| * 17/02/1908: Tai Kee Fuk - petisyen agar tidak dibuang negeri. Petisyen dilengkapi cop perniagaan rakan-rakan peniaganya yang telah mengenalinya selama 6 tahun, dan turut disokong oleh pegawai Protector of Chinese. Menurut petisyen tersebut, Tai Kee Fuk, seorang pekedai teh (juga penjual daging babi) di Serdang, telah menyewakan tingkat atas kedainya kepada beberapa orang, yang kebetulan adalah ahli kongsi gelap. Pada 2-3 Ogos 1907 kedai beliau telah digeledah oleh pihak berkuasa dan sebuah buku yang telah diharamkan ditemui di dalam premis. Beliau terus didakwa di mahkamah dan gagal membela diri oleh kerana terlalu takut, lalu ditahan di Penjara Pudu. Setelah tempohnya kian tamat, keluarganya (termasuk isteri dan anak kecil) mendapat tahu bahawa beliau bakal dibuang negeri.Rekod hukuman tidak ditemui, tidak pasti apakah kesudahannya (PEJABAT SETIAUSAHA KERAJAAN NEGERI SELANGOR, 17/02/1908: {{ :arkib:19570140856d02.pdf ||}}[[https://ofa.arkib.gov.my/ofa/digital/asset/1475749|"PETITION ASKING THAT TAI KEE FUK, NOW IN THE PUDU GOAL, BE NOT BANISHED FROM SELANGOR"]]). \\ {{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-03.png?200|}}{{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-04.png?200|}}{{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-05.png?420|}} | * 17/02/1908: Tai Kee Fuk - petisyen agar tidak dibuang negeri. Petisyen dilengkapi cop perniagaan rakan-rakan peniaganya yang telah mengenalinya selama 6 tahun, dan turut disokong oleh pegawai Protector of Chinese. Menurut petisyen tersebut, Tai Kee Fuk, seorang pekedai teh (juga penjual daging babi) di Serdang, telah menyewakan tingkat atas kedainya kepada beberapa orang, yang kebetulan adalah ahli kongsi gelap. Pada 2-3 Ogos 1907 kedai beliau telah digeledah oleh pihak berkuasa dan sebuah buku yang telah diharamkan ditemui di dalam premis. Beliau terus didakwa di mahkamah dan gagal membela diri oleh kerana terlalu takut, lalu ditahan di Penjara Pudu. Setelah tempohnya kian tamat, keluarganya (termasuk isteri dan anak kecil) mendapat tahu bahawa beliau bakal dibuang negeri.Rekod hukuman tidak ditemui, tidak pasti apakah kesudahannya (PEJABAT SETIAUSAHA KERAJAAN NEGERI SELANGOR, 17/02/1908: {{ :arkib:19570140856d02.pdf ||}}[[https://ofa.arkib.gov.my/ofa/digital/asset/1475749|"PETITION ASKING THAT TAI KEE FUK, NOW IN THE PUDU GOAL, BE NOT BANISHED FROM SELANGOR"]]). \\ {{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-03.png?200|}}{{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-04.png?200|}}{{:arkibgambar:19570140856d02-05.png?420|}} |
| * June 1911: Ethel Proudlock \\ {{:gambar:proud-batucaves.jpg?200|}} \\ //"This incident caused a sensation in Malaya, more so than any other as this involved the killing of one member of the British community by another. The case was even reported in the newspapers in England where, presumably, Mr Bennett Shaw would have been aghast to read of the dreadful goings-on at his own bungalow! There was a ten-day trial in June, 1911, which attracted intense public attention and was reported in great detail in the local papers. William Proudlock himself had to testify at the trial as well. In court, Ethel claimed that Steward had tried to molest her and, as she backed away from him, she came on to her husband's revolver and had fired at Steward in self-defence. Nonetheless, Ethel was found guilty by the judge and sentenced to death. While awaiting her appeal, she was incarcerated in Pudu Jail for five months before various petitions to the Sultan of Selangor, including one from the V.I. boys and masters, were finally successful in securing her release. Ethel then sailed off almost immediately to England with Dorothy. William Proudlock stayed behind in Kuala Lumpur as he was awaiting the results of a libel charge he had filed arising from police treatment of his wife. He lost this suit and resigned his job at the V.I. (Mr Shaw had since returned). He sailed off to England in November, 1911, to rejoin his family. In seven months, the world of the V.I. acting Headmaster had withered to nothing."// (Chung Chee Min, 28 August 2001: {{ :laman:the_proudlock_saga.pdf ||}}[[https://viweb.school/proudlock.htm|"The Proudlock Saga"]]). \\ \\ Sumber akhbar: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 12 July 1911, Page 8: {{ :akhbar:singfreepressb19110712-1-2-48.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19110712-1.2.48|"KUALA LUMPUR TRAGEDY"]]. \\ {{:gambar:414465727_856858613109567_467563006291896638_n.jpg?200|Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'}} \\ //"Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'. The film is based on the play and short story written by W. Somerset Maugham, who in turn based it on the real life murder trial of Ethel Proudlock in Kuala Lumpur in 1911. Ethel Proudlock was the wife of the acting headmaster of the Victoria Institution, William Proudlock. Ethel shot dead her lover, William Steward, a mine manager, and in the trial was found guilty and sentenced to hang, to much controversy. The infamous case caused a worldwide sensation, scandalising British colonial society and prompting accusations of racism from the local community when it emerged that Ethel was in fact not white but Eurasian. After spending about five months in Pudu Jail awaiting her appeal, she was subsequently pardoned by Sultan Sulaiman of Selangor and left the Federated Malay States for England and, later, America."// (Sabri Zain's Malayan History Society @ Facebook, 28 Disember 2023: {{ :facebook:classic_screen_actress..._-_sabri_zain_s_malayan_history_society_facebook.pdf ||}}[[https://www.facebook.com/malayanhistory/posts/pfbid0n4ttXR7HYqRf6anLBL9Bj3LPMpMb49HM4bSdMqZgHQKRx2PApWgnuv8XJsfpDvXTl|"Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'"]]). | * June 1911: Ethel Proudlock \\ {{:gambar:proud-batucaves.jpg?200|}} \\ //"This incident caused a sensation in Malaya, more so than any other as this involved the killing of one member of the British community by another. The case was even reported in the newspapers in England where, presumably, Mr Bennett Shaw would have been aghast to read of the dreadful goings-on at his own bungalow! There was a ten-day trial in June, 1911, which attracted intense public attention and was reported in great detail in the local papers. William Proudlock himself had to testify at the trial as well. In court, Ethel claimed that Steward had tried to molest her and, as she backed away from him, she came on to her husband's revolver and had fired at Steward in self-defence. Nonetheless, Ethel was found guilty by the judge and sentenced to death. While awaiting her appeal, she was incarcerated in Pudu Jail for five months before various petitions to the Sultan of Selangor, including one from the V.I. boys and masters, were finally successful in securing her release. Ethel then sailed off almost immediately to England with Dorothy. William Proudlock stayed behind in Kuala Lumpur as he was awaiting the results of a libel charge he had filed arising from police treatment of his wife. He lost this suit and resigned his job at the V.I. (Mr Shaw had since returned). He sailed off to England in November, 1911, to rejoin his family. In seven months, the world of the V.I. acting Headmaster had withered to nothing."// (Chung Chee Min, 28 August 2001: {{ :laman:the_proudlock_saga.pdf ||}}[[https://viweb.school/proudlock.htm|"The Proudlock Saga"]]). \\ \\ Sumber akhbar: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 12 July 1911, Page 8: {{ :akhbar:singfreepressb19110712-1-2-48.pdf ||}}[[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressb19110712-1.2.48|"KUALA LUMPUR TRAGEDY"]]. \\ \\ {{:gambar:414465727_856858613109567_467563006291896638_n.jpg?200|Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'}} \\ //"Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'. The film is based on the play and short story written by W. Somerset Maugham, who in turn based it on the real life murder trial of Ethel Proudlock in Kuala Lumpur in 1911. Ethel Proudlock was the wife of the acting headmaster of the Victoria Institution, William Proudlock. Ethel shot dead her lover, William Steward, a mine manager, and in the trial was found guilty and sentenced to hang, to much controversy. The infamous case caused a worldwide sensation, scandalising British colonial society and prompting accusations of racism from the local community when it emerged that Ethel was in fact not white but Eurasian. After spending about five months in Pudu Jail awaiting her appeal, she was subsequently pardoned by Sultan Sulaiman of Selangor and left the Federated Malay States for England and, later, America."// (Sabri Zain's Malayan History Society @ Facebook, 28 Disember 2023: {{ :facebook:classic_screen_actress..._-_sabri_zain_s_malayan_history_society_facebook.pdf ||}}[[https://www.facebook.com/malayanhistory/posts/pfbid0n4ttXR7HYqRf6anLBL9Bj3LPMpMb49HM4bSdMqZgHQKRx2PApWgnuv8XJsfpDvXTl|"Classic screen actress Bette Davis in a scene from the 1940 film-noir set in Malaya, 'The Letter'"]]). |
