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LIFE SENTENCE.

SEQUEL TO MAGAZINE GAP CRIME.

MAN WHO WAS DISCHARGED

ON CAPITAL CHARGE

PUBLIC MONEY VOTES

EXPENDITURÉ AMOUNTING TO $12,000

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ILLUMINATION OF GÖVT.

HOUSE GROUNDS.

Eathmatea, 1982,

.84,300

MAY

GIRL DECOYED TO CANTON

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST

„MAN AND WOMAN:

∙SOLD FOR 3330 TO A BROTHEL

Mr. E. SO. Brooks, for the de- fence, entered pleas of Not Guilty on bobalf of both defen- 'dnats. P

At Central Magistracy yesterday. Sentence, of imprisonment for life was passed by Mr. Justice Wood

The following items of suppleInspector F. Shaftain prosecuted in at the Criminal Sessions yesterday mentary expenditure will be suba case in which a young Chines on Cheung Iu Wah on a charge of mitted for the consideration of the man and a young woman" wero delivering letters demanding ran-Finance Committee of the Legia charged in connection with the Bom from the relatives of Teang Tai lative Council to-day-

procuring of a girl for prostitu Kai, the Shaukiwan youth who was

tion, in Canton." murdered as Magazine Gap.„

Accused, when he was tried alone. for the murder of the youth; plead. "od guilty, but” he was acquitted when the jury returned a verdict of not guilty At a subsequent trial in connection with the same case, three other «necused were found guilty of murder, one of whom was sentenced to death while sentened was deferred on the other tivo pending the diccussion of a logal point, reserved on the applica tion of Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, in the Full Court next Monday?

Accused pleaded not guilty to the charge of delivering throntoning letters and the following jury was empanelled: Messrs. J. Brook (foreman), Liang Han Chih,. M. J.

New furnace and combution chambers to Police Launch No. 5 gad Provision was made for this service in 1031 Estimates un- der Hend 13 Sub-head 31. The work was commenced and had to be suspended pending the arrival of boiler plates from England.

The work is now completed and a revote of the sum of 84,500 is requested, Renewing cable, lights, etc. for

illumination of grounds, Government House 0,000 The existing old rubber cable, ate, has been used for several years and is now total ly unserviceable.. It is pro Rull, LA. Osmund, F. Hallgren,posed to renew with water- W. H. Lebert and D. Mackenzie.

proof strip with the necessary Frisoner was not represented by screw-in holders for the Counsel and Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg | lamps. prosecuted for the Crown..

Delivery of Letters.

The cost is estimated at £3,250 and a vote for this amount is requested.

Mr. Hazlerigg. explained that at

Cash Register. about a quarter past eight on the Treasury Special Expendi evening of February 18; & man

turo Steel Filing Cabinets named Chounf. Sau Fu went to No. These cabinets (Sankey. £73, Shaukiwan West, carrying two Sheldon) are required for the letters addressed to Tang Kun cut off by the now Cash Regis

purpose of Bling the "stuba " Wing, alias Tsing Hin Ting, the tors, the purchase of which owner of the house and father of was provided for in the 1932 the murdered youth. Cheung Sau estimates. The Registers were installed in the Treasury and Fu enquired for Tsang King Baiare now being put into opera. from the latter's uncle, Taang Kun tion. The two cabinets are. Ching, the father being out, and capable of filing approximate- ly 100,000 stabs and will when Cheung was told that the son suffice to meet Treasury T was out be stated he, had asked quirements: for 1932, There is him to deliver. the letters. ย

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They were opened and read by Tanng Kun Ching, who was solicitor's clock One of them de- manded a loan of $10,000 and the Crown case would be that the letter contained direct menaces, to the life of the householder's son.

The second, continued Mr. Ha lerigg, purported to be written hy the son himself, and he then pro conded to read the letters.

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A Wandering -Son, The letter by Cheung Ku stated he was a wandering son from afar and although bo had heard of Tanng Kun Wing's great name bë had not had the opportunity of calling to ase him. "We have now left our military service and have come to Hong Kong from Swatow and desire to go to Shanghai with a view to killing our enemies,"

As they had no travelling ox- penses, the latter continued, they

saving of 8910 on the voté for the two accounting mna-. chines. The additional expen diture is therefore only 884. HE. the Governor Convey

ance Allowance

A vote of $330 is requested to provide for the payment of a conveyance allowance of 850 a month for the acting Aide-de-Camp to the Officer Administering the Govern ment during the absence of the afficer holding the de- finitive, appointment of Aide- dr-Camp. The acting Aide- de-Camp does not draw salary from the Colonial Govern- ment.

Kowloon-Canton Railway: S

Conveyance. Allowance E-2-12 Conveyance Allow- sace to Traffic Assistant.. Provision made in Esti-

maten: $11.

When the 1962 Estimates ware framel it was anticipat ed that the Traffic Assistant. would act for the Chief. Ac- hud detained the son in their house, officer's 9 months leave, and countant during the latter be having been met unexpected. ly" by

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our brothers: Also, if Conveyance Allowance for drastic measures were taken, ra- this period was not included pentance would be too late, and if in the Estimates.

any harm came to the deliverer of A officer of the Senior the letters then the son's life was Clerical and Accounting Staff dearer than the life of the bearer, has now been appointed to act and, I shall immediately cut your during the absence of the son's head and send it back to you Chief Accountant, and the sum of $45 will now be re so as to repay for the bearer.”

Cheung Ku signed himself as the quired to make up the amount Officer in Charge of the Chinese under-estimated vi Iron and Blood Branch of the Eastern River.

In a Bandit's Den,

The letter which purported to have been written by the son to bis father, stated that he had fallen into a bandits den and as his right; | hand had been wounded by a gun he got someone else to write the letter for him, as he was located on a desolate island it was dificult 1 to get the sertions of a doctor, At present he was in no, imminent danger, but they had allowed him to write and nak for $10,000." It wad to be fokred that action would,

SHORTLY TO THE KING'S be taken against his lift it any

Human Story/

DLE WAKES

BUBIL THORNE JOHN STUART- NORMAN MIKINNEL EDMUND GWENN BELLE CHRYSTALL

Directed by. VICTOR.

measures were taken against his

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Inspector Shafain, outlining the case for the prosecution said :-The complainant, Cha Yau, is an un Married girl of 17 and lived with hor widowed mother at 301, Recla mation Street, third floor. She wan partly supported by her brother who carried on a business a crap- iron dealer and has an establish ment at 421, Reclamation Street and partly by occasional work in rope factory. She was acquaint- ed with both defendants, and was on intimate termia af friendship with the second defondant (the wo man) They were in the habit of visiting each other's house."

Asked to Go to Canton.

The complainant alleged that on or about March 27 this year the woman went to her house and stat ed that the intended to go to Can- ion to visit some relations. She asked the complainant" whether ahe 994 would accompany her" and after some discussion complainant agreed to go but did not mention her in- tention to anyone.

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Some time later on the same day,} the woman and the complainant lon the latter's house together and when they got into the street they found the male defendant waiting for them and it was not until that stage that the complainant discover- ed the man was supposed to go with them to Canton.

However, they proceeded to Can ton by train and on arrival thore, the complainant was taken to the house of a woman who was describ. ed as an aunt of the second defen dant. "They stayed there for some hours when both defendants left, leaving the girl there. That night, the complainant alleged, the "aunt" brought a man to the hope and the girl was raped by that mán She will tell the Court that prior to that she was virgo putasta.

Bold to a Brothel..

On the following day she was taken to Fatehan where she was' sold to a brothel, it is said, foi. the sum of 8320, Whilst in the brothel ale wrote to her mother, stating that she had been kidnapped: from Hong Kong and that she was

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in a brothel and asking her mo ther to do what she could in tho imatter.

The girl's brother came to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and made a complaint, in consequenes of which inquiries were made and both defendante were arrested: We communicated with the Bureau of Public Safety in Canton and com- plainant's brother was sent to Can- ton. In due course he went to Fat. shan with the Canton Folive, got the girl out of the brothel, and brought her to Hong Kong

With regard to the corroboration of the fact that she wna, in a bro thel, the defendants having provi ously pleaded guilty, I bad made no arrangemanta to gee the Chip- ase detective down from Canton; Of the Sqcists Internationals debut in the course of the case, if Placements Beale (Local agents, your Worship wants this evidence, Mestre, Goske de Co.).

Ja no doubt we can make arrange-1 Wednesday's official quotation in ment to get the detective down Basis is. Sch.

from Canton.

Contracted Disease." After complainant had been Hazlerigg explained" it would ap pear that he waited outside the brought from Canton, she was in- Mr. Hazlerigg explained that house and when Cheung Bau Futerviewed and As a result of that when pharged, prisoner made me arrested returned to town. interview, she was sent to the Gov- atatement in which, aftor, describe Mr. Hazlerigg commented that rnment Civil Hospital for exami ing events in connection with the prisoner must have known the con- xation where she was found to be murder, he added, that they re- tents of the letters as he admitted suffering from a certain venereal" Mei Chow Hotel having written them in his state dieopse. She had received no money turned to the where Wong Hoi told me to writement, and by socompanying Cheung during the time she was in the two letters and when this was dore Bai Fu to the house he either brothel and only received clothing Cheung Sew Ra was instructed to directly or indirectly mosisted in and food. T

Evidence was then given by the deliver them

Evidence having been called, the girl in support of Inspector Shat Jury retired and after, an Absengsl pain's openingThe Court a of two thinutes they returned af cleared by the Mag!

Eple under 18/sperR verdion of guilty

Mr. Juanico cod bien sentenced the evidence was 1300 for life:

pg was prisoner to imprison

Prisoner Admittanta,

At the Magistracy prisoner stated that he went with Cheung Saut to deliver the letters but Mi

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