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BANKNOTE CASE.
ARGUMENT ON APPEAL ENDED.
FRIDAY,
SNATCHING CASE.
CHILDREN'S EXCITING EXPERIENCE,
There was a sequel at the Con- tral Magistracy yesterday to in incident on Condult Road on Dec- embar 18 when Mlus Shirley Eca. da Silva was robbed of her hand- bag. A Chinese was charged with the theft before Mr. Schofield,
Tho appeal against a judgment. of Mr. Justice Wood, who held that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank were able to pay a $500 notą from which the numbers and date were missing, was continued In the Supreme Court yestor Miss Silva said she was on her day in Appellate Jurisdiction, way to a Christmas party and was before the Chief Justice, Sir in company with Edna and Kon- Henry Gollan, and the Pulane neth Carroll. Going along Cont Judge, Mr. Justice Wood. Mridult road she noticed a Chinese be- Eldon Potter, K.C, is for the hind her, and suddenly he came appellant, whilst the respondent, up and snatched her bag," It con tained thirty cents in local cur- a Chinese woman, is represented rency: a fifty ceat American jubl by Mr. Somerset Fitzroy.
Mr. Fitzroy's Reply.
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lee coin and a book of tram tickets. The man was dressed in light blue and wore black socks and shoes.
"Just Ran Away?' ̧.
Edna Carroll, aged 11 said it was about 3.30. In the afternoon when the bag was snatched. She saw the man clearly, and noticed he wore light blue and had his hair brushed back. Witness said sho tried to catch bold, of the man but he turned round and ran away. She picked out the defendant from ΠΗ identification eight men in parade.
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, in the course of his reply, referred to the
She failed to pick out the defen- extraordinary rights and privi- dant at an identification parade leges enjoyed by the Bank of Eng-but identified another man, Cross- land with regard to the issue of oxamined by Mr. P. H. Losoby. notes. He mentioned that the defonding, witness sald she retura- Bank of England kept a registered from Canton a short time ago. of every note it issued and or overy one returned. Their sys- tem, to a very great extent, pre- venied fraud and forgeries. Whon Mr. Towns was in the witness box, he stated he had served in the London office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and was asked if when they issued a note for £500 they took the number of it. He re- plied he did not know, but that there was a record of the first issues of notes. Apparently from that time onward, Mr. Fitzroy said,. until they were wiped off, no record at all was made. Mr. Towns had told them it was impossible to ex- amine the numbers every day us was done in the Bank of England. That was a very important dif ference between the Bank of Engwho said it first, but Shirley Silva land notes and the Hongkong and said blue and Kenneth Carroll
said blue and so I said blue. Shanghai Bank notes. He cou tended that in this particular case the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank were craving all the privi leges of the Bank of England with-snatched the bag. Witness identi
fied him at the parade. -out accepting any of its reapons-
bilities.
Questioned by Mr. Loseby she said they walked along the side of the road and ran after each other occasionally,
Mr. Losoby: Who fest said the man was dressed in blue?
Witness: I cannot remember
The young boy was also called and said the man was tall and Just ran away" after he had
Coolics and Clean Faces. Sergeant Curey said the defen- Mr. Fitzroy proceeded to quotedant was placed in line with seven authorities on material alteration. others at the parade. In answer urging that they all dealt with for; to Mr. Loseby he said the men geries and not with notes damaged were mainly chair coolice. They by accident.
were all given blue to wear and all had their hair brushed back. 2
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The Chief Justice pointed out that if the commercial use and utility of a note for business pur-was the only one who had a clean. poses was affected, then that was amaterial alteration.
Mr. Fitzroy: All through the judgments, it refers again and again to the fact that the notes were forgeries,
What is a Bank Note?
The Chief Justice remarked that it had been laid down that it was not essentin! that the alteratior should be done with fraudulent intent. He added that he had al- ways understood a bank note to be an ordinary promissory note is sued by a bank, and asked counsel if he had any authority he could quote upon that subject
Mr. Loseby: Then the defendant complexion, all the chair, coolies having dirty faces?
Witness: No, they were all about the same.
Mr. Loseby: Then you can find chair coolies-with-clean faces?
Witness: Yes.
The defence suggested that it was a case of mistaken identity, and the defendant denied taking part in the theft. A head conlie employed at the Naval Yard said he knew the defendant and at- counted for his movements on Dec- ember 18.
The defendant was discharged.
tered, but had merely met with an accident. It had been washed, starched and ironed, and there was never any intention whatever of
Mr. Fitzroy referred Is Lord- ship to the case of McDonnell and furray, decided in 1860, in which it was laid down by the learned judge that a bank note was no- thing but a promissory note pay-altering it. For a note to be ma able to bearer on demand.
terially altered, it must first of all The Chief Justice: I think that be shown that there was an inten- has been generally accepted. tion to it. In the case referred to, There is no particular virtue in in which section
64 was
dealt bank. It is a form of promissory with, it was shown, Mr. Fitzroy note.
stated, that the note to be materi- Mr. Potter: Yes, it is treated as ally altered, they must show that an ordinary promissory note... one thing had been substituted for
The Chief Justice: That being another.
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so, it seems to me that we have Mr. Folter briefly replied, argu- heard the subject discussed verving that there had been a material bhoroughly and that we are coming erasure. It was for the Court to down to rather, a finer point than say whether there had been a ma-
he felt it to be his duty to defend which dated before the time of the Battle of Manila. "One modera was probable at first. That is, terial akeration, and immediately
and support it. the meaning of section 64 of the that was done then whole contract
Accepting the warning as a ship," the Admiral had said, "could Bills of Exchange Ordinance, and was avoided. If the consideration
MORE CONTROVERSY.
challenge, Mr. Britton member of lick the whole bunch of them." the interpretation of the words of the Court was confined to the
Washington, Jan. 6.
The House of Representatives the House of Representatives Naval where it is materially altered contract alone, then he admitted Presumably as the result of the Committee, who advocates a strong considered the Bill sectionally, ap- without the consent of all parties." judgment would necessarily have big Navy talk lately noticeable navy, told the "House to-day that proving several clauses, including Mr. Potter has put it against you to be for the plaintiff, but the in certain sections of Congress, "when the President is wrong 1 that for the maintenance of the existing that once you show a material contract extended beyond that, President Coolidge to-day issued a refuse to follow him. He is wrong navy personnel at Its teration by the production of the for the question of material altera-warning that the budget estimates now. I know more about the navy strength. Consideration note in the course of the case, tion arco, He contended that if for the Navy Department for the than the President does. The time more controversial provisions has President then the case fails, and I very In single line or a single word coming fiscal year must not be sto appropriate funds for these been postponed.
cruisers is now."
Coolidge later explained that his much doubt whether a judge, try which comprised a material altera- exceeded. ing the case with a jury, would, on tion of the contract had taken The President, in a letter ad- Mr. Britten then repeated the object in writing to Mr. French a point of law, allow it to go to the place, then the whole contract was dressed to Mr. French, a member statement made earlier in the day was to correct any impression that jury.
avoided. ..
of the House of Representatives, by Rear Admiral Bloch, Chief of he had changed his attitude on the Material Alteration.
who is in charge of the Naval Sup- Ordnance of the Navy Department, naval appropriation since writing Mr. Fitzroy submitted that te
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