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HODGE CASE DISMISSED

MR. GRAYE REBUKED BY MAGISTRATE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933.

POLICE RAID ON MORE MOTORING RENT FOR BATHING

GAMING HOUSE

OFFENCES

FOUR MEN CONVICTED EUROPEANS WITHOUT

AND FINED

WRONG COURT of 663 Hongkong and Macao

"You must not use this cheap Court to press for a civil claim. The proper place is the Supreme Court. I won't have it."

Mr. Henry Graye, managing director of the Concrete Products

noon.

LICENCE DISCS

SIGNALS IGNORED

Charged with keeping the second floor of 328 Queen's Road Central as a common gaming house for po píu lottery, and with possession

Mr. Schofield, at the Central tickets, four Chinese, Cheung Magistracy this morning, dealt, Tak, Lam Tak, Wong Chiu, and with an assortment of traffic sum- Chan Chi, were convicted by Mr. monnes. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police: Court this morning and fined $76 or six months, hard labour cach, A charge of printing the tickets was dismissed owing to insufficient evidence.

A fifth Chinese, arrested at thei Ltd., was thus addressed in the raid on Saturday, was not in Court when the case was called yester- Central Police Court this after-day, and his ball of $850 was

when Mr. Wyano-Jones estreated. (Magistrate) discharged Mr. Lewis Edwin Sotheron Hodge, who ap. peared on bail on a charge of obtaining $45 by false pretences from the Concrete Products.

Mr. Hodge, who is connected with the Union Transport Com- pany, was alleged to have purport- ed to have offected repairs to a junk belonging to the complainant Arm, and to have been given the for the repairs when actually no repairs were carried

money

out.

„Mr. M. A, da Silva appeared for the defence.

known

Mr. Graye, in the witness stand, "to anid that Hodge was him as'n transport contractor. He was Introduced by Mr. Hall Brutton and the complainant firm entered into direct negotiations with Hodge for the purpose of Anancing the business of transport contractor.

It was stated that over one thousand uncompleted tickets wore scized. The draw for the com pleted tickets was to have taken place yesterday. The tickets were valued at $387.70.

Mr. P. H. Sin, for the defence, pleaded not guilty.

n

Several Europeans were brought up for falling to exhibit appro- printe licence discs, and others for disobeying police signala.

Mr. C. II..Douglas, of the P. W. D., was fined $5 for having no appropriate licence dise to his car, and Lt. J. C. Richardson, of the South Wales Borderers, Mr. H.

the F. Phillips, of Hongkong Hotel, and Mr. II. Sling .wore similarly fined offence.

stable.

for the

DISOBEYING SIGNAL..

was

samo

SHED

EUROPEAN LADIES

IN COURT

RADIO BROADCAST

Two European Indios wore con- TO-DAY'S BROADCAST. cerned in a case at the Supreme Court this morning before

Pulano Judge, Mr. R.E. Lindsell, over the rent of a bathing mat- shed on 11 Mile Beach, Castle

Peak.

VARIETY ITEMS FROM THE STUDIO

4-5 p.m. Chinese recorded pro- gramme. 6.4 p.

The plaintiff was Mrs. Lily of 7. Albion Terrace, Ramsey,

A relay of the Band of the 1st Kowloon Docks, represented by Dattn. South Wales Borderers, con Mr. A. el Arculli, and the defend ducted by Bandmaster J. L. Gecko, ant Mrs. Coxhill, of Savarin from the Military Hospital, Bowen House, 16, Hankow Road. The

Road, by kind permission of the Omeer Commanding. During the sum involved was $90, being three intervals recorded musle will be months rent, from May to July, I broadcast from the Studio). 1983., due from defendant to plaintiff.

Mr Arcul stated that the pre- mines were let to defendant in April. Rent was paid for April and when the tenancy was deter mined at the end of July, rent was duo for May. June and July. Verbal notice that the tenancy

On

6-7 p.m. Chinese recorded pre- gramme,

7-10.30 p.m. European programme. 7 p.m.

Closing Local Stock Quota- tions, etc.

7.3-7.28 p.m, Fantasia on Melodies of Johann

Strauss (Weber).

Marck Weber and His Orchestra. C2180 C2198 C2243 7.28-8.30 p.m. Variety.

8 p.m. (Local Time and Weather Report). OrchestralThat's What Life is Mado Orchestral-Spanish Eyes.

or.

Ray Noble and His Orchestra. 16361 Song Mrs. Bartholomew,

Cicely Courtnoldge Vocal Duel-Why las a Cow Got

Four Lege?

Love.

Mr. L. R. Cramer, of 9, Tregun-¦ would be terminated at the end of ter Mansions, May Road, was fined July was given on July 1st by $5 for having no appropriate | pinintis. EFFECT OF ORDINANCE. Acting Sub-Inspector O'Donovan | licence, and $10 for disobeying a

Mr Arculli added that said he went to the premises signal. with a Chineso detective on Batur- Trufle Sergeant Brittain said August 5, he wrote to defendant

the day afternoon. In

front that the defendant was driving his asking for the three months' rent cubicle, which was not furnished, car up to the Central Police Sta-and received a reply to the effect the five defendants were seated tion, and the Indian constable at that the rent would be paid when

husband round an improvised table, with a the junction gave the

returned. signal defendant's

There was no denial of Hinbility lot of documents spread out in against him, but defendant con although defendant had stated

Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert B4475 front of them. He also Bowtinued. He (witness) was coming Chinese pens

and two pots of along Hollywood Road from West previously that she owed only $45. Orchestral-A Couple of Fools in Chinese ink and a jar of ink.

Girl, to East, and

given the

Evidence in support was given Orchestral Only Want One Ho collected the papers directly

Ray Noble and His Orchestra. B0300 in front of each defendant. He through signal by the Indian con- by plaintiff.

Little For Me. questioned them and they stated

Defendant said in the middle of Song-Leave Mr. R. A. Carroll, of 13, Bowen they were employed to carry out

Jack Buchanan (Comedian). B4318 the work. The absent defendant Road, was fined $10 for disobeying June she received a letter from Song-Yes, Mr. Brown.

signal at the junction of plaintiff. A short while after-Orchestral-Seven Years with the said his salary was

$30, while

wards plaintiff visited her and

Wrong Woman. the others salaries ranged from Arbuthnot and Caine Roads. $8 to $10. They had been on the

Sergeant Brittain said he was stated that she had definitely de- Orchestral--All Over Italy.

take the matshed herself.

Ray Noble and His Orchestra. premises for about a month. Ha going up Arbuthnot Road, and cided

136364 also seized a large quantity of noticed the light against him, but, After Mrs. Ramsey had visited her type in the cubicle,

it was changed in his favour soon witness had not gone to the mat-Instrumental-Whistling Rufus.

Instrumental-A Swanco Sing Song. Cross-examined by Mr. Sin, after. Defendant coming in shed again.

Mr. Arculli: Who has the key

Emile Grimshaw's Banjo Quartet. BJ377 witness said he did not see any opposite direction passed

the matshed?-Witness:

from Orchestral-Two

Buck Tim Mr. Graye continued "Since we writing or printing being carried light, but stopped when the con-

still have it.

Timbuctoo. do a considerable amount of trans-out at the time of the raid. He stable called out.

did not find any tickes In the de- Leung Kam Yue, the driver of a

Orchestral You're Mine, You! porting work ourselves' in our own

Ray Noble and His Orchestrá, private car, was similarly fined

B6370 business we arranged that Mr. tendants' possession.

The Chinese detective who ac-for having disobeyed a police Hodge do this work for us. As part of our agreement we agreed companied Inspector O'Donovan signal at the same junction.

Trale Sergeant Winslade said to sell to Mr. Hodge a junk which said the defendants were checking

the tickets when he entered the that he was given the signal to we own and this junk was not in

proceed up Arbuthnot Road, but good condition. We agreed before room.

Mr. Sin contended the absent defendant cut through against the the Junk was turned over to Mr.

der. He asked for a lenient view repairs but there was a constable defendant was the principal offen- red light. The light was under to be taken of the ease. The de-still on duty there, fendants were people of good re

SALE AGREEMENT.

Hodge to do certain repair prork

to this junk,

The Magistrato: I must remind

EXCESSIVE SPEED.;

the the

of

you, Mr. Sin, of the presumption Chan Kam-shing, the driver of a of law at the beginning of the lorry, was fined $20 for driving Gambling Ordinance. Once you at a speed of 24 miles in Hennessy

Mr. Hodge undertook to effect these repairs and on two different | cord. occasions obtained sums of money from us, representing that the work had been actually carried out and that money was required. He made these representations to mo personally. I had no renson to doubt his statement and made the last payment of $45 to him on July 22. He was paid in cash in our office.

FOUND WATERLOGGED.

Witness continued- "He took possession of the junk from 03

are found in the same room where Road.

the tickets are found you arc Lau Shing, the pretty nearly done for. The onus at once shifts on to the defence.

TROUSERS STOLEN

yard on July 23 or 24 stating that THIEF FOUND UNDER

it was being taken to the slipway. And that was the last I heard of

THE BED

He made

When Ma Ka, a trader, living) it until, on July 29, while I was seeing him about some other busi-at No. 19, Catchick Street, woke ness he mentioned that the typhoon up last night, he found his trou- signal was up and that the junk sers missing from a chest of was not on the slipway and he drawers and also a pair of his

wife's earrings. would not be responsible for it. Immediately took my Chineso Plant Superintendent to find the Junk. We found it in a completely waterlogged condition in Laichi- kok Bay. It was abandoned, there

I

driver of a motor van, was similarly fined for driving at 28 miles an hour in Connaught Road, West,

YELLOW RIVER FLOODS

+

EIGHTEEN MILLION

His Lordship gave judgment for plaintiff with costs.

AIR BOMBINGS DEFENDED

LORD. WILLINGDON REVIEWS INDIA

"Simla, Aug. 30. The marked, improvement in the general position of India was stressed to-day by Lord Willing- don, the Viceroy, in an address before both Houses of the Legis- Inture.

Song-Song of Songs. Song Trees.

Derek Oldham (Tenor). B4091 Orchestral Three Wishes Orchestral-Let ma Give my Happl-

ness to You.

Ray Noble and Ifis Orchestra. B0332

9.30.9 p.m. Band and Orchestral Belections

My Dream (Waldteufel), Siren Magic (Waldtoufei),

Marek Weber and His Orchestra. 133627 Pagoda of Flowers (Woodforde-

Finden).

Band of H.M, Coldstream Guards. C1072 Amoureuse (Berger).

Jolly Fellows (Vollstedt). He pointed out that political

International Novelty Orchestra. conditions were better than they

C1082 had been for a considerable time, High School Cadels (Bouan), and that terrorism, while still Under the Double Eagle (Wagner). --~--

19871 menacing, was well in hand.

Referring to the Improvement

Souan's Band. 9-9.30 p.m. From the Studio. Selections by Ted Castro and His 'Boy Friendo.

6.30-10.10 p.m. Operatie. Song Sonnambula-Ahl Sorrow Re-

call Not (Bellini),

in the balance of trade and the strengthening of the Government's sterling balances, the Governor General said that, if the present situation continued, there should. Song-La Traviata-1 Fulfil the SUFFERERS

be no difficulty in establishing a reserve bank (which is an essen- Nanking, Sept. 4.

tial condition for the inauguration How terrible, is

the havoc of an All-India Federation) before awrought by the widespread floods the earliest possible date for the search and when looking under of the Yellow River in Kiangsu, Inauguration of a new constitu- the bed saw Lam Pat was wear-Honan, Shantung, and Hopei is tion. ine his trousers,

rescaled in a statement made by The man appeared before Mr. Afr. Ting Wel-fan, member of the Schofield, at the Central Magis- Central Government Council. tracy this morning, charged with

He said that the whole flooded the larceny of a pair of trousers, and a pair of earrings, and was area covered about fifty districts sentenced to three months hard while the flood sufferers run into iabour. He was discharged on the the number of 18,000,000,

The second count, as the carrings were

the voted by not found on him.

Round of Pleasure (Verdi).

A. M. Guglielmetti (Soprano). D1646 Selection Orchestral Frederica

(Lehar). London Theatre Orchestra. DX132 Vocal Duct-Bohome-Nei Cioli Bigi

(Puccini). Lord Willington defended the Vocal Dust-Boheme-0 Mimi Tu recent bombing on the North-West Plu Non Torni (Puccini),

Dino Borgioli and no Vanelli. Frontier, and declared that 'nel-

D1034 was not a soul on board. It was

ther the canons of international mado fast but very unsecurely.

low nor the dictates of humanity Orchestral--Carmen-Entracts Act 8 Magistrate: I am afraid your

were infringed. whole case is gone. You did not

The Viceroy welcomed the arriv- Orchestral Carmon-Ballet Music

Act 4 (Bizet, hand over the junk until after you |

sum of $4,000,000 husal of Japanese delegates to dis- Sir Henry J. Wood and the New paid the money. You have come

Govern- cuss the competition in the cotton up here for the warrant, wasted Sergeant Davies said that when ment but this is only assign trade, and declared that the men-Chorus-La Boheme-How Deep tho

been

to

defendant was being taken to the ed

the time of the Court, been Shanghai and kept Hodge here,

The facta stated in the charge are not true,

Mr. Graye remarked there might have been confusion in the

dntca.

Magistrate:

You cannot go

back on your own words. You

must not use this Court as a means

for

emergency

reliof. Asares hitherto taken to protect police station, an Indian constable aum far greater will be required the Indian market were in no way Baw something drop to the ground. for repairing dykes and general dictated by a spirit of hostility. He recovered It, and found it to conservancy work on the Yellow

River-Central News Agency. be the pair of earrings.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

"THE MORE CONSCIOUS A PHILO-| The .. "Corfu” left. Singapore for of extracting a civil claim. The BOPHER 18 OF THE WEAK SPOTS IN thin Port on the 2nd instant at noon proper place to settle this is at IS THEORY, THE MORE CERTAIN HE with the outward English Mails, and the Supreme Court.. Stand down, 19 TO SPEAK WITH AN AIR OF FINAL due here on the 6th instant at Mr.

Graye. Defendant is dia- AUTHORITY.”—Don_Marquis, charged.

AMATEUR PHOTO

EXHIBITION

LARGE NUMBERS OF

VISITORS

about noon.

The draw for the Police' Club Brigadier A. J. Ellis, D.S.O., into of the Infantry, arrives in the Colony sweep in the St Leger will take to-morrow on the s/s Corfu en route place on Monday, September 11, at for Tientsin where he will succeed 6 p.m. at the Police Recreation Club, Brigadier F. II. Burnell-Nugent, C.B., Happy Valley, D.S.O., O.B.E. as Commander of the Tientsin Area.

Barracks..

•

Reuter.

ACCIDENT ON THE ISLAND ROAD

MANSLAUGHTER

CHARGE WITHDRAWN

(Bizot),

Queen's Hall Orchestra 7150-M

Thought Is (Puccini).

Chorus La Boheme This Red Sea

Passage (Puccini).

Luigi Marini, Gino Vanelli, Tan- crodi Pasoro and Aristide Baracchl. 0840 10.10-10.30 p.m. Instrumental. Cello Solo-Song without Words, in

D (Mendelssohn). Cello Bolos-(a) Songs my Mother Taught Me (Dvorak). (b) Filght of the Bumble Bes (Rimsky- Korsakow).

Pablo Casals. 7103, Planoforte Solo-Hungarian Rhapsody (No. 12 in C. Sharp Minor) (Liset). Irene Scharrer. 0920 Guitar Solo-Prelude and Allorando

(Bach).

Andres Segovia. 7176 10.80 p.m. To-day's Oponing 10 a.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations

Sub-Inspector Saunders charging Lo Leung, a licensed driver, with the manslaughter of Li Hing, on the Island Road near Repulse Bay on August 24, before Mr. Schofield, to at the Central Magistracy this as received from New York by Messrs.

afternoon, said he had been In- Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, structed to withdraw the charge of manslaughter and to proceed

H.M.S. Cornwall is expected arrive in ilongkong from the North at 2 p.m. to-day, and will sail for Home for re-commission and refit on Friday

FIRST SENTENCED IN DORTMUND FOR DISCUSSING STÅTE. AFFAIRS

10.83 p.m. Close Down. Law Ting-hi, a coolio, charged be.

All records in the above European fore, Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning with the at 6 a.m. and not on Thursday two other charges of dangerous Messrs. Anderson Musle Co, and

on programmes are kindly supplied by larceny of a therrsomoter from the previously. announced..

driving and carrying ton pas-Moutrle & Co. Large numbers of people took Lycomun Barracks, the property of R. Wickens, 12th Heavy Battery,

The highest temperature during the sengers in excess. The case will be advantage of the holiday yester R.A., was bound over in $50 to be month of August was 01 degrees, and dealt summarily... day to visit the amateur photo of good behaviour for one year, and the minimum 78. Although the The charges arise out of an nës graphic exhibition of entries in the warned to keep away from

the maximum was the same last summer, Icident on faland Road on August Telegraph summor competition..

August last year was slightly cooler, 24 when a lorry, No. 2000, driven Successful.competitors are 20-

the minimum temperature recorded by defendant overturned. A coolle Sir William Hornell, Vice-Chan-being 74. quested to call at the Telegraph

who was seated on top with several office for their prizes and awards, cellor of the Hongkong Univerity,

others, substained injuries re- and Professors W. I. Gerrard, and 'G. The name of Mr. H. C. Ng was. Byme returned to the Colony on constable in Wai Hing Lano Jester Mr Hinshing Lo. Instructed by at Dortmund to nine months im-

Chinese Polico sulting in his death in hospital. Inadvertently omitted from the lat Bunday aboard the Lloyt Triestino day, we mentioned before Mr Mr. M. Hall, appeared for the prisonment for talking affairs of of those who were awarded cerliner Conte Verde, which arrived from Wynne-Jones in the Central Police defendant, and pleaded not gullly state in a manner calculated to tificates of merit in the Telegraph Vanice. Professor J. In Davis and Court, this morning. Defendant. Photographic Competition. Mr. Professor and Mrs. J. 1. Sheilshear, Kwong Fun, 24, unlicensed hawker on both chargesZAMERAN Ulsturb the poace, Ng's excellent picture entitled are returning from summer vacation who was charged with the annuit Dr. GH. Thomas, of the Govern. Travel' cams very near to being aboard the 60. liner Corfu, which was not present in court and his bail mont Civil Hospital gave evidence

and the casER I BRO Included among tho prize winners. I docks at Kowloon wharf to-morrow of 350, was OKesätelinge

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