floyd when the burglary at Thorpe Association a good deal of Japanese Manor was reported. He whe que pected of the burglary, and inves merchandise was muggled in.

tigations revealed that he had been released from gaol only the day be fore the burglary following a con viction for a theft in May Rond.

Newly Formed Business," Outlining the case, Mr. Whyte Smith said that all defendants were charged with what is commonly do scribed as a "long firm fraud. It was alleged that the in four men were members of a newly forme business a 32. Connaught Read West, which, it was alleged, was formed for the purpose of obtain. ing goods chi credit and then dis posing of them without paying or them.

The firm, called the Tek Cheong shop, carried mi various

Trouble with the merchants is business. As regards the fifth no anticipated when "stock-taking "is sixth defendants, Mr. Whyte Smith done and demands made that shop said they were alleged to have as keepers account for what has been sisted in disposing of the goods and secretly sold For the 23rd and 24th the case for the prosecution was nothing definite has been decided. that the defendants obtained goods The winter vacation starts on, the by crede without meaning to pay 5th inst., and they sekocis will re for them and were, therefore, guiltyppen on the 5th February, so thas of fraud other than by false pro between now and then the students,

tences.

SOLDIER PLEADS

Sergeant Fitches said that the first and second defendants werk discharged from gol at about the same time and they had pre sumably made their plans beford their discharge

Whey defendant was neeused of the buriary he admitted it and took e pela to 136, Stone Yullah Lane, where they found the second and third defendants. The spirit level was lying on a divan and the will have plenty of time to ponder third defendant admitted that he had stolen it On the scraud de Continuing, Mr. Whyte Smithover their recent efforts. said that with regard to the first It must be mentioned that, the fendant the police found a maher. charge, it could be laid out in nike has ended not through any of now tickets referring to pro Authorities but party stolen from Dr. Greaves and six ferent charges bat ho, did not koercion by the consider it necessary. He then through personal influence and persu from a contractor's matched., | Isaid that on December 30, 1031, the suasion by the Principals of the.

Plans: Made in Gaol, second defendant and another man different schools. went to the Cheung Yeung Knit ting Factory stating that they were from the Tak Cheong firm. They gave an order for a certain num, ber of jerseys and then asked these to be delivered to the shop the next day when payment would he mude. This was deng but when the man from the Knitting Factory asked for payment, the snoon 2 la fendant who was at the shop at the time, said that he could only let them have $100 on account, the Andaman to be collected the next day,

thet Despite the fact calls were madë, ne further' pay- ments were forthcoming and the I matter was allowed to drag en

til the present charges were in stiluted. r. Whyte Smith also gave brief lines of five other instances in connection with first charge.

severa

the

GUILTY.

THEFT FROM EUROPEAN RESIDENCE.

MR. DENNY'S' MEÐALS.

A further development in the arrest of two soldiers at a Yaumati restaurant, when articles recently stolen from the residence of Mr. H, L. Dennys were traced, was the admittance by one of them that he took part in the, theft.

The accused, Privates Thomas Hughes and William Howells, of the Payments On Account.

South Wales Bordarers, were The first defondant, went on Mr charged before Mr. Williamas as: Whyte Smith, misted being the Central Magistracy yesterday with assistant manager and accountant of larceny from 108, The Peak, of mis the shop and, when was arrested cellaneous articles, including a he said that the master of the busiGeneral Service Medal and a "Vic- ness had gone to Canton with tory 'Medal and miniatures, travelling trader and they had Hughes pleaded guilty to the taken with them the jerseys. Later, charge, but Howells tendered a plen however, the jerseys were found to of not guilty. be in the possession of the fifth de Mr. T. Murphy (Assistant Direc fendant. The second defendant was tor of Criminal Intelligence) said the actual purchaser in the first in that Mr. Dennys was indisposed stance and in both the first and and the police wished, the name of second onses, he was the man who the complainant" altered to the was in the shop. at the time the Laspector General of Police. He goods were delivered and each time asked his Worthip to defer sentence on the first defendant and grant a he madh payinents of 8100 each.

The third defondant was the par. formal remand for one week until chaser in the Bond case while the Me. Donnys "war" able to attend fourth acest was usually in the Court and give evidence in the ena shop when creditors called. Bagainst the other defendant.

was also the man who told the com Both defendants were remanded plainants that the packages found for one week. in military custody. on the premises contained fire- crackers, whereas they were actually worthless cardboard." He also said that bo was merely a servant in the shop.

The fifth defendant was the max) tor of the Lee Koe shop and was the receiver of the goods while the sixth was in the employ of the Bfth man.

KIDNAPPER'S POOR EXCUSE.

CHILD'S FATHER OWED

HIM MONEY,

Mr. Whyle Smith remarked that

The excuse that the father of when the shop was raided, soven large packages, done up in straw the child owed him $70 was givet mating, were found outside. The by a defendant when he was charg fourth defendant said that they ed at Kowloon Magistracy yestar woro freerackars but they turned day with kidnapping a four-year out to be waste cardboard. prom old child.

The first defendant was given. eight mentba hard inbear for snatching the handbag from Mr. Floyd find a further four months imprisonment for larceny from Dy. Graves The second defendant received. sentende of three montha for receiving stolen pro perty and two months for theft of clothing at Bonham Rond, the third defendant being given weeks for stealing the spirit level

LOCAL PROBATES.

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FOUR EUROPEAN ESTATES ADMITTED.

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worth

Estate in the Colony #20,200 was left by the late Francis Desmond Talbot Coke, retired Army Captain, formerly of Clayesmbre School, near Winchester, Hanca, and of 5. Connaught Place, Hyde died on Park, Middlesex, who April 27, 1931, at Westerfield, Bich mond Road, Worthing, Bussex

Re-sealing of certified copy of probate of the will and two codi cils has been granted to Mr. G. 6. N. Tinson, of fewers. Johnson, Stokes and Master, who is attorney for the executors and trustees, ME R. 8. A. Straus, SE, Hyde Park Mansions, London, publieher, and Major E. Howell (retired), of Westerfeld:

The late Mr. John Johnson, dök yard store keeper, Ints of 5, Stanley Terrace, Quarry Bay who died at the Matilda Hospital on November 20. 1931, left local estrate worth $16,500, Probate of the will has been granted to the widow, Mrs.

41, Eliza, Johnson,

Camber. land Roid, Kowloon Tong, who in the executrix.

Ro-scaling of certified copy of probate has been granted to Mr. O G. N. Tinson in the estate of the late Mr. William Green Skipworth, retired merchant, who died n

Heath, Brookhurst, Broadbridge Horsham, Sussex, on May 23, 1931. Hong Kong estate amicunts o

ly used as a blind." There was 'It was stated that defendant no money in the safe which con took the child on board the 85,000 while net persoonly at Home tained a few books, while six ac Charles Hardouin and attracted this £21,881 10s Bd. Mr. Tinsonia count books wore found on the attention of the compradore of the attorney of the Public Truses, unter but these did not show whe the ship. He could not give the sole executor named in the wilh ther the business had any funds or satisfactory explanation and' was

otherwise. There were also eleven taken before the Captain who had chops, all of which bore the name him deamed and taken back to of the Tak Cheong firm.

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