1926-09-21 — Page 7

FOUND GUILTY.

THE PRAYA MURDER

CASE:

PIRACY CHARGE.

SESSIONS CASE CONTINUED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

•The pirncy case against threo Chinese, which commenced-at the Criminal", Sessions before Mr. Justice Wood yesterday afternoon, was continued this morning. Mr. A. Dyer-Ball is prosecuting for the Crown. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C.,

RECOMMENDED TO MERCY... The concluding stages of the murder trial which opened before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Golia defending the first prisoner, Tan, yesterday, were entered upon Mr. H. G. Sheldon, the second, and this morning at the Criminal Mr. T. Addis, the third. Sessions, when the defence: was commenced...

The prisoner went into the wit ness box, and, in reply to Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, defending, he said he was 21 years of age by Chinese reckoning.

and

This morning evidence was given by a boy, the only survivor of the allegedly pirated boat, who said he was thrown overboard and swam about for four hours before he was picked upt

PUBLIC ANXIETY IN CANTON,

DEPARTURE OF OFFICIALS" FAMILIES.

THE ANTI-RED MOVEMENT.

The departure of a number of troops from the Canton Garrison for the eastern districts of Kwang- tung and the Fukien border is. causing some concern in Canton.: Following the departure of the families of General Chang Kai- ahek, General Chu Fel-toh, General Evidence as. to the place where Tan Yen-kal, and other lending. employed by the China Commer- the affair occurred was called "Red" generals, the wives and cial Co., of 17, 18, and 19, Con- which showed it to be four miles. naught Road. About the end of outside. British waters. A wit- families of lesser lights are also ...last year he went with the de-ness recognised the first and leaving. While they are supposed

cegsed to a certain

house in Hollywood Road, where the latter introduced him to a girl, and they became intimate. Afterwarde he felt as though he was being gnawed by worms all over his body, and the sensation was un- endurable.

BROODED OVER MATTER,

second defendants, because he had had dealings with their master.

The case was adjourned "unt!! this afternoon.

The health return for last week shows four Chinese cases of typhoid fover (one imported), of which two were fatal; and one non-fatal Chinese. case of diphtheria.

The s.s. Van Cloon, which ar rived from Singapore yesterday evening. brought over fifteen hundred deck passengers. In thu course of the voyage one deek pas-

to be going to Wachang by way of Shanghai to meet the heads of their families, the fact that they are, leaving when many, wild rumours puevail has caused. some unensineas.

The Shun-yi District, in Kao- chow Prefecture, his fallen into the hands of "anti-Reds," accord ing to reports reaching Canton;. and the Kuomintang General Headquarters is despatching re inforcements from Kongmoon.

He became convinced that he had contracted leprosy from the girl, and was treated by Dr. Cheung Wing-tál. After he had been under treatment several times, he still thought he had the

The "anti-Reds" now claim that disease and brooded over the

they have extended their request matter. On the Sunday when thesenger diedr

for support to overseas Chinese, murder was committed he had no

and among those to organize an "money or spare clothes. When he

Accused of reckless driving and anti-Red" Society abroad are want to bod that night he thought knocking down Mr. Burgess and many Chinese in Honolulu. Mr. he had slept and he did not Major Wyneoll while turning into Li Tai-ming, an "anti-Red" re- remember waking up until the Garden Road from the Lower Al-Presentative from China, arrived following morning, when he saw bert Road, at, a point outside the at Honolulu on August 10th, on the deceased lying on the floor. Volunteer Headquarters, a Chi- He became afraid, and as he was nese motor cyclist was fined $25 looking for money he found some during the hearing of the usual one's clothes and pawned then. weekly traffic cases by Major C. He received $1.20 for some of Willson this morning. In another them. He then booked his pas-case a public driver was fined 85 sage to Macao by the Tuishan, and for failing to display his badge,

was afterwards arrested.

Mr. Fitzroy: When you struck the deceased did you know what you were doing. Did you know anything about it?

Prisoner: I did not quite know what I was doing.

DID NOT KNOW.,

a

know any cause for quarrel be. tween them,

He asked them to imagine a.man with leprosy in a Chinese com- munity. It was a terrible thing -no children to carry on the andestral worship, and to have no position in the family itself.

HOMICIDAL MÀNIA?”

Dr.

In reply to the Attorney General, Mr. J. H. Kemp, prosecuting for the Crown prisoner said the de-

If he was told he had not got. ceased was lying by the side of leprosy, but the idea still persisted, the bed. He did not look at his and the impression was fixed in his face but ran away. He admitted mind, then that showed a mental his (prisoner's) night clothes were state which was very bad, stained with blood, and when ask-Cheung Wing-tail had said that lep- ed. why he hid them, prischer rosy would make the mental condi- replied he did not know what he tion worse, and it might culminate was doing. At the time he took in an act of homicidal mania. He the other clothes he knew he was running, away. He did not know what he was doing when he chop- -ped the deceased, but he knew

afterwards.

his way to America to interest the Chinese there in the "anti-Red" movement at home. The "anti- Red" Society among the Chinese in Honolulu nas as its officers' Dr. K. F. Li, a physician, who acts as

Lau chairman; Mr.

Sheung, secretary; and Mr. Yui Ki-chuen, treasurer.

On the night of September 17 the town of Kaukong, along the West River, suffered the destruction of 118 buildings and losses estimated The at more than $1,000,000. "anti-Reds" attribute the disaster to incendiarism on the part of the Bolshevists who recently failed to

disarm the Volunteer Corps of the town,

· OPIUM CARRIERS.

WORSE THAN THIEVES..

Recently a Chinese was charged suggested that that was what at the Central Police Court with actually happened. For three being in possession of a small months the fear of leprosy had been quantity of illicit opium, and, on hammering on the prisoner's brain, conviction, he was fined $1,000, until there came a time when the with the alternative of serving six When did you first realise you brain could stand it no longer months' hard labour. had killed him?When day broke. Dr. Cheung had said he noticed no Mr. Kemp referred to a state-signs of insanity previously, and ment made by the prisoner in Dr. McKenný had said homicidal which he said he went into the mania came on quickly, and in that tion of the sentence, submitting case there was nothing to say to that the defendant was only the kitchen to get a chopper and pro-

He was going to carrier in the case.. ceeded to the room of the deceased, the contrary; Finding him asleep he woke him suggest that the idea culminated

The Magistrate said that it had and scolded him, asking why, did in an attack of homicidal mania on often been said that receivere he do him hurim by tempting him the morning on which the prisoner were worse than thieves. If there

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with a woman.

Prisoner, after looking at the statement, admitted that it was rend over to him and he signed it. In another statement did you describe the struggle with the de- censed?--I don't remember quite

clearly.

In addressing the jury, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said they had listened to a dificult case which they would have to decide. They had a person who was killed, with

killed the unfortunate man.

evidence to the effect that a

To-day, Mr. McCallum appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell and made an application for a re-considera-

were no receivers there would be Mr. Fitzroy asked the jury to less thieving. Similarly, carriers take it as an established fact that of opium were, in his Worship's the prisoner did have a defective opinion, worse than the men who reason, due to disease. He had already shown from evidence that actual smuggling. If there were employed them, as they did the

his mental condition would get worse under that iden. They had no carriers, there would be less

smuggling.

Mr. McCallum replied that the man had an attack of homicidal carriers were ignorant people. mania it would be possible for him They were the unintelligent class to remember what he had done, though at the time he did not know being made use of by the clever whether what he was doing was people who were the smugglera." about eighty wounds, with a chop right or wrong. He asked the jury McCallum's view, and confirmed His Worship disagreed with Mr. per and crowbar. So far as one to find that the prisoner was, men- could see, there was the one motive tally unbalanced at the time, and his previous decision in stating the Crown could put forward as did not know what he was doing, that he could not see his way to having existed in the prisoner's but, if he did, he did not know, making any reduction of the spn- mind for doing the deed. That whether it was right or wrong, was that some eighten months be- fore, he went to a certain house in the Colony, and there was intro- duced to a girl, who, he said, gave him some form of disease which he

asserted was leprosy.

ONUS ON DEFENCE.

tence.

..

The Attorney General said the

A "Solemn Requiem Mass for onus was on the defence to satisfy them the prisoner was insane, the repose of the soul of the late Commenting on the medical evid- Rev. Father Souvey will take place in the Roman Catholic Cathedral ence, he submitted that it went no

on Saturday, the 25th Inst, at further than possibilities. He re- STATE OF MIND.

Bam. ferred to the prisoner's statements, They had to consider the state in both of which he gave details of the man's mind when he was of the struggle, and in those ho

Mr. J. H. Taggart, managing labouring under that idea, and never once suggested that he did director of Hongkong and Shang- he did not think it would matter not know what he was doing. He hai Hotels, Ltd., arrived at South- so very much whether he actually also. submitted that the prisoner's ampton on Aug. 24 by the R.M.S. had or did not have it. He rather actions after the deed went to show Mauretania from the Far East on a thought they might come to the that he knew what he was doing, holiday. conclusion that when a man had and that he was doing wrong, such an effect upon his mind, with

continuous, brooding, he was ina

FOUND GUILTY

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