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THE BANKOK FAILURES

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

The Situation Appears Brighter TWO DEFENDANTS PLEAD

To-day.

QUILTY.

Chief Justice and the King's Hospital! y.

THE HONGKONG TEERGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1913,

Rowe, O. Zwanck, J. M. Guiler and J. Cruickshmi.k.

Prisoner was undefend d. The Crono Solicitor said sone indictment related to one girl Enquirits mais te-day in basi

and the other to the other girl. nes circles ufirm the report

One girl wue 13 and the other 12. which we published exclusively

The older child would tell them Sir William Rees Davies, the that on some day which she could you may to the effect that Club Justice, sitting la Oriminal not give particularly, but which orisis has arisen in Bangkok Jurisdiction, at oving to the failure of a Lumber Court, this morning had before ness, sho

the Supreme would he proved by another wit of rice millaanit a back in which bim indicted, Lam Kee, for her Siamese and Chinese capital is larceny from the 'ereen. The gross near their village in Chino,

defendant pleaded guilty. The number of filares is Mr. JH. Kemp, Crown Solicis them off, taking them to Kong and three men camo and carried not definitely kaown, but it tor, said in this case he intended moon. Sho would tell them she in said that at leaft five to proceed only on the second Ja go mille lavó olosed down."

Advices from Bangkok today November 4, the complainant, a brought her and her sister down

say the prisoner and his mother. tend to show that the position is girl about 14 years, came home to Hongkong. They arrived bere

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more hopeful than it appeared from school at four o'clock in the that night and they went to Register your orders early yesterday, it being stated that af ernoon to the house in which use where they stayed two days, the Siamess Government is com-she lived in Water Street. There and then they went to another ing to the aid of the industry she met the prisoner coming down house. She would say that the affected. Sa for the only effect the stairs, Prisoner caught her prisoner took them from the first Incally felt is the failure of ane by the neck and beckoned to house after two days to the second Chinese firm which is said to another man who was down the house. have bron closely connected with stairs The other man came up second bouso at which they ar

A woman was in the the bank in Bangkok which has the stairs and tok from the girl's ived on the third day. This had to suspend pymort The wrist two paira of gold micanted woman would say that on the liabilities of this firm are said to rattan bargks. The two men ran evening of November 25, abrat FOR CHRISTMAS: amount to some half a million away, but the prisoner was iden- ten o'clock, the prisoner brought dollars.

tified by the girl and he was the two girls to her house which picked out from a number of was in Lower Lascar How. other inen. He admitted that he He asked her to allow the girls stole cne pair of bangles, but he to stay in the house for one "did not rob."

no place for the girls and could night. The prisoner said he had

woman allowed them to stay and not keep them in the street. The the next day she tried to get the prisoner to take the girls away. fe had a stall in the same street She knew the prisoner quite well. and she had known him for eight or ten years. She told the pri- soner that someone else was,

As a consequence of the recent Singapore crisis, followed up by this trouble in Bangkok, as well as in face of the present low rate of discount on Canton "nolee, some Chinese commission agents here are said to be feeling the pinel somewhat, and the opinion was expressed by one gentle man to-day that there will probably be some small failures before Chinese New Year. For the moment, however, the outlook is distinctly batter than feared yesterday, though money ie tight. Extreme caution is be ing exercised in Chinese basiness circles at present, and though apprehensions are felt in certain quarters, there is a general belief that the storm will he weathered.

His Lordship: Did he ure violence to the child?

The Crown Slicitor-Beyond putting his band on the neck of the child, there was no violence used.

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His Lordship:-One pair of bangles is the amount of the properly stolen?

Anything coming, in and she wanted

the girls taken away. Prisoner

The Crown Solicitor :—Yes. Ilis Lordship: known against him before?

The Crown Eolicitor-Yes, said he my Lord; one previous conviction of one year's hard labour for the offence-stealing from the person am instrnoted that this offence has teen rather common recent ly; there have been many cases

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an. The next thing that hap- would come later pened was on the 28 1, when about half past two, information having been received by the police, Sergeant Cashman, on the instructions of the Broretary of His Lordship, addressing the in Lower Lascar Row, and found Chinese Affairs, wout to the house prisoner, said that he had pleaded the two girls there, The woman guilty to this offence of stooling was also there but the prisoner from the person of this little girl, was not there. The prisoner was Yesterday twenty-five sub-a pic of bangles. He had ad-sent for, came in, and was arrest scription grillins were drawn for; mitted that was the second oc-8d. When the prisoner was sent morning, before Mr. Justice at Kennedy's Ilorse Repository, casion upon which he had been for by Sergeant Cashman he came Gompertz, Yuen Sze-hing was In the Summary Court this for next year's race meeting. The quilty of this kind. It was there-in with something in his hands, the plaintiff in an action against fact that the ponies have to pass, fore his duty to pass upon him a polishing it, and that fact per- the Kwong Sang Wo, for the sum as it were, a qualifying tost in more Shanghai prior to being seat he

than hapa proved he was not of $803.26 the balance due for down here seems generally toone. The sentence of the Court happening to him. The prisoner Rues, of Messra Goldring and would have auspicious of anything untoward goods sold and delivered. Mr

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In this case Mr. Godown against the prisoner on August It was for the jury to say, said and Mr. Russ for the defendants, against Bille-of-Lading counter- Company, Limited, 20, and on September 1, he left the Crown Solicitor, whether they Kadoorie. the Colony under that banish believed that story or not, or Lordship gave julgment for the Optional Cargo will be carried

After hearing the evidence his signed by the Undersigned. ment order. On the 24th ult, he whether the story of the pre- plaintiff in the frataction, and for on unless notice to the contrary Humphrege, was arrested ou another charge secution was made out. Against the plaintiff in te second action, be given to-day. Megaro Jupp,

which was afterwards refused, but believing the defendant's slate in the latter cas, less third dollars, llagher&Purvis, when he was at the station Le was meat was the fact alleged by the 5 Spotted Grey Mr. Mac Murtrie, recognised by the inspector as a prosecution that the two girls were, 6 Dark Grey Mr. W. B.

man who had been banished. not met here on the steamer Richardson. The finger printe corresponde, wharf by the prisone, but were Messrs 0.0

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Major Dickinson, age of fourteen, with fatent to dealt with se soverely as it sortadent mark by mark and deli- Hongkong, 17th Dec., 1913. (1083 Customers will greatly oblige 21 Nutmeg Grey Mr. J. II Seth. deprive the father of the girls of could possibly bs. It was a very can be obtained as soon as

Hon. Mr. D. Lan- their lawful custody and posses disgraceful thing that parents the Goods are landed. Adale.

www.should be deprived of their child- "Optional goods will be carried Prisoner have had them ren by men of the prisoner's class. to the contrary before NOON, on unless Instructions are given Mr. G. Friesland. Mesara. Fitz. but I was intending to hand them Be did not think there could be

TO-DAY, JU any doubt in the minds of the George and over to their father.

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two little girls away with intent some pecuniary rea:mpoose or in the Godowns for examination to doprive their father of the cus- money from his act. At any rate, by the Consignee's and the Co.'s tody and possession of the child- but for other persons, the father representatives at an appointed ren. It does not matter whether and mother would not have found hour All claims must be pre- you intended to bring them back out the where shoute of the child-sented within ten days of the The Ministry of the Navy ja or not. Did you take these two ren. The prisoner was a manap which date they cannot be re- steamer's arrival here, after planning the erection of five naval, children, that is the point? parently respectable, and should stations. Poi-hni-ching (Kuang- Prisoner: I do not plead get his living in an honourable admitted after the goods have left

cognised. No claims will be THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 tube) San-sha-wan (I cobor), guilty to that.

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