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CHARGES AGAINST MR. JAMES CHRISTIE. OUTSIDE" BENZINE
IN AP.C. TINS?
SEVERE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF THE COMPLAINANT.
CHARGE INVOLVING $28,000 FOR ARMS.
SHANGHAI, May 28 Mr. James Christie again appeared on remand in H.M. Police Court yesterday,, before the Registrar (Mr. C. H. Haines), on a charge of obtaining approximately $28,000 from Mr. Lee Ching- kin, drill instructor to the Taisning (Kiangsu) Protection Corps.. by falso
pretences. It is alleged that he failed to deliver 200 rifles, 50, pistols, and ammunition after being paid therefore,
Several heater passages occurred in the cross-examination of Mr. Loe by Mr. Tycho, Wing, defending, in course of which Mr. Lee was described as "the most dishonest witness who has ever appeared the witness-box" and accused of "tolling a con- tinuous string of lies" and "deliberately and perpetually fems ping" with counsel. I think, Mi Wing raid, after one of these pranges, "that he should have peen a fencing mater instead of B drill instructor, in which case he would have had a great career -before him.”-
COMPLAINANT'S STATUS CHALLENGED.
Governmank, Authorization. Mr. Lee Ching Kiu in answer to defending counsel said that the Captain of the Protection Corps at Taishing and the magistrate there had entrusted him with the mandy which he had handed to Mr. Christie, He had not receiv- ed any arms from Mr. Christie in return, The Chinese Government knew that he had come to Shang- hai to purchase arins and ammunt tion-they had given him buchno (permits) to do so. He also had buchad, from Taishing Taishing was under the control of the Na tionalist Government. The Nan king huchas contained the proviso that in the case of articles of
Appointment Produced. When the hearing was resumed the following day, Mr. Lee said that since the last hearing he had located his letter of appointment as an officer in the Chinese Army, which he produced for the infer Imation of the Cours. The appoint- ment, had been made by the local authorities at Taishing.
Mr Wing: But this is Judicrous; how can you be an officer in the Chinese Government Army and be appointed by a local authority? I put it to you that you are not an officer in the Chinese Army at all and that when you said so you told ir deliberate lic.
Witness: I am an officer under the control of the Government.
Mr. Wing: You are charging Mr. Christie with false pretences. What was the false pretence, ex
actly 1
Witness: Everything that, Mr. Christie did was not honest.
arms put aboard any ship for China" they should be presented to the Chinese onvey in the country concerned for his endorsement, failing which both the foreign firm
Mr. Lee agreed that when he 'contracting to sell the arms and the Chinese undertaking to buy them Christie it concerned saly an al- preferred the charge against Mr. would be "severely prosecuted."ged false pretence in January. He had not obtained such euidcrao.
ment to the huchao, as he under atoad from Mr. Christie that the arms were already in China was quito unnecessary.
Mr. Wing You say that Mr. Christie got this thoney from you and kept it. You gayahim $28,000 aedo you really suggest that he it kept all that himself tea and
Witness: I do not suggest any thing and I do not want to know where he kept the money.
Continuing, Mr. Loc agreed that he had always retained the huchao. This did not militate against Mr. Christic obtaining the endorse ment referred to as Mr. Christie had considered such an endorsement uncalled for in yiow of the fact that the arms were already in this country. He had frequcatiy" dealt in arms, was consequently.c quainted with the practice relating to such buchac, and did not think that any law had been broken by failing to obtaining the endorse
-mentio
Mr. Wing Then why do you bring a charge of this kind against my client an old man-and keep him in prison for a fortnight1
Witness: cnuld not get back my money or the cargo,
"Most Dishonest.” Mr. Wing: You will not get out of it so easily as that. You have charged Mr. Christie with convert- ing the money to his own use.
Witness: I cannot answer, as I do not know.
KOWLOON DEALER SUMMONED
EVIDENCE OF PURCHASE OF EMPTY DRUMS.
The manager of the Bhe Tick Co., Nathan Road, was yesterday som moned before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Police Court for unlawfully having in his possesión" for sale benzine to which a false trado description had been ap plied,
The complainants were the Asiatic Petroleum Co, who were represent ed by Mr. Mossop Mr. MA L Silva appeared for the defence.
Mr. R. Y. Frost, of the A.P.C.. said that at some date in January He called upon the Ste Yick Co. and saw Chan Hung Kwan, the manager, and told him that he understood that he had been selling "outside benzine (which meant Standard Oil, or A.P.C. products). anything apart from Texaco
He suggested to him that he was putting this "outside" benzine in the A.P.C. receptacles. The man. ager made no denial, but promised not to do it again.
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At some later date, about March, the defendant called upon witness at the office, and asked to became one of the A.P.C. dealers. This request was refused. On May 20, witness was doing a round of visits to Kowloon benzin dealers. He called upon the defendants, and found in their storage space quite drums with "Shell" oil spirit in- * number of A.P.C. "Shell"
scribed on them. This was a re
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gistered trade mark. There were CATTLE ON BOARD LOCAL SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST seventeen drums, and six 4-gallon
-now-tips."
In "Shell '; Drums,
and he (witness) asked a foki where The defendant was not present
the petrol came from, to which he replied that he did not know. Witness said that he should know
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The charge of uttering ten forged
of the zs. Tai Poo Sek, cas sute stamps, purporting, to be re-
Captain Paut Maternate, master
moned restentzy before Comer. B. Newall for bringing ende unde the Colony which were not neured on board ship in seconds with as the benzine was in "Shell" regulations made mader the Live drums, and the foki replied that it
Stock Import and Export Ordin-
verse paper of the Government of Hog Hang, was preferred against a Chinese named To Lak at Central Magigtary yesterday. The defen dant, was also charged, together with another man named Fang Chan Pax, for having in his possession at a plea of "guilty." He understood that tibe
the Fam Toi Hotel, Nathan Road, prosecution's complaint was that 2000 stators resembling $10 revenue the cattle were secured by ropes: paper, knowing them to be forged, through their noses instead of by
MP CE Rendall appeared halters.
was purchased from the Shin Heung Mr. Horace Lo sppered for the Tuon Co. The Intter imported defengo end said that he had been
outside kerosine and benzine. instructed to
Mr. Frost went to the Mongkok Police Station, and there obtained a Chinese detective, whom he took to the So Yick Co, and to whom the drums were shown. In his pre- senco ho carried out the conversa tion that he had related, and the fuki made the same repli At witness request, the foki tok
From experience in easy for the first defendant while the cattle, sa Mr. Le, was
dosed was represented by that if the cattle were not secured Mr. His Shững Lo. by their noses they were he do constitute sang to the safety Mr. 1. Marphy prosecuted, and of the ship by fighting. This það † after he had given an outine of the tapetes me to oversions and case, Mr. E. B. Dowry, the Govern those responsible for the sales of ment Analyst, stated that he was The bulk of the cattle in 1 Among them were two used given a pumber of stamps on May particular shipment were loss and an exammation only
The Finance Minister. Mr. Wing, do you mean to tell as that you took Mr. Christie's-a foreigner's-interpretation of the proviso on the huchao regarding the dare you? You put Mr. Christie witness and the detective to the the ship had a very zmiens ficne.
cessity for the envoy's, endorse cut? You, & Chinose, could rend the proviso; Mr. Christie could
not
Mr. Wing: Then how dare you put in a charge like that low
in prison although you do not know who got the mon. When was it. that Mr. Christie was so hard up that he bad to pawn his overcoati
it was the day I lent him 840. Witness: About May 6 or May Mr. Wing: Afar you paid bim the money did his mode of life alter or did he go on living in the same modest and quiet way
Witness Mr Christie said thee
ondorsement was not necessary.
There was an interpreter with at the time. Ho aid that the port of the arms as authorized by Mr. T. V. Scong, Minister of
Finance to the Nationalist Govern-
mient.
Witness: He lived in the same way. I do not know what he did with the money, ma Mr. Wing: We are talking seri- Mr. Wing: But you have no ously here. Do you ask us to be-cused him of sicaling it. Do you lieve that Mr. Boong had anything know that Mr. Christie never bad to do with the import of these arma ponny of this money, that he or these permite--or are you
you had bought? ing at the court
som t it in paying for the arms
Witness: That is what he told
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which, as his Worship no deakt kaew, are very wild kay mature In spite of it being against the re- that the only way of seeing entde gulations- he (Me Lo) would sy on a ship was through the nose,
Shju Heung Yuen Co.'s godown There he found several drums which he thougt contained benzine.
The following day he called at the defendant's promises in com pany with Bergeant Edwin and Mr. Parry, and took three samples from • Mr. Lɗs Suggestion. a drum. The A.P.C. supplied drums at all except to the Lo was suggesting that she me
very rarely
The Magistrate paired Xr.
Government. He zaw the defende the Ordinance, had been
advised. dant subsequently at the office, and in answer to a question, he replied that benzine found on the premises was "Shell." He said that he had got it from the San Shing Chan Co., the A.P.O agent in Taumati, and from the pump at the Ho Pan Tin store.
Witness: I do not believe that.. After referring to the witness as "the most dishonest witness who has over appeared in the witness Lox, Mr. Wing proceeded to ques tion him about the circumstances, of Mr. Christie's arrest and anked him whether the hotel where the arrest took place was his property.
Empty Drums Purchased.
hese two turned out to be genuine, est being forged. Mr. Dorey marked they were very clever
Stamps Gong Cheap. Lai Pui Lan, employed, in evi- dence, ssid he first saw the first droed to one another by a mutual defendant when they were intro- friend. They went to a tea-house and during conversation that Mr. Lo replied that in dil series followed, witness said the friend sess he would make that was told defendant that he (witzers) the position. He asked his Wor-defendant offered to sell him ten tion after endal emakdeckim ki sazed some elamps, whereupon ship to regard the same as a technical one.
Comdr. Newil inquired how many
$10 stamps for $5. They then made an appointment for 8 pm. the same day in order to completo the deal. They were to meet at a certain restaurant, but the de-
of the cattle would fight at a time, and Mr. Lo replied that they weald all become, umeontrollable more a fendant, when he arrived, said there fight, was started amongst them were too many people present and Bemarking that it was cruel to | anggested they should go somewhere secure cattle through the nose, and chic. While they were on the way Mr Frost subsequently visited that it was this which the Orda te another restaurant, the defen- er not, whether he was stopping the Sam Shing Chan Co. and ex-ance sought to prevent, the Magis dant set, sound defendant and the there at the time of the arrest, and
two men talked together for a while zod witness said that the first do- fendant received a package from the second ran which was said to con tain the stampa
the Ho Pun Tin store, and had a conversation with the manager. He
trate imposed a fine al 105.
CHINESE ESSAY COMPETITION.
Bargain money for the consign ment of arms, which consisted of 200 German rifles and po pistola, was paid ch December 23 or Do ember 24, in the form of $1,000 Mr. Les proceeded. The banpoo of the amount agreed on was paid ch Tanuary 9, 1931. He had
den where the sims now were, whether he had paked Mr. Christie amined their books with regard to He had originally been autho to go to the hotel with the inten-all sales to the Sre Yick Co. from rized by the local authorities and tion of having him arrested. To March to May 19. He found a num Nanking to buy the arms from these questions the witness took a Messrs Glathe and wift, but had long time to return a tract reply, ber of tins had been supplied and gone instead to Bowhill, and Co., which prompted Mr. Wing to de- ten-gallon empty drums for a of which firm Mr. Christio was the scribe him, as stated, as deliber deposit of 820. He then went to hand." "That was because Mocarpately and perpetually fencing.! Glathe and Witt had no stocks. The replies wore eventually given The arms were, he knew, Gorman, in the negative but he did not know whore they Mr. Wipg: Do you know that found no trace of any petrol bay. University, has made his awards in Enme from....
1 you bring a false charge against Mr. Wing: Whore do you think an Englishmen and keep him locking been sold other than from the German rifes come from--Perrin fed up in prison for weeks he be Ho Fun In store and the San
Concluding his evidence, Mr. Leono remedy against you'↑ath, the said that he had relied on Mr. | Vitness - I do not know any."
Chan Cor Shing Christic in his conduct of the arms. thing about British law. In reply to the Magistrate, wit deal.
Ro-examined by Mr. Brown, Mness said it would be absolutely im- Mr. Wing: As an efficor and an Lee said that in two former arma | Educated mom did you not realize that you must get these huchno en forged no matter what anyons die "said or did?"
Witness: 1 relied on Mr. Chris- tig, who was managing director of Bowhill and Co, and upon the bus nosa methods of the British on hom a lot of confidence is placed in China.
deals he had had similar ucho possible to sell the contents of the permits) from Nanking which had drums without bringing them out not been endorsed by a Chine of the store. In witness' opinion envoy abroad. Mr. Christio bad never, blamed him neri intimated there would be no profit in filling that the pon delivery of the arme drums from Lins. There would be was his (Mr. Len's) fault. He had loss from evaporation, and spilling. believed in Mr. Christie.TAK The ease, was adjourned on, ap
The case ication for buil being refused.
Jung 11.
was
adjourned until
- LIST OF AWARDS. Dr. SY Wo Hong Kong the Second Annual Chinese Eray Competition for Kanben Schønla follows:-
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The parcel was handed over to the witness who said he paid the defendant, the money-$23. It was stated) that defendant had consent- ed to a reduction. Withers said that defendant refused to fake a $30 bill which bore z chop on the back,
Farther evidence was taken after which the case was adjourned till
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