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THE HONGKONG ' TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1930.

PRISONER SUFFERING SEQUEL TO EXPLOSION

FROM TYPHOID,

CASE AGAINST WOMAN HAS TO BE DROPPED.

AT MONGKOK.

CRACKER FACTORY MANAGER AND FOREMAN FINED.

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The sudden illness of a prisoner Arising out of the fatal cracker 60+, Reclamation who contracted typhoid fever de-explosion at

little girl feated the course of justice when Street," in which a

manager it was announced before Mr. Wil-was the victim, the liams, at the Central Police Court of the Kwong Man Loong cracker yesterday, that, as the witnesses factory and his foreman appeared could not await the recovery of before Mr. Butters, at the Kow the prisoner, the prosecution had loon Magistracy yesterday, on a to drop the case and have the de-summons against them for having

caused crackers to be manufac cused banished.

tured in a place other than a factory. Two women, Chung Hi and Pun Yat, were charged with manufacturing crackers in a place They all other than a factory. pleaded guilty." Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for all the defendants.

Addressing the court on behalf of the manager and the foreman,

The defendant, a woman, named Ho Kia, was charged with having brought a married woman into the Colony for the purposes of taking her abroad and also with harbour ing a boy and girl under the age of fourteen years.

Mr. R. S. Jenyns, of the Secre- tariat for Chinese Affairs, appear.

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ed for the prosecution and inform- Mr. Lo said that he wished to ed his Worship that the defendant plead in mitigation of the offence. had been taken to Hospital suffer- He had been. Instructed by the ing from typhoid fever and that Kwong Man Loong Company to she would not be fit for dischargexpress their real and sincere regret at the unfortunate accident for at least six weeks.

to the little girl, which resulted in parents of the boy and girl were her death, and he also expressed present but it was hard to expect profound sympathy with the girl's them to remain in the Colony for family. such a long period. He thought

He wished to say that the they would be prepared to drop accident was not really due to the the charge but, upon their state- danger arising from what the two ments,

the defendant could be women were doing, but to the fact banished on her recovery.

that a joss stick had been applied The. Company had Detailing the events leading to to the fuse. the woman's arrest, Mr. Jenyns been carrying on their business in said that she, together with the Hongkong for 23 years, and, up to three persona mentioned in the April, it was an absolutely widely charges, went to the S.C.A. to be known practice to send examined under the Emigration packets of crackers to outside Ordinance in preparation to going workers to have the finishing touches put to them and, through- to Singapore

the 8.8. on board

23 years, there had Takada. The defendant told the out those

In been any accident. authorities that the children were never. her own while the married woman April this year the manager had teen warned that the practice of was being taken to her husband.

giving crackers out should be Sergeant Smith, who interrogat-stopned. Since that warning no ed the people, found that the wo-crackers had been issued to out-created in Shanghai by the an- man and children did not confirm side workers. On April 5 there nounced intention of the police, the defendant's statement. They indiented that they had no desire to were two issues of crackers, but that was before the warning. go to Singapore. The girl said After the warning, the foreman that she and her brother had been had gone round to search for the kidnapped from their village and two women, but they had left for then sold to the defendant for the country. The crackers which $300. The defendant knew they caused the explosion were the had been kidnapped but she re

same as those issued on April 5. fused to allow them to return to Nobody thought that there would their home. They were then be any danver in this practice, but brought to Hongkong with the in-

in view of the accident, the Kwong tention of being taken to Singa Man Loong people would take extra care that nothing of that kind would ever happen again. and that this "practice would not be repeated. In the circumstances, he asked that a lenient view of the case be taken.

perc.

The married woman's story was that she had run away from her husband, who had been cruel to her and on her way to Hongkong to search for employment she had met the defendant, who had offer ed to take her to Singapore but, on refusing. she was forced by threats to accompany her to house, where she met the children. then all brought to Hongkong with the intention of being taken to Singapore.

They were

His Worship said that all he could do was to adjourn the car sine die, which he did.

MOTOR AUCTION.

PUBLIC SHY OF BIDDING YESTERDAY.

That Hongkong purchasers have not yet become used to buying cars through auction sales, was the rea- son advanced by Mr. Whitta, pro- prietor of Whitta's Motor Auctions, Kowloon, when he conducted an auction of motor cars yesterday at which buyers were shy of bid- ding, but displayed willingness to bargain after the auction had closed.

CAMPAIGN TO CLEAN UP SHANGHAI,

Shanghai, Oct. 23.

A profound sensation has been

Municipal Council, to cope with acting on the instructions of the all forms of commercialized gam-

bling in the Settlement, which, according to the Commissioner of Police, is behind most violent crime here.

of the

In letters exchanged between the Director General of the Coun- cil and the Commissioner of Police, it is stated that Shanghai is more corrupt in comparison with other cities of the same size elsewhere in the world, the situa tion demanding drastic treatment.

was

Incentive for Murder. An instance of the influence of gambling on crime is given by the Mr. Butters said that he con- Police Commissioner, who states sidered any breach of that parti-that one of the murderers of the cular Ordinance was, more or less, late Mr. Jack Harder, who

on Whangpoo Conser a serious matter, owing to the killed danger which might be involved. vancy launch when he was robbed In view of the facts put before of $27,000, confessed when caught him, and in view of the under-that he had engineered the crime taking that nothing of the kind to get the money for gambling in a well-known gambling centre would happen again, he was com nelled to reduce the penalty. But, here, where he subsequently lost he would like to make it clear his share of the proceeds. that, if a case of a similar nature came up again, he would have to impose the maximum penalty.

The Manager was fined $100. the foreman $50, and the two women, $10 each.

IMPRISONMENT AND

THE "CAT."

TWO MEN CONVICTED IN THE

PILKEM STREET CASE.

Greyhound Shares Slump.

The shares of the greyhound racing concerns have already slumped, but are expected to crash if the public loses its head in anticipation of police moves. The Japanese community have al- ready been forbidden by their Consul to go to dog racing, pony racing or "hai alai." It is bc- lieved in the circles concerned that the Municipal Council and police have definitely decided to clean up Shanghai within the next twelve months.-Our Own Corres- pondent.

The Criminal Sessions case arising out of the Pilkem Street Crown in ord to get them (ac-- affray concluded before Mr. Jus-cused) into trouble. tice Jacks yesterday afternoon. When asked if they, had

any-

As a result of this, Mr. Whitta when the jury convicted the first thing to say as to why sentence was able to sell some $5,685 worthand third prisoners, Lok Shan and should not be passed upon them, of cars through private transactions Lok Shan-sung respectively, and both first and third prisoners de- after the same vehicles under the brought in a verdict of "not clared that they were innocent.

In passing sentence, his Lord- hammer had been. refused by the guilty" against the second man,

Wong Kei-fuk, who was dis ship described it as a very serious buyers.

charged. The convicted men were offence and said that serious in- Mr. Whitta stated that the same each sentenced to three years' im-juries had been caused. thing occurred last week, when prisonment with hard labour, ard Addressing the jury, his Lord- following the public auction he dis-twelve strokes with the "cat" ship expressed thanks for the

posed of several cars through private agreement.

These auctions, however, are like ly to become extremely popular, as they allow purchasers to obtain good. value at reasonable prices.

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Prisoners were charged with assaulting three other Chinese on the evening of August 7. this year, but prisoners all stated that the charge and evidence had been fabricated by witnesses for the

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