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April 21, 1939.

Border Murder Drama Revealed In Vengeance Killing Case

MURDER, alleged by the Crown to be the outcome of a family foud, was the charge upon which Wong Kam-wan, 24, was arraigned be- fore the Chief Justice Sir Atholl MacGregor at the Criminal Sessions this morning. The incident occurred at Lokmachau on January 5, Wong Chung, 41, and Ng Cheung-leung, 37, husband and wife, boing shot to death.

Mr. T. F. Lo, instructed by Mr. W. A. Brown, appeared for the accused, and Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, prosecuted.

dition gradually Improved and on! January 29 he was discharged.

Burned With Cordita

The deceased woman had a bulleti wound right through the head, the entrance mark being burned black by the exploding cordilte.

The Jury were Mesars, V. J. da Motta (foreman), Ho Kam-sang. On March 10, defendant was sceni Chan Chu-kwong, Leo Kan-chung, by n detective in Ynumall, was arrest- Fung Chok-lan, Chung Pak-cheunged, and was charged with the murder and Cheng Fan.

Mr. Whyatt explained to the jury that though two people had been murdered, it was only necessary for the Crown to prosecute on the death of one of those people. Wong Kau, he added, their 12-year-old-son, had also been shot in the neck, the bullet missing the spinal chord by a very re- narrow margin. He had since covered.

of the woman and the mun.

on

Lump Of Skin Is Grizzly Court Exhibit

Japanese Doctor. Is Summoned

A plece of human ekin, a foot long

In answer he said that when he was two years of age, his father had one with Wong Chung and Wong Chol to Germany. Wong Chung had borrowed £10 from his

his father, and this debt gave rise to a quarrel in which blows were exchanged. Wong and five inches wide, was the some- Chung then went to buy a gun with what grizzly exhibit in a case at the

Central Magistracy this morning. which to kill defendant's father.

who Court spectators' blood curdled still Wong Chola son, the man had not

he more when Sub-Inspector W. Armitt been arrested, and Border Hostilities

good terms, said the skin came off a man's arm (defendant) were When Wong Chol was dying, he told and was found resting on the handle Wong Chung, he stated, was from defendant that his father had not of a car after on accident in Queen's Tak Tin Village, in Chinese territory. died from natural causes,

but had Road Central,

The case concerned the summoning In consequence of the Japanese been killed by Wong Chung. hostilities he had moved into Hong-

Defendant's statement in the Magis- of Dr. M. Shimokawn of the Glouces kong, and had erected a matshed in tracy, concluded Mr, Whyatt, was ter Building for falling to stop after an open paddy field at San Ti. Other that Wong Chung took out a gun to a collision, and with driving without than the three members the kill them. They took the gun from due care and caution en-April 1.

Traffic-sergeant W. T. Surgent said family who, were shot, there was him and used it to shoot him.

Shimokawa

driving E car was and another son, Wong Cheuk,

Mr. Whyatt here emphasised

the Dr. daughter, Wong Man-hui.

importance of the difference in bullets along Queen's Road Central when he found on the premises, und stated that apparently collided with a man who the lead bullet could not have been was walking in the same direction, ared from an automatic, as had been close to the Hongkong Bank the cupro-nickel bullets. There must, park. Dr. Shimokawa continued on therefore, have been two guns.

his way and parked his car in Jackson Road. The accident was never 're-

of

д

On January 5, the family went to bed between 7 and 8 p.m., Wong Chung remaining on his bed smoking opium. About 11 p.m. or midnight, the daughter was awakened by volces, and looking up saw two men sitting on stools facing her father. The two men were defendant and Wong Hoi- not been arrested, chal, who has

She heard her father suggest that supper be taken. and then some time

The case is continuing.

Social Items

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police.

The only thing the injured could remember, said the

car

man sergeant, wns that he was knocked down from behind, and then he became uncon- scious. A medical report stated that The wedding took place before Mr. the man will be in hospital for at

Gould, Deputy Registrar of least another month.

later heard one of the men say that they had bought two guns. She T. J. heurd her father say to them that if Marriages, at the Registry yesterday. they had money to buy runs they between Mr. Tong Tak-ko, clerk of were no actual witnesses of the ac-. should pay him back $100.

Yee Tsoong Tobacco Distributors cident.

Saw Father Shot

Sub-Inspector Armill said there

Ltd. and Miss Ho Chol-kwal, who In answer to the summons, Dr. has been residing at the Luk Tung Shimokawa said he was not aware Hotel. The witnesses were Mrs. there had been an accident. He was Leung Fung-shi and Mr. Tong Chun- driving the car very carefully at the| ehung.

time.

About 2 am, the girl was again disturbed by noises in the matshed, and saw her father being hustled

Hearing of the case was dien nd- out of the room by the two men. Her mother got up and was followeddings are announced:

The following, forthcoming wed-journed until Friday, May 19. by Wong Kau, the small boy, into the Mr. Vincent Hubert kitchen. The girl then heard shots,

Charles

and going to the kitchen saw her Jarrett, ossistant editor, South China mother lying on the ground. Defen- Morning Post, to Miss Ethel Ruth Wennech Smeby, of 23 Peak Man- dant and Wong Hol-chai had guns sions; Captain Francis James Wylie,

Boy Gives His

In their hands. She saw these men

ensions of 2 Thorpe Mensions, May Arm For Dove

fire four or five shots at her father, saw him fall, and then ran back to her roomt. where she hid in her bed. covered by the bedclothes.

Roud, ไอ Miss Pamela Rou

of a Portman Mansions, Barrow, London,

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who is en route to the Colony on the Ranchi; and Mr. Harold Wilson Brown, engineer, to Miss Constance Una Mitchell, of 3 Austin Avenue, Kowloon,

Thirteen-year-old Bob Wilson was indignant when he found that some of his boy friends had a nest with a tiny dove in 1 For they had taken it from a tree- top in Whitemore Square, Adelaide, South Australia.

The little boy, however, was not so fost and was shot through the neck. He managed to scramble under his father's bed, and from there called out to his sister that he had been The wedding took place recently

There was a scule. Finally Bob. shot. Later, hearing voices going at St. George's Church, Penang, of secured the nest with the fledgling

bed, Mr. the

Arthur Charles Buckle, only still in it and climbed twenty feet away, the girl got from pulled her brother from under her son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Buckle of to replace it on the tree-top. father's bed, and then went to the Sutton, Surrey, England, and Miss A bough broke and he fell to the

Daphne Lupprinn, only assistance of her father. She helped Edrys

him to us bed his clothes were daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. V. ground, breaking his left arm. And saturated with blood--and being with- Lupprian of Fenang. The bride-now the arm has had to be amputated

to prevent the spread of infection. of Kennedy, "I wanted to be a sailor, but I won't out assistance, kept dreadful watch grooin is Secretary there through the remainder of the Burkill and Co, Ltd., Penang.

be much good at that now," Bob sald night until dawn, when she collapsed.

after the operation.

Message To Shumchun

A quiet wedding took place at Chiswick Methodist Church on April

6 of Miss Kathleen Crook, elder: At daybreak she sent a message daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. over to Shumchun to her uncle, who Crooks, formerly of Hongkong and Mr. John soon came aver and brought with now of Shanghal, to him a Chinese doctor, who helped Saxton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry to stop the bleeding.

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Report was made to the Police, and Sergeant Galvin set out to investigate. Wong Chung and Wong Kau, and the deni woman, were still

lying there, the former, both living, but bleeding. badly. They were transported to the Kowloon Hospital. Sergeant Galvin found two cupro-nicke! bullets, a lead bullet and two cartridge cases. sword was also found.

At the Kowloon Hospital Wong bullet Chung was found to wound right through his chest, enter ing the front and coming out of the buck, his left elbow had been com- pletely shattered by a bullet, and bullet had passed through the top

have

Saxton, of Old Sawley, Notts. Mr. Crook was formerly Headmaster of queen's College, Hongicong, and a well-known natural historian and tennis player.

Gila Monster Bites Boy

Castra Valley, Cal.

looked Jackie Howell, 12,

down between two rocks and saw what to all appearances was a woman's purse, the He reached down to pirk "purse" and it bit him. "It developed that it was a Gila monster, 19 inches uf his skull and was lodged in the long, one of the largest of its kind. brain. He was then still living, but However, the purce idea still persist- two days later died.

ed, and after killing the monster with

The boy's condition was not so stones. he skinned it and took the serlous, though the bullet had barely pelt home to have a purse made for missed the spinal chord. Ils con-his mother.

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On Tuesday, Wong went to Luj's shop in Water Street, West Point,

and produced a letter, saying he was Chan Kwal-hung, Lul, however, had seen from the first that the letter from Macao was not - in his cousin's handwriting, and, detained

They were

Before Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Wong Wong who said two people had seat Wing-nuen, Ng Taal, and Chan Yee, him with the letter.

at waiting for him to return in Des a woman were charged with

West. Lui sent an tempting to obtain money by false Voeux Road pretences and conspiracy to defraud, assistant to the spot and he returned with Ng and Chan: The police were They denied the charges.

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All defendants were convicted. Detective-Sergeant R. Macvey Bald that a few days ago, a shop-keeper, Wong and Ng. were sentenced.. Lul Pak-yuen, received a letter pur-three months. hard labour on cach porting to have been written by his count, and the woman received sen- cousin is Macao, and which con- tence of six months' hard labour an tained a request that money was to each count, as she had two previous be handed to a man named Chan convictions. All the sentences Kwal-hung, who would call for it. to run concurrenty.

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