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VILLAGE FIGHT.

MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL RESUMED.

DAUGHTER'S STORY.

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The manslaughter case from the New Territorios, which is being heard by Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessious, was continued this morning, when an indication of the defence was given by. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., who is de. fending. Three Chinese, are

RECENT MID-LEVEL

BURGLARIES.

ARRESTED MAN, CHARGED TO-DAY.

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A series of daring burglaries committed at European residences on the mid-levels is recalled by the appearance of a Chinese be- |

fore. Major C. Willson, at the Police Court this morning, charged charged with another unknown, with a long lat of offences. with the manslaughter of a man belonging to a neighbouring vil---The defendant, named Ho Loung, Inge in the Au Tau district, New chips Ho Yu, was caught in the Territories. All three deny the act, it is alleged, of committing charge. The case for the Crown burglary at St. Paul's Hostel is in the hands of the Attorney the early morning of the 13th General, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp: November, and examination by de It appears that there was a dis-tectivos placed them in possession pute over the collection of under water weeds from a large field between Wong Chau village, and Tai, Kiu village, and the Crown allege that four men from the former chased three women of the latter back to their village, where they assaulted a man named Chan Tso and inflicted wounds from which he died. It is alleged that the four men were armed with a spear, bamboo pole, crub pole, and an iron bar.

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"It is a caso of trying to maką a silk purse out of a cow's car," said Mr. F. E. Losoby, at tho Con- tral Police Court this morning, when engaged in defending a Chi- noso constable charged with mis- conduct by sleeping at his post.

Director of the Criminal Investi- Mr. C. G. Pardue, Assistant gation Office, opened the case by a statement of the man's record, committed within a period of two which revealed sevention offences

years, for which the man had been given ovary consideration by being dealt with only departmentally. The prosent charge was one which the authorities could not overlook. The man slept at his post at No. 1 Police Station when he was in fact the only man who was supposed to.

duced to substantiate the follow hour. Mr. Fordus applied for im- of evidence which wil he probe alert at the Station at that prisonment without the option of ing charges:

the fine.

Burglary at St. Paul's Hostel of

Mr. Leseby money and property on the 18th

said he find Cross-examined November, in respect of which

the man very Mrs. Beecher, Treasurer of the that the offence was scriaus, closely and while agreeing Hostel, and Dr. Y. S. Wan are suggested that the Court should pearing in the case as complain-on ants.

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the matter from a psychological viewpoint. The man Burglary at Mr. Grimble's ro-was a habitual offender, and ft sidence, No. 10, Branksome seemed to him that he could never Towers, May Road.

be one on whom confidence should Prior to the opening of the

Burglary at Mrs. Pitts' reaf- be placed by his superior officers. case this morning. His Lordship

It would be. like trying to manke a said the jury would remember dence, 3 Kennedy Road..

Barglary at Mrs.

would be in the man's own inter- silk purse out of a sow's ear. It that yesterday morning the name. of one who had been summoned to honse,,9 Kennedy Road.

ests if he were dealt with more attend as a juryman was called

Burglary at St. Paul's Hostel, re- leniently than in the case of a man and he was not present. On en-sulting in the theft of property be- who seriously realised the gravity quiry he learned that he had loft longing to Mr. P. S. Wong. of his misdemeanour. the Colony, and had applied to the Chief Justice for exemption. That application had been granted,

The fifteen-year-old daughter of the deconsed was cress-examined by Mr. Alabaster when she said she know the three prisoners. She was asked whether when she saw the two prisoners at the police station, she associated the third man with them because they work ed together. Witness" said she identified the third man as one who struck her father.

Repnell's

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Mrs. Hupt at the Central Police Theft of property belonging to

Station,

series of burglaries is between the The period covered by "this 7th July and the 13th November, at which latter date the defendant was arrested and charged.

conviction and sentenced the de- Mr. R. E. Lindsell registered a fendant to six weeks' hard labour:

RUBBER STOCKS.

QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

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Detective Sergeant Cary pro- various articles of property

London, Nov. 15. Court which he said were all that

In the House of Commons, Mr. were recovered in the investiga-F. G. Penny naked whether, in view tions.

All the complainants attended Mr. Alabaster:-I put it to you the Court this morning, and the that when these men came from

case was remanded for a week. Wong Chau village to Tai Kiu

Defendant, gave his age as 22, village, all the women were in hiding? Only the three women

and said he was unemployed. He who, were being chased were instated that he lived in the coolies quarters at the waterworks at hiding.

Macdonnell Road.,

A party of men from your villago (Tai Klu), led by your father who was carrying a spep';

of the uncertainty as regards the] actual quantity of rubber held in the East against unused export rights, Mr. Amery could state the exact amount on October 31 last.

Mr. Amery replied that no use. ful figures were yet available, and he asked Mr. Penny to repeat the question when Mr. Amery had re- ceived information from Ceylon and Malaya.

Mr. Penny asked Mr. Amery to

attacked the two men from Won BATAVIA COMMUNISTS. enquire whether the amount of

Chau village? No, the only per

son assaulted was my father.

rubber coincided with the un- used coupons issued and, if act,

I put it to you that there were OUTBREAK UNDER CONTROL. what action would be taken as re-

only two men from Wong Chan

village and they were not aimed? They had a sorts of instru-

ments.

And that it was the people of your village that had all sorts of im- plements including the spear?-No; they were not ours.

WITNESS IN TEANS,

gards the excess unused coupons, against which no actual rubber was stored at the end of October.

Amsterdam, Nov.-15. Latest messages from Batavia with regard to the Java Com--Reuter. munist outbreak, report that the situation is practically every- where controlled and that arrests continue.. The small and unin- fluential, Communist Party of the Netherlands has telegraphed the Colonial Minister, and Jonkheer do-Graeff the now Governor of the Dutch Indies ascribing the disorders to the alleged Malad- ministration by Dr. Fock an ex-

I put it to you that because they have killed your father you want someone from Wong Chau village to suffer?-They have kill ed my father, (bursting into tears) but is not this Court going to re-Governor.-Reuter. dress his grievances?

Mr. Alabaster was neking a question with regard to an attuck

Mr. Alabaster:-That he seized

on the village, but his Lordship the spear from your father and laid

intervened and said that was no part of the girl's story.

Mr. Alabaster:-Yes, there were four men in front, and ten, others

His Lordship:-That is not an attack on their village. An attack on her father, yes, but not on the village.

Mr. Kemp aald that was no part of the witness's story about an at- tack on the village or the villagers.

about him with the result that he was able to escape from your father and the other villagers? No, that is not true.

In reply to further questions, witness said her father was sixty years of age and had lived in that. district all his life, before there were police stations, and when the villagers had to defend themselves against robbers.

Mr. Alabaster suggested to wit-

It was not fair to put it to the witness that the spear was a relic of

nces like that.·'

her father's from those days.

Witness, denied this.

Mr. Kemp said he supposed that

in the old days the Wong Chau

Mr. Alabaster then put it to wit- ness that her case was that four armed men, with others in the dis- tance, pursued three women of villagers had to keep spears to de- witness's village, and were oppos-fend themselves from robbera, and ed by her father, and that her that there were old men in that father remonstrated with the men, village also.

after which they attacked her

father and killed him at a time

when he had no more than a ciga-

KNOCKED" DOWN.

In reply to his Lordship, witness

rette to defend himself with. Wit-sald the four men walked in single ness agreed.

file towards her father along a nar- Mr. Alabaster:-I put it to you row path, and she recognised the that the real facta" were that accond prisoner as being in front. only two unarmed mon came The only conversation sho heard to your village and they were was her father say. "Don't drive attacked and driven out by your them away. Leave them alone." fellow villagers, including your After that, the leading man knock- father-No. I say that no one ined her father down with a bamboo- our village was armed. The people pole, and her father's body was of Wong Chau village were armed. struck after he had died,

In reply to the jury, witness said there had been no quartel between

MORE DENIALS.

Mr. Alabaster (continuing) | her father and tho prisoners before, And that, your villagere drove them ) and she was sure she had correctly away and managed to catch the described the blows that were second prisoner, whom your father struck, the men who struck them, wounded with a spear?My father and the weapons used.. did not cause him any hurt,

The case, is procopding.

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