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ROBBED AND TIED TO A TREE.

SHER-O COUNTRY CLUN COOLIE'S ORDEAL.

on

the

WAY

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF A VERY OLD RESIDENT.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HIGH HANDED POLICE

ACTS ALLEGED.

THE WEST POINT CLUB CASE.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931.

A day book for patty expenses and monthly balances were amongst the accounts of the Club and those did not in any form contain com- His position ns Manager missions. and Treasurer was purely honorary and he paid hle entrance fee and like the member's subscription

Shek 0 Country Club was waylaid]ment Civil Hospitni last night at rald on the Chik Yue Club at Nos. Played by the Club. A

Tho

We regret to report the death of The case was continued before White

Mr. Williams, at the Central Maxis-others. towards Mr. Francisco Sales de Souza, A

He identified two of the other Quarry Bay to buy milk there, n vory old resident of the Colony, tracy yesterday afternoon, of the

thirteen Chinese who were arrest men now charged as being "boya" young colle in the employ of the who passed away at the Govern-ed on a gambling warrant during a

third who WAR one of those by highway men, early yesterday the advanced age of 70. He had 506-610; defendants, Mr. G. K. since been released by the Police.

Queen's Road West. originally taken into custody, had morning, and robbed of $1.85. been taken seriously the same For the

On the night In

he wan question He told the Police that going morning, when his removal to hos-Hall Brutton submitted that ine

accem-at

Club provided Club. arrests were illegally made, nets dinner ut reven o'clock every evan over Chaiwan Gap he was on the pitni was considered necessary. point of proceeding down

panied by auch The Inte Mr. de Souza was bridle path when three men av Government

the prisoners and ing, but he arrived after this meal. pensioner,

them. The Club was He parlook of the midnight supper, peared from the oppoalte direction.

formerly been in the clerical dea properly constituted social Club, which, unlike the dinner, was seized him and one of them partment of the Follec, and retired the members occupying substan-furnished by those who had been The the rather pointless declara-

thirty years ago. His wife tisi positions in the Colony. jover tion. I have been watching you predeceased him by about twenty-

lucky nt cards. This subscription One of the defendants, giving he pointed out, was a purely They then took a small sum of

ніх успра and, of his three evidence in the witness box. gave voluntary matter, and money and his metal wristwatch children, a son and two daughters from him, and tied him to a tree (all of whom entered the Church) with string taken from the pro- vision husket he was carrying.

the

10

having handing the

only one daughter, who İs Superioress of a Franciscan con- vent in Chinn, survives,

“I managed to free myself some minutes later," the victim said.

Decensed leaves two nephews, "By that time the three men had disappeared over Chaiwan Gap." Messrs. Arthur de Souza, of the Treasury, and R. M. de Souza,

It will be recalled that a sonie-purser on the se. Sul Tal, and five what similar affair was reported nieces, one of whom in Mias A. asovcurring on Sunday on the de Souza of Aalatic Buihling, na, Shikung Rond, when a fakt, carry-wall

number of grand-:

ing provisions 10 A customer,

па

alleges he was robbil by three nephews and nieces,

footpada and tied tea tree. Some The funeral will take place this doubt was east on his story at the afternoon, passing the Monument time.

at 6.30.

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his name ha Lee Wun-sn- He towards the cost of cigarettes and! stated that he was Honorary fruit.

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Mannger and Treasurer of the Club Two tables were laid out over a considerable period. When supper that night, there being 23 the Club removed to ils present or 24 persone present. It occupied

#k

Rons Queen's promises

West he nearly half-an-hour, after which continued in that joint position, and members dispersed to do what they started a new set of bunks.

wished.

For his own part, he went He was in charge of subscrip-out on the verandah, presently tions and membership fees. The going into the sitting room where While there, were that a member paid he read a newspaper. $200 as entrance fee, after which towards 2.30 in the morning, he he paid a monthly subscription of heard a volec shout "Don't

on't move" $30. Thuse subscriptions, witness and was then made aware of the

or the declared, were enough to caver presence of the Chinese

detectives. running expenses of the Club, so In examination by Mr. Brutton, that it was not in any way and in witness said he saw one of those paint of fact, had not been, depen- present who had joined a group dent on any commissions secured at nitting near an opium-divan being the gambling tables.

dragged away by a

a detective and

All the members, of which there afterwards being ananulted by that were 25, occupied substantial posi-same detective. They were order- tions in business; were either ship- led to one part of the floor and there ping men, doctors, dentists or were searched and handcuffed. engaged in the importing and ex- The case was again adjourned porting business.

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