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QUEEN'S

COMING SHORTLY

WHAT ABOUT THE

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Will she have a new code of sex moráls? Will she send her sons to war?

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ALLEGED ASSAULT.

CHAUFFEUR CHARGED WITH

HITTING CONSTABLE

Wong Hol, chauffeur to Mr. H. R. Rowan of Sheko, was convicted on

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.

AMERICANS WED.

MR. E. E. BOMAN AND MISS

M. R. CARTER

PERSISTENT HEADACHES. .

Ireturned by the jury at a Coroner's a charge of technical assault on an Carter, the daughter of Mr. and including headaches, backaches, palns

the the

verdict of death due to the negligence of a Chinese driver was afternoon inquest held yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy before the Coroner, Mr. H. R. Butters. The Inquiry was held Into

surrounding circumstances

Chinese boy, death of a young Cheong Ng, who died on May 4 thin your, after having been knocked a Shing Mun Water down by Scheme bus on the Taipo Rond.

Mr. C. The jury consisted of Thwaites (foreman), Mr. Wel Tat and Mr. L. G. Cordeiro.

Indian police. sergeant by Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy arose yesterday. The summons from an incident outside King's Theatre on May 8. A fine of $5 was imposed.

A further summons for driving negligently was dismlesed, but do fendant was warned that his action in tuming a large car in a crowded thoroughfare and with an obscured vision, was very unwise.

The marriage was solemnised at Friday of Miss Mary Rowland St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Mrs. David Thomas Carter of 2107 Carterdale Road, Baltimore, U.S.A., and Mr.. Edward Earle Bomar tho son of the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. E, E. The Rev. W. Walton Rogers, the Bomer of Tryon, U.S.A. Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, officiated.

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The bride was given away by Capt. J. J. Cadogan of the 8.8. President Polk, while Miss Bernice Black of Palo Alto, California, was bridesmaid,

Evidence was given by an Indian The first witness, Dr. J. B. sergeant that about 7 a.m, ho saw a

Houpitni

private car, coming along Queen's Mackie of the Kowloon

Road from east to west. The car Haid that on May 6 he conducted a post-mortem on Cheong Ng. The stopped outside the King's Theatre,moon.

some passengers, und body was identified by the father. picked up Cheong Ping, a brother, Cheong backed across the road hitting wit Leuk and a playmate, Chan Chungness in the back and almost knock- ing him down. A constablo on duty Man. Externally, there was blood Inter- on the ears, eyes and nose. rally, the skull was extensively nearby went to the side of the car fractured. Death was due to the and asked the chauffeur for an ex- planation. In reply, the defendant hit him on the cheat with his fist. fracture on the base of the skull.

Witness did not hear the horn of the car sounded.

Father's Evidence. Cheung Ping, the boy's father, had gave evidence that his son attended the Yuk Tan School in The Road. Cheung Sha Wan family lived in a gardener's mat shed on the Tipo Road.

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The constable, in evidence stated that he merely naked the driver why he did not look behind him and give a warning, when he was struck on the chest,

In reply to defendunt, witness denied that he slapped his face.

provoke the driver.

Col. T. A. Robertson a passengor in the car, gave him his name and he allowed the car to proceed to avoid further confusion of the traffic.

Mr. S. S. Brown, employed in the said Shing Mun Water Scheme, that on May 5 he left Shing Mun a

Sergeant Baldry said he wit- little after 5 o'clock in the Shing Mun Water Scheme bus,

employees nessed the incident and did not sEO panied by four other and the Chinese driver, Ip Shun. the constable Witness sat in front. with the driver: The accident occurred on the Kowloon side of Kwelin Street. Witness paw two boys on the pave- ment, one had his back to the road and after tugging at his playniate's coat, gave a half-pivot and dived across the road. The bus, which was going at 26 m.p.h sounded the horn and swerved to the left but caught the boy with the rear mudguard. The boy was knocked to the ground and his brother then dragged him back across the road.

Witness jumped out of the bus and assisted the boy and later, reported the case to the police. He did not see any other car at the time of the accident:

was unaware

Col. Robertson of the Hongkong Club, said he was sented next to the driver and in the rear of the car were his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Rowan. The car backed slowly and that anything untoward had happened, until the police appeared at the side of tho vehicle in a very excited state. One very rough manner and shook him. of them seized the chauffeur in The chauffeur threw the police- in a manner that twoman's hand off

was not intended as a blow, Witness said he felt no jar and though evidence had been given that a man was hit by the car, he thought it was improbable. Defendant was very allly in trying to turn the car in such a crowded thoroughfare,

Mr. S. Saunderson and others, who were in the bus at the gave also time of the accident, evidence.

Ip Shun, the driver, declared that he was going at 15 m.p.b. when the boys dashed out from the pavement. He said that deceased Iran into the bus.

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Defendant gave evidence and said he sounded his horn, backed Chan Chung Man and Cheong the car slowly, did not hit the ser- Leuk, friend and brother of deceus-geant, did not strike the constable,

Bad both alleged that there were two and was himself slapped on the

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cars. The second, the Shing Mun face. Water Scheme bus, was attempting

to overtake the first car when the accident liappened.

Mr. Rowan said that after the in- cident he heard "some conversation in a language I did not understand" between the chauffeur and the con- stable. The passengers must have obscured the chauffeur's view in the mirror.

Speedometer Tested,

gave Sergeant A. M. Scrimm evidence of finding the boy's body and the car at the scene of the ne cident. He tested the tender and found that though the brakes were

condition. the knocked down by the car travelling in excellent

at 20 to 26 m.p.h. then speedometer was out of order.

Thero WBS The Coroner, in his summing up, could be brought in of death by pointed out that on one hand the misadventure. jury had heard the evidence of doubt in his mind that the boy had thoso present on the tender and on been struck by the Shing Mun the other hand, the evidence of the Water Scheme tender. two small boys. There was

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also The jury, after consideration,

the evidence given by Sergeant returned with the verdict that Scrimm. From the police evidence, denth was due to the negligence of It appeared to him that the blood the Chinese driver.

tracks commenced 18 feet out from

the road on the west alde.

The tender witnesses said

Mr. Butters: Do you consider the amounts to criminal that negligence

negligence?

there was no other vehicle about

at the time of the accident and the two boys had said that there were, two cars.

The Coroner thought that if the

Foreman:

Mr.

No.

Butters:

Personally,

muut any that if the matter had been left to me. I could have found

jury found that the boy had been no evidence of negligence.

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Meanwhile, in a small room be- his fixed intention of fasting for 21 days in the cause of the un- touchables. He broke his fast at hind glass doors, Gandhi lay on a bed with wat noon to-day, after having enten motionless

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The house of Lady Thackeracy, where he has been keeping his a larger room, where he acknow orange juice. fast, was besloged by friends and ledged the greeting of his friends.

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