1939-06-12 — Page 27

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 12, 1939,

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This Morning's Local Police Court Cases

HIT SOMEONE YOUR

OWN SIZE SAYS MAGISTRATE TO MAN

"IF you hit her any more I will put you in prison. Hit someone of your own size. You are a man," said Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day to Hung Wing, 28, a stoker, who was charged with assulting Lam Yuk, 24, described as a kept woman,

Sergeant Whitley said that on Saturday Fung returned to his home and discovered that some vegetables he had brought home had been given away by Lam who said she had thought the vegetables were turning bad.

ensued, and Fung was said to have struck Lan with his fist. The woman refused to go to hospital,

An Argument

.

Lam was in Court, with her left eye bruised and an injury just above; the eye.

Asked if the two of them would remain staying with each other, Fung said: Yes. If she keeps her place as a wife I will. If she doesn't, then I have nothing to say."

Mr. Himsworth then admonished

Fung and fined him $4 and further bound him over in $10 to keep the peace for 12 months.

Prison And Cane For Larceny

Ileavy prison terms and canings were imposed on two men when they were charged before the Magistrates al the Kowloon Court this morning with larceny, connected with match- ing incidents.

Li lu-ming, 23, was sentenced tof xlx months hard labour and 12 strokes of the cane by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen for snatching a pair of carrings from Mrs. Shek Miu-hing .50, of 23 Jordan Road.

Inspector Wright sold that Mrs. Shek was walking in the Yaumati district when Li went behind her and snatched the pair of earrings she was wearing. One of the wontan's ears was hurt by the snatching.

Warning To Bus

Passengers Woman Badly Injured

With long pieces of plasters attached to her lower and upper lipa and marks on both sides the fore- head, Chan Slu-wal, 22, appeared before Mir. Q. A. A. Mocfadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day charged with alighting from moving bus

Inspector Wright said that the ac- eldent occurred on June 6 when a Kowloon Motor bus was in Nathan Road near Dundas Street.

The woman said that she was just leaving the bus when she fell.

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Breach Of

Cholera Regulations

SAID to have had four to five pounds of loo creaza for sale

Reclamation Street

near Argyle Street, Mongkok, yester- day, Li Sze, 69, a woman ap- peared before Mr. E. Himsworth

the

Kowloon Magistracy yesterday charged with breach of emergency (Cholera) regula- tions by selling ice-cream with- out a permil

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Li admitted the charge and was fined $5 or 19 days imprt- Konment.

Sub-Inspector Whelan pro-

secuted.

BICYCLE

WITH

A HORN!

Unusual Offence Told To Court

WIFE SAYS SHE WAS MADE TO BECOME A MUI TSAI

THAT she had been married to the defendant in the country and had then been turned into a mui-tral when she was brought to Hongkong was the allogation made by Cheng Ngau, 18, against Wong Chiu-tung, 37, when she appeared as complainant in a casp before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day.

Wong was charged with keeping an unregistered mul-tsal, ill-treat- ment of a mul-tzel' and common us- sault,

his con- Woo and

two Testifying, Cheng sold that years ago when, she was in the coun- try her mother requested her to marry the defendant 05 cubine. She consented, married. However, the defendant had no Intimacy with her.

When she was brought to Hong- kong, continued Cheng she lived hia kit-fat with the defendant and wife in a house at Talkuling Road, She had to do general household work and was not allowed to go out. She received no money from the defendant, and had her meals apart from the family.

Hit With Rattan

Roosevelt Invited

To London Their Majesties' Restful Sunday

LONDON, June 11. THE London newspapers re-

her port that Their Majesties have President and Mrs.

mui-tsal because she

ingham Palace.

On May 22, at 5 pm, the defend- ant's wife told her to change clothing and when she replied that invited she had no clothes to change she was Roosevelt to visit them in Lon- struck by both the defendant and don. They would stay at Buck- his wife. A plece of rattan was used to kit her. She left the house at the

Meanwhile, it is reported from Arst opportunity and reported to the

Hyde Park, that in accordance Inspector Wright: The. defen- AN unusual type of traffic Police. dant's injuries appear to have been offence was dealt with by Mr. Etion as that of

Cheng said she regarded her post with, diplomatic etiquette, it is very painful, and I think that the

Himsworth at the Kowloon had to do the household work. Ne understood that King George has invited his hosts to visit has been punished fairly well.

Chan

cautioned and lis-Magistracy to-day, when Chiu money was paid to her.

However, The defendant said: "I lost my England.

reliable charged.

Shing-fat, 30, was charged with breach of the traffic regulations temper and I did strike her." He sources say that the President however, denied that the girl was a by having a horn on the bicycle.mui-tsal, saying that his wife also will probably delay his decision Sub-Inspector Whelan said that helped Cheng to do work at home. on the subject until some time Chiu

next year-United Press. detained in Shanghai Cheng admitted this. was Street near Mongkok Road on Satur-

Eat Hot 'Dogs day. Apart from having a bell on the bicycle there was also a horn. The horn was sounded in Court.

Pick-Pockets

A Menace

"You pick-pockets are becoming a positive menace to Kowloon," said Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when pass ing sentence of four months hard labour on Chau Kam-shing, 33, who was charged with stealing one cent from Tong Chiu, 16.

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S I. Whelan sald: He has a bell and a horn. It is rather an up-to- date bicycle.

Mr. Himsworth to Chiu: You must have the horn taken off. You are

Chiu was fined $1. only to have a beli.

Caught In Act

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The defendant: I paid $100 to the girl's father as a prize for the giri to become my concubine. There is a marriage certificute, but it is in the country.

Hyde Park, June 11, The plebian but succulent hot dog enjoyed a social triumph to-day the piece de resistance at the plenie given in honour of King George and Roosevelt Queen Elizabeth on the estate.

Mr. Himsworth addressed Mr. H. W. Fraser of the S.C.A., who pro- secuted, and sald: I think you ought this document if he wants to.

Both their Majesties said they en- to give him an opportunity to get Mr. Fraser agreed, but pointed out

toyed it, and it is understood they that the girl herself had

had both looked forward for a long that she had been presented to theme to sampling this great American defendant as a concubine, but that her status had been changed from that of a concubine to that of a mui-

tsat.

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Sub-Inspector Whelan said that Li ran through two streets to es- Tong was listening to a radio broad- Shanghai Was urrested in cost outside a shop cape arrest but Woosung Street by Wong Nam, 31. Street near Argyle Street, Mongkok,

Caught In the actual act of pouring

Mr. Himsworth remarked that a broker of 47 Woosung Street, first on Saturday when a district watch-

alleyway ocar floor.

man saw and arrested Chau for steal-night-soll in

Roadman's wife might be treated as n Possession Street, Queen's

domestic servant, but that that did previous conviction Li had a

for ing a cent from Tung's pocket.

32 married woman. larceny, the offence having been com-

Chau had three previous convie-West, So Ho,

was fined $15 or three weeks hard not make her a domestic servant. milled lust munth.

tlons,

labour by Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy this morning Sub-Inspector G. W. Moreton pro-

Ho Kam, 20, was sentenced to four months' hard labour and 10 strokes of the cane for snatching a wrist watch

from Yiu Chuen-lan, an 18-year-old Theft From Ferry

girl who was walking in Tung Chol :Street neat Nullah Rand yesterday. Ho had one previous conviction.

Wharf

A fine of $20 or a month's hard

Registry Wedding abour was imposed on Yeung Tal-

secuted."

Lift For Friend Costs $5

Arrested by an Indian constable at near Castle Road.

fuk, 22, unemployed, by Mr. R. Mr. W. C. Un, Chinese maritime Edwards at the Central Magistracy Customs official formerly working at this morning for the theft of two Conduit Road,

night, the Samshui office and Miss Mimi electric bulbs from the Vehicular carrying a friend on the back of his Chan Chuch, Wan were married this morning at Ferry Wharf. Yeung was met by a bleycle last theRegistry. The bride's father, Chinese detective in Connaught Road 25, shop foki, was fined $5 by Mr. R. Mr. H. C. Wan is a well-known ship- Central, and admitted the theft. Edwards at the Central Magistracy

Inspector H. Hallam prosecuted. this morning. ping merchant in Manila.

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The case was adjourned for a month, to enable the defendant to obtain the marriage document.

Stole Shoes To Get A Gold Ring

delicacy.

The Royal Party earlier attended divine service at St. James Episcopal Church after a three mile motor drive

President Roosevelt personally drove the British sovereigns to the picnic and also to his Dutch cottage.

For the remainder of their stay, until they depart for Halifax, Nova Scotia at 11 p.m. their Majestics will be left undisturbed to themselves. United Press,

Picnic Informality

Hyde Park, U.S.A., June 11. Complete Informality reigned at a picnic held on the terrace of the wooded slopes round President Roose- velt's cottage while the distinguished guests sat at eight tables on the terrace and friends and neighbours sat among the nearby trees.

Food, which was served on paper Mrs. Roosevelt cir-

His desire for a gold finger ring plates which

led a young Chinese to steal, and he culated among the guesta, consisted found himself, this morning before of hot dogs, cold turkey, pork and

at the Central beans, with beer and soft drinks. Mr. R.. Edwards

Over 100 people were

ere presented to Magistracy, sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

Their Majestles ot the pienie which Wong Yat-tong, 22, unemployed, was followed by a musical programme was charged with the theft of three featuring American Indians headed

Princess

Tento. His Majesty pairs of new leather shoes from the by Peking, Shoe Store, Des Voeux Road filmed the scene with his cine camera. The plenic Insted until 4 p.m. when Central, while being employed there.

Detective-Sergeant Allen said that the President drove his guests at high Chinese detective saw Wong pawn- speed to his wife's coltage where tea ing a pair of new shoes; when ques- was served. tioned he said they were his pro- perty. But the shoes did not fit him: and he admitted stealing them from his employer.

Later Wang confessed that he had on previous occasions stolen two pairs of shoes. He bought a gold finger ring with the money which he got from the pawn-brokers.

Seventy cents found in his posses- slon when arrested was ordered to be given to Peking Shoe Store, as compensation.

Dollar Rate May Be Above 6d.

President Roosevelt's mother was dinner to hostess at the farewell Their Majestics in the evening.

The King presented Mr. Roosevelt with a gold inkpot bearing the Royal coat-of-arms-Reuter.

Loiterer Falls, Hurts Himself

Sentence of six months' hard inbour was passed on Ng Ting, 40, unemploy- ed, when he appeared before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis- traży to-day charged with being found at night in a dwelling house, 20

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the Chinese Exchange Fund will that at 2 am on June 8 the defend- the new ant was found on the stairway nt presumably adopt it as official peg and stabilise accordingly No. 28 Austin Avenue. He tried-to- but it would be unwire to regard any escape detention by struggling with such stabilisation as anal.

the people who held him, and in doing The authorities were condent ofse he fell and hurt his head. He was sent to hospital and released ол holding the rate at 84d when the

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Popular Front Plan Discarded

London, June 11.

A conference of committees form-

Ng had seven previous convictions, three of which were for breach of the Deportation Ordinance. He was also charged with being a life banishes und returning to Hongkong, and on this count he was remanded for weck, the ease being for the Aryslots,

Madame Ma In Hongkong

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ed to deal with petitions, for the formation of B Popular Front,

Madame Mn Chao-chub, general held a meeting in London to-day. executive of the National Women's;|

General Association, who when it was decided, after hearing Reilef Sir Stafford Cripps state that a Popul recently arrived In-Hongkong-from- for. Front was not politically practic- Chunking on official mission, visited

blo, that the campaign should be the refugees at Shumchun yesterday.. forthwith wound up and the local She had also virited the refuvees in.

and and contral committees disbanded Macao Reuter

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