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FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1923.
In reply to Mr. Lo witness said about $17,000 to $18,000 passed through the defendant's hands in a day. He paid out about $5,000 every month as commissions to opiutu retailers.
Mr. Lo be guaranteed by a beentleman is a band?
Mr. Blayd: Yes.
EARTHQUAKE IN LUNOEL
Thousands Killed and Injured.
Shanghai, May 2-Chinese re arts from Szechuch state that Mr. Lo: The amount of the bond | over åve-hundred were killed and for only $1,000-I won't say time-thousand injured, in addition exactly. I have an idea, it is to thousands being left homeless. as the result of an earthquake in the Luhob District-Reuter.
How They Are Paid. Interesting sidelights thrown on the arrangements tween the Imports and Exports De- partment and Government opium retailers in a case beard by Mr. C. D. Melbourne at the Magistracy yes-$3,000. terday afternoon. The defendant. Ng Shin-bing, a shroff in the Gov.
A Comparison. erament service, was charged on
Do you think it possible the four counts of the larceny of $5 defendant is a dishonest man? Re and $25 on different dates and with has had plenty of opportunites of fraudulent conversion to his owalembezzling large sums of money and running away-Be would be KELVIN MOTORS."Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, Assistant at once found out. The payments Crown Solicitor, represented the are checked every day. He would Crown and Mr. M. F. Lo defended. have been found out within an
Mr. Fazlerigg said he would con-bour or su fine himself to the two charges in Well, could he have run away respect of the $25 owing to the abs ence of his witnesses with regard to the other obarges. The defendant. he said, was employed in the cpium department of the Imports and Ex-office.. Torta Offer as a shred and was Do you seriously suggest that he supervisor of the licensed opium would have been suspected if be retailers. These retailers were bad gone out, say, for tea with
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DOINGS OF THE DUFFS
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FOOTBALL.
Kowloon v. South China.
Kowloon Football Club in their The following will represent the
match against South China to-day on the Hongkong Football Clubs with $15,000, a day takings-ground. Kick-off at 5 p.m.--Wood- would have run great risk. There
man: Wheeler. Knight; Morrison. are three Indian gumeds as well as armed Chinese and others in the Sully. Duncan (G). Mason.
McKelvie, Paseo: Clemo, Hall,
If the man left as the usual time he might not be aestebed-He would meet with great difficulty.
serve: Quest."
FLEET STREET'S FIRST PRINTER.
Be.
Book Issued 430 Years Ago.
rated licenses by the Imports $18,000 in his pockets: If he and Exports Department and went out in the morning I think he the Government would arouse suspicions and would were paid by vertain commissions
the be stopped. fùrm.
xome cases, of fixed amount. independent of the sales effected by them, and in the other cases in the form of percentages which varied with the extent of their business. Part of the de- fendant's duty was 10 receive money from his Department every Could be have rus away with the Hilzar Wood, in the Daily month for the payment of the money if there had been, a rozhrnicie. retailers and obtain their singa-piracy among the office staff
Well suppose he went met at tithin time-The money would have been "paul intr the office by this time.
For over four canturies Flant- street has been London's great home of the Press, tradition and records going to show that it is exactly 430 years since the first book was printed there "Avs
Who was Fleet-street's
first
tures on the pay sheets for the Yes, he could. just as the printer? The question comes up amount paid aut. The allegation Manager of the Hongkong and again, because a book from the of the Crown was that on the thShanghai Bank ccubi have run press of one for whom the title is April the accused. instead of WBF if he had entered iate sometimes claimed will be offered paying the licensed retuler La conspiracy.
for sale, among the famous Chaupo si to which he was Why did you take a comparisno | Christie-Miller collection, at entitled. p him caly $13, like that? Do you think he could Sotheby's this month. appropriating to his own use the have run away theol--l am cot go- balance. Surgert to his Worshiping to make comparisons in this decision on the point he would pune. submit that the defendant's action was not an isolated case of under payment to the licence and be would call evidence to prove that be bal habitually unler paid different retailer and committed misappropriation-.
The System Explained. Mr. J. D. Lloyd. Superintendent
This is **The Castell of Pleasure," a black letter book in verse, with a quaint old woodcut, Mr Lo: I am not making funny enprented at London in the comparisons. You did.
Flete Strate & the syrne of the Mr. Lo: Supposing the defen-Some be Wyakyn de Worde." dant pays over the S7 and gets a receipt for that amount, if the man pays him back $20 do you say this is misappropriation?
De Worde is said by some to have been the first printer of: Fleet-street. Others. more cap tious, call him the "father of printing" in this area, and they to give a reply, and then said are on safer ground, for though be that una prima facie case he would was apparently not the first in
Mr Lloyd hesitated for a moment
cf Imports and Exports, stated insay the defendant would be guilty the field. it was his fame that evidence that the detejdsat, to the of ribers, but the defendanturned the old Fleet into the best of his beliei, had been in the was not in a threatening position River of Ink. Government service since the tak be would say it amounted to ing ever by the authorities of the larceny. opium monopoly in 1914 and bad been is his present position since
820.
He was Jan van Wynkyo, a native of Worth in Alsace ("de
Li Chau pn, lisensed opium reWorde" was only a place-pame), tailer of 1 Staunton Street, then and as a young man came to the death of his rather a few years gave evidence. to the 20th. April Eugland with Carton. He worked
The defendant's duty includ-be received 5-15 as commission from at the famous press at Westmins el periodical visits
to licensed the defendant and signed the payter, and on his master's death, in opium retailers to ascertain they sheet. Until he signed the pas 1491, succeeded to the business, were on their premises and whether heet for S70 he was out aware carrying it on in Caxton's_old their business had changed hunds that he was entitled to $70. He house till the end of 1500.
Then In theek their stocks to see if owed the defendant no money and he moved to Fleet street, taking they were Government supply and tire latter gave no explanation for two houses in St. Bride's Parish to check the stocks with the entries the deduction. Is reply to Mr. close to that Salisbury-equare to the banks of sales which Hazlerigg witness aid in January where Samuel Richardson after- the retailers kept
Pamels," and where the "Daily Chrouinte "now has its home.
"THE SYGNE OF THE SONNE."
We are able to place his house pretty accurs.ely, because some of his books were published from "the sygne of the Sonne agayost! the Condyle," and this conduit: stood in the centre of Fleet-street, practically opposite Shoe-lane.
The largest re- February and March he receivwards had his press and wrote tailers, -aid Mr. Llosd, were paided $15 each time. from 0 to $115 per month and Mr. I objected to the evidence the others certain percentages of which, he said, was irrelevant and their receipts varying from 1 toadmissible. 15 per vent. these commissions }
Mr. Hazlerigg aid noe ut the beiss pad through the defendant reasons. warranting the admission The Treasury niter thin pay sheets of the evideare was to shew that had been sent in, would isbe the accused had been working on chep to witnessss the Superin-the fraudulent systern, tendent of ports and Exporte, After some argument the evid and the money would go to his ence wa recorded without pre- accoust in the Bank. For the judice to future arguments, payments to the retailers he made
The case was adjourned. out cheapies in favour of the lior- ernment, and in recent cases in
He lived in Fleet-atreet for thirty-four years, and in that time printed over 600 books, of which copies or fragments have come down to our own time. Probably this does not represent one half of the work his press actually
Ten tons of dead cats and dogs are collected weekly in London | turned out. He died in 1534, and
favour of the defendant personally.HOW ENG-LAYING IS FOSTERED, Mr. Lloyd explained how the defendant paid out the money to the retailers secouting to schedule in the pay sheet.
Examined by Mr. Hazlerigg, Mr. Lloyd said the groused was not entitled to make any deductioa from the commissions.. The lafendant was arrested a week last Saturday and since then his accounts had been investigated. The entries ia the cashbooks were found to be quite correct.
I HOPE ALL THE SAFETY PINS ARE NOT IN USE OR I WON'T BE ABLE
TO GO OUT TODAY-
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was buried in St. Bride's Church,
His rival, and apparently his forerunner in Fleet-street, was Richard Pynson, who came from Normandy about 1490, and shortly alterwards set up as a printer. His first dated hook was Parker's "Dialogues of Dives and Pauper." 1193, printed "by me Richarde Pynaon at the Temple-barre of London."
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