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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1924.
PROPERTY SALE.
STOLEN SUGAR,
FIVE PEOPLE SENT TO GOAL.
The
STRANGERS' EXPERIENCE. FIVE HOUSES DISPOSED OF. Before Mr. E. W> Hamilton ati Mensro, Laminert Brothers dis- the Kowloon Magistravy yesterday|posed of fivo bourgs in one lot yun.
Soven bont people charged with afternoon, three men were clarged terday afternoon at an auction held the theft of 11 tons of sugar: with being concerned in a high-in accordance with the orders of valued at $2,500, and with ro way robimry in which a married the mortgagee.
ceiving same, were brought up.03 wonna was victimized and robbed The property in question was romand before Mr. B. E. Lindsell of a sum of money, nearly $100, Section D of Infond Lot No. 101, at the Central Magistrany yoster-| including 701 ruspcem, '
having an area of 2,198 square feet, day afternoon.
Merors Aguinat one of the men tho and hold
Crown Jenso
complainnuts, pulicu offered no oviilence and be for the residue of 100 years Jardino Matheson and Company; was discharged,
dating from January 1814, were represented by Mr. B. A.; Opening tho
for the with a yearly Crown rent, of Wadoson. prosecution, Inspector T. Murphy S11: Property standing upon this solicitors (Messrs Lea d'Almuda, aid that the victim in the case lot comprises Nos. 49, 40, 49. C. A. S. Runs and D. H. Binko) was n worn who, with her two d, and 4o. Peel Street, Vic engaged in the defence. children, and only récently arrived | torin, all of which are three storey| At the outset the Magistrate in the Colony from Rangoon, buildings in good state of discharged two of the fenato where she was born. Sho canso preservation nud in cecupancy. defendants, who were cooks, ob
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with the intention of leaving the situation of thin lat, the nuclinneer leaving thres women and two mon. children here in herlucated and opened the bidding at $75,000) and The women are the mistrossos of then return to Rangoon gain. stated that he was prepared to three different cargo boats. They stayed at No. 1 Tal Nun rocnive bids of $100 up.
Tho evidence the prosecution Street, Shumshaipo, The woman'
There were less than 20 persons was that on August 22nd. the was in the habit of carrying her present and of these apparently polles raided the three bonts at money and valuables in à canvas only three felt disposed to continue the Cauoway Bay anchorage while belt around her waist..
when the upset price had been the defendants were engaged in appounced. The first of these transferring sugar from one bag to orme in with a bid of $500, which another. The sugar, one hundred On the 13th inst, she left her quickly lifted the original sun and ten bags in all, had bonn It took exnetly stolen from "four junks and had home with her two children, who to $70,000. were suffering from skin diseman, minute to reach $100 more, and been taken aboard the defendants* and was taking them to Kip another minute for an extra $300,bonts. There was a stumpede when Shek-ihi at abhut 10 G'clock Another rise of $100 brought the the police arrived, and in the to $70,800, which was confusion eno of tho male in the morning. When they End prico Treaclic a apot not far Tron responded to by the most persistent defendant attempted to excape by
the neighbourhood where
Hero small boat. He was ordered to un operator with a $200 bid. Indian constable shot a Chinesoit remained for three minutes, and row back, however, the police recently, the took the two nothing further being called the firing. two shots into the water-to children up a valley about adillot was knocked down to Mr. Ya frighten him. anile from the rand to buthe then Chenk-sing, a inerchant residing at in a small stream. When so nrrived at the water, she found that ja number of cooling had gone there for the wane purpose. The Wich Jater left and when she herself WIS in the act of leav ing three came up to her. Among them
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one of the men who produced a dagger.
The Magistrate convicted one of The second defendant wa not
the women for theft and the other identified either by the woman her-
defendants for receiving stolon The women and one of self or by any of the other witnes In an interview published in the property.
One of the robbers produced Canton Gazelle on September 8, the men were sentenced to three
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a piece of string and tied her hands 1924, Dr. Sun Yat-sen said with months' hard labour, while the fifth behind her back with the other end reference to the remission of the accused gat two months.
of the card fastened to a tree. Two Boxer Indemnities, that "this At the close of the case the of the men produced daggers while sudden anifestation of charity is women entrented the Magistrata to the third kept guard over the twoider, in the first place, to the sub-release their boats, children. The two men retusvedcess of the Russian Revolution, Elis Worship said the bonts would her girdle and then disappeared up which has set to Chins an example iso released when they bad servod the hill side.
of how a nation may free itself their terms..
No Report Made.
from the shackles of foreign aggres.
sion and injustice, "
After the other robber lusd follow- In order to keep the recoril ed his colleagues, the woman was straight may I call altontion to the released by her chikiren. Sie fact that the remission of the went home and nothing happened Boxer Indemnity was begun na far, till the following night. The ausback as 1968, when the Govern band, who had left the house and inent. of the United States of gens to Hongkong on the same America took the first step in that evening as the robbery, returned direction. This was long before the next day and the woman made the Russian Soviet revolution, 50 A report to him.
[That it is quito incorrect, so far as
On the 13th the police received the United States (overnment at eertain information from a inan] least, is concerned, to say that the who was charged in connection success of the Russian Revolution with the robbery but discharged at influenced the Americans in de- a previous henring. This innleiding to remit their shure of the mnile a statement and produced nindernity to China.
jacket and on: "f tizer rupees It may also not be out of place | stolen. Acting on the informant, this time to point out with row- tion of the accomplice, the peak to the so-called Union of the poliro raided 仇 unnumbered Soviet Socialist Republics and house near the Taipa Rond: On their relations to China that Mr. the Russian Horiet entering the house the police found| Kharakan,
both the defendunts there. The representative in l'oking, has put second dufendant was found sing himself on record to the effect that on bed behind the front door. the Government ho represents still When the detective went in the considers itself a co-signatory of mun is alleged to have put his the Peotoneal of 1901-that is thei hands into one of is packets and Boxer Protocol which Dr. Sun hau | taken out seven one-hundred rupee declared in the charter of impe-1
nutes and put them on thin beil, riulisin in China. These, the defectivo sized. The} chief tenant of the house would
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say that the second defendant was
the only person who slept on the Led. The first defondant зудн found in the back of the housh, and was arrested. Together with the defendants about ten others' were taken into custody but lind since been released.
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Tho Volunteers will play tha Chinese Recreation Club at Cause- On the afternoon of the 18th the way Bay at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday. The following will represent the polico, noting
on information H. K. V. D. 6. in their first match of furnished by the accomplice, tried the 20390nE. J. R. Mitoball to locate the woman who was (Caps), A. C. I. Bowker, G. R. victimised, but without epcoes More, H. E. Hollands, D. E. G. Every endeavour was made and Nicholson, J. Finnic, W. J. Hope, they wont as far as to post notices H. M. Howell, G. R. Vallack, to tho effect that a robbery had L. D. MoNicoll, C. S. Fitzroy boon committed and the police Lloyd. A bus will leave H. K. C. C. were sotirahing for the complainant. pavilion at 1.60 p.m. sharp. It was not fill the morning of the This is the first time since the war 15th, when the husband went out that the Volunteers have been to consult a friend as to what steps able to put a team in the field, ho should take-he himself being and it is hoped that supporters a stranger and not knowing the from the Corps will turn up in customs of the Colony-that ha
strong force, saw one of the notices, and acting
on this ho went to the police.
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Informer's Evidence.
The woman later gave the police everything that took place. Wit a lint of the articles aho bad lost nena gave a rupos and a jacket to'a | and produced a lotter which bore n Chinese detectivo. Another man, shop identical to that on the rupee Tang Fat, gare the jacket to him. notes.
Ho pald 40 cents to a certain mon At the identification parade ono for the rupee. The first defendant of the boys even picked out tho took an active part in the robbery, Informer as having taken part in but the second defendant only the robbery.
appeared to be watching. Witness took no park in the robbery, SSS
After further ovidence, the ones was adjourned.
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