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ECHOES OF 1859

69-A Social Problem Of

Bygone Days

(October 18, 1859.) We learn with infinite surprise and regret that the managers o the Garrison Theatre have so far to as- forgotten themselves. as sume the position of arbiters as to the position in Society which each denizen of this Colony is to Occupy. As the barber sald when I

sweep wanted shaving-"We must draw a line somewhere, my man", so are we al aware that something of the kind has to be done here--but there is a "wa" of doing these things.

the

Is it that the omcers of the garrison are so very tight laced profane that valgar eyes would

Son

and

place of amusement, we should like to know who does? Wa are quite sure that there is not a lady in the place who would wish the Parsees excluded from the theatre.

Consequently the officers must have formed same erroneous bo- tions. and In acting on them they tender ground, and tread on stand every chance of compromis- ling themselves.

We have heard also of ptners who are to be excluded, certainty ant by the desire of the commu- nity. We hope the matter may be rectifed--and broad grina be-

come the order of the day. Cer-

Cause

MURDER TRIAL ENDS

Jury Discharges Accused

Without hearing Counsel for the defence, the Jury at the "murder trial yesterday intimated that they believed the prisoner "Not Guilty" and the acting Chief Justice, con- curring with this view, the pri soner was discharged.

Chu Lain Sing was charged, it will be remembered, for the mur- der of Fung Man (85), a boat- woman, who was found robbed and strangled in the Yaumati Shelter on September Typhoon

li.

At- Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant torney General prosecuted, and Mr. Thomas Tam was for the de- He was instructed by fence. Messrs. Dennys and Co.

gee not

him

again until

on

After the close of the. Crown that case, Mr. Tam submitted there was no case to answer, but fter his Lordship had ruled other their Thesplan devotions? Certainly the heartburnings which

**ise

the he put prisoner into tainly not, for they had last sea- such fissures in society

bax. doubtless again have should be avoided. This commu-

Chu said he Was ER earth- this, open nights, to which the nity should be judg by its lea-

officera of carrying coolle at. Ngan Tam MI unwashed were invited by locomo-ders, and when th tive placards beaded "Immense the garrison see the "muckle village in the New Territories and Attractions" !

hoose" advertising "nees suitable was working there until Septem- ber 18. He became acquainted "Therefore their object is to for shipwrights" together with keep the theatre select in justice "wine in one dozen cases"-When with Cheung & year ago, but ala to holders of season tickets-very they see barristers hanging out commendable indeed. but surely sign boards and genuine D.CLS September 18 he decided to come to Hongkong to see a clansman the sense of some members of imitating Rowland and Son (ever the community capable of judg-anxious to oblige), they should about a job of work. He was ac mg should be taken on the sub- not be quite so rude as the bar-coated the same day by Cheung, who recognised him and "asked Ject, and not the crude ideas of ber was to the sweep.

him to have some tea and walk the officers themselves. Now we

THAT WATER PROBLEM with him. Later the same even- are sure this cannot have been told that done because, we are

Yesterday morning some watering he handed him a small park. age, asking him, witness, to look the Parsees are all excluded in a pipe, burst on the hill, causing a body.

large quantity of the precious after it for him.

The following day witness went In all undertakings of a public fuldto be vomitted forth on nature the Parsee purse has al Queen's Road. The Chinese rush-out into the street and again met. been well milked-thelred out by the hundred to avail Cheung, who invited him to & position as merchants ranks very high, and if they do not know how to behave themselves in

ways

1

themselves of the Godsend,

and

we only wish H.E. the Governor a had seen them.

Around the Courts

RUSSIAN STOWAWAY

Prison And Expulsion Order

Lev Nicolaevich Pasco, 18, WHE sentenced to fourteen day's hard labour by Mr. Wynne Jones at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday for stowing away from Shanghai on the French Mail liner Felix Rüssel, An expulsion order was also made. Sergeant Baker stated the Felix Roussel left Shanghai at 230 p.m. on December 18 and at 5 p.m. de fendant was found wandering in the alloy-way. He was taker to the master of the ship who had him locked up until the arrival of the ship in Hongkong this morning.

*

For stealing a deer's tail, which is considered of great medicinal value among the Chinese. Tami Tung, 25. was fined $20, or in de fault, three weeks' imprisonment.

STEALING RADIATOR

CAPS

Thief Gets Three Months

Sentence of three months hard a Chinese labour was passed on. yesterday by Mr. Balfour, for theft of two radiator caps.

owners,

RECKLESS DRIVING

Lorry Driver Fined $30.

A fine of $30, or one month's imprisonment was imposed by Mr. Hamilton on Yuo Iu-kui, the driver of lorry No 21, summoned for reckless driving

meal.

"As I had no money and was afraid that I might have to pay, I was obliged to refuse," sald prisoner.

SUA

However, he

eventually prevailed on to go with another before friend and Cheung, but they started to eat he was arrest- ed and searched. He had on him the package entrusted to him by Cheung and it contained the jade ring similar to the one possessed by the murdered woman,

He was taken to prison and to the Chinese de- om-there

room where he was tective's

ucement to sign a confession. threatened and struck as an in-

He later recited the confession to

of any know-

Inspector Dorling and signed' it. Traffic Sergeant Paton, in evid After this, he told the Inspector eroe, said that at 9.45 p.m. on that he had been beaten, but he was riding his id not strip to show the bruises November 28 he

combination along when requested by the Inspector. motor-cyclo

towards Prisoner going

concluded with Pokfulam Road Bondham Road He saw the lorry vehement denial proceeding eastwards along Bonham ledge of the events during the Road at a very fast speed. It was week of the murder and asserted- raining at the time, and the road that he was working in the New

very slippery. He followed, Territories all that time.

After witnesses had been called but could not catch up with the lorry. At the junction with Park for the defence, the jury came to Street, the defendant shot up the the decision stated above. hill, and nearly collided with a pri- vate car coming down. He oven-

whe

tually caught up with the defen he was banished to Samun, and dant in Robinson Road. His spee passed through here on his way to dometer registered 25 to 30 miles Macao. Nine Months hard labour an hour in Bonham Road.

was imposed. Defendant denied having driven.

at this speed, but said he knew ho wag being followed, and therefore drove at 13 miles an hour.

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Mr. Hamilton warned defendant that if he appeared pain on a speeding summons, his licence would he cancelled,

For unlawfully lying their boats Detective-Inspector J. Murphy:-inshores between the Tai Hing and These radiator caps have been Hoi On Wharves last Monday identified by the

in my evening, three Chinese boatmen office. One belongs to Mr. Kelvin appeared before Commander Hole Stark and the other to a French at the Marine Court yesterday' gentleman. The defendant admits morning and were each fined $5. stealing five, but we have been un- able to trace the "others. He is un- employed and has never dong any work, as far as we are aware.

A further charge of returning from banishment was preferred against the defendant, to which he pleaded guilty.

:

Inspector Vincent applied for the withdrawal of the deportation charge, remarking it wie only a matter of form charging the de fendant, to keep the records cor rect.

Wong Nam, a pastry cook, made another appearance before Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magis- iracy yesterday, on a charge of manslaughter of one Cheung Ping- cheong at No. 29. Des Voeux Road West, and was formally remanded for a week Mr. D. B. Evans appeared for the defendant,

,

A fine of ten dollars or fourteen days in default, was imposed by Mr. Balfour at the Central Magis- tracy on Chening Sing, a welder of the Taikos Dockyard, for the theft of & cardigan from a shop at 35, Queen's Road, West. Detective.. JAPANESE LAMP BULBS Sergeant MaRobbie said complain

The charge was accordingly with drawn.

Bore Made In Germany

Wording

ant kept a second-hand chathing shop. Defendant came in, tried on in jacket, and walked out. He s

arrested and handed over to a police officer.

Lui Kam-ring, 19,, a shop föki, The Tai Yeung Electric Com was fined 15 by Mr. Balfour at the pany, through Mr. Hall Bruton Central Magistracy yesterday for entered a ples of Guilty' when riding a bicycle in a reckless man- summoned before. Mr. Balfour yener in Jervois Street Inspector 3. berday for possession of incandes Brennan aid defendant was one of cent electric lamps bearing Wrap the youngsters who Tode in circles pers which bore the false trade in Jervois Street. The offenders description of "Made in Germany were usually fokis of flops in that

Mr. Hall Brutton so that bia beality client received the goods from the Fokul Electric Trading Company, Japan, and that two cases were pold before they discovered tho false wording

The bearing was adjourned.

Cheung Yan, who wa from the Colony on Augu for ten years, was appeared before Mr. Central Police Cot Defendant, aged 55

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