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CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

A Rather Light Calendar"

The Oriminal Sessions opened at the Supreme Court this morn ing, there being a rather light calendar. Both Courts sati

Alleged Bankruptcy Offence. Mai Choy, alias Mai Chagg yat, was indicted, before the Chial Justice, for making a mis- statement in his statement of "affairs in bankruptcy.

Mr. F.SC. Jenkiu, (instructed by Mr. Aggasix) appeared for the defence, and Mr. Eldon Potter, (instructed by Mr. F. B. Bowley) represented the prosecu

tion.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1917.

His Lordship: He was bani and they showed some akill shed for twenty years and is in picking out people with pleaty liable to imprisonment for five of money and goods to steal, andĮ | yearn. What is his record?

in getting away expeditiously. Mr.Orme: He has never been Led by the convicted on any offenes. He was proceeded to the village, and, prisoner they arrested as a suspected person no doubt leaving guards, they and banished in 1909, and he has split up into smaller parties come back six times. This is and proceeded to. the the sixth time.

bonses. From the bonso

Hie Lordship-Has he served cf Chan Shui Lsa they took goods Is sentence each time or has be worth $300, and took Chun him- simply been banished again? Felf sway, with others, to a place fenced on each occasion and has them.

ME. O.me-He has been aen-where they put a guard over From the house of served it, and he has come back Chan Shai Kai they took goods valued at $830 and took Why do you keep coming back ? ransacked the boute of Chan His Lordship (to prisoner) :-this man with them also. They

each lime,

.

Mr. Orme: Since he came down he has been convicted of larceny and is now serving the sentence.

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in the Colony and I was need to money and goods, and finally Prisoner: I had been working. Lai, taking "nearly $1,000 in the labour. My old father is very taking off both the owner and his old and I cannot get work outside son. These were taken to where to keep him.

the other captives were guarded Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Hia Lorabip: You have come near a broken wall, bat the The jury were empanelled as back six times now. You are sen- father follows: Charles Hugh Davis, tecced to five years' hard labour. the darkness, although his hands was clever enough in "A. Marcea Vse, Harry Pain, L. P.

Wong Loi, alias Cheung San, were tied behind him, to slip Shao, L. L. Remedior. C. J. was also charged with retarding away, and although shots were Hammer, and Herbert Griffin. * to the Colony before his twenty fired after bin

Mr. Potter, outlining the facts years banishment had expired. From another house 26 rolls of

he got of of the case, said that the defend and he likewise pleaded guilty, cloth were taken. The booty and ST. GEORGE'S DAY. aut was charged with having stating that be had come down the three captives were taken made several mis-statements. to worship the graves and he was back to the beach, where the About the year 1907, the defend-going home again.

raiders proceeded to untie some" ant, with others, started a Chinese

of the fibermen, including the bank called the Pan Paeo, and

man they had caught first, whom not long after werde defer dant and

they told to row them out to ethere commenced a business of

s large jank which was waiting, commission agents. The bank was

and on which they subsequently very largely interested in this 1st

sailed away. A letter arrived! ter business, sod, as a matter of

later for Chua Lai, whose 800 fact, the commission basiness was

was kidnapped, with the intention carried on on the premises of the

of drawing him to visit Hongkong bank. Towards the end of

His Lordship-Be was con- to enter into negotiations for the August, 1914. the bank got into victed at Singapore and banished ransom of his son. The robberc financial difficulties, and on for life. He returned to Hong-landed on September 2 a meeting of the kong and was arrested for etealing opposite Macao, and after staying 60 island nearly partnera was called, when it was and returning from banishment. there a short time went to a place decided that further capital He was sentenced to one year and further off. There they kept the sbould be put up. This rewas banished for twenty years, three captives for about a month, WAS детег carried He was arrested again on 4th. until the latter, during the tem- out, sad shortly after this inat, for stealing. Five years' dite a receiving order was made hard labour. against the bank. Negotiations "took place between the creditors

Bolation

His Lordship:-You can wor- ship your tombs without stealing other people's things..

Prisoner:I had no money to pay my paseage back.

A

at

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FUND. Special Concert after dinner has been arranged by the Management. Book you Tables early.

porary sterration of their guard HONGKONG GYMKHANA': managed to slip out to the billside, and after three days without food, Fang Chan-hi, Wong Lau, Li made their way to Macas, and

An Armed Raid.

at

CLUB:

GYMKHANA MEETING of the Season will ·.

of the bank and the partners, and Wo, Pan Shun-ping and Hai thence to Hoogkong the first pri- THE FIRST the person who negotiated on be- Bang were arraigned on an in-soner came back to Hoogkong and half of the defendant was a man dictment charging them with was arrested named Tam Woog-long. The armed robbery with others, and January let., nearly a month after SATURDAY, the 21st April. Yanmation be beld at HAPPY VALLEY on result of the negotiations was on a second count with kidnapping the robbery. Nos. 3 and 4 were that foar trustees were appoint-three persons from the village of ed on behalf of the creditors Shai Han. and an arrangement was come to. Part of the arrangement was that a certain sum of money due from

In the room of No. 2 was found an free. a firm in America to the com- mission "sgente business ebould

opium pipe identified as having The Committee. invito the be pat in the form of a bond and empanelled-William Graham been sucked by No. 2 or No. 3 Ladies of Hongkeng

Lawsor, George Alberto Britto on the junk on the way back to present.

Prisoners pleaded not guilty to both charges. They were unde- fended.

The following jary

was

arrested in Mseso on December

1917, commencing at 3 P M.

The Charge of Admission will 9ib. In the room of No. 4, in s box of the Hongkorg Jockey Club or

be $1.00 for others than Members · under his bed, were found a pair of Gymkhana Club. field glasses stolen from Chun Lai.

signed by the defendant, who Silva, James Bell Spiers, Henry Macar, and a roll of cloth identi made himself liable therefor, As Patrick Allgood, Autao Vasquee fied sa

The

being similar to one of the

Soldiers and Sailors in uniform

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baving arrived from the above porte,

cocsignees of cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed at consignees' risk and expense into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown (Company, Limited.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by.

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a matter of fact, the defendant Barros, Joseph Jacob Issac and 26 rolle stolen from one of the HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO., never did sign this bood, which John Vincent Braga. WAS for $15,000.

houses, No. 5 was arrested in Mr. Orme said that the charge Macao on December 15. The defendant having failed to pay against the prisoners was a serions evidence was principally that of anything

thie bond, the trustees brought an action an armed raid, by a large party of known by all the villagers, and one, being more in the nature of identification. No. 1 was wel! against him on July 26, 1915, from twenty to thirty men; and all of them were certain that he when the defendant conated to combined with the charge of arm-led the band. judgment. Later, however, he ed robbery was a charge of kid. filed a petition in bankruptcy, BO

The evidence was then given.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN napping the trustees were not paid at the village which was attacked. all. On July 29, he filed biaj

The alleged cffence petition, and on August 9 he filed

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a statement of affaire. Included in the 2ad. of December. thisstatement of affaire was a state- village, Shui Hao, was on the ment in which he alleged that other side of the long island of but at the cost of only 60 cents be owe a debt of $3,500 to a man Lan Tan, on the way to Macao. youre if you try Pinkettee for of the Company. named Sam Hop-long under a bor- I was on the far end and being rowing note. That statement was remote from the police stations in a fales statement. It was falee that rugged district, and on the because no such money was ever far edge of the police launch'e lent. The prosecution would also beat, it cffered a productive field prove that in August, 1915, the to robbers from outside. On the the little gentis-as-nature lax defendant gat into touch with night in question, at about 8

is to transact the ordinary business

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a man named Ua Sax-chang, who o'clock, a Esherman fishing on the lives, sid digestion, clear the "BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

complexion, sweeten the breath.

was asked if he would prove outside of the bay from the village of dealers, or post free from Dr.

School Sports.

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this as a debt in bankruptcy saw boste rowing ashore, which Williams' Medicine Co., 95 Sze- NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. Of course, if Un San-chang had afterwarde deposited the robbers, chuen Road, Shanghai. agreed to this, there would bare including the five prisonere, en -been this amount of $3,500 the beach, A fisherman who was "saved for the defendant. The

defendant's story of this note was fab was the first person captured in his bost starting out to that it was given to a San- by the robbers. In order to chung as a reward for his having obviate negotiated with the creditors an alarm they tied up all the course on Friday. commencing at Goods are being landed at their BBY possibility of eporte teke place at the Race- Co hereby informed that all of the bank in 1914. De Lahermen as they found them, noon. The prizes will be distri- risk into the hazardous and/or fendant never informed the Official Receiver of that fact and working their way southward buted at 5.30 p.m. by the Hon. extra hazardous Godowns of the

towards the village they seized Mr. Cland Bevern, C.M.G.

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whea

he filed his petition.

every fisherman in the hats and

It seemed to him (Mr. Potter) an tied them ap, leaving them

extraordinary thing that defead-in charge of

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ant should become personally liable for this debt of $3,500 guard. The main party, about NEVER TOO LATE TO CURE twenty in number, went on in the

NEURALGIA.

If you are suffering new from the grip-

when he was only a partner direction of Shui Hau,village and among three or four. It seemed evidence would be given by the pine, twitching pains of neuralgia-if you

a little difficult to believe that fishermen who saw them first, and suffered sexterday and expect to suffer

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All claims against the steamer his own pocket and made himself that the first prisoner was appar-ache, earache, sprains, strains, or swell- April,

to-morrow-yes if you're suffered all responsible for this amonat.

rheomatiem, sciatica, backache, tooth. eigned on or before the 30th The case will probably last charge of or showing the way in bottle of

ently leading the band and taking ings, now's the time-to-day-to buy a recognised.

or they will not be two or three days.

the operations. This prisoner LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM.

All broken, chafed, and dam- Returned Banishees. same from the next village to the And insure yourself, your family and Godowne, where they will be aged Goods are to be left in the Before Mr. Justice Gomperts, westward, and although he had aches and paine, Rub it on with, your examined on the 25th April, at

your friends forever against externa! Paisas Jadge, Ho Man was been in Hongkong for some time band. One application relieves immedi-11 am, charged with returning to the he had spent most of his life stately-s few more and you're cured. Colony before his term of banish his village, know the places and it never too late to begin. ment, twenty years, had expired, the people and was

Prisoner pleaded guilty.

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