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MURDERED.

HAWKER'S PROMPT

ACTION.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1924.

self wont, telling Sum Ng to look after the defendant. The. hawkor handed the defendant over to an-

other man to look after her, while he went for another polleoman. After that nothing happened ex- capt a procession of policemen to the place,

DUTY NOT PAID.

Millionaire's Daughter Charged.

Nollie Joel, agod 28 years, "Bolly" Joel, tho daughter of South African millionaire, was prosecuted on July 7th, for failure! to pay taxes £7,000 inherited from her mother's catato.

mis- That she often throw

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A Chinesa constable went there chop B

Mr. Justico Rowlatt ordered coolle employed at the Chu Pak In consequence of the telephone Loong Arm of No. 26, Des Voeux message from the first constable the defondant one year's im- Road West, described the woman and he said that he got there about prisonment unless the duty, was whom he had kept for the last 7.40 and on arrival he found de-paid within ton days.

The defendant loaded that sho seven or eight years, when she fendant under arrest. Defondant was charged before Mr. R. E. appeared very frightened and at-had lost the £7,000, and also Lindsell at the Central Magia tempted to jump out of the win. another £20,000. She was on un- The friendly terms with her father, was prevented. tracy yesterday afternoon, with dow but

a Chinese and would gat no help from him. wilfully and maliciously murder- next policeman was Ing Chu Kam-hol (17) her adopted jaurgeant who arrived a few min~|--Mr. Justice Rowlatt: If mil· daughter, at No. 10, Heung Hing utes later. He found things in lionaires like to see their relatives The go to prison it cannot be helped, much the same condition. Lane on the 18th July Inst.

Mr. J. I, B. Nihil had charge girl was dead or nearly dend. The but the defendant will be im- of case for the Crown and Mr. A. hawker was also there at the time prisoned for a your unless she

und he said to the sergeant in pays. E. Hull defended.

defendunt's presence; "She stab-

In the course of his address, Mr. Nihill said that a little girl Chu bed the girl." Defendant replied by falling on the point of the Kam-ling, aged about 9 years, that she cut herself accidently knife, but it would need a heavy would say that on the evening of whilst cutting food. The next police fall.

the murder after the household man was a European; Sergeant Dr. Fitzroy Williams, acting had partaken of the evening meal, Greig, When be arrived he was Government bacteriologist, testla- defendant told her adopted sister quite satisfled that the girl wased to having examined certain ar- (deceased) to go and fetch some dead. He would say that she was ¡ticles handed to him by the police. hot water. Deceased took no fully dressed then. The sugges. On these articles he found traces notice of defendant's request to tion was, sald Mr. Nihill, that de- of blood but the traces did not get the water and that made her fondant changed the girl's trou-show any reaction of human blood, angry. Picking up a glass bowljeers and washed them. That was He also examined the knife which ahe threw it at her, hitting her in what she was doing when Chu was blood-stained. the stomach. Defendhut then got Yul found her in the kitchen. The

Cross-examined by Mr.

Hall

up and, the little girl would say, sorgeunt sent for a dead box and witness said that he could not say went over with a knife to where took possession of a pair of trou- whether the blood on the knife deceased was, and stabbed her in sera which deceased was wearing came from the same source as that the right thigh. She then put the when she was stabbed and also on the other articles.

Examined by Mr. Nihill, Chu Yu! knife back again. "My sister fell the knife which was handed to

A ittle later Inspector supported. the opening as outlined on the floor when she was stab-him.

Earner arrived and examined the by the solicitor, and further said hed," the girl naid,

that he had taken care of defen premises. Hawker Investigates.

the police dant for the last moven or eight When charged at About five minutes later defen-station defendant in reply to the years. She was not his wife. Sho lant sent the little girl to fetch charge of murder said that the lived at No. 10, Heung Hing Lane, her adopted father. At the time girl fell down on the floor herself. but he himself seldom siept there. Asked why, he replied that defen- hawker,

Medical Testimony. when thin happened a

things Lt. Com. Hunot, acting medical dant was in the habit of drinking named Sum 'Ng was at his stall situated in the street about four officer in charge of the Victoria and she always threw doora from No. 16 and he would Martuary, deposed that on the 16th at him when he went there.

He said that he had no tell the Court that he heard cries July he examined the body of of "Ah Che" from the floor and reninle Chinese aged about 17. for, believing that defendant had recognised deceased's voice. Ho There was a wound in the middle over ill-treated any of her adopted She always fed them right children. of the left his stall and went to see what of the outside

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the matter was. He went into the thigh about an inch and a half equally and also when giving them room of the house and saw defenlong and three inches and a half a hiding she chastised the lot

He deep.

An artery and a vein were equally. dant supporting deceased.

Cross-examined by Mr. Hall, he to the noticed a good deal of blood on severed. From the position of the the floor and heard the girl say wound it was possible that it was said that when he went "Ah Sun, yum kung, yum kung," self inflicted. It was quite pos-house defendant staggered when This, said Mr. Nihill, he could not sible to have been made by the she left the kitchen to go to the give the actual meaning of. From knife produced in court. It would cubicle and witness thought that one quarter he learned that I have needed considerable force to she was under the influence of meant "O God, O God." Defen-have been made three and a half liquor. dant asked the hawker if he had inches deep. It was also possible

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any medicine. He stayed there for the wound to have been caused morrow afternoon. for a minute or two and then went out. He did not go to get medi- jeine but to fetch the police.

The position at that time, con- tinued Mr. Nihill, was that Chu Kunt-ling, the small girl, was thero when the hawker got to the floor. The hawker went out before she went to get her father. She was! sent for her father about a minute or two after the hawker left. Sum Ng fater returned in company Before with a polle constable. that the little girl arrived back with her father. Sum Ng with the constable heard the father going out on to the stair case.

The Police Arrive.

When Chu Yui arrived at the house he went upstairs and found defendant washing something' in the kitchen. He then went into the cubicle and found deceased, who was bleeding profusely. She He ap- had only her jacket on. parently asked what was the mat- ter, said Mr. Nihill, and defendant replied that she threw a broken glass at the girl. He then went nut for some medicine and met the hawker with the police constable, "We now come to the arrival of the police," continued Mr. Nihill; "the puliceman said that it was 7.19 when he got to the floor." He went to the cubicle and found de fendant supporting deceased.

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Asked how she cut herself, de- fendant replied that she struggling with another girl for The possesalon of a pineapple. constable searched the room for the pineapple but found no traces of any. He looked for a knife but could not and one,. Later A knife (produced in Court) was taken into him by a man from outside. This' man said that he found it on a wooden box in the street, at the bottom of a window of a gubl- cle of the first floor. The police | constablo then thought that it was tiina to.te phone to the, Central Police Station and told Sum Ng to do so. The hawker replied that he did not know how to use the telephone and the constable him-

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