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NAMHOI VILLAGE

TERRORISED.

BEARER OF MAGISTRATE'S

EDICT KILLED.

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A countryside over-ridden by habitually is a patholgical speci- bandits and its inhabitants TD-

men and needs a doctor." duced to a helpless state of terror, But before worrying the medical was the picture presented by the fraternity about your husband, Crown, when, before Mr. Lindsell why not get him to look to the at the Central Magistracy yester-state of his liver? Most often it day afternoon, extradition pro- is in just this sensitive organ that ceedings were commenced on a re-the morbid state which demon- quisition by the Canton author-strates itself in gloom and criev- ties for the surrendor of three men belonging to the clan of the Tams in Namhoi district, on 1 charge of murder.

Mr. Hin-shing Lo, instructed by Mr. Horace Lo, of Messrs. Lo and Lo, appeared for the fugitives.

The Public Prosecutor (Mr. Somerset Fitzroy) said that Tam Sit, Tam Hung and Tam Yuen, the three men in the dock, were con-

cerned in a murder which occurred at Tal-Foo parish, in the Namhol, district of Kwangtung, on May 3rd, of last year.

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of robbers, to the extent that the Magistrate of the district had to send down a letter from his seat, requiring the offer of rewards, at $300 a-head, and, amounting to $3,000, for the arrest of the ring- leaders, of whom three were al- leged to be the fugitives.

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An Official Letter. Then followed a meeting of the villagers at which Tam Yeung, a leading clansman, who WES bearer of the official letter, was present. Discussion took place as to the advisibility of carrying out the Magisterial order, and a de- cision appeared to have been ar rived at before the meeting broke

up.

hundred villagers had by then fol lowed his example in leaving the bandit-infested village and trek- king to Fatshan.

A Long Feud.

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In cross-examination by Mr. Hin-shing Lo, witness denied that he was employed in any police capacity in connexion with the Namhoi Magistracy. He came into the picture only once, that was to say on February 23rd last, when he was required to conduct a party of soldiers in the clean- up they effected of the village.

He admitted that in the parish of Fai-Foo there was another vil- lage, occupied by the clan of the Fungs, and that it was with these Some days after the meeting, on same Fungs, that the Tame had May 3rd, Tam Yeung was attack-sustained a long feud, which cul- ed and shot down, it is alleged by minated in a big fight two years the three fugitives in the market

then, ago. Since

peace and place. Although other villagers friendliness had been restored be saw the murder, no report was tween the two clans. made conterning it to the Magis- trate for a long time afterwards.

it was not until February of this year that soldiers were sent to the village and cleaned up the place.

The first witness called, Tam Thai, said he was a younger brother of the murdered man. It was outside a pork-shop, in the market place, that he saw his brother being killed by four men amongst whom he recognized the three now charged before the Court. They used short fire-atms, Frightened lest he should share the same fate, witness ran to a neighbouring village and took re- fuge in a relative's house.

Pressed, witness admitted that his father and an uncle were ar- rested by the authorities, together with 40 other village elders, for the share they had in the disor- ders. Of thest 40, some 20 were still being detained.

Again, the Tam elan was divid- ed into three branches, but he denied that all the three fugitives were thus diametrically opposed to him, since the third man, Tam Yuen, belonged to the same branch

as he did.

Temple Funds,

A question which Mr. Lo sug- gested was of paramount impor- tance in the case from the native A fortnight previously, the vil-point of view, was one concerning lagers had received a dispatch ancestral temple funds, which from the Magistrate of Namhoi, were commonly held in trust for warning them to take repressive the three branches. These messages against those of the law-monies, which, according to wit- breakers who dwell amongst them, ness, amounted to between $2,000 lest other villagers, who might be | and $3,000, were derived from the Innocent, be themselves arrested.

Shot in Market Place.

It so happened that the law breakers had gained an ascen- dancy over the elders of the vil- lage, and the report that Tam Heung was compelled to take back to the Namhoi Magistrate, was to the effect that bandits did not exist in the village.

proceeds of rice-felds, múlberry plantations and fish-ponds, and were held annually, in rotation, by each of the three branches, to administer for the common bene- fit of all three..

Witness said that at the time of his death, the murdered man was in charge of these funds. Witness denied that his brother had at any time been accused of

A fortnight later, he was shot misappropriation of any part of

in the market-place.

The fugitives were amongst the list of six or seven names de- finitely mentioned in the Magia- terial edict as being those whose arrest should be effected:

No report was made of the mur- der either by witness or by any other villager to the Namhol Ma- gistrate, until six or seven months- afterwards. This was because the villagers feared the gang, and what they might be able to do out of vindictiveness. It was not un- til witness had safely removed himself and his family to Fatehas,

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Another Tam, with the familiari name of Sul, was also mentioned by Counsel as being one who all along had been accused of the murder in Chinese territory. This was denied by witness, who said that although Ah Sul was one of the bandits, he was not with tual crime. Moreover, Ah Sul the gang who carried out the ac was dead he was shot during the subsequent military raid.

The case was adjourned for a doctors." week.

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