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FUNG MURDER TRIAL CONCLUDING. -

SPEECHES BY CROWN COUNSEL AND/REPLY BY. MR. POTTER FOR THE DEFENCE.

GRANTING OF CONDITIONAL PARDONS SEVERELY

CRITICISED.

The Fung murder trial will probably finish to day. The whole of yesterday was taken up by speeches by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, counsel for the Crown and by Mr. Eldon Potter, leading counsel for the defence.

Mr. Sheldon's address lasted à little over an hour, but Mr. Potter, who commenced his address just before 11.15, had not concluded his speech when the court rose at 4.15. He will con- tinue his address today.

The defence severely criticised the granting of conditional pardons to several witnesses for the Crown, Mr. Potter also chal- longed the evidence. of Zimmern and Christle and said that that ovidence was perjury from beginning to end. He told the jury that the visits to the solicitors were for the purpose of blackmiał and blackmail only and said that the accused never accompanied Zimmern to the offices of Messrs. Lo and Lö; ">Itwas not mere chance or hick that Mr. Le could not identify Cheng,

Mr. Potter indicated that he would probably conclude his ad- dress in one four this morning,

ALLEGATIONS OF PERJURY AGAINST WITNESSES.

FOR THE PROSECUTION,

MR.. SHELDON DEFENDS CROWN WITNESSES.

} "My case is," said Mr. Sheldor "that when he knew she had gone, his vanity and conceit were irre parably wounded. The girl he had supported for years had gone to live with a penniless man.

"What was in his mind that jury, which lasted one hour, was night was no sense of humour. He had not only lost his girl. He had Jost."

face.

Mr. Sheldon's address to

the

as follows:-~

"The

whole of the evidence tends to show that this is a case of hired assassination, and I doubt! in a case of that description whe ther there could be direct evidence! to connect the person who procured

the crime with the one who com mitted it.

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Mr. Sheldon put it to the jury i that when two persons, bo did not; mind what their characters woré, | definitely committed perjury which might involve a man's life and death there was a reason for it and what reason did the defence suggest for Zimmern and Christie becoming involved in the terrible Jeal i

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Whatever the jury might think of the characters of those two men, Mr. Sheldon submitted, with some confidence, that neither of their stories had been shaken ono iota in cross-examination.

Paul's Evidence.

Proceeding, Mr. Sheldon said the jury would remember that prisoner was arrested on April 4 and that the case was shortly afterwards opened in the Police Court. It was! not until the end of June, however,

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that intimation reached the Police prisoner was willing to spend for the Crown, I have never be that the evidence of Taui, Ah To 210,000 to have Fung killed: we fore heard a Crown Counsel ask Nai the public car driver, etc., had have proved that Cheng had the jury to take into consideration become available to the prosecution. trusted chauffeur under an obliga- the fact that a man was shot down Commenting upon the evidence of bion to him who would help in the in cold blood. It suggests that you Tui, Mr. Sheldon said he was killing of Fung, and we have prov. ought to find a victim for the mur- quite certain it was a matter of re-ed that Fung. was killed by hirad der. It is a suggestion that should grot to the gentlemen of the jury assassina procured by the trusted never have been made. and to everyone in Court that that chauffeur. We know that Ah Lau! diet should be on the evidence anit man (Taui) was not occupying the paid $2,000 for the killing of the evidence alone; same position as the prisoner.

The evidence of Tsui, again the defence had suggested, was a tissue

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this man.

Your ver-

Mr. Potter then reminded the

Mr. Sheldon said they had jury that they should rid their of lies, and again no reason had been told by the defence that minds of anything they might have been given or suggested by the de- it Was A matter of life heard or discussed out of the fence why this mar should have and death. He agreed. It was Court. gone into the witness box and told Cheng's life and Fung's death. He Mr. Fotter next made clear to these lies and such a queer story. wondered if they had pictured dur. the jury his position as defending If, as the defence said, his storying the trial the young man walking Counsel. It was a popular belief was a tissue of lies, there must be down the street, being shot down that lawyers would say anything to a reason for it.

defencelessly and helplessly with get their clients off, but he would out a chance. That young man had point out to them that it was not passed to his death. By whom was his duty to twist or distort a single the death brought about? “I say fast. It was not his duty to throw to you, by the prisoner," added dust in the eyes of the jury. Mr.' Sheldon,

Was it likely, the pardon being conditional on his telling the truth, that he would go into the witness box and tell a false story, which, if it were false, would imperil his own peck?

SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE.

Witness Obaracters,

Speaking of the character of the witnesses. Mr. Potter said-We

Significant Statement. Mr. Sheldon went on to refer to Zimmern's statement after his ar rast, and one of his replies to Mr. Jankin-" I made this statement no- cause Cheng said he would get me "This is è case of circumstantial lawyers. I saw Chong and Mr.

Plot Proved. evidence, and in such enses you will Brutton coming up to the Police Court and I thought he had double. always' find a subtlety on the party

Continuing, Mr. Sheldon sub. of the guilty man to cover up traces crossed me." It was a significant mitted that the Crown had proved MR. POTTER CRITICISES THE know all about Christie. He is a

"FREE PARDONS." of his wicked and sinister crimas," statement, said Mr. Sheldon,

the plot by Zimmern and Christie!

convicted criminal, Zimmern has "I will submit that since the Sheldon, was that the prisoner had

All Zimmern know, said Mr. to murder George Fung: we have Mr. Eldon Fotter began his been described as a black sheep. opening of the case for the pro- let him down by not sending the proved the abortive attempt made!

speech for the defence at 11.20 They are admitted swindlers. They section, the Crown case his been lawyer to, him as had been promis- on March 19 by the other men. immeasurably strengthened by the ed It was suggested by the de Wong and Ah Lau: we have proved am. He said:

jibbed at the word "blackmailers,* fence practically the whole story of evidence and certain admissions Zimmern and Christic was a pack the preparations by the hypodermic | "Gentleman, I am surprised at but that does not matter much. made on behalf of the defence: It of lica,

syringes: we have proved that the the concluding remarks of Counsel ! (Continued on l'ugė 5.)

is admitted that the prisoner went to the Nathan Hotel on March 17th and 18th.

"We know that on the night of March 17 he booked a room next

to the room occupied by Lai Ming

Fay and George Fung. A .faked

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PENNY-FARTHING.

telephone call was received, by Lai Dean Kindies,— Ming Fay and when she went to There are very few bicycles answer it, she saw, ailkonetted to be seen about the streets of Victoria; and I am probably cor- against a doorway, the melodrama-roet in aaying that none of you!

tic figure of the prisoner.

"It is admitted that on the night of March 20 the prisoner, Zimmero, Christie, Sousa and. another mån went to the Nathan Hotel. It was the night for the beating up t Fung and the face slapping,"

More Than a Skylark.

"The defence has said this in- cident was all part of a subtle plot to get accused involved in an

assault on Fung."

Mr. Sheldon ridicaled the idea that the slapping of Fung's face was evidence of the prisoner's jocular humour.

“I suppose when he went to the Nathan Hotel two nights previous

ly and appearing, as a dramatic

have even seen the old-fashioned bicycle of 1887, illustrated here.

Suggestions of vehicles baving two

THE

STAMP COLLECTOR

Delivery Stamps,

OUR CONTINUED STORY

THE BALLOON BOY. THE

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WHILE the boys went about the

farm together, Mrs. Ely help-

ed Paul's mother, and sewed. There C

auemed to be many people in the near-by small town who wanted sowing done, and there were pre- serves and pickles and canning to be done for Mrs. Artley.

Inside the

cottage, Edwin's mother sang even more happily”

H

Blövölés and motor-öycles have I then she had in that tiny fourth- L

played their part in the delivery of floor room in Ashmont.. ordinary mail also. One such post

has been recorded as existing be-

One day Paul took Edwin to see

tween Coolgardie and Southern the school that he attended. It was D Cross in Western Australia during not a long walk from the farm, and: the period of 1883 to 1808 and was

fully.

or more wheels and propelled by se successful that it was extended when Edwin saw the pleasant long the rider, are to be found in very to other towns not served by the low building, he looked at it wist R early times; oven on the bas-reliefs regular government reptes. The of Babylon and Egypt. Neverthe-government finally took over all less it was not until the 18th cen- these foutes in 1898 and supplement- turr, that they were used to any ed this post by regular service. considerable extentejn in de ma

I wish that I could go to

school there," he said. "See the

One of the earliest models made Bicycle posts have been used in trees, and the cricket ground, and its appearance in 1600; it consisted time of war for carrying messages the football goals! There were 61 of a wooden bar rigidly connecting and also in times of stress for ex-

figure, glaring at Lai Ming Toywo wheels, placed one in front of pediting mail delivery, one of these children in my room this year, and N

it was just another touch of his sense of humour.}"

"It is not contradiated," said Mr. Sheldon, "that the prisoner kept Lai Ming Fay, but not as his mistress. He intended to marry

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The boys didn't talk much about

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BY

the other, and was propelled by the

stress routes boing established we weren't even allowed to use a rider, sitting natride the bar, push between Sad Francisco and Fresno, football in the school yard."

Against the ground with his California in 1894 during the rail- Way strike of that year when mail

Edwin's going back to Ashmont in. Like many other inventions, the service was temporarily interrupt-

the fall, but the thought was in bicycle slowly improved. Rated. cords were made with the Rudi Quite recently Poland has issued the back of both their minds, and Racing Ordinary, 1887, (illustrated), a 39 groszy stamp in dark sepia not a happy thought, either. Ope

This stamp. datington bicentenary. Farthing" perfection with the "push-bike,

To-day we seem to have reached and ke all other "perfect" things, it falls back, and out-of-fashion...

Cheeria,

her when he came of age. When commonly known as the Penny colour to commemorato the Wash- August day after another slipped C

the quarrel took place and the girl left him for George Fung, what would be the feelings of the prison or 1.

The defence says this young man of wealth and importance, with many attractions for worker,

was tired of Lai Ming Fay-that

she was a woman well rid of

SUNOLE JACK.

POUR LES PETITS. YESTERDAY'S TRANS LATION.

ارد با اسطوان

· Mr. ́Sheldon asked if this wers consistent with his statement on meeting Lai Ming Fay in the Thero is a lovely menngerie in Hong Kong Hotel on February 24 the town and we are going to see of 25- If you go to live with the animals. The savage beasts are George Fung, I will spend all my in big cages, here is the tiger, a money to prevent you living hap- cruel and terrible animal, be is very pily. If you give him up, I will strong and bis hide, is brown and take you back.

black striped

shows the portraits of Kosciuszko, by, bringing fall always a little Washington and Pulaski and is of nearer. Then one day Mr. Artley the same general type as the York town Commemorative. This stamp talked to Edwin (

was placed on sale April 25 and withdrawn on May 1,

(Another Article next week.)"

YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE.

"The garden beside the cottage basn't been used for a couple of "Suppose you' years," he said. clean it up for me. Would that bo too hard a job?"

* I'll be glad to do it," said Ed- win. I'll start ab it now."

And I'll help," said Paul. "No, I want you to mow tho lawn and weed the flower beds," Here is the solution of "yester said his father. „iley's_puzzlez

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Paul was surprised. Ho and. Edwin had grown used to working.“ together, and it seemed strange to go off by himself. But he went and did an Dad told him,

(To be Continued.)...

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