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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930.

COURT TO VIEW SCENE thing was amiss. He was referred duty, whom they both know, to help BLACKMAIL PLOT to a small boy who was standing him take over a case concerning

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a small boy who, it appeared, had been knocked down by a car backing.

TWO SHANTUNG MEN ON AN Being such a small lad, he could not They did not know the

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erect near the car, but could not say if the car had knocked him don or touched him in any way, have escaped a collision with the ear without being hurt. To all ap-, peanut he was not injured in any way.

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con A DETECTIVE PLAN THAT

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plainant, Mr. Leung, and denied having assaulted him. Why Mr. Leung should pick on them out of the many persons in the crowd. was incomprehensible, said Mr. Rendall.

ASSAULT CHARGE. A disagreement as to the various points of observation mentioned by witnesses in the

case will nesa Seving that nothing serious had sitate a visit on Friday afternoon happand, he returned to the car next, of the Court to the junction and was sitting in it when the Lance Sergeant D.2G1 then went of Hollywood Road and Queen's Shantung ban on point daty (D.72) into the witness-bas, refuting the Road West, where, on a recent Sat- came up, onid something in a dialect allegation of assault. urday afternoon, Mr. Leung Yuk-which he could not understand, and Cross-examined by Mr. M. K. Lo, ki, prominent member of the Chin- went away. He came back with the for the complainant, witness said Lese community, alleged, he was defendants whom witness did not he could not give any reason why brutally struck by two Shantung then know were police officers, Mr. Leung should deliberately take policemen in plain clothes who as they were in pain-clothes. It up the present proceedings against were questioning his. inther's was 1.261 whe, producing his him. He suggested that Mr. Leang chauffeur. The two policemen. note-book, jetted down some parti- might have been struck by otheral Lance Sergeant No. D.261 Chin culars from a license, which wit- in the crowd and had brought the Hsin-chi and P.C. D.322, Liu Hsien- Incas handed over on his asking for present case from a feeling of an- shang, who are eburged with it. "I was still sitting in the car noyance.. saulting Mr. Leung, have returned at the time, and there was a crowd Replying to another question, pleas of "not guilty through their around us. It is true that I did witness said Lance Sergeant 'solicitor, Mr. F. C. E. Hendall. ask him to hurry up with his note- Pennell might also have been mis-

·Called as a witness, on the re-taking. Immediately after that, I taken when he thought he saw the sumption of the gase yesterday, the was struck in the face, by whom I assault.. chauffeur said that after deposit cannot say." ing his master at the entrance to a pawnshop, he was backing his car up the Junction into Hollywood Road when his attention was drawn to a sudden commotion and he was made aware of the fact that some

Assault Denied.

The case was adjourned at this point, after it was arranged that Opening the case for the defence, the Magistrate (Mr. E. H. Wil Mr. Rendall said that his clients liama), solicitors and parties in the were off-duty that day when they lease, should meet at the junction to happened to be on the scene and view the gcone before the Court re were asked by the man on point spies sitting on Friday afternoon,

POLICE BAFFLED. A blackmailer of extraordinary ingenuity has been trying to hold the town of Magdeburg up to run

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post office. The number by which the letter was addressed was only disclosed to him by telephone a few minutes before it was put there. He was warned by the criminals to speak to no one on the way and to ober exactly all instructions in the letter it. he wished to avoid a terrible fate.

A packet containing waste paper was thrown out, and the police immediately stopped the train, but owing to the speed at which it travelled it could only be stands in the brought to a space of 500 yards. When the police renched the 'spot they found nothing but the torn envelope and the faint trace of a bicycle down a lane which was soon lost when it

turned on to, a high road,"

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The letter, the contents of which were immediately conveyed to the police authorities by a trick. told the detective to take a ticket It remains to be seen whether to Heimstedt and to spend an hour Magdeburg will suffer the fate of before the train left in the third- the Cities of the Plain and be class waiting room. On the train annihilated. The only weakness He demands for himself and his he was to take up his position by in the criminals' plot seems to be associates four tickets from Ham- the window on the right side and that they have not succeded in burg to New York and a large throw out the money in a packet carrying out their threats. sum of money. If he does not re-when he saw a special mark in the police themselves are lost in ad- ceive it he threatens various ar fields about 15 yards from the miration at the ingenious arrange tions which would apparently be railway line near Marienborn, very destructive to Magdeburg. but which cannot be revealed in the public interest.

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ments for the delivery of the money.

Plain clothes men travelled by the train as well as the disguised detective. and the police near At all events the officials of the | Marienborn were warned to patrol For protection of airmail in town and of many public corpora the countryside, but all in vain crack-ups, a fire-proof mail pouch Lions have been pestered by letters The sign was placed at a point has been perfected and tested at and telephone messages for some where the train would be going at the municipal airport at Chicago, months.

ja high speed, and would be visible It is made of specially treated At last the police decided to con- from a distance of two miles. It asbestos and was designed by ex- form in appeurance with the could only be seen from the train perts on fire protection, co-operat criminals' demands. .In accord for a short time, however, and ing with the National Air Trans- A number of pouches are ance with instructions a disguised was almost immediately hidden port. detective fetched a letter lying by a cutting after 'it had been to be placed in service on the line poste restante from the Hamburg passed.

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