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SAW MAN FALL About five minutes later witness saw one of the men fall from the lower stage and thought he had slipped into the water at the bot- tom of the hold gncidentally. He shouted to the other men to grab hold of him and that moment another inan fell and then the other two. One aan from the lower twin deck rushed down the ladder to assist them and he also he cold reach the

fell before

staging.

CERTAIN DEATH

"I reallged that there was gas, and I would have been certala death for Buy man to attempt to go down the hold," witness con- tinued. "Ropes and ladders were lowered to the men, but as they were unconscious they could not help themselves. I immediately ordered a diver to be dressed and

a stuge to be made to lower him down, as it was impossible to climb up and down the ladders wo had in the circumstances.”

TWO DEAD

POLICE COURT BREVITIES

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Bo Siu, 40-year old widow, was fined $50 by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday when she pleaded guilty to keeping an unregistered mul-tsal at No. 30 Po Hing Fong, second floor, on December 1. Mr. H. W. Fraser, Multsal Inspector. said the girl had gone to No. 7 Police Station

had and complained of "having been assaulted by defendant, and the subsequent enquiries had led to defendant being summoned.

POLICE REPORTS JUDGMENT FOR

Ko Shing-shuen, a junk seaman, reported to the police yesterday that when at Futaumun on De-

cember 1 his craft was boarded by ave men from a sampan, who car- He and his crew were forced into ried three rides and five knives,

the hold, where they were kept until 11 a.m, on Thursday. When he got free, the pirates had al- ready made off with cargo valued at over $800 and a sum of money.

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Mr. Justice Lingsell, of No. 153 The Peak,

that Mrs. reported Lindsell lost a gold and pearl ring. ; valued at $100, in Mount Kellett

A false trade mark case, describ-Read on Thursday. ed, by solicitor for the complainants as a most flagrant one: was heard before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday when Messrs. John Manners and Co. summoned the Wah Shing (Shang) Loong Firm, of No. 29 Tung Man Street, ground floor, for that they had in their possession for sale

A 50-year-old man, Chan Ng- shun, was sent to the Queen Mary Hospital on Thursday with trac- tured ribs and other" injuries suf- fered when he was knocked down by a motor car in Wanchai.

While walking along Connaught or for the purpose of trade or Road Central on Thursday, Shek manufacture certain goods, namely | Lai-sang. 22, residing at No. 73 Blue Dye, to which a false trade Connaught description had been applied, on struck November 26.

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head by a brick fell from the parapet of No. 50, and was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital.

Mr. M. A. da Silva appeared for the complainants and said that on no excuse at all the defendants had applied the name of John Alleged to have run suddenly in Manners and Company" or its front of motor car No. 2792, in “A Russian diver „with a face Chinese equivalent to Blue Dye Connaught Road West near skin mask on went down and sent not sold or imported by that Com-Sutherland Street on Thursday, up three men, two of whom were pany. The defendants had come Lin Keung-kee, ́12. was knocked dead. A Chinese diver was then forward and admitted the offence down and received injuries to his lowered down by the ship's der-and arrangements had been made, had, according to a report made to rick but collapsed. He was bauled with regard to costs, so he was the police by Chan Yue-shing, car up and found to be unconscious. instructed to ask that they be driver. The injured boy was nd- It was then realised that all hope bound over, but he also wished to

mitted to the Queen Mary Hos- of saving the other two men was

let cortalia other firms know that pital. gone. I urdered another Russian any further offences of this kind diver to dress" and a more sub- would be strictly prosecuted. He stantial stage was made. He was asked for seizure of the goods. lowered down in this and the other two bodies were recovered," sald witness

In reply to the Coroner, Mr Bayford said the Chinese diver had fainted through fright. this being the doctor's diagneas, and not from

His Worship bound the defen- dant over in the sum of $200 for one year and ordered the goods to be confiscated.

A sequel to the alleged fraudu-

The loss of his purse containing a ferry ticket and two receipts to the value of $22.50, on board «a tramcar on Thursday, has been re- ported to the police by Mr. G. A. Waller, of No. 8 Lo Kwon Avenue, second floor. Causeway Bay.

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Injuries to his left wrist and ankle were suffered by Shing Ha- shuen, when he was hit by car, No. 575, driven by Lau Hing: 48, at Des Voeux Road West near Wes- térn Street, on Thursday. Shing was sent to the Queen Mary Hos-

the eaccis of gas. Nu gas coulaient conversion of a large quantity get inside the mark. Only five or of jewellery, to the total value of six minutes elapsed between his about $29,000, by a Chinese jewel seeing the first man fall ann the broker about seven months ago. first Rusetan dive going down. was the appearance before Mr. R. Answering Inspector O'Connor, Edwards at the Central Magistracy witness sald that below the plat- yesterday of Lal-chuen, a widowpital. form where the men were standing aged 30, on a charge of receiving there was five feet of water, but a ring set with diamonds, valued the distance from the platform to ịat $6,300, knowing it to have been the water was only two feet. The stolen.. men wore no lite lines. Life lines and gas masks were only worn when the presence of gas was suspected but in the present case no such suspicions exdsted. All the rice which had been stored in the No 1 bold had been previously re- moved, witness concluded,

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employed on the Talamba, said that on the day and time in ques- Mon he was standing in the twi deck handing tools down to the workmen below. He heard some- one falling, though he did not ac- tually see it, and shouted to the people on the upper deck to lower a rope. He passed the rope down the hold but fainted himself. He did not know what had happened and woke up to and himself lying on the upper deck. He had just fainted, and did not smell any- thing. Evidence was also given by the three other workmen on the twin deck and by the Chinese diver.

DIVER'S STORY Vaslly Darmin, the first diver to Bu down the hold, was then called. Through an interpreter, he said he was in his cabin when another Russian employe, came runnmg

up and told him some of their Chinese workmen were "sinking". Be rushed on the upper deck and looked down the hold, where he

saw three Chines: floating in the water. He put on his face mask and went down by a rope ladder and sent three men up. He was then pulled up to the deck, where he was told there were still two men in the hold. He was feeling very tired then and did not go down again,

Defendant said the ring was given her by the wife of a friend of her late husband; and she had not known it was stolen. if indeed it was.

Detective - Sub - Inspector Whant asked for a week's remand, which Was granted. Hall was fixed at $1,000 cash. with two suretles of $1,000 each,

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Chan Sze. a 28-year-old unem- ployed man appeared before Mr. K. MA. Barnett at the Kowloon Police Court yesterday on a charge of theft from the person of Mrs. H. Maunder of a handbag containing a sum of $151, on Thursday.

Defendant from the rear, snatched the bag and bolted down the road. Mrs. Grant put down her knitting and gave chase and defendant was in- tercepted by a police reservist, F. Khan. The bag and its contents were recovered.

Employed in the Haw Par Man- sions the residence of Mr. Aw Boon-haw, the well-known Chinese philanthropist, Ching Kwan, 24, fell while at work on Thursday, and was admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital with injuries to his

back.

Li Mei-kam, who was injured on Tuesday by the explosion of a live shell which had been sent among his belongings from Shanghai by two Europeari friends, died on Thursday night at Kowloon Hoś- pital.

HIS WEAKNESS WAS DOCTORS

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It was stated that Mrs. Maunder An old offender, with new was at that time minding her series of thefts in which well- baby in Chatham Road with her known doctors were chosen as the friend Mrs. W. R. Grant who was victims, was brought before Mr. Enitting beside her. Mrs. Maun-Edwards at the. Central Mag's- der's handbag was left beside her tracy yesterday in the person of friend,

approached Fung Wing, alias Fung Kit-sang. aged 31. The charges preferred against him involved a series of clocks silver larcenies of table vases, an electric fan, silver cups, and other ornaments offices of doctors in the Central district between November 3 and November 28. The compla'nants were Drs. Chau Wal-cheung, S. To Wong, Tsang Fook-cho, Sin Lok- sang. Li Ho-lin, Wong Chung- man, Fok Wing-kam, and F. Kew. The following were the cases of

. Defendant admitted all the breach of traffic regulation charges. With him in the dock brought before Mr. K. Keen at was Chan Ping, 33, unemployed.. was discharged the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday but the latter morning.

when he pleaded not guilty, as the police had no evidence against him.

"A term of six weeks', hard labour wsa imposed.

Captain A Gowdy of the Chi- nese Maritime Custorns, was fined $5 for driving his car at the ex cessive speed of 38 miles per hour along Nathan Road on November

18.

and was fined $5.

Detective - Sergeant Cashman

d's- prosecuting, sald the man charged. had been arrested on information on December 1. and In reply to Inspector O'Connor,

had led the police to defendant, witness sald hiş tiredness was

Lieut. Ridgeway of the Royal

who admitted the thefts. His physical and not from gas, of Ulster Rifles, stationed at Nanking procedure appeared to be to call which he did not get any.

Barracks, was similarly charged. !

at the doctors' offices in the gu'se. He pleaded guilty through post of a patient, wait h's chance and Moisey Shalko deposed to re- covering the other two bodies.

walk off with what, he wanted W. A. Mackininy of No. 179, Some of the property stolen was. Inspector O'Connor then eald Boundary Street, was found, guilty recovered at various pawnshops, that was all the evidence he pro- of obstruction by parking his but the things taken from Drs. Là, posed calling for the time being, vehicle on the wrong side of Sal-Wong Chung-man and Fok could There was still the evidence of two gon Road on November 12. He not be found. Nine further doctors and that of the Marine pleaded not guilty and said that charges could have been preferred Superintendent, who would testify under the Ordinance he was sum- against defendant who had be as to the nature of the cargo which moned evidence of obstruction to unemployed for some time and was left in No. 2 hold, and which person or vehicle would have to be had been go'ng around other apparently was the cause of the produced. Mr. Keen replied that offices pilfering things. gas, it being presumed that the the mere fact that the car was Defendant, who had previous gas resulted from the saturation of there, and that people had to go convictions in 1934 and 1938, was rice by water.

round it to pass was evidence to given one month's hard labour on prove the charge. A fine of $3 was each of the charges, the sentences imposed.

to run consecutively.

The Coroner adjourned, the fn quiry to December 13, at 2.30 p.m.

DEFENDANTS

Before the Pulsne Judge, Mr. Justice R E Lindsell in the Sum- mary Court yesterday, Pelwant Kwan (plaintiff), of No. 4 Pilkem Street. ground floor, brought an action

against Messrs. Dodwell and Company (defendants), of Ice House Street.

The plaintiff claimed from the defendants the sum of $180 being Commission due for the sale of one motor-car in May 1937.

Defendants were represented by Mr. D. B. Evans, of Messrs. John-

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After evidence was given, His Lordship delivered judgment for defendant-company with costs.

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