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INSANITY PLEA IN MURDER TRIAL.

PRISONER WITH "DEAD MAN'S STARE.”

DR. CANNON'S VIEWS.

Dr. A. Cannon continued his evidence as to insanity at the Criminal Sessions this morning before the Chief Justice, when the trial of Kung Mei was resumed on a charge of murdering Wu Tsol- mel in a boarding house at Con naught Road West,

Questions were put by Mr. Leo D'Almada, jar, instructed by Mr. F. C. E. Rendall, of Messrs. Russ and Company, who is defending regarding prisonor's condition. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy is prosecut- ing for the Crown,

Dr.

ARMED ROBBERY

SEQUEL

MAN GETS, FOUR YEARS' IMPRISONMENT,

THREE DISCHARGED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1929.

The sequel to an armed robbery which was carried out at No. 18, Eastern Street, first floor; on the afternoon of August 26, was heard at the Criminal Sessions this morning before Mr. Justice Wood when four Chinese, including a woman, were charged in connexiɔi with the affair. The second, third

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and fourth prisoners were disstrengthening of the firm's re-itinerary of which were given in charged and the first man was sentenced to a total imprisonment of four years with hard labour,

on two counts.

OPIUM SMUGGLING ON RAILWAY.

SHATIN TUNNEL USED AS DUMPING SPOT.

WATCHMAN FINED.

'Amsterdam, Oqt, 23 When the big Matson liner Kwai Fong, a watchinan employ- It is announced that the Royal Malolo came into port shortly be-ed by the Kowloon-Canton Rail- Dutch Petroleum Company pro- fore tilin to-day, having aboard way, was charged before Mr. T. S. poses to increase its capital from more than 300 American business Whyte Smith at the Kowloon six hundred million guilder's' to men and women on a Pacific good- Magistracy this morning with be will tour, a delegation from the Ing in possession of 38 trels of Guilers, 1,000,000,000.

was found on Hongkong General Chamber of raw opium which a hearty welcome to the party. the Yaumati Railway Station yes- Commerce visited the ship and gave the defendant as he was leaving

The Malolo, details of the terday morning.

Mr. B. G. K Hawkins appeared our issue of yesterday, is to remain for the prosecution, while Mr. F. The Directors also propose to in Hongkong until 6 p.m. on Satur-Winyard, of the Kowloon-Canton scrap the provision stipulatine day, when she sails for Manila.

Hailway, watched the proceedinga Arrangements for sight-seeing on behalf of the Railway Authori Char Chau-chol and Wong Kan that the previous consent of the

ties. in Hongkong have been made by Cannon said he had not were charged with the robbery and shareholders must be obtained be- and shore excursions for the marty the American Express Company; been able to find out whether pri- were alleged to have stolen goldfore loan bonds are issued. -

The Board of Directors state and although at the express wish soner's condition of general bangles, bracelets, necklaces, rings paralysis of the insane way heredi- ruttan bangles, gold cap ornaments that they advocate the alteration of the visitors, no official functions tary because of his mental con- and money to the total value of of the Articles of Association have been arranged, the President dition as such would not appear $560 (Hongkong currency) and accordingly in order that the of the San Francisco Chamber, in from examination. It would be $350 (Chinese 20-cent pieces and Board shall have greater freedom a letter to the Hongkong Chamber, was a further to secure, necessary funds at any states that business men will be reasonable to assume that it was notes). There not hereditary because prisoner charge against Chan Chau-choi of given moment in the manner they welcomed on board and it is hoped

to arrange group meetings was 5 years of age, and, haring in unlawful possession of a consider most desirable. G.P.I. been hereditary, he would digger and revolver. Leung Fan was charged with being in uniaw-

questions of apecial interest most probably have died at an carlier age although it was known ful possession of two automatic

significance. that when the complaint was pistols, ten rounds of ammunition hereditary its progress, was slow- and a dagger, while Pang Chat, stated to be the wife of first prisoner, was charged with receiv ing some of the stolen properly, knowing it to have been stolen.

er.

such

Hallucinations.

Three, Discharged.

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Sight-seeing Plans.

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For the purpose of sight-seeing, the party has been divided into three groups and the shore arrange prisoner also held a dagger and an ments provide for drives round the island and New Territories, excur- automatic.

sians to the Peak and a visit to Canton..

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Occupants Terrified.

A strange coincidence of the Apparently the occupants were tour is that the crew members ex- passenger and terrified, and the wife told them to actly equal the

if they wanted cruise, staff total. help themselves

Capt. Charles A. Berndtson is money. The first man went out of the cubicle where the married commander of the big ship, with 19 executive couple were put, leaving prisoner Capt. G. B. Walt

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.

In reply to his Worship, Mr. Hawkins said that at 8.10 a.m. yesterday the defendant was ar rested outside the barriers of the Yaumati Railway Station. He was taken to Revenue Ofleer Tallon's place and searched. Part of the oplum was found concealed on him, while the rest was in a basket which he was carrying.

According to what the defen- dant told the prosecution, the opium was found near the railway track at Shatin and he was re- turning it to the office, He, how ever, had made no report of the discovery at Shatin and had alight- ed from the train at the Youmatl Station. When he was arrested he was outside the barrier and did not look as if he was going to the Kowloon Office.

By Arrangement? Answering a further question, Mr. Hawkins said the defendant 1st was employed at the Shatin tunnel

of

and had probably picked up the opium which had been discarded

Witness continued there was When charged Chau Chau-choi strong evidence that prisoner was admitted the offences, saying that suffering, from a melancholic type the arms were wrapped up to: of G.P, and it was not uncom-gether in a parcel and had nothing mon for pepole in such a condition to do with the other prisoners. to seek the aid of "comforters." The remaining two men and one

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ог opiùm.woman pleaded not guilty, Hallucinations were the false per-. ceptions of the human Henkes, but he felt satisfied that prisoner

Mr. H. K. Holmes, for the Crown, did not believe in his own hal stated that the police had made to guard them. The first man re-officer. Other senior officers lucinations, though they worried certain enquiries and there was turned with the accountant and the the deck staff of 50 include him at a certain times of the day. very doubtful identification. The cook, while the children also arrived Officer T. K. Whitelaw, 2nd Officer That was quite common in such a enquiries carried out, as regards on the scene as a natural result C. Porta, 3rd Officer David Bow case and hallucinations usually the second prisoner, tended.

to of the robbery. The master, cook man, and Junior Officers. A. Mc-from one of the trains by arrange- occurred after sunset, being show thut he was

not at the and accountant were tied up and Whorter, H. Mathieson and H.

ankles Madden. peculiar to that form of mental robbery, and under those circums: gagged, while the wife's

Purser Jack Fishbeck has a staff deterioration.

tances it was not desired to pro-were tied to some wire but she was

of seven men, composed of Asst. not gagged. cced against him....

Purser J. M. Ford Jr., Paymaster Also, according to first pri- All the victims were put into a 0. 0. Britton, Freight Clerk R.. E. soner's story, he was at a certain cubicle and another robber appear-Jones, Counter Clerks E. S. W. house when something argued on the scene, making a party of Smith and Lee Raymond, and Aast him and he went to an opium four. After taking the articios Clerk W. T. Casey. divan, taking with him all the mentioned in the charge they de- arms in the case, which were camped, after which the wife freed} wrapped up together in a parcel.her ankles, antied the others ands It did not therefore seem proper gave the alarm. that the third prisoner should be tried.

Dr. Cannon agreed that GP. was one of the primary types, of insanity according to medical authorities. All forms of G... were permanent and progressive.

Prisoner, he said, had a "dead man's stare," there being no in- diention of life in his eyes. G.P.I. was one of the causes and symp- toms of sexual excess. Some times one of the symptoms that the second stage, had arrived was a farge increase in appetite and also an increase in sexual desire, with sudden cessation.

Hypothetical Case.

His Lordship.gave permission to Mr. D'Almada to put the follow- ing assumed case to witness: Several men were taking a meal at a table, there being no trouble whatever between them and with

no known quarrel between any two of them. After the meal, one of them went back to his cubicle quite calmly and the others dis persed. The man who returned to his cubicle came out and walked down a passage to the room where he had had

his meal and deliberately slushed

a man across the neck, killing him.

His Lordship accordingly dia- charged the second and third pri- soners.

His Lordship, referring to the woman, said if Mr. Holmes did not wish to offer any evidence against her on the ground that she was the wife of first prisoner, from whom she received the articles, he this Lordship), would offer no objcetion.

Mr. Holmes said he was pre-

nared to take that course, and his Lordship discharged the woman.

the

Story of Robbery.

Helped Police.

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In outlining the facte as against first prisoner, Mr. Holmes stated that a man named Lau You

a transport and he had also endeavoured to

Was the master of

business on the first floor of No. 18, explain with regard to the charge

Steward's Big Staff.

ment

Mr. Winyard informed his Wor- ship that the defendant had taken. who was the place of the mann convicted about a month ago. The defendant must have walked to Shatin and there got on a train. He could have reported his And by telephone from his own hut or at the Shatin Station be- fore boarding the train.

His Worship pointed out that, The stewards' department, under according to the statement made Chief. Steward E.O. Fickendey, is by Mr. Hawkins, the defendant's the largest on the ship, having a case was that he had picked up membership of 232 men and women. the opium although he had plead Fickendey's aides include 2nd Stew-ed guilty in Court.

Steward At his Worship's request, ard E. E. Voellings 3rd

evidence of arrest was given, after which the defendant was convicted of the charge of possession.

Mr. Winyard said the defendant had been in the employment of the Railway since 1913 and was promoted to watchman on Septem- ber 13 to take the place of a man twelve who was sentenced to months by his Worship. He (the defendant had a clear record.

Serious Case.

He

Replying to his Lordship. Mr. Holmes said that the actual amount of money found on prisoner was A. L. Larsen, Chef de Cuisine Hugo He also, pointed out that Wiedenhofer, Sous Chef A. Schultz, $33. prisoner helped the police to find Maitre de Hotel Albert Gertz.

The stewards department In-" some of the stolen property. He also pointed out where his wife cludes. 60 waiters, 61 galley or kit lived and that was how some of the chen employees, 24 room stewards, 15 laundry workers, 10 musicians, articles were found on her.

His Lordship sentenced prisoner including four native Hawaiians; to three years' imprisonment with six porters, four bell boys, three hard labour on the count of rob- telephone operators, three trained bery, and one year's imprisonment nurses, four stewardesses, three with hard Inbour for unlawful deck stewards, three printers, two

Mr. Hawkins pointed out the possession of arms, the sentences to barbers, two beauty parlor opera- run consecutively. In doing so, tors, smoking room steward, bar- seriousness of the case and said his Lordship said he had taken into tender, soda-fountain man, libra-he was pressing the charge.

mon and a woman remarked that the defendant had consideration the fact that pri- rian, and a

electric bath

been in the Government service attendants. soner had assisted the police to

conversant since 1913 and was find some of the stolen property

The Engineers.

with the regulations prohibit- Chief Engineer R. C. Dwyer hasing the smuggling of opium, Eastern Street, where the robbery of unlawful possession of arms a crew of 62 men, including 1st of the procedure adopted for while he was also aware necurred. There were on the made against the third prisoner. Asst. Engineer Lloyd B. Kennedy, reporting any discovery to the to his cubicle, passing the landing floor at the time the master, his This concludes Mr. Justice 2nd Asst, Engineers T. Kinslow, H.

office. the way, by wife, three children, an accountant Wood's list of cases. The last van Heedran and H. "Kelsall, 3rd most and a cook. Someone (not the case of this month's calendar is Asst. Engineers O. Landgraf, R. easily have escaped if he had so prisoner) asked for admit the murder trial which is pro- Poynor and J. Clark, desired, there being no obstrug-tance, saying that tion whatever. He entered the come to give patronage. Thinking cubicle and glosed the door and the a customer was at the door, Lau pollee were summoned. They on You opened it and the man entered. tered the cubicle and saw the man. He began to talk about the trans- who came out and sat on a camp portation of a fertiliser and after- bed in the passage, making no al wards 'went away, saying he would tempt to escape. On a search be- come back with two friends. Three ing made of the cubicle, two halves men, including the "customer," re-

of a razor box were found on the turned in a few minutes time, one, floor, protruding from which was of them being prisoner. The tele- a razor stained with blood. No at phone bell rang and the message tempt was made to conceal it. "As requested the master to go out to suming the killer was in the seconda certain place. He went into a stage of G.P.I., would witness say he was insane at the time he com- mitted the act?

His next step was, to walk back

of a stairense on means of which he could

Dr. Cannon replied that it would depend on the history of the case. At the most he could say that from the medical point of view he was ineage but he (witness) would no:

he had ceeding before the Chief Justice,

cubicle to change his clothes, pre- paratory to going out, when, the first man caught hold of his jacket, pointed an automatic pistol at him and demanded loan of $500, There was evidence to show that the

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have been able, even if he bad definite form of insanity and been present at such an assumed not paralysis because of opium.

..time of assumed killing, to have!

read the killer's mind.

Right and Wrong.

"I tould not even then say,

Not Shamming.

if

Mr. D'Almada"-Is there possibility that prisoner was sham- ming during your tests? No. That is the first thing we always

Bny

such an assumed person committed look for: I have to take the at-

such an assured act, whether he titude that a patient is malinger-

was capable of knowing what he was doing, or, if he did know, that

he was doing wrong," said Dr. Cannon.

ing until it is proved otherwise,

You are quite definite in this case there was no malingering?- Yes.

Witness agreed that the adaum- Witness continued that prisoner ed case would give him reasonable did not know for what purpose he grounds for believing that the as-was being examined. sumed killer was insane at the Dr. Cannon added that he had time. He could not say whether been an assistant at West Riding such insanity would preclude Mental Hospital, where there was man's ability to distinguish he accommodation for 2,000 lunaties, tween right and wrong.

for some months. During that Answering other questions, Dr. time he had had ample opportunity Cannon said he had definitely of studying mental cases and found traces of the drug habit in during the last few years he had prisoner and he was quite sure made a special study of insanity," that prisoner was suffering from The case is proceeding,

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"Let's see, I can let you have the 12:50 out of Chicago;

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Mr. Hawkins remarked that the Shatin tunnel seemed to be

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favourable place, as this was the second case.

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"His Worship asked if the pro- secution was asking for a heavier sentence than the usual fine of ten times the value of the opium, which in the present case would be $1,140 or six months' hard labour. Mr. Hawkins said, he would like to ask for the nenalty, which was a flue of $ 2.000.

His Worship pointed out that the defendant had been in the Railway since 1913. and had a clear record. He was quite will- ing to admit that it was a more Berious offence for a railway official in uniform 'to be connected with the smuggling trade than for other people, becay the harl ́ad- vantages and was taking advan- tage of his position.

Mr. Hawkins:-That's my point, I will leave the matter in your Worship's hands.

Will Lose Job.

His Worship Intimated that the maximum penalty was $2,000 and. one years' imprisonment.

Mr. Hawkins said that on think- ing it over. the defendant would lose his job in any case.

His Worship told the defendant that It was a very dishonest offence. He had taken advantage of wearing his uniform to smuggle opfum.

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