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THE_HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1913,

HARBOUR COLLISION. Mr Davidson - Was the THE EXTRADITION CASE.

Mr. Curwen's Account of the Disaster..

Farther Hearing this" Alternoon,

At the Police Court,

Japanese steamer going as fast an the Wa Ling?-Faster than the Wa SangY Very much faster 7-Yes. Twice as fast? That I cannot To-day at the Polos Court,

fast foon extradition proceedings ware say. Mr. F. A...I zeland continued

Supposing the Isurch was go continued in a case in which au enquiry into the circumstances ing ati 8 knota an hour, how fast Chung Saudam was the defend attending the death of a Obinere world you anggest the Soshu ant. Application is made for the woman, Leung Koi, who was one Maru was going?I cannot make surrender of the defendant to the of the victims in the collision be-out calculations with regard to Chinees Government tween the 8.5, Soslu Marn and the navigation about water and the Yaumati Ferry launch Wa Sang, sped in the ses in the harbour on November 20.

Mr. J. H. Kemp, Orown Solicitor, appeared to conduct the enquiry, and Mr. Reader Baris, of Messrs Wilkinsos and Grist, for the coxswain and owners of the launch

Mr M. W. Slade, K. O., and Mr Eldon Putter, instructed by Mr Hodgson, Assistant Crown. Solicitor, and Mr Mas ter,

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You don't know anything about distance or speed, in the sea ?- I don't know very much about it. Ho Fa', another ferry pas conger, depored. that the steamer did not slow down. He did not know if the launch did because he was Mr. Davidson, of Mes-re Hast 50, excited. The steamer was

Ngai Yow ting, a olerk in the joge and Hastinge, appeared on going at an ordina y speed. behalf of the owners, captain and Another passenger said the oahu Treasury at Canton, said he was and officers of the er. Soshu Mara Maru was going very fast lle formerly in the Financial Office did not hear any whistles of thede was transferred on July 20 Tho jury was composed as

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any F. da Roza, and C. 11. Bond.

Mr Davidson-Have you idea how many knots the Japane: steamer was travelling?-I don't know; she was going very fast.

Wen the going very much faster than the launch 7-Yes,

Mr Jime Macdonald Guvern. ment Marino Surveyor, was the next witness called.

Yesterday, after we had gone to prese, Mr. William Corwen, Headmaster of the Yaumati Goernment School, the only European on the Wa Sang at the time of the collision, said shortly before 8.30 am. on November 20 be boarded the Wa Sing to go to Yaumati. Heat on the bridge reading a newspaper and consequently did not patice what was happening around. The first

In what condition id you find thing he noticed was that some her ?-The lunch was totally thing made him look round, cut in two. She is in two apa "what, I can't tell you, and I rate pice two hundred yarde noticed the steamship.coming apart at Mongkok. right on top of the launch."

Mr KempYou have exrmin, ed the Jaunch Wa Ling?-Yes Have you sen her more than once side 3 the collision ?-Yes.

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He know the defendant who was superintendent in the treasury, The witness was appointed a few days Eafore the defen

Sir Francis Piggott - think all the Chinese Goverotcent offices have a branch which they call the Treasury and it is a bureau of the bigoffice. It is not likoour Treasury, A separate department. I think. that's what it is.

Witness continuing said that the defendant came to lim on August 4, and asked him to pro- duce to defendant the paying out book commencing the first continuing to Jane. He handed month of the fiat year and

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Mr Kemp-llow for was thedatuage to the launch, she defendant looked at the book and

eteamer off-ronghly?-Fifte in to twenty yards I should say.

Quite close ? Yes-quite close -too close.

What did you do?—I ran down the stairs and dived off the further side into the water.

You were in the water about 10 minutes and were picked up by a launch -You:

Did you hear any whistle from the launch or steamer 7-I can't say that I did.

You would not be propared to say definitely that there were

no whistles from the launch or

thing about whistles at all."

then walked away to his own

was cut in two by a vesi-l going office and took the Looks away fast or slow ?--It must have I sen

vesol travelling at a fair with him. By 11 30: am, the

book had not come back. Wit amount of speed...

Dess went to find, the defendant ia his own department. Witnesa did not see either the defendant or the book. The book had never been brought back.

His Worship-llow fit? About nine knota.

Could you tell from the damage the launch how the restol would estimate a right angle. It airuck her?-From the damage I was not a glancing blow; it look

This By Sir Franois Piggott: department he was

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ed as though she had been sliced owly created department The special fanctions of this absolutely at right angles on office was to handle the money nearly as possible.

On the fecond pression did you examire, the engines, and

valvea P-Yea.

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ateamer? I could not say any- And what did you find? The You could not pay whether engines were on abead gear and the coxswain of the Wa Sang the engine stop valve was full rang the bell to the engine room? open.

I could not.

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the by ilo Finance Ummissionere. The department was created on Jals 20, this year. The books were handed over to the custody of the new department becauta they contained payments and You mean that if the launch receipts of previous entry. All was cut into when she was going the cash receipt books were pas- faller ed abead, that is the consed over to his bureau. There were more than ten books, hot dition in which you world expect

Me Harris-Were you able to estimate the speed of the Eshu Maru when it was coming on you? I could now estimate the to have found the engines? Dot more than twenty, which

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Continuing, witness said that it was not possible list the enginca had been tempered with between his first and second insy sctions; the tide was too high allow him to look at the ongines on his first inspection.

He could not say how fast the launch was going when he dived, In answer to Mr. Davidson, Mr Curwen said when he dived from the launch he tried to get as d op

In answer to question by Mr. Aas he could. When he came up the

first time he was under the bows Davidson witness said that the of the Soshu Maru. He dived Launch was a pretty old boat.

Were her platen very thin? Bgain and come up by the side

of the hull. He dived a third No, she was of wooden plank time and beard the propellers, ingcomposite. She was built in 1884 and had practically been but came up clear,

He did not see whether the rebuilt since then.

Hie Worship She has been Boshu Mara lowered a boat. He

rebuilt ? Io 1006-considerably was in the water al ɔut 10 minut, al and he did not es any life buoys repaired in 1906. belonging to the Soshn Mara,

P. O. Macaulay, who was in Kwan Teong-kan, draughte No. 8 Police Launch, crousing man employed on the barbou of from Naval Yard to Kowloon

were concerned with paying out and witness had charge of them. Another man had the charge of the paying in books, These books were only books kept since the Republic.

When did the Republic start? Everybody knows when the Republic started. It was the before Inst year.

but the

I doa't remember date (laughter).

Well, just remind ms; I thought you said everybody know?

Mr. Alabaster:-Evidently he doesn't look upon himself everybody.

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Good their Escape. refuge works, Yaumati, said that Point, deposed to seeing the Assaltants Succeed In Making collision. The ferry launch was on the date in question he was a

Another case of deliberate mor- passenger on the Wa Sang. He travelling at 4 knots, in his first noticed the Japanese steamer opinion.

der, committed in the open street, Under the advice of their legal After further evidence had and within a few yarde of foreign adviser, Mr. B. Page, of Messra when the launch passed the bowal of the Blue Funnel steamer. The been called, Mr Harris drew at residences, occurred in Hongkew Allen and Gledhill, a mesting of stepm launch gave a blast, tention to the opening of the last evening says the N. O. Daily the principal creditors was held before passing the Blue Fannel Crown Solicitor. in which he News of the 5th inst, as soon as possible. Mr Kilian, steamer. At the time of the blast advanced the theory that just About 8 p.m., as a Chinese, of the Gorman Asiatic Bank, took he did not see the Sosha Maru, before the collision, the coxswain very reapeotably dressed in for the chair, and other representa and he heard no other whistle of the Waug slowed down, and eign clothes, was walking along tives of creditors came from the Bound. When the collision was that this epared to be the im- the thoroughfare known as Quin- Hongkong and Shanghai, Inter about to take plare-when there mediate cars of collision, Besan Gardens, near to Boone Rosd, national, Mercantile, Netherlands was a distance of seventy or claimed that this theory had not he was shot at by one of two other Indies Commercial and the Indo- sighty feet between them-he ben barne out by the evidence. Chinese, who were also in foreign Chins Banke, The Hon. O, I. heard the Bosbus whistle. The It did not seem to him to be any dress, and fell to the ground mor- Caver attended on behalf on Wa Sang was not going so fast as part of the duty of the Crown tally wounded. At the time the some Chetty creditors and Mr H. the time of the collision: ss shelicitor to advance theories shot was fired, a Chinese constable R. Llewellyn was present by re-

Mr. Kemp remarked that the Was at first. He heard no tele-

Probably Suicide. away, and he, together with a

Position Hopeful. graph belle ring in the Wa theory was a convenient frame was hardly more than ten feet quest

BesIn the basement of his reeid- Bang's engine room; there was upon which to put the fiote. Chinese detective in plain clothes,

ence at 142, Hollywood Roid. Possibly the fall evidence was a who was standing about 100 According to the books of the Mr Komp: What do you moan litle diforent from what he had yards away, gave chose to the mur firms the position was shown to yesterday, a Chinese was found Are World Renowned For Their derers, who, however, eluded them be quito hopein. A rough balead with a wound in his throat. committed expected it to bo.

The Jury, without retiring, in the crowd which had collected auce sheet which had been ex- It is believed the man

suioide returned a verdict of death by in North shuen Road. Bafore tracted showed liabilities arount.

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the RFERIES Escared they fred ing to $2,988,545 55, and essete 1 at 33,274,098 On a shot at the Chinese constable, computed apoke of? Everyone was afraid. What were they asying; they

fortunately without effect the asset aido, however, the es Charge of Stealing. The wounded man was im-timate was made as conservative e all afraid you say, Were were they doing, or saying anything Mr... C. Faithfull defended an mediately conveyed to St. Luke's as possible. Fok debts were Shouta wore raised by the pas- Indian, remandel at the Police Hospital, but died within ten written down by 30 per cent and Court, this morning, on a charge minutes of his arrival, without the biggest asset in the firms Bengers to go astern,

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