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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1903.

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Watch for C. E. LeMunyon's locals in this paper in a few days--Advt,

BEFORE Mr. F. A. Hazeland this moming a native was charged by an Indian police sergeant with placing twenty planks on the road side, |

A. S. WATSON & CO., The Editor will not undertake to be responsible for thereby causing-no obstruction. After the

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SUBSCRIPTION RATES ́(IN' ADVANCE), DATLY $30 per min. WEKKLY $1 per 1.

The rates per quarter and per mensen, proportiona). The lyne is delivered free win the drew is accesible to merenger. Ua cops sent by post nu additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The pinge on the weekly bans to any part of the

world is 30 cents per quanter.

Single Coples Daily, ten cents; Weekly, twenty-

tive Cents.

The

charge had been read to him Mr. F. A. Hazeland asked him whether he pleaded guilty or not. “Guilty, your Worship, but the Indian sergeant is wrong in stating I bail twenty planks, I had forty." "You are fined $6,” said the Magistra e. "All right, I will pay it," was the prompt reply.

THE GAGE STREET MURDER.

STRANGE REVELATIONS.

Jongkong Telegraph criminal sessions was comsienced at the

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1903,

The most interesting case of the May upremne Cour, this morning before the Acting Chief Justice, the linn. Sir H. S. Berkeley,

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The Pacific Mail 5.9. Gaelic will leave for San Francisco, via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, cic. at daylight on Friday, the zand inst., instead of at noon as previously advertised.

A FRENCH Indo-China paper gives the exist- 2.25ence of plague at Hongkong as the reason why

His Lordship:—Fassume you' ere opening with what you intend to prove as to the acti1n of these Chinese officials.

that

Flis Lordship-It is a very serious allegation to inake.

Mr. Sharp:-I think I shall prove it to your Lordship's satisfaction.

His Lordship: You are bound to prove it, or You must not open it.

weapon, but did not actually see the firesim. He ran away on the first report He did but identify the man who did the shooting as the prisoner.

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teruk in a large increase in the trade with Chu, benefiting all concerned,

We are indeed fortunate in having a Minister at Peking who is so keenly alive, to the Importance of seeing that our treaties are not violated by the local Chinese authorities and are doubly for tunate in our present Consul-General at Canton,

Mr. Sharp-I do, my Lord. His Lordship They publicly-offered a A district watchman who was in Gage Street reward?

on the evening of the crime beard of the affair Mr. Sharp:-Yes, my Lord. I shall prove and upon going to the house in question saw

the deceased lying on a bed.

who has repeatedly shown himself both deler- Chinese P. C. 137, the first of the polica mined and able to protect our interests. evidence and said he took the deceased to arrive on the scene, gave cor.oborative |(Applause.) The Chairman has referred to the new Admiralty Dock, and I trust that the peti- to the Civil flospital at the man's request. tion so extensively signed will lead to the Dr. f. Bell, Superintendent of the Govern present site being available for the expansion ment Civil Hospital, recognised one of the of the City so much needed. With these re- bullets found in the deceased's clothes when he marks I beg to second the adoption of the was undressed at the Hospital. At 9 pm he report and accounts. (Applause.} look tie man's dying declaration in which at

The motion was carried unanimously.

NEW RULES.

was stated that when the deceased was teach

new rules, which have been circulated for some The Chairman:-I beg to propose that the three weeks, be adopted. As I have already pointed out these rules have been very carefully revised and brought up to date, but the changes are not very considerable. The principal pro- vision is with regard to the rules for the election

present the Chamber. As you have had them of a member to the Legislative Council to re- in your hands for so many days I do not think I need say anything further on the subject.

murder rentered very quietly and shot him four times. Deceased did not know the murderer, but knew the Chinese Government sent him down from Canton. He hoped the English Govern ment would do him justice. To the declara tion was subsequently added a statement by his house two months' previously and told him the deceased to the effect that Kung Hi went to that Ng thui Shang went up to Canton to make arrangements with King Tang Toi to

Mr. R. C. Wilcox-1 have much pleasure. cessful "it would be $20,coo." Witness procee in seconding the adoption of the proposed new ded to describe the wounds on the body of rules, and I do so with the more pleasure as one deceased, and said death was caused by a of the sub-Committee engaged in compiling billet wound on the left side which penetrated them. They have been very much needed the stomach. All the wounds were on a down because the original rules have never been ward direction and from left to right.

Mr. Sharp:--Yes, iny Lord. Continuing, he said that Li Kn Cheol took the matter up and the prisoner was made one of his tools. Yeung Ching Kai, captain of one of the Chinese gun. acted as intermediary between him and the boats, and an inferior officer to Li Ka Cheating in the English school at Gaza Street, the gang of murderers in Hongkong. The prisoner endeavoured to obtain assistance in Hongkong but seems unable to bave done so, although when loi Chui nhin Li Kwai Fan stood in the dock to answer an indictment charging him who was asked to co-operate, actually lived for one of the pe.sons to be called before the jury with the wilful murder of Yeung Kui Wan, at

a time in the house, with the prisoner, and Gage Street, Hongkong, on the oth January, would speak to the meetings between Chinese The Hon. E. H. Sharp KC (Acting At officials and other people. Se in the way torney General), instructed by the Crown Solici-things were going and not wishing to be im- tor. Mr. F. B. L. Dowley (Messr+. Danays and plicated he left the house and was afraid to Butler deceased. if the business was suc Bowley) prosecuted, and Mr. T, Morgan Phil-rept the matter because of the Chinese au- thorities. Early in January that year there were lips defended the prisoner, who picaded not

meetings in Li Ka Cheok's barracks in Canton, guilty.

between the Captain of the native gunboat and The following juy was worn :-Messrs. P. Dow (foreman), W. Nicholls, R. Saxor, J. W. Chan Lam Tsai, Tong Cheung and Tsui Fuk, the last two being "braves." They were engaged to assist the prisoner in the murder and, with the prisoner, the latter three constituted the

On the morning of the 7th January, or thereabouts, the three men came to the Colony from Canton and were joined by the

Crouch, P. Hardman,, J. A. T. Pluminer, and A. S. Anton.

In 'opening the case, the Acting Attorney

and, in fact, the leader of a gang of four men who committed the deed in conceit. They had

A native clerk, at present in the em loy of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, then gave evidence

Upon resuming Tam Chung, a Yaumati fisherman, said he had known prisoner since

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revised since the Chamber was founded, and they did not cover many circumstances ilik have arisen.

The motion was carried.

for some time bren known to the Crown by prisoner. They remained together until the April 1902, when he met him on his uncle's 'tion of the scale of commission and brokerage Western Mausolea and is now at large. The not before the Court and in all probability, in time of the murder, and on the afternoon lived with him antil some time in January 1901, Chamber at the same time as the new rules

northwards bound did not call at this port.

RUMOUR has been rife in upch that H. M. Kuang Hsu made his escape while at the

yamén people particularly are very positive, and emphatically assert it

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G. SANDEMAN, SONS & Co., of London, Walk to Brighton was won by Mr. Broad, in 9 of the actual deed were, he thougi, farly the termination of the conference that the gang said "Ah Fap, there is a man in Hongkong

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THE police report that they have recovered the 27.00 2.25 dead body of a scaman from the N. Y. K. 5.5. Kumano Maru. It is supposed that he missed A. S. WATSON & Co., his footing while gelting on board late last

evening. The body was sent to the mortuary, LIMITED,

AN order was recently issued to officials on the Tibetan frontier which if it. had not been en- forced with considerable tact might have led to some unpleasantness. All packages taken into Tibet were to be subjected to careful scrutiny and the trades at first were inclined to resent such interference.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

TELEPHONE NO. 136. CARLE ADDRESS: "ACHEE" HONGKONG. A. H. C. CODE, TA EDITION.

ESTABLISHED 1859.

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name, but thre: of them, unfortunately, were

of the 10th January met at the house view of the case, they were unlikely ever to return to the jurisdiction of the Colony. So far Ng Sui Shang alias Ng Lo Sam, who was as the Crown knew, the prisoner only returned

one of the larger b:dy of conspirators and who was subsequently banished from the Colony. to Hongkong last month or thereabouts and

AL the meeting arrangements were made was immediately arrested. The circumstances

for the moeder, and it was from that house on notorious. The deceased as lived in the

to the premises in Gage Street. corner house at No. 52, Gage Street, fronting both Gage Street and Aberdeen Street, where

Anived there the four members of the gang he reated the whole of the first floor consisting divided the work that was to he done. Two of a large room in front and two cubicles and a of them, including the prisoner, mounted guard, kitchen in the rear At the back of the pre. and the other two went into the house. The inises the ground is much higher than in the street was crowded at the time, and it was very, front the first floor being practically on a level singular that a great many people did not with, the lane. Deceased conduc ed a night hear the repots of firearms. The shots were school for teaching English to Chinese boys, fired, and almost immediately after the two youths, and young men and at six o'clock in men left the house descending from the back the evening of the soth January, 190, he was

of the premises into Aberdeen Street. They holding his class in the large front room. There

were followed by 2 witness and, joined was a round table in the middle of the floor by the other two, the four men walked and an oblong one near the wall, and the pupils quietly down Aberdeen Street as far as the were sitting around these tables doing their Praya, were three of them got on board work, the deceased being seated at the one in

and

off into the the middle of the room. At the time the street harbour. A little later the prisoner appeared door was either open or on the latch to enable DIT a marriage boat at Yaumati belonging pupils to enter or leave the premises. Conse to some of his friends, and told them quently it was easy for anybody 10 enter and he more or less the story and asked them to put would naturally attract no particular attention, him up. They refused, and the prisoner left. At that time the wife of the deceased, a daugh- | Beyond that no more was known of what ter, 16 years of age, and two small children | happened in Hongkong. That was the last were in the house. About half-past six a man seen of him by any witness the Crown had been' suddenly appeared in the front room and was able to trace in the Colony. Afterwards the observed by some of the students, although he gang was traced to Canton where the members did not appear to have been seen by the stayed for ten days at Li Ka Cheok's deceased, who was sitting down and reading to baracks and discussed and boasted about the

into the room, and suddenly discharged several paid. The prisoner and two others of the gang shots at the deceased. The shots took effect were made mandarins of the fifth rank. Counsel and he fell forward on to the table. The pupils proceeded to refer to the part played in the affair fled in panic, and the men, one was seen by the Chinese Government, and said the actually in the room-there appeared to have jury would not, of course, have to consider on been two inside the house-escaped. It was which side their sympathies were in the matter all the work of a second. The wife and of the reform movement in China. It might

of a

sampan

went

marriage boat. He had since met him, and he

and once after he left he went to see him. Witness was aware that while he was in the house, a man came from the Chinese gunboat Kin Yui to see the prisoner. He was a pilot. He did not know his name or add.ess. He was present when they were talking. The pilot named Yeung Kue Wan, whom Li Ka Cheok, of the Chinese Government, offers between $roco or $20,000 to any one who would kill Yeung Ku Wan, and also several buttons, which means mandarin rank." He then asked the accused, if he could get anyone to kill Yeung Ku Wan, and accused said that as there was a reward by the Chinese Government he would get some one to do so. He then left, and prisoners asked the pilot to have dinner, which he did. The pilot also stayed for several days. During the stay he did not hear any- thing between the prisoner and the pilot, but the prisoner asked him to beat Yeung Ku Wan,

but he told him that as he had relatives in this

BROKERAGES AND COMMI SIONS. The Chairman-I beg to propose the adop

which was submitted to the members of the

and bye-laws. It is, of course, understood that the proposed scale is the maximam, and it does not consequently follow that it should be followed in all cases. I have one or two slight changes to make which have been suggested, since the notice was circulated.

H

Three amendments having been made,

in seconding the adoption of the revised scale. Mr.Shelton Hooper said! have much pleasure of commissions and brokerages as amended in the form suggested. I would point out that on the authority of the 1st Chief Justice St. John's Cathedral represents the only freehold in the Colony; all others are leasehold.

The motion was carried. -

THE SECRETARY.

ask you to confirm the appointment of the

The Chairman-The next business is to

Secretary, Mr. A. J. Lowe, which, as you know, was made through the unfortunate necessity of Mr. Wilcox, who had been secretary for many years, resigning. Mr. Lowe has, in the interval, carried out the work of the secretaryship to the entire satisfaction of the Committee, and

his appointment be confirmed (applause): I have great pleasure in proposing that

Mr. Gershom Stewart-I have much pleasure in seconding that.

Carried.

MENDERSHIP.

Colony, it was difficult for him to secure his service, and flatly refused. There were alto gether six others in the house, and during a conversation he heard prisoner say to the others that they should go down to the street, watch, Yeung Ku Wan, and should he go to a eating house, follow him and shoot him should the place be empty, but if there be a crowd to desist. He left the prisoner's comployment because he The Chairman, proposed, and Mr. J. R.-5 knew that should the prisoner carry out his Michael seconded, and it was agreed that the intention, the whole inmates of the house admission to memberhip of the firms men. would get into trouble. He left on the 5th ftioned in the repost be ci afirmed. January and went to his uncle's boat at Yau-

a conversation and was told that the previous gang had no coulage, and did not carry out the ut.empt, prisoner had written to Ab Tong and Lum Chai from Canton who were in the house- After this visit, he again saw the prisoner at his uncle's boat on the night of the toth January at 8 p.m. He came on board in a sampan and

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MR. Uyeho, Japanese Consul at Amoy, wires. FURNITURE to the Tokyo Government that bubonic plague has now become prevalent there, the deaths DEALERS.

daily from the epidemic at present averaging upwards of ten. The report adds that quarantine is now being strictly enforced at Amoy and Swatow against the Chinese labourers arriving at or sailing from those ports.

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daughter in the back cubicles heard the shoot ing and rushed into the front room and found deceased collapsed on the table shot. Pre sently the police arrived and the man was re moved to the Government Civil Hospital where his injuries were found to be of too serious a character to permit of any operation. He died the next morning and as the result C. E. LeMunyan has an announcement to of a post mortem examination three bullet make to you very shortly; watch for it.—Advt. wounds were discovered which had caused internal hemorrhage. In a dying declara AT about 4a.m. to-day, the inmates of Messrs. A tion the deceased implicated the Chinese Tack & Co.'s furniture store, Connaught Road, in saying the Chinese Government had offer- were aroused from their slumber by hearing a ed a reward of $20,000 for his life. Such noise on the first floor veranhah. Two of them

was the history of the crime, but possibly the at once went out and saw a native trying to most interesting, or one of the most-interesting, escape, and knocking over same flower pots.points was that the circumstances of it were A lukong and an European constable were evidently known to a very large number of summoned, and had the man arrested. Before

Chinese both before and afer the murder was

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. Mr. J. H. Kemp this morning he was sentenced to three weeks bard labour lor attempted larceny. PHOTOGRAPHIC BEFORE Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning a native girl, aged 19, was charged by Sergeant DEPARTMENT.

Grant with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour from the China Mer- DEVELOPING and PRINTING

chants' picr at West Point in the early hours of UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

the morning. Fortunately she was seen by two GOOD WORK.

boatmen and rescued. She informed the May PROMPT RETURN,

gistrate that the reason why she attempted to lake her life was that her mother had engaged Hungkong, 8th July, 1902.

ber to a man about 40 years old, whom she did not care for. The Magistrate ordered her to the Po Leung Kuk.

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TELEGRAMS: "GARMICHAEL," Hoogkong.

A. D. C. Code, 4th Edition.

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Lieber's Standard Code.

TELEPONE, 232.

Hongkong, zoth March, 1903.

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probably be that, their interest or sympathies were upon the side of the reformers. Notwith standing the extraordinary breach committed by the Chinese Goverment or officials in allowing emissaries of a foreign government to enter our tenitory for the purpose of com. mitting a murder-it was quite conceivable that their motives were patriotic-but if so that had nothing to do with the molives of the gang of murderers who were guided by the most sordid motives of personal gaio. In con- clusion, Counsel dwelt upon the question of law in the matter and summarised his remarks by observing that, in pursuance of a commen design, the stroke of one is the stroke of all.

E. W. Carpenter, P.W.D., produced a plan of the locality in which the murder was com mitted.

The wife of deceased was called and deposed, committed. The circumstances were evidently with reference to the day in question, that known to a large number of prople, who did her husband was conducting his class at 6.30 *not assist in any way in the perpetration of the | p.m. and she was in the cubicles at the back of crime or its prevention; who were in fact posi-the premises. Presently she heard three shots live witnesses. The reason for it, he took it,fired in rapid succession and going to the door was the input characteristic of the Chinese of the cubicle saw the pupils running away. race with which they were all, familiar, and When they had left she proceeded to the front which appeared to lead them to avoid inter-

room and found her husband seated at the ference with any:bing that did not personally round table leaning forward and resting his or pecuniarily concern, themselves and also, it head in his two hands. The lamp on the table was due in the present case, no doubt, more was, out and, lying in front of him, was a book probably that they were afraid of the Chinese (produced) with a hole through it probably Government, and that, he thought, would caused by a bullet. Her husband was bleeding, not be suggested as unreasonable when they and she was joined by her daughter who put a remembered that the present case showed handkerchief to his head, and witness put him the power of the Chinese Government in on a bed. She asked him what was the matter, THE following telegraphic information dated getting rid of anyone they did not want. The and he replied that some one had shot him at 16th inst. has been received from the Sumatra deceased was a member of what was loosely the instigation of the Chinese Government. She Director and Manager of the Maatschappy tot called, the Reform Party in China Ho sent some one to the Alice Memorial Hospital, but a doctor refused to cuine, and the police Mija-Busch-en Landbouwexploitatie in Lang was concerned in the Kweichow rising in kut, Ld :-be

September, 19or, and for his connection with | were communicated with and deceased was Gallons, it was wanted by the Chinese Gavemment removed to this Government Civil Hospital Daily aggregate output of Crude

The Crown would show that the Acting where he died.. Petroleam.

67,000 Viceroy of Canton and the Governor of The eldest daughter of the deceased said she Crude Petroleum in Tanks at date 1:0,000 Kwangtung publicly offered in Canton a reward | was in the back cubicle when her father was

Cases of

other attractions for the capture or assassination went to the front room and found him leasing 61,000 of the deceased man. Li Ka Cheok, a mandarin } forward on the table bleeding, from his head, Kerosene shipped, since the date oferto" in Canton, in command of the guard or native || Lam Sang Yau, one of the students present the preceding half-monthly telegram... 81,000 | police, took the matter up, and was practically, at the class on the night of ibn shooting, stated

Kerosene in stock at Refinery at date 73,009 the organiser of the murder,

that he saw the fire, and the smoke, from a

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asked his uncle todet bim stay for a night. His uncle inquired what had he done and prisoner said he had killed Yeung Ku Wan. His uncle then refused to let him pass the night aboard, and sent him away. Before he went be asked his aunt for a blanket, but was re- fused, and prisoner went ashore ai Yaumati in a sampan. He saw the prisoner in Canton

some time in February and again in the hold of the Kui Yui, a gunboat moored near the NE

Sin Street.

the Court adjourned till 10.30 am to-morrow, Other evidence was heard, and at 435 p.m.

COMMITTTE.

the Committee, viz., Mr. E, A. Hewelt, Hor. Mr. J. H. Lewis proposed the re-elețtion of C. W. Dickson, Messrs. D. R. Law, C Michelau, N. A. Siebs, J. R. M. Smith, H. E. Tomkins, A. G. Wood, and R. C. Wilcox.

was carried.

Mr. A. J. Raymond seconded, and the motion

this meeting, and I am very much obliged to you for your attendance and for the unanimous

The Chairman That closes the business of

manner in which you have re-elected us to look." after your interests during the coming year.

The proceedings then terminated,

AN Important scientific expedition is being organised by Mjor Cooke Daniels for the pur- cal investigations in New Guinea and the poss of making anthropological and ethnologi-

•olomon Islands. The expedition, has also

cancer among the natives. Major Dani-Is, been charged with a commission to investigate

his Lordship directing that the jury should be

who served as Assistant-Adjutant-Gentral of detained over night in the Hongkong Hotel, Division with the United States army in Cuba This is the second instance in the Colony of a during the war with Spain, will be accompanied jury being locked up, the first being on the 77th by Dr. Seliginann and Mr. Storey, both of St. February, 1858, in the case of R. v. Lee A Tai | Thomas's Hospital. The former was a member and Koong A Fok, charged with making of Professor Hadden's antiropological expedí- murderous attack

tion to Bomeo and the Malay State.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The following is the continuation of our report of yesterday's meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce:--

The Chairman having moyed the adoption of the report and accounts,

vast

THE PLAGUE.

During the twenty-four hours ended at moart to-day 31 further cases of bubonic plague, making 732 since January 1st, were reported. Twenty-six of the cases were fatal.

SHIPPING AND MAILS:

MAILS DUE

Indian (Kumsang) tomorrow - "English (Chusas) 22nd inst.

Indian (C-therine Aptar) 25th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) 29th inst. Indian (Namsang) and prox." Australian (Chinglu) 5th prox.** German (Preussen) 1'zih prox. f

Mr. G. H. Medhurst said :-Gentlemen, I congratulate the Commitice on the very salis- factory results of their burs during the past twelve months, and if their efforts on every occasion have not been attende 1 will success, still very much good work has been accom- plished. I regret the Telegraph Companies have not seen their way to lower their tariff rates to Europe, and hope that the representa- tions made by the Chamber with regard to the compulsory adoption of the proposed official

The NPS. Co.'s 63. Olympia sailed from voc bulary will have the desired effect, as

Tacoma, Washington, for Yokohama 16th inst otherwise the cost to all business firms-will be enormous, if they have to revise and reprint in the afternoon. -------

The T. K. K. 55, Roseita Maru left Mabila the negotiations now being carried on by the this noen, and is expected here on and inst.,

at about 31 om Ultimately arides Treaty Power may result in a senes of new treaties, based The Ancar Co's 3 1. Catherine Aptar from more or less on the lines of the "Mackay. Calcutta left Singapore for this poit yesterday Shanghai Tiealy, fas, such cruziot":"but | afternoon, 19th inst.-

et E Beer to drink in the tropics is the Beer

Kerosene made since the date of the $20,00,- together with an official rank and shot, and upon hearing the report of firearms their codes. I venture to express the hope that

preceding half-monthly (elegram

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