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SUPREME COURT.
Saturday, 18th October.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION,
BEFORE HIS HONOUR W. ME GH GOOD- MAN (CHILF JUSTICE).
THE CALENDAR.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
There were down for disposal & cases impli cating 14 persons. These included 2 charges j of mu-der, of attempted murder, and a charge of manslaughter against Cheong Hong, con- tractor, in connection with the fatal collapse of a wall in First Street.
SERIOUS ABSAULT.
The first case called was that in which Leung Yueng was charged with having, on 9th September, assaulted Kong Fu Fong (1 with intent to murder, and (2) with intent to do bodily harm.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty on the first count and guilty on the second count, but asked bis Lordship to have mercy upon him as he was under the influence of drink when he committed
the assault.
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covered that these good were in a godown and that the prisoner was the man who had put them there. It lay wi h the prisoner to explain why he had put them there and why he had P oduced the false re.eipt purporting that the whole 740 packages had been delivered.
Evidence having been given, the jury return ed a verdict of guilty.
His Lordship passed sentence of 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The Court adjourned.
Monday, 20tis Oct -ber.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HON UR W. MeiGH GOODMAN (CHIEF J STICE).
BURGLARY.
Tsang Wo was put in the dock on a charge of having burgl riously entered the house No. 348, Des Voeux Road, on the night of 30th September.
He pleaded not guilty.
The fol owing jury was empanelled :—Mess-8. Chiu Hok Lain, J. W. Kew. J Bautista, K. Muller. J. M. V. Barradas, E. H. Summers, and C. A. H. Westerburger.
The Attorney-General Hou. Sir Henry S Berkeley), who appeared for the Crown, instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, Acting Crown Solicitor, stated, in opening the case, that it was rory simple and short. The prisoner was discovered in the morning in a room of the house in which the complainaut was living. endeavouring to make away with what was called a pillow-box, and was arrested up the spot.
The Attorney-General (Hon. Sir Henry S. Berkeley) who appeared for the Crown, in- structed by Mr. H. L. Deunys, Acting Crown Solicitor, said he was prepared to accept this plea. The accused, he went on to say, was employed along with the man whom he had as- saulted in the Dart Loong shop! There appeared to have been some quarrel between them of a serious character. Enbsequently to the quarrel prisoner entered the shop and behaved in such & way as to put the complainant in great Complainant accordingly retired to
Evidence was given by the complainant to a room and decliued to come out. Prisaner
the effect that on the morning in question he thereupon broke into the compartment and was awakened from sleep by the nose of on- hacked him in a terrible manner with a chop-box striking against another. On looking u̟p per. The accused seem.d to have been in some degree under the influence of drink when he committed the assault. The complainant got severely cut about the face and sustained a fracture of the skuil. He had now almo-t recovered, but this was a case which required to be dealt with not leniently,
fear.
His Lordship said that he was taking into consideration the fact that he prisoner was under the influence of liquor when the assault took place, which prevented Lim having the full command of himself he otherwise would have had. But if a man found that he became violent and lost control of himself when he took drink that was all the more reason why he should not drink. In the evidence, his Lord- ship noticed, prisouer was stated to have said—– "I will choke him (the complainant) to death.” Taking all things into consideration, he thought
the justice of the case would be met by a sen- tence of hard labour for two years.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A
CONTRACTOR.
The Attorney-Gonerul said that before pro- ceeding with the next case, he desired to ask for a specil jury in the case in which Cheong Hong, contractor, was charged with Inan- slaughter in connection with the fatal collapse of a wall in First Street. He would ask the Court to fix that case for next Thursday.
His Lordship agreed to tuis, subject to their being no other cases remaining unheard at thai
THEFT FROM THE P. AND O.
he discovered a man in the room carrying the pillow-b
-box. Witness got up and closed the door of the room upon the man, sont his filis for the police, and the defondant was arrested, The box which te burglar was endeavouring to carry away contained $900 odds, belonging to a friend who had left it with him for safe
keeping. The house had been securely closed up at nine o'clock the previous night.
After other evidence, the Attorney-General, put in and proved the statement made by the pr.soner when he was taken to the police station, which was to the effect that he admitted having been in the house but the door was open and he went in.
On being asked if he had anything further to add, the prisoner said this was a case of Pression. He happened to be passing at the time, and I as the real culprit ran away, the people of the house wanted to get somebody, so they knocked him down and took him to the station.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty. His Lordship said, in passing sentence, that the prisoner had apparently heard from some one that there was this mouey in the house and had committed burglary in order to obtain it. Three years' imprisonment with hard labour.
ARMED ROBB RY.
Yeung Shan, Man Cheung and Man Chun were charged with having, o. 22nd July, while armed with choppers, stolen from two sampan women a quantity of jewelery and cloting, com- prising a pair of gold-mounted bangles, a pair of jade-stone bangles, a pair of gold and jide stone earrings, fi esilver auklets, etc., or, alter- fire-natively, with having received tue stolen goo is
A plea of not guilty was tendered.
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Wong Kau, junk-owner, was charged with having on 28th June stolen 1 cases of crackers, the property of the P. & O. Co.
He pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled: - Messrs. R. K. Robarts, K. Aitken, A. G. Roberts, E. M. | Bunje, E. J. Judah, J. P. Cottam and F. A. C. Habu.
The Attorney-General, in his opening statement, said that the prisoner had bead employed by a firm in Cauton to take 740 packages of fire-crackers to Hongkong to be placed on the P. & O. s.s. Formosa to be taken to England. He brought the crackers dowu in his juok, went alongside the Formosa to deliver the goods, and subsequently returned to Canton where he produced a receipt for the delivery of the 740 packages. Some time pas ed, aud one day a telegram came from England to the effect that the crackers were 100 packages short Enquiries were made, and ultimately it was dis-
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The jury given above also sat in this case. The Attorney-General said that the prisoners engaged a sampan rowed by two women to take them from Yaunali to Taikoktsui near the Cosmopolitan Dock. On the way they seized the women, terrorising them with choppers and robbed them of the articles mentioned. They then landed at Mongkok and made off, but on information given to the police by the victims they wore arrested subsequently,
Evidence was tak-u.
The two first were found guilty of robbery with violence, and the third, against whom ouly the charge of receiving the goods was pressed, was convicted of that offence.
Seutence was deferied while the prisoners underwent their trial upon other charges
The next charge against them was that of
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having on 21st August at Mongkok received twelve jackets, an apron, a pair of trousers and other goods which had been stolen.
They pleaded not guilty.
The following jury was empanelled:-Messrs. J. D. Osmund, E. J. Figueiredo, F. A. C. Haha. R. R. Robarts, E. B. Pye, J. D. Auld and R. G. Heckford.
The Attorney-General stated that on the day in question four men engaged a sampan at Pedder's Wharf to go to a place in the New Territory at the other side of Stonecutters Island. In the sampan were the owner and bis wife and a boy of 13 years. When the sampan was near Cheungshawan, one of the passengers seized the owner, knocked him down and threatened, to kill him with a chopper if he made a noise. The woman also was threatened. Thn the men ransacked the boat and stole a quantity of clothes and so on. They tied up the owner of the boat and also secured the woman in some way. Afterwards they ran the sampan ashore and dec mped up the hill with their booty. On 11th September, from information received, the police raided a bouse in Yaumati and there found the three prisoners. On a search being made a box was found in their possession containing pawn-tickets which proved to relate to certain of the articles stolen from the sampan on 21st August. The three men were arrested. The sampan man and his wife could not swear that these were the robbers,
however.
The jury found the third prisoner guilty as libelled, and the other two not guilty.
Julgment was reserved.
Tuesday, 21st October.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR W. MEIGH GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE).
TRE SHAUKIWAN MURDER.
Li Ut, Wong Kiu and Yan Kiu were charged with having on 31st August at Wongkoktsui murdered a man named Li Ki.
They pleaded not guilty.
The Attorney-General (Hon. Sir Henry S. Berkeley) appeared for the Crown, instructed by Fr. H. L. Dennys, Acting Crown Solicitor; and H u. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., barrister-at-law. appeared for the accused.
The following jury was empanelled: Messrs. E, B. Pye, R. Aitken, E. J. Judah, J. D. Auld, K. Muller, G. Pappier and E, Harris.
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The Attorney General, in his opening state. ment, said that the deceased Li Ki was a head coulie at Butterfield and Swire's plice at Prisoners were employed on one of the lighters in connection with the sugar works. It appeared that there had been some trouble about the theft of an umbrella works by the sacoud prisoner, whom the de ceased compelled to restore it to the owner. consequence there was bad blood between them. Oo the morning of the 31st August the second prisouer went to the police station and com plained that he had been assaulted by the decensed. His personal appearance did not appear to bar out the statement, and he was told to come back on the following morning (Monday) and take out a summons in the ordinary course. Later on in the same day the first prisoner also complained to the police that he had been threatened by the deceased man; he also was told to come back on Mouday. It would be stated in evidence and also in the deceased's deposition that on the Sunday evening he left Shankiwan to go to Quarry Bay and on the road was set upon by fifteen men, three of whom were identified by a witness as being the three pris.nars. This witness saw the men attacking tho deceased. When he came up the men decamped, leaving Li Ki on the ground with skull fractured, arm broken and punctured wounds on the breast-altogether a dreadful sight. Assistance was got, and the injured man was taken to the hospital, where he died, after making a deposition.
In the deposition, which was formally put in, the deceased had stated that he recognised the prisoners as being among the men who assaulted him.
Evidence was afterwards taken.
At the conclusion of the evidence, the bearing
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