P.W.D. LARCENY TRIAL:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 1,-1949.
Witness Admits May
Improved System
"EASY FOR FOREMEN TO STEAL
GOODS BEFORE THE WAR"
J. C. Brown, Chief Electrical and Mechanical Engineer of the Public Works Department, was cross-examined by Mr A. J. Clifford at the Criminal Sessions this morning when the PWD larceny trial hearing was resumed before Mr Justice Williams and a jury com- prising five men and two women.
Facing three charges of theft by public servant and falsification of accounts with intent to defraud the Government are Kwok Kwong, 47, foreman, and Arthur Frederick May, 41, electrical inspector,'grade 1, May is defended by Mr Clifford, on the instructions of Mr J. C. Stewart, Kwok is not legally represent ed.
Brown agreed that as far as Prosecuting on behalf of: the Crown is Mr A, Hooton, transit was concerned there was air way the Inspector could instructed by Mr ston, ASP.
counting.
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J. John- 'check up except by physiol Replying to defence conti~ the agreed that when a sol, Brown confirmed that job was completed an electrical inventory was made regardim! May devised the present
AUDE. switches system of forms in the elec-nesets, it trical department. In pre- the nceupier of the quarters br war days stores were drawn the person in charge of the pre from Wanchai just by writ; bes, agreeing that the Attium ; ing on bits of paper.
Mr Chord; How were tiores, drawn from 1 Government stures at Wanseln in 1938
Witness C storen ruquisa Hon form with win need from Cinvestment sorre am an INDO voucher.
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was phoned by
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what Jobs they were. This ruite was handeri in to the offer and was an meenunt of what hap- pened the previous day. It also showed abarters, sieknesa, Jor morning and afternoon.
Alf daily paid Juboue appeared ng the report, including nien who worked in the workshops and not on the parleur site of the jobs.
one man did several Jobs ever a period of days, be wothi were there. The inventory. nppear under one job on would ala fre signed by the day and under another the next a day. 1f workmen were necked. uptor.
for an urgent job which
bad not yet been authorised, they would be post under another Authorised job for that day in the report and when the Cauthorisation for the urgeol ip came rough, some of the workmen from the woul
be blactil urgent job in the balance 11
Mr Clifford: Wars Inventory would be checked against the stored drawn from Bie Gostina- tent stores for the jeans
NOT ENOUGH STAFF throwi That would be the jade, hat there was not enough that to do that. That would he the kira of the system.
Me Chifond: Now the system of kamil pieces of paper Will the method by which forementi And in the event of the M- cour! draw
from vendory not coinciding with the Wanchid Vas
dontic, the head offler wiki cali for the storm of some record of the stores
watel Barl Til With
And if there were any stores lett over from Job was there any check as to how those were usid elsewhere. Not as far as I remember,
They could
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Every ture Mzers were drawn ores onder pole. that rk of or wed on any job, should be entered on the back that right?--Yu,
If the estimates sheet by the
Ant was Wanchni storekeeper.
What wa the systern estimates efore
the War
'S'here were 210 estimate enst sheets until hæst before the war,
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Brown said that when signed the report H was not to feertify that the distribution of labour shown was accurate, but that be agreed with the cil-
He said that the daily at-
and job report endutive made out at Wanchai for bell Hongkon and Kowloon,
With
The details were telephoned dout regulatan drawn ups by from funthin. The purpose of May that it should be? That this report was to give an over- was the purpose of it and there all picture of the total number on any worhipen employed wat regulation to that effect of
one day in the morning or after- of particulars including any engaged, discharged, sick, This report absent, ur on leave, was made out from the e sheet which was for pay. The
ai Wanchai
madr timekeeper out the time-sheet for Hunghom Frota information given
over
the Helephour. There was no Daily wiring were Just left lying around, rules and regulations, whether Attendance and Job Report for used the days from August 9, 1948 to May Introduced bins and shelves and had the and whether preper workman-September 21, 1948,
The case is provvedint, stores and their quantities in ship was being put on the job.
Was that May's
tant grate
get the estimates in
was to be digne quickly it was Yer
perfectly jorier for materials to Replying further, Brown be taken to it from
another admitted that there
were imjob.
Brown said that May's duty provements 103 **
see that the work was "," ;༩ storen devised by May for the
carried keeping of store::. Under the juris old system Flores in Wanchai aveordance
dexed.
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systern Of
fol all be drawn at once the stores but wonki be
in small let at a fine, panisible fur
stores
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with the
materials were
in
purpose of the inspectors.
in Mr Cuford, St David's Day
from ned to make a specilie check. drawn
It was
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was just the tributi
distribution
Ceremony
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Man Charged With Kidnapping Boy
Prosecution Describes A "Heartless Operation"
Described by Crown Counsel as a "heart- less operation, carried out by unscrupulous people," the story of the kidnapping of a six- year-old boy for ransom was recounted before the Chief Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson, and a Jury at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
It was alleged that the boy's mother, a widow, had to sell all her possessions in order to raise a sum of $1,600 to effect her son's release.
The accused was Mak Kau, a turn of the chikt. In the mean- New Territories villager, who time, the mother, in order to was charged on five counts with raise the money, had sold her forcefully taking away Chan rice. melted her gold rings and | Kwont-yn, aged the, with intent | hrud burrowed sums from to procure a ransom for his various quarters to meet the re- beration, child stealing, uttering quired amount.
a letter demanding $5,000 with ↑ 5
On December 30, the mother menaces, conspiracy to utler a letter demanding
money
with proceeded to a spot where she menares, and conspiracy with had arranged another not in custody to de-recused, but he was not there. A who friend of hers, however, mand money with mennees.
was at the spot told the mother
to meet the
He plended not guilty to all counts, and a Jury comprising that the accused had left in- structions that she should pro- the broken down governmental four men and three women was
ered to his home in Wanchai. empanelled. muchine to permit the resump- j
Mr M. Heenan, Crown Coun- tion of co-operation and unity
The mother followed those which was evident at the time inspector H. F. G. White, con-haut did not find the accused at
assisted #el,
by Det. Sub-directions and went to Wanchai, the Generalissimu stepped down.
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That was the vasils of the Is it trus that all the regulations now in forve
In answer with regard tes keveparat of stores
witness said he would nel expert
The fact that Premier Sun Foducted the prosecution. The ac-
the address given. She waited, at Wanchal
brought along considerable bug- used was not legally represent and the accused eventually or an impector to check the ina- Were made by
-terials with the store drder note May?--Yes, he drew them here wadd not
age adfentent that he might re-
asked If she had the ¡rived. He Be the after the British reoccupation
frar
DEMAND FOR $5,000 malo in Nanking at least through
She said she had not is true to say that unler!
suh a physient check.
the present stage
Mr. Heenan said that on De- brought it with of the pence
her, but had the pre-war system it work Neither would be expect the
Ins etanniemoration of St crisis.
cember 14, 1949, the boy falled left t with her relatives. She have been very easy for fore- tngævtor to golire that a pars David's Day, meggers of the Alens the sole remaining rift | to return home from school at further said she
was not pre- men lo get away with goods?
hcular wie wags not of the type Welsh comindy in Hongkon in the government structure la Un L. New Territories, and pared to hand over the muney Yes, the system was rathin las
in the store onder note, as tant gathered at the Cenotaph at a group of Canton membres of his mother. Ng Kwan, made a intil the boy was returned to In that respect.
as the wire was suntable for the ham o'clock this mornas when
the Legislative Yuan who sul report of his disappearance to her. The accused persunded -system-involved mome
Although And the systeres
... MOL. Pumpecter.
insist on remaining there. They ¦ the Police at Ping Shan Station. her 10 telephone her. re-. plete trust in the fureme? Yes, night
anim
eitenberth-was-laid Dy. M. J. It.
President of Jomer.
Live St
with Going alend
their | Some days later, the inother re- [latives for
money. Benwn agreed that the system what was on the store order Dave's Society, and De Mun, plús to hold a rump sesston inceived a letter by post. Its can and promised that he would at devised by May afforded a huich mede, he would not be expectaskmas Several Welsh officers Canton, but the session in Nan-tents were read to her by her the same time go out and fetch
to check the quantity at all. He attended. greater tarasure of security.
king which Hul under way father-in-law, and
ninded the child, Brown also agreed
Pant o dal merely to books over and ree. By kitu permission of the ¦ pesterday was generally ac- the sum of $5,000, with threats ¦ a lag jeb the materials would, that the material was sumable, !general Ollieer Commanding cepted as the sole, iszal con- if the money was not path. The i MAN APPREHENDED The Offeer Commanding vocation of low-mackers,
letter further statéct the bay Chinese Communist would be held until the amey i detach
The woman die as she was MAY'S COMPLAINT the Royal Marines,
in it report on th was forthcom ng
totel, and her relatives, arrived flutt the ment of Marines was drawn up radio, Brown regidled
Shangtial
delegation. Teva thes
peace
The mother took no action, with the money, end of July last year May com-
The boy was erremeny elther taken from Wanchai to plained that
HAIS fastnade a stmight objective report and two days later the nerusal, | brought to the flat by the ae the daily Jabour Buglers from Hunghom or straight to the i
board
strid on
leay ng Peiping and who was known to her and her end,, and the money was pair! bank ben sanrikes the "Last Post"
arriving in Nanking and carried family, called at their house at over Hungl
resurtanged walioiut les permis- | "Rove Me,"
mother depot for the
of the the verbalim text of the brief: Fuk Ting Street, Un Long, anl
in the presence
of her A dinner in honour E sign
the woman
that a
relatives. On returning to their stores, While in transit the Explanting the systyn of the Patron Saint's Day will be held statement that Dr Yen und other informed Elores were the sole respon- daily labour and distribution of at the Root Garden of the long-
horne in the New Territorien, nucl min members released friend of a friend of his knew tonight bility of the foreman, but the juba reports, Brown said it was hong Hotel
8.30 Nanking--United Press.
something
child. about her
on questioning the boy, it was Haifa,
Feb at 7.45
The mother, SUPPORT FOR LI Inspector always had overall the duty of the charge-hand to
in a distrought discovered that it was the e-Lebanese delegations are (x- te preceded by cocktails State control. The key of the stores, make a written
Shanghal,
cused who had originally taken pected to meet tomorrow on the Feb. Dancing will follow the
frame of mind, asked pecusedl 26. The
the child away when he was re- Israeli-Lebanese border to com- was with the foreman,
Worksten
under Jum saying on
drmer,
Chinese Red radio torlay charged to help her to recover the boy. that the Tokyo conference of The following day.
the turning home from seliool. Rea-plete their tails for an armistice military officials at the time of argused paid another call and lising that the necused was in the visit there of Army Secre- asked the mother if she had fart the villain of the piece, the cement, and probably sign it.
woman rela tary Kenneth C. Itugall adopted received a letter. The
relatives rushed back in long- replied that she had. and the kan, detained the necused
hand-writing expert would The bradrast said, "It was received a second letter. When learned that
Two letters a polley of sup- told that she had not, be said y porting
Tsung-jen was she would receive it and that not written in the accused's adopted by the Tokyo con-it would contain an increased hand-writing.
Crown the Kreatest warrior of theference atitzeler by Mr Royal. demand for $5,500, and enclose continued. but it Ahead of the American War De-in school-book belonging to the Crown's, submission came to a halt. His wife, apartment, and Major General boy to prove that he was clearly indiented that he was ni
He then suggested that exhausted by their hardships in David Barr, head of the Ameri-held.
Join Military Advisory
Efforts were being mude to the zerub, found a water
hole san
Group to the Kuomintang gore other might let him have party to the affair.
clothing for some
the boy,
start negotiations between and dragged Raiwnia to it. Hy
operation has and promised to bring back day for water with his barerupat
heartless affair" Israel and Syrin-çuter. The same item also asserted, the clothes
by the child been a most warn by
Mr Heenah remarked. "The The long publicised plan for at the time of his disappear, mother was subjected to a great Raiwala there regained! the withdrawal of Americau She agreed to the Sutkestion, strength and eventually fell in Atarines from Tsingtae has been handed the accused clothing and dent of worry. over her child": cancelled by Mr Leighton also $130 which he had request-absence, and she had to sell Stuart, American Ambassador to et as payment fus his services.whatever properly she had station. h the Nanking
and Vice-Admiral southern border of Arnbernaku
Commander": Oscar Badger, Larsel.
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chase or the
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in order to meet the demands of these unscrupulous people. The Imoney paid to the accused was K.T. mother hat recovered, for the accused "Fats Walter and Its Haydim and Programme Summary: 0.01, The polfer are now searching the Amerien dent in the Wesl
according to
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the time of his arrest rithel Waters & Adelaide Hall; 0.30. Raiwala's murderer" and
Om reason.
for this received the second tefter, and all t are also looking for a party of
eports.
L contained the increased dethat he had banded it over to Cantonese by Radio Riven by Mias Lee Wal Lari & S. K, Lee (Bludlot: tribesmen, reported to have one change is the request of
for ransom macey as his friend."
4.58, Felth Lorand and tier Viennese out to avenge Raiwala's "death" Tsung-jen, who hopes to mal-mand It will be four to six werksinin Tsingtao as a springboard well as one of the boy's school-
The six-year-old boy, carried Orchestra; 7. World News and News Analysie Bandon Relay: 7.15. "See the help of American books, exactly as stated by the before the police
arms, gave his | Tre" Thiks on Sport (Rtudia); 723, can be told
accused.
Two days later, the in his mother's that "the great warrior" is not
made Another a-evidence from the withness-box. Interlude: 7.30, The Gay Nineties presented by Ajiren Woods (Studio); dead, as they are patrolllog:
This fresh return to attacks on accused
the He identifies the accused as the "From the Editorials London and handed wild and unexplored country. the Americans came on the heels pearance
of the Communist radio com- mother the boy's dirty clothlug, who had taken him away. Relay 8.16, Vocal Recital by Lila
followed a number
of und said he knew him as "kou Vincent Contralto) with Piano Re- Drown by Betty ment on the seizure of 6,606 bags Then
Hald companiment Koh (Brother Kau}, the
iStudler) Welsh Seman; 8:25, "Owen of ECA flour in Peining, which visits by the accused
National Bero of N.Y. SNOWSTORM the Communists Justified on the woman, and it was the sub was taken from Un Long to Glendowerp
grounds that it had been turned mission of the Crown that these Tam Shul, and then to Wanchai, Wales, A feature Prog. (DBCTS) to bargaining During his captivity, he was fed Interlunie B. 20 Questions
Residents: Atleen Dekker. New York, Feb. 28-Suow over to the Nationalists by the visits mounted
Job Colley and Douglas Gall; Question stopped shipping in New York ECA, therefore it was no longer between them as to the subunt by an old woman, he sald.
Master: Peter Gregory. (Gludio); Harbour today and halted almost within ECA jurisdiction.
of money that should be pald
In cross-examination, the at- Guest: "Sen Tew 0.30, Village all fights to and from Laguardia The same broadcast, in criti- for the boy's release.
he had abducted | Dona" A Weish Feature by Robert The cased denier Airport. Today's Security Councism of Ll Tsum-jen, pointedly negotiations took place over the boy. He alleged that the Gon, 3): 10. Radio News Reel (London Relay); 10.15, Weather cil meeting was cancelled be-mentioned that the President nt-period of seven to eight days, siory told by the child had been report: 10.16, Recital by larry Oreal from Calcutta yesterday heavy snow in Newtended a dinner as the guest of Finally, it was agreed that, conched him by his mother. The fanoj Rittson Ma (Violin) and after a six weeks' tour to con- York. The meeting had been Ambassador Stuart on his return the friend of the friend of boy, he declared, did not know) Lucy Ma (auto) (Studio); incl British envoys in Pakistan, 11, Dance in Vietor Hilvester and India, South-East Asia and the called to deal with strategic trust from n swing through South the necused would accept $1,000 who had taken him away. Orchestra; 11.45, Weather Report and
Close down. territories-Reuter,
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Strang Starts Job
London, Feb. 28-Sir William Strang took up duly today the newly appointed head of the Foreign Ofice,
He arrived back in London by
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