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TSANG COMMENCES HIS EVIDENCE.
ANOTHER STEP IN GOVERNMENT VERSUS
BANK CASE,
MR. MESSER'S CROSS-EXAMINATION CONCLUDED.
COLONIAL TREASURER AND ALLEGED "DOUBT.".
Owing to illness, Mr. S. M. Chara was absent from, the jury in the Supreme Court yesterday when the Government versus Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation case, was resumed before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan).
The Government is suing the Bank for the re-crediting of *280,000 paid out on three allegedly forged cheques.
farther
On Friendly Terms"
You don't suggest that they The Colonial Treasurer (the Hon, almost ignored yon-I don't want
to make any suggestions. M Mel. Messer)
Weze cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin (foryout-I don't think the police tock statements taken froin
the Bank) on letters exchanged be tween the Bank and the Treasury after the fenud was discovered.
them.
Belief In Tang On Wing.
As to Tsang On Wing, Mr. Measer said that in his opinion, even at that time, Trang was free from blame. He thought it was a mistake to arrest him and asked that he should not be arrested.
Mr. Jenkin: 1 want, if I can, to square these two letters with your attitude as known to the Bank and your attitude generally in re gard to the whole occurrence. You told us yesterday that until this case took place the relations be tween you and the Bank were of the most friendly terms 7-Yes.
You had known Mr. Grayburn well for a number of years ?—Yes.
You also knew Mr. Hegarty quite well I can't say quite well, I haveing on the covers of the cheque met him a number of times.
Nothing Wrong",
And your dealings with both these gentlemen have been perfect ly friendly Excluding this case
yes.
Do you suggest that your letter is the kind of open, frank letter which would have been written by you if you had made it clear to the Back officials that these cheques were forgeries 1-We have a rule that if there is a possibility of law action, wal refer the matter to law officers of the Crown. I should be guided by their advice.
Mr. Messer later admitted that problematical" whether it was he would have written the letter
elf quite in the same terms.
Guided by Custom.
Mr. Jenkin: It would have beer an easy matter to have said that the difference in the balance of the account was accounted for, as we have informed you, by cheques which bear forged signatures Our custom is to be guided by the law officers of the Crown.
I suggest that there is no trap in the Bank letter-I never sug gested that the Bank letter was o
·trap.....
I suggest to you that those letters. may be accounted for on some such lines as these that on the day of writing their letter the Bank thought that although the cheques were questioned, they were not questioned as forged cheques - cannot answer for what the Bank thought
And that the Bank thought, when
i
Mr. Jenkin: During that after- noon Teang was not consulted ex- cept in a very minor degree? That did not consult him. is the tenor of your evidence ?-I
Dealing with the caution appear-
books, counsel suggested that_one reason for that was that the Bank should be sure that the customer had got the cheques and that he would retain them in his posses- sion.
that notice, suggested certain pre Witness agreed that the Bank, in cantions. should be taken.
Mr. Jenkin: They also want to be assured that the cheques will be used by the customer and no one tle 1-Where does it say that 1 Oh, yes. Not give them to stran. gers.
cheques were written with a free The signatures on the disputed fluent hand, but they did not ap pear to have been written as quick- isas witness usually wrote. He did not always write at the same speed, but when he wrote slowly his
"awful." signature was
"Schoolboy" Style. Witness based his opinions on the peculiar regularity and if, be might say so, the schoolbey": the signatures.
style of
that that was a new expression, When Mr. Jenkin pointed out witness agreed that the description could be cut out altogether.
He agreed that he could not see ay hesitation in the signatures, except on the Katz cheque..
sure."
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Mr. Jenkin suggested that the signatures on the disputed cheques THE QUIES: HOUR (Sundays at 9 reproduced many detailed features p.m.):- of witness's handwriting, and they reproduced exactly his pen preslay 5: Speaker, Mr. C. G. H.
Christian. Mr. Messer: That depends on the
Speaker, Mr. J. H. Mr. Black returned to the Trea- way the pen was held; and it is
Hunt. sury; there was no question as to an easy matter to copy pen pres-
Speaker, Rev. J. C. Knight-Anstey, the signatures, but some question sure. as to the possibility of something Do you agree that these cheques
May 26 Speaker, Mr. C. Sara. having happened in the Treasury reproduce your own individual pen BATHING PICNICS:Leave Folice I cannot say what the Bank Pressure It is very similar. I Pier, Kowloon, at. 3 p.m.
Leave thought.
cannot go farther than similar. I Queca's Fier, Hong Kong, at 8.15 don't profess to be an expert.
p.m.
Ob-
If they held that opinion, that is exactly the kind of letter they might write to the Treasury A fter you might expect under any circumstances.
Your letter, I say, might accord with these facts-that in the Trea sury you were indefinite as to how
Mr. Messer agreed that the pen pressure on the disputed cheques was so similar to genuine signatures that he could not distinguished it.
Considerable Variations.
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After the tin adjournment, Mr. Bay. Menger was further cross-examined
cheques.
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Mr. Messer agreed that there were considerable variations. and flourishes in his writing. The however, were more" deliberate flourishes on the three cheques, Mr. Jenkin then asked Mr. than those he usually made.
May 1: American Tournament Messer whether he ever entertain idiotic for an expert forger to write ing at 2.30 p.m.
Counsel: It would be rather (Mixed) at King's Park, commenc- ed the possibility of the signatures deliberate flourishes 1-I can pass being obtained by a trick.
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tures.
Befuted Signatures.
Treasury before, nor had there been this mouth.
The League matches commence one case of suspected forgery or
fraud.
Tang On Wing then entered the
Mr. Jenkin: I suggested that you were holding two views one that witness-box. they were not your signatures, and, two, that there was the possibility that they had been obtained by some trick 1-1 was certain they were not my signatures.
Teang's Story.
He said that during the trial of Carvalho Yeo it was put to him that he was a swindler and that he was a member of a gang which had
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Mr. Jenkin tarned to a copy of Mr. Messer's evidence in the, eriminal committed the fraud. This submis THE LIBRARY:The Library is trial and quoted: I might have sion was totally untrue. He som been wrong. They might have been menced service as a clerk with the got by a trick. Counsel also cited Government in 1914 and was trans- a reply to the effect that during ferred to the Treasury Department the search, dud vouchers to cover sa cash book clerk in 1920. Cheung the cheque were looked for.
Ma Kun was his assistant.
Part of the duties of witness con- Farther cross-examined witness
The first occasion he heard men- agreed that at the time of the sisted in filling-in cheques ready for tion of Katz & Co., Man Let, Bang seach, Mr. King believed the signa- Mt. Messer and Mr. Black to sign. Cheung and the other payee was on tores were those of Mr. Messer. He obtained the details, to be January 18, 1024 He thought the Counsel: There was a state of entered on the cheques from vou entries under these names in the inconclusiveness about the whole chera. He denied that the band bank passbook were errors of pest- matter 3-Certain people seemed to writing on the three cheques in the ing and that they referred to pri- think the signatures were genuine. caso was hit. He had never pre-vate transactions of other Govern-
And that the cheques had been pared a cheque for any of the ment departments. obtained by a trick Yea! payees mentioned:
After making, enquiries, he re You were, I take it, interviewed Witness, said he had never known ported the matter to Mr. Black but considerable amount by various Mr. Messer and Mr Black to sign said nothing to Mr. Messer at the law officers Not very much. blank cheques or before the body time. :
And by the Police Department Very little
The case was adjourned until this of a cheque was properly filled in. (Continued at foot of nezt column), morning.
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