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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2,

MAN'S ASSAULT ON WIFE.

the wife was led to anticipate the possibility of an assault. At that time she had her hair in a long plait, though it was now cut short. Fearing an assault she went on

FINED AND BOUND OVER TO to the roof, thinking, that as her

KEEP PEACE.

UNUSUAL CASE.

husband was unaccustomed to going on the roof, she would be out of the Tange of his anger. She was looking over the rail, when she was suddenly seized by her hair from behind and dragged A husband, unfortunately fallen three or four feet away from the from the successful position rail by her husband. He then with which he

to assault ber once occupied, and a proceeded wife in the unusual position of some violence, striking her with being comparatively in a state of his closed flat on her face and affluence, was the picture drawn head and upper part of her arms. by Mr. F. C. Jenkin before Mr. She was thrown on the ground. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy and fell on her right side, and he yesterday afternoon, in a case in continued to assault her, hitting which a Chinese, named So Sikher on her left side ribs. During chung was charged with having the assault, he persistently called used violence and force on his upon her to give him the four wife, Wong Yung, with intent to houses, claiming that they were cause complainant, to part with his property. In order to ap- certain landed properties to him, pease him, she said she would which complainant was not legally give him the property. He asked bound to do, and also with having for them at once, but she replied on March 29th, assaulted the com- that the deeds were not in the plainant.

Mr. F. X. D'Almada (sor.) house, and then he continued to appeared for the defence and Mr. assault her again. Jenkin for the complainant.

Her second son came upon Mr. Jenkin, in outlining the them, tried to shield his mother, extent. cuse, said that there were two and succeeded to some charges against the defendant and She then left the roof and went. he wished to proceed with "only to the general room, followed by the major charge of intimidation. her husband, who began to assault; He foresaw the possibility of this her again. Her son intervened matter being turned into a kind again and begged his father to him (the of state trial, but he hoped that vent his anger upon

it would not be so. It was unfor-son), and not on his mother. The tunate that it was a matter be husband subsequently left the tween husband and wife. The room. parties had been inarried about 30 years, and early in their marri-

A Legal Point.

Mr. Jenkin said that it

cd life the husband had been em- could not be disputed that the ployed as a solicitor's clerk. Tak- properties belonged to the wife. ing advantage of opportunitica Her case was that, she acquired which presented themselves, he the four properties with her own subsequently broke out as a specu. money. He (Mr. Jenkir) anti- lator in the property market.

cipated that the defendants' case would be that he had purchased the property in his wife's 'name for the purpose of creating a re sulting trust in her or somebody else's favour. It was quite clear. however, that if a man either pur chased property in the name of his wife, or passed his own 'pre- perty into the name of his wife under the guise of an assignment from him to her, the law held

For some little time prior to the husband's crash, which occurr- ed during the atrike in 1925, he and two others were interested in Pedder Building and the Queen's Theatre. They drew lots among themselves and the casting result ed in the defendant becoming the sole owner of Pedder Building. For the purpose of putting up that building, he contracted a building mortgage with Jardine, Matheson that, as it was an advancement to and Co., for five`lakhs; a second mortgagee with another person for three lakhs, and a third with another person for $130.000, the total being $930,000. He was a man of substance up to the 1925 crisis.

Unfortunately, before the build- ing was up the strike took place. and the husband found himself in considerable financial difficulty. The first mortgagee exercised the power of sale and the property was sold for $850,000, which was

insufficient to satisfy the third mortgagee. In 1926 defendant en- tered into an arrangement with his creditors and paid them in full settlement 10 per cent. All this was very unfortunate and it resuited in a drop in the man's position among property owners,

Wife's Position.

Parallel with the husband's case! was that of his wife. She, atart- ing in 1916, acquired certain properties of her own, with the result that in 1926 she had pro- perty to the approximate value of

Jakh. One side presented that of a picture of a husband, who had unfortunately fallen from the position which he had once occupi ed, and on the other that of a wife in the unusual position of! being comparatively in a state of afluence. It was possible that this rankled in the husband's mind.

On March 29th., 1930, a very foul assault was committed by the husband on the wife. The lady was at that time the owner of four properties. The first she had ac quired from a stranger and the other three from her husband. She was residing. at one of her pro- perties, 29 Old Bailey, with her children by the defendant. The husband had some years back taken to himself another woman as a concubine, and from that date he and the wife lived apart. But he occasionally visited his wife, On March 29th, in the early morning, from the conduct of her husband

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