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ing forged cheques.
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In connection with the departury of the Hon. Mr.. D. G. M. Bernard from Hong Kong to-day by the 5.2. "Aeneas" to take up an appoint- ment with the London office of
of Mr. Bernard's activities appear-
denco
and present) of St. Stephen's 'Girls' Owen Seymour, 29, a French College. Misses M. Ah Wee and polisher, was sentenced to six ed in the "China Mail" last week), Rachel Wong, and Messrs. Li Chor years' penal servitude for forging the following copies of correspon- chi, Yow Hok-chow and C. S. Lam, cheques for £500 and $600, and
are forwarded by the The Hon. Captain. Superinten George Sinclair, 43, painter, and Colonial Secretary dent for the efficient services of Robert George Dones, 20, painter, On March 29 Mr. Bernard wrote the Police, including the Chinese were each sentenced to three to the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hailifax, Company of the Police Reserve, years' penal servitude for utter- Colonial Secretary: and of the Fire Brigade.
Sir, am. due to leave Hong The Captain and Officers of Sir Travers Humphreys, prose-Kong on April 3, and shall not be H.M.S. "Cumberland" for use of cuting, said that different returning. It is therefore with Band. The Advertising & Public branches of the Midland Bank very much regret that I have to Ity Bureau for valuable services in were victimised last year to an tender my resignation from the connection with the pregramme. extraordinary extent by three Executive and Legislative Councils
All firms who advertised in the gangs of forgers. One of these with effect from that date. programmes.
gange, the head of which was said I have greatly appreciated the The China Light & Power Co. to have been Josephine O'Dare, honour conferred upon me by His (1918) Ltd. for the excellent light- had been dealt with at the Old Excellency, the Governor, in ap ing arrangements.
Bailey by the Recorder. The ac-pointing me a Member of the The Press for their full reports.tual forger in the case was a man Councils, and have always endea- The United Asbestos Oriental named Davis. Later, at the Old voured to carry out my duties to Agency, Ltd.,, and Hong Kong & Bailey, the Common Serjeant (Sir the best of my ability. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Henry. Dickens, K.C.) dealt with for Fire Extinguishers.
the second gang, where the for-be long now before the
I sincerely hope that it will not troubles Messrs. The Dairy Farm Co., ger was a brother of Davis... Lane, Crawford, Ltd.. A. S. Watson'
The man in the dock, according last few years come to an end and and difficulties experienced in the &Co., Ltd., the Britannia Aerated to the police, were members of the Colony again returns to a state Water Co., Ltd., and Cafe Pavilion, the third gang. They had operat- of prosperity and progress from for gifts of food, aerated waters, ed almost exclusively on the Mid- which it has had a temporary Get-
loan of crockery..etc.
The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. for use of bus to convey Band.
Messrs. Kwong Man Lung (fire erackers) for demonstration work free of charge.
back.
land Bank-Dones and Sinclair were caught at the East Dulwich
Will you please convey to His branch of the Midland Bank pre- Senting a forged cheque for £92. Excellency my thanks and appre That cheque came from a cheque clation for the courtesy and con- book obtained from the Thread-sideration with which he has needle branch of the Midland always listened to any comments Bank on Nov. 16, by means of a I have made in regard to matters request forged in the name of a before the Councils. customer. The same day a The Colonial Secretary replied
punished are points that will, it is FUGITIVE CRIMINALS cheque for £251 was presented as follows, yesterday:
supposed, be passed over without question or comment.
The suggestion has been made that the American settlement has been inspired by Washington, that Mr. MacMurray has had no thing like a free hand in regard
ILLEGAL DETENTION CLAIM FAILS.
JUDGE UPHOLDS MAGISTRATE.
The application for the release of the two fuglive criminals from
to the negotiations. There may | Canton who are detained under a
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Crown..
His Honour
and there was no reason for believ
Valuable Services.
over the counter, and was about to be cashed when the cashier Sir, I am directed by His Ex- thought it right to make some in- cellency the Governor to acknow- quiries. As soon as he turned his ledge the receipt of your letter of back the presenter of the cheque 29th March, 1928, tendering your turned away and was not seen resignation from the Executive and again.
Legislative Councils on your de
Perfect Forgeries.
your
The request for the cheque-parture from the Colony.
His Excellency desires me to ex- Magistrate's warrant in connection book had been abstracted from. be much truth in that. The in-with extradition proceedings was another cheque-book obtained by press to you his high appreciation terest of the United States in refused by Mr. Justice. R. Wood forgery from the Wood-street have rendered to the Colony in the of the valuable services which you branch of the Midland Bank on China is and has always been of at the conclusion yesterday after- Oct. 20, went on counsel. As soon many forms of public activity with a more or less academic nature. noon of the judgment which was as that book was obtained a forg- which you identified yourself, and Her interests, as other nationals partially reported in yesterday's ed cheque for £120 was presented in particular for your work as a interests, are governed by her
over the counter and paid.. Next, Member of the Councils. The application was made by Mr. day another cheque from it for The troublous times experienced trading and commercial activities, Hin Shing-lo (Instructed by £92 was presented and paid. The by the Colony of recent years have and what these amount to every Messrs. Lee and Russy whilst Mr. following day (Oct. 22) a third called for cool judgment and business man knows. True she H S. Fitzroy appeared for the cheque for £108 was presented, balanced leadership, and
but that was not paid because sus offarts both as a Member of the has fostered the missionary spirit
expressed the picions had been aroused. Messen- Councils and as a leading member to a large degree, but this element opinion that the time taken by the ger boys were employed in some of the commercial community have could never be regarded as one Magistrate and the order for the cases by the forgery gang to cash largely contributed to the restora- helpful to a fair and honourable requisition was a reasonable time the cheques.
tion of confidence, which new Through another forged re- justifies your hope that a return to settlement of any dispute between ing otherwise. His Honour said uest a cheque-book was obtained prosperity and progress will not the Chinese and foreigners. It is that he found nothing in the order at the Charing-cross branch of be long delayed. more than likely, therefore, that that was inconsistent or contradic the Midland Bank on Nov. 4. AB soon as the cheque-book was pro- the Washington politicians want tory at all with the requisition,
His Lordship closed his deck cured a cheque for £98 was pre nothing in the nature of a "China sion by remarking that the weight sented and paid, and the next day What might have been a serious problem" to exist at the present, of evidence was not for that Court a cheque for 281 was presented accident was narrowly averted at seeing that the Presidential elec to advise and that he had not been and paid. A third cheque for £63 the top of the incline lending to the
was presented but not paid. tions are not far off, and for this asked to do so. It was enough for
Police Headquarters compound yes- "Bank experts," added him to say that the grounds ad-
terday. A motor car which had reason also the result of the Nan-vanced by Counsel on behalf of the Travers, "say that these are the almost reached the top had to king Patch may be acclaimed by fugitives went against them and seen. They are absolutely per with a heavy van which was about best forgeries they have ever swerve sharply to avoid colliding HOSSENLOFF-On March 29, at all Americans living outside that he was not able to make an fect, and no bank clerk in Eng to leave the compound. In swerv-
.St, Marie Hospital, Shanghai, China.
land would have doubted that ing the car bumped against the Anna Jeanne, the wife of L. It is too early yet to know what
R.
they were genuine signaturea. wall, and then whilst backing it Hossenloff, proprietor of
The police looked for the forger crashed into some suaffolding erect Maison Marcel, aged 55 years. Japan or the authorities at Home GADELIUS. On March 28, at the think of the American settlement VOLUNTEER COLOUR after the capture of Dones and ed outside the
Country Hospital, Shanghai, Carl Erik Gadelius, aged 63.
BIRTH.
HESSE-On March 23, at the
Paulan Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Hesse, a sbn.
DEATHS.
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order for their release.
Sir
ACCIDENT AVERTED,
Chief Detective
Sinclair, and arrested Seymour, of the Nanking outrage. The
On him they found materials for Inspector's office. The car escaped
serious damage. general feeling, no doubt, will be
PRESENTATION CEREMONY
the forgery as well as two cheques`·. ON MAY 6.
for £500 and £600. There is no one of surprise tinged with regret
doubt that but for the interven- Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 3, 1928-for America. It must be plain,'
LOCAL LADIES' GIFT.
tion of the police these perfectly of the gang. He had a good-war from whatever angle the affair is
executed forgeries would have record, having won the Military Medal and Bar for gallantry in and another viewed, that what has happened
The Commandant of the Hong been presented, THE NANKING PATCH.
the field. is that America has merely achas issued the following notice to
merely a Kong, Volunteer Defence Corps £1,100 obtained."
Sinclair, Inspector Yamell Career of Crime.
stated, was at one time a mem- Whilst harbouring no wish to cepted what Japan and Britain re-all ranks
・・・ Detective Yandelt, of Scotland ber of the South African Con- belittle the significance of the fused to accept, and in this in- The grant of Colours to the Yard, gave the record of the three stabulary. During the war he American settlement of the Nan-stance no blame, we submit, at- Hong Kong Volunteer Defence men. Seymour's name, he said, served with the Royal Fusiliers king dispute we do not feel that taches to our diplomats. True wetion of the Army Council, has been of 16 he was sent to a reforma commission as a second-lieuten- Corps, having received the sane was Owen Jennings. At the age and was appointed to a temporary the event is one calling for the rushed into a Hánkow Surrender, approved by His Majesty the King. tory for being in possession of ent. Since the war he had been gnashing of teeth or the rending a Nanking Scuttle, a Kiukiang On Sunday, May 6, His Excel-house-breaking implements. Six convicted on a number of occa of hair or the releasing of copious Surrender and almost a Tientsin lendy the Governor will present the months later he was sent to Bor- sions of larceny and attempted
stab for two years for escaping, housebreaking.htm tears. Only one thing would on Surrender, but we have apparent-Cours to the Corps, on Murray from the reformatory. In 1923 "I do not think,” said the in-
Parade Ground; at 9.30 am our part cause regret at ly learned enough to fight shy of
The got six months' hard labour at spector, "that Sinclair has been On this important event in the the Old Bailey for uttering forg associated with this forgery this settlement and that a Nankang Patch.
history of the Corps, the Comman- ́
ed cheques on City banks, and, at group until quite recently.” would be any effort was
dant hopes that every member who the same court in 1925, he was Dones, the brother-in-law of Jen- made on Britain's behalf to
can possibly do so wil make a sentenced to three years penal nings, wes bound over at the Old point of attending. mogotiate a similar agreement.
servitude for forging cheques, and Bailey in 1924 for uttering a forg- The Colours have been provided receiving the proceede of mail bag ed cheque stolen from a letter- America, according to her lights,
by the Ladies of the Colony, whose and letter-box larcenies.
box. He was un associate of con- bas done the right thing, and has
presence will be welcomed at the "On those occasions," said the victed thieves and housebreakers. achieved a diplomatic victory.
Parade, and at Volunteer Head-inspector, a forger's complete Defective Complimented. quarters after the ceremony. The three notes from the Nation- alist Minister of Foreign Affairs which formed the basis of the settlement show us that this party apologises for the outrages tion. The services in question At the Cheer 0, YMCA. of March last, accepts responsi-were freely and willingly, given (in
Building, Hong Kong, the Bility for the settlement, and is some cases volunteered) and we following events will take
3, a sing willing fully to indemnify Ameri- are very sensible of our indebted-to-morrow,
ness to the firms and Inilividuale commenci
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outît was found at his Fassing sentence, the Recorder house, which was described said the forgeries for which Sey- by the Common Serjean as mour was responsible were, so a forgery factory." This man is brilliantly executed that it would a super-forger and is known have been well-nigh Impossible among the criminal fraternity as for the individuala, whose signa- Fingers and Three Finger Jack. tures had been forged to detect Jennings, added the officer, was the deception. The man wan in- liberated in June last year zon deed a super forger.", licence, which did not expire until Addressing Detective March, 23.. There were at Yandell, the Recorder least four other cases where think it only right to chequer books were obtained by community hegrot typed farais similar to the one time-to be e described by Sir Travers Hum- you for the acumen
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