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FIRM MANAGER PLEADS
GUILTY TO FRAUD
Four Years' Sentence Despite Counsel's Mitigation Plea
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Although his counsel, the Hon, Mr. Leo D'Almada. Jnr., made a strong plea in mitigation for him, U Chan-jong, manager of Forber and Company, was sentenced to four years' hard labour by the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday after he had pleaded guilty to six charges of forgery of delivery orders on the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart Godown Co. Ltd. issued to him by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, and of obtaining goods by virtue of those forged documents.
Mr. D'Almada was instructed by order to meet these losses. Mr. C. D'Almada, of Messrs. Leo resorted to frauds.
Further D'Almada and Company, Mr. E. H Williams, Crown Counsel, appeared for the Crown.
losses
were
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incurred and apart from losses in exchange accused also suffered a
loss of Counsel asked the court to take £1,500 owing to late delivery of into consideration the 76 other goods. Having no way to tum for charges which formed a series of capital, accused continued to em- transactions involving £7,000. for play these methods in order to which there was no hope of re-meet his abilities. stllution.
METHOD WAS SIMPLE
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REGISTRATION BREACH
Two Japanese
Fined
Two Japanese were fined by Mr. Edwards at the Central Court yes- terday on charges of breach of the Registration Ordinance.
They were Inoguchi Wass, 54, widow. Kro Hotoku, 30, merchant and his wife, and were charged with falling to notify the author- ities of their change of address.
Wasa told the Court that she had written a letter to the au- thorities about ten months ago regarding their removal
Acting Detective Sub-Inspector J. H. E. Edwards dealed having re- ceived any notification from de- tendant. The police at Wanchal had informed him that Wasa had removed from her former residence In Thomson Road to Gloucester Road
Wast and Hotoku were ench fined $24 while I Sei-ken was
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Six cases of measles, two each of small-pox and dysentery, one each of diphtheria (Imported), enteric fever, cerebro-spinal fever and puerperal fever were notified to the Health authorities on Tues-
Accused was born and educated "The simplicity of the method." Aned $15. In Hong Kong and lived here all continued Mr. D'Almada, "formed his life. On leaving school he an excuse, of course. but I think joined his uncle, as a ship-broker does stand in his favour that and when the latter died ne this is not the kind of case in started with a Mr. Lo and formed which a man deliberately em- Torbat, and Company:
played his ingenuity at a criminal It Was 3 When Mr. Lo, who supplied all direction.
perfectly the capital, died shortly after simple method and, although one business was started in 1931, he cannot blame the Godown Com tock over the business" with little)pany, there can be no denying the or no capital.
fact that bad there been a check frauds would have Come In. carrying on he met with a the series of misfortunes. There were to light earlier." certain thefts from one of the All through, Mr. D'Almada went godowns and defendant was held on, accused always held the hope 1lable for a loss amounting to that he would be able to pay back $4,000 in a test case in the Sum-the Bank, mary Court,
..HIMSELF SWINDLED
"It cannot be said." concluded Counsel, "that these ill-gotten gains were made use of by
In 1933 he was swindled of him for his, benefit. It was a about $3,000 by a dealer and it combination of unfortunate cir- was this very swindle which sugcumstances. I hope your Lordship gested to him the methods by will impose a comparatively light which he subsequently worked the sentence, in view of the fact that frauds.
his future is ruined as far as a
The method was simple: ac-business career is concerned, and cused would send for goods which that he has to start life anew were held in the godown against after he has completed his punish- certain bills drawn upon him, and ment.".
he could not take the goods until
THE SENTENCE
he made good the liabilities on Passing sentence, His Lordship the "bills, Accused would be sup-said: I have listened to all that plied with a book of delivery Mr. "D'Almada has been able to orders and, it would be up to him and to urge in you favour. What to fill in the amount of goods he does stem clear, however, is that required and for which he was for some five years, while posing After Alling in as a respectable member of society. accused would you. were all the time deliberately take the order to the Chartered engaged in fraud.... Bank. where it would then Mr. D'Almada: If defendant
prepared to pay.
the particulars.
be endorsed. It was this form of had been criminally minded during obtained he could particulars which resulted in ac- these years cused himself being swindled in some £10,000 and made away 1933. The dealer in question with it:
made out an order for two cases of His Lordship (to prisoner) it goods, took it to the Bank, and may be slightly in your favour later altered the figure to six, that you are not a big enough
te a thereby causing accused to lose man to
thoroughly good about $3,000.
criminal, but I must bear in mind Continuing. Mr. D'Almada said that you have pleaded guilty to that it was then accused learned six charges and you haye, asked of the simplicity of the method. [76 others to be taken into cop- which he made use of in the years sideration. T And very little in following. In 1933 and 1934, helyour favour though I cannot resist that a stricter committed ave or six offences, but the conclusion
those he pald up eventually, check would have disclosed these Things went on like this. The frauds very much earlier. I shall years 1995 and 1938 proved to be be falling in my duty to the pub disastrous to 311 because ex-lic it do not impose a change fluctuated so rapidly. He sentence on you and that sentence suffered icsses
labour on amounting to is four years's hard £4,000, and at the beginning. In each count, concurrent.
700 MUI TSAIS MISSING,
COURT TOLD
Bevere
ACCOUNT BOOK ALTERED
STAMP DUTY EVADED
Summoned for, changing the ac-
Falling to report a change of address resulted in Au Yeung-ting. married woman, of 212, Tong Mel Road, first floor, being summoned before Mr. Macfadyen at the Kow-counts book to read $20 instead of 520.07, so as to evade stamp duty, loon Court yesterday..
Insp. H. W. Fraser, of the 8.0.A., and for giving a receipt for $20.07 on April 29, without a stamp, An said that defendant was the mis-Wing-yal of No. 4 Poultry Stall, tress of a registered mul-taal. He New Market, Battery Street, was added that the girl was one of the ned $60 on both charges by Mr. 700 mui-tsais missing.
A fine of $50 was imposed.
Macfadyen at the Kowloon Court yesterday.
Mr. M. J. Abbott, Assistant Crown Solicitor, said that defen- dant inked the Chinese character seven and substituted the word exactly" so that the entry read
POLICE REPORTS 'The loss of a U.S. G$50 note while in a Japanese shop D'Águilar Street yesterday was $20. reported to the police by G.F."Ex-
chaner, of the President Jefferson. In his submission, Mr. Abbott Mr. M. G. Carruthers, of 353, told the Court that there had been The Peak, has reported the loss a large numer of stamp duty
of an electric clock, valued at evasion cases. He pointed out the seriousness of the offence, as the
$50.
A leather belt, purse, pair of maximum penalty was a fine of bangles and money to, the value $10,000.
of $57, the property of Wong Yung, were stolen from 'room 202, Mee Chow Hotel, on Tuesday,
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Yang Wah-bing, partner of the firm, was fined $10.
Chan Yuk, 28, was admitted to On a summons for giving a re- the Queen Mary Hospital on ceipt for $30.00 with a five-cent Tuesday suffering with injuries stamp instead of a ten-cent one, caused by Dying fragments of Ng Chín, of 54, Jordan Rond, third stener from a delayed explosion on noor, was fined $20.
the gun emplacement at Victoria Road.
Mr. Abbott prosecuted.
day.
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