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MAH PONGG ENDS IN FIGHT

When Chan Kuen, a shopkeeper. and Chung Hing-wan, formerly No. boy at the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital were charged before Mr Hamilton yesterday, charged with disorderly conduct in Lockhart Road. It was stated that the quar- rel arose over a mah jongr game. Defendants, were bound over in the sum of $100 each to be of good behaviour for six month.

ALLEGATION AGAINST

CONSTABLE

Appearing in the dock of the Central Police Court yesterday an a hawking offence, a Chinese com- plained to Mr. Macfadyen that the Indian constable who "arrested her used unnecessary violence.

Sub-Inspector Mist stated that she made no complaint to him... The Magistrate requested the Inspector to have the matter in- vestigated.

Meanwhile, the defendant was fined $2 or four days,

The woman stated the Indian ceased using violence, at the re quest of another constable.

GAOL FOR RETURNED BANISHER

Fung Man-ha and Chiu Pik-lin, members of an acting troupe, were robbed of two framed photographs valued at $20 on the as-Kwong Sal on which they were. travelling from Canton to Hongkong on Sun- day. They made a report to the Police as a result of which the thief was caught in Lower Lascar

before Mr. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy. yesterday.

Defendants were charged with Possession of 50 taeks of prepared oplum and 3,120 taels of raw oplum on board a sampan and d motor boat, Bing Chau, in the harbour, after formal evidence was taken, hearing was adjourned un- til to day.

CLAIM AGAINST M. Y., SAN

Judgment For The Plaintif

FORGED DEEDS

Chinese Gets Three Years

Sentence of three years hard). labour was passed by the Chief Justice, His Honour Mr. A. ·D. “A. MacGregor. at the Criminal Sessiotis yesterday upon Tong Yut. Cheung, alias Tong Wong Sheung, who pleaded guilty to forging and uttering deeds purporting to be a mortgage and further charges on New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1893, the true owner of which lot was

Mr. Justice G. Jacks, gave judg-Ng Foon Lung. ment for the plaintiff with costs, yesterday in the case in which Mrs. LI Hon Pang of 83 Bonham Road claimed "$827 from Messrs. M Y. San & Company (1927), Ltd., against a promissory note."

Mr. J. T. Prior of Messrs. Wilkin~ son and Grist was for the plaintiff and Mr. H. L Dennys for the defence.

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An eloquent plea for mitigation of sentence was made on behalf of the prisoner by Mr. Leo D'Al-' mada a Castro, jnt., who said that although the acting Attorney Gen- eral had told him that he could

tion, he would not oppose it. If not support the plea for mitiga-

the Acting Attorney General bad. the opportunity of meeting actus- ed in another atmosphere than the police court, he might have given his support.

Accused went to America years ago and began “a laundry business,

ENQUIRY INTO DEATH OF

MADAME GUERRA

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POST MORTEM REVEALS SECOND BULLET WOUND

Consul's Wife Who Was Tired Of Existence

Evidence that the deceased had been subject to fits of de- „pression and that she had oftea contemplated suicide; the fact that a second bullet wound was discovered at the resóltant post mortem examination and further that the revolvar she had used was alleged to have been locked away" in a hand bag or valisë, was revealed at the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Alves Guerra, wife of the Consul General ́for Portugal, who was found shot through the temple in Rooni No. 343 of the Peninsula Hotel on the evening of May 29, when the » hearing commenced before Mr. E. L. Wynne-Jones at the Kow--

loon Magistraży yesterday afternoon.

A special jury comprising Messrs. W. E. Orchard "(foreman), Yu Tse Chul and H. Keller was empanelled.

Inspector Lane of Tsim-Sha-Tsul Police Station conducted the inquiry on behalf of the Police.

At yesterday's hearing Dr. Court, Medical Officer of the Kow- loon Hospital gave evidence on the post mortem examination, while Senhor Gallherme Alves Guerra, Consul General for Por tural and husband of the deceased gave evidence which will be continued this afternoon.

DECEASED WAS A SICK WOMAN

"It will be recalled that the plaintiff had stated that she had deposited $2.000 with the Com- pany when it was wound up, and that unsecured creditors gained 80 per cent, which was allocated by 40 per cent. in shares and 40 per which by dint of thrifty and in- cerit. to be paid in four years time

dustrious management enabled If profits were made..

hita to return to Hong Kong with some money. He began buying and selling land and was fairly succesfal until the dump hit the Colony two years ago and the price transactions, defendant was in- of land fell. In the course of his troduced to complainant by one of Madame Alves Guerra was admit

Dr. P. F. 6. Court stated that, ness could find no signs of cancer. the latter's clansmen and said him ted to the Kowloon Hospital at dividual bullet, witness' said that Describing the effect of each in-

the land whose deeds were the 7.20 p.m. on May 29 and died at in either case it would not have Chiu Sal Chiu, from Shanghai.aubject or the present action. 5.30 am on May 30, without re-been possible for Mrs. Guerra to was brought before Mr. Macfadyen This was in September, 1931, and covering consciousness. in the Central Police Court yester-shortly

fire a second shot voluntarily, a- afterwards complainant

though it was quite conceivable

a second time involuntarily.

Witness said there was a "mus- cular spasm which was bound to

Acting on a complaint by Ameri- can sailors that they were being House Street, Sergeant Bethell accosted by beggar children in Ice proceeded to the Street and arrest ed. a woman who was seen to send out children to beg. The woman,

Row, in the vicinity of Paddy's day, when she was fined five returned to the country, entrust a bullet wound in the head, the that she might have shot bersali

Market, carrying the frames on his shoulder.

The man, Chan Cheuk-waz,” 40, alias Ng Cheuk-wan, was brought before Mr. Macfadyen in the Can- tzal Police Court yesterday when he pleaded guilty to the charge of theft and to another of return- pig from banishment.

Detective-Inspector J. Murphy, prosecuting, stated that defendant served 12 months in 1928 on, four charges of false pretences. He was a life banishee from Singa- pore and was banished from Hong- kong in 1927. for a period of ter years.

Twelve months' hard labour was passed by the Magistrate.

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AT THE MARINE COURT

Causing Obstruction.

A. Chinese boatman named Kwok Kun Fook aged 26 years, master of Tradip Junk No. 2341 appear ed before Commander Hole at the Marine Court yesterday morning, charged with anchoring his junk near the entrance to the Central Fairway in such a position as to cause an obstruction to the free access of the other vessels last Sunday afternoon.

The defendant, pleaded guilty and a fine of $10 or one week hard labour was imposed.

FISHING IN CARLE AREA

For unlawfully fishing in the Government Cable Area near the Star Ferry Wharf last Sunday morning, Läu Shui 46, foki of Fish- ing Boat No. 27207, pleaded guilty and was fined $10 or in default one week hard labour.

UNLAWFULLYING OF BOATS

Li. Kan 28, master of Junk No T2222H and Yip Lee of No. T2846H, who were both charged with lying their boats in shore at a distance of less the 100 yards from the Low Water Mark during prohibited hours at the west of the Bhum- shulpo Ferry Wharf last Sunday night, without the written permis- sion from the Harbour Master, were each Aned $10 or one week bard labour,

CARRYING EXCESSIVE

PASSENGERS:

For unlawfully carrying an ex- cessive number of passengers on board their boats at Pak Kok Lamma Island last Saturday morn- tug. Chau Tam Yan 37, master of Boat No. 54334, and Ng Yung Hi 25% of No. 819y, were fined $23 or three weeks and 814 or two weeks.

The prosecuting officer. slated that the first defendant carried 23 Passengers in excess while the other only 14.

dollars or seven days on a charge ing the rent and transmitting it of alding and abetting.

to him a task which he carried put satisfactorily.

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Yam Chiu, 26, & scavening coolle of the Sanitary Departinent, was sentenced to one month's hard labour by Mr. Macfadyen in the Central Poilce Court yesterday for an attempted burglary at No. 59, Jervois Street. Detective-Sergt. Goodwin stated that at 3.40 a.m. on Sunday, a Chinese constable saw defendant pulling apart the doors of the side entrance or No. 58, Jervois Street, a tinemith's shop. He did not actually get in and nothing was stolen. He had a previous conviction for assault

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Loan Of $7,000. Defendant soon afterwards found himself in financial discuities and he recourse to a loan of $7,000.

He could not repay the money and soon a creditor began to press him. Then, according to delan- dant, at the instigation of this creditor. Ale defendant concocted this scheme of mortgaging, the land in order to raise some money Not a cent of this money went to defendant himself. Later he made a frank admission to complainant who gave him a month to raise the money to put matters right.

The patient was suffering from entrance being at the left temple at the margin of the hair and the exit wound at the right temple.

Dr. Court said it was not realised I follow the firing of the first shot, at the time that there was a second and this might possibly have re- wound on the left of the head, sulted in a second shot, providing which was hidden by the hair, but the latter followed the first shot

ad the same exit as the other

bullet wound.

There were two entrance wounds and one exit wound, a fact which was not discovered until the post

the desh..

immediately. Witness added that this was only a matter of opinion,

Inspector Lane, asked witness whether or not it was possible that' the powder marks resulting from the second shot would have been

mortem examination.

absorbed by the hair of the de- The post mortem showed excensed Witness said it was quite star) with points, ane Inch termally: a stellate wound (like a probable. above the left eye-brow and no deceased, witness said it was con- Describing the position of the ingeing of the hair or scorching of celvable that by utter relaxation Bentence of two months was

of the muscles of the body, the There was also a similar wound, would have been able to twist. passed on Cheung Kwai who was

stellate, in the Tight temple round in the chair and búry her convicted at the Kowloon Magis- During the period, defendant measuring about 2 inches by 2 head in the left corner of the Jones for theft of a radiator cap. he preferred to face the charge,wards from it. tracy yesterday by Mr. Wynne- could have made his escape but inches with bone projecting out-chair, her face being to the back Detective" Sergeant Franklin said At the police court he had made

of the chair and the left arm rest defendant was arrested in Taunsa rambling statement which could scalp, there

Interhally, on deflecting the coming up against her right 11 on Sunday. When questioned not in fairness be held against him hemorrhage underneath coming up

Was considerable temple.

J. he anally admitted having stolen in view of his state of mind and from the right side.

Describing the health of the the cap from a car parked in lack of legal assistance.

The skull deceased preceding her demise, Jordan Road. The cap was finally

was perforated under the bullet witness sa that judging from an wounds described on the left side.examination of her liternal organg traced to car No. 2318 belonging to Mr. L. W. Tipple, Gilman & Co.

fragments of the skull being driven he would definitely state that she inwards. There was also a frac was not in the best of health and ture radiating on the front of the was indeed a sick woman, which GIRLS WITHOUT PASSPORTS

skull from the left to the right, might easily have caused depres- connecting all three wounds

sion. Witness further stated that there

For being in the Colony without a valid passport, Miss Paula Bar- ton, an American, aged 23, and Miss Albertina Haley, aged. 20 years, a Nicaraguan, were charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yester- day. Both pleaded guilty to the charge.

Detective Sergeant Mottram sald that defendants arrived in the Colony on board the Tatsuta Maru on June 8. They were among the crowd of passengers who were transhipping to the President Hayes, which was proceeding to Manila." He understood Miss Bur- ton to say that she was going on the President Hayes, so he allow- ed them ashore. Since then, how- ever, they had applied for regis- tration, and it was then, found that they had not gone on the President Hayes

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Fall Form Grace Defendant had a wife, three children and a mother entirely dependent on him. He was not a hardened criminal, but one whom

The Evidence a slip had caused to fall from was a lascerated tunnel in the

Mr. C. A. Grumes, the chief grace. Hitherto be had been an front part of the brain,

draughtsman of the Public Works industrious man, and counsel sub- On making a minute examina- department, gave evidence mitted that the difficulty of mak- tion of the internal organs, wit-plans of the room in which Mrs. ing a future for himself would be ness could and no sufficient punishment.

traces of Guerra met her death. The plans chlorofarm.

were executed under his direction Death was due to bullet wounds from notes made by him personal- His Lordship said the plea for in the brain.

13. mitigation was an eloquent one,

Wounds Described but he could not take all the

Sergeant H. N. Moran, Polies Describing the bullets individual-Photographer, also gave evidence matters raised into consideration. ly. Dr. Court said the first bullet on photographs he took of room The forging of land deeds was a which entered the head an inch No. 543 at the Peninsula Hotel, serious offence and the least to the left of the left eyebrow, and of the head of a body at the: sentence he could impose vas passed through the frontal lobes Kowloon Hospital Mortuary, as three years', imprisonment for forging, and one year for uttering, the sentence to run concurrently.

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Husband's Evidence

of the brain from left to right pointed out by Inspector Lane.

The second bullet, that which. "came through from above the left Mr. Guilherme Alves Ghierra säld passed through the area be was Consul General for Porta- which controls the muscular ac-gai in Hong Kong. attracting more medical sten to the

tion of the upper part of the body, The deceased was his wife and Navy. The shortage of doctors has paralysis, on the upper opposite ber of 1932.

The effect of the bullet would be they were married in deptem- now become serious,

They had gone to They had tickets and would be

and the side of the body, the paralysis Bingapore for one year and then going on the next bost, sailing on remedy this.

latest regulations are designed to taking place immediately and to Canton before their arrival in Saturday for Manila. They could

being permanent.

the Colony. not raise the 525 bail required. In place of the former examina-

Witness said that as a result of In Singapore Mrs. Guerra--WAS They said they had wired to

tion, candidates have now to ap- several experiments which were subjected to fits of depressioız, bus Manila to get money to meet their

pear before an Admiralty Selection made on a pig's head, with the while witness was at Cantón, his hotel bill, of which they had paid Board, presided over by the Medi- same revolver although with a wife spent most of her time in, half. They were staying at the cal Director-General. The initial slightly different kind of ammuni- Hong Kong, staying in room 643 Hotel Trocadero in Kowloon period of three years service may tion, it was found that when the the Peninsula Hotel het be extended to five at official disrevolver was fired from about 6 "My wife was very much worried cretion, and transfers to the per- clean punctured wound with little been treated for in Paris while we

inches or more away there was a by a disease for which she ha manent list may be made under or no powder marks showing, were there A specialist made a the same condition,

When the revolver was fired from diagnosa, the medical name of Officers who leave at the end of about half an inch away there was which I am unable to state but three years will be entitled to again a clean punctured wound it amounted to that my wife was gratuity of 2400, while those re with powder marks and when the unable to retain her utine w maining five years will receive revolver was fired in contact with At the Peninsula Hotel witness £1,000. Opportunities will be af the skin there was a stellate occupied Rooth No. 543 although forded for specialisation, and the wound brought about as a result he driginally intended socupying

· number of specialist posts carry of the repercussion of the gasses. No. 542, ing extra emoluments is to be against the flesh; making a star largely increased. The retiring like puncture. age for surgeon-commanders and + Enteet Of Bullets captains is being raised, and the Describing the deceased, Dr. number of surgeon-captains will Court said Mrs. Guerra Uved for in future be 33 instead of 20, there 10 home after the incident. She by improving the prospects of was a well bullt woman about diye promotion.

feet four inches hi helght Wit

Mr. Hamilton made an expulsion order against defendants, to be operative on June 23, and told them they must go on the ship salling for Manila.on that day.

DOCTORS FOR NAVY

Better Pay To Remedy Shortage

SEQUEL TO HARBOUR CHASE

A chase in the Harbour last No entry examination, short week when two alleged opium service three years minimum smugglers were arrested,

was increased pay and better chances described by R. O. Grimmitt when of promotion-these are features Li Lo and Hq Kath-luk appeared of the latest Admiralty scheme for

on May 29, witness saw his wife at his office at about 120 p.m. when they went to the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel for timin, After Limin witnesses wife to the entrance of the 8tock his

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