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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ASSAULT CHARGE

DISMISSED.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1930:

CONSUL'S CLERK CHARGED.

CONSTABLE WHO RESENTED A

MAN'S REMARKS.

FORGERY OF SIGNATURE OF BRITISH OFFICIAL.

ANOTHER TRAINER

WARNED OFF."

· C. CHAPMAN ACCUSED OF DOPING A HORSE.

CHANGED HIS STORY. FEES FOR PASSPORTS. THE USE OF "TONICS”.

A Chinese constable named Ho: Ng (PIC. C375) from the Central Police Station, was the complain- ant in an assault case at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. Butters this morning,

Shanghai, Sept. 26.

London Sept. 29.

The trainer C. Chapman has

been warned off Newmarket Heath for "doping a horse, this being the second of such cases within a month.

The

former

The Stewards have evidently decided to stamp out doping, as instead of posting the usual notices, before the race they

powers of merely took full examination after the race. anxious, Many trainers are now

It was learned yesterday, that further charges will be preferred against Woo Pah-ming, clerk of the Passport Office of H. M. Con sulate-General, accused of forging The complainant said that about the signature.pf Mr. P. A. North,

Chapman has a big stable of 10.45 p.m. yesterday he went with HM. Vice-Consul, and misappra- a friend to Woosung Street to priating a sum paid by an appli-thirty horses, his patrons includ- look for the defendant who was cunt for renewal of a passporting the Duke of Richmond, and,

The case will be heard again on Duke of Norfolk. alleged to have told him (com October 10

was recently elected a member plainant) about three nights ago)

The forgery charge' is"in conne" of the Jockey Club. that if he were dismissed from xion with a stamp return of the the Police Force he would have to Passport Office on which the pris carry a sedan chair in the street.oner is alleged to have forged the When complainant met the de-signature of Mr. North. His ob- fendant last night in a store inject, it was stated, was to assure Woosung Street and demanded an the compradore of the Consulate- explanation, the defendant denied General that the figures on the having made the remark. Some document had been approved by words then passed between the Mr. North. two, and the defendant, picking Mr. Paul Y. Ru, Assistant up a bamboo stool, struck com- Municipal Advocate prosecuting plainant on the head, causing blood at the previous hearing said: to flow,

"The accused is charged under Mr. Butters:Why did you Article 357 and 224 of "the not ask defendant for an explana-Criminal Code. The first charge tion on the night he said this to is that of misappropriation and you?

the second that of forgery. The Complainant:-Somebody else accused is a clerk employed in the told me that defendant had said Passport Office of the British Consulate-General, His duties Later, complainant contradicted included the filling of a form himself by saying that the defen- showing the amount of stamps a dant had said this to him personal-This form should invariably be person required for his passport.

this about 'me.

ly.

The defendant was discharged.

THE EMPIRE'S AFFAIRS.

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or

the

as there are many tonics on market hitherto regarded as legiti mate-Reuter.

Club that

[A message dated the 16th inst. stated that a sensation, believed to be unprecedented in horse-racing in been revealed by tho Britain, had

Edinburgh race- announcement on

result of an en course that: "As a

held by the Stewards of the mark Race Meeting after the Carfin Handicap, won by Grand Success on July 23, they reported to the Stewards of the Jockey the horse had been drugged. After of the Jockey Club are satisfied that further investigations, the Stewards a drug was administered to the horse question. and have disqualified the for the purpose of the race in horse for this race and all further races held under their rules; and they have warned-off D. Taylor, the train- er" The announcement was signed by Marquess Zetland, Earl Rosebery and Earl Harewood.]

giyen by the prisoner to the applicant who would take it to the compradore's office, pay the amount, required and obtain the necessary stamps and à receipt. He, would then return to the accused who was supposed to have the stamps affixed on the passport. "On September 15, Mr. Howard of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank called at the Consulate DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM General for a passport and paid $9.10 to the accused for the necessary stamps. Prisoner was not allowed at any time to receive any sum paid by applicants, but NOTED WRITER ON LONDON did so on this occasion, retaining the $9,30 instead of handing it over to the compradore. He was arrested when the thing was dis- covered.

with the idea that success or failure may be measured by success otherwise in pursuit of that policy. Our object is the national sphere of goodwill, to consider together what can best be removed so far as Governments can remove them.

But whilst the Governments can do a good deal, there are many im portant things that Governments cannot do. Governments can help The police, made inquiries and |to create conditions, in which real learned that he had committed progress can be made, they can also many similar offences namely that help to remove obstacles, they can of keeping the money which he inspire a spirit of confidence and had received from applicants for lend, guidance to the efforts of in-passperta." dividuals. But we must not forget

that it is on the efforts of industry-

Forgery Charge,

PETT RIDGE.

CHARACTERS,

London, Sept. 29. The death has occurred of the novelist, Mr. William Pett Ridge. -Reuter.

The well-known and widely read novelist, Mr. William Fett Ridge,. specialised in tales of hard-up London life, and his output had not ceased up to. quite recently. His latest work on the market, so far as 'present records are avail able, was "Affectionate Regards,"

itself that the economic prosperity Turning to the forgery charge of the Commonwealth largely der. Ru explained: "The accused pends, and one of our chief tasks had to forward a monthly state-issued last year. will be to find a means to encouragement to Mr. North showing the those efforts and to ensure that they number of stumps gold during the shall prove fruitful.

month and the balance in his The conference meets at a time possession. On July 31, he sent when the economic world outlook is dark-darker indeed than it has been for generations. Yet it is just because our economic difficul- ties are so great that the work of the conference is so eagerly antici- pated and so much is expected from it. At any rate the greatness of the crisis is the measure of the oportunity."

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Born in 1860, and educated at Marden, in Kent, and at Birkbeck Institution, the late Mr. Pett Ridge, took to journalism, and later to the writing of novels. He lived a country life until 1880, and after a spell of free lance and other work, settled down to writing for a living, about 1890. He took up residence in London, and lived there nearly all the remainder of his life.

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false statement to Mr. North, whose, signature he forged on stamp return which he gave to the compradore who, accing Mr. North's signature on the document, was led to believe that the return was in order. The prisoner had been doing this for the past two or three years and the Consul- General regarda it as a very

His literary ability was intro- serious cane.

I would ask the duced to the public through Mr. The Singapore Base,

court for a fortnight's. adjourn Sidney Low, the editor of the St. Several inter-Imperial questions ment to enable us to go over all, James's Gazette. About 1890-1891 the accounts of the prisoner. The he submitted to Mr. Low his first examined at the conference, were accused has admitted both charges, sketch of London life, and later informally discussed by Mr. I may point out."

he sent, under a pen name, his Thomas. He said' that the project Mr. North then made a state. first story to the same editor. He for setting up an Empire Court, koment bearing out the above al later contributed largely to that which individual units of the Em-, legations.

journal, and published "Eighteen pire.might have access for the set- Accused told the court that he of Them," a collection of short tlement of differences that were had been in the employ of the stories, in 1894, following up the internal and domestic to the Bri-Consulate for 18 years, eight of next year with "Teiling Stories," tish Empire, would probably be dis- which were spent in the Passport Wife," It is considered that this Minor Dialogues," and "A Clever cussed at the conference.

He said that the question of an for passports should be paid by outstanding, one, and the work Office. He admitted that the fees last-named novel was his first Empire Appeal Court would be applicants direct to the compa debated. It would adjudicate on dore's office, and that he had made which finally brought him into matters of an inter-State character a false report showing the balance public favour.

individuals.

on hand.

and perhaps also on the affairs-of of stamps he sold during the Mr. Pett Ridge's output since It is understood that an Imperial month and the balance of stamps then has been a large one, and all his stories have that appeal. Conference Committee has been

He explained that he "obtained peculiar to their environment. appointed for foreign policy and defence matters, especially to con- ture by tracing the

a specimen of Mr. North's signa- One of his better-known and most official's characteristic books was, "Mord sider the question of the future of genuine signature on a piece of Emily" published in 1898, and the Singapore naval base-Reuter glass. He declared that he intend- others which most people have ed to replace the money as soon read include "The Wickhamses" as he was able and said he would (1906). "Mixed Grill" (1913). make full restitution of all his "The Happy Recruit" (1914), and defalcation's. He could not re- "A Story Teller Forty Yeara in member, the total he had taken London" (1923)- from applicants for passporta, but thought it was something like

and British Wireless.

-UNLICENSED DRIVER OF LORRY.

ZIG-ZAG COURSE ATTRACTS

* POLICE ATTENTION.

Motor-lorry No. 1443, while pro ceeding alang Des Voeux Road West yesterday, attracted Inspire- tor Alexander's attention owing to the inexpert manner in which it

£250,"

HAWKER ALLEGES

THREATS.

was being driven. He stopped the INDIAN P.C. BRINGS CHARGE

vehicle, and discovered that the

driver was unifcensed.

A

The officer, in bringing the case

OF OBSTRUCTION.

He married, 1909, Miss Olga Hentschel, and they had one son and one daughter: The late Mr. Pett Ridge spent most of his hours of recreation roaming about London, east and south of Aldgate. He was a member of the Garrick Club.

The defendant said that the In- 'dian threatched him, saying-- "Now look here, to-morrow morn-

When a Chinese was charged being when you go to court, don't before Mr. Lindsell this morning, fore Mr. Butters at Kowloon you say anything about this to stated that he saw the lorry being this morning with having caused the Magistrate:" driven from one side of the road obstruction at one o'clock yes-

to the other, the indécision of the terday in Gillies Avenue, Hung

A witness, called by the 'defen-

driver being further manifested by hom, he made a serious allegation dant, said that he heard the con- the fact that he would now and against the Indian police constable stable say to the defendant;"If then slow down and then pick up who arrested him. speed again.

There was a load of timber in the vehicle and three or four workmen were also being carried Defendant was fined $20 or 14 days, on a charge of driving the

Jorry without a license.

you say anything about me in court Defendant, said that the con- to-morrow morning you, will get stable care, together with another into trouble. I will not let you sell Indian F.C., to where he was hawk- any more." Witness was opposite. ing cloth in Temple Street, about defendant at the time, and the con- 3.50 pm on the same day, and stable spoke in a loud voice: wanted to purchase seven, yards of Mr. Butters remanded the case. cloth for a dollar. Temple Street until to-morrow, so that inquiries was not of the constable's, beat.might be made.

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