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WALLER FOUND NOT GUILTY ·

UNANIMOUS VERDICT

RETURNED

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932. ·

Ling Sam has stated you hand- ell him some oplum at 1.46 p.m. on the road by the reclamation. In that true?--No. That is un- true. At that time I was stand- Ing at the lower end of Fooshing in conversation with Bridge Cheung Hing.

Witness denied over receiving After a hearing which has list-$12 from Ling Sam or receiving a ed four whole days, the Waller packet containing $50 from lo

Hong-nang. ribery case was brought to n close at the Criminal Sessions (Sir before the Chief Justice Joseph Kemp) yesterday afternoon when the jury, after a short retire- unanimous ment, returned verdict of "Not Guilty."

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Defendant's Movements. Defondant, in evidence, said: I have been in charge of Taipo since March 20, 1932. On October 2, 1 chose to do street cleatsing which was entirely at my own discretion. I went out at about 10 a.m. in com- pany with the detective, Ling Sam, and went to the dispensary in a scavenger's lane and poked about with a stick at a place where I thought to be a concrete drain. I then sent Ling Sant lo get a shovel

Cross-Examination.

In answer to Mr. Fraser, de- fondant said he spent 15 minutes at the drain, about 15 minutes finding the contractor, and the time he took going from the sta tion to the dispensary. That would take him to about 10.45.

He did not start street cleansing

until 11.30 n.m.

of beer.

2.700 ALLEGED MASSACRED

AMAZING ACCOUNT FROM NANKING

TOKYO

DENIAL

Nanking, Nov. 24.

The cold-blooded murder of 2,700 Chinese, sfiot down by machine guns, and sub- sequent cremation by Japan- ese in Manchuria, is report. ed with a welter of detall to-day,

Tokyo denounces the story as a fabrication to in- Buence Geneva,

statement has The sensational

"During that time" explained defendant, I was talking to the master of the Yeu Woo shop about! sanitary and personal matter.been issued by the Foreign Office While I was there I drank a bottle and published in Shanghai. It states that a Japanese detachment recently ordered the Inhabitants of the villages of Spingtingaan, Chienchingpao and Litsckou, bo- tween 10 and 16 miles north-east Witness: If I had come up the of Fushun, to assemble at a ditch road they could see me coming and west of Pingtingnan, while Japan- so remove themselves inside the eno troops searched the villages' shops. I only went through the for Chinese volunteers, with whom shap to come on them suddenly the villagers were suspected

Mr. Fraser: What was the ren- son for secrecy in regard to these hawkers If you did not want to

arrest them?

You

of

to dig out the earth from the drain, We then went to Nam Sing Street in Talpo Market to find a contractor named Nam Hong. After some time we found him and I got the detective to ask him to remove some had instructions from the Dia-co-operating and harbouring, the big curb stones which I found had triet Officer that I was to arrest Japanese promising a reward if

one per week to keep their mind the villagers found innocent. been blocking the drain. It took some time to convince him it was

on the fact that they were not quite in order to remove the stones prepared to alt in the street. na he had some idea that they were

have heard four people I then went

awear they saw you in the cubicle Government property, to the Yeo Woo shop in Foo-of the Po Wali Tong. Can you shing Street with the detective suggest any reston why they

then sent him. to the should say that?

hoses

They are personal friends of Ho Fire Brigade to get the

street washing, long-sang. ready for the When he returned I told him to get the regular scavenging coolies to clean the street before the washing commenced. I would fix the time for washing to commence at 11.80 4.m.

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I then inspected various premises which had pig-breeding houses at the rear and made a patrol of the

When was the first time you heard of opium being found there?

On October 8.

This concluded the evidence for the defence.

His Lordship's Observations, The Chief Justice, in the course

during his duty;

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1 Like ito sauce! Over again.

10 Just the publication for a ware-

house.

11 Merry: aided by the bottle, I'm

afraid.

12 Egg convoyed by road by car.

of course.

The Japanese placed more than 10 machine guns 70 yards from the assemblage and ordered the Chin-

14 You mustn't change this with- ese to kneel with their backs to the

out reference to the 12. machine

villagers, gunn. Some realising the fate in store for 15 Large Russian salt lake.

16 Let's train it, the bus is terrib

ly slow and erratic at times them, commenced to run, where- guns opened

(hidden). upon, the machine fire, stampeding the ma89 of 18 Compelled to render a favour, screaming man, women and chil-21 It is necessary to have faith,

the lie notwithstanding, dren. The horrible clamour was heard for miles. A hundred and GO escaped slightly hurt, 60 or 70 died while escaping, "while in fants, children and others not kill-31 ed by bullets were all bayonetted

As a result, altogether 2,700 men, women and children were earnaged."

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Denied In Tokyo

Tokyo, Nov. 24.

district. I spent some time in of his summing up made three Fooshing Street during the wash-general observations to the jury,

The Japanese soldiers then pil- ing generally supervising. I then namely: (1) that the Crown must ed ap the corpses, covered them left for the dispensary to see if the prove their ease beyond all rea contractor had begun to remove the sonable doubt and that suspicion with oil-soaked fuel and burned atones and later returned to Foo-was not enough; (2) the offence of them to ashes. The Japanese then shing Street by way of En Foo which the accused was charged decided to use the villagers' farms Similar outrages and massacres Street. I went through the back was bribery with a view to in-for Japanese settlers. of some shops into the street to #uencing him chase hawkers. I passed through and (3) the question of corrobora aro reported from Tikwanpao, and three shops altogether to get fromtion. In connexion with the thirdWangshape in the Linoyang area.

point his Lordship said there Reuter. one street to another.

were many discrepancies brought the case. A good out during

A Foreign Office spokesman to- number of them were trivial but several of them appeared to hire day absolutely denied the reports to be important. He thought the of the massacro and pointed out that the Fushun neighbourhood jury should exercise extreme Jurg

bandits the Japanese army nor care in respect of the evidence of has recently been peaceful, neither accomplices without corrobora-

being present.

He declared it was an outright tion, but he felt in this case there was corroboration of the fact that the Inspector had been in the Pofabrication similar to the Tanaka memorial, to influence Genova and nointed out that the same report Wah. Tong shop.

Several other discrepancica had been printed by the Chinese pointed out and in con- newspaper, Sin Wen Pao at Shong- clusion his Lordship stated:

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Saw No Opium. Defendant continued.-in pasa- ing through that slop I did not see any opium. 1 was not look- ing for oplum. I just wanted to come upon the hawkers who in- sisted on placing their goods on the road way, which had just heen not to washed. The idea was arrest them but to chase them on to a piece of vacant land. I did

thing The defence has one not go into the cubicle in the shop. 1 am not sure whether, strongly in its favour and that is

SUFFOLK BAND.. Ling Sam was with me then. Dur- that the defendant gave evidence Ing that morning he was only with on oath and called his witnesses me occasionally. I do not think at the earliest possible moment.

I went he was with me when

I think all that ought to count for ANOTHER CONCERT TO-DAY through these shops. After I had the righteousness of the defence, AT EXCHANGE. RESTAURANT The band of H.M.S. Suffolk will been through the Po Wah Tong because it disclosen straight away picked up Ling Sam in Fooshing what the defence is going to be. give another concert in Exchange PICK Street after the washing had The prosecution can then shape Restaurant (Lane Crawford's) nt the pro- Buished at about 2.05 p.m., in their ease accordingly. If there 5 p.m. to-day, when order to return to the Station, is any weak point in the case igramme will be as follows:

be When I had picked up Ling Sam, can then be tested. That must I was called over by the muster reckoned in his favour. He called of the Cheung Chun shop who was that evidence again here includ- then. In conversation with the ing his own. You have heard foreman. of the Fire Brigade. I him and his witnesses and you went over to him and Ling Sam have heard the witnesses for the went as well. The master told me Crown. he had asked the foreman'la col- leet money from Fooshing Street. We arrived at a figure of four or five cents per shop to cover the whole of the expense of street washing. The foreman thought faile the shop-keepers would perhaps guilty". You may do so or you not pay, and asked if the detec- may not. If you think it does not tive might accompany him. I fall on the other hand you should then instructed the defective to go and ought to convict. But then you with the foreman and sco there must regard the evidence of the de- was no trouble about the collec- fence. You have not, as I say, to tion.

believe fully all the evidence of the Mr. McNeill: Did you at any defence before you find him "not cused, then the accused must have time on October 2 enter the guilty". If that evidence taken the benefit of that doubt.

The jury then adjourned and with the evidence of the Crown raises in your mind any reasonable brought in a verdict as recorded doubt about the guilt of the ac- above.

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