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RETIRING AFTER 25 YEARS.

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MR. H. T. JACKMAN'S RECORD IN HONGKONG,

GIRL ROBBED. OF BANGLE.

VILLAGERS CHASE THIEF INTO A POND.

A CAPABLE OFFICIAL, FORCED TO EMERGE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1928.

PRISON AND. THE "CAT."

· BOMB OUTRAGE AT

PENANG.

CHINESE ROBBERS SEVERELY DEATH WITH.

YAUMATI AFFAIR.

SUSPECTED ANTI-JAPANESE

PLOT.

Penang, July 10.

DOMESTIC TROUBLE. AIRED IN COURT,

AUSTRALIAN WOMAN WHO MARRIED A CHINESE. •

A sensation was caused in Bench Street by the explosion of a bomb MAINTENANCE PLEA. in the shop of Chop Lim Teng Hoo, } As has been already announced, How a Chinese who robbed a

A smart capture by Inspector The person responsible for throw- Hongkong will be losing one of its schoolgirl of a gold bangle was best-known and most capable chased by angry villagers into a Fallon and a police patrol in the ing the bomb is not known but it officials on Saturday next, when pool of water, where he stood sul early hours of May 20 at Shanghai la belleved that anti-Japariese fel RIT. II. T. Jackman, Assistant merged up to his neck until he was Street, Yaumati, resulted in three ing and something to do with the Director of Public Works, leaves forced to come out and be arrested for home with Mra. Jackman, on by the use of long bamboo poles, Chinese being each sentenced to alter as the towkay has been sus retirement. Latterly, Mr. Jack was explained by Mr. Somerset five years imprisonment, with pected of importing Japanese

has not been enjoying good-Fitzroy at the Criminal Sessions hard labour, for robbery, by Mr. goods, health, and his retirement comes this morning before Justice Jacka.

man

done in the normal course ofed with rubbing Ng Wan-chau, a events. He has been in the Colony schoolgirl, 16 years of age, living for just over 25 years, having at 162 Kowloon City Road, of a arrived here on July 16th, 1903, gold bangle on June 20. and during that period he has made a host of friends, who will wish for him a complete recovery in the Old Country.

Outlining the circumstances Mr. Fitzroy said the complainant, with another girl, was walking be. tween Kowloon City and Honghom. officer. When they were just epposite to

little earlier than I would have To Man and Lo Lau were charg-Justice Jacks, at the Criminal The clerks, who were counting Sessions this morning. Two of the day's takings at a table near the men were also ordered to rece-the front door, heard a terrific noise as the bonib exploded and the ive 12 strokes with the "eat," the shop was soon filled with smoke. third being saved from a Hike The towkay's son, a boy of 14 years punishment because he had been of age, was seriously injured and was removed to hospital, where he certified as unfit by the medical died this morning. Two of the elerks were also injured but their

the Blind Girls Home, she felt They were charged with commit-

There were three prisoners, condition, is not serious. Mr. Jackman secured his early sonsont come behind her. Sheing a robbery at 16, Temple Street, training at the Crystal Palace was pushed down by the end Yaumati. with two others Engineering Schond, where he was risener, after which the first men from 1890 to 1893, and then for 4 Jappeared beside her, holding a period of three years he was papil knife, and the bangle was takem and assistant on water and drain from her wide!, In the meantime, age works to Mesura, McLands- other girl had raised an alarm borough and Preston, the well-which radzi the two me to run known efvil englacers.

away, having grot ali au, eoald,

Early Training,

From 1896 to 1897, he was in charge of new seworage, works at

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Chased Into Pand,

The even!` palemen

his

A UN-

Charles

septuagenarian, known, and with robbing a woman Ward, who was sent to prison for of various articles including tive three months at Truro for pocket- enses, a wrist watch, a pen knife, picking, was staled to have served

piece of giver chap, a hand-thirty-seven years in prison. kerchief, a box of pearle, two jackets and a pair of trousers. Mr.

Lived Together.

|

The domestic troubles of no Australiah woman married to a local Chinese merchant whose household also includes a Chinese wife and children, were revenled at the Central Police Court this morning, when, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, she summoned her hus

band for maintenance

When the name of Mrs. Taol On Lee was first called as being that of the complainant, there was some At first, an elderly confusion. Chinese matron responded to the- ame, stepped forward and em- barked on what threatened to be a long statement. She was asked to stand down when it was found that an Australian woman, seated in the body of the Court,, was the interested party. In reply to a question from the Court, she said she was Mrs. Tsol On Lee and that i he was summoning her husband for matstenance.

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Husband in Nanking.

Mr. L. R. Andrewes, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, Bald he appeared for the husband in consequence of a letter which the latter. left behind with his son before he went to Nanking. In that letter, the son was instructed to get the legal firm to appear for him in the event of his Australian He had wife summoning him. gone to Nanking to open a branch of his business,

Somerset Fitzroy prosecuted for however, nisa searched and a wrist the Crown.

watch was found on him, in addi- Ripon, and from the Inter year)

When asked to plead, the pri-{tion to other, articles. soners admitted that they went to i until his departure for Hongkong

The men were

taken to Ce he was assistant district engineer, ma into a grit et villagers steal, but denied that they compte Station, where the second on electric trimways, drainage, who immediately surrounded and witted robbery. When asked to highway and improvement works at caught him, but the first man ran plead again, they all three pleaded said he would take the police to the place from which Shefeld. He came to Hongkong as roul ponds and paddy fields, be "Guilty"

The goods were taken. They, an executive engineer of the Drainage i bolly pursued. He was even-

[cordingly, proceeded to the base, Mra. Taci On Lee, continued Mr. Office of the P.W.D., being appoint-tually eluced into a pond where he

hut on the way they met the com- Andrewes, was an Australian lady, ed following the reports by Mr. stayed, up to his need in water, Chadwick on the sanitary Fonditions would not come out, but some.

Mr. Sombrant Fitzroy said that plainant, who had freed herself in and she had gone to the Secretary of the Colony,

of the villagers had long bambes the three men wire Bving in the the meantime and was on her way for Chinese Affairs before she was pote. "With a certain amount of same house as the complainant. to the Pelico Stadion to make a re-sent to the Court. Hongkong Service,

In view of the absence of, the persuasion from these pales," There were a number of cubiclesport. She claimed the gods as

defendant from the Court, his Mr. Jackman's primiped work added Mr. Fitzroy, “in was in in the base bathegern] were nother property. during his period of service here ed to come out, when he was apogeupied. The serend and third

charged at the Police Worship observed; to the complain. has been the conaten tim had main-rested. This man had the bangle, prisoner went to the house in die Station, the first, prisoner said that ant, that it would be impracticable tenance of all drainage works but it could not be found, and it about two mouths before the rob- he did not take any money away. to take any evidence until he re- (dewers, -storm-water denis, could be appreciated how littery, Later another man appear-A man named Ab Ping gave him turned. nullahs, etc.) in Hongkont, Raw-chance there was or finding it if to have gone to the hyave the watch, but he did not know

Refused to Accompany Him. loon and dhe New Territories: had been dropped in a paddy while the first prisoner went there where Ah Ping had gone to. The Besides these works, he has been. He was seen to throw the Labout a month before the rubbery second than replied that he had Mr. Tsoi On Lee then said that -called upon to carry out the duties knife away.

Apparently two other people went nothing to say, while the third her husband had asked her to ac of engineer-in-charge of water.

with him. The meu said that they man made an extraordinary state-company him to Nanking, but she works, roads, bridges, seawalls and plers during the absener of other Station, the first man replied that were painters and there was not-ment. He stated "My old mother had not done so, under advice front he had stipe 14 so, while her to suggest that they were not is, ill and I am compelled to do the Secretary of Chiese Affairs,.

| what they appeared to bu,

such things. I have no work at herause it was Chinese territory.

hurt

Between two and three o'clock present."

the morning in question, cou- imed counsel, someone pushed

officers on leave

of the muls and

It also fell to Mr. Jacknun'a lot, in extend the aghalt surfeine the land In the Sew Territorks Survey Work in China,

When charged at the Police

more than three.

When

A

for

had

Illa Worship:-The Secretary for Chinese. Affairs can't compel him to return any more than any- one else can.

Alet Police Patrol, Continuing, Mr. Fitzroy said on Remarking that the men that morning Inspectie Fallon was been gailty of robbers, in which in Shanghai Street with a patrol personal violence had been used when he saw two m walking on a woman, his Lordship sen- on oppsite sides of the teneed the first two prisoners to under the verandahs, live years' hard labour and 12

Addressing the third prisoner,

Mr,, Andrewes, interposing, sald the man's son was In Court, and

finite information on the point. possibly he might have some de

Very Uncertain.

ột thứ waterworks · sehenes confederate said: --*) kuntched her

His Worship said it amounted which he has taken his hand mention gold bangle, but I did not

to this, that whatever the defen- may be made of the reconstruction re." At the Magistrae the first

Previous Cunvictions.

dant was doing in Nanking was and enlargement of the Albany jasoner rested his remark while

own business, but that the additionnt panping Alter-Leds,

The complainant's mosquito net There Was

known his nothing plant and enlargement of the water second maste na statement.

down and sat upon her, agter which against the first two men, conclud-Court could not make any order imains to the Peak and the Beres-

In remarking that he did not she was gagged with a piece of aed Mr. Fitzroy, but in 1919 the for payment against him when he was not present. So his Worship sury altutions to

the Bonham think the jury, would have any flute. She was made to hand over third prisoner, who was then Road pumping station; as well as amenity in fading the elanges some keys with the aid of which hoy nine years of age, was con- thought the best thing to do wa the laying of a large water main in oved, caused added that a man the rollers ransacked the place.victed for obtaining goods by false to adjourn the case until the man Ciline and Bonham Roads in order would not go into the middle of a They later left. The complainant pretences at Yaumati. He

was returned.

Mrs. Tsol On Lee:-Well; he that water from Tytam could find, stand up to his neck in wa-wouht say that the first prisoner then detained for 48 hours and re- made available for distribution to for, and have to be persuade to set upon her while the other weived five strokes. The offence wrote a letter to me that he won't the western districts of the ty

The Secretary and to the Peak; the laying of the ng out with bamine poles, formen were also there. It was net was sa long ago, added counsel, come back unless I join him in

Nanking. modling.

etain how many men there were. that he would ask his Lordship not rider mains in the city; and the supervising of the construction of

Prisoner's Denials.

|ulded Mr. Elzroy, but there were to take it into account, as there Chinese Affairs has given him 14

was nothing to show that the days to return. the Tyłam intermediate reservoir during the absence of the engineer- Following the conclusion of the

prisoner Haif not been, living

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honestly in the meantime. In charge on leave,

for the frown, the first prisoner made a statement. He aid he had been to market where he had bought five cents worth of porband was returning to Kowloon City. He saw a girl approaching, along fand she humped into him in trying roads, In 1904-05, the duties of Santhe immet, he dropped the park searched. Although nothing muc

to dodge a motor car. Owing to These men were stopped and strokes with the "eat." tary Surveyor were carried out by and died her. She scolded him we actually found on them, pro his lordship said: "I find that teens, was Mr. Jackman, whilst in 1998 he back, so he slapped her on the bark is the robbers were found the medical officer reports that you English, he mentioned that he had was servaded for route survey of the neck. She then cried out. work in Mid-China, being accum

"Suntch things,”

in packages. As the police were are unfit to receive chastisement, received no letter from his father as result - of panied by Mr. A, J. Darby, of the which a crowd collected.

engaged in the search, the first Otherwise I should give you the as to the date of his return, It Crown Lands Office, who subse

prisoner came along and remarked same punishment as the others. Was very uncertain; all he could quently transferred to the F.M.S.: "He denied the robbery and that everything was all right, as I sistence you to five years hard say was that his father might be

Another matter with which Mr.session of the knife. He also they all get together. He was, labour.” T Jucknun was prominently identi-aid he did not see another girl. fied was the desirability of flush-Be was assaulted several times. ing sewers by wader from the and was eventually rescued in an nullahs, on which he wrote arensefets edition by a Chinese lengthy report, and this work,Castable in plain clothes. which was later carried out, bas He did not give his proper proved very effective.

address to the police beenuse he Since 1910 up to the present was afraid the people might kill time, Mr. Jackman's work has been him. He further denied jumping chielly administrative, and daring Into the pond, saying that about this period the town-plaunfu ten men pushed him in. He ther scheme for Kowloon and New remarked that he did not know how' Kowloon was evolved under his he got to the pond as he was on- supervision. This project created conscious, Replying to Mr. Fitzroy narge amount of work in nego on that dinersquincy, prisoner said tiation with private owners for the completely tost his head .exchange of their land för new The case is proceeding.

lots in the town-planning lay-out, and if negotiations failed, a very,

small percentage of which did, Mr. G. P. Newton has been ap arbitrilion proceedings were taken¦ pointed. Under-Secretary of the for the nequisition of these pro-ternal Affairs, New Zealand, in

•perties.

„place of Mr. J, Hislop, who has

More recently, the acquisition retired.

of the Kai Tack reclamation has been completed in order to form the area for a commercial aero- drome from harbour dredgings.

Acting D. P. W

On two occasions (in' 1923.and 1927), Mr. Jackmus hus acted as Dircetor of Public Works, with a acat on the Excentive and Legls lative Councils.. He has also been Vice-President of the Sunitary Board and a member of the Court

Sir Robert, Philip, Hon. Proxi- dent of the Tuberculosis Socfety of Great Britain, has been awarded the Trudeau Merril, which is given annually to the individual who hna made the most meritorious con- tribution to the knowledge of the cause, prevention, and the trend- ment of tuberculosis.

and Council of the Hongkong Smith, and her brother, Mr. Crow- University.

Mr. Jackman WIS IL good "Soccer player in his youngor

ther Smith, was at one time in prac-

tice here as a solicitor.

Apart from his conscientious days, and he was also for some and efficient service with the Gov

tennis enthusiast ernment, Mr. Jackman has, with yorra a keen Latterly, his chief recreation has his wife, enjoyed considerable ben hard work. He married some popularity in social circles, and years back Miss Dorothy Smith, they will both be much missed by niece of the late Mr. II. Percy their numerous friends.

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1 Our private (7) Matshed.'

The son, a Chinese youth in his galled. In halling

away for six months or even a year. He was away on business. Mr. Andrewes said that, in his absence, he understood the hus- band's people had te to contribute to the support of the complainant. He understood also that she re- quired a better form of life than she was 1eceiving at present.

Ilanding up a lettor which he received from Mrs. Tsoi On Lee, Mr. Andrewca then said that the une's was on her to prove her assertions. She suggested that ber allowance was insufficient.

1g Worship, after glancing through the document, again said he could not take an order for payment in the absence of the man, and, in any case, it was twice as much as the Court had power to pay.

20 Cents Per Meal.

. Mrs. Tsoi On Lee:-I receive 20 cents per meal. I don't get any extras, unless I ask for them. If they are not satisfied, I got nothing, These people belong to my hus- band, who has women of his own.

Mr. Andrewos:-She has a flati to herolf. That consists of one large room with no partitions in it except when she puts them up herself, and a small verandal. She. gets board and light free and oc- cupies these premises rent-free, She also receivea.an allowance of money which I understand varles') for some reason which I have not been, able to find out.

Mr. Andrewes explained that, According to his instructions, In the fourth moon a sum of $85.00 was, paid to her as maintenance, In the following moan, it jumhed up to over $60, for what reason (Continued on Page 8.)

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