1939-04-06 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS PACKED COURT HEARS WITNESSES TESTIFY IN WANCHAI MURDER TRIAL

Salesman Tells Of Seeing Japanese Being Chopped

Beating accommodation in the Central Court yesterday afternoon was full to capacity when the preliminary hearing of the case in which Li Ping-chun, walter and partner of the Cha Beang Sut Restaurant. Wanchal, is charged with the murder" of Hyoshi, Sagara, a Japanese, on Jan. 28, was resumed before Mr. B. Edwards.

The prosecution was conducted} Was there quite a lot of talking by Mr. John Whyatt, Crown Coun- going on, before the incident?- sel, nasisted by Detective-Inspector I didn't hear any talking by any- W. N. Darkin. Mr. J. T. Prior ap- one. peared for the defence,

After you seized assailant, a wo- man fainted and you went. to assist her. The assailant, stood there and kept saying things. You didn't

Yeung Slu-ki, salesman, who was with a party of four having sup- per in the restaurant on the night in question, said that while there he heard the sound of chopping behind him, 'Two women altting opposite him screamed. He turn- ed and saw a man, who was sitting in a cubicle, being chopped re-jujitsu on me?" No. peatedly.

hear him saying. for Instance. If I had not got the chopper he might have got it?" No, I didn't hear him say that..

Did you hear him say, "He tried

Did you hear the wounded man say anything before the chop- ping?—I did not,

DROPPED CHOPPER Witness was about two paces away and got up and seized the assai- Witness added that the 'noise of lant who eventually dropped the chopping differed from that of chopper. The assailant then ut- slapping and he was sure it was tered, "My family has been km- the former. ed. My sister-in-law has been raped." The assaliant kept saying things which he could not under- stand.

Cross-examining. Mr. Por ask- ed: Did you notice that the man in the third cubicle was a Japan- ese?--No.

FRANK CAPRA

CAPRA SCORES

AGAIN

"You Can't Take It

With You"

UNUSUAL STORY

GENERAL

PRINCE EDWARD ROAD ROBBERY

Chinese Committed To Stand Trial

AMAH'S EXPERIENCE

On a charfe of armed robbery and wounding at 194, Prince Ed- ward Road. on March 24, when Mrs. H. J. Holmes received kn ́fe wounds about the arms, L KL. 48. was committed by Mr. Q. A. A Macfadyen at the Kowloon Court yesterday to the Criminal Sessions.

It was stated, in evidence, that the robbery took place on the morning of Mar. 24, when Kwok Luk, an ̃amah, was alone in the house.. Mrs. Holmes baving left shortly after 9 am

The amah was summoned to the door by the doorbell being rung twice, and she opened the door to ja man who was carrying a parcel in his hand and who, the amah explained in evidence yesterday, stated he came from the cam- pradore.

OPENED DOOR

The gentle humour and human

"I opened the door suficiently qualities of the play: "You Can't to put my hand out to take the Take it With You" have been parcel," the amah explained in brought out to perfection in the Court, "and then I noticed there screen adaptation, which will start were three men outside. Each one its run at the King's Theatre to of them carried a small knife. morrow and which was previewed

"After they had asked me where by the press yesterday.

Imy mistress's things were," witness

continued, "a walnut The play has been running for into my mouth.

was forced One of the men Broadway. Yue Kwok-ching. one of the two Columbia

caught hold of me and dragged me bought the Into the bedroom. A piece of tape women who saw the incident and screen rights for the sum of screamed.

was tied around my mouth, and gave corroborative $230,000 and assigned their best my hands were bound with wire." evidence. She said that she saw director. Frank Capra, to make the the chopping and was frightened, picture. Her friend fainted. She saw the

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The robbers. of whom, it Is alleged, the defendant WB one. Capra, who is well known for were about to leave with jewellery wounded man being, chopped in "Lost Horizon," "Lady for a Day' and other articles belonging to the neck, and her friend Yeung and other successful pictures, has Mrs. Holmes and to the amah. might went to catch hold of the assal, scored again, and the latest in- when they were surprised by Mrs. have been but I did not see them lant.

formation is that the picture bas Holmes' return. One of the rob

"Were there other people in the restaurant beside the people you have mentioned?-There

and two other customers. other customers had left.

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The defendant was later arrest- How many walters were there your noticing?--I

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Sentence of two months' hard labour was passed on Shum Hot 18, unemployed, by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy, for the theft of a waterproof cape, the property of Major A S Godley,

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Mr. N. C, Lorenciario was then called to the witness box. He told the Court that while having a meal He gave in perfectly peacefully, he heard the sound of chopping didn't he? Yes, but I held him, followed by the noise of earthen- tight.

ware or glass breaking. He turned Was he trembling?-I lifted him round and saw a man lying on a up entirely; he was not struggling. bench in the third cubicle, with his head protruding. Anothet man was standing about four feet from the wounded man, with a chopper morning, the temperature record-two bootblacks taking the in his hand. Blood was dripping ing at the Royal Observatory was from car No. 2856, which from the wounded man's head. 50.4 degrees, more than one de ree, parked at the junction of Pedder

Evidence was also given by Chan lower than the lowest temperature Street and ed the waiter towards the door, Yuk-lan, another member of the

DID NOT NOTICE Did he appear to be frightened? -I didn't notice if he appeared to be frightened.

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UNSUCCESSFUL CLAIM FOR POSSESSION

A claim for possession of pre- mises

unsuccessfully way brought in the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Jus- Uce. Sir Atholl. MacGregor, by.. Kwok Pak-chun, The claim was for possession of the Chater Road. The

second floor of No. 39, Hin followed him to Yuk

Road, mesne profits and costs. where the cape was

Leung Yam, defendant, stated Chinese for 15 cents. that he was paying a rental of $18. reading of 51.8 degrees on April 4. They informed a Chinese detective a month, compared with $15 a 1905. was broken on Tuesday, who arrested defendant.

month, which he was previously morning when a 51.7 degree read- The bootblacks were commended paying. He had offered to pay a ing was recorded. Thus, the record by the Bench.

rental of $21, but plaintiff would not agree to anything less than $35 a month.

ever recorded in Hongkong in the bootblacks, month of April.

Yam Lane, temperature sold to a

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CHINA'S CARUSO set on Tuesday stood only 22 hours.

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Mr. Theodore Tu Dies

ANNUAL INSPECTION BY GOVERNOR

At Chungking His Excellency the Governor has

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Giving Judgment for defendant, His Lordship said that $21 a month)

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peared to be a fair and reason- jable rental, and he ordered that Board of Directors of the Agricul-

Thirty cases of tubérculosis were such should be the rental as from tural Company of Singapore, in

appointed Monday, May 15, as the nutted to the Health Department the next due date. The Chief Jus the person of Mr. Wong Man- The death occurred at Chung-date of the Annual Inspection of on April 4, in addition to six cases tice said that as plaindi had had sang, arrived in Hongkong a few king several week, sgo of Mr. the St. John Ambulance Brigade, of measles, three cases of diph- an opportunity of avalling himself from Penang. He w Theodore Tu, noted Chinese singer, which will take place on the open theria, two cases each of enteric of defendant's offer, but had chosen proceed to Kwangsi to supervise who was known as "China's Naval Football Ground, through fever and dysentery, and one case otherwise, he would not make the the construction of houses in the Caruso," News of Mr. Tu's death the kindness and courtesy of the each of small-pox and cerebro-order retrospective. farming ател for workmen in only reached Hongkong yesterday. Becretary, Royal Naval Recreation spinal fever,

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