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IF IT PANT MY OLD SCHOOL CHUM, SAM HOWDY!
A STOLEN MACHINE,
CASE RE-OPENED.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925.
COUNTERFEITFR
SENTENCED.
200 FALSE COINS DISCOVERED.Į
to an
with
That there was no evidence on which he Worship could have con- vleted the defendant was the con
At the Criminal Sessions yester- tention on which Mr. M. K. Lo, based his applicaton for the re-day a Chinese named Leung Yuk- hearing of the case concerning aus pleaded not guilty broker of the Singer Sewing Ma-finditoment charging him chine Co., who was sentenced by being in possession of counterfeit his Worship to three months' hard coin, knowing it to be counterfeit labour on March 10, on a charge of and attempting to utter it,
The Crown Solicitor, Mr. H. K. receiving a Singer Sewing machine,; knowing the same to have been Holmes, appeared to prosecute and Anid outlining the Crown Case stolen or unlawfully obtained.
Mr. Lo had previously made his prisoner was found by the police
house successful application before Mr.Jarding's Bazaar, There was a E. W. Hamilton on the grounds coelie in the room with him. On that there was no evidence of
arrest t
At n in his cubiele
in
guilty knowledge before the Court his bed was found a tin contain- An- and that there was evidence thating a quantity of counterfeit ten,
twenty and five cent pieces. could he enlled to prove his
other packet of coins was found; client's innocence. The prosecn- tion had not produced evidence of and also two bundles of 50 ten the trial and Mr. Crut pieces. There was also found argued it was this that was re- number of pieces of paper such levant to the defendant's defence, as was used for making $5 rolls of ton cent pieces. The police Immediately he was arrested, he
had discovered that they were informed the police that the ma chine had been re-sold to a certain exactly the size for rolling this
amount of ten cent pieces. person at Wanchai and it was on his information that the article was recovered.
Over 200 Coins were Found. Evidence was called bearing out!
Clue Prisoner said This statement was confirmed by the Crown
Kive evidence on the police who stated that the ma-The wished to
was lying o chine was
the oath. He said he Arst traced. to broker, through the first defendant the bed when the Police came in who sold him the article and who and arrested him. They searched) has already been convicted on ahim but found nothing. charge of larceny.
Mr. Lo's client furnished further nothing. information which led to its
taal recovery.
They
was
the found the tin; there
concealed. The Police
ac-sergeant asked if the money be
longed to him and he replied that it did not. A Chinese constable Reasons for Conviction. said, "Why don't you admit it' and) His Worship said that he con-struck him. After he had been victed because the case was fall struck again he did admit it. He of suspicions. When the transac-knew nothing of the money and WAS no proof tion between the complainant and urged that there the Singer Sewing Machine Com-that the money belonged to him.
His Lordship having summed pany was carried through, both defendants were present and when up the jury returned a verdict of the first defendant offered to sell guilty and prisoner was sentenced it to the broker two days later he to 18 months imprisonment with should have made more enquiries hard tabour,
before purchasing the machine.
Another point which led him to
convict was that it was ridiculous defendant
being questioned
for the broker to believe that the directed witness to No. 53 Wanchal ärst defendant was a partiter in Raart, where the the purchase of the machine. The reegvered.
machine
was
complainant was a man of mature Antler broker, who bought the ag while the first defendaitt wasmachine from theliefendant and a mere he being only 16 years old.sold it to the occupants of No. 53 Mr. Lo replied that his Worship Wanchai Road, was recalled and cald not convict on suspicions, he said that he had bought Singer
in 21 appeal sewing machines from the defen-1 He quoted a case court, in which the defendant wiodant for a number of years. The 1 was charged with conspiracy, wa-machine in que-tion was purchased the chairman of a board of diree-on the understanding that it was fors and failed to fully investigate a new one. Witness thought it had a case of embezzlement in which been bought from the Singer Sew! The firm was victimised.
ing Machine Co.
The Manager of the Singer Sew- There was certain amount of suspicion in the case but the judreng Machine Co., said that he had ruled in favour of the appellant in known the defendant for at least seven years and during their ae- the Appeal Court.
saintanceship he had known him In the present case the defen-to be an honest mar. Asked by dant had made a profit of $16 on Mr. Lo if be thought that the machine, which was quite rea- anybody would pay $50 for the sonable. He paid $50 fur h working part of the machine," and a stand cost him another $30. 1 sold the top portion together with the stand for $36, which was an price. bonest transaction.
upper portion of a machine if he know that It was stolen property, witness replied that he did not think anybody would pay that
The defendant, interrogated by
In reply to his Worship Mr. Lathe Magistrate, said that as soon
-aid that he made his application on grounds of law and not facts,
Defendant Discharged.
His Worship said that he would grant the re-bearing on the grounds
as he heard the complainant had lost his machine he went to his house and asked if that were trac. He was told by the complainant that the boy had already heen Defendant then went arrested.
that evidence should be produced home and on his arrival he was as to what the defendant did from arrested by a detective who the time he bought the machine awaiting his return.
the time he sold it in Wanchai.
WAS
Mr. Hamilton in discharging the
A Chinese detective, giving evi-defendant said that there was (dence of the arrest of the defen-gross negligence on his part in not dant, said that at 5.10 p.m. on making more enquiries about the February 25, he found the accused machine. The defendant had nt- on the first floor of No. 199 Queen's tempted to sell it as a new machine Road, West, and later took him to and had suffered the consequences the Yaumati Police Station, The and it was entirely his own fault.
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