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· THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
said anything about the second man he he was to receive his $3,000 back and 86,600 would have to cross-examine him un a remuneration, but if the Chinseo Gor behalf of No. 2. That was the only way ornment paid less than 10 por cent, of which he could do justice to ench of the purchase price then he was to receive them. Then, again, when the ease for only $1,000 and so remuneration.
That Furukawa was closed, he would proceed was a serious risk, because in certain Hortly to indicate what the second events he stood to loss 82,000 out of his He lent various monies, and prisoner would have to say, and would advance.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2ND 1913..
CLOCK TOWER
Have you ever enquired of any printer IMPENDING DEMOLITION OF THE noble trees. how intel these 200.000 notes could be' I did not enquira printed for No. about the price.
Did you tell Mr. Koga of the whole of this transaction ?—No, I did not tell hin the particulars.
We learn that steps are in contempla tion for the demolition of the Clock Tower in the near future.
In years gone by any suggestion to remove this old landmark has chiled forth protests as well as expressions of ap
These all speak historically, but they do not tell the story of the town's growth is particular. This the Clock Tower dees, and for this reason it is earntly to he desired by all who care for any of these things that the hand of the destroyer may be stayed and the venerable monument pro- served as a sermon in stono," as a link You consulted him as to the legality of
with the past, as a velio of old Hongkong. the contract --Yes, I asked him for his
The plen secured a respite for the old But this is 11 utilitarian follow the same process as intimated in these notes were made in the way they had opinion, and he said if the necessary steps proval, Sevon or eight years ago we pub, landmark.
were taken it would be all right. regard to the first man.
Having been I put it to you that Mr. Koga told you lished an eloquent and earnest plea for age, and the Government has at last His Lordship--Have you ever heard mado, they wore brought down to this that if the Chinese Government has the preservation of the Clock Tower by decreed the demolition of the Tower.
Colony. that done before?
Furukawa, having made him-ordered these notes and the necessary a well-known resident who described him.. steps were carried out, you could do it 7-elf as “a usually silent pawson," whogo
INTIMATIONS Mr. Alabaster My learned friend (Mr. self more or less responsible, was anxious Yes, if it was from tho Chins Govern sonse of indignation had been stirred by Jenkin) says he lins heard of such a course
to so that they were delivered and to stement I could do it.
"the thoughtless manner in which an So he came down Do you mean to say that you did not having been followed. I have never heard about the payment.
for the printing-31.75 per noto, or
been told by Ukamoto.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (HIS HONOUR Sin W. REES DAVIES, K.C.) THE ALLEGED FORGED. BANK- NOTE CASE. The bearing was continued of the case in which soren Japanese stand charged for that on the 20th of June, 1919, and on divers dates up to the 23rd of Decem- ber, they did conspire to obtain and acquire from persons who would be induced to purchase or accops certainut a case in which it has not been possible with these uncompleted notes to hand consider it important to tell him the price act of wanton vandalism is being urged BRANDY IS false and forged current money notes for 1.10 represent two distinct interests. Had them over in their incomplete state to the sa60,000 in all?—No, I did not tell him, it will not be without interest to many 35 each, purporting to be issued by the there been inore Counsel I have no doubt / Chinese anthorities. They arrived on the hecause he is very short-tempered and he to reproduce after this long interval the
Military Government of Kwangtung, large sums of money.
that there would be more representation. His Lordship--You do not suggest that
might get angry. (Laughter.)
Mr. Furukawa, you are on your trial
you can give for not telling him the price of the notes ?--Yes, that is the only reason,
upon the Government," From that plea
Mr. Alabaster, continuing his opening what No. 1 says in, the witness-box in not therefore he had a few notes in his pocket- here, remember. Is that the only reason Eastern commercial cities are, us a ralo, very
for the defence, said that he had told the jury, very broadly, the main points on which they would have to devote their
attention. They would have to be satis fied by the prosecution-and nut by the defence that the Chinese Military Government did not, in fact, order these nutes. If they did there was an end to the conspiracy. If the jury found that the notes were not ordered by authority they had to consider whether each of the prisoners, considering each one soparately, did anything in furtherance
evidence against No. 21
Mr. Alabaster-I do.
17th December, and expected to find some Chinese officials to come on board, and
book to show them. As they did not come on board, he made enquiries when he got ashore, and it was arranged that hnj Mr. Sharpe-We do not want to obstruct should meet them that evening at the Mr. Alabaster in any way. I think the Toto Sin restaurant.
There they met position is this, that if he wants to cross-
Fung Choy Lun, the man they called examine, the ovidence in the first case
"Daibutsu, because he was so fat. He mast he incriminatory of the second informed them that a man in the Trea prisoner. Otherwise, the right of cross-sury named Yung was dead, and there examination cannot possibly arise.
His Lordship agreed, and observed thus he could not see how it could be--other- wise.
Mr. Alabaster-I am not calling No. 1
Was there any remuneration arranged for you at any time?—No,
I suppose you will agree with mis that if your story is true there was no reason why Nishiyama should give you more thau he was getting himself - never thought of it, but I thought that when I came to Hongkong he would give me something.
Wore you not surprised that Nishiyama was prepared to pay you $135,000 He told me he was going to get the money from the Chinese Government.
Are you aware that your name was sat
Yes, E wils,
following paragraphs:
It has frequently boon. remarked that Far uninteresting. It has often been observed that the reason is the poverty of their his torical: associations. Projected suddenly into existence by an entirely now turn of events they are all more or less in the same plight. From Singapore to Yokohama, the criticism applies, though Maeno may be held to escape it. Interesting in one way they all are, but everyone knows what is meant. You arrive; you are pleased by the general aspect of the town; you land and admire fine buildings set out along the front, like the goods in a shop window; you are taken to the Club you go out for a walk; you #look round! and all is over. It? ia dilk teat when you go to Calcutta, Why? - Because Calcutta has a story to tell and has preserved many monuments to give it paint.
stories to relate and, as if in despair of
of a conspiracy. Undoubtedly, on the on behalf of No. 2, or No. 2 on bokelf of /out his promise nad hoping that he woukl down in this agreement for $135,000? These others have only short and rather dull
the first man. I want that quite clear. I am here in two capacities.
would be some difficulty in taking over these notes. That upset No. 1 very much, as would be seen from a letter in which he regretted that Fung had not carried
soon do so. It was then arranged that they should hand over the notes on the 21st, and they were arrested in the way the jury knew. The first man came down really to superintend the handing over of these notes, and, also, whitst her in the Colony, he hoped he would be I will cross-able to get some Chinese students for his The second man came down Collegs. because he had business in the south of Japan, and also in Shanghai, This one did not come till November. Ho did not know what they were going to get for
His Lordship-You follow me in this: It is obvious that if you are going to cross-examine, the whole of the evidence must go to the jury.
Mr. Alabaster--Then examine only if I consider it necessary by reason of any statement made by one against the other.
His Lordship-I confess I have heard of no such position as that.
evidence, they did de something--some- thing in furtherance of some agreement, but unless the Crown could go further and say that each of these people know of a conspiracy when he did theso nets tho charge must fail. The pro secution itself had called seven or eight witnesses who had done overt acts in this alleged conspiracy, but they did not suggest that these people were guilty For instance, the prosecution called Pang. and Wong, who did certain things in pursuance of this scheme, but they did it, according to their case, with a perfectly free mind, not intending to dofraud their Governmont, but actually doing hit on behalf of the Government. Then there Mr. Sharp-I will take no technical to direct him on the point of the procs dure. He represented the next five pris. mere two coolies who carried these notas. | paints against my friend:
He did not know whether Mr They did it perfectly innocently. Then, Mr. Alabaster-Thank you. So long as
onera, Alabaster would examine his own vit. again, they had put into the box the man that is clear I will take them together. who had actually made the notes, Mr. The Erst that No. I had to do with this messes, and then clown the case as far as
these two men were concerned, and
1
What did you think when you saw that? --That agreement was not carried out.
Why was he prepared to pay you that? -He asked me to do all the work under the agreement.
All the work you had to do was to get aprinter to print the notes!
Mr. Alabaster And travelling pense, you know.
Mr. Potter-Oh, yes. All right. You can give him $6,000 for travelling expense (Laughter.)
Counsel repeated his query, and witness said he refused it. The remuneration was too large.
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Mr. Alabaster-My Lord, neither have the notes, but he knew that in corta kawa Why should he be prepared to to the Clock Tower question is missed. Thi
You see, it is such a small Bar that it is not sufficient for the representation of all the prisoners.
events he stood to lose money, and so he lent it at a fairly high rate of interest.
Mr. Jenkin said he wanted his Lordship
That is not my question, Mr. Furu offer this amount to you ?--I don't under stand this
I shall strive to make clear.
Hongkong was for a long time better off than most Far Eastern towns, though poor. er, of course, then Macao, in this respect, The works of Price made her, at any rate, beautiful in places mostly unregarded now. proservo But there has been a sad failure to A few years ago Glenealy was a triumph art and nature, working in combination, Now look at it! Glenenly, the most wantiful of Price's many dreams is destroyed. In- That evitable? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
of
Slade had said in Conrt that the induce was, as far as he (Counsel) remembered, ther he himself could open the case then why I cannot understand why you should word is over in the mouths of those who take :
ment offered to the prisoners was the somewhere shout July of last year. Ho excellence of the forgery. The excellence was, and he thought it had come out in of the forgery was due to their own evidence, the proprietor of the Tokyo
-witness, Ukamoto, but it whts
not Technical School, and a man of some im- portance. He lived in the residential dis- trict, whore all the nobles lived, and in the same district, he was not sure that it was not the next door, lived the Chief of the Police Department of the Home
agged that this man was guilty. He ace them, but he said Le was satisfied when he got the order from the other persons, after the enquiries he had made, that it was a genuine order.
Mr. Sharpe We did not say for a
moment that Ukamoto was honest.
His Lordship-Not only that, but
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Office, who coupied, he took it, a some what similar. position to the Director of I Public Prosecutions at Home. In the
Of
in regard to the other prisoners. course, Mr Alabaster would not make his
Do you agree with me that if this was & bona-fide contract he could have gone to any respectable printer in Japan and got the notes printed without coming to you? Yes, be could have done that.
In reply to further question, witness said he was not a printer and could not whe-answer it.
Mr. Potter-That is the very reason
have been offered $135,000, when you are
for it. That is the reason I refused.
You know that a sum of 83,000 was ali His Lordship-Acording to the case carry out this cou for the prosecution, your clients are im that was required to chat was sent. plicated with the others, and it seems to In view of that answer do you still say me the prosecution will deal with the case that a sum of $350,000 was not sufficient as a whole k
to show it was a dishonest transaction Yes, I thought it was very high, and that is the reason I did not sign this agree ment, this wa
final reply as yet.
Mr. Sharpo-Subject to your Lordship's approval, I think the course Mr. Jenkin suggested is a very good one.
Mr. Alabaster then called the first
Bought the suggestion of the defence in sume district there also lived the Chief prisoner, whose testimony went to support
eross-examination was that he was not so.
Mr. Alabaster dissented.
1 Mr. Sharp-I shall have more by about this afterwards. I cannot take up such a position as that.
His Lordship-I do not know what view the jury take about the matter. I certainly thought he knew more about it than many others.
of the Police Bureau, a position somewhat similar to that occupied by Sir Edward Henry at Home Furukawa was intro- duced to Nishiyama (No. 5), who informed him that through the introduction of a Mr. Fung, a printer in this Colony, he had been able to get a contract to print 200,000 $5. notes for the Chinese Govern ment Nishiyama wanted them printed in Japan, and anked No. 1 to get him a permit, or enquire if one was necessary. So shortly after this the two men went to Mr. Koga, the head of the polics, and told him about it, and Mr. Koga referred
able to full the contract, and so it
his Counsel's opening statements.
: After the tiffin adjournment, Mr. Potter submitted him to a severe cross- examination. In answer to a question, he said he first heard of the printing of the uotes from Nishiyama, when he asked him to make enquiries respecting the attitude of the authorities. He thought Nishiyam approached him because he was a member of a technical college and was ncquainted with printers. Nishiyama told him that 8350,000 was to be paid for a million dollars' worth of notes, FL
it was a little suspicions-Yes, I did Suspect a little, and asked who was the
man who had ordered them.
Yes,
not a printer and could not do anything revocable. And itrevorably old Hongkong is
Did you think this was an honest or dishonest transaction-I thought it was a legal business.
I suggest to you that you were to distribute this amount of $135,000 on people who were in an official position? Yes, or no?~~1 never expected to get that
amount.
Were you not intending to pay a large portion of this money to other persons - No, I had no such intention.
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soon passing away and will disappear beneath the great ranges of modern moun teinons buildings which tower increasingly skyward. So he it. But it is just here that the usefulness of the Clock Tower, as a re- minder of the days that were, comes in. Though we have na dramatic history of blood and war to commemorate, we have a remark-ZEISS able record of rapid progress and this story the Clock Tower is better able to tell than all the books that ever will be written..
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This view of it as a memento of bygene days cuts the ground completely from under the feet of the assaulting party, and makes light of the reasons advanced for the Tower's 16 Power....... demolition. You can indulge a fancifut als mission of them all (with the exception of 12 untouched as a defender. Take, for in-12 the alleged block to trafic) and still remain stance, the allegation that the Clock cannot
8 height of houses in the vicinity has in- well be seen owing to the way in which the greased. Admit it. Let more high and I suggest that you were going to give
portion of this money to Kaga and there in fancy or built there in fact. terrine honses, frowning down upon it, he other policemen ? No. If I gave it to This will only increase its value as a histori-
cal monument. As such, the fact that it them they would be very angry... No. 3 are described as partners. Do you because, na soon as the fact is seized upon, Now look at the agreement. You and largely invisible becomes highly valuable, suggest that it is not true-If this agro- it heromnes instantly instructive and in ment were carried out I should have been most striking manner. It tells the refective a partner, but it was not.
observer that once upon a time the surround- ing horses only came up to the knees of our. latter day structures.. It tells him of & low- built, small, and compset town, struggling for existence manfully with its back against the wall of the Peak and anxiously looking out for a monthly mail from England and the opium clippers from Calcutta. It carries his thoughts back half a century to the when old King Pam was the inspiring iu- palmy days of British influence in China
But didn't you, in fact, carry out this to print these documents 1-No, I did not. Then I am to take it that you did nothing No, I did not.
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In answer to further questions by Mr. Putter, witness said he did not tell No. 2 that he had an order for 1,000,000 dullars worth of notes for $350,000, He did think that the $10,000 remuneration to the second man for his loan of $3,000 Buenes, and men like Consul Parkes and policy. And if the reflective observer stops not think that No, 2 considered it a highly shy the town Clock was placed was rather too much. He (witness) lid Harry Keppel carried out his vigorous speculative transaction. Witness admitted where it could not be seen from the harbour. lending money, $1,000 in all, to Nishi- and is led to enquire, he will learn that the yama on behalf of this undertaking. He sea only lately lapped the shore not a hun knew there were certain marks purport-dred and Afty yards below it, and realise ing to be he thought, the signatures of why a British Admiral once urged the ad- the Governor of Canton and the Com visatality of abandoning the island because missioner of Finance on the back of the there was no room for a town to grow an notes. Asked if he did not think it was the mere lodge of land which nature had.
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Mr. Alabaster-I think I asked whether they alleged he was a conspirator.
Mr. Sharpe-We cannot say that he is a conspirator, but we do not suggest that he is innocent. If he had been one of the him to the head of the Metropolitan Mr. Potter-Didn't it strike you that Didn't you arrange for a printer men who came down with the notes ne Police, He made on behalf of himself would be in the dock to-day
and Nishiyama various enquiries, and Mr. Alabaster accepted the statement saw the order purporting to ho chopped Continuing, he said this man was not with the seal of Fung and his two Chi-
I thought you were under the impres charged, and be stated-as a witness for use officials, and he was satisfied that it the prosecution that he was innocent. was a genuine order, and so they prosion that they were ordered by the Chinese After that he really seemed to Government - thought they were order There were people on board the steamship, ceeded.
Nishiyama became ed by the officials named in the document too, who had assisted, but he did not have taken charge.
(produced). were very unwell, and No. 1 arranged with a
It is a very simple question. Did you suppose it was suggested they conspirators. They helped to throw these man named Saido San to do the printing. think these notes were ordered by these boxes overboard, but they simply did This printer went bankrupt, and was not officials un the part of the Government? what they were told. He could only
Of course, you would not have been a speak with regard to the two first became necessary to get another printer party to the transaction if they were not prisoners in the ease, the others being in Any number of people knew about this ordering them on the part of the Govern- the hauds of his learned friend, Mr. order, and the jury would see from the ment-No, I should not have taken any Jenkin. Each of the first two would documents put in that the Japan police part.
Now, Mr. Furukawa, you are peculiar that these signatures should be provided for the purpose. That such things make a defence on his own behalf, and knew all about it, and it must have been educated man, a Frofessor of Engineer- stainped on the notes, he said he did not ever wore may be ultimately disbelieved, or Beither of them would give evidence for the knowledge of the Canton police, ing. Do you suggest that $1.75 per cofe think anything about it.
He did not perhaps forgotten altogether, unless some although they had no ovidence of that It
was a fair price I thought it rather notice that the words, "Printed at the outward and visible sign is allowed to re the other. Ho would submit to his Lord became necessary for them to raise money high.
Shanghai Commercial Press" appeared nain. Other things, perhaps better worth ship that there was a law which said that for the printing of the notes, as nobody
Come, come. As an educated man and on the back of the notes. Witness admitted remembering, may also be forgotten. There prisoners could make a statement on their would take it on without payment, and being something more than a little high for this, but could not say how much
a man of position didn't it strike you us that he expecter to get sonte remuneration is only space here to hint at the Tower's
story. Our tratlitions, all told, are few, and THE own behalf in reply to the charge, but if they brought various people into it. That is all I thought.
perkaps inglorious. Nevertheless, they are The hearing was adjourned.
ours and by us they ought to be preserved in that statement one of them involved They got into touch with the second
We ought "poor thing but mine own. the others to a certain degree that was prisoner, who was a money-lender, and evidence against them, but only he lent them money. The jury would see 110t evidence with regard to himself. That that he thought the order was a genuine was what he meant the previous day when one, because they would notice from the he said that the defence was placed in documents put in that he was not men. a difficult position owing to there being tioned in the matter of the sub-division only two Counsel for seven defendants, of the spoil, and he (Counsel) thought that because each of thera had got, by the fort when the jury came to see his case they of circunstances, to represent more than would believe that he knew nothing of one of the prisoners. It would have been the sub-division. That was rather shown desirable for them to have been repre- by a letter in regard to the first loan of sented separately, for reasons he had just 23,000. He had been told that the Chi given. So far as possible he (Counsel) nese Government might refuse to acknow would try to divide himself into two. He ledge the agreement, and therefore, there properd, subject to his Lordship's ruling, being a risk, the second man was to re- to tell the jury shortly what Furukawa ceive his $3,000 on the receipt of the pay- (the first prisoner) had to say, and then ment, and $10,000 as remuneration in afterwards put him in the box, examine addition. In the event of the purchaser, him, and he would be cross-examined. If the Chinese Government buying only half
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