Snatcher Chased In Nathan Rd.
Two Inniskillings Fusiliers and a Portuguese civilian were commended by Mr Latimer at Kowloon today for their part in the apprehension of a anatcher In Nathan Road on Sunday.
The culprit, Cheng Kan, 24, ad- mitted having snatched a gold watch from a woman, Yeung Yuct-ping.
When the raised the alarm, Bald Inspector Orem, Fusiliers Webb and Devlan and Mr J. Gomes gave chaso and arrested Cheng. During the
pursuit, Cheng discarded the watch but later told the woman where he hnd thrown it.
Cheng had four previous convic- tions for similar offences since 1938. He was sentenced to 12 months.
YOUTH PLEADS GUILTY
An unemployed youth, who on Saturday last had pleaded guilty toʻ snatching was giving four months and 10 atrokes by Mr Latimer. The defendant, Io Sze-wing, snatched a wrist watch from Mra P. A. Xavier and pushed her to the ground, caus- ing brulses to her side,
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Chan Ming, 18, wn given months and 10 strokes of the enue. by Mr Latimer for snatching a pair of carrings from a woman in Wing Sing Lane, cousing Injuries to her. and santching a gold wrist watch from another woman at the same place.
Inquiry Into Ship's Fire
fire
PAULA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
By DENNIS WHEATLEY
GOSH! GOOD OF YOU TO COME
BACK AND DO THIS LAST SHOT,
MISS VANE-IT'LL MAKE ALL
THE DIFFERENCE.
GOOD OF ME! STUPID OF ME YOU MEAN TO COME BACK AND CHANCE ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER!
MONDAY, MAY 3, 1948.
Rua Vane is galled Bush to the fim sudió she fian so perform the Dutch Dell Dance,
BIG-HOWS CHERTY, MISS VAHE?
CHERRY? LAT SHE'S AT HOME
IN BED AND SAFE
I HEVER TÍMUGHT 1'0 ENVY [MY OWN
STAND-IH,
TWO MEN ON TRIAL FOR MADE
MURDER OF TAXI-DRIVER
The discovery of a taxi-driver with his face covered with blood at Vic- torin Road, Kennedy Town, towards midnight on February 10 was described by a constable at the Criminal Sessions this morning during the trial, on a charge of murder, of two unemployed coolies,
Accused are Leung Wing and Leung Ngau, both 24, and they are charged with the murder of Ip Woon-ning. 33-year-old driver of the Dragon Motor Company.
Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, asslated by Inspector G, E. Willerton, Is for the prosecution. Accused are defended by Mr Brook A, Bernacchi, instructed by Mr J. C. Stewart.
The trial is before Mr Justice Williams and a Jury which includes
four women.
'On February 18, the Police went to a teahouse where they found hath with a man Accused in company
Wan Kam. They nomed
were questioned regarding the crime and both Accused denied knowing any- thing. First accused said he was with his younger sister and nephew that
night from p.m. onwards, while the second accused told the Police he was not in the Colony at the time.
death penalty. There was no ob- that first Accused had borrowed it
with
DR DIGBY'S
CHAUFFEUR NOT GUILTY
against Wong)
A summons Slu-ming, chauffeur employed by Dr K. H. Digby of 211
Gloucester Bullding, for driving without due care and caution in Queen's Road East on March 11,
Tam
Central Court this following closing
was dismissed by Mr Thomas
at
and defence.
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Charged at
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Court this morning with obstruction and hawking without a licence, Chan Sik, 20, was sentenced by Mr Blair-Kerr to three months and expulsion as a destitute when it was found that he hawked cigarettes mado from butts.
Ashing for confiscation of the cigarettes for destruction, Sub-Inspector Howarth said there was also a small collection of butts found on Chan, who was arrested in Canton Road on Saturday.
CLERK ADMITS LARCENY OF LAMP BULBS
Two tons of cheese and most of the Ateering wheel and on the left hand. Kam that, on the Elven by Wan Inspector to brake sharply to avoid when he pleaded guilty to 10
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Not satisfied with their explana- tions, the Police took them to the Station, Wan Kam accompanying them for further la- After the Jury had been em- quiries. At the station, the knife, panelled. His Lordship Inquired if any of them had objections to hear-cunt and two hats were shown, and Van sald in the presence of both ing a capital case Involving the Accused that the coat was his and iretion.
from him on the night of the Melbourne, May 2-Police .and
crime. sold Mr Lonsdale
Ip was em First
Accused said it was correct experis today opened an in-ployed as a night driver by the and vestigation into a re last night on | Dragon Motor Company, and on the 2nd he was immediately cautioned morning, board the 7,400-ton British freighter, night in question he was known to It appeared that both Accused were addresses by the prosecution Pemba-the fourth mysterious fire have left the garage with a public also under
under the impression that Wan was in the ship in seven weeks.
vehicle,
arrest, for they asked That was about 8 p.m. and
The incident, necording to the The lust time the Temba caught nothing more was known of him the Police to release him, saying he fire, also at Melbourne,
prosecution, occurred near the Junc-: aald they
the police until he was found in Victoria Road had nothing to do with it. nuspected saboteurą of
tion of Queen's Rond East and Hen- about 11.40 p.m. He was wounded
E. F. Passos, 32, clerk of trying to sink her.
NOT STRONG ENOUGH The new out-
and covered with blood. The car was
nessy Road. A car driven by Wong break was confined to the ship's No, slanding some distance away
Subsequently, Mr Lonsdale con- was alleged to have crossed the road Mesara Andersen, Meyer and 5 hold, among wool and general the lights on and the doors open.tinued, second Accused made state-in front of a Polico car driven by Company, was fined $3,000 or cargo, and was under control in an There were bloodstains on the leftments to the effect that a man Sub-Inspector W. Eggleston of the 20 months by Mr Hin-shing Lo hour.
Traffic Department, hand alde of the car behind the named Li Fai stabbed the driver.
causing the at Central Court this morning Evidence would be
the night in question, a collision. both Accused went to the coolic quarters in Central Market and then
alleged that the Police car was approaching at such The removal of the cargo started
left, with Li Fal. First Accused borrowed bis (Wan's) raincoat and swerve to avoid being hit. In the a terrific speed that Wung had to tonight. The caplain said no official
n knife which was stained with hat and second Accused was wear- report was possible till this hindblood, and further on were pieces ing a grey felt hat. About 1 a.m.
car were Dr Digby and Dr She been completed.
of paper, also bloodstained, in-second Accused returned and told Man-wai, who were on their way to
the cargo was dicating the line of fight towards Wan that he, Brst Accused and LI
Young Wo Hospital, Happy the waterfront.
had tried to rob a driver in Ken-
Valley. nedy Town, that the three of them
Mr D. B. Evans, for the defence, were not strong enough to over-submitted that the evidence of the come their victim, that another car Inspector was entirely uncorroborat- hon, of Shaukiwan Police Station. then came along and that they had to ed in every material respect. Deal-stated that on April 22 defendant run DwBy without taking money.
anying with the Inspector's evidence telephoned the Sheung Yuet Elec- According to Wan, second that he had looked twice at his trical Company in Shanghal Street, Accused also told him that It was
speedometer and found
sal who agreed to himself
buy 12 cortons of L who stubbed the driver.
doing 18% malles
GE bulbs from him at 50 cents per per hour just bulb. Passos then, without authori Mr Lonsdale concluded by point- prior ing out to the fury that besides the
four cargo was ruined by fire and woter.
Most of the Pemba's destroyed in the previous blaze.
The first two Gres were also al Australian ports-one at Melbourne, the other at Sydney,
The ship is owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company, and manned by 12 Europeans and 60 Indians. Her run is between Aur- tralia, India and East Africa,
The 7,000-ton Chycbassa, owned by the same company, has been docked at since she
twice ablaze
front door.
Under the steering wheel was a frey felt hat and a 10-cent note. About 15 yards from the vehicle was
HAT, RAINCOAT FOUND The Police were summoned to the
spot and the next day, as the result of a report, they went to a jetty near the scene where they found a raincont and a brown felt hat, which were bloodstained.
Continuing, Mr Lonsdale said that the driver had wounds on the left side of the head and this, coupled with the stains in the car, Indicated
Melbourne three months ago that he was stabbed from outside
Router.
while in his scat.
British Reinforcements
Arrive At
At Haifa
(Continued from Page 1)
statements
made by Accused the was entirely circumstan-
fully re covered consciousness before he died 10 days later, but he submitted i was strong enough for a verdict of guilty.
tial, as the driver never ovidence
MEDICAL EVIDENCE
The defence
remarked
to the incident, Counsel
counts of larceny by servant of 84 cartons of GE lamp bulbs, valued at $6,310, between Janu» ary and April 1948, -
2
Passos, who offered to make was ordered to pay this sum or, in refund of $1,000 to the Company,
addition,, serve another month.
Det. Sub-Inspector Lam Yung-
that any driver whoty, issued a delivery order to the looked at his speedometer with godown for the goods, which were traffic as it was at present was only delivered to the Sheung Yuct Com- looking for trouble.
pany.
DISCREPANCIES
As
MATTER REPORTED
He submitted that the discrepan-
The same day, Inspector Lam cles in the evidence were glaring, continued, the godown keeper hap- and that one side or the other was pened to be in the town office and Dr D. W. Gould, Government deliberately fabricating a story. mentioned the fact to the cashier, medical officer, testined to having officer's frame of mind, Counsel reported the matter to Mr Fortrude,
example an
of the
asking if payment for the bulbs had prosecuting been received. The cashier in turn found splashes of blood on the raincited an incident which occurred last the manager, and defendant, who coat and the brown felt hat. On the Thursday when he suggested an admitted the offence, was taken into knife were bloodstains and hairt adjournment after the defendant had custody. Defendant The Arab driven car in which I in the vehicles. I heard two loud which came from the same head as given his evidence. To his
further ad- was riding in the middle of this heavy thuds, distinguished from the specimen handed to him by In-
great mitted nine other deals with the with Charles Thetford, previous riflecracks,
astonishment and resentment, the Sheung Yuet Company. spector Willerton. former news officer of the Palestine They's using mortars," yelled a Government and
Dr Gould said the bloodstains on prosecuting officer opposed the ad- two Palestinian soldier. A second mortar shell got
the coat were
Only 12 cartons, valued at $900, Arabs, started out alone from Jeru-Bennett. Only a few minutes later
consistent with the Journment on the
(Counsel) would apprise the de- had been recovered. Defendant had wearer being two or three feet away fence witnesses of what had occurred given every assistance to the police salem for Cairo at 7 am, on Satur-hrip came. Four armoured cars day morning.
rolled ranjestically down the high- However, the stains were also con-insuit not only to himself but to the Lum concluded.
are from the actual scene of the nasault, in Court. It was a most gratultons In their investigations, Inspector A few miles south of Bethlehem, way from the direction of sistent with the wearer attacking two doctors who were the witnesses, a shepherd boy waved and shouted Bethlehem, black berets of Life frantically as our car passed, We Guards poking out of the turret of
the driver just outside the car while goid Mr Evans. stopped and waited.
two, the red and white checked latter, was in his seat. khana of Transjordan's Arab Constable 1607 told the Court that Legion. of
about 11,40 p.m. on February 10 he was on patrol in Catchick Street
convoy,
A truck filled with armed Arabs appeared from the direction Bethlehem, and proceeded along.
an
"Kemel Salalah, driver of the last
A British truck convoy in which car to convoy out that he when he heard cries of "Save Life"
bus containing many had gone for help when the Oghting twice. Ho then went to Victoria of evidence. women had already taken refuge, started, and had found the armoured Itoad with a view to tracing the arrived a few minutes later and our cars in Bethlehem." waiting cars swung in between the trucks.
Slowly we erept around the last intervening hill and into the wide valley which Kfar commands.
JEWS OPEN FIRE
On the exposed hillsithe across this valley Arab riflemen were running armoured cars kept the rottlement and crouching among the rocks. covered the wrecker that came with Jews waited until the convoy was them lulled our car out of the ditch well spread before them, then they and the convoy began sorting itself opened fire from behind
wall.
a stone
out.
WAS AN OLD SOLDIER
The Arab bus stopped and most afila passengers jumped out and ran to shelter in a roadsido ditch Herbert away from the ambush. One truck man, was out of ammunition and
I walked up the hill and met Lt Ho cald he had lost one
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Mr W. M. Pertrude, manager of Andersen, Meyer and Company, sald Suggesting that some
defendant was a trusted employee persons had perjured themselves, and had keys to their godowns Mr Evans declared that a conviction whenever he needed them. He was in charge of incoming and outgoing videinst the whole weight cargo. Since the first loss was re- ported, the Company took an inven- cries and there saw Ip running to-
NOT CHALLENGED
tory of their stock and discovered They moved through the convoy wards him with his face covered
that 14,750 bulbs were missing. The to the top of hill on the far side with blood. In the vicinity was a caid that the prosecution
Sub-Insp. Eggleston, of the valley, then threw two pound car the lights of which were on.
replying, Sheung Yuet Company admitted buying 8,880, and there were about shells into the settlement.
have been undertaken
to 6,000 lamps not accounted for. The After making a report Arab
Legion riflemen dropped station, he took Ip to hospital. JP unable to do so owing to pressure of since December 1946, and had been Crown total value was $10,000, he added. to the Counsel who, however, had been Defendant into
the ditch beside us and blazed
had been with the firm was unable to give any coherent other work. nas!!
Low minutes the Jewish story. away. In
He submitted that the very satisfactory. positions became silent. While the
The case is proceeding.
evidence of the prosecution had not been challenged and the defence ap- Pleading for leniency, Passos said peared to rest on an allegation of he committed the offence as a result excessive speed on the part of the of the illness of his young son, At Police car. It was the prosecution's that time he was receiving a salary case that the defendant was guilty of $420 per month. He borrowed a
LADIES/GENTLEMEN of careless driving, and the Inspector certain sum of money from a friend
-Bring your hair and beauty naked that the man's licence bo in order to treat his child, and when problems to BETENS, the Coolest, endorsed.
pressed for repayment was unable most hygienic and up-to-date to do so. stopped and lurched backward had some of his trucks shot up. He
Giving his decision, Mr Tam, re-
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beauty salons in town. Main A sum of $300 was demanded by viewing the evidence, said it was against another patting it out of would have to turn around and go
So hard-pressed a ship repairer, Yau Lol, from Kwok extremely
and desperate that, acting on shop: Exchange Bldgs., Hong- conflicting. commission,
Bullets cracked off
back.
Yult for the privilege of marrying had given a plausible explanation offence. I
Defendant sudden impulse, I committed the kong. Tel. 33161. Branch: the rocks Grim faced Tommica told
•around ou
You's common-law wife, it was dis and his evidence was corroborated wrong," he said.
have done Peninsula We tumbled out
Arcade, Kowloon. ourselves flat in the ditch something about dead Corporal closed at Kowloon court this morn-in material particulars by his c
Tel. 58081. as fast as possible.
Bennett. They know him as Yorkle,
Ing.
According
ployer and another passenger in the
OFFERS RESTITUTION Tommies and Mauritian Soldiers and thought ho
Sub-Inspector WILE from spme Howarth, You and the woman Chung car. fred back with two Bren.guns and place around York, but maybe it Ying lived together for about a year, rifies. Their arms ro too light to
was Birmingham. He was an old and then due to family squabbles make any Impression on the men through World War II with the 8th
soldier they said, he had gone were separated by the SCA As the behind the stone wall.
could not earn her Under fire, soldiers manned
own living. a Army only to ba killed in Pales Chung married Kwok, wrecker and tried to salvage the tine.
As soon as he learnt of this, Yau amashed truck. We lay for a long Bennett's body had been pleked went to Kwok and naked for $300 timo beneath the roads shoulder, up before. I reached where he died.
"compensation.". On the evening of trying to figure out what to do.
April
20 Yau, with another man, I found two holes in the ground DASH FOR BUS
eight or ten feet apart. Bennett's
walted for Kwok in the Kowloon Far away
theberet lay nearby. I ran back down Tong Cemetery which convoy, Corporal Bennett made a dash with an Arab driver for tho stalled bus. They hoped to drive it to pafety on the other sido of the hilltop.
Second Lt Dorok Herbert ots Hillingdon, Middlesex, sald some
· passengers were believed to be still
our car.
at the end of
me
he length of the convoy trying to earn his first name and home town. Our car began to move and we had to climbs in and give it up.
As wo passed, Bennett's cap was
lying there on the ground be side a small bloody, mortar crater.-- Associated Press.
to
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
know
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2.
Passos offened restitution in the MARINE COURT.
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sum of $1,000. He said he had spent tha rest of the money to provide things for his family and himself, reserved for Government craft
For being anchored In the area things. which he could never hope to the Yaumati Typhoon Shelter, the
afford otherwise.
the
'mistress of a sampon was Aned $15 He was employed in a Dutch bank Marine Court this morning..
or three days by Mr Cairns at the before the war, and during occupation went to Macao. He was a temporary junk inspector after the war.
of 30 paintings of he usually An exhibition passed on his way home, and Yau | Hongkong Gowers and fruits, by Dr ogain asked for $500 and threatened G. A. Herklots, will be held in tho Kwok with assault. All the parties Board Room, Morning Post Build then went to the SCA, who advised Ing from 10 am to 7 pm. tomorrowstances of the case into considera- was leaking so she kept the licenco the Polico to prosecute.
(Tuesday) and Wednesday.
You, who admitted asking Kwok
for money, was sentenced to, three Members of the public are cordial months by Mr Blair-Kerr for do-ly invited to inspect this unique manding money with menaces. collection' of paintings,
Tho mistress of a Class I boat was cautioned for falling to produce her Passing sentence, Mr Hin-shing Loilcence when called upon to do so. said he had taken all the circum-She plended that her small boat tion, and in view of the fact that on the "Mother" boat. She was conviction alone would possibly de-warned that she was liable to a prive him of future employment in fine of $200, and advised not the Colony, gave defendant the appear before the Court again on a uption of a fino
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