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INDIAN ON TRIAL AT SESSIONS.

SERIOUS OFFENCE AGAINST WOMAN ALLEGED.

JURY INSPECTS HOUSE:

The trial of Gurdult Singh, and Indian guard, on a charge of rape was commenced before Mr. Justice Wood at the Criminal Sessions this morning.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY,

ALLEGED MURDER DAYLIGHT THIEVES AMAH WHO FEARED

SENTENCED..

KIDNAPPERS.

IN MIRS BAY.

SCUFFLE ON BOARD A JUNK

·· ENDS -FATALLY.

SMART ACTION BY POLICE RECORDED,

DESCRIBED BY POLICE AS "SLIGHTLY TOUCHED."

TRIAL AT SESSIONS,

The trial of Chan Kun-sing for the murder of Chan Kun-tse ona Ashing boat in Mira Bay opened at the Criminal Sossions this morn, ing before His Lordship the Chief After Mr. H. K. Holmes, for the Justico. Crown, had outlined the case for Prisoner, who was defended by the Crown, the. Judge and jury Mr. C. G. Alabaster KC., instruct visited the house where the alleged by Mr. J. T. Prior, entered a od offence is sald to have been plea of not guilty. committed, and the hearing la being resumed this afternoon.

The incident is alleged to have occurred at a detached house near Felix Villas on August 31. Mr. Leo D'Almada, inr, instructed by Mr. A. E. Hall, is defending. The charze is denied. plainant was Chung Mi-sau, who

Was

Opening the case for the Crown, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said he would put in photographs of the fishing boat on which the crime was alleged to have taken place. Mr. Alabaster said it was a pity that the photographs did not show the junk as it was when the crime was supposed to have been com- mitted, the rudder having dis appeared.

Mr. Fitzroy explained that the junk was washed ashore in the typhoon and the rudder broken off.

OCTOBER 21, · 1929.

HIDDEN IN SHIP'S LOCKER.

FILIPINO STOWAWAY FOUND IN HONGKONG.

OFFENCE ADMITTED. LOITERER SENTENCED. PROMISED JOB IN U.S.

not been arrested.

In admitting a charge of stowing away from Manila to Hongkong on board the s.s. Tacoma, a Filipino, who appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, pleaded that he had been promised a pas sage by a seaman on the ship, who but should he be discovered, he was told him to hide in the rope room

name. told not to disclose the sailor's

A'search was made at Manila,

but the defendant was not found by the authorities. Hongkong be States, there ing, the last port of call before the thorough search here before, the was always' BA] ship left.

Pleading guilty to daylight rob An amah, who, had told her bery at Mongkuktsu when they friends that she wanted to travel, were caught red-handed, Ling Ng and had, in fact, béen induced to and Chan Yau were this morning take up work in a knitting factory sentenced to three years hard in Shanghai, was described by the labour and 18 strokes with the police at the Central Magistracy birch each by Mr. Justice Wood this morning as being "slightly at the Criminal Sessions. They touched." Yee-man of a ring and Tsang Sau case in which a Chinese was were alleged to have robbed Chang. She made her appearance in a tuan of a pair of bangles.

Mr. H. K. Holmes, for the to commit a felony, the evidence charged with loitering, with intent Crown, explained that on Septem- being that the defendant had been ber 3, at ton o'clock in the morü-seen wandering around the second agents of the ship informed his A representative from the local ing, three men, two of whom werd floor af 48, Jardine's Bazaar, ask Worship that the defendant was the accused, obtained entrance to ing to see a person named Lam found in the fore peak locker the second floor of No, 681, Nathan Fang. The occupant of the place, which was used for storing ropes, Road, Mongkoktsui, on the prea widow named Shek, Teo, suspect paint etc. He was discovered prior tence of delivering a letter. The ed that be was attempting to kid-to the defendant's departure, for third man did not appear to have mp her amah, who had spoken to América. taken an active part and he had her about someofstadng her When a knock came at the door, away to Shanghai, and caused his continued Mr. Holmes, it was arrest. opened' by maidservant who 9 a.m. on the 18th instant, she saw The widow stated that about took the letter to her mistress. the defendant standing on the first The mistress was just about to step below the second floor stairs sign for the letter when the landing, and heard him calling The defendant informed his Wor- accused, who had entered, made her amah by name. She ship that the seaman on the vessel their "object" known. man said "Don't move. I have business, was, and he, geplied thatca and find him employment

The first daquired..of him as to what his had promised to take him to Ameri- come to enrich myself." The ser- he had come from Tung Kin. Sha His Worship remarked that the vant screamed for help and the old him that her amah did not only interpretation that could be first man produced a dagger which come from there and ordered him put on the defendant's story was he pointed at the mistress's piece away. She suddenly remembered that he was assisted by the seaman

The women were hurried into one of the bedrooms where the what her amah had said about to stow away.

A fine of $50 or one month's first man removed bangles fron going abroad, and that someone one woman and the second man pected that the man was trying it being stated that the agents of was calling for her, and she egg. hard labour in default was imposed ordered the other to remove a ring, which she did. The screams to induce the amah to leave and to the Tacoma refused to have any- of the servant, however, anneared kidnap her.

thing further do with the defen- Witness followed defendant anddant. to have attracted the attention of later met a police reservist, who Scufle on Board.

the neighbours. Whistles were After sailing for some time an-blown and the police arrived on was a friend of hers, and he ar

Fested the man, jotk other boat came alongside with the scene dimost at once, in fact the prisoner who went on board before the men had left the pre- the fishing junk, joining the misce. master and the boy. The latter The Arst accused was caught as prepared the morning meal and he was running down the stairs

WREATH-LAYING CEREMONY

AT THE CENOTAPH... then took charge of the rudder and the rings were found in his while the owner smoked. The girdle. The second man was owner sat on the port side of the caught on the landing of the did not know the amah at all, and taph this morning by members of Wreaths were laid on the Ceno- with his feet over the side. floor, Ho threw away a and the prisoner squatted on the bundle of string but something the Magistrate. (Mr. E. W. Hmil- the Navy League in remembrance which flashed caught the eye of a ton) remarked that that was in-of Nelson Day and a similar cere. policeman who found the ring teresting.

mony was performed later in the On the re Halima Bux said she saw the morning at the Wanchai Memorial, among the string,

defendant loltering around the

Mr. Holmes stated that the com-

residing in a house near Fellx Villas, Describing the house, Mr. Holmes pointed out that adjoining it was a garage, the roof of which was just a little below the house roof which was

The deceased, said counsel, was fat. On the house roof there was the owner of the fishing junk and a small dome with a door. That employed the prisoner as his as door was connected with a flight sistant. Both lived on Ping Chau of stairs to the first floor of the Island in Mira Bay and evidence house, where there were bedrooms. would be called to show that the Complainant, on the night in ues-incidents took place in British tion, was sleeping in one of these waters. On August 7 the master rooms. With her lived her two of the junk went down to the daughters, aged 13 and 5 respec- beach to look for the prisoner. tively and a son, aged 6. In the Fuiling to find him he approached house was also a houseboy named another man and asked if he Kwok Wan-yeung, who usually could supply him with an assistant slept on the front verandah but

for the fishing vessel. This man who, on the night of August 31, provided a small boy and the two slept in a room adjoining that set out on the boat. of complainant.

Practically Alone.

Mr. Holmes explained that at the time the husband was away and the woman's father-in-law had been staring at the house but he went Macho on August 29. The result was that on the night of August 31 the woman was alone in the house, except for pet and the boy. Other

thwarts.

ed him over."

the Flying Squad, spoke to arrest, Chol Hing Kee, lance-sergeant of Ing the man, and Hung Ping, the amah, said she did not know the defendant and had never spoken to him.

The defendant stated that he

NELSON DAY."

hid.

At the Cenotaph, a wreath from ing for a Lam Peng. She told him istering the Government (Hon. that no such person by, that name Mr. W. T. Southorn) was laid by lived there.

The defendant said that when Captain P. Perfect, Mr. W. A. he was arrested he was

Dowley following with a bunch of charged with kidnapping, but with L. M. Whyte, formerly Hon. Secre not flowers in memory of the late Mr. altempting to steal electric bulbs tary of the local branch of the

The Magistrate You are not

Navy League in Hongkong. charged with kidnapping now. You are charged with loitering The Navy League wreath was with intent to commit a felony. carried by the Hon. Sir Henry Pal- London, Oct. 20.

123.895

The accused added that he went lock, K.C., and Commodore R. A. 3. 84.87 to the house because he under-Hill. It consisted of Flanders* .12.09% stood a friend of his was living poppies in the form of an anchor

20.10 there,"

surrounded by a circle of white .18.205 Defendant was sentenced to flowers.

84.57 three months' imprisonment. 193%

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*pand

children servants slept in the basement.

Mr. Holmes went on to say that complainant's husband engaged

The master remonstrated with three Indian guards, who did four the prisoner about his idleness, houra duty and eight off, the there was a scuffle and the master mises were found two daggera, and accused being one of those men.

went overboard. The boy would a pair of pliers. Picces of wood house on the 17th, and he was ask-His Excellency the Officer Admin- They slept in quarters provided say that the prisoner said "I push were found which appeared to in the garage.

The master of the have been specially made for gags, Complainant would say that on craft could not swim, a fact well as there were grooves "cut to the night in question she retired known in the village of Ping Chau. enable them to be tied to the at about half past eleven and, as The boy wanted to turn the junk mouth. was her practice, she kept the round bat prisoner refused to let electric light burning all night and him do this and the master of the the houseboy did

craft continued to struggle in the the same. Before she retired all the doors water. The boy was taken off, by were locked with the exception of another junk, there being no sign th door on the dome on the roof of the victim at this time. The which could be gained from the body was never recovered. A re- garage. Early in the morning she port of the occurrence was made Amsterdam awoke to see nccused standing at to the village elders but not, at Berlin the foot of her bed with a carbine.

that time, to the Police. The ac Copenhagen She exclaimed-Why have you cused later found public opinion Vienna come in here?" He then canht in the village against him and he Helsingfors her by the throat with one hand swam from the Island to a boat, and placed the other over her He then went into Chinese ter- Bucharest mouth. She was forced down and ritory but returned to local waters Buenos Aires accused placed his carbine across and was arrested in Hongkong Shanghai. her throat to keep her down. He on August 22. When arrested he

Yokohama New then committed the offence with said "We two brothers were fight

York which he is charged,

ing and I struck him with my handa and by mistake caused him to fall into the sea.'

Paris

Brussels

Lisbon

i

Geneva

Milan Stockholm Oslo Prague Madrid

"Fell Accidentally." Before the Magistrate accused Athens

ac Bombay

Silver (spot) turn the Hongkong

Silver (forward)

Complainant would state that prisoner was in the room for about half an hour and after the offence had been committed he apparently mudo some demand for ten gult coins. The woman said she had said: "He fell overboard no such coins. They then both cidentally.. I tried to went downstairs, accused holding bast round and go to his rescue complainant by the back of the but I could not put about in time.' neck with his hand. It appeared

Mr. R. J. Nuna, of the s.s. Kau that they went downstairs to get a Sing, stated that he tooked the key in order to let accused out of Kau Sing out to Mirs Bay where the house.

a certain spot was pointed out by two Chinese. The position was marked on a chart and was well within British waters/

Ought to Marry.

At the foot of the stairs accused aquatted down while complainant Mr. Alabaster: How long went to get the key. When she after the two men came on board returned apparently accused the 'Kau Sing was it before they stroked or patted her cheek and pointed said something to the effect that twenty minutes. We manoeuvred out the spot?-About. ahe ought to marry him.

until we were in a position with which the two men were satisfied. "A fteen year old boy' said he did not see the prisoner before- they left Ping Chau on August 7. Prisoner joined then later from Tam-Chan's, boat, After the morning, meal, the master of the craft reprimanded the prisoner for not being on board. He told hint that he was not to be found when wanted and asked what could not handle the junk alone. would happen in typhoon as he He also told him to look elsewhere In conclusion, Mr. Holmes sad the boat, Prisoner replied that for a job as he was not wanted on accused made a statement in which was good and that he would look he had said, he did not know at for another job. thing about it.

The woman, continued Mr. Holmes, appeared to be terrified." She would say that on more than one occasion she vomited. Short ly afterwards she wakened the house boy and made a complaint him, saying, that the offender was one of the Indian guards. She was so distressed that the house. boy sat up with her until dawa when it whe ascertained, that there were marks on her throat which might have been caused by some one gripping her.

The Court then adjourned and proceeded to view the house.

The case is being continued the afternoon when the complainant will give her evidence.

but accused adopted a loud tone. The master spoke in a low voice Continuing the boy said that soon after this conversation hé" heard a splash and then saw the master' of the craft in the water. The case Is proceeding.

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Described as a cook on board a launch lying at the Cosmopolitan Mr. V. Rapchand, on his return to Docks for repairs, a fifteen-year Hongkong after a long absence, en; old Chinese appeared before Mr. tertained, Iarge gathering at the TS Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Roof Garden of the Hongkong Magistracy this morning ona Hotel: Capt. A.J.L. Whyte, private charge of larceny of four pleces of Becretary to his Excellency the brabs which had been wrenched off Officer Administering the Govern a motor boat. The defendantment and the Hon. Dr. B., H pleaded guilty and was ordered to Kotowall, CMG, were among those receive ten strokes of the care..

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The Kowloon Brigade turned 375 cut, but found upon their argiv il that the conflagation, which was

Others present at the ceremony were Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave. Mr. H. Daven- port Brown, Captain T. Ti Lauren- son, Mr. W. J. Stokes. Mr. R. Sutherland, Colonel Robertson and Mr. Marriott, the Hon. Secretary of the local branch of the Navy League..

Nelson Day will be further marked by a grand concert at the Lee Theatre to-night,

1/5.27/32 toned to the front cubicle, had CRUELTY TO CHICKEN.

1/874

21.15/16 been extinguished by the inmates. 23.1/18 Some damage was done to the par-

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titions of the room.

"You've certainly shined it up beautifully, Jolm; but fan't that our ear over there?"

BIRDS WHICH ONLY HAD

"SITTING ROOM."

Stating that it was not a serious case of cruelty, Detective Sergeant Meadows, who prosecuted two Chinese before. Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of over- crowding 86 chickens, agreed with his Worship that a caution would meet the case.

The prosecutor said the case WAS not a bad one although the, chic- kens were somewhat over-crowded. They were not injured in any way. His Worship:-Had they stand- þing room?

Detective Sergeant Meadows:-' They had no standing room, your Worship.

His Worship: If they had no standing room, perhaps they had sitting room.

The defendants were cautioned.

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During the course of a sham at- tack, a Dutch soldier became de mented and killed four · native soldiers. He also wounded two European non-commissioned off- cars and another private before he was overpowered and placed under: arrest-Indo-pacifi.

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