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POLICE INFORMER.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927.
Referring to the deposit receipt for $100,000 whichs Haynes: sald Christle produced. Mr. Leask asked
Haynes Again Severely be sortously asked them to bo
Cross-Examined.
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"THE RIGHT THING."
Why He Told Police About Christie And Bluhm.
ANOTHER BLAZE.
CLYDE LINER BURNED ON HUDSON.
PIERS DESTROYED.
lieve that a man with the prospect of laying his hand on such a lot of money in a few days' time' would go after such'a smält Bum as $200, which was all the prospect placed in front of him by Haynes and Au
Hoboken (Now Jersey), Yeung.
Yesterday. Haynes replied that Christle was ings on the Hudson water front and A firo swept two blocks of bulld» desperately in need of money to burned the Clyde liner "Seneca" to hulp make the $200,000 materialise. the water's edge, also two plers and
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When Major C. Willson resumed Hothought that Christle produced several barges.
Captain's Escape..
Hoboken, later.
All resources of the Fire Depart- ment, aided by fire boata and volun- teers, fought the flames, which
Senaca" were compelled to slide started on the pler and spread.
The captain and first mate of the down flames.
the hearing yesterday afternoon of the receipt and brought up the The damage is estimated at the case in which James Christio $400,000 deal talk to emphasise £900,000.-Reuter's American Ser- and Christopher Bluhm are charg- his bona fides to Au Yeung,vice. ed with conspiracy to defraud Haynes also anid that to a certain Chinese Police Reservist named Au point he believed that Christle Yeung who, acting on the Instruc- could deliver the goods. tion of the police, acted as a pros-
Haynes As Author. pective buyer in an alleged morphia deal with the accused, Mr. J. A. ask Haynes if he had ever been the Mr. Leask's next question was to Gordon Leask cross-examined author of books, and Haynes re Haynes on the same lines as beplied that ho had only written some fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell who dis- pamphlets. charged the accused on a count of undertaking to procure and supply announcing the publication of
Handing up a copy of a leaflet morphin.
book called the "Scamp." Mr. Leask asked "Did you propose to publish that book in Shanghai a short time ago?"
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Questioned by Mr., Leask, Haynes atated that he was now a private tutor and "freelance journalist," but no longer a schoolmaster. He received notice from St. Joseph's College on November 29.
Mr. Leask: You are staying at the King Edward Hotel?--I left yesterday. I am staying at the Carlton Hotel.
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Haynes: Yes, Was it published?-No, the whole thing was a joke."
Mr. Leask: It is not a joke when the British Consul: had to take it
up.
Haynes: The British Consul take i Why did you leave the St. It up? This is the first I heard George's Hotel, where you were of it. staying? Because your circus per
Mixed Up. formance In the other court serf- ously embarrassed me.
I suggest that you were allowed to leave without paying your bill, because you said you would pay with the prize money after the casc?-I. emphatically deny it..
rope to escape from, the
The fire is believed to have been
caused by an explosion of petrol on the pler-Reuter's American Ser- vice.
GAS CASE ENDS.
EX-EMPLOYEE SENT TO
PRISON.
ACCUSED'S DEFIANCE.
A. A. Remedios, an ex-employee of the Hong Kong and China Gas Company, was yesterday sentenced to four weeks' hard labour for Asked what were the Enever's stealing gas and with making false of contents of the book, Haynes said he was also ordered to make res enterprises referred to in the list entries in his books. In addition that it referred to a case in which titution to he was unfortunately mixed up. amount of $50 and also to pay a the Company to the Mr. Leask naked who Enever was, $50 Ane for entering Actitious and received the reply that he was figures in his accounts with alter- the man who got Haynes in trouble natives of four weeks' imprison. in England.
ment in each instance..
Haynes admitted in the course
"A Likely Person" Dealing with Haynes' statement that when Christie mentioned the makes of arms, he made an excuse of further questioning that he was defence, severely criticised the evi Mr. Leo d'Almada, Snr., for the to go to the lavatory and there secretary of Enever's bogus Com-dence tendered by the prosecution, made a note of them in order to pany and got into trouble with him. sumining it up as the venting of report to Mr. King, Mr.. Leask aug-
A Similar Charge.
staff grievances against the defen- After all Li Chai-sum, thoughgested that Haynes made the note
because he wanted to be in the deal Mr. Leask: Strangely enough dant, and making use of the errors by no means a strong man, held and get $1,000 out of it. This the charge was the same as in this of others to "throw mud" on the peaceful sway in the Kwang pro- Haynes denied.
case-criminal conspiracy to de- defendant. Mr. d'Almada submit- vinces for roundabout a year, and Mr. Leask: Were you in need of fraud?—Yes.
ted that the prosecution had failed What was the conspiracy?-An to prove conclusively that the de during that time there undoubted-money at the time?-Definitely, no.
I was somewhat embarrassed in alleged concession was bought in fendant had actually tampered with
ly existed among the commercial March but got over it long before China and Enever floated a Com-the meter and that he had made community both of Canton and this interview.
pany in which people put money false entries in his account. Asked if he thought it likely that and got jobs. My father put in Mr. R. A. Wadeson, for the pro- Hong Kong a feeling of security and confidence previously unfelt a man like Christic with 28 years money and I was appointed accution produced evidence in cross- Other examination that defendant had de. experience on the China Coast secretary in England. over a comparatively long period. should find it necessary to ask him people were promised jobs in frauded the Company for the bene
China,
fit of his mother and aunt as well to introduce to a buyer, Haynes-rc- plied that possibly Christie thought|
Mr. Leask: It was a conspiracy as himself.
BANK DIVIDEND.
There is, however, the other he was a likely person because he to defraud ex-officers, and you ad- In passing sentence, Mr. R. E. side of the picture. Nobody can knew many Chinese.
mit you got into trouble over it? Lindsell (Magistrate) said that -Yes.
had it not been for the many lies say how long Li Chai-sum or any
"The Right Thing."
Haynes also said in the course told by the defendant in the wit Answering another of the other Southerners will be
question of further examination that he was ness-box and the defiant attitude Haynes said that it was also pos-at one time Editor of the "Shang- he had adopted, he would have been allowed to retain control in the Bible that Christie knowing that his hai Mercury." South In Shanghai, Nanking-frienda had roped him (Haynes) in
let off with a fine. Asked why he left he said that and Hankow-there are many a swindle in England, Christie he had a quarrel with the pro- military and political "leaders" in thought he could do ao again.
Asked why he took the matter to "Mercury.""
prietors, and subsequently sued the a position of stalemate. Many the notice of Mr. King, Haynes sald Mr. Leask: And you lost? Yes, possess very definite personal am- that he did so after careful con- because I had a better job within bitions but none seem to know sideration, and he thought that was 24 hours and so could not go
FRANCO-CHINOISE TO PAY the right thing to do.
12 PER CENT. - exactly which way to turn or
through with the claim. Mr. Leask: Was it not because
Asked for what reason the P. & The local office of the Banque what the other fellow is going to you had a past-Certainly not.
0. Bank asked him to close his Franco-Chinoise has just received Did Mr. King know you before account with them, Haynes said from the Head Office, Paris, tele do
this case 7-Yea
that no reason was given.
graphic, advice that a Dividend of Mr. Leask! I put It to you that 12 per cent. will be paid for the. it was a question of post dated financial year 1926-1927. The cheques?-Certainly not.
Capital has been increased to Fra 50,000,000 fully paid up and the: Reserves now stand at Fs.15,304,-
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Calling themselves "National- ists" they are haggling away in Shanghai and Nanking over what
Under what circumstances? Mr. King Interposed to say that he was not trying to hide any thing, but he would like to point
out that that was a confidential mat-
Post Dated Cheques, You admitted in the other Court
The Rev. H. Copley Moyle, they term political aims but what ter which should not be brought that there was one post dated
after fifteen years' loyal and dis- are merely individual aspirations, out in open Court. tinguished service in the interests suitably cloaked, of course,
Mr. Leask
did not press the cheque, point..
A "Reason Why." Replying to further questions, Haynes said that the
big arms
by informing him that "so-and-so”
:
985.
Haynes admitted in reply to an- other question that he asked
BOILING WATER BATH." Christle for a loan of $450 to open
A. Chinese named Lau Kwai was account with the American- badly scalded as the result of fal- Oriental Bank, but Christie said: Ing into a pan of boiling water on! "I would if I could, but I can't."
the Chine Light and Power Com
an
A suggestion by Mr. Leask that pany's premises yesterday. He was
At of Hong Kong, leaves for home by the moment any diversion would to-day's mail boat, and takes with be welcome, even by Chiang Kai- him, we are sure, the best wishes shek. The campaign against the of all here for a long and happy North, so far as the "National deal was brought up by Christie period of rest. Fifteen years is a ists" are concerned, is doomed to was expected down from Canton, when Christio refused the loan he sent to hospital. lengthy spell to give to one job, failure. A drive against Canton, and he (Haynes) would get $1,000 said "All right, Jim, I won't forget and there is no gainsaying the therefore, might reasonably prove if he would pose as a man from this. I thought we were friends," fact that Mr. Moyle has done his popular as well as profitable. Siam in connection with the arm Hayties characterised as fiction. It is notified that on and after work well and to the entire satis. After all Chiang or any of Mr. Leask suggested that the Mr. Leask next asked Haynes if January 1, 1928, the Hong Kong faction of the community (which the lesser-known "Nationalists'" Mr. King was because eventually he Kong since the beginning of the grams to vessels will be 30.25 per reasons why Haynes reported to he had tried to raise loans in Hong Coast Station charge for radio-tele should come first) and the clerical leaders could easily invent some was not allowed to take that part case against the accused, and word. The minimum charge for powers that be. He leaving us high-sounding excuse for desir in the deal!"
Haynes hesitated.
10 words which hitherto obtained." Haynes: Certainly not. without receiving any specific ad- ing to return to the city from
Led up to the telegram in Bent
Starting a Newspaper will be abolished.. vancement. In the calling we all which the futile campaign for the ley's code the translation of which, Mr. Leask: For example, did you know he has gracefully and use- conquering of China commenced according to Haynes was contained apply to the interpreter in this fully adorned and, wherever his nearly two years ago.
on a piece of paper which Christlé case for a loan? Yes. One day I' handed to him with the telegram, was in need of 34.tion of the matter, and even after reward may lie, we emphasise, in
and which read: "Overstocked Mr. Leask: No, more than that, he realised the possible danger to saying "Bon Voyage," that fie
M640 Hong Kong," Haynes denied Did you apply to him for a loan of himself of walking sleeping dogs." carries from the Colony our
that that was fiction, on his part, $6000 to start a newspaper? Yes. He gave the information because in spite of the fact that the de- Why not say so right away he thought it was the right thing hearty wishes for his continued
to do. coding of the telegram by the police do not consider that a loen. It prosperity and good health...
put a different construction on 'It was a fealer to a possible Interest He maintained that his version was ed party than pho contained on the paper Christle handed to him together with the telegram.
COOLIE CHARGED.
· 'MAGISTRATE BELIEVES HIS
STORY.
Oncia
of Three Reasons.
Replying to another question,
"Leslie the Llar”
Haynes said that, he got his nick- name of "Leslie the Liar a
How Much?
interrupted, and said at Court the best entitled him
there
week:
With the return of the Kwang- ál forces to Canton the Southern
Mr. Leask suggested that there poker school Shanghat.It was A coolie employed b the Hong
could be only one of three Tensoris merely a joke, every member of capital is again likely to become Kong Hotel was charged before
No O Mentioned.
for Haynes giving information the school had nickname. the headquarters of General Li Mpior. Willson this morning with
Haynes said that he was unable against Christie, and he named Mr Leask's last questi Chai-sum, "who since his attempting to steal money from a to Identify the telegram produced them as follows What do you expect to get out o
telephone call boz
by Christle, but he took particular - That they had had trouble in this case7 advised trip to Shanghai has been
The box, it appears, was out of notice of the name of the ad Shanghai, and Haynes gave the Ine rusticating somewhere in the order and defendant was discover dressee which was Khan, Sahib formation out of grudge Haynes North. Whether his resumption ed near it.
That did not strike him as an un- replied "No." A of control will result in a period of The No. 1 Boy of the Hotel said ma
Defendant denied the charge... peace in the South remains to be the coolie had been employed there add seen. Optimists and those who for eight or nine months and had ed
given entlafaction. He had access name have grown to the way of thinking to all the floors, lobbies, etc. that any change in Chinese poli- believe that the defendant would Major Wilson said he did not ties or military command is for deliberately to into the box la broad thebetter (for which out- daylight, at around four o'clock. look there *. is something the afternoon, for the purpose
extracting money from It Defe said) may be Justlied in dant was diacharred.
that telegraphic address, and re- 2 That Haynes saw a chance to saveral that his own telegraphic get rich quick and tried to push part
yah" which sound- himself into the big armer deal, but but was in fact his was not allowed to take part in It
Haynes: Certainly not
8That Haynes wished to make wor himself safe in the eyes
after having :scribbled"
the law
the deal, and had them in his pos- session, Haynes, also, denied this
formation
adjourne