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THE MISSING $200,000. THE CASHIER IN THE WITNESS. BOX,
'MR: POTTER PUT OFF HIS
BALANCE”.
Yesterday the case was continued in
Lat, for the recovery of $200,000 with the unsts of the case.
"THE HONGKONG, DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST
Witness, replying to a fourth question
as to whether his initial meant that beLA had seen that the money was handed over, 'said be was not prepared to answer the question as it was a matter affecting the compradore agreement.
THE SHAMEEN STRIKE. REPLY TO SUPPORTERS OF THE
STRIKE.
[Communicatrid.]."
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It is observed that the Hongkong papers,
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UNCLAIMED AMMUNITION. MAGISTRATE MAKES ORDER FOR CONFISCATION.
On the application of Inspector Moody' at the Kowloon. Magistracy yesterday,
order in respect of 1,100 rounds of Mr. Prosser: You are satisfied, you say, freely 'cupy the Canton Gazette. As this Mr. E. W. Hamilton marie a confirentioa Browning, automatic ammunition and the Supreme Cuart in which the Inter: that you counted the money each night paper is not a free agent and is in thei national Banking Curpotation, of Se, Dy. Queen's Roud Central, is suing the com.during the material period and found it hands of certain Chinese hinssed against
settlement, it is necessary to malyse ition, which were wized on the as. Atune
Jaru on July 12th. prature of the Hongkong Branch of the correct, but you say you are not satisfied what has heen accepted freely as a fair 1,099 rounda Manser pistol ammuni- Det Sergt. Kirby said that at 130 Bark, In Ku Un, and his surety, Ngok that it went into the Sault ---No,
So-one has ever put the money into the statements in the first two colums of the issue of August 5th. In passing it! vhult exerp: Yourself:-That's true.
must be mentioned that great indignation of that date, he went aboard the Kitana Moru, and found under the steer- mongst foreigners has been argused at the deliberate attempts made in earliering gear a big containing the amyani- issues to force a point of view on the ion. The owner could not be found, and general public which is not in accordance the ammunition was still unclaimed. The
Vissel was bound for Shanghai. with the facts. The facts are well known. and ample evidence is in hand to give? these to the world. The writer however refrains from a lengthy criticism of pre- vious, issues. Photographs of the Strik AOL FOR COOLIE WHO STOLE ers' terms, the Councils' reply and the strikers refusal taken from the original documents are all ready for publication,
The Hon. Mr. C. 11. Alabaster, K.C. (instructed by Messrs. Deacons), appears for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Eldon Potter, *K.C., and Mr. Canyell Prosser (instruct. ed by Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist) répre. sent the defendants.
HIA URDSHIP WISHES TO`NEK A LEN
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And the $500 bills always go into the eft-hand drawer Customarily they do, bat sometimes we have large numbers of the smaller denoncinations," and I would put some of them, into the left hand
drawer.
But this did not happen between September 19th and 29th? No.
Each side of a $300 half is marked in
And when you are putting antes into the safe you, "being careful, always count them to see that they are all right (---Yes, And, of course, you immediately close the drawers-Yes.
Continuing his evidener. yesterye heures/-Yes. auorning, Mr. Norris Lowell Hodgkins said that during the tap he is as easier nonies für eligats were kept in the vault. Ju addition to the cash on hand, there was stored in the vaults bullion which wis generally sold on forward contracts rudd for which the conpradore received a commission.
Asked as to the size of a lakh hindle, witrss said that such a handle of $300 bills would be about half" as big again as the Court Bible.
Mr, Potter: We went round to the bank The other day and saw a million and a half
in one drawer.
His Lordships: I don't want to see all that, but I should like to ser a lakh.',
Mr. Potter: Yes, my Lord; it juite put ane off my balance !
THE DISCOVERY OF THE LOSS. Coming to the actual discovery of the Joss witness said that in accordance with a mental note made in the night previous to the discovery, he went with Mak to the vault and counted the monies in the safe. The result of the count was that shortage of two lakhs of dollars was discovered.
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DENOMINATION OF THE STOLEN NOTESG Can you ever, remember not baving checked the netes as you put them int→ Nov
What was the derination of the notes stofen --We think they must have been two bundles of a Jakh each.
In view of your checking them, it is a practical impossibility for you to have ever put in two lakhs short?-It would seem so, unless a person förgot how much,
put
he
in.
In reply to further questions, witness said that when he discovered the loss there were two bundles of new notes in the left hand drawer, of $1,000 each. He imagined that he put them there to keep them, is they were new notes His only explanation of not having put three other bundles of new notes back was that they night take "ay too much room. He did not chrik "the money on September 27th because he did not think there really was Mr. Alabaster: Did you say anything any shortage. He agreed that he only checked the money in the vauli once a Witness: I did. Phelieve my exact month after Mr. Courtney had first chrek words were" You see what has happened it. ed? Whether he made any reply or not.
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to Mak?
I cannot say, but I went over the cash ngain and "showed "Mak there were two
Jakby short.
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THE THEFT AT KINGSCLERE.
Describing the theft of his clothing at Kingsclere early in 1999, witness said he wont to be about 1 am and woke up Witness went on to say that other mein- atm. There were three people (in hers of the foreign staff came down to the cluding witness) sleeping in the same vault and the amount was checked again. | room. It was checked by Mr. Church, and dater by Mr. Brockman. This made four cheeks and each chers confirmed the shortage Mr. Courtney, the acting manager, was sent for ntul he satished himself that there was a shortage The compradore had left the ink at the time the discovery "was made. He was recalled by telephone. 3lak was the only compradore's "repre- -sentative present when the discovery was nade, but there were other Chinese in
the lank 'ne the time.
At the request of Mr. Potter, Mr. Juues Garraway, expert locksmith, was recalled at this stage. He and that it was very naususi to get a key made from a wax impression to fit a lock the first time it WIN Used],
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THEFT FROM H.M. DOCKYARD..
SOLDER.
At the Kowloog Magistracy yesterday, Chan Yin,, was charged with the larceny of two pieces of tin solifer from the Torpedo Depot at, HM. Nhval | Dockyard. Kowloon.
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should the public interest demand it.
The following points are published as a challenge to the Canten Gasette:
(1) The Strikers' Mediators were per fectly aware from the first that the public servants as a whole were not to Spry, in charge of the Torpedo Depot, be reinstated, and said they were givengaid that the solder has been taken froma to understand that this point would not
Chief Engine Room Artifer E. W.
be raised. When raised a concession the coppersmith's shop. Quite a lot of was made as regards public servants it had disappeared within the last six other than police immediately before
months. It was very valuable, the price the final meeting.
being estimated at 2. per El
The Magistrate (Mr. Hamilton) passed sentence of three werks' hard labour.
(2) The Strike Leaders themselves agreed that servants who misbehaved on leaving their employment were not entitled to reinstateinent, and it is an absurd and dangerous precedent for the public to be the judge of whether a body such as the polico have behaved or mis. behaved. If a concrete instance is needed, the police have been supplied with a booklet, as stated by the fanton Gazette, in which it is clearly stated that the pass to be presented to them
Sentence of six weeks's hard labour by Chinese, leaving Shameen after the gates are closed is the police permit was passed by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at The Strike Delegates in their own argu-
A COOLIE OARSMAN. GOES TO GAUL FOR STEALING COAL
ments elicited the fact that the Police the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, on had been in the habit of allowing Chi-chan Yun, a pong unemployed coulis, nese to leave Shameen after the gates
were closed merely by presentation of for the theft of 360 lbs. of coal."-- a chit from the employer not choppër Ser. Terry said that the coal was the by Police Authority.
The Gazette ingenuously utters a dis-property of the Sam Hing Coal Co. ipal indictment against the Southern The accused was seen rowingwaway with Chinese race. People in foreign countries it in a bout which het bien obtained for say that, and residents of over 20 years the purpo experience have the memory that, a Chinaman's word as good as his bond.
In commercial eireles there has been in marched to the Bridge Head in a body: the last 20 years a gradually growing this was to show that they joined the co-strike movement as a bedy, and not as necessity for commercial contracts foreihle at law, and the modern merchant individuals. The Griette might ask thứ in South China will say that the old adage French Police as to what was said to applies no. more. The police, some of them, The No. 1 of the British Police whom have 17 to 20 years service, were had for years been, accommodated in the Polite station with his wife and engaged in the days when the mere en One of witness' friends noticed
gagement police was a satisfactory family. He was promised protection-a. that his trousers were missing. His keys and honourable compact, and now the protection which is still being used in were on the window ledge but not one modern newspaper jeers at the foreigner the City against their own countrymen of the three were able to state whether for not having suddenly subjected his old by many Chinese--if he remained. He sent his wife and family into the City, the keys had been taken out of the room time servant to a contract which impugn-
It is not and stayed for one day. His wife, it appears, then returned and informed bir necessary for the public to study the He reported the affair to the bank officialsed their honesty of purpose.
that the strikers had said that if he did modern trend of young-China; it 19. phase which is forcing itself on their not come out they would send her back notice. The No. 1 who has been to him minus one arm the first day, and MR. Catophell Prosser: I put it to you dragged by his friends into this despic-minus a second arm the "second day. that, anybody who went so far as to get able argument is an old and highly-They called him by name across the creek, respected servant of 26 years' service, and be left. The writer put his blue. impressions of all the keys, which means paid at a rate which would make, if it pencil through the last four lines of the that that person has to be working in has not made, the Chinese Public Ser collusion with the compradore's repre- vices gasp. The paragraphs which drag- sentative, is going to wait until there ged.this wretched man through the dust, is en considerable amount of money on clearly accusing him of betraying the trust of 20 years, is of a nature which could the vault!
only be described in Esperanto,
the same morning, but he could not 'say if the compradore was informed of the losh, "
paragraph.
{FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.} OFFICIALS' WIVES AIDING STRIKERS.
Mrs. Liao Chung-hoi, wife of the Civil Governor of Kwangtung, and Mrs. Ma Chiu Chus, wife of the Director-General
His Lordship. You mean he is going "The Commeil is accused of ignoring the to wait for a big haul?,
existence of the police from year cad to Mr. Hodgkins wa closely uross-
Witness: If he had all the keys, includ-year end. In 1921 policemen who wore rxained by My Campbell Prosser is ta ing "the compradore's and knew "bow receiving 917 and 18 longkong cur- of the Kwangtung Arsenal at Shekelcag, the system of keeping necounts in the much there was in the vault, it would reney, asked for a rise of pay owing to are lending aid to the Chinese strikers' of bank. He said he did not agree that seem reasonable that he would wait for the high cost of living. The Council Cook Shameen. On the evening of August 3rd so little notice of this that they immediat Hojchu Theatre, "Mrs. Lino and Mrs. the book showing "Cush in Vault was a large amount.
nese labourers. Mira. Ma has also héca the basis of all the accounts kept by the
His Lordship: Has the Bank any tractately voted them a minimum of #2 Hong-la addressed a larger gathering of Chi- Bank. It was a small book kept for the of these notes Either by number or de- kong curremy a month extra allowance. helping the strike movement by solicit It cannot be conceived that the police ing funds for the committee in charge. of the strike. It is reported that the purpose of convenience only. Cash in domination.
themselves; could be as ungrateful as the public is responding well, to the request for funds. The daily receipts of the coin- Cantón Gazette pictures them.
When the mittee amount to more than $1,000 a day, The paragraph beaded
while the expenditure is only about 8400 Mr: Allen Clark Brockman and that on. Strike was called" will, to anybody with daily. The committee is giving out re- September 25th be had occasion to go a sense of humour, read as a laughable ports that several bembers of Parliament We quote There was no dis. at Peking and some Cantonese organiza- back to the bank at 6.30. p... la view effort.
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Vault" was not considered a separate Mr. Campbell Prosser: No, that is not item, but merely & part of the bank known. They cannot trace the missing balanec.
notes in that way.
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Asked if he regarded the little black book" showing figures of the cash in vault as a book of value, witness said be regarded it not as a bank book of value, but as a piece of waste paper with a memorandum on it,
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tions of Shanghai are supporting the of what he was told he went to the vault order or trouble anywhere, in the Constrike movement and have assured those and checked the monies there and found eession, as the other Chinese employees in Canton of their assistance, should eir-
cumstances demand. shortage of $200,000.
had practically all left.
The more responsible Cantonese are not supporting the strike," according to in- formation from reliable sources. Canton rice dealers are much disgusted over the ate the unloading of rice and other food refusal of the strike committee to facilit stuffs from foreign, godowns, notwith- standing the clear understanding that these supplies are for the local market and are much needed to meet the de- bemands of the flood sufferers inland whose
crops have been destroyed.
The fasts in the next paragraph in At this stage the Court adjourned in In reply to further questions, witness order to proceed to
the International sinuating that the polies were given "said he was not satisfied that all the Banking Corporation Building in Hong-sort of leave of absence are not as stated.
money he received and initialled as having been received went into the vault. He kong for the purpose of inspecting the The matter was reported to the Chair- explained that his initial to the rough vault, his Lordship, jocularly enquiring man of the British Council that the balance was to show that the balance amidst laughter as to who would lead the police wished to leave, and he gave in structions that if they so wished he would ngreed, and secondly that he had, checked procession down to the vault?
The hearing of the case is to be resumed pot datain them, but they should the money and thirdly that he had found
ou Youday next.
(Continued on ner! column.) it cörrect..
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