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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1941.

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Three constables, GANGA SINGH, P.C. B194, GURNAM SINGH. 8778, xnd LACHUMAN SINGH, P.C. B36, were arraigned before the Chief Juniino, Bir Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Ressions 15th September 1941 yesterday with accepting a bribe (agalust the first accused) and the other two with being acenssorles, aiding and abetting the Erst Macau and Cha accused

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Ganga Singh was additionally charged with demanding $25 from Chung Chiu, with menaces, on July 30. The first and second accused would were found Guilty and were sen-left. tenced

two years and three ! Next day first accused. accom- i months hard labour. and four panied by second Bid third, re-i months' hard labour respectively. turned to the garage and said he These cover raids made on 13 while third accused was acquited.¦ wanted $15 Callis gave the addresses in the Central, seven fuļ Mr J P Murphy. Assistant money to first accused who, in

the Grown Solleitor, assisted by

De turn, banded it to second accuseded Sub frisp. R Cunningham.

the Shaukiwar and nine in Wanchai districts.

ASSAULTED P. C.

Yuva

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widow. Was he ag belore Mr HQ Sheldon charged with assaulting 111 ulan Poller Constable on Sept 22)

dbstructing the roadway with two baskets of vegetables

J Was stated that defendant was warned to go away by the vempiaitant and when he return-

the

pro. secuted and MI Otorge She instructed by Mr C. A Sutherton Huss, represented first accused

The following comprised jury Messra. W R. Wong Fore

Chu Ming-hung Chan Hawkin, Pong Bing-cheung. G E Ahwee and Chung Sub-m

OWNER SUMMONED

Dealing with the second count

The three Indians were arrested as they were leaving the garage.

When charged second accused stated he did not take any mone The $16 was given

by irl accused to take back to the sta

on where he was to telury 1. The third accused stated that her | met first and second opposite the! Majestle Theatre and was invited : go with them The other two went into the garage to hire a cal Bald not go ana knew nothing

d about half an hour afterwards against first accused only Mr defendant was still there and was Murphy traced events up to June about the matter. accordingly arrested On the way when Arst accused summoned

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ACCUSED'S DENIAL

in the station defendant struggled Chung Chiu, owner of the Po On In evidence yesterday, first ac- and badly scratched complainant's Garage of Shantung Street The 'cused dented that he demanded arm necessitating treatment at prosecutor related two instances money from Chung and alse that!

hospital

when first accused stopped two a handed over $15 to second ac Defendant pleaded not guilty drivers employed by Chung and eused. He d not go into thr Ailer hearing her evidence his accused said something to the el garage. Accused alleged that the Worship Impozed a line of $100 feet that be accused) had no witnesses had told les about hum. 1

r six weeks on the assault charge been paid "tea money."

Without retiring. the Jury! and cautioned her

Alter an interview with Mr. W unanimously found Arst P Thompson, ASP. Cung was second accused Guilty of given certain marked notes and respective charges. Third instructions. On July 30 first accused was found Not Guilty. cused called Lee Ching 23. unemployed, ap that he wanted $5 for each

Oh! Chung and sele First accused had ve years Car service and hi peared before Mr ◊ T Lowry

character Wan! Chung replied that as he had te thescribed as foir. charged with burglary.

cars he could

not pay

Second accused

had 13 years' so much: and onered $15. Accused said he service in the Force.

struction charge

Sgt K McLeod prosecuted.

EIGHTH CONVICTION

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Continued from Page 4 the toreman's calculation. The foreman said witnes9, Was Mr! Omre Isang Asked what George fawng based his calculations on.

itness replied per linear foot.

When told by the Chairman that there

was no mention ol ar measurement tài tha bill simply stated thai the person killed, an unknown Chinese male dled from hjarles amount was for transportation of

muck tor received by falling oll

80 many days, witness EL moving

said that the linear measurement' of the muck, as well as the site!

was taken from, was also given on the bil}

In t.

2380 of purchases of goods, sald witness, he would check the goods with the bill and order

Witness

was then told by the amount of dynamite would be is book. He was asked by the Chair- Chairman that the Commission sued

man to produce the attendance |was going to get the vouchers back He admitted that if be, the Kin book in the afternoon

from the chartered accountants Lee man and the watchman were Cheng Chung, a Kin Les fore- and that he would be asked ques-dishonest there was nothing to pre-man, testified that his duties in- So Yung-kee, of No. 48 Came!

tions on some of the items

vent them from robbing the Gov- cluded the making up of the morn- Read, first flour, was fined $5 by compartment. Defendant sneaked

ernment, provided that the blasting ing reports for work done from in- Mr. Sheldon for possession of alin and struct complainant four The first witness called was Lotoreman, Ho Kwal-sum, was also formation contained in written camera in Stanley Village Road times with a chopper The reason: Hok-put, foreman employed at the dishonest. Witness denied all documents left behind by the Gov- for the assault, I was alleged, was Public Works Department who knowledge of what happened to crnment foremen. The statements that the complainant, R. No. 1 of told the Commission that his any unused surplus of dynamile. the Stean Laundry, had dismissed duties in connexion with the tun- accused from hts kazineas

01 persons injured 12 were Jam Ping. 55 liftmati, appeared pedestrians who were struck by belore Mr Sheldon ebarged with vehicles while cro.sing The car- simple Jurecny of four bottles of riageway medielne plis frum the China Of 99 accidents 47 were coll! Provident, Loan and

between Mortgage SNES

vetnicles; 27 were godowns, and was let or with a collisions between vehirles and pedestrians; 25 accidents were due to other causes,

cantion.

Sg. Pope prosecnied.

POSSESSION OF CAMERA

which is against the Defence Re gulations.

A. S 1 Sumpsun prosecuted

OVERWORKED WOMEN

For allowing 52 women to work

MORNING SESSION

PROCEDURE DESCRIBED

represented the work done during the day and night shifts.

work due to nels in Kowloon consisted of super- | The next witness, Ho Kwai-shum, In reply to the Chairman, wit- vising the work. to see that the sald that he was a foreman em-ness said that all the information till 9.25 p.m. on Sept. 3, which is year's hard labour and

Defendant was sentenced to one leveiling work was done properly ployed by Kin Lee, and that he was contained in the statements beyond regulation hours, the man-mended for banishment

recom-

ager of the Ngai Shing Tower Weaving Co. of No. 384 Queen's Road West was fined $100 by Mr. Sheldon.

POSSESSION OF REVOLVER

and to count the number of work (received supplies of explosives from which he had only to sign. These men employed on the work. after Lo Hok-pui and the other Govern Statements were addressed to Mr. which he would enter the total in ment foremen. Asked to describe the J. G. Campbell and were some- a note-book which he kept in the procedure to get the explosives, wit-times checked by him and some- After signing, witness workshop in Hunghom.

ness said that after he had examin-times not. | recommended for banishment when the Chairman that the foremen and estimated the amount of dyna- a man from Kin Lee would bring Witness denied a suggestion by ed the boulders requiring blasting would leave them in the office and before Mr. Macha- seldom go to the Hangham work- mite to be used he wonki send in them to the Kowloon Water Works

Ng Ngan-sing, 32, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour and

he appeared mara enarged with possession

UNSTAMPED RECEIPTS Fines totalling $85 were imposed by Mr. Sheldon on Wal Lau-sze a revolve! and Wal Tal-kwong who were

01

Det.-Sgt. . . MacPherson said summoned for issuing 19 unstamped that on information received de rent receipts each for $36.50 to tendant was arrested during Wan Tsal-chi,

SNATCHER CONVICTED

伍

ticular

shop and that when they did go his requisition.

After the Govern-office, addressed to no one in par- there they spent their time in ment had checked up on his ex gambling. He also denied a sus timate, he would receive the re-

ISSUE CHECKED gestion that he, and the other quisite amount of dynamite.

In regard to a report, dated foremen, were in the habit of tak admitted that the Government June 8, 1941, on site No. 5, witness ing squeeze.

foremen did not have as good said that he checked the issuance

He

He agreed with the Chairman blasting experience as himself. of the 642 gelignite sticks and 148

Police rald on an oplum divan on Set Grainger prosecuted while Sept. 13. Defendant, a guest to Mr. McCallum appeared for the Nathan Hotel, admitted' possession that the work in the Kowloon tun- | defendants.

of the revolver which he had

As to the night shift, witness detonators with the book that the hidden under a chair in his room.

nels was under the supervision of said that he knew nothing about foreman kept, but admitted that Defendant asked Lam Fan. 33, unemployed, who

Chinese foremen drawing $250 per that as he was only responsible (he did not check it with the man had one previous conviction, was stating he had a wife and several day, and that if they were dis- for the amount of dynamite need-in charge of the dynamite atore to

honest they could work in con- ed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. junction with Kin Lee and charge Government too much,

given six months' hard labour by

for leniency

children.

COSTLY BUS RIDE Max K, 25,

DEMAND DENIED

see whether more or less of that

Mr. Sheldon when he was charged

Another witness, Li Lin-shine, amount had been issued.

with

When witness said that the res- snatching wrist-watch

μ

stated that he had ten years' ex- unemployed, ap- from Ng Ching-hing. married peared before Major A. N. Mac-

perience in blasting, and that he json why he did not check the work woman, as she was walking along fadyen charged with evading to sald that he had nothing to do nexion with the tunnel work in a Government supervisor. Mr. Bay

In reply to Mr. Bellamy, witness was employed as foreman in con- every morning was that sometimes Pokfulam Road near Queen's Rd. pay the bus fare on Sept. 23 at with the issuance of stores other Kowloon. He was closely question-ley, would go around the sites West on Sept. 23.

!7.06 p.m. while traveling from than dynamite. He denied a sub-ed, regarding blasting operations with him, he was asked by the It was stated that complainant Prince Edward Road to Kowloon gestion by the Chairman that he on site No. 2 which, the Chairman Chairman whether he informed caught hold of the defendant City, when he attempted to match the

had demanded the return of some sald, was of soft rock and needed Mr. Bayley that his (witness') Defendant, who was on $25 ball, of the explosives issued so that he practically no blasting Witness first job was to check the work watch. Defendant was arrested | was fined $25 or che month's could sell it. with the assistance of a district hard labour. watchman.

Sgt. Pope prosecuted.

replied that they had come to hard done. Witness admitted that $47,000

On replying that that had not rock, but agreed with the Chair- UNMANIFESTED CARGO worth of explosives were issued by man that the ground was so soft occurred to him he was told by Lew Tat-ming, 38, travelling him up to the end of August, and that one of the tunnels on the alte the Chairman "Wel, you can take trader, of sa Connaught Road that Mr. Campbell had never been collapsed recently.

that from mio. You had better Central, appeared before Major there when he taued the explo-

VISITS AT NIGHT

stop that, you see?" He was also Macfadyen charged with posses- sives although Mr. George Tsang On the queation of visiting the advised by the Chairman pover sion of unmanifested cargo on was often there.

various sites at night, witness as-again to put his signature to‘a board a Dutch linor consisting of In describing the procedure serted that he visited every alts document the contents of which The Britim vessel which was Lo Hing, 92, appeared before Mr. six bundles of cinema pamphlets adopted when explosives were every night, and that such visits he was not in a position, to say A 10-year-old Chinese girl, on blown on the rocks at Green - H. C. Macnamara charged with and with conveying same into the issued, witness said that a plece were entered in the attendance were correct, her way to school, was run over land during the typhoon was re-assaulting a do-year-old man, Yu, Colony by a means other than the of paper would be brought to Him by bus 622 when' she darted across fouted

yesterday and steamed Too and causing bodily harm. post.

SCHOOL GIRL

KILLED

SHIP REFLOATED

AT KOWLOON

CHOPPER ATTACK SEQUEL

by n Kin Leo foreman which he

the road at Caine Road, near Old into harbour under her own power Dot, Bub-Irp. H. C. Goodwin Accused, who is on $50 bait, would verify before signing. This Bailey, yesterday morning, the to berth at Talkon Docks, where said that, on Aug. 10 at 1 pm. was fined $40 or two months' paper would then be brought to left, roar wheel paming over her she was undergoing repairs, prier complainant went to a teahonse hard labour,

the watchman in charge of the to the typhoon last week,

magazine and thค uetensary

hend.

in Shanghat Street and took 11 Bgt. F. Penfold prosecuted,

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