April 20, 1901.J
By balance brought forward 81st De
cember, 1899
By amount of gross profits for the half-
year ending 30th June, 1900.
31st December, 1900.
SUPREME COURT.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Yen.
a catty-weight. Yeung Kun then told me that 183,695.052 as soon as I threw the medicine water I was to
run away. He then pointed out an English 5,808,653,450
man, and gave me instructions to pour the Yen 5,972.343.502 medicine water on him. Yeung Kun then went under the verandah, and I threw the water on the Englishman and ran away.
His Lordship said: Lo 'soi, you have pleaded guitly to the commission of a very cruel and cowardly offence. That is to say, throwing nitric acid on the prosecutor with intent to do grievous bodily harin. Now, that is so serious an offence in the eye of the law that law provides a punishment for it, of imprison- ment for life. I am very glad to see it is a very rare offence in this colony, and I hope will remain so. You had no grievance whatever against this prosecutor. Apparently you did not know him, and yet for a paltry sum of money you agreed to do this injury, and
Friday, 12th April
BEFORE HIS Honous A. G. WISE (Puisne Judge.)
KANG-ON V. F. W. HALL AND CO.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are merchants in Wellington Street, to recover the sum of 8718 on an account for goods sold and delivered.
Tuesday, 16th April.
The Prisoner: I have not received any money as yet.
A representative of the plaintiff firm ap-actually did it. • peared and stated that the defendants carried. on business in Wyndham Street. They had made promises time after time to pay the His Lordship. The sentence of the court amount sued for.
upon you is that you be imprisoned for three The defendants failed to put in an appear-years with hard labour. ance, and judgment went by default.
Yeung Kum was then placed in the dock indicted on four counts in connection with the vitriol throwing outrage. They were (1) That on 14th March, throwing corrosive fluid with intent to burn Francis George Reek, (2) with intent to do grievous bodily harm, (3) with BEFORE HIS HONOUR A. G. WISE (PUISNE assaulting him, occasioning bodily harm, and (4) counselling, procuring and commanding Lo Tsoi to commit the orime of throwing corrosive fluid on Mr. Beek." The Acting Attorney General said that he had been furnished with information from the prisoner which had involved a European, who had been arrested in connection with the affair.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
JUDGE.)
MATILDA HORTON V. JOHN JAMES COYLE,
This suit was down for hearing in the day's cause list, Mr. Grist appearing for the plaintiff, and Mr. Reece representing the defendant It was brought to recover $121.93, as to 891.93 thereof baing for board and lodging supplied by the plaintiff to the defendants' wife from 18th January to 21st March 1901, and as to the balance $30 for money lent by the plaintiff to the defendant's wife for necessaries.
Mr. Grist said that the parties had come to terms, and he applied to the court for permission to withdraw the suit.
His Lordship consenting, the suit was with drawn accordingly.
Thursday, 18th April.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR SIR JOHN
CARRINGTON, C.M.G.
THE VITRIOL THROWING CABR.
Lo Tsoi was placed in the dock charged on two counts as follows:-
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Asked if had anything to say. prisoner said: A foreigner, who is employed in the same place as I am, the Naval Yard, asked me to do a cer- tain thing. He was employed under Mr. Reek, the complainant, and they were not on good terms. He said that Mr. Reek always found fault with him This man, on the 27th day of the 12th moon last Chinese year, asked me to get somebody to beat Mr. Reek. Every now and then he asked me if I had got anybody to do it, and he said that when the assault was committed, he would give me ten dollars. He again asked me about the assault on the morn- ing of 4th March last. I told him I had not got anybody to do it. About a quarter past eleven on that morning, I met him, and he said he would get me to assault Mr. Reek in an other way. He then took a small piece of red blotting paper out of his pocket and told me to take it to Watson's Dispensary to bay the stuff. I then went to a house and ask. (1) Throwing corrosive fluid with intent toed Cheung Yeang to buy it. He came back and said there was none for sale in Watson's. I then told him to go to the German Medical Hall. The people in the Medical Hall said the bottle was dirty. After washing the bottle, I told Cheung Young to bay half-a-pound, for which 40 cents was paid. got 50 cents from the foreigner, who told me to buy this. Then Mr. Pollock, the Acting Attorney General, I gave this stuff to Wong Hop to give it to prosecuted, and the prisoner was undefended. | Cheung Fa. Cheung Fu poured the contents The circumstances under which the crime for of the bottle into the sea. I then went back which the prisoner was charged, have already and told the foreigner that people refused appeared in these columns. Mr. Francis George to do what he wanted Beek who is employed in the Government dockyard, was proceeding to his work one moru- ing in the month of March past when some one threw a corresive fluid in his eyes, in the neighbourhood of Wing Street.
Asked what he had to say in defence, the prisoner said
harm.
(2) Throwing corrosive fluid with intent tɔ do grievous bodily harm.
To both counts he pleaded guilty. There was a third count, that of assault occasioning bodily harm, to which the prisoner also pleaded not guilty.
guilty to throwing this nitric acid on Reek with intent to burn him was sentenced to imprisonment, labour, for three years. You stand on an indictment charging you with offenos, and, on the depositions in t cases, it appeared as if Eɔ Taoi had comm this crime at your instigation and by procuring. On the depositions you to be the principal in the matter, only the agent, and it certainly intention, if you were convicted on the indict- ment against you to pass a more severe sentenos on you than I did on him. But now you set up a different story. You say you were pressed by someone in authority at the Naval Yard to commit this crime or procure its commission. That may be so or it may not be so. I can't say so at present because, of course, the facts are not before me in a proper way, but, from what you have said, and from what your Counsel has urged on your behalf, and also from what the Acting Attorney General has said, it may be so; of the therefore, I will give you the benefit doubt and assume that it may be places you in the same position exactly Lo Tosi. That is to say, you have joined in commiting this serious offenos at the instigation and procurement of another perso The sentence, therefore, that must be passed upon you is, I think, the same that I passed upon Lo Tsoi, but at the same time if, upon the further trial and upon such investigation as the Governor may direct to be made, it appears that your statement is well-founded, I have little doubt that the Governor will take the matter into his careful consideration. The sentence of the Court upon you is that you be imprisoned with hard labour for three years.
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THE OUTBREAK IN THE GAOL. Mak Bo, Ip Sam, and Yeung Fuk, the first of whom behaved in a very deflant manner in the dock, were indicted for (1) wounding with intent to murder, (2) wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. To the indictment he pleaded guilty. In answer to the usher they shook their heads and said "Yes! We in- tended to kill him. That was our intention.”
The Aoting Attorney General said these men were already undergoing long terms of impri- sonment for offences, and it was a very serious case. Apparently, somebody outside the gaol must in some way or other have been in a league with them, and thrown over the wall wespons to these men. They seemed to have acted very quickly and in concert made a very brutal assault upon Mr. Craig,
Asked if they had anything to say, the first named prisoner said: 1 have a number of wit- nesses to speak about the ill-treatinent, but I. do not know if these witnesses have been called or not. The prosecutor not only ill-treated me, but he has ill-treated a great number to the extent of over a hundred. A great number of convicts" numbers were taken down, and they are willing to come forward and prove the ill-treatment.
His Lordship asked the prisoners why they had not called their witnesses for the defence in the lower court.
The prisoners replied that they had done so, but that the magistrate had stated their evidence would be taken in the Supreme Court.
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His Lordship said he had often urged apon magistrates the necessity of taking all the evidence of the witness where it was possible, and not to place it on record that it would be ostled in that Court. Either Magistrates took the evidence of witnesses, or dismissed them altogether.
Le Su then came and said that he had got. Lo Tsoi to throw the fluid. Lo Tsoi, he said. was a man, of courage, who was able to act as a thief. I sent the same Cheung Yeung to buy the staff. He went with a dirty bottle, a sam shu bottle. He had to bring it back and clean
The Acting Attorney-General reminded His it. He again got the stuff, and handed it to Lo Tsoi.: I am guilty of this crime. I ought Lordship that the prisoners did state at the not to have done it. Mr. Reek has done nothingMagistracy that they wished to call a number to me, and if I had known the effect of the of witnesses, and the Magistrate mid it would medicine water, I would not have had anything be preferable to call there at the Supreme
His Lordship: I have alway to do with it.. Directly I saw Mr. Reek's face, I felt sorry for it. I admit everything, and upon Magistrates that, if humbly beg your lordship to pass a light son- tence on me. That is all I have to my.
Yenng Kun came to my place on March 12th. He came there to see me and another man named Lo Sn. He said he wished me to do a certain thing for him. It was a matter of no importance and there was no fear about it. He said the storekeeper had a grudge against an Englishman. He offered to pay me $10 for doing it, and, if anything happened afterwards, he would engage a molicitor for the defence, Mr. Bobinson, who appeared for the prisoner, Yeung Kun called again next evening and said that his client had been 10 years in the pressed upon me to do this. He then ask- Yard, and great premare had been brought ed me to go up to Wing Fak Street and | bene upon him in doing what he did. He get medicins - water. I did wo⠀ and | that - nom met Yeung Kan in Wing Fak Street. Young to kis
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