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Mr. Jenkin then opened his de- pector was concluded yesterday

fence stating that accused, having before Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell at taken over the Lockhart Road the Criminal Besions when he was market, gave orders for the wash- found not guilty of the charging of the stalls at hours totally Mr. W. Schofield sat as Coroner at having accepted a bribe, which different from the usual ones. It and was assisted by a jury com- was alleged to have been given to

was the basis of the case that pay- prised of the following:-Messrs. V. the accused by the stall holders of

ment was made because of these D. Sorby foreman), Hugh Braga, the fish and meal stalls at Lock-orders. Two out of the four wit- and Lee Yook-tong... Det.-Sergt. P. hart Road Market. Shepherd was present in Court on. It appears that the accused while in charge of the market had or- With Dr. W. B. A. Moore, deputy direc.dered the stall holden to tory, Medical and Sanitary Services, their stalls during the rush hour Two representatives gave evidence as to his arrival at of the day. The scene of the accident and of the market had visited the ad found deceased pressed on the neck cused at his house at No. 125, between the top of the lift and the Wongne:chong Road and that the door. He found deceased dead and sux of $81 which was offered to when after being extracted aid was the accused was accepted by him. given but no response was forth- This money, the Crown alleged. Jenkin asserted, the jury could not witness box and stated that he had was range. coming from the deceased.

behalf of the Police.

was given a a present after he had retracted his order.

Dr. R. 8. Begbie, medical cancer

Mr. E. H. Williams, Asistant At- charge of the Victoria Mortuary Lorney General, instructed by Mr. was the next witness called.

J. B. Prentis, Assistant Crown He described in detail of the la-Solleitor, was for the Crown, whilst furles deceased received when he Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C, instructed performed the post-mortem exami- nation, and to witness's opinion by Mr. G. K. Hali Brutton, repre-

sented accused. death was due to multiple injuries received. Witness further said that considering the injuries de- crased received, it was very ikely that deceased was stopping for ward to enter the lift in question from that particular floor of the building, and with his feet still on the floor the lift suddenly went down, thus knocking his shoulders.

ATTENDANT'S EVIDENCE Lan Chuen, lift attendant of the General Post Office Building stated that he was in charge of the lit

ed "B" lift. On the day of the

The following jury was empun elled: Messrs. A. H. Carroll fore- man), S. Jex, H. Nish; L. M. V. Ribeiro, Yeung Hon-chien, M. V. Xavier and J, B. Lo

nesses had stated that they did not comply, and had had no trouble with accused. The other two had, both, stated in the court, that they had carried out these orders and, "counsel argued, it was not possible to believe these men in the light stantiate

of their contradictory statements at the Magistracy. That the wit- nesses were unreliable was the bad luck of the Crown, but, Mr.

convict on that evidence which was unreliable.

The accused, he contended, was an over-zealous officer who was bothered about the water restric- fions and that was the sole reason for his order for the men to store water. The accused had at least eight other markets under his con- trol and was it not a curious thing ́that he did not adopt a similar practice with them. Was it be llevable that a man given the Ins- pectorship of markets for the first At the commencement of yester-time would walk into a market and days bearing, Mr. Jentin address give revolutionary orders? Was it ing the Court said that there were to be thought that the men would various points which had to be

put up with this without making cleared up. Contradictory state- a complaint to some senior officer? ments had been made by the wit-The probabilities were all against nesses on Monday as to whether it. the money had been counted by the accused at his house. The

There was a point of law which must be brought up and that was in the building. The lift was call-witnesses had said that the money

that the two men who went to was not counted whereas Mr. Lock the defendant's house to offer him hart-Smith had stated at the pre-money were accomplices and that liminary hearing that the money the law safe guarded the prisoner had been counted. There was also

the law safe guarded of one accom- some contusion as to when the ac plice do not corroborate the other, cused retracted his order-before

and that legally there must be or after the witnesses had ap

some outside evidence to corrabox- proached the accused with the'

ate this evidence before e jury money.

could convict. There was not one lot of outside evidence to sub-

Wit-

tragedy, both lifts in the building, the other being "A" started to work Fat 3. a.m. Witness's duty was to look after his lift from 8 am, to 1.30 p.m. At 10.45 1.7 lift "A" went out of order. Wong Stu Yung was in charge of that lift. After it had gone wrong, Wong went to find somebody to repair it. ness did not know when Wong came back. Lift "A" came to a stand. still at the 3rd floor, the top of the uft was about 3 feet above the level of the floor-the opening was about over 2 feet. Witness did not do anything concerning the matter; as he was not in charge of that lift. Wong put up on the gate of the lift in third floor a notice atat- ing to the effect that the lift was out of order. Another notice was

Mr. Williams replying said that he was in some difficuly as he had taken the case only in the present court, In the statement taken by the police there was no mention at all of counting the money. At the Magistracy one man made no re- ference wille the other stated that the money was counted.

On

put up on the ground floor. Wong "A" of which he was in charge, then went out and witness did not had often gone out of order. know when he returned. At 11 January 2 he went back to work a.m, deceased came back to relleve at 8 a.m. and the lift went out of Wong and as he entered the build order at 9.30 a.m., but Lau Sang ing he asked witness why the lift who was No. 1 in charge of re- had not descended from the top. pairs to the lifts repaired it. The to which the former replied that i lift did not rise after the switch had gone wrong. Deceased then was put on at the ground floor. went upstairs to the third floor by After the lift was repaired, Lau witness's lift. The gate in the Sang said to witness that should

the lift go wrong -again, he (wil- } third floor of lft "A" was closed, and as witness went down again, ness) could find him at the Yau- At 1045 am, in he did not know what deceased mati Whart. was doing. The next time witness response to a call witness took the went up to the third floor again,ft up to the third flook, Four the gate was opened and deceased persons entered it, and when com- was inside it. Witness asked himing down it stopped, the top of it why did he want to go inside when was two feet over the third floor the lift was out of order, but re level. The persons is the lift got ceived no reply. Some applicants out by means of a stool, which was of licences were present in the Eut inside the lift. Witness came floor, and to whom witness shouted

out himself taking the stool with to haul him from the lift. The him, and shutting the gate, he left people could not haul him up and for Yaumall Wharf to look for Lat witness heard them saying that he Sang, the No. 1 tter. Lau Bang (deceased) had-better-wait until got a coolie, Wang Chi to do the the lift was repaired. Witness then necessary repairs ft. went down again. Soon after and Wong Chi arrived at the bund- wards, he heard a crash and beg and went straight to the base- Immediately proceeded up to the ment where the toos for repairs third floor, once again and there were kept. "Wong fint pressed the he saw deceased pinned between switch in the basement to bring the the top of the lift and the floor. lift down and then witness heard He met Wong Siu Yung and an- cries that someone had been pin- other man Wong Chi and told them ned, and the lift stopped. Lau what had happened and these two Sang with his fokis had now ar- men went upstairs. Witness did rived" and, becoming aware of the not know of any one else working accident, entangled the rope, and at the lift with the exception of pulled the lift upwards, and de- deceased who was inside it when ceased was extracted. he last saw him.

Witness

NO EXAMINATION NO SUCH RULE

The man Wong Chl did not When questioned further, wit examine the engines first before he ness said that when a lift was out pressed the switch, his whole in- of order, he would telephone to the tention; witness continued was "to Electrical Department telling them bring the lift down and 'to repair about it. There was no such rules then, Witness had known him to the effect that when a life was working on the lifts before and had. out of order, no one, not even lift put them right 2 or 3 times. Wong. attendants were allowed to enter it. Chif did not give any sort of warn- On this occasion witness did not ing before he put on the switch. know whether a telephone message Witness went on to say that no one was sent to the Electrical Depart was allowed to enter the lift when. ment informing them of the metter. was not in order. He had put a Wong, Biu Yung, another lift at- notice stating that the lift was out. tendant said that he had been a of order on the gate in the third lift attendant for 8 years, and had floor, but he did not put one any occasionally worked at the GPO where else, Building. Before the accident, wit At this stage, the hearing w ness had worked for two months adjourned to 11.30 am, on Satur only, during which time, the liftday,

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The accused then went into the

not issued orders to wash the stalls during the rush bours and that his only orders were that the stall holders should store water, because on a previous visit, to the market he had found the stalls in a dirty condition and the men had given the excuse that there was no water with which to wash the stalls. He agreed that to have ordered the stall holders to wash their stalls during the rush hours would have upset the markęt routine. He had given similar orders to his other, markets.

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Cross-examined by Mr. Williams, the defendant stated that at the time it did not seem strange that Po Wo should leave the room but: now that he did think about it it

It appears that he had taken out summonses against some of the stall holders but not for dirtiness and Mr. Jenkin in his address to the jury pointed out that it was a curious fact that the defendant, supposing that he had received this money should immediately proceed to fine the stall holders. Whatever were the facts he was touching their pockets, the nume pockets out of which it was alleged had come his "present"

Mr. Williams addressing the jury said that the "discrepancies in the The two men, Yu Lap and. Po statements. of the witness was wo, had visited him at his house understandable when it was taken on May 18, and had offered him an into consideration that they were envelope which contained a "pre- dealing with Chinese of not a high sent" which the two men had-ga- standard of education and that sured him, was in accordance with the time which had elapsed since the usual custom. This he had the visit to the house was over five refused. Yu Ley, defendant months. The Inspector, he went stated, was his middle man« upon

transferred from the whom he relied to have his orders market in July and it was hard to distributed to the other stall hold believe that the witnesses had ers and who was not a stranger to

harboured animosity against the his house as was Po Wo.

accused to such an extent as to trump up this charge. That they.. were unwilling withemes was the contention of the Crown and fur-· ther they had come only against their wishes,

The accused went on to state that he had offered them some tea which Yu Lap had accepted and Po Wo had refused and while they were having the tea Po Wo left the room.

on, Was

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