SUPREME COURT.
Tuesday, April 8th,
1x CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.
BEFORE THE ONIES JUSTICE (HYS HONOUR
SIE W. REES DAVIES, K.C.).
THE ALLEGED FORGED BANK- NOTE CASE.
The hearing was continued of the case in which seven Japanese stand charged for that on the 20th of June, 1912, 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 accept certain false and forged current money notes for 65 ench, purporting to be issued by the Military Government of Kwangtung, large sums of money.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH, 1918.
(Hon. Mr. The Attorney-Cleneral 3. A. 8. Bucknil, K.O.), Mr. E. H. Sharp, H.C., Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C., and Mr. Eldon Potter (instructed by Mr. F. B. L. Howler, of Messrs. Denny's & Bowley, for the Crown Solicitor), Mr. C. G. Alabaster prosecuted. (instructed by Mr. Reader "Harris, of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist), appeared to defend the first two prisoners, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. J. H.Protection of that Court Gardiner) defended the remainder..
(Laughter.) He submitted that the cir cumstances which led his olients to take part in this contract were real, and if the jury came to the conclusion that these: men had honest and reasonable belief, then they must find them not guilty. He asked them to say that each one had an honest and reasonable belief in the truth of the circumstances which were put before them. The mere fact of receiving 91.75 per note did not affect the matter, and the making of a big profit did not
Carry them any further. He presumed many this people-white people-came Colony to make money, and huge profits were not exactly a rarity, I do not blame tacm," Counsel added, "more luck to them."! (Laughter.) There was an abominable waste of time about the throwing of the notes into the sen. No. 8 in the Police Court admitted it, and yet the prosecution called drunken cabin boys, barbers, stewards and what not. (Laughter.) Ho contended that the jury had to find the prisoners conspired to
If that indictment do a criminal act gether with a common criminal purpose to had rested, as it did at first, the jury would have had to find that they con- spired to defraud the military Govern ment of Canton, and as the Chinese Cloy- ornment had not yet been recognised, it was, in his opinion, without the pale I
There was
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The names of the prisoners are follows:-B. Furukawa, S. 1. Yanagi,
not a little of evidence that anybody in this Colony was likely to be bamboozled. He asked the jury to say that. Nos, 4, 5, 6 and 7, were innocent, and he asked the jury to say that of all of the accused.
K. Nagao, K. Nisldyama, F. Sano, KIn conclusion, Mr. Jenkin again submit- Nakagawa, and T. Tanabe, alias Bted that the prosecution was instituted Tanabe.
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The following comprise the special jury-Mosers, Alex. McKenzio (foreman), M. S. Sassoon, Ellis Kadourie, E. H. Thiel, T. F. Hough, W. S. Brown, and B. H. Dodwell.
Mr. Alabaster resumed his speech for the defence and recounted briefly the primary points of his
HONGKONG RIFLE LEAGUE
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91
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81
·Mr. Maugor
31
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Names.
86 84
248 239 925 712
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00
80
82
90
212
24
$4
09
32
83
27
83 2370 73
F. O. Davidson ... 30 31 Pto. Howard 28 *... 28 P. O. Bridger A. B. Burchell.... 28. A. B. Button 26 30 P. O. Joyce........ 20 27
22 A. B. Broadmeadow 28 A. B. Hollands... 2120.
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BRITISH TRADE AT VLADIVOSTOCK.
DEATHS OF OLD FOREIGN
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has set himself to accomplish and carry Ho should it to its logical conclusion. take up his work where he had loft it off His country in February of last year. wants him. The nation expects him to gave the situation. How much longer can The British Consular report on the on a small estate on leaving Japan two he withhold his services from the nation.
which is in need of them?
THE ALOOF AND DISTRUSTFUL ATTITUDE "
OF BRITISH MANUFACTURERS, VA
RESIDENTS OF JAPAN. Mr. Robert J. Ward, who was a resident in Japan for close en 49 years, has died near Dover, where he had settled down years ago. He was associated with the railways in Japan and was in charge of the engine which piloted the Imperial train on the occasion of the opening of the first railway-Yokohama to Tokyo.
Trade of Vladivostock in 1011 was pub. Mr. Consul lished in February, 1913 Hodgson explains that owing to the diff culty of obtaining reliable information he had not been able to forward the report, S sooner. The following reference to Bri
News has been received in Japan by cable from London of the death of Mr. F: E. Daniel, for very many years a resident of Yokoham, where he had been engaged as an exchange broker since 1891. Mr. Daniel cams out East in the eightice, Matheson & Co., in Shanghai. After
and
was first with Messrs Jardine
some time he was transferred to Yoko- Jeined Mr. St. John as a broker. In 1902 ama, and in 1891 ho left the firm and the firns of Bennett, Dure & Wilokens and Daniel & Coutts amalgamated under the nains of Bennett, Daniel & Co., and has carried on business ever since.
25 25 34 tish trade in the Vladivostock Consular district may be of interest to local firms: The trade with the United Kingdom in 3011 remained pretty much what it always Yards Yards Yards Tatal. lits been with perhaps a light tendency The number of towards improvement, travellers representing British firms cer- tainly showed an increase, and, instead of following the practice generally fol- lowed hitherto of dashing through Vladi vostock on the way to or from some other country and spending a few hours, or at the most a couple of days, here, those who came had generally sufficient time at their disposal to get a reasonable grasp of the local commercial conditions and the prospects of trade. Such travellers as were in a position to visit this and other centres of East Siberia appeared to carry away the impression that in this country there does really exist a market for British goods and that, if any effort is ever to be made to take advantage of it, the present is the time to make it. Home
Among orders placed at home recently niay bo mentioned brick-making machinery, crucible steel, lathes and workshop equipment, motor-bost engines, Hampshire wins the Hongkong Shield. refrigerating machinery, ready-made clothes, textiles, boots and shoes, haber GOLF.
dashery and hesiory, British portable engines continue to hold their own, and the impert of corrugated iron and flat sheets, always important, is increasing in volume, PL
Names.
215 215 214 844 VOLUNTEERS, COET'S.
200 500 600 Tards Yards Yards Total.
29
89 81
Mr. Chapman Mr. Anderson Mr. Martin
Mr. Sorby Mr. Tollan
28 30 27
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Mr. Bradbury... 27.
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25
78
70 74
60
623
Mr. Manuk Mr. Sterrart
212 218 103
CAPTAIN'S CUP (APRIL)
Mr. O. T. Benth Mr. Eldon Potter.
by the Chinese Government, who, he said, locsed their purse-strings, and they were bad come into these Courts, they had Captain Spicer prosecuting British subjects at least. they were British subjects as long as they The breathed the air of this Colony. jury had an undoubted right to say that this was purely a malicious prosecution brought about by the Chinese Govern- ment.
"His Lordship exhaustively recapità. lated the facts and the statements of the witnesses and the prisoners, and in con- clusion directed the jury that if they believed the prisoners, explanation, that this was a bond-fide transaction, and that there was an order from the Canton Gov. ernment, then they must find the prisoners not guilty. If they found that they were acting in concert with guilty knowledge and with intent to defraud then they His Lordship must find them guilty. complimented Counsel on both sides for their excellent speeches, and, with regard to these of the two Counsel for the de- reference had been fence, said that
Mr. Bulmer Johnson . Mr. C. EH Beavis Mr. J. H. Little Mr. A. O. Davidson Mr. J. D. Kinnaird Mr.-R. H. Hondersos Captain Saxton Mr. F. Bevington Mr. B. E. Macdougal
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Captain Spicer". Mr. F. E. McHugh Mr. Eldon Potter Mr. Bulmer Johnson Mr. J. Little .... Captain Saxton Mr. A. C. Davidson Mr. J. D. Kinnaird, Mr. R. Henderson Mr. F. Berington .... Mr. R. E. Macdougall
772-75 95-18-77 817-77 791-78 05-10-70 92-11-81 887-91 91-10-81
0514-81 94 12-83 96-12 84
797-72 91-14-77 95-18-77 847-77 9516-79 05-14-81 92-11-81 887-81 D10-81 94-12 82 98-12-84
INTIMATIONS
JOHNSTONE'S
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Old residents of Japan will regret to learn of the death of Mr. R. F. Trevi- thick, who went to Japau in 1887 as chief mechanical engineer of the western section of the Imperial Government Rail- ways of Japan. He remained in Japan until 1904, being the last foreign railway official to be retained by the Imperial On returning Japanese Government.
Mr. Trevithick took up his residence at Southampton, where his that ocurred. Mr. Richard F. Trevi thick had the distinction of building the first locomotive constructed in Japan. in 1992 sanction was granted for this, and an engine to Mr. Trevithick's designs was The best that quality of ingredients. constructed at the Kobe Works of the Government Railways. It was a comand age combined with experience pound, and was put in traffic in 1893, being found so satisfactory that many other types were subsequently built at the and skill can produce. works to his designs.
CRAFT AND STATECRAFT.
REMARKABLE ALLEGATIONS OF CRAFTINESS AT PEKING.
The Amur Railway, which is making rapid progress, and should be completed, except for the bridge over the Amur at Khabarovsk, in 1975, is opening up a large area hitherto untouched; the Rus sian Government is taking in hand quite a variety of important undertakings, notably the proper equipment of Vladi rostoek Harbour, the dredging of the ap- proaches to the Amur, and very large building operations for the naval and military departments in various parts of the country; the colonisation authorities are improving the means of communich tion, and the settlement on the land of peasants from European Russia is pro
Comparisons are always odious, but gressing under more satisfactory condi- tions than has been the case in the past. there are times when sharp and clearly- For What is more important still, Russian defined contrasts between two men may labour is being introduced in place of be pointed out with advantage. Chinese on all works depending upon some time past, the name of Dr. Sun has been frequently used in certain quacters Government and is being encouraged on private enterprises. On all sides are for the purpose of farthering their own
From time to time, as. visible signs of the fixed policy of Russia interests.
In view of the many reports which have. been published of late, which have con- eyed a very unflattering opinion of Dr. as a practical Sun Yarson's acumen statesmaa, the following article from the China Republican possesses much interest at the present moment;
contentions overnight. He declared that the Chinese Government had made this bargain, and intended to repudiate it. Was it likely, be asked, that if they were engaged in a conspiracy and a far-reaching fraud that every one of the prisoners should have on their persons various decuments agreements in writing showing the parts of each one, and apportioning the pro cceds-and carry them about with them If they were parties to a fraud they must have realised the danger of carrying these documents about with them. There was hardly anyone in this Colony who could jury retired to consider their have offered $350,000 for forged notes verdict, and after an absence of about a hardly anybody except the Chinese Gov- quarter of an hour they returned.
The Foreman announced that they ernment and prominent supporters of the Chinese Government such as those man found all the prisoners guilty, and strong tioned in a certain letter. Counsel dealty recommended No. 4to mercy.
His Lordship, in sentencing the pris with Pang's connection with the transac oners, said-Prisoners at the Bat, theof Taikoo entering two teams was men- is, therefore, increasing it will be in.ing to discredit. Dr. Sun and make him i
made to the shortage of Counsel at the legal Bar, but he was of opinion that the prisoners had not suffered by that in any
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to develop the Pri-Amur and populate it telegraphic columns have gone to show, with her own people.. Side by side, the news hat emanated from Peking that cer A meeting of the Hongkong Lawn Bowls exploitation of the natural resources of tain telegrams had been sent by Dr. Sun League was held last night, when Mr. the country-minerals, fisheries and tim-on divers occasions to the Capital, and, Howell was elected president and Mr. Aber encouraged by a liberal and sym-curiously enough, every time we enden- It was ministration is finding the capital which discovery that there was no foundation Ramsay was elected hon. secretary and pathetic attitude on the part of the adoured to verify the report we made the
in ib Thego telegrams may be roughly ZEISS treasurer for the ensuing year. agreed to commence the league matches on is essential to it.
the calculated Saturday, May 17th, and the possibility The purchasing power of the community sub-divided into two classes, the one tend benefit Yuan Shih-kai. To, quote in- tarers will maintain their aloof and distances, it is not necessary to go back trus fi attitude towards it or whether further than the recent visit of Dr. Sun they will make some torious effort to to Japan. During his stay in Tokio, the establish themselves in a market which Central Government gave out the news 16 Power they have been content hitherto to leave that Dr. Sun had been received in audi- 12 untouched.
two of the bowling greens for play this season it was decided that the entries for the open singles championship of the Colony should close on June 2nd.
for rabbits.
TABLE ANIMALS.
Then,
as a shark's in broker; the prosecution in orin. I do not think any jury could possibly have arrived at any other called him a police agent, and he (Coan verdict. It is a serious crime, and the sol) believed ho would not be wrong inconspiracy to defraud which you have No one knew,been found guilty of has in this case in- calling him a "nark."
ence by the Emperor of Japan. In point It should be at once said that the of fact, there was no such occurrence. To when dealing with the Chinese, that they Tolved forgery, which is a very serious offence against the British law. It is a would not go back on any agreement they crime which all your countrymen in When one comes to think of it, it is despatch of an occasional traveller will the ver est tyro in such matters, to wit, had made, and therefore a big profit was Japan will condemn. But for the con
come regularly to the dinner table or untion of the most alluring catalogues be been perfectly clear that the real object: British firms rust be of making the statement was designed to required to cover the other party in the spiracy having failed you might have surprising how many fabulous animals not effect this object, nor will the distri the gentle art of cunning, it must have
of much avail. event of considerable loss. Dealing with grossly defrauded the public.
you are a man of education, u man of supper table:
Among them, of course, the most fami-netively and efficiently represented on the lower Dr, Bun in the eyes of the Japanese the throwing overboard of the notes and position, and you ought to have known the Welsh rabbit, which in its spot, and till this is done no real improve statesmen, because, in the first place, the
lar better. I certainly regard you and the still small voice," he said the two last prisoners arrived some days after No. 5 as the ringlenders in this transac original form was merely toasted cheesement in the position can be hoped for report was baseless and, in the second tion Although the others were guilty. Some folks declare that the name is a They must bear in mind that German place, oven assuming that Dr. Hun had the other six, (as they wero then,) had been
you No. 1 and No. 5, according to any corruption of "rarebit," but this has trade has gained predominance here hy seen the Japanese Emperor, there was no Russian Decupation was in its infancy, which cannot but be construed in the light arrested, and on going to a hotel on shoreview of the case, were the chief movers never been proyed, says the New York starting from small beginnings when the occasion to advertise the fact to the world. some Japanese camo and told them in the crime. The buntence on you both there is the golden buck, which is and that it has grown up with the country; of vain and empty boasting Besides, the
Then
thas the large German stores having purpurt of Dr. Sun's visit to Japan was is that you be imprisoned and kept at through a screen probably because he hard labour for three years. Nos. 2, 0, a Welsh rabbit with a poached egg on did not want to be mixed up in the mess7, and 8, you were all parties to the con top. Chinese rabbit is a Welah rabbit: Vladivostock as their centre of operations not to seek an audience with the Japanese
thoroughly familiar with the wants of the familiar to the world at large. --of the arrest of the others, and advised spiracy unquestionably, and although with rice in it, and a Mexican rabbit were founded 10 or 50 years ago, are Emperor, but for other objects which are them to get rid of the notes, and they there is nothing to show that No. 6 would (otherwise known as a Spanish rabbit) inhabitants, and have accustomed them to again, only the other day, we were driven
pruft pecuniarily by the transaction, his throw them into the Harbour with the errespondence with No. 5 showed that he contains, tomatoes and onions. So much the use of German goods; that they have to the necessity of contradicting the re- Scotch woodcock is two slices of hot a perfect acquaintances with the lan-port that Dr. Sum had sent a telegram to obvious intention of avoiding being was a very lively party to the conspiracy,
centres as their growing importance with the murder of Mr. Sung Chino-jen and in all probability paved the way in buttered toast, with an anchovy on each guage, have opened branches in the various President Yuan Shih-kai in connection charged with conspiracy.
Hongkong for the conspiracy which bad
Being on the instigator of the crime be not tried in Mr. Jeskin followed for the last five been framed in Japan. The sentence of slice, and a sauce made of half a pint of, seemed to justify it, and have trained and requesting that the murderer and allegedl spot and organised so as to gauge the the Mixed Court but sent up to Peking prisoners. He said he wanted to ask the Court upon you four is that you be milk and the yolks of three eggs poured capable technical staffs.
Less familiar, perhaps, is the English financial solidity of their clients, they can to be dealt with by the authorities there. what the indictment meant when it said imprisoned and kept at hard labour for over them.
As regards No.4, the jury the prisoners conspired to cheat and two years,
have strongly recommended you to mercy monkey, which is made by soaking a what is all-important here give credit Previous to that, the statement was lefraud such persons zs might thereafter regarding you, I suppose, as the dupe of eupful of breadcrints in a cup of milk, where circumstances justify it and have inspired that Dr. Suni had sent a tele- was the only suitable candidate for the be induced." He also desired to know No. 1. I am glad to give effect to that and adding a tablespoonful of melted & hold over purchasers which distant firms gram 0 Canton to the effect that Yuan
The sentence of the butter, a beaten egg, and half a cup of can muver obtain. who were the persons, whether they were recommendation. English or Chinese, or what not. It was Court is that you be imprisoned and kept grated cheese, the whole, with salt and The foregoing will hardly sound en- post of Permanent President, when, in
at hard labour for twelve months.
up a business in Vladivostock, but the a figment of the imagination. Mr. Jenkin-As to No. 4 and as regards Pepper added, being poured over toaste couraging to firms desirous of working point of fact, such a telegram was merely The mock turtle is one of the most fami- writer believes that no good object, can onote numerous other instances, but we Having pre- the rest of them, would your Lordship say that the sentences may take effect from line of fabulous table animals, being be achieved by minimising the disadrant do not intend to weary our readers with the date of their arrest, which was in served in the form of soup. Mock duck ages under which they must labour if a dreary citation of them. November last 1
is a toll of chopped meat and bread desirous of making the efforts to repair sented these facts, we cannot help con- His Lordship assented in the case of crumbs baked. Mock crab is made by the indifference of the past. The lines on trusting the character of the two men who mixing equal parts of grated cheese and which such an effort should, in the form the subject matter of this article. No. 4 only.
Mr. Sharp intimated that it was not butter, seasoning with salt, pepper, and writer's opinion, be made in order to give the intention of the Crown to proceed vinegar, and adding a few drops of a reasonable chance of success, have been between this Consulate and the Commer with the other indictments.
His Lordship said instruction would be anchovy sauce. The paste thus prepared sketched in the course of correspondence
times served in crab shell.
Trade. given to the police authorities for the spread on slices of dry toast, or some cial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Last, but not least remarkable, of these
Lists of such articles of British manu roythologies! animals, known only to the facture as should find an opening in this kitchen naturalist, is the corn oyster, country have been supplied from time to which is a small fritter of green corn, time by this Consulate to the Board of fried like a real oyster.:
not a crime to cheat and defraud unless it was said what class of people were being defrauded,
Mr. Sharp-No doubt, people in this Colony into whose hands these notes might fall. I don't know that we are
restricted to persons in this Colony event, but also to cheat a very large number out side the Colony.
Mr. Jenkin then addressed the jury,
submitting that these men had an honest and reasonable belief that there had been an order for these notes by represcuta tives of the Chinese Government on behalf of that Government. If they were being indicted for forgery or conspiracy to defraud the English Government, and they had put up a defence in that case that the documents had emanated from the British Treasury and that they were bona-fide, the jury might have no cont punetion about saying that it was no such But they were dealing with the thing. Chinese bation, which, he supposed, had always been wrapped in mystery," and with a Treasury which had made an order
release of No. 3.
His Lordship, in discharging the jury. thanked them on behalf of the Colony, anil released them from further servies
for five years.
The Foreman intimated that he would like to say a few words on behalf of the jury. He knew, he said, that it was not customary for jurors to receive fees in a criminal charge, but they had heard a good deal during this case which, it was thought, brought it within a category to which payment night well be extended. He referred to the inconvenience occa sioned to them ne business men, and re- quested bis Lordship to make representa- tions to the H.E. the Governor on the matter.
His Lordship undertook to see that the request was fulfilled, and said he should be extremely glad to support it and hoped in a most unbusinesslike manner. They would take practical effect. In civil were dealing with a nation that was just actions the special jury received 80716 pecuniary payment, but not very much. coming into civilisation a semi-barbar His Lordship certainly thought that in a case of that kind it was a great hardship ous nation which was just rising from a
on a special jury, and intimated that he state of chaos, and did not know how to
would be very glad to make representa They did it in conduct its own affairs.
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Whereas Dr. Sun has consistently sup ported President Yuan, the latter's every STUDY underhandedness which peculiarly belongs action has been marked by a species of by Dr. Sun, President Tuan has been to him. Despite the trust reposed in him working against him all the time. Whereas Dr. Sun's dealings with Presi. THE dent Yuan have invariably been marked interestedness and a singleness of purpose by frankness; generous confidence, dis- which even his enemies are forced to in- wardly respect though they have not the courage to outwardly admit, President Yuan has exhibited no such qualities of character in his dealings with Dr, Sun, He las jeopardized the interests of the country by using his military subor dinates for the purpose of strengthening his position and incurred the just odium of his countrymen by conferring a shower of empty titles and honours on his bench- men and favourites. Almost every action of his has demonstrated how utterly un worthy he has proved himself of the trust reposed in him by Dr. Sun in making way For him as President and by the country for accepting him as the head of the Re- public. We ask whether the best interests. of the Republic are being served by hay- ing such a man at the helm of affairs. We ask whether he merits the confidence
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