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IMPORTATION OF HEROIN

INTO COLONY

Shanghai Chinese Gets

Seven Years

"I would be entirely failing in my duty if I did not pass an extremely savere sentence on you"

Seven

With these words, the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor. at the Criminal Sessions yesterday passed sentence of years' hard labour on a Shanghai man, Wong Shau Sheung, who pleaded guilty to charges of possession of and importing 228 ounces of crude beroin aboard the Butterfield and Swire 3.5. Bapeh on January 4 last.

His Lordship added that it was a very good thing for the population of the Colony that the accused was caught.

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Mr. E. H. Willams, Assistant Attorney General, appearing for the Crown, pointed out that the drug was sufficient to make practically 5,000,000 heroin plils. He submitted that the charge of Importing was more serious than possession. Mr. H. C. Macnamara, instructed anything do with danger- by Mr. W. M. Brown, was for the ous drugs is an offence against the defence, and said that the two laws of Hong Kong. The worst counts to which the accused had aspect of your case to me is this. pleaded guilty were in effect one If it were not for people like

of offence. The question sen-you who bring in raw material for Lence, he said. depended on cer- tain considerations. In the first had pleaded place the accused guilty and counsel would put it moral forward as more from a point of view.

Merely A Carrior "I think it is clear." said Mr. Macnamara. "that this man is not the principal criminal. that is to any, he is merely a carrier. Ha occupation before this offence took place was that of a fireman. He out of work and is poor, and has his mother, wife and two children dependant on him. In this case he accepted money from some person or other to bring this stuff into the Colony."

Mr. Williams (replying to his Lordship): I understand that he has not given full disclosures as to the principals in this case.

Mr. Macnamara: I am in- structed that he did not know. He received $35 to bring the stuff here. He may have known where to take it in the Colony. In ad dition. your Lordship, up to the time of his arrest this man had a good character. The Revenue De partment have nothing known against him formally. He has been employed by the. B. and 6. In one of their steamers in the North,

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Mr. Williams: 1 would like to point out the enormous quantity that he had carried in and, int the second place, he, as a fire-

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would have ample oppor- tunity to do that and a man' in that position should be all the more careful

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Mr. Macnamara: He passenger at the time of his ar- rest.

WHEN THIEVES -FALL OUT Sequel To Kowloon Burglary

Appearing before Mr. E. Hims worth at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Wong King-hing, 40, un- employed, was charged with bur- glary alleged to have committed on February 13 when he stole a quantity of clothing and jewellery to a total value of $06, property of Yeung Bam, of Kal Yan Road.

Ma Kwok-ngau, a 24-year-old unemployed Was charged with breaking into 39. Yim Ping Street, first door, and stealing some pieces of clothing and a camera on Janu». ary 20. He was also charged. to- gether with first défendant, with breaking into No. 13, Poplar Street ut. Friday last and stealing some pieces of clothing.

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Det.-Sgt. MacPherson said that on Saturday last, about 5.16 p.m., first defendant was seen by an Indian constable carrying a parcel" containing articles which stolen from Yeung Sam. He took heroin there would be no red pilihim back to the Station where he or dangerous red pil trame here.

admitted having taken part in the You have quite deliberately, for a other burglaries, and it was then money consideration, undertaken,

that he gave second defendant's what I am satisfied you must have

name to the Police, known was a very dangerous task. and it is a very good thing for the population of the Colony that you were caught. I would be entirely failing in my duty if I did not pass an extremely severe sentence on you. The sentence of this Court is that you go to prison with hard labour for a term of seven years on each count, the sentences to run concurrently."

ARMED ROBBERY SEQUEL

A week's fórmal remand was granted when Wong Yat-hong, 23, allas Wong Hong-ying, allas Wong Chiping, was charged with (a) on February 16, armed robbery

10 Po Hing Street, from No. ground floor and stealing the sum of $35 from and inflicting grevious bodily harm on In Pan, 18, of Po Hing Fong Street, appeared before, Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday morning.

Detective Bergeant Pilkington asked for the remand and asked that the case be taken for com- mitial.

POLICE CONSTABLES

IN TROUBLE

Seven days' remand was granted by Mr. K. Barnett in the case in which Chan Kam-tal, aged. 23. Police Constable C365, was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- Importing Charge Stressed day with misconducting himself as Mr. Willams: The amount of a police officer. Bail was fixed at heroin WES sufficient to make $50. practically 8,000,000 pills. I sub- mit that the importing charge is more serious than possessioni.

His Lordship: Wong Shau Sheung, you have pleaded guilty hours on Det-Sgt. Headridge's up-

Yu Yce, 33, seaman No. 53, of the Water Police, was also charged with the same offence His Wor- remand of 48 ship granted the

to two counts which, as your plication..

counsel has pointed out, really only represent different angles of the same transaction against the law of this Colony.

BANISHEE GAOLED

For six months past the au- For returning to the Colony from thorities of Hong Kong have been banishment, Chung Hok, 19, un- directing a vigorous campaign employed, of no fixed abode, was against traffic in dangerous drugs arrested on Wednesday at Clever- and I find it difficult to imagine ley Street, near Jevols Street, and that anyone, even though only was sentenced to six months hard making passing visits to Hongj labour when he was brought be Kong. is unaware of that cam- tore Mr. K Keen at the Central paign and does not know well that Magistracy yesterday morning.

GAOL TERM FOR YOUNG DRUG OFFENDER "Youth Will Not Be Taken Into Consideration"

Remanded from the January Sessions on a charge of the possession of an ounce of crude beroin, 140 ounces of pink masé. and 28,350 pills, at No. 105 Leighton Hill Road, top floor, Li Pui, a youth stated to be 15 years of age, was sent to prison for two and a half years with hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sle Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday morning.

" stated six months ago that neither sex nor youth would be taken into consideration in these cases," remarked his Lord- ship. "There is no other place to which I can send a young per- son of your age except to one or other of the recognised prisons of the Colony."

When the youth appeared, yes terday, his Lordship remarked at first that he had found that there was no provision for boys between 15 and 18 years. He had conalder

not in a position, to say so. He understood from 8. R. O. Grimmitt that the Magistrate thought the. accused as more than 15. Would it be possible for the accused to have a whipping? asked Mr. Wil-

able objection to sending children of the accused's age to prison. He asked Mr. Williams, Assistant At-ilams.

torney General, it he could tell His Lordship replied that if he whether any further enquiries had took that course it might open an been made to verify the youth's avenue for traffickers in danger- ous drugs to use females of that age in which ease whipping would be entirely out of the question..

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WHIPPING AS ALTERNATIVE? Mr. Williams' replied that he was

First defendant was sentenced to. six months imprisonment while second defendant was given a term of 12 months.

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