1934-04-25 — Page 11

PRISONER CHANGES HIS CELL

But Authorities Have No Records

The Coroner's enquiry into the death of Wong Yat, a prisoner in the Victoria Gaol who was stated! to have endeavoured to carry on his prison work despite the fact that he had nine broken ribs, was continued at Central Magistracy yesterday.

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Mr. E. W. Hamilton Coroner, assisted by a jury com

F. C. Collaco prised of Messrs.

foreman), H. A Barros and E. 1. Rosario.

Dr. A. D. Wong, assistant medi- cal offieer in Government. Civil Hospital stated that deceased was admitted to the hospital at 3 p.m. 26. Witness was on on March duty at the time and he examined the deceased and found that he was suffering from broken riba He was given general treatment, and the case was taken over the nex day by D. G. H. Thomas. Witness added that decersed told him that he had been struck by someone.

Mr. D. Wood, supervisor of Victoria Gaal Hospital told the Court that at about 12.45 p.m. on March 26. deceased came into the Medical Officer's room. Witness heard the Medical Officer (Dr. Griffith) 19k the deceased in Chinese what Wis the matter. Deceased replied that he was in pain. He then pulled aside his shirt, and witness saw bruises on his chest. Dr. Grinths then got examined him, at the up and same time engring in Chinese if he had been struck by anyone. Deceased, in a hesitant and dull way, said "cho tam yan da ngo" (prisoners hit me). Dr. Griffiths continued to enquire as to who struck him, but deceased simply shook his hands and refused to say anything further.

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Foreman..of the Jury: did Dr. Griffith do when he heard that the deceased had been as- saulted?

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Witness: He took him, into a small adjacent room, and at the same time asked me to telephone to the chlef warder at once.

Buchanan, Chief Warder

said that being recalled, he received a telephone message from the previous witness at about 1.10 p.m. on March" 26. The message was to the effect that the deceased was in hospital with broken ribs and asked that a statement be taken from

him. Witness immediately sent the assistant chief warder to the hospi- tal. He saw the deceased at 4.45 in an ambulance, and asked him what was the matter but he made no reply.

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Deceased's Statement. Evidence in regard to deceased's statement was then given by Mr. A Palce, acting assistant chief warder. He said that. as a result of instructions received from the chief warder, he went with a Chinese interpreter to the hospi-

juries. After some dificulty, the deceased mumbled that he, had been assaulted in his cell, Re mentioned a man named Ho who, however, could not be traced as no one by that name had been in the cell with him. Deceased added that the assault took place on Sunday afternoon.. March 25 at 3 o'clock. He shouted out "save fe" but nobody came to his as- sistance.

The Coroner than enquired if any records were kept as to the Identity of the prisoners who were in the cell with the deceased.

No Records.

Mr.

Buchanan remarked that there were defilte records up to March 24.

Deceased went from

Cell 24 to Cell 26 on Sunday; March 25, but there was no record about it. The matter was being enquired into departmentally. It was the duty of the officer to look around before looking up, but an- parently he did not do so.

Continuing his evidence, Mr. Paice said that upon looking up the books, he found that certain prisoners had been locked with the deceased. He brought two of these who prisoners and three others

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1934.

YAUMATI FERRIES

Megrease

Decrease In Profits

A considerable decrease in pro- nts was reported by Mr. Lau Tak Po, managing director and chair- man at the annual meeting of the Hongkong Yaumati, Ferry Co., Ltd. which was held in the Company's Jordon board room at the New Road pier yesterday.

Mr. Lau Tak Po was in the chair. and was supported by the follow- ing directors, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Dr. Kwan Sum Yin, Dr. F. H. Kew. Messrs. Kwok Chuen, Wong Tso Hoo, Wong Ping Suen, Choy Wal Hung. Chan Kam Yung and Young Tsun Dart. Over, afty sharehold ers were also present.

The balance sheet of the Com- pany showed a net pront for the year. Including $2,385.04 brought forward, of $198.236.24.

Chairman's Speech

In moving or the adoption of the directors' report and statement of accounts, Mr. Lau Tak-po said:

"You will note that the net earn- ings are considerably lower than that of last year. This due to several reasons namely:--(a) The payment of royalties and increas ed rentals to the Government; (b) the inability of maintaining a ten- minute service with three vessels on the Jordan Road service be- tween Jund and December; (C) the very heavy decrease in receipts when the Yaumati service was transferred to Jordan Road; (d) the decline in passenger and goods receipts on account of the depres-

sion...

1933.

Ferry Service

AROUND THE COURTS

(Continued from Pare 6)

Thom. the officer commanding the Brigade asked accused for the and accused thereupon letter,

produced it..

"Had Santa Singh reported to me, I should have entered up the particulars of the registered letter In Army Book 428, made Santa Singh sign, the book and then placed the letter and book before. the Adjutant as a completed "Job." | The hearing was adjourned till when Mr. Fraser this afternoon will cross-examine the accused.

TRAFFIC CASES

Chiu Kan, driver of lorry No. 1306. was fined. 815 or in default three weeks' imprisonment for reckless driving in Whitfield, by Mr. Hamilton at Central Magis tracy yesterday

Inspector Nicol stated that an- other lorry driver had been fined in connection with the same in- cident two weeks ago 'Defendant and the driver were racing along Causeway Bay Road towards Whitdeld.

Tsang Kang, driver of lorry No. 2792. was fined $15 or in default three weeks' imprisonment for overtaking a moving vehicle.

Inspector Nicol said defendant overtook another lorry on the left side at the junction of Johnstone Road and Percival Street.

EXCESSIVE LOADS

Before Mr. Hamilton at Central Magistracy yesterday, Chan Kong, driver of lorry No. 3517, was sum- moned on four counts three in respect of excessive loads, and one regarding inefficient brakes.

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The three summonses regarding excessive loads related to 60 cwt. HOME FOOTBALL 60 cwt, and 75 cwt. in excess.

had not been with him for an identification parade, bus deceased did not identify any one of them, and acted rather foolishly by say-

With the completion and de- ing that all of them had assaulted very of the vehicle ferries early him..

Warder P. J. Letress said he in the year, the Company entered was on duty on the evening of upon its new franchise on June 12, Immediately the Yaumati March 19 when deceased was ad- mitted into Victoria Gaol. He service was transferred from the located deceased in F cell 29. FOld Yaumati Pier to Jordan Road ward 11. There were three other Pler. It became apparent that it prisoners in the same cell-Nos. would be impossible for us to 2992.- 2993 and 2994. Witness also maintain a ten-minute service with admitted 28 men that evening into the new piers. An extra vessel had

to be placed on the 'service at the He informed defendant that the the gaol.

fines an the four 'summonses cost of $3,000 odd per month sc

would be over $120.. and instead as to enable the vessel to have longer time to get in and out of of sending him to prison he would their berths. This, however, prov-recommend that his licence be ed very detrimental to the service. cancelled. as the longer time taken to cross the harbour, drove the 'trafic away from this route.

Foreman of the jury: How many cells are there in F. ward 11? Witness: I don't know. I think about 12 or 14.

Changed Cells, "Mr. G. Buchanan, being recalled the second time, said that accord- ing to the prison records, deceased was moved from Cell 29 to cell 22.. day after his admittance, the March 20. Deceased stayed there till March 24, when he had his acabes bath in regard to the treatment, but after that witness could not say whether deceased re- turned to cell 22 or cell 28. Ön March 21, Prisoner 2956 was also located in cell 22 where the de- ceased and the other three prison- ers

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On Saturdays, Sundays and Pub- lic Holidays we are now able to achieve our sim providing a ten- minute vehicle service across the harbour throughout the day except when a vessel is laid up.

Bus Service Your Directors regret that the passenger and freight receipts on the Jordan Road service have no. only falled to come up to expecta- mentioned stayed.tions, but have actually shown There was no change until the decline.. morning of March 23, when prison- er 2956 was transferred to cell 26. There was no record" as to how deceased went to tell 23 as he was located in cell 22.

Coroner: He was more or less officially lost for 48 hours.

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The very restricted bus services were operating very unsatisfactor

y for the first few months but are now running more efficiently. Your Directors feel that the Jordan Road Pier was given a fair proportion and more adequate bus the passenger traffic

After Mr. Buchanan had finish-services,

ed his evidence, Mr. T. Murphy, would show an immediate increase AS.P, who was watching the en- to the mutual benefit of the pub- quiry on behalf of the police, re-le, the Government, the Kowloon Lal. He instructed the interpre- marked ihat there were three Bus, Company, and ourselves..

ter 10 enquire from the deceased as to how he came to have the in-

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prisoners who occupied cell 26, with the deceased. They were Chan King Yui, No, 3003, Lai Chung. No. 3017, and Leung Lin Kut, No. 2993, a lad of just over 16 years.

The Coroner said that if the de- ceased were speaking the truth that he was assaulted on Sunday afternoon, then it must be one of these prisoners who did it...

Mr. Murphy mentioned that prisoner Leung Lin Kut was at present in gaol undergoing four months, but the other two were short-term prisoners and had al- ready, been discharged. He thought, however, that the police would be able to find them.

The enquiry was then adjourned until May, 14, at 2.15 p.m.

NO RECOVERY IN SHIPPING

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The general trade depression is also affecting our receipts, large numbers of irst-class passengers are now travelling second and the second-class, third.

The vehicular receipts are "con- tinuing to improve, and should show' a substantial increase if busi- ness conditions improve.

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I would wish to take this oppor tunity in thanking our friends including the Dairy Farm, the Hogkong Hotel, the China Pro- vident and the United Delivery Company for their regular and valued patronage.

Dividends

This year we have changed our system of paying dividends. We are issuing dividend warrants pay, able by our bankers, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- Elon, who have rendered us much valued assistance (as you may see. under the Item Bank overdraft) to enable us to carry out our heavy building programme.

Mr. Boo Tee-pan seconded the adoption of the report and ac counts, and the motion was car-

Other Business

Mr. LA Tung, the retiring auditor. was re-elected on the proposal of Mr. Boo Tse-pan, seconded by Mr. Chan Chan-sing,

London, April 6. The brightest item of news in thored." Cunard report is the announce- ment of the resumption of work on No. 534 on Tuesday next. If the constructional programme runs to time, the ship may be launched in the autumn. As for the year's biminess, 1933 showed no recovery. The not loss for the year is certain ly lower at £44,979, against 8927, 981, but only 243,123 has been charged for depreciation, sgainst £748,566 in 183 no provision hay- ing been made for depreciation on ships which are to be acquired by the proposed North Atlantic Mer- Eer Company.

Income from freights, passage money, etc., declined. from £4,044,000 to £4,610,005, and

At the close of the meeting, the Chairman informed shareholders that the dividend warrants were ready and could be had on appli- cation to the general office at the Jubilee Street Pier

VIOLIN AND " PIANO RECITAL

Mr. Hamilton adjourned the case for one week, and made a recommendation to the Inspector General of Police that defendant's licence should be cancelled.

"FATSHAN" SHOOTING

INCIDENT

The recent shooting incident aboard the river steamer Fatshan in which an Indian police guard was wounited had its sequel at Central Magistracy yesterday when Serwan Singh, police guard No. 145 was charged with wounding Rhakar Singh. police guard No. 384 with intent to murder.

Det.-Sub-Inspector J. O'Donovan, for the prosecution, applied for a week's formal remand, which was granted. The charge was read out to the defendant, but no plea was returned.

CRUELTY TO" DOGS

Mr. Wynne-Jones at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday meted out

punishment to exemplary Chinese named Ho Kwong, aged 30, who was charged with bring- ing six dogs into the Colony from the New Territories without

from the Government permit Veterinary Surgeon, and with ill- treating the dogs.

Sergeant.Jessop appeared for the prosecution and Mr. M."A. da Silva defended.

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It was stated that a motor lorry was stopped in Talpo Road.com- ing from the direction of Un Long, and on It WILS quantity of vegetables, among which the polies found three bags, each con- taining two dogs. It was raining at the time and the bags were asturated with water. They were tied up at the end, with the re- suit that the dogs had no air to breathe. It was alleged that when they were released, the dogs were gasping for: breath.

Defendant was in "the lorry at the time and admitted that the dogs belonged to him."

A fine of $100 was fimposed on the first charge and 850 on the other..

AT THE MARINE COURT

Several Chinese Fined

A Chinese boatwoman, named Leung Tai Chot, aged 40 years, mistress of boat No. 2309 and four others, appeared before Comman der Hole at the Marine Court yes terday morning, all charged with mooring their boats at a distance of less than 100 yards from the Low Water Mark during prohibit ed hours at the Yuet On: Tat Hing. Hol On and Yuen On Wharves respectively last Monday evening.

All the defendants pleaded guilty and were each fined $5 or five days' `in default.

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