Provisional Court on Sept. 3 caused some surprise among police officials and certain lawyers due to an ability to locate the specie grounds on which the decision was based.
Te was in the case of Lieu Teengsung, gateman for the local tramway company, charged with negligence in the death of a woman, Yang Zeng-tsu, who attempted to board a tramway on Seward Road near Hwakee Road on the morning of August 31 while it is alleged t0 have been moving. The woman, who was 50 years of age, fell to the round in the attempt, and was taken to St. Blizabeth's Hospital where she died of her injuries that night.
There were no police witnesses to the accident and the only eye-Witnesses who were in court were the two ggatemen on the tram At the time' the sorry affair occurred. by Judie Wong, Liew testified that was certain the gate was closed at the time the woman is said to have run alongside "grasping the te his warning shouts that he could nat let her in.
was corroborated by Chi gateman on another car in the tram.
Yang S-fah, husband of the deceased, told the court that he did not see the accident but that he had been told of it by neighbours and he immediately rushed to St. Eliza. beth's Hospital where he found his wife in a serious condition.
While there, he claimed, his wife told him that the gate waa open at the time she attempted to board the ear. that she had ore hand on the rail and one foot on hoard when the car suddenly started moving and she was thrown heavily to the company, told the in every case feceurred throuyth an a fof their ears, whether the company was at foul been a practice to' give a passionate grant and that he Prepared to do it in ths care.
Yang then asked for $50 compensation, Mr. Muir replied that he wis pared to offer not $60, but $100, and further that he would make an investigation into the record of the gateman and, if anything were found against him, he would recommend that the man be dismissed, but in any event this accident would <9 down against him on the records of the company. teman Charged Hereupon, Judge Wong ordered that the inquest be closed and that ea be brought into Provisional Court to be tried on a charge gently causing death, Though argument ensued, Court insisted on the "bey bei
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