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OVERCROWDING A MOTOR-CAR.

AMERICAN SAILORS ON A JOY-RIDE.

SEQUEL IN COURT.

WOMAN FINED $100,000.

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SAMPAN ORDERED TO RE CONFISIATED.

OPIUM SMUGGLING.

A big opium haul, valued in the was neighbourlined of $20,000, minde by Revenue Officers on a sampan in the harbour yesterday, It resulted in the arrest of the sampan woman and in the seizure

THE HONGKONG.. TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931.

STRANGE MUI-TSAI | INFORMER'S NAME

CASE.

GIRL'S STATUS HELD IN SUSPENSION.

WOMAN FINED $100.

A woman nimed Won Luen-hing, of Causeway Bay, appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning on a summons necasing her of kesping an unregia- tere mi-trai

The defendant intimated that the

SECRET.

CANNOT BE REVEALED IN COURT.

SESSIONS TRIAL.

are now

Who gave information enabling the police to set their trap to capture two men who appearing at the Criminal Sessions charged

with

Session

revenue

utterance of stumps Mr. Hing-shing Lo, who endeavoured to elicit this informa- tion from Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Publie Prosecutor, when the proceedings continued before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) this morning, and although he was promised to be supplied with the name of the Informer, his Lori-

said it could not be made i

A sequel to a motor-ear ride by party of American sailors was the appearance of the driver of the vehicle before Mr. Schockt at the Central Police Court this morning on three separate sum- monses by the Traffic Department of the boat.

The defendant, a public matur- Believed to have origiunted had brought the girl from Annamis defending one of the prisoners, ear driver, whe summoned for from Macno, the drug, which was during the beginning of last year. carrying four passengers in exces in the prepared state and amount-She (defendant) subsequently re- of the number allowed on his to 1.382 taels, was packed in a turned to the country and only licence, for not having full con- way which caused the authorities came back to Hongkong during the tred of hin vehicle, and for driving that it was to be dumped at a beginning of the present year. The a manner dangerous to the moment's notice, to be retrieved defendant remarked that she had blic in D'Aguilar Street at later when the coast was clear. another smaller girl who was also 9.16 p.m. on May G.

Information previously reaching unregistered and asked what was If. 1. Dennys appeared for the Revenue Officers appears to to be done about it. Mr.

Mr. Q... Macfadyen, Assis-public." int and remarked tho have forestalled this move. defondant the

The question was raised by de- The sampan after having rerely-ten Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

point of all three summonses were really

He admitted ed the oplum,

was being fisken said he was not aware that the defending counsel the same offence. that there had been excess pa for a considerable distance out fendant had another unregistered law, when he reminded the Court that he put a similar question to into the harbour when a party of misteni in nor posscasion. sengers, although he disagreed

Lai, the police witness who effect- Extenuating Circumstances. that there were

in the car

Revenue Officers yesterday swoop-

Containing, Mr. Macfadyen saided the trap by which the two altogether. The passengers were

ed down on it, and, boarding the

extenuating circum-neeused were caught, but was then from their

vessel, there were American sailors and the only

craft the defendant hnd was that Excuse

succeeded in laying hands on stances in the ease, although the de- told that he could not put such as bulky parcel in which the opium femlant had not presented the facts question. He had since referred well as she might have done.to law and had found that it 18 was contained.

it provkling She seem to have thought the allowed him to demand such tn- elder of the two girls could be formation.

Lardship's treated as either a mi-tane or an material to the proceedings, He

dinuchter

The

girl's therefore asked his ndopted father had died about ten years ago ruline on the patter.

had re-married. and her motor Finding that she could not support the girl, the mother presented her to the defendant but wanted to have some officially stamped decent of the transaction.

they had tok him they would take anything for all responsibility which might happen, but that they had to have the car. One of the then had left his card, giving his New York address, but that waKS WRA tin good and the defence

of them is puable to call wilnessos,

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Crowil Scatters,

The story as described by the

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own

Not a Witness,

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Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said hei hid no abjection to giving the Court the name of the informer. but he certainly did not intend to call the man as a witness.

Mr. Lo said he might want to

witness box t

Chief Preventive Officer Buller charged the boatwoman before Sebofield at the Centrai, Police Court this morning, when he said that nothing was known against the woman herself, who was believed to have Trez engaged as a carrier other smugglers. She had confessed she was promievd $10 for her trouble. The saree police

there

70 yards from the shore

The parties necordingly went to the Revenue altogether air passenger in the when boarded by

apart the authorities in Saigon, and there Tat !! ear. Three of the men were all offers,

the girl was handed over. As far have him in the the driver. Ttta"OYE:t Ith ather barlar eraft. 1ing beside

asked for the sampan to be son- as cald he sees from the dory-cross-examine them sitting half on the door of

His Lordship said that as Mr. the car and half on this companie seated under a provision of the ments, no money was paid at the

time, but the following day the Fitzruy had no objection to the firelinace,

kirts mother borroweil à sum of divulging of the information, it 31r.

convicted Schofield

There was was permissible for the name to Writt and imposed

adament relating to the money, written down and handed to but it did not say what it was for him and to Mr. Lo, but on no ne $100,000, with the alternative of

year's hard inbour.

Subsequently further sums amount-count could it be made public.

In cross-examination, Lal Kun- ing to $180 were borrowed by the mother from the defendant. In the police deroy, Ainted that The girl herself had been told when I entered the Tang Peng she care with Arst are used he intend an adopted ed to have a look at the stamps. she Before they entered he made t he accused that seemed to quite clear in have had the status of a mui-tsai. wanted to examine the allegedly Defendant did but it was held in suspension. The forged stamps..

did not then refuse to go into the cafe house work given her to do not point to her being an miopter), but entered willingly with daughter.

The par was being driven at about fifteen miles an hour alump Queen's Road and it acceleratel It turned up D'Aguilar Street. There was a cross of perqle in The rondway antsule the King's Theatre and they had to station the ear turned into 1'Aquiter

S

the

a ne ot$220 Saigon eurrency.

An order for the confiscation of her sampon followed the sentence, Officer Described by Revenue

An Elicit dealer, Humphreys as

J

Prey Worship said that as the keeper of a divan and one who also that if she behaved herself

defendant bad the three

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sella, opium, prepares and summonses against him, he worthiness was next brought before register a caution in the count of Failing to have full control of the the same Magistrate on a change of possession of four-and-a-half car. Por having esceas passed; taels of Non-Monopoly opiuma.

inposed Zt®*siu444al ",

R. O. Humphreys said they had wille 16ther fine of $20 was

information that the man had imposed on the third rount,"

prepared three tins of the drug, but he had managed to sell two of these before the Police raided his establishment. The remaining

pillow.

The Wrong Way, Against the chanteur of Miss Brittain brought a summons recur- ing him of having driven his car down Conduit Road which was only

would be treated as became of age.

daughter and married when

She

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wit-

Unmanageable.

Not Extraordinary. Continuing, the prosecutor said

Continuing, witness said that. the defendant wanted to give the

as the cafe was full and they girl up, as she was unmingeable.

not examine the stamps there, so Bay View Police Station terday at No. 16. Taiwong Street nisai and stated that she had they i am walked along Tem- been turned out of her house by ple Street. After going a short

Lewis, of 2, Gage Street. Sergeanttin was secreted in a porcetus irl had made a report to the could not find any room, he could

The raid was carried out yes

man arrested.

A fan of $360, or four months, was imposed.

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girl stated that she wanted to re-away by seesnd accused, and when first accused returned to witness turn to the defendant.

en to raffle going up the hæline West, the defendant being the only her employer. At the S.C.A., the distance first accused was called! The defendant pleaded guilty and said he had made a mistake.

Sergeant Brittain said that about 5.30 on May 5 the chauffeur of Mr. Chan Yiu-pin, of 39. Conduit Road, was driving car No.!

Rond from 20141 up Conduit Robinson Rond.

At the first end

to

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SNATCHER WELL PUNISHED.

NINE MONTHIS AND A BIRCHING.

The defendant bad brought the he informed him that his friend two girls to the Colony just after (second accused) had the stamps. did not strike the closing date for the registra Witness said that

an extraordinary story. pro-him as tion of mui-tsai and would

new When first accused said that, bably not have heard of the law, while she left the Colony for second accused was a short dis the country almost immediately tunce away.

Mr. Lo put it to witness that the afterwards and did not return un-)

and Brat between til last

interview month. Ha Worship remarked that im-second accused was an invention

the after mediately

t*73) won his fwitness's) part but wit- lle suid that should ness denied this. concluded

and very probably second accused had

he met the defendant driving car No. Bo down the road. Mr. Chan's chauffeur stopped his car to allow the defendant

He applied Sentezer of nine months' bard but stalled his engine.

to fabour and, in addition, 185 strokes cnst his brakes and then got secure a stone to place against of the birch was imposed by Mr. the wheel as an additional precno-Williams, at the Coutral Police ga tion whilst he' restarted his en-Court this morning, on a Chinese have the other girl registered. been following them. At the time rine. As soon as he left the ear, who pleaded guilty to a charge of) the vehicle rolled backwards

went over the bank.

Second Mishap.

Worship: This

is

the defendant

Lic: S.C.A.

Mr. Macfadyen replied that no of that interview he suspected

charge..

A fine of $100 was imposed. ~

that he was only a representative in the matter.

and snatebing handbag from 21 mui-trai could now be registered, second, accused as an accomplice, Chinese woman outside the Wiile was afraid another case would because first accused had told him On Company

have to be brought on the sure yesterday. The complainant, according to the Detective Sergeant Johnson, was

walking alon

along Des Voeux Road Central, outside the Wing On Compus at 9 o'clock last night. when she felt a tug n boy handbag. informed On looking around she saw the

over

second time cars have gone The ride this year.

Sergeant Brittain: A taxi went over a week before this accident.

Inspector Alexander

his Worship that there was no defendant running away. She in

Cure

mistake. for making a

as formed an Indian constable who

there were signs at both ends of gave chuse and caught the lefeu- the road notifying drivers that dant in Gilman Street with the hag Condait Road was only open to one still in his possession.

way traffic.

His Worship: It appears he caused accident?

used the Sergeant Britnis:--It's a very nasty road to get stopped on.

His Worship said it was an impossible road to have to brake on, but remarked that there had been some negligence on the part of the driver of Mr. Chan's car in

not applying the brakes acurely. The defendant was fined $ib,

On a summons necusing him of driving a motor cycle in Queen's without efficient Itond West brakes, a Chinese motorist. was fined $15. It was stated by Ser- geant Brown that when he stopped the defendant and tested the brukes the cycle pulled up in 39] feat at a speed of 15 miles an

*hour."

TWO SLIGHT MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

COLLISIONS OCCUR ON STUBBS ROAD.

after

The defendant, in reply to his Worship, said he was in debt and in a moment of temptation decided to liquidate his liability from the proceeds of his act.

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"TORQUEMADÁ” IN COURT.

WITNESS AT THE "CROSS-

WORD" TRIAL

A large and expectant audience assembled in the fall of the Lon- don School of Economies to hear the arraignment of Father Ronald quemada" of the Observer. The was one of the "Mock arranged in aid of King Edward's Hospital Fund for Lon:

D'

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Witness then went on to de- seribe the police trap at the Kum Tol Hotel, saying he was told to ring the bell iwice when he need- ed the police. He was in com munication with both before and after accused arrived.

The case, in proceeding.

"DOLE" PROPOSED IN US.

COUZENS READY SENATOR

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Washington, June 13.

After EPA by the Senator Couzens said that be

don. Some curiosity had been On the eve of his departure for excited by the amour that the his home in Michigan to-day veritabilo Torquemada he Senator James Couzens, Republi-

in person. existed) would

ean, announced that he is ready the proprietor of "John to champion in the next Congress

had been

a programme for federal unem-

insurance. The Macau and South China Enter-propriataly

Joy, K.C.) for prises, Ltd, has been registered in Judge (Mr. H. fongkong with an authorised capital contempt of court in the form of will spend a part of the summer

and injudicious com

at his home in Detrolt working out of $100,000 divided into 10,000 shares

premature and of $10 each of which only 7,500 shares nient, Miss Dorothy Sayernd gown, provide for federal unemployment an im- the details of a bill which will have been issued.

Portin in The first Directors are Messrs. conducted a vehement prosecu-Insurance and which will be in- George II. Potts, H. H. H. Priestley, tion, citing Mr. J. C. Squiro as wit- troduced lute the newly elected P. M. Hodgson. and Ko Leong-hoe.

No invitation to the public has beenness to testify that, though long 72nd Congress, which is, to con- issued as the capital required was connected with the Observer, he

never yet immediately fully subscribed by the had

BCC the alleged vene, in December. promoters and their friends.

"Torinox, in an eloquent and that he was of Scottish nation- The Company obtained its ficato to commence business yesterday almost bewilderingly logical de-ality, a friend of the accused, and and has already commenced spern-fence, repudiated the charge on the author of the "Torquemada”.

the ground, among others, that he puzzles. The audiency presum was a sworn fee of the Crossword, nbly accopted his word, for they the defendant by a large which was undermining that far swerve wobler structure, the Acrostic. He majority; praise is due to the con-

acquitted

tions.

ceril-

Futher

called witnesses to his character

caused his machine to Shortly

four

o'clock,auddenly.

A second

occurre:i Recident

and pursuits (including "a gentle-duet of the proceedings by le yesterday, two public motor-cars collided near "Huntington", one early this morning in the vicinity man from somewhere behind The Judge (the Recorder of Nutting- of the vehicles suffering slight of Magazine Gap where Times) and finally summoned the ham), who said and did the mat damage to the radiator. Accord-Sanitary Department lorry, which "real Torquemada"-n Grand In- absurd things with the most Ing to the driver of the down- was going up Stubbs Rond and aquisitorial figure hooded, marked, solemn of faces and greatly amus coming car, the tyre of one of his public car coming down collided, and gowned in black-who ad-ad the audience by his impromptu front wheels came off, and this the car being slightly damaged. mitted, in sepulchral responses, wit.

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us, however. Eskimos assured

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