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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931.

DERBY SWEEP ISSUE.

S.C.A.A. FINED $10 IN TEST CASE.

"TICKET"" DEFINED.

Executive Committee." It rend a follows:

For the perusal of member, Mir An requested, we hav hereby appropriated to you chans No. of the Race Lottery in stituted by our Anzociation for it members in respect of the Hong kong Derby Sweep to be held in th Spring of 1931, which we hope you will take note of and send us th amount for that number an suos an possible for confirmation, olhei wish it will be vold.. We speciall notify you, and in the nisantime offor our personal greetings.

A further document read:

That a document claimed by officials of the South China Athletic Association to be an announcement of allotment of This was compared with a transla- chances in the Derby Sweepstake tan prepared by Mr. Lo's clerk, anc WAS lottery

ticket within the which Mr. Lo said offered no su meaning of the Gambling Ordin-tantial divergenco, except in the ance as amended in October last, existing between the terms "allotted'

and "appropriated." was the Judicial ruling made by Mr. Schofeld when he was called upon yesterday afternoon to decide on two summonses taken out by the Police authorities against an executive official of the Association. The Association was fined $10.

Public Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Prosecutor, appeared for the Police authorities, together

with Chief Detective Inspector Reynolds (set out in the summonses as the complainant). Mr. C. G. Perdue (Director of Criminal Intelligence), and Mr. T. H. King (Deputy Inspector General Police).

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Mr. M. K. Le appeared for the do fence, there being also present number of officials of the Association. including the Chairman (Mr. Luke Ol-wan).

Two SUMMANADA were brought against Mr. Ho Yun-kwang. In his capacity as an Executive Omeor

of the Axsociation, these being:

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(n) that on Yarjous dates In February he was the person having the care and management of the South Chinn Athletic Association, a sorini Club, on the 7th floor China Building, which premises were used for the purpose of a Battery contrary to Section Ordinner No. 2 of 1891, and

(b) that on various daten In February, at the South China Athletic Association he printed ar published, or caused to be printed or published, lottery tickets in respect of Sweepstake for the Hongkong Derby Race at the Spring Meeting. 1931. contrary to Section 9, of the Gambling. Ordin- ance, No. 2, of 1891,

To Mr. Ho Yun Kwong, Member of Our Association, We hav allotted to your ownership at you request Race Chante No. 12584 the Hongkong Darby Sweep Stak held by our Association for our ow members for Spring, 1931. We be that you will nota and send us th amount for the number, so as t confirm this. Failure of paymen. will make this null and void. Thi la specially for your information and with regards.

Chief Detective Inspector Reynold stated that on Saturday accompanie by the Director of Criminal Intel Hence, he visited the premises of the Association, by virtue of a warrant The object of the visi; was explaine to these officials present, and nai consequence witness when he left took away a file cabinet. From thi he produced saverni books containing sames, and papers, each containing ten numbers, as exhibita.

Case for Cruwn.

The case for the Crown closed with thin evidence.

In his case for the Grown, the Public Prosecutor argued that it had heen shown that the defendant had printed or published, or caused to be rinted or published, the all-important erument at issue. The question nex: arising, was whether it was a lottery ticket, and what was a lottery ticket? Counsel's answer to that question was what was a lottery? He defined the

out in the Or interpretation act dinance, and submitted that there was no question of the Sweep-staka or- ganized by the Association being a lottery-that being held by this Cour many times before and at Home,

They now came to the one in. portant issue: If the South Chinn' undertaking was a lottery and not Sweepstake under the saving Section

the new Section 18, inserted as ar amendment in October Inst-then having regard to the particular act: testified to by the Police officers in eyldence, was this ticket a lottery ticket?

Mr. Lo, after admitting the collec- tive responsblility of the Executive Officials of the Association as repro- sented by one of their number in the proceedings, anked his worship to take a plen of "not guilty" to both Hummonses. To save time he said in getting at the rent issue, which was to determine whether a rertain decu ment to be produced in the case was or was not a ticket within the mean- ing of the new Ordinance, he had already intimated to the prosecution that he was willing make ny necessary nimissions of frets.

After his Worship had decided that a certain document to be produced in the case was or was not a "ticket," he would address his Worship on thend." And that one of the charge.

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What was a ticket? It was difficult Counsel remarked, to deûne. He hnd looked up definitions on the subject. hat these authorities whom he had looked up talked about most things except that what he really wanted to

cristics of the law dictionary is that talks about things which you don't want to find."

question of penalty, if his Warship shou'd hold against him. He would then submit that except that A technical breach had been committed He had to have recourse to the by fallure to apply for, permia-fo

popular definitions, and in thin con- under the new Ordinance, the Hon. nexion he relied on two dictionarie. Inspector General of Pollee was The first of these, Webster's, might be satisfied with the bona fides of the objected to on account of its being Association, and had accepted the ex-un American dictionary and there. planation that they were under the im- being some bins, but the definition it pression that the Ordinance passed in

hd of "ticket" was well worth con- August constituted permission as to sidering: "A ticket in a card with Fender any further format application words or characters. on.it showing unnecessary.

understood the that the holder is entitled to somO- Police authorities accepted all that, thing." The definition of the other And that they were not, to use a

dictionary had it that "a ticket is a xlip bearing some evidence of the holder's title to some service or pri- vilege to which it admits him.”

common parlance, "making a song

About It

Trimmed down to its legni tasue, the case then became a test case, an it was left to his Worship to give a judicial ruling us to whether It was a lottery, and it such whether the document to be pruduced was a lottery ticket within the meaning of the Ordinance.

Counsel submitted that the docu- mont the case came well within thr meaning of a ticket as defined under one or other of these two dictionaries. "What I am making your Worship to decide, then, in whether this document on the face of it is n lottery ticket. I am submitting that there is no doubt about its being a lattery ticket. It contains a number. A lottery ticket must convey to you this Information, that you are the owner of a parti colar chance, otherwise there is noth- ing at all. You are therein described as the particular owner of a partí- cular number. This in the one characteristic of a lottery ticket. It in the one thing you expect in a lot tery-the only thing you expect in # lottery, namely n number."

Counsel spoke of his nwn

connexion with the periences buying of lottery tickets, and coming to local provisocs, sald the Legis lature here had made certain Regulu- Mr. Fung Siu-kin, a translator ons embodied in the new Section 18, from the Secretariat of Chinese whereby ordinary sporting and social Affairs, handed in a translation he Clubs with the approval of the In- prepared of the document in question, spector General of Police, not neces- which it was stated was on "letter arily arbitrarily exercised, paper for use by the Race Lottery (Continued on Page 11.)

Police Evidence.

Evidence in support of the case for the Polico was first given by an inter- proter employed at the Detective Offees at Headquarters. This witness stated that on instructions from his superior officer, he visited the premises of the Association China Ballding on February 13, for the purpose of Derby. purchasing a ticket on the He saw a man named Lam whom he know to be a member of the Asiccia tion, who handed him, upon his ask- Ing. a number of papers from which he was asked to select one. He chose ono which was numbered 12584, and gavo Lam ten dollars.

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