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ALLEGED EXTENSIVE
FRAUDS.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank said to be the
Victims.
Two clerks under arrest, and others expected under extradition.
SUIAN'S PERILOUS
VOYAGE.
Sailed Between Soldiers', and
Pirates' Heavy Fire.
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Now the Distribution will be.
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News has ooms to hand of a
Mr. W. A. Dowley acknow perilous trip made by the Hong-ledges receipt of the following kong steamer Bai An on her subscriptions to the journey down from Kongmoon on Fund- Friday night.
F. Mason Hurley. It appears from the story that N. N sa the ship approached Junction S. G. Bond, the officers and engineers of S. G. N.....
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Over the weak-and the Telegraph was aware that two olerks, one engaged at the Hong the ship heard firing of a deter- Captain, Chief Officer, and kong and Shanghai Bank, and
mined nature. At first it was the other in the employ of Messrs. thought by some of the people
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were under arrest in connection firing which was heard. The Sui W. G. Humphreys & Co. 20.00 with certain fraude alleged to
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Kowloon's Main Road,
Residents of Kowloon have
The Weather.
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Lower level 8 a.m. Temp 82; light rain.
At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp 76; rain, fog.
ing, before Mr. J. R. Wood, two junk and eaid to be in W. D. Jupp young men named Reginald charge of valuable cargo, and a Anon Oliveira Gutierrez and Antonio Party of Firstes who were on Toyo Kisen Kaisha
abare. Filomeno Remedios were brought|
Through the courtesy of the The firing was kept up for some South China Morning Post Lt. up in connection with the con- considerable time, and the fight the following subscriptions were spiracy to defraud the Bank.
Mr. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson was of a most desperate kind.received
The Sui Ao was very Anonymously £25.- Mail-Leit per .e. Stokes and Master, appeared to Yingchow on Saturday at prosecute and Mr. J. H. Gardiner fortunate in not being struck by Capt. and Officers 8.8.
the bullete, bat it was evident defended Gutierrez. Remedios that the firing parties had taken A. Campbell midnight.
was described as the first prisoner
care not to fire on the ship.
been very gratified to notice how well Nathan Road, with its now. treatment of tar-spraying, hae stood the heavy rains of the past few days. Previously, after a down-Siberian
A most pitiable appearance, bat today those portions of it which have some under the new treat. ment show absolutely no ill-effects
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."'*
The Mongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1014.
PUBLIC DISSERVICE.
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The Malls,
Chinese Passengers,
The ss. Lindrat Schieff, from Saigon, arrived here with 150 Chinese passengers yesterday,
Langkat Output.
and Gutierrez as the stones your Naturally the Chinese on board Mr. Lewis: If it pleases were concerned about the inci Worship, Lappear to prosecute on dent. There were no Europsan behalf of the Crown, the two
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The total sum received from amounts to
Messrs. Wright and Hornby men charged with conspiracy passengers on board the Sui Au all subscribers
that inform oathit the Langkatontout | to' defraud the Hongkong and trip. for the past two daya ia 352 and Shanghai Buak. Mr. Gardiner, I 311 tons respectively.
underetand, is defending one of them.
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Kailan Output.
Stolen Jewellery.
Did not Appear.
been forged yet, but there is a Mr. Gardiner: I am defead-obeque bare for $17,000 which ing Gutierrez. I don't know it was casher on Tuesday last an there is one or two. I am only which will form the subject retained to defend one, the matter of an actual charge. second defendant.
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Worship:-A distinct Hie Worship: Are they on the matter? charge sheet ?
Mr. Lewis: I believe -so, your Worship.
The charge sheet was then produced.
Mr. Lewis: Other charges will he added, your Worship, and I think others will join the defend- ants later or.
His Worship: What language
First Defendant: English. Mr. Lewis: English perfectly, His Worship: Do you both speak English?
Prisoners: Yes.
His Worship: Quite well? Firat Defendant: Not very well. Mr. Lewis: One is a clerkin the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and one in Jardine's.
His Worship: Antonio Filomeno Remedios and Reginald Oliveira Gutierrez, you are charged with conspiring to defraud the Hong- 4th of May, kong and Shanghai Bank on the
Mr. Lewis:-Yes, in which the same people, I understand, ate involved, and other charges will be preferred, according to my in stractions.
The first defendant: May I look at the cheque, your Worship?
Hie Worship: No, not yet. Who are you defending Mr. Gardiner ?.
Mr. Gardiner: Number two, your Worship.
His Worship: Then you two are charged with conspiring with other persons who are not arrested on the 4th. May and on certain dates before the 4th, of May and certain other dates after the 4th,
May conspiring to detraud the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Do you plead not guilty?
First defendant: Not guilty." Second defendant: Not guilty." His Worship Both, plead not guilty. Evidence of arrest ?
Detective Sergeant Clarke then
Mention was made in our columns, on Friday, of an unusual and unexplained delay in the Police Court that afternoon. We return to the matter because it has, in itself, some points of intercat and, taken in conjunction with other recent happenings in the Courts, it secures even more interest. The circumstances of Friday may be recaller vary briefly. The Childar piracy case was to have come on that day at 2.15 p.m., but at that time the magistrate had be hoped that extensive adopthe Government Civil Hospital of Mr. Lewis: The oberge is as the first defendant?
put in an appearanos. About five minutes after the appointed time a clerk told the Crown Solicitor that he was wanted in the magistrate's room, and forty minutes more elapas bafore the magistrate turned up.
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chowe tor, which may to com. tested upor For come reason for other the road has not bean wholly tarred. The centre, for Lite whelleogth, has been sprayed
with ter, but in some parts either The total output of the Kailan ore side or both has been left Mining Administration's mines antouched. The result, so far as for the week ending 23rd May, these sections are concerned, is amounted to 02,735.05 tuns and wores than if nothing at all had the aules during the period, to boon tone, for the water now 72,080.47 tous; runs off the tarred surface and
Haitan's Voyage. badly outs up the sides of the The s.s. Haitan, which arrived road. The authorities will there-in port from Foochow yesterday, fore woll adviesd to at once reports strong NE. wind and apply the new treatment to those high sea from Amoy to Foochow, sections at present untouched. and moderate S W. wind and |"Extensively Adopted."-- fine weather on latter part of
Touching this matter, by the voyage. way, we notice a reference to it in the comparative statement of Sergt. Int rpreter Li Shui. the estimated and actual expendi-ling stationed at an Din has re-do you speak? ture of the Colony for last year ported to the police, that between The estimated sum for the main-Jane 2 and 5, come, paraqn: stole tenance of roads and bridges was from a locked drawer in his desk, $60,000 and the actual anm jewellery belonging to him of the spent was nearly $15,000 mo:e value of $305.- Two explanatory remarks cre appended, "Contract let at In the Summary Court, this higberats. Tar macadam and morning, the cass was called on tar aplying of roads are being before Mr. Justice Hazeland; in extensively adopted." The last which A. Ogilvie sued A. Craw. observation is quite a pleasing ford for the sum of $50. Neither Not long ago, in a leading of the parties appearing the case article, we voiced the hops that was put off until Jane 26. the authorities would go in for Dog Apparently Mad. more tir spraying, which seems Dog bites on the arms and lege to work admirably. But it is to have neresitated the entry into
I sent it to the Captain Super- on does not mean partial Indian Constable No. 378. The adoption as in the case of dog which was running about un- Nathan Road.
mazzled was apparently mad and intendent of Police- certain Mr. Watts-Dunton Dead. had to be shot, the body being date and divers dates therebefore
and thereafter. The death ia anaouured to-day sent to the public crematorium of Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton, for examination by the Colonial His Worship: When do you Perhaps there were excellent raisons for keeping the distinguished eritio post, Veterinary Surgeon
propose to go on?
Mr. Lewis: I don't propose t Perry Mishap. and novelist. Ho'will chiefly be police, pressmen, and others waiting for saub a length of remembered by the circumstance
On Saturday afternoon a ferry go on to-day; I ask for a week's tims; perhaps, too, they were reasons which it was well not to that he was, for thirty years, the which left the Hongkong side af remand. make public. They would require to be very strong reasons to house-mate of the late Mr. A. O. about 4 o'clock ran into the new His Worship: I think we justify euch a waste of time of professional men. But the strongest Swinburne, This was one of the wharf at Kowloon with such force should have something to go on? most 1emarkable literary friend-as to break one of the solid planks. Mr. Lewis: Is it usual? It of reasons for delay cannot excuse the want of a word of apology ships carecard. He knew gypsy of wood acting as a shield to the is a very complicated fraud. The cross-examination? from the magistrate when he did appear. We cannot recall an life intimately, and his novel structure. Tos tide was running police are after other people, not in lance in any other court where the magistrate or presiding judge "Aylwin," is well worth reading, fast at the time and it was only now in the Colony, and disclosing things at the moment may oreste has appeared five, or even two, minutes late without expressing his if only on the score of the insight after repeated efforts that the ves sincere regret, and it is to be hoped that there are not more than into that life there given. What sal managed to get alongside the complications.
His Worship: Have you any half a dozen courts in the British Empire where the same, want of one chiefly remembers about Mr. pier at all.
information ? Stealing Fish, consideration would be shown. The whole conduct of the Police Watte-Dunton, however, is that
Before Mr. Melbourne, at the
Mr. Lawie: The O.S.P. went Courts bare appears to demand attention. The work shems to be be was singularly unfortunate in carried through in an ill-ordered fashion and without any effort having Mr. James Douglas as his Police, Court, this morning, two down to the bank and arrested one yon arrest? being made to convenience witnesses and others whose presence in biographer. Mr. Donglas, un-Chinese were charged with steal himself after making enquiries; We have ourselves on threo occasions been happily, wrote with, the mosting fish from the Kowloon Godown he made enquiries himself and asked to be in attendance at nine in the morning, and on not one glowing enthusiasm as though Company's Wharf, and the second arrested the first defendant, and of the three did we got clear of the court until noon although the his subject were the greatest man was also charged with as gave instructions to arrest the -actant appearance lasted for only a few minutes.
literary man who ever lived, and sultingan Indian. The first maa second defendinat. My instrão- be came in for such a baddling in was sentenced to fourteen days tions are to ask for a week'e We may remark two more little inatiers. The first is that Blackwood's as few men have and the second to one month's remand.
His Worship: It will be some time- newspaper man was checked the other day, by a magicien juffered in these days, Review-impriauum^ny and four hours' looking at a newspaper in Court. The magistrate was quite within ea nowadays do not often use socks.
Disturbance in Queen's Road. Mr. Lewis: I don't know how bis rights there, even though the man in question may have. basa bludge n. but that one did an
Jaspastor Terrett; I will give About 1250 a.m. yesterday long it will be before we can doing work at the time of which the magistrate knew nothing. he created quite a stir in Equally he did right quite recently when he told another man to literary circles at the time morning considerable disturbance go on. They are charged with evidence as to the arrest of the obtain money second (laughter). At p.m. was created in Queen's Road conspiring to take off his hat when within the precincts of the Court though he
Ceutral by a foreigner who, it from the Rongkong and Shang on the 4th. inst, I arrested the was not in the Court itsolf. The dignity of court procedure must
appe 1. al been charged by a hai Bank by moons of a second defendant' in the Hong be preserved. But do magistrates themselves always do what they
won ni insulting her. A forged letter of credit which kong ant Shanghai Bank.". can to preserve it? Not so long ago we were informed that a
fonille riquated both to go to would be operated through His Worship: Seven p.m.? magistrate attended a higher Court to give evidence in a case, est
Le Central Ulice Station but the Gutierrez who is a clerk in the Witte About seven p.m. et the salicifore table, and laughed and chatted there, during the
Eight more Chinese brought due to do so and made bank and who would get the your Worship progions of the case, in a fashion that croald probably havo strawn
His Worship You reserve from Machos envader - Ultimately money on this letter of brodit, A short reprimand from himself had angong no conducted himself
itsfter way till wat go but not Hi WorshipThere are a lot orogd-gxamination again. "In his own court. We give the statement for what it is worth. Th mattors of court procedure magistrates should practica what they
We have been infirmidzibat
been infirmed before gpumir fresidents in the of documents slov.coMr. Gardiner
Mr. Lewis: There are a lot His Worship" preach We enbait that the instancas have given show a eight Chinese were brought from icinity had lot slumber during beedlessness for public convenience and the feelings of the public, Macao on Friday, and they will the course of the noisy argument of documents but I don't think you want to insk on the part of paid servants of the public, that should not, be charge in connection with the Whatever may have been the the police have brought them of this constable ? péria in British Colony, and after this plain speaking Tai On pirsoy Two-European merit of the original charge, there down this mornifig
miniläes mandeds. It is a bad day when, fnhild servanta police oficer were Javoharger certainly seemed ground for his Els Wo
Brrest on the soure of breating a the letter ler The j To publicu.
the coarta is necessary.
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THE TAI ON AFFAIR.
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$1,445.00, and the following distribution of the Fund will ba carried out:-
:
$700.00 to Mrs. Evans at Cal- cutta-widow of the late Obief Officer; $300.00 to the widow of Silva, late watchman; $445.00 will be handed over to the Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,.! as that body is organising a fund for the recognition of the services. of those of the Officers and Crew: of the se. Tai On who resisted: the recent attempt to pirate that. vessel.
Mr. Lewis: Will your Worship remand it for a week; there are exteraive enquirica Łolog made?
my
Mr. Gardiner: I cannot object but I would ask for bail as far as
client is concerned, de Mr. Lowis: I am insteacted that no bail be fixed under $20,000; my
intructions are that they lad
that in their hands last Thursday.
Mr. Gärdiner: In their bands yes, perhaps they had more, but they didn't take it away. The only charge you have there is $17,000.
His Worship: Twenty thousand each?
Mr. Lewis: No, between them, His Worship
Apart from that obecue?
Mr. Lewis: Yes, there are other frauds.
His Worship: What can yos and?
F
First defendant: One thousand. His Worabip: That's the most you can find?
First defendant: I think so at present.
Elis Worship: If you have any property in the town you can sign a bond.
Firat defendant: Yes, I will
siga a bond.
His Worship: What amount can your friends find for you?
His Worship: "Did you arrest went into the box.
Witness: Yee your Worship about 5 p.m. on the 5th inst. His Worship: Friday? Witness: No. Thursday," your Worship, the 4th, rather, His Worship: Where? Witness: The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, your Worship.
His Worship: Did you arreat the second defendant?
Witness: No, your Worship, His Worship: You resa Mr. Gardiner: Yes, your Wore ship. I think there his been mistake.
Mr. Lewis: Yes, Gutierrez wsa arrested in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bink..
His Whip: Olarke, was did
Detective Sergeant Olarke: The first man your Worship they
Mr. Lewis: The frat man is were both there.
His Worship: When do you Hia Worship: The firet defend-expect to go on formally ? Remedioe...
at is the one netreat myself."
M Lowie: There will be Witness: Yes, your Worship. extradition persadings, as well Bia Worship That is the in connection wa kuis Cuza,
Mr. Gardiner : That meanes evidence.
we are gong to be held up.
His Worship: indefinitely.
That is you
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shipgi et al Hi Worship.
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Will you
it has not be able to go on Mr, Lewis 2:
First defendant: I have no iden until I can ask someone to com- municate with my mother to come from Maes, and I will ask your Worship for that permission. Mr. Gardiner: As far as my concerned twenty client is thousand is absolutely prohibi tive.
are going to ask to extradite other men to be brought there and put down with these defendants 2 Mr. Lovis: Yes Anenther man, at any rate,, whosn whereabouts we know.
His Worship Yon have pERO
ESME, LOWBO "I do not wish to do" so at the moment because; (don't wish to disclose my hand-"apy odr His Worship But I mean, an ragenis buil? arafall cral 12 be