EUROPEAN CHARGED.
Alleged False Fretences and Misrepresentation.
Frank Carlyle Castlemain was ic-day charged on remand, before Mr. G. D..Melbourne, with falsely pretending to Mr. F. Allen, Man- agerens of the Seamen's Institute, that he was an employee of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd., and that, having rejɔined the Company, they would guarantes his (defendant's) board and expenses up to $85 per month. He was sleo charged with obtaining board and lodg. ing to the amount of $7.10, with înteni to defraud; also with uttering a false security for the payment of money, the mourity falsely purporting to bear the signature of Mr. W. A. Batterfield, knowing it to be forged; Bad shat be pre- sented the said security.
Mr. C. F. Mazon, should have appeared for defendant but it waI announced that he had had no further instructions.
Mr. Allen said his wife was the
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A FAKED PERMIT.
manageress of Seamen's Institute Only one Case on the Calendar,
some time,
Res Davies) sat in Criminal The Chief Justice (Sir William Sessions at the Supreme Court
Waralog to Exporters.
on the Praya Est. Witness also lived at the Institute and kaew defendant, who had been staying. at the place for
At the Police Coort this morn- to-day, when the only case for ing, a Chinese was charged with The document produced we trial was that in which Ip Shin making a false declaration with given to him on December 30, at and Msn Cheng were charged reference to an export permit the Seamen's Institute, by the with demanding $100 defendant, being enclosed in an
by Mr. Lloyd, Superintendent of anvelopa with the Asiatic menaces from Tang Yce and Teo Laporte and Exports, prosecuted. Petroleum Company's block Szs, on December 13, stamp thereon. When defendant The Hon. Attorney General permit for the export of a quantity (Mr. J. H. Kemp) appeared to of coal, but is transpired later
handed it over, he said he was
and asid defendant obtained a
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very pleased that he had prosecute, and both defendants, that he was sleg exporting 60 O'CEDAR POLISH been reinstated as an assistant who pleaded not guilty, were dozen paire of socks and 20 caske engineer in the asid firm, that defended by Mr. F. C. Jankin, of oil, which he did not mention the letter had been given to bira (instructed by Mr. E. J. Grist when he made application for the by Mr. Butterfeld, and that the and Mr. J. H. Gardiner). permit. He (Mr. Lloyd) wished to For renewing the mop and polishing Company were standing secarity The following were empanelled point cat that a permit must to the amount of 65 per Mitchell, J. S. Rodrigues, E. M. for export.
on the jury:-Messrs. R. H. Bccompany the gooda intended Produces a most beautiful lustre, and month se board and lodging in the Institute. Witness told de-Joseph, F. Mootee, B. Wong His Worchip imposed a fine of
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Attorney General said that the
the other.
she told witness to instruct the story of the prosecution was that THE HONGKONG & SOUTH No. 1 boy to prepare board and three women arrived from Shang- lodgings. The letter was not shown bai on the day ja question, two of to the No. 1 boy.
them with children and cne witt,
Defendant:-I plead cot guilty. When they came off the steamer at the China Merchant
to all these charges, sad reserve
my defence.
CHINA WAR SAVINGS ASSOCIATION.
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wharf, with the object of going APLICATION
forms for aboard a steamer for Canton, they Association may be obtained Membership of the above In reply to witness' evidence, were stopped at the wharf gate from all the Banks or from the defendant said that he had no by the first prisoner, who said undersigned. regalar board and lodging there. they could not pass unless they He only stayed there cne paid $100. At this, the womes night and the
eam of $7 offered to be taken back to the seemed to be about
right, steamer whilst enquiries were but the amount of $14, made, but this they were not ae mentioned by witness, was not allowed tɔ do. When it was found correct-it had increased.
Mrs. Allen asid defendant show- men with, they were taken to they had no money to pay. the ed her the letter mentioned. Jardine's wharf close by, and Subsequently witness learned kept there whilst one of them that the defendant was not re- ostensibly went to try to find instated in the Asiatic Petroleum cone money. Eventually ebe went Company: The defendent owed to No. 7 Police Station and report- $14,83 to the Seamen's Justilate.ed the matter. The police accom Witness had not applied to the panied ber back to the Praya and BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE Asiatic Petroleum Co. for pay-there the first prisoner was met and sirested. The second pri- Arthur Batter-Boger was the man who was in
ment.
- William -field, Superintendent Engineer charge of the second wharf to
were waiting for the arrival of
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the other womso, that they would the 30th day of January, 1917, have to pay at least $80, if they could not find the fall $100.
Hongkong on that date. The The case wie unfinished whet Company did not guarantee the Court rose, defendant's board and resideros
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brought in with tered in the Land Office as said he had made a comparison of the first part filled in, and defend- MARINE LOT NO. 25. Together the handwriting on letter "A" at wrote his signature, and I with the messuages and premises (the letter in question) with the witonased it. Defendant ack thereon-known as Nos. 6 and 7 handwriting on the other ex-nowledged it as his signature. Praya East and Nos. 48, 50, 52. hibite. Que summary of his Detective Sergeant Clark said 54, 56. 58 and 69 Queen's Road report was that there were he arrested defendant at the East Victoris aforesaid, eleven habita or trinks of writing, Seamen's Institute on Jsanary the term of 999 years from the may be attained personally at and seven Average measurements and took him to the Police Station 9th day of July 1844 created the above office between the or ratios similar in the two writ- In reply to the charge defendant therein by a ('rown Lease of the hours of 10 AM and I P.M. ings. He also made photographs made a statement. of four of these characteristics
said Lot dated the 14ib day of Detective Inspector O'Sullivan July 1882 and made between Her filled up signed and dated, and Tender Forms mu t be properly which be intended to pat ia. The said he charged defendant, who, lare Majesty Queen Victoria of delivered in a sealed envelore result was that he was of the in snywer to the first charge the one part and Lee Yuns Wa marked "Tonder for Forage, sto." opinion that the two writings said:"I prefer to make ne of the other part subject to the were by the same hand,
wiatement." "The exhibits were payment of the Crown Rent and be entertained unless accom- Tonders must be, and will not The Hon. C. 8. P. (Mr. Mol. found in defendant's boxes on the to the observance and perfor- panied by a deposit of $100 a Mosser), said Exhibit F. 1. was following day. A cumber of blank and conditions therein reserved sum to be forfeited to the Siste mance of the Lessee's corneants a guarantan of good faith, such made by the defondant in bie memo
forms of the Asiatic and contained. presence, and witnemed by him, Petroleum Company, ale ten
Defendant: Were you not envelope embossed with t thereabouta, Annual Crown Ront twenty-four hours' norice inj if the tenderar fails to sitend st| square feet or the Headquartem Office after aware that the document was Company's stamp, were found. ~$44484. igned when I brought it in to This concluded the case f
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