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STABBING CASE AT SESSIONS

Three-Year Term For Accused

17, 1936.

A MEAN TRICK | INDIAN

Man Gaoled

GAOLED

Indecent Assault Sequel

Pleading guilty to a charge of having stolen from Tsul Bal-fau,

Sentence of twelve months' a 19-year-old boy, a pair of jade ear-rings mounted with gold by hard labour was passed on Sher Great interest was shown at the means of false pretence. Li Man, Mohammed, an Indian guard when.

during Supreme Court yesterday

a 20-year-old unemployed, was he was convicted by Mr. W. Seno- sentenced to one month's hard la-fed at the Central, Magistracy The trial of Lam Sul-cho, a 25-

bour and was ordered to pay $8 yesterday on a charge of having year-old fokl, who was charged with maliciously wounding with

amends to the complainant by Mr. committed an indecent assault on a six-year-old gir, Lam Mul on the intent to main or disable Siu W. Schofield at the Central Ma

the third door of No. 15 Landale Lai-chan, 23 year old widow. The gistracy yesterday.

Street on January 22. case was tried before the Acting Chlef Justice, Mr. R. E Lindsell.

The attack upon

the w.dow arose out of the love of the ac- cused for the complainant, which Cove she could not return. The frequent rebuffs that were accord- ed him finally drove him to the

extreme.

Mr.

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HEROIN PILLS POSSESSION

Sequel To Raid On Divan

Successive ruas carried out wita- in two days of each other, on the same premises, formed the subject of charges brought against four Chinese who made their appear- ances before Mr. W. Schoned at the Central Magistracy charged with possession of heroin pills. Leung Wah, was charged with possession of 172 heroin pills at No. Mercer Street, third floor on sent at the time was immaterial) February 18, while Chol Sik Yik, The chief witness for the prose aged 44 of Tolshan, Tang Fat, 21 cution was the mother of the years of age, and. Chan Wang, 19 little girl, and important evidence years of age, bath from Toishan had also been given by a Chinese also, were charged with possession C 166, regarding the of 100 heroin pills, on February 20. constable,

Leung Wah, who was charged the premises when he scene on arrived, and the mother's demes- separately, admitted guilt. Mr. C. nour. Sergeant Fitches had also A. Sutherton Russ, who appeared given evidence with regard to a for Choi Sik Tik entered a plea of statement made to him by the "not gulity" while Tang Fat denied giri, and he (Mr. Schofield) in the charge against him, and Chan ferred that the

girl had

Wang admitted the offence. kind of story to tell.

The facts of the case as related

In delivering judgment yester- by Detective-Sergeant Elis, who

day Mr. Schofield said as it was prosecuted were that on March 13. defendant went to No. 65. Oaka charge of indecent assault, con- Street, ground floor, and saw a man named Chan Ming whom he knew. and asked him if he knew of any boy for a vacancy at the Pen- insula Hotel Just at that moment Assistant complainant appeared and told de- fendant that he would like the job, Complainant and defendant then went outside the house and the latter asked for $4. The boy did

Williams. E. H. Attorney-General,

for was

the Crown, and the accused, who pleaded Not Guilty," was not. le- rally represented. The jury com- prised Messrs. T. F. Bradford (Foreman), N. Ellis. L. A. Martin, D. J. Noronha, R. A. 8'lva-Netto. E. O. Murphy and M. W. Barton. Outlining the facts of the case, Mr. Wlams said the complainant wa a widow residing at No. 6. Min Fat Street with her parents. Her mo- ther is the mistress of the Tong Fong Restaurant. at No 8 Stok Wo Street, and the complainant assisted there with the accounts.

GIRL'S CONDITIONS Defendant was employed at the restaurant in question as a foki, but received na Day. His board and lodgings were "however found. Since an early date, defendant had. shown marked attention to the complainant, although the latter

always repulsed his advances. About June last year, complainant decided to write a letter to the accused, stipulating Tour condi- tions, which If observed strictly ay

not have the money, so he went in to ask his grandmother for it. She did not have any money and in turn went to the boy's aunt from whom she obtained a pair of ear- rings for the boy to pawn in order to raise the money required.

Defendant and complainant went to a tea-house together and defen- dant asked the boy to let him have the ear-rings for safety. They were handed to him. Later he said that he wanted to telephone to his uncle and left the tea-houss and did not return. On March 14, defendant was seen in a tea-house at Shanghai Street by the man Chan Ming, who had him arrested. Defendant told the police that he had taken the jade drops from the ear-rings and had had the gold melted down. When he was ar- rested he had $8 in his possession.

a summons

the accused, would help him 10 admitted into hospital. After be- frid favour in her eyes. Whening discharged from there I in- she wrote these conditions, the tended to take ·out complainant "knew in her heart" against her, but she sald to. me that the accused would be unable that she would live together with to keep them, and this explained me and asked me not to take ac- the prosecuting officer, was

Mon against her." real reason why she framed the letter.

the

On January 4. complainant told her mother of the persistancy of

the defendant, and ater that day. the mother in company with her daughter addressed

the

accused

She wrote four demands (1) that I shal live together with her

as husband and Wife (2) that I

P

I

not

shall not beat her (3) that I shall not re-marry another women. was asked to sign my name in my In an effort to stop his attentions. own handwriting, and could Accused appeared to take the news change my mind for ever." badly, and n the evening of the Enquiries made by the Po ice the best substantiated' defendant's claim to same day, he said that

was, sa d the thing for him to do under the clr-some extent. He cumstances, was to leave the res-prosecuting officer, admitted to taurant. He kept his promise, but hospital on June 6 suffering from a wound on the head. But the did not say where he was going.

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some

There were three points in the case either the girl was telling the truth, or she had invented the story, or else someone else had Invented the story and taught her

to tell it: He considered the second point was impossible, as a girl of her age could not have

Invented such a story. The third point was also ruled out owing to the question of time for the mother to have coached the giri. He was therefore driven to com- pare the mother's story with the story "told by the defendant Medical and bacteriological evi- dence of the crime were totally absent. Defendant alleged that the mother of the child was his mistress, which had been denied by two other Indian witnesses.

After dealing with the evidence on this point, Mr. Schofield said he found that defendant's attack

character on the mother's uncorroborated, and appeared to have been made with the sole aim of discrediting the mother's story

on

was

certain points, Further, the absence of marks of violence on the girl, indicated, in his opinion, that there had been no attempt. to rape her, The mother's state- ment formed a coherent and con sistent story and was not, contra- dicted, while the defendant's story was contradicted on many minor points, He therefore considered the mother's story was true and accordingly would convict the de- fendant.

Detective-Sergeant. Fitches, who conducted the case for the prose-

ed by the OfEcer of the Guards to say that defendant's character was not good.

Two days later complainant enquiries show that between thecution, said he had been instruct- went to the Hong Kong Sanator-time defendant boarded the tram to the time he was taken off the lum in order to pass an exam na- tion as a nurse, but when she ar. vehicle, by the conductor. no other rived at the hospital she found person went up to the deck of the that she had forgotten her pentram. He was alone when found Defendant dir and returned home for it. On the by the conductor.

to the way back to the hospital she was not make any statement accosted by the defendant.. who police at the time regarding the asked her to marry h mm.

aleged assault.

ATTACK WITH KNIFE Before she had t.me to answer.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE The Brew.nezs cailed was Dr.

'Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared on behalf of the defendant.

Interpreter, regarding the reading of the charge to the prisoner at the Police Station

The accused, when asked by Hts Lordship, stated that he wished to 'eave the case in the hands of the jury without making any further statements. He had no witnesses to call.

SUMMING UP

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In summing His Lordship said that there was no need for an address of great length as the

Revenue Officer A. W. Grimmitt Prosecuted, and informed the Ma- gistrate that he would accept Tang Fat's plea, as he had no evidence to offer against the defendant. The Magistrate accordingly discharged the accused. The prosecution in- timated that they would raise nok objection if the discharged man was used as a witness by the de- fence, but Mr. Sutherton Russ, de- clined the offer..

THE FACTS Relating the facts of the case, Mr. Grimmitt said that at about 8.40 p.m. on February. 18. Revenue party of Officer W. Ward and a other officers raided No. 3 Mercer floor. Admittance Street, third was refused and they had to break down the door. It took them tel minutes before they succeeded in their work, and when they entered the flat. there were only thres While females on the premises. occupled with breaking the door, the revenue officers heard a com- motion going on inside, as it some people were stampeding to get away.

A search was made on the roof, and six men were found hiding in a water closet on the next roof: the door of which was shut. Two more were discovered three houses away, while on the roof of two houses away in the opposite direc: flon, a youth (Leung Wah) was

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Sessions Trial Conviction

J. B.

of

Prentis, Assistant Solicitor, was

undefended.

the

The Arst defendant was found guilty by the jury but they could not reach a decision on a verdict for the second.

The first prisoner was therefore sentenced to two and a half years* hard labour on the first count and eighteen months' hard labour on the second charge, to which he had pleaded guilty, the sentences to run concurrently,

The second prisoner will, there- fore, have to be tried over again.. that is unless the Crown" choose to withdraw their charges.

Lo Ying, 42, unemployed, and found crouching in the corner.

Close by to the youth was dis- Wong Kan, 25, a fish stall toki, covered a basket containing 13 appeared before Mr. Justice J. J.

All the men were

Hayden at the Criminal Sessions heroin pipes.

on charges of the possession taken down to the floor where they

two Wan

moulds for counterfeiting admitted, smoking. Leung

ten-cent pleces and a so of one turchier admitted throwing a parcel

for mould

counterfeiting Hong containing 172 pills, over the rooi. The parcel in question was later Kong silver dollars. The moulds found in the backyard.

were found at No. 75, Yu Chan Street. Arst floor, on January 31. A DIVAN

Mr. The floor was used as a divan, and

one cubicle | Crown contained only with a bed and bed clothing. A Crown while the prisoners were photograph was also found nanz- ing on the wall, which one of the woman (Chol Blk Yik's Wife) claimed belonged to her. In the picture Chol was shown third from the left. The woman admitted he drew a knife from his pocket R. S. Begble. Assistant Govern-

paying $28 for the door and said and stabbed her in the abdomen.ment Bacteriologist. who testifled

she was the principal tenant She fell to the ground and as she to finding human blood present on

On February 20 (two days later) two knives which he received from

| R.O. Ward and a party of revenue lay there he inflicted other woun la

the Police.

officers carried out a further rald on her back, chest, wrist and' a

She her leg below the knee cap.

Dr. I. Newton deposed to having

on the premises. Before going on to the floor, a revenue officer was laid on the ground helpness for treated both the complainant and

placed on the roof, and again ad- some minutes, then she got up and the accused while he was Superin-

mittance was refused. While at made the best of her way up the terident of the Government Civil

the door, the revenue officers heard motor road leading to the hospi- Hospital. The woman, he said, had

a commotion inside the floor, and tal, crying out "Save Life," When four stab wounds, one in the low-facts of the case were fresh in the

оде it minds of the Jury On the two while preparation were being made she reached the top of the road, ater part of the abdomen,

Arst to force an entrance, a woman a. bend leading to the hospital the back of the right chest, one charges of the case, in the

came down and opened the door. doors, she turned round and saw the right wrist and one in the namely, the wounding of the wo-

cause only three women were found in defendant lying on the ground. right leg. The first two mention-man with the intention to

harm, 1 Was essen the flat. On the stairs leading to ed wounds might very eastly have bodily Mr. Yeung Ha Kong. who is con-

And that the prisoner nected with the hospital, was at proved fatal. The patient's condi- tial to

bad through shock thought this out first and later the roof, Chol Blk Yik, two small boys and a girl were found in hid- the function of Tick Tam Street, tion was so and Village Road at about this and anemia that it was consider followed it with the attack.

ing, and near them was a basket OP the operate. The the second charge and

containing heroin pills. They time, and he heard the "complained inadvisable ant's cries for help. He hurried .o next morning she was still suffer-facts of the prisoner's own story,

tioned. the spot, and when he arrived on ing from shock, but owing to the that he was stabbed first, there were taken to the floor and ques- the scene he saw defendant ying protrusion of abdominal contents was no justification in the eyes of

The uneasy movements of the the law for doing what he did. little girl aroused E. O. Ward's on the ground, attended to by an operation had to be performed. several people. He also saw two She was discharged

the jury retired for 60 minutes suspicions, and a search revealed knives, one about a foot from the 4

and caution as to giving the pri-a parcel containing 100 heroin prostrate man, and the other on

of the opposite side the motor stab wound in the abdomen. He somer the benent of any doubt pills in one of the jacket porkers.

Chor denied all knowledge, but road. He gave instructions for appeared unconscious but his gen- and then returned

Chan Wang said that he bad given was good. At 3 guilty. the injured inan to be removed to eral condition

the child the pills rm that day he showed signs cl

DASTARDLY OFFENCE the outpatients department,

Both complainant and her as-returning consciousness but

Before passing sen ence sailant received treatment at the still drowsy. By evening he was.

-remarked that on Lordship

Traffic Sergeant Blackburn pro- Sanitorium from Dr. E. B. Gung, normal. He was discharged and later were removed to the January 10. The wound might offence was a particularly dastard-was in fact the master although his

en on the

arose as a result of an accident. Government Civil Hospita. The have been self-indicted or caused y one. It appears that either wife had been on the floor on both secuted. He said that the case

from passion or from spite, the occasions. two knives were picked up by hos- by another person.

Revenue Officer William Ward in Abant 8.15 p.m. on Sunday a young Dr. E. B. Ung, of the Hong Kong prisoner had del berately la'd in pital attendants and were later handed over to the authorities. Sanatorium Hospital, deposed to wait for the young woman to be evidence said that he carried out boy a riding 2 bicycle in Glou- having treated both complainant alone and had then stabbed her. both raids. There was no other Cester Road from west to east. The and the accused and sent them to Whatever had been the re'ations means of escape from the roof, ex-lorry, which was being, driven in between them before it was no except by the stairway leading to No. the same direction, collided with On January 10 defendant was Government Civil Hospital.

a cowardly 8 Mercer Street. Thirteen lamps the rear of the bicycle, The boy

was thrown off, but fortunately es discharged from hospital. He was Yip Lap the complainant's mo-cuse for doing such arrested, and made the folowing ther then gave evidence after thing as this. It appeared from in all were discovered on the pre- statement: "As on the beginning which Inspector Carey deposed to medical evidence. went on His mikes, in addition to the pills caped injury, but the bicycle was of the 5ta mom she arranged the sending of the injured persons Lordship, that the prisoner was forming the charges against the damaged to the extent of $10. with me to go up to town: On the to the hospital and the receiving very lucky in that he was not ac accused. upper deck of a tram she went for the weapons. someone to strike me, and wound,The case for the Crown, clored ed me on the hand was then after the evidence of the. Police

ACCUSED'S STATEMENT

to

on February

The accused was suffering from

was

..

In

After some further summary.

a verdict of

ing a charge of murder.

The prosecution, said Mr. Grim- His mitt alleged that Cho was the theprincipal tenant of the floor, and

Further corroborative evidence The prisoner was then senten-was then called after which His

Worship reserved judgment. ced to three years hard labour,!"

UNDER INFLUENCE OF DRINK

Lorry Driver Fined

A fine of $25 or in default a month's hard labour was imposed on Lo Wah, driver of lorry No. 1301 by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday when he was convicted on a charge of driving in Gloucester Road on Sunday, night while, under the influence of liquor, Defendant admitted the offence. He pleaded that he had dve cents' worth of Chinese wine with la meal.

A ceruificate from Dr. Thomas,

of the Government Civil Hospital. was produced my Court with regard to the state defendant was in.