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WOMAN SENT TO PRISON

UTTERED FORGED

BANK NOTES

Football Ground

Incident

The story of how a woman, Fung Stu, succeeded in ultering a forged

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.

STOLE GRAPHITE FROM FACTORY CRUEL ROBBERY

Heroin Addict To Be Examined

For stealing 49 sacks of graphite, valued at $249.63, the property of a factory at 198, Yee Kuk Street, an unemployed. Wong Sau Kok. was brought before Mr. Q. A: A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- trucy yesterday.

Det.-8gt. F. Nolan stated that the defendant had formerly been

bank note on the Hong Kong and employed as a broker for the face tory. Between February 8 and 14. Shangha! Bank for $10 by handing he stole the graphite and had sold it to a Royal Artillery sergeant who was selling tickets at a foot-29 sacks to a refinery in Causeway

ball match at Sookunpoo and how she was caught when she tried to do the same thing on the following day at another football match, was told at the Criminal Sessions yes- terday, before the Chief Justice,

Mr. J.

very certain that it was the ac- cused who had handed the forged note.

On the following day there was football match and in another

Bay. On Monday mornig he was caught on a junk and, he had in his possession 29 sacks of graphite. He also had a key to the godown Sergt. Nolan also of the factory" stated that the complainant was the defendant's brother.

Attack On Aged Woman

CHIEF JUSTICE'S REMARKS

"One of the greatest disappoint- His Worship ordered a remandments I have had of recent months of one week, pending a medical has been to read the report of the report on the defendant's physical Medical Officer, who tells me you But my disappointment is relieved condition, it being stated that de-are not a fit subject for a flogging. slightly when I turn to the next column and read there that you fendant was a heroin addict.

can, without detriment to yourself. be subjected to twelve strokes with the cane."

EARRINGS IN MOUTH

Sentence of six months impri-

The Chief Justice, Sir. Atholl Macgregor, addressed these words view of what had happened, in-sonment was passed on Chan Yauto a boy, named Fong Kim-fat. Str Atholl Macgregor.

Whyatt, Assistant At-structions were given at the ticket 26, by Mr. Q.A.A. Macfadyen at who was yesterday found guilty on office to be on the look-out for for-the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, the unanimous decision of the jury ged notes. That was about 3.15 p.m. on a charge of the theft of a pair at the Criminal Sessions, of a

of gold earrings from a woman charge of robbery with violence. Defendant ran down a scavenging lane but was stopped by a student.

and torney General, prosecuted the following acted as the jury: Messrs. Sverre Barg. S. E. Souza, Chung Kwan-ting, W. G. Williams, Chan Mon-sing, Chan Wal-chuen and Donald Black.

and about half-an-hour later, a woman, accompanied by a child. came to, buy a ticket and handed in a $10 note. At once the ncte was examined and found to be a forgery. It was also found that the woman who had tendered the note was the same woman who had tendered the forged note the pre-

In his opening statement, Mr. Whyatt said about 4.30 p.m. on December 11, the accused went to a football match at Sookunpoo and asked for a 30 cents ticket, bender- Ing a $10 note. The note was fold-vous day. Moreover, the charac

teristics on the two furgerier were identical.

ed in tour.

The officer on duty at the ticket box did not have suf- cient change. He asked her whe- ther she had small change and she shook her head,

"DID NOT UTTER THE NOTE"

"It is a particularly cruel rob-

It was stated that when the de-bery of which you have been con- fendant was stopped, he had the victed, proceeded His "Lordship. "and you are just the sort of earrings hidden in his mouth.

Det.-Sgt. F. Nolan prosecuted. coward who would begin to feel sorry for yourself when you begin to think of your own skin instead of that of your victim'a."

MUITSAI CASE

A MERE BOY

Hong Wal, 41, engineer, and his wife Kong Pun Tse, 38, charged

Fong Kim-fat, although a mere with keeping an unregistered mul- tsal at 32, Ngi Tsun Wal Road, buy, was responsible for a disgrace- victim being a The woman was then taken to the were discharged by Mr. K. M. A ful robbery. his police station and charged and her Barrett at the Kowloon Magis-68-year-old woman. Fong, told the A CONVERSATION,

reply was that she did not utter tracy yesterday. Mr. F. E Nash woman to come over and have a Unsuspect- Eventually the change was pro- the forged notes. At the police appeared for the defence. and the look at a sick child.

the woman accompanied cured and the woman was given court, however, she was asked whe-prosecution was conducted by In-ingly, her ticket and the change of $9.70 ther she had anything to say and spector H. W. Fraser, of the Secre-Fong who led her first to one house

replied: "I really did not tariat for Chinese Affairs. and she passed through into the she

I ground where she got into con-utter the note on December 11.

the football ground versation with a man named Bux, was not in She told Bux, according to Bux's that day." story, that she had been expecting

When she WAS charged with

a relative at the ground who ap-having uttered the second note she parently had not turned up. She asked Bux whether, 1 she went out, she could come back to, the ground with the same ticket. Soon after that she got up and went

ut of the ground. She had been of

ILLEGAL BOARDING

and then to another. They climb- ed to the third floor where Fong opened a door and having got the old woman inside, gagged her and robbed her of her purse and other property including some earrings.

Two women were charged at the Court yesterday, with

Fong's answer was that he had Marine

of " the 3.A. legal boarding

of snatched the purse from the" old How with intention

while she was walking Ting stowing away. They

pleaded woman guilty and were each fined $20, in along the road. He denied the

story of the violence. the reasons why a football default. three weeks' gaol.

replied: "I did not know it was a forged "note I did utter the note on December 12, but truly, 1. did not know it was a forged note."

Proceeding. Mr. Whyatt sald one

in the ground only about five min-ground was chosen for uttering the

utes.

When the match was over and the cash was being checked, it was found that the note handed by the woman was a forgery. Only two $10 notes were handed in that day and Sergeant Taylor, who was ini charge of the ticket office, was

notes was probably because it was |---

known that soldiers and sailors match for a few minutes proved would be in charge of the ticket that she did not go there to see office" and such people were na- the game. turally not experienced in detect- ing forged notes.

After trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty and Mr. Whyatt suggested that the accused was sentenced to twelve fact that the woman was it the months' imprisonment.

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