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WOMEN ROBBED.

CASE AGAINST MAN AND GIRLS CONTINUED.

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Further evidence was given at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon in the case in which one male Chinese and three females are charged in connexion with a highway robbery committed on an elderly, woman at Tai Nam Chung on August 22.

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy is ap- pearing for the Crown. Mr. C. A 9, Russ represents the first defen- dant while Mr. Leo d'Almada is for the three girls.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF PROMINENT ·

CHINESE RESIDENT.

4,

1928.

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As briefly reported yesterday, a prominent and highly respect- ed Chinese resident of the Colony The Steamship, in the person of Mr. Francisco Tae Yat passed away at his re- sidence at No. 37 Caine Road yos- terday morning. A septuagenar lan, Mr. Teo Yat possessed a robust constitution and excellent health until recently. He was taken ill. about a week ago and gradually became worse and died.

Born in Macao in the year 1854,

Sub-Inspector Dick gave evidence Mr. Francisco Tse. Yat was a solf of accompanying a detectiys to Nomade man. At the age of 15, with 638, Shanghal Street, where the nothing but a fair, education, third defendant was arrested on the plenty of energy and unbounded Information of the fourth.

confidence in his ability to achievo According to the statement of the success, he started his business first defendant made at the Police careor. Joining the well-known Station, he was with the other men ship chandlery and coal merchant when the crime was committed. firm of Wing: Keo and Co., of He spoke of the complainent having Hongkong, as a clerk, he rapidly. robbed a certain person of $200 and and thoroughly mastered every de- that the men had attacked her with | tail of the business and at the age the intention of obtaining thereof 30, became general manager of turn of part of that sum. He the firm, data went because he was promised that

Mr. Tso Ynt took a keen interest he could have one of the girls. in shipping and became an authori

The second defendant admittedty in the business. that she was partly involved, but said that the complainant bore a grudge against her. Both the third and fourth defendants denied being concerned in the incident.

A Don Juan.

Mr. Russ submitted that there was no case against his client. He and that the defendant rather admitted being a Don Juan but that was not a criminal offonce. In fact some people admired it. Mr. Russ said that the defendant could not be committed for trial just because things looked rather sinister aomewhere. There was no doubt that there was something behind the case.

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necessitated travelling to all parts of China which gave him an oppor- unity of enjoying the acquain- tance of many busincas men, of etals and ctudents. Whenever any of his old friends came to Hong- kong, Mr. Tee Yat was always glad to meet them and took considerable pleasure in entertaining them at his residence.

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In 1902, Mr. Tae Yat was invit ed by Mr. F. da Costa, the Gov- ernor of Macno, to consider the advianbility of starting a branch of the Banco Nacional Ultra- marino, in the Colony of Macau, Ho supported the plan, and, after the branch was established, Mr.

It was announced in the Cham- Tae Yat was appointed Chinese ber of Deputies to-day that the Mr. d'Alnında, in submilling that agent. This work was extremely French capital debt has diminish. there was not sufficient evidence for difficult because of the keen comed 16 billion francs between De- his Worship to commit the defen-polition of many other financial cember 31, 1926 and June 30, dants, pointed out that it had to institutions.

1928. In 1929 more than 8,000

be proved that there was a con- Mr. Tse Yat was a leading mem-billons will be devoted to the sink- certed action between the three ber of the Canton-Macao Railwaying fund.--Reuter, men and the three girls. Thero | Syndicate, being one of the negotia- was not an fola of ovidence to prove tors of the Macao Railway Con- such action.

The presumption of Innocence, continued Mr. d'Almada, was 80 strong that his Worship was bound to say that he could not find beyond all reasonable doubt, that the three girls were proved to have been guilty of this atrocious crime which was undoubtedly committed by the three men,

vention in 1904. He was one of the chief promoters of the Inter- national Petroleum Co., which owns valuable oil concessions In the Portuguese Island of Timor.

means among

three survive him and are success- fully engaged in their own lines The of business in Hongkong. eldest son, Nocholas Tae Yung- Not only has Mr. Tso Yat a

kwong, held an important post In excellent record of public service, the Peking-Kalgan Railway for but he has been liberal in the dis-several years, until he was offered tribution of his oharitable Institutions. He was a member of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, and rendered valuable assistance as a member of the Typhoon Relief Committee, on the occasion of the terrible havoc wrought ashore and about by the d'Almada said that anything said great storm, that swept over the by him against the girls could not | Colony in 1906. be admitted as evidence against them.

Case for Committal. Mr. d'Almada described the com- plainant's story as a tissue of lies. Referring to the statement made

the Brat

Mr.

defendant,

A Devout Catholle,

Mr. Fitzroy pointed out to his Mr. Tse Yat was a devout Worship that it was not his duty Catholic and was elected President to find that the defendants were of the Chinese, Catholic Union. guilty of the offence. That was Like all other progressive Chin- for the jury. His Worship's duty ese, he has taken an interest in was to find that there was a prima education. He was patron of the facie case for them to answer St. Joseph's College Association before a jury.

of Hongkong and a Director of the Catholle Union and School at Macao.

His Worship decided that there was not sufhelent evidence against the fourth defendant and she was discharged. There was, however, a primu faois case against the other three.

Very prominent socially, he was considered one of the most popular and respected members of the large cosmopolitan Community of Hong- “Mr. d'Almada asked for a short kong. An entirely self-made man, adjournmont to consider whether he reached a social and com- he would reserve his defence or call mercial status through close atten- evidence at the Magistracy. Mr. tion to duty, loyalty to his employ- Russ had already intimated that heers, and honesty in dealing with would reserve his defence,

all classes.

The case was adjourned til to- Mr. Tee Yat raised a family of morrow morning.

elevon children. Of his four sons,

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a more responsible position by the Hamburg-American Line Godown and Wharf of Tientsin. In 1917, when the city suffered from n de structive flood, Mr. Tse Tung- kwong figured prominently in the relief work,

Mr. Simon The Yun, the second son, Is the compradore of the Nip- pon Yusen Kaisha Line of Hang- kong. He is also Vee-President of the Society of St Vincent do Paul and Chairman of the St. Joseph's Association and of the St. Joseph's Home for the Aged and the Poor. He has also been a Director of the Tung Wah flospital and Po Leung Knk,

Mr. Frank Tao, Wing-kwan is a returned student from America, having studied in both the North western and the Loyola Universi ties of Chicago.

The late Mr. Tee Yat was the recipient of the Golden Gross of Merit with Crown, which wAN CON- ferred upon him by Hia Imperial Majesty, the late Emperor of Austrlu and King of Hungary.

The funeral will take place this afternoon at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, the cortege passing the Monument at 5 o'clock in the after-,

noon.

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