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SUPREME COURT.
BRFORK THE CHIEF JUSTICE (815 WILLIAM
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FRAUD ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
→ BANKS.
Three cases came before his Lordship - yesterday in which To Yam Cho was sed as guarantor for certain banks which failed to perform their liabilities concern.
THE... HONGKONG DAILY PRESE, THURSDAY, JANUARY
AFFAIRS OF THE BANQUE INDESTRIELLE DE CHINE. BRIGHTER PROSPECTS FOR CREDITORS.
AN UNSAFE WHARF. SMART FINE FOR FÅTLING TO KEEP
WHARF IN PROPER REPAIR.
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"BRIBE OR CHAIR HIRE?
OFFERED TO A POLICE
BERGEANT.
Police Sergeant Earnshaw while right duty on December 30th: accusted Chinese in Deg Your Road Centra and found in his posion a horn of
Revenue Office to ascertain whether or opium. He marched his man of to the not the opium, was Government issue On the way the Chinese pulled out a from his pocket, and offered it to the the opium was found to be Government Police Sergeant, At the Revenue Offen issus and at the Central Police Station the defendant was found to be in posses siou of $178.74 cents in cash.
Three Chinese, one female and two At the Supreme Court yesterday morn males, part owners of the Hot On Wharf, ing, before Mr. Justice Gompertz, Mr. Connaught Road Central, were summon
C. Jankin, instructed by Mearsed before Mr. Lindsell, yesterday inora- Deacon, Harton and Shenton, presented ing, for not having complied with a petition asking that the winding up of notice served on them by the Building the affairs of the Banque Industrielle de Authority in respect of certain repairs Chine be postponed til Tuesday, Jaly to the Wharf which was said to be in an unsafe condition. The summons was 3rd.
issued under Section 7 of, the Piers Ordinance of 1909.
"ing" balances due on loan accounts.
In the Arst the Bank of East Asia sued the Chee Ling Bank and on other (Tse
In support of his petition he put in an Yam Che) for the sum of $30,080,05, affidavit by M. Antoine Louis Seitert, the being the debit balance due by the de-new manager of the local branch of the
The affidavit stated that the Board of Directors in Paris had appointed him to Mr. Hall said he understood that the assist the Provisional Liquidator in defendants had bean brought before the Hongkong in connection with the affairs Court on November 22nd and that his
Tendants on a loan account.
Mr. C. G Alabaster, E.C.; appeared i on behalf of the plaintiffs.
Defendant, failed to appear.
bank.
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. H. he was charged befors Mr. J. R. Wood, At the Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Holmes) promoguted and Mr. A. E. Hal! with offering a bribe to the Police Ser was for the defendants.
geant. He was 'described as a Northern Chinese, holding the position of Com pradore of the Shanghai branch of the
been taken in hard, but owing to some dispute as to ownership of the wharf, entailing a lot of complications, progress had been delayed,
The Crown Solicitor said that in April last the pier was found to be in, an unsafe condition. It was
Chinn Specie Bank.
or
Mr. K. Hall, Brutton appeared to defend and said the facts were that the compradorg was a total stranger to the Colony, having come down from Shang- hai. He was an habitual opium-smoker and bad purchased the opiüm for his own consumption. When he was accosted. ho koew it was. Government, opium and It was, possessed a clear conscience. therefore, logical to assume that there Being a heavy smoker and not much used was no necessity for him to offer bribe. to walking, coupled with the fact that he did not know where the Sergeant was taking him, he pulled out the 85
the bill in
chairs hope that rickihna - might be procured. If he had intended to bribe the constable he would surely have offered 850 out of the 8174 he had in his pocket. Mr. Brut ton added that there were no chairs or rickshas in the neighbourhood at the time. Sergeant Earnshaw informed the Magistrate that there were a number of chairs and rickshag about, .
The Magistrate, referring to the 74 cents in the defendant's possession, asked why this was not offered instead of $5.
Mr. Brutton mid his client could not speak English and being a stranger, he did not know how far they would have to go and how much money would be required to pay for the hire of the chairs or rickshas
The Magistrate said he believed the de- fendant's story and accordingly ordered his discharge,
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MOTOR-CAR OWNERS AND CHAUFFEURS.
THE DIVIDING LINE OF RESPONSIBILITY.
Mr Alabaster explained that judgment had already been given against the first
of the Banque Industrielle de Chine in Worship had ordered the repairs to the defendants, and Tse Yam Chee was the this Colony. He had read the affidavits Wharf to be carried out within four man he was yuing. He went on to ex
The work had plain the details of the transaction, and led by M. M. J. B. Montargis since the weeks from that date.
the failing of the Bank. The company been handed over to Mr. Raven, the alleged that To Yam Chee had agreed to referred to in the affidavits was already architect, which showed that they had stand guarantor for the Bank, and had incorporated in accordance with the laws not disobeyed the Court's order, nor tried Designed papers to that effect.
of France, and was called the Societe to evade the Regulations of the Building In 1991, when judgment was given Francaise de Gerance de la Banque Authority. Mr. Raven was in Court and #gainst the first defendants, Tse Yam Industrielle de Chine, Eatablishment he would say that the repair work bad Chee, filed a defence in which he made Francois Chinos, which company to
been formed to undertake, with the con- allegations of fraud against the Chee sept of the French Official Receiver, the Ling Bank. The affidavit, which was management of the Banque Industrielle He had been appointed read by Ms. Alabaster, alleged that unde Chine September 14th, 1921, The Yam Chee, in manager of the Bank in Hongkong by the presence of one of the Bank's repre- this company which would now take over sentatives, sigued n document written in the entire management... The company English purporting to relate to some had a scheme for the payment of the
true that certain title deeds. T. Yam Chee did not under Bank's creditors. It had been suggested stand English, and, so he alleged, did by the French Court that the Bank's repair work had been put in hind, but not realise that he was signing a totally Far Eastern creditors should receive the point that his friend (Mr. Hall) had -different document, and one in which he per cent, gold dollar bonds, secured on
pledged himself to act as guarantor to the French Boxer Indemnity, for the omitted: to tell the Court was that the the Bank in this particular transaction. nominal amount of their claims. The Ordinance required that the pier must Therefore, he pleaded, he was not liable, utilisation of the French Boxer Indem be maintained in a state of repair and Mr. Alabaster, however, contended that, nity for the re-imbursement of the "apart from fraud altogether, in law if a creditors had been approved by the safety and what the Building Authority man signed a document in another lang French Chamber of Deputies, and the required, first and foremost, was that the uage, without understanding its purport, vote of the French Senate was expected pier should be kept in a safe condition, he did so entirely at his own risk.
at any moment to confirm the scheme.n tact the whole point of the case hinged Hi Lordihip: It is quite clear. Directly the vote had been passed, the on the question of safety and so far as man alleges fraud he must come into affidavit continued, it would be possible that was concerned nothing had been Court and prore it, Judgment for pinin: to ask the creditors to accept the gold done. In support of his argument the "tiffs with costs..
dollar bonds. If they should so accept, Crown Solicitor quoted certain extracte The second case was one in which the then the Bank would apply to that Court from the Ordinance as to the meaning of
to withdraw the petition for the wind the word "safety." Tak Shua Bauk sued the Ming Sun Banking-up, of its affairs, and this company An Overseer of the Public Works Do- and inother. (Tse. Yam Chee), for would take over management in Hong partment (Mr. S. E. Barclay) said be $13,839.83, debit balance due by defend kong. He was informed that the hearing aramined the pier, No. 19, and found it. ants, on a loan account.
of the Bank's petition for winding-up in to be in a very dangerous condition. He In this case judgment had not been Londop and Singapore had been post-first examined it in April last and, again, given against either defendant, and as poned, and that no order had been made yesterday morning (January 3rd), when Tee Yam Choe came in as a partner with for the winding-up of the broaches. He he found that some of the piles had been the bank, the claim against him as was of opinion that it was in the best pulled down but nothing had been done guarantor was dropped.
interests of the creditors and depositors to make the pier safe. It was still being that at present no such order should be used for the loading and unloading of made, as now they would be able to vessels.. obtain full benefit of the scheme, should in reply to the Magistrate, witness said the Senate confirm the vete. He prayed that in consequence of a notice sent to the The third case was one in which the that the petition for winding-up would defendants last September, the architect
It appears that, at the previous week's Tax Shop Bank surd the firm of Tee be adjourned.
submitted ocrtain plans which were not hearing of traffic cases the chauffeur of a Hing, and one uther (Tse Yam Chee)Mr. Hugh Nisbit, the Official Liquida approved. Now plans had since been subcar belonging to the United Motor-Car for 66,219.34, debit balance due by de- tor, appeared and intimated that he hadmitted.
Company, was summoned for failing to fendants on loan accountaj.
no objection to the petition for winding Mr. ARF. Haven, architect, said have a proper rear light, The chauffeur up being adjourned.
that he was entrusted with the work of then informed his Worship that he had repairing the wharf in April, last, and reported the lamp to be defective to the in due course submitted plans to the Manager of the Company (Mr. A. H Building Authority. The work, had been Rowe). The Magistrate ordered the case to be adjourned and instructed the delayed and on October 14th he sent a letter to the Authorities, explaining the Traffic Inspector to take out a summons circumstances. An agreement for the against the Company. In response to repair work was eventually signed with a this Mr. A. H. Rowe, accompanied by a contractor in his office on December 9th. solicitor (Mr. G. G. -N, Tinson), appear. The contract stipulated that the worked in Court yesterday. WELL-KNOWN CHINA COAST SHIPPER should be completed within three months. Mr. Lindsell informed Mr. Tinson that
MURDERED.
As far as he knew, the work was com- he had issued instruction for a summons menced on December 8th, or earlier. He to be taken out against the owners of A scrisational double tragedy took had expected to have the work completed the car in view of the chauffeur's state- place in Manila on the evening of De- within three months. The old piles had ment that the Company had done nothing to repair the defective light after the Chu Kam and Lee Shing Cheung "were cember 27th, when Cap, Harry Beach, been removed and new piles driven in
As the result of a point raised, by the chauffeur had made the report. executed at Victoria Gaol, yesterday, of the 8.8 Phcumpen, well-known
Mr. Tinson said these were not bis in- at two minutes past five o'clock in the the China Coast and in Hongkong, was Magistrate, the first witness, recalled, morning, for the murder of Detective shot dead by a friend named J. W. A. said that the planks on the top of the etructions. He had been given to under- Sergeant Sin Chaen, who was fatally Redhouse, a jeweller, of the Plaza Goiti, pier were rotten and that piles were stand that the rear light was burning wounded by a gang of armed robbers Alani, as the result of a quarrel ever been done to cover up the holes in the on the number plate. He was prepared brokes and worm-eaten. Nothing had all right, but that it was not shining on September 7th in Wing Woo Street, a pretty Filipino girl named Antonita pler and people walking on the pier to put the defendant in the box on that The two men who yesterday paid the Cruz. extreme penalty were members of the The shooting is said to have occurred might casily break their legs or their point. If, however, the chauffeur's state gang of robbers,
at 6.30 pm, at No. 508, F. B. Harrison- Pasay, Rizal. The two men were dining defendants 2250. "It was," he said,
The Magistrate convicted and fined the meat was correct he was out of Court
straight away..
Sergeant McWalters said that when together with the girl when Redhouse not sufficient for them to say that the the car passed by the King Edward Hotel suddenly whipped out a revolver, at the work had been entrusted to an architect on the night of the 17th ult, the rear dinner-table and fired twice at Beach, and thus wash the responsibility off their light was burning, but it was not shining one bullet penetrating the Captain's hands." heart and the other entering his side. Death was instantaneous.
Mr. Ainbaster again prosecuted, and as defendants did not appear, judgment was given for plaintiffs with costs.
The Order was adjourned accordingly.
In this case Tae You Choo was alone waed 48 guarantor. Once more An affidavit by him was read, in which he alleged fraud against the first defend- anta
Judgment was given for plaintiffs with LOVE, MURDER AND SUICIDE
SENSATIONAL TRAGEDY IN
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EXECUTION AT VICTORIA
GAOL.
DETECTIVE'S, MURDERERS PAY THE PENALTY.
The murdered detective was well-known to the public, especially in connection with his work in connection with the Woo Ping Theatre murder case, which took place about a year and a half ago. He met his death in trying to intercept the robbers ns they were leaving No 26, Wing Woo Street, The two robbers were caught by other detectives who hap penlad be in the district at the time. In Chu Kam's possession was found a gold watch, which was later identified as having been stolen from one of the oc cupants of the house which the armed robbers entered,
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ARMS IN TRAVELLING TRUNK FOR FROTECTION OF HIS VILLAGE:
MANILA
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The murderer then fled to his home, a couple of blocks away, and there bar- ricaded himself against the police, whom he successfully kept at bay throughout the night
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A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. EUROPEAN IN A RICKSHA ROBBED.
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An interesting roint as to where the responsibility of a chauffeur ends and the responsibility of the motor car owner begins was raised in an indirect way at the Magistracy, on Tuesday, before Mr. EE. Lindsell.
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op to the number plate.
The chauffeur was then put into the box and all he would say was that he had reported the rear light as defective to the clerk in charge of the Garage: He did not report it to the Manager. When pressed as to whether the light was burn- ing on the night"in question he refused During the night Redhouse got in touch The police are investigating a rather to give a definite answer. He stoutly with the Police, the Attorneys and the sensational report which has been made maintained that it was not his business Press, and, in a communication over the to them by a European, named Mr. to repair the defective light. telephone, alleged that Captain Beach Barclay;; * who has stated that at B.p.m. The Magistrate dismissed the summona had been making overtures to the girl. on New Year's Day he was attacked by against the owners and told the chauffeur He added that it was his intention to robbers in Connaught Road, near the that her was prevaricating. For wasting the time of the Court he would be fined commit suicide and that he would shoot Past Office and robbed of 195 anybody who attempted to effect his arMr. Barclay is Chief Engineer of the 310.
motor-ship Copenhagen hired chauffeur in the employ of Mr. rest. At his requeat, two lawyers, named ricksha at the Hongkong Hotel to take A native of the Yam Ping district Thomas D. Aitken and Courtney in back to his vessel, which was lying J. A Alves, was ammoned before Mr. named Sham Cheng was charged at the Hixon, were admitted into the barricad off Kennedy Town. Just at the west end Landeel, at the Magistracy, yesterday, Magistracy yesterday morning with being ed house. Redhouse there dictated his at the Post Ofice, in Conpaught Boad, for driving motor car No. 348, in Coron- in illegal posicio of a Luger pistol, last will and testament to the lawyers, the mekaha puller dropped the shafte ation Bost, Kowloon, in a manner which six Mauser pistols, and 300 rounds of who pleaded in vain with him not to do of the ricksha and ran away. Five men was considered dangerous to the public Ammunition. Mr. J. B. Wood was on angle
rushed out from the shadow of the post the Bench. The same were found con- The Polion, assisted by the Military once and phone sarcity into the conled in: the false bottom of a trunk and the Secret Service Agente, kept a seat of the vehicle, at the same time which accused had on the ss. Empres of close watch on the house throughout the going through his pockets. They relieved - Canada, ›
night. When morning came, Redhouse him of a purse, which contained 395 in Mr. A. R Webster appeared on the was still alive. He could have been notor Je to sevedamon' breado s4 man's behalf and mid defendant was taken with case, but the Police decided. bringing the arms to China in response that, in view of the possibilty of many
on the, morning of December 23rd
The chauffeur admitted the offecion Sgt Smith said the car was travelling along Coronation Road and turned into Soy Street at a speed which he estimated ad not less than 25 miles per hour. The Chauffeur's master was in the car but he took no notice of the excessive spced.
The Magistrate: Who is his masterf Bet Smith; Mr. Alyce."
to a request made to him by his father people being hit with stray bullete if a THE FATAL-MOTOR SMASH. six car nos cum years ago that he bring some show of force were made against him, 'INQUIRY TO BE OPENED) TO-DAY. The Bergeant, added that there we weapons home for the protection of his it was best to wait for daylight.
lot of building going on in the district and village Defendant was a respectable. With the morning the police decided A Coroner & inquiry into the death of there, were large, numbers of coolies Provision dealer in Canada, and he (Mr. to take action. Three revolver shote were Lieut. Commander Hooper is to be open-about the time di pote Webster) asked for an adjournment in fired outside the door of the room ined at the Magistracy, this afternoon, Mr. Traffic Inspector Garrod informed the order that that master of a local firm of which Redhouse had looked himself. A 3. R. Wood presiding The inquiry will Magistrate that tho, chauffeurs of, Kow draggists could be called to give evidence volley from biz.rides was next fired into probably last two days loon had been cironlarised as to the the room. This was followed by the re It is worth mentioning that this is the dangers of speeding". Coronation port of a firearm inside the room. Afirst fatal motor car accident in the Road During the past year there had servant in the house called to the Police Colony in which a European has boas been dumber of accidents in this rood. that Redhouse was dead.
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The Magistrato imposed a due of $16-
as to Yam Ping's personal characters ---
The citae was doordingly remanded till this morning: Kail being allowed in the
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