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Big Heroin Seizure

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The stains or his hands were there because Wu Kong had asked him to help. He experimented, but was not very good at it.

His visit to Hong Kong from prompted by a letter Leung, the anah, who wrote him about procuring work

the cook in

Colony. The теч muneration was much better, and that was why he came.

was Yee

to

A

roof Mr.

When searching the Colledge discovered two men, one inable traffic,"

of whom was at present at the dock.

He examined the hands of those present, and found three of them were ingrained with paste similar In colour to the pink mass found on the premises.

Mr. Taylor arrived some twenty You minutes later. (hold- Revenue Officer Grimmitt arriv- (Laughed next, and

Mr. Abbott: "What did come here to cook? This? Lg out the pink mass),

an earthern

jar

WEEKLY RETURN OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

INJURED TOTAL 31: THREE KILLED

In the Colony of Hong Kong In- cluding the Island, Kowloon and the New Territories during the week ending at 8 am. on Satur- day, August 15, there were alto- gether. 59 traffic accidents, as the result of which 3 persons were kill- filled with pink paste was founded and 31 persons were injured. Witness: No. Food and rice.

ander the table, also some sleves, WOULD HAVE FLED

apestle and mortar, and a pair of Being a high-minded man, con-scales. Mr. Grimmitt asked who, tinued the accused. he would not the principal tenant was, and the be have fed if he had been guilty of first accused, answered that any misdemeanour.

ter).

Mr. Hin Bhing-10, addressing the Jury said that the accused were merely servants in the employ of the real culprit, Chung Tsui Pan, The clothes they fetched from their own quarters

proved had that.

It was apparent chat Chung Tyul Pan" was the man who con- trolled the whole business, and, particularly, owned the two bed rooms. There was no evidence of the place being sub-tenanted.

WIS,

Woo Chai dia no understand

but Mr. Cantonese,

Grimmits thought he said that he had been there for the past £ve days.

An analysis at the Import and Export Office showed that the sum of pills amounted to 30,845, and sufficient paste to produce another 18,000. There was also caffein, strychnine and quinine.

Mr. Abbott said that there was the sufficient guilt as long as accused was present where the

Of the persons killed, a Chinese male child died as the résalt of Injuries received, when he Was knocked down by a motor lorry whilst running across the street.

One Chinese female, aged about 50 years, who ran across the street

а in front of motor lorry, was knocked down and fatally injured. A Chinese male bus passenger, died as the result. of injuries re- celved while alighting from moving motor bus.

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Of the persons Injured, 20 were pedestrians who were either walk- ing or running across the road and were struck by vehicles.

One bus passenger and a tram- car passenger were injured while

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Summing up. his Lordship said drugs were found. No ownership alighting from a moving motor bus EMBEZZLEMENT

that the offence was a statutory need be claimed, as possession was

.one,

In the Colony. If a person had in his possession anything con- taining dangerous drugs, he was in possession of drugs un t WIL proved to the contrary. The "2c- cused had to prove that they were innocent of the possession of drugs. There were different degrees of. guit, as for instance, those asalat- ing might not be quite as guilty.

Without retiring, the jury re- turned an unanimous verdict of |"Oulity" against both accused.

CULPRIT AT LARGE

the charge.

HANDS STAINED Revenue Officer, W. H. E. Col- ledge, corroborated the statements of Mr. Abbott,

The accused questioned witness's evidence about his hands being stained, remarking that be wis born that way.

The Chief Justice: Mr. Colledge, was his hands a natural red, DI Was it stained?

ed,

Witness: It was definitely stain-

rice,

For what

and a moving tranicar respectively. Two coolies were injured through falling from a moving motor lorry. Two private motor car passen- gers were injured when the vehicle ran off the road onto a

paddy field.

A motor cycle driver was injured when his vehicle capsized.

A private car driver and a female passenger were injured when their vehicle collided with the embank ment of the road,

A bicycle rider and one vehicle passenger were injured as the re- suit of callision between these.

Of the 59 accidents, 23 were

CHARGE DISMISSED

MAGISTRATE HOLDS

NO CASE TO ANSWER

The

embezzlement

charges of and fraud which were preferred

against Tong Yuk Chor, a clerk in the Kwong Nam Company, were dismissed when the defendant ap- peared on "remand before Mr. S. F.

terday. The defendant was dis- charged on the first charge, and pedestrians; and 10 accidents were Mr. P. E. Sin, for the prosecution, due to other cruges.

withdrew the other counts..

collisions between

vehicles and

R. O. Grimmitt stated that the Mr. Hin Shing-lo informed His pink mass was adhering to the Lordship that he had been ins-hands of the accused. When he collisions between vehicles: 26 were Balfour at the Central Court yes- tructed to defend the first accus-mentioned discovering dried ed. Wa Kong, who had pleaded his Lordship asked: "Gufity" on arralgament The real culprit was still at large.

Mr. Abbott friterposed to inform The Court that a previous charge had been brought against Wu Kong for the possession of drugs on March 13, 1935. The accused bad

failed to appear on the eharge,

and had estreated his ball

Mr. Hin Shing-lo, then said that he had not been instructed about that, but that he would like to point out that the degree of in- terest in the heroin trafic. in Hong Kong had grown in alarm ing proportion, and an enterpris ing heroin manufacturer would enilst his ald from the country, an "uninformed district." Не asked lealency on that account for the | two defendanta

His Lordship said that the pos- session of drugs was & criminal offence in China and concluded by saying. "I prefer to defer sen- tence on you three until the last of the series of these abominable cases has been heard.”

!!

ANOTHER CASE

Man Arrested On Roof Of Building

Chai

Bes-

Another drug case was heard be- fore the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, yesterday afternoon, when Woo Chal, was found guilty of possession of dangerous drugs. Ün Monday morning when Cheung Kwai, a woman, and two men, Lam Tal and Woo were arraigned in Criminal slons, the ärst two pleaded "Gulity" while the third, Chai, pleaded "Not guilty."

Yesterday, Woo Cha had answer to the charge alone possession of dangerous drugs at 45a, Wyndham Street top floor, to the extent of 30.845 heroin pilis,

The jurors called were Messrs.

Woo

to of

purpose is dried rice used in that business?" "Dried rice is used to take

the humidity from the hot pills." replied witness.

Roger Woo, Interpreter attached to the Central Police Station de- posed to a written statement made by Woo Chai which was:

"I was employed to weigh herpin pills for only four days."

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ACCUSED'S STORY

Woo Chai, in evidence, deposed. that he came to the Colony in He asked per→ search of w.. mission to remain at the house of a Mr. Kong, whose address he did not know, but it was where he was arrested,

On the morning of, July 29, he went to the wharf to look for a

and

The charges were:-(B) with

CABARET GIRL IN intent to defraud, on divers dates

TROUBLE

PROPRIETOR CLAIMS DAMAGES

In the Summary Court yester- day morning, before the Acting Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice J. J. Hayden, Mr. Charles Gray, of the New Majestic Dancing Academy claimed 2621.05 from Lau Mel- kuen, a hostess, for breach of contract.

Was

The plain was represented by friend, and not finding him. ze-

Mr. M. A da Silva, and Mr. G. 8. turned to the house at noon, He Ford appeared for the defendant Mr. Silva said that the defen- found a mass of pink paste

under contract, and pills there, but he did not knowdant

was brought down from Shanghai, to whom they belonged.

some time in April Her contract was to last for one year, and she was not to join another cabaret, or 'be employed by, another dance nall.

An old woman asked him to weigh some pills for her, and he refused ber request, informing her that he did not know how it was done.

Cross-examined" by Mr. Abbott, the accused replied that there was Do pill making going on when he returned at noon.

Els curiosity was never aroused enough to enquire into the 'con- tents of the cupboard, nor did he bother to and out whether it was not or cold. He

reiterated the

was

eight in all) between May 31, last year, and March 26, this year, did obtain valuable securities, namely passage tickets, by falsely pretend- ing that they had been sold to Tau Low, or alternately, with in- tent to defraud on divers dates between May 31, last year and March 28. this year.

did" make raise entries in the Passage Ledger Book that the sum of $2,434 had been sold to Tan Low. (b) Did re- ceive from the Yee Tal firm-on

EDGAR

ENE

BRITISH MADE

divers dates between Jume 16, last HIGH REED

year and April 23, this year, the sum of $1,285.58 which the defen-

dant did embezzle or convert to his own use. (cf Did receive from the Chung Yeung Boarding House on, divers dates between Aprli 27 and December 11, last year, the sum of $89,50 and embezzled that suri.

Mr. Charles Onslow, continuing under the ·CTOSS- his evidence. examination by Mr. Leo D'Almada, If the contract was broken, she Sen, said that the defendant had was to pay the plaintifa aumbeen in the shipping business for equivalent to her earnings for the term of her employment with him.

Mr. aliva continued that twenty days before the expiration of the contract the defendant joined the China, Emporium Ballroom.;

CABARET RIVALRY

statement to Mr. Abbott that his hands were of a pink colour when he was born. His conjecture that the witnesses had committed perjury.

undermined. His Lordship: Were you börn with pink paste sticking to your fingers."

Witness: No! No!

In summing up his Lordship said the jury had two things, to consider: one, that he was found

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Mr. Suva atressed the fact that there was intensive rivalry be- tween the cabarets, and that the business of the New Majestic Dancing Academy was being

He said that the mainly to curb this practice of the China Emporium, and to re- cover damages from the defendant due to breach of contract.

action" was

The plaintiff deposed in the witness box that, no salary

their

many years and as he was well acquainted with the business he had been engaged by the Kwong Nam firm.

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Defendant had assumed full responsibility of the Passage de- partment and would, therefore have to assume the responsibility, of any difference allowed in credit in that department.

Mr. D'Almeda put it to the wit- ness that the sums in the account which constituted the charge, were such sums, placed to the ac- count of the defendant in respect of these differences, for which he stood guarantee.

Mr. D'Almada said that he could with the others on the roof, which given to the hostesses,

waḍ | satisfy witness that the name Tau K. Kastmann, (foreman), Wong was inaccessable from any other.

Low, representing the defendant, They were given 80 per cent of Tat. E. Antonio. Chan Sui Wah part of the building except the

was known to many of the board-

Chong, Fan Kwai

Kwan Mok third floor, which was

carnings. During detening house keepers, from which the top: dant's employment with plaintiff, houses emmigrants were obtained Chung, and M. Al Salleh.

two, that his palms were ingraiń- Mr. M. J. Abbott prosecuted for ed with a pink aye, with the ad- dancing tickets.

she had earned $250 from her in the shipping business.

the Crown,

Re-examined witness said that all herence of paste on his fingers.

the time he had been led to be. His Lordship compared this with the story of the amall boy who had jam all over his mouth, and an empty jam jar in another rooni.

On July 29, about 1.15 p.m., R. O. Colledge, went to 45a, Wynd- ham Street, and upon knocking at the door, was admitted by a WOMAN. He found two women present, the one who had opened the door, and another apparently il on a bed.

*THE WRONG PERSON,” "It is amazing," said, his Lord- ship, "how frequently it has come

$

In attempting to aid her by ad- vising her to procure a contract leve that Tau Low was another in writing by the val dance-hall, she merely laughed in his face, which was all the thanks he got for the trouble!

There was absolutely no reason for her leaving his employ other enticed

The case was adjourried October 29, at 10 am

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Mr. D'Almada, submitted that he had no case to answer, as on the fate of the evidence the defendant was allowed the credit which had been given. The Tau Low account was not a fictitious account nor Had the defendant, pretended to have sold the tickets to Tau Low,

Mr. Sin said that in giving crèdit to Tau Low, Mr. Onslow had been led to believe that Tau Low was a rich man. It had then turned- out that the name Tax Low, was feitious for at the liquidators meeting, the defendant had said that, Tau Low represented a num

DOCUMENT PRODUCED Bui Chik Tu, book-keeper of the firm, stated that he did not know that the defendant was Tau Low.

Mr. D'Almada produced a docu- ment which Hau Chi Hui, treasur- er of the Kwong Nam fra, had sent to the defendant, showing admitted that Tau Low was him

ber of people, whereas later he had

In the front part of the room lo, my notice that 30 many Re-than that she had been he noticed a table covered with a venue Officers and other govern-away by the'r rival white cloth. A galvanized iron ment officials have arrested the sheet was underneath, and around } wrong person. They are all ar- the table were blue curtains part-rested a day or so after their ar Fly drawn.

rival here, and there is always aed the Chief Justice, if the jury him the extent of his indebtedness gelt. It was a case of falsely mis Materials for

to the firm. The details of that representating to obtain credit the making of mythical employer. Then, unfor-believed the defendant.

Without deliberation the jury

document tallled exactly heroin pills were on the table and tunately, down comes a blundering

With His Worship held that on the those in the account books of the first charge there was no case to three canvas and two, wooden government official and brings returned a verdict of "Gality”...

Arza. them to the Court." (Laughter.) His Lordship said: “In your

answer and dismissed the charge. Accused's statement of the case, Woo Chál, as in the Re-examined by Mr. Bin, witness Mr. Bin ther withdrew the other In another corner of the room weighing of the pills was an ad-case of the others charged said that there was nothing on two charges, was a cupboard, wid "three trays mission of guilt,

with you. I propose to postpone the document to show to whom Costs were awarded the defen- dant on all eight sub-sections of Alled with pills in the course of It would be a poor day for the sentence until the last of the it had been sent or who had ad-

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stools were around it.

TRAYS WITH FILLS

drying.