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FIVE MEN FACE TRIAL AT CRIMINAL SESSIONS

Crown Allegations Of An,

Attempted Junk Piracy

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An alleged attempted piracy of a cargo boat on its way from Tai Leung to Hongkong on November 22 was described before the Fulsne, Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when fire men were charged before him in 'connection with the crime.

Defendants were Chan Yu, Changamama Fuk-shing Lim

Cheung Chan CENTRAL COURT

Yuk-ki and Tsang Chth, and they were charged with possession of

| arms and ammunition, assult with Intent to rob, and shooting with intent to malm, disfigure or dis- able.

Was

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The following jury panelled:-Mess:s. G. B. Witchell

(foreman), A. M. Rumjahn, B. M. Xavier, G. Forder, C. J. Triggs, A C Soares and Leung Wing-sik.

INQUEST

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Illegal Operation Alleged

WOMAN'S DEATH

Mr. J. B. Prentin.. Assistant

An inquest Was held at the Crown Solicitor, prosecuting, said Central Court yesterday into the on November 22 1p Tai-pak, master cireuinstances surounding the jor a cargo boat, and three fois death" of a woman, LA Shun-foon, were in their funk near Deep Bay aged 29, who died at the Tung or their way from Tai Leung to Wah Hospital on November 28 of Hongkong when they were fired peritonitis and cardiac failure. upon and challenged by five men in a small boat,

CHASED PIRATES

There was a fishing boat close by and they made for it and were taken on board. The fishermer chased the pirates and after about 70 shots had been exchanged the pirates surrendered. They were ordered on board the fishing craft tied up and put into the hold.

The master of the fishing boat then boarded the other boat, where he found two automatic clips con- Laining dum' dum bullets, a 4.5 re- volver and

Mr. T. J. Houston at as Coroner, assisted by & jury comprising Messra, F. X. M da Silva (Fore- (nan). R. G. Wallace and Lim Kim-

sheung

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Dr. Lo Chong-fe, of the Tung Wah Hospital, said that deceased was admitted to the hospital on October 25, She complained of pain in the abdomen which, she

sald, had started the day before.

She also said that she had given birth to a three-month-old foetus the month before, and insisted: that she had pains only on the ¡day previous to admission to hos-

pital

an automatic pistol. Dr. 10 He then made for Castle Peak and

continued that he handed his prisoners and the arms she was suffering from peritonitis, examined deceased and found that

over to the police.

and advised her to have an opera tion, She at first refused but revealed that the abdomen heces- later consented. The operation

Prisoners claimed that they themselves had been the victims n pirates and that one of their number, a man named Ng Po had been shot and thrown overboard. The hearing was adjourned til to-day.

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sitated draining.

LEGAL ACTION After the operation deceased improved but fell li again on October 31. During this time, Dr. Lo said, the deceased had been heard to express a wish to take legal action against some outside doctors.

On being further questioned, deceased revealed the proper his- News was received in the Colony tory of her illness, which showed yesterday of the death on Tuesday that she had had an illegal opera-

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A report was received by the George's Sanatorium. tion of abortion performed on Police from the New Territories Bramshott, Hampshire, of a Hong- her by two lady doctor. Deceased yesterday morning of a robbery by kong Police Officer, Bergeant mentioned that the doctors used four men, one of whom was armed Alexander McRobble,

forceps to get her three-month-old with an automatic pistol, in the The late Sergeant McRobbie foetus out of her womb.

course of which Fong Cheung-kiu, Joined the Police Force in 1927, On hearing this. Dr. Lo said he a refugee, from Chinese Territory, and was attached for several years informed the police of the facts was shot to death and another to the Water Police Station. and when deceased died, her body man named Fong Cheung-ming During his last two years in Hong was sent to the Victoria Mortuary. was wounded in the left leg. kong he was in the Registry of Dr. P. B.

Wilkinson, medical After they had robbed the house the Criminal Investigation De-officer in charge of the Victoria in Muk Fu Village, Sheung Shui, partment.

Mortuary, who performed the where deceased was shot as he The inte Sergeant McRobble was postmortem, in his evidence was attempting to leave, the rob- suffering from lung trouble and stated that he could not form any bers made off towards Chinese tár- before leaving for Home he spent opinion as to where the peritonitis ritory, only 150 yards from the a month in hospital here.

originated. He had given special village. They took with them some He leaves a widow and a two-attention on his examination be-$240 in Chinese currency. year-old daughter.

COMMITTED TO SESSIONS

cause he had been informed of the history of the case.

The jury, after hearing further evidence, expressed the opinion that there were no

other cause

SISTER-IN-LAW STRUCK

His reason for striking his sister. of death and returned a verdict in-law three or four times with an

Leung Kal. 38, unemployed, was of death by natural causes. committed to stand trial at the Criminal Session by Mr. T. J. Houg-

His Honour the Chief

Justice.

ton at the Central Court yester-Bir Atholl MacGregor, returned to day on a charge of throwing cor- his duties at the Supreme Court rosive fluid at two girls, Wang Lu- yesterday morning, when he took

axe, Tse Slu-tong, 20-year-old youth, explained at the Kowloon Court yesterday, was because she had kept him awake all night and be was annoyed.

Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen sentenc-

labour.

fong and Chung Yuk-chán, in the Criminal Bessions case in whiehed defendant to six months' hard.

Alexandra Building on November

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