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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28 1908,
SHANGHAI WATCH CLUB.
JUDGE'S SEVERE STRICTURES.
In H.B.M. Supreme Court, 'at Shanghai, on 22nd just before Sir Havilland de Sausierer Judge, and a jury consisting of Messrs. C. Alderten Eric Moller, P. C. Alien, A. M. Miclegi, od A. Penty,
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Adam's calculation,, there would be a loss ment with Black or with any other person who of $220. It is perfectly obvious then that i had come before them in the course of this trial the Watch Club is going to be run on these by name or by ladication that he was not in principles there must be something to comgreement with any of them to commit an pensate for that $120. The compensation as illegal act, Prisoner had told them that ha alleged by Black is lapted members-members entered into this business bona fide as tonnager who come in and pay one, two or three or perfor Mr. Dooley, and if that was the cate the baps ten weeks and then stop their payment fury were justified in finding a verdict of sót 1 can quite understand, especially in a country guilty. He asked them to consider their verdict. like Ching, with the Chinese that lapses will be a very profitable source of income, but it is file difficult also to understand in that way, bow, if a concern of this kind is ran absolutely fairly, the heavy chances which are professedly undertaken by the owner of the club can really be successful...
A SPECULATIVE CONCERN.
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PRISONER DISCHARGED. -
The jury did not retire but immediately an abunced their verdict of "not guilty."
His Lordship, in addressing prisoner, said→ Ivot. Thomas, you have been found not guilty on this charge. That is a matter which is en- tirely for the jury and I don't myself as a rule
it is no part of my duty to make any com. ment on a Goding of the jury, but in this case cutrance with their view. You are discharged. I wish to any`alen that I am entirely in con--
However at all events it is a pretty apecula- tive concera if you are going on with your drawing and you are going to be honest. You may rely upon things coming in, for instancestors at the rear of the Court started a half- Following bis Lordship's remarks the spécia strokes of luck when a man does not take a watch, lapses, certain amount of interest, pay-
bearted
applause.
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His Lordship (heatedly) I would have you people at the back of the Court know that con duct like this is most irregular and I shall o have the least hesitation in committing anyone I find guilty of ite
Ivar Thomas was brought up on remand charged for that he with one H. J Black, unlawfully fraudulently and deceitfully did con- xpire combine confederate and agree together by divers false pretences to obtain and acquire to themselves of and from such Chinese and foreigners resident in Shanghai and Ningpo as should be induced to buy shares and chances in' a certain company or association known as the Watch Club divers large sums of money, and to cheat and defraud them thereof...."
The Crown Advocate (Mr. H. Pề`Wilkinson) assisted by Mr. S. M.,McKean, prosecuted and Mr.T. Morgan Phillips and Mr. R. A. From defended the accused,
In his address to the jury his Lordship' saidments in advance and so on, but it will be pretty obvious to you that a time must come We have been engaged for a long time on when there will be a crash.. An institution this inquiry and I crannt help thinking that such as this Watch Club then seems to me to qur time would, to a certain extent, have been be one which eminently lends itself to a clever wanted if I did not address some remarks to swindler. A man is prepared to start a club you on the case generally, although it may be of this kind and he runs it until he has got it that you are prepared at once to find a verdict very full indeed; he has got a very large num which I should be prepared to accept without ber of men in it and naturally he has got a making any further remarks on the case. But very large sum' paid to which may have 1 think, considering the notoriety which this rolled up to a considerabis amount which very Watch Club has acquired not only in Shang-likely be has fostered by delays or by means hai but throughout China-a notoriety which which a clever swindler may easily produce appears also to have reached Manila and pro- out of the fertility of his resources, and, bably other places far distant-I think that finally, there is a very large balance and of" some comment of mine on what has been
course at the same time, as you gentlemen at proved before us is desirable. I take it once saw, a very 3 rge liability. That seems gentlemen, that there is no doubt in your to me, as also it seemed to Mr. Black, the paychological stemment, for his retiring. When a clover swindler tries to get out of a concers of this kind what he does of course is to find some dupe whom he may make a stepping-stone an whom to get out of the mud and at all events whom he could unload part of his responsibiți-r| tieron to Unfortunately for him Mr. Dooley was tempted by the propositions laid before bim. He was first shown that statement by Black which I can only characterise as impa- N. 46, 48, LEIGHTON HILL
minds whateverdhat this Watch Club was.not
bone fide honest scheme. I am not talking at the present moment in the least of the prisoner's connection with it. I have been at pains to go into the various propositions made which showed the stability, the financial soundness of this scheme as propounded by the witness Black. He tells you that a club. starts with 40 members and at the close of the 40 weeks those members, or others who have
taken their places, will have disappeared from the club. Certainly all those 40 members will haye yene because they will have paid, some of them $40 and will be entitled to a watch; the others will have taken their watches on the drawing in which they have drawn a lucky number. Now the proposition is that, every week there were 40 members before a draw. Therefore on the receipt of $400 drawing takes place and a watch valued at $26 is given to the member who draws the prize. There fore, says Black, every week will be a profit of $14. Now, gentlemen, that is perfectly true for the first 40 weeks because there cannot be more than one man getting' a watch any day during those 40 weeks. There fare at the end of the 45 weeks it is quite true you will have-in-hand-40-times $14, or $560 which you have drawn from your, contributors, But taking the case which certainly is as favour able as any to the Watch Club or to the owner of the Watch Club, the men who draw during the first 40 weeks are all of them original mem-. bers. Obviously it would be more valuable if the original members stayed in than that all
Then
dent, in which he professes that 566,640 will be the profits of winding up this concern. I really don't know how to describe it; it is one of the most impudent documents I ever saw unfortunately Mr. Dooley did not go into the business himself. He put it into the bands of a young accountant-al any rate he did not go. into it himself with the acumen that. I should have expected of a man'in hij parition--and ke- is assured that this is a concern in which he might make some money if it is rùn în a basis sea-like way. Well, gentlemen, as I say, tho psychological moment having arrived, wher it. was expedient to clear out because the basizesi was going down or at all events had culminat- ad, it would be extremély difficult for anybody, however expert, to pull this boxiness through. You have to go on for a considerable time.god make profits, Instead of that you have come to the end of your resources with a sinking fund' which there ought to have been and which Mr. Adams spoke of as having disappeared with the previous manager; he has left you, instead. of assets, à large number of deb's, which, for the sake of the new instituuón, and in order to
His Lordship thanked the jury for their atten dance and excused them from funber service: for a period of four years. Thus came to an end a memorable trisl, having lasted nearly five days.
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denw out and nobody pays his $40 or some ody keep it going before the public, you are bound to pay. if people heard of a receiver, being put into the Watch Club there is not the least doubt that every member would have gone down and there would have been a run on the institution in double quick time. That appears. to be the pas tion of affairs, and if this inquiry has had no other useful and I think it has had the useful end of kumaking and showing up a scheme which could not possibly be an honest one and which is extremely likely to lead, with its somewhat tenipling propositions, to the dela- sion of a very large number of Chinamen in thisFFICES on TOP FLOOR, No. 1, CON country. Now I don't intend to labour the question as to its being a rotten and fraudulent roscern, and we now come to the question of Mr. Dooley's and the prisoner's connection with concern.he Crown Alvocate opened one case to you and alleged that Thomas knew. "and-must-have knowo-when-he-took over the-
who has only come in for the first time, say after the zoth week draws a watch. Therefore we will assume for the moment, which I think is a fair assumption, that all the original mem -bers have paid 40 weeks. Then, says Black, that doesn't matter in the least because on the first week of the second 40 weeks you still ge your $47. Quite true you do, but there will be certainly on that week one which matures, ons watch for which Sto' has been paid, because you will remember that one man came in at the end of the first week and would have paid $40. So that certainly for every week under the most favourable circumstances for the Watch Club, one watch will be maturing, one member will have paid his whole $40 and he will get his watch. That may be all right, but you are going to have a lottery as well, and it is impossible to conceive that unless there is manipulation the number which is drawn out as a winning number will be a watch which is matarable- Therefore the presumption is that on a great many days in that second period of 40 weeks you will have to provide two watches instead of one. That shows ope discrepancy in the very glib description given by Black of this concern. This man suggests methods of wind:
His Lordship-l' should be glad if you will ing up which cut down the clubs. 1. must remind you again that you have a large num- allow me to proceed, i am addressing the fury ber of watches which, have matured and mem-and anything you have to say can be said later.
management that this was a fraudulent cap- cero, Practically today he put another case before you; he has shifted the date of the knowledge at all events to the 16th Jasy.
Mr. Wilkinson (interrupting) pointed out that the indictment said between the 12th November and the 20th Jang.
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bers disappeared and it will take you a great The Crown Advocate, Continued his Lordship, NO. S. MORRISON HILL. deal more than 40 weeks to get rid of your began by asking you to convict on one date members, I made a calculation myself and I | and finished up by asking you to convict on fiod that, assuming you have 40 clubs, that is another date. If the Crown Advocate intended to say 1,500 members, at'à moment when the to prove the 16th January was the day on which people intend to shut down and close the con- he was going to all ge conspiracy it would have cern, no more members coming in, so that you' been proper for him to have opened with that have drawn one drawing in each of the 40 as the day which he was going to prove and he clubs you then reduce, you number of clubs to should bave laid his case bafora you at the be 39 and you decrease your clubs accordingly as ginning in a way that it should go before you you have members, allowing as you must do, I'|'Soally. That was not done. I am not sur think, if you are honest, that a drawing takes prised under the circumstancer, gentleman, that place for the odd members who are over and you look it upon you to say that on the explana- who don't exactly fit in with the club. Then at tion given by Mr. Dooley and the prisoner you the end of 40 weeks, not allowing for what is wera satisfied that prisoner did not have any. maturing in the meantime which cannot be knowledge in this fraud. It is a question of advantageous to you-supposing no watch evidence. I have allowed the case to go to you because I thought there was evidence and I feel that you have tonsidered that evidence by the careful attention you have given to this case during its progress,
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still at the end of the 40 weeks ba something like 600 members, who have not got their watches, sợ that at the last moment, instead of as Mr. Black was so ready to assure'ss-coming His Lordship proceeded to refer to the law dawn to only 40 members to be worked out and and said ite definition of conspiracy was per who will have to get their watches, you will || fectly clearfo Aichibald's" Criminal® Plënding, suddenly at the end of that time have to produce. He did not think there was any doubt thịt thère"
about 600 watches to liquidate your concern. had been an illegal act in connection with the I don't think'! need labour this, any further, doings of the Watch Club, bat it is but it is obvious from the first part of what I upcessary for the prosecution to prove siid, ris, the way in which these watches will that there had been a combines maitie, that if you are going to pay 5:6 and agreement by persons. Fa undarsond from only take an average of 511, which is the way what the jury had said that on the expla asion
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