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Moat Moderate Ratos in the Colony.
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Drawing Room, Saloon Bar and Billiard Room
Very moderate rates..
on application to-
Tel. Nos. K608 & K609.
H. J. WHITE,
Manager.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1927.
THE MORPHIA CASE RESUMED.
(Continued from Pago 1.)
first and deliver the goods in due
courae.
Mr. Lindsell-The words "with no more dollars than I have in my
hand........
am
Bir. Leask:-That is what I trying to shut out,
Mr. Lindsell: It might be evidence to explain the nature of the present transaction.
Bottomley's Bonds, Continuing, "Haynes demonstrat- ed how Christie picked up a hat and indicated the manner In which Horatio Bottomley drew Victory Bonds.
Describing another part of the interview, Haynes said that Chris-
Where?In London... Any branch register, in Hong- kong?-Not to my knowledge.
Do you know a firm named lum- phreys and Denman? That also was a Company run in the same
office.
working with Enever in a firm that was called "Tho China Gold-Mining Company?" most emphatically deny it.
I put it to you that you were
You just now said that you knew Enever to your sorrow. How
i
DO AWAY WITH ALL DEFENCE!
(Continued from Page 1.)
of Germany, moved that it be dis Count Von Bernstorff, on behalf
cussed at the second reading' of
the draft convention on diserma-
fixed, and M. Lunacharsky gyen- tually agreed-Reuter.
ment, the date,of which should be
British Delegate's View.
Geneva, Nov. 30. Lord Cushendun, interviewed by He got $2,000 from my father. Reutor, said that no British dole- was suspected for alleged conspir-gata had participated in the open- acy with Enever and it cost mying meeting of the preparatory dis. father £2,800 in legal expenses, armament conference, because the
occasion had not arisen.
Conviction Recalled.
Can you tell us whether you were convicted?--Yes; six months' een tence.
tie pressed for Au Yeung's ad- The charge was conspiracy with out of order in submitting pro-
dreas, but Haynes put him off by giving only Au's club address. Observing Haynes' attitude Chris- tie said: "I will make a first- class grafter of you yet. The whole art, depends on knowing where to stop."
In the afternoon, Haynes re- ceived a chit from Christie asking about Yeung. Haynes told the police and asked for instructions, following which Christie's
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Enever to do other people out of their money?-I don't know what
He was of the opinion that according to the strict rules of procedure, Litvinoff was entirely posils. His whole proposal was quite irrelevant to the proceedings. The general view of the Soviet His Worship: That is, conspir-scheme, with which he entirely agreed, was that it ought to be acy to defraud.
Witness: I was defrauded. postponed until the matter of dis- Mr. LeiskThe charge was armament had progressed much conspiracy to defraud, was it not? | further.
Witness:-Yes.
you mean,
mittee and League circles at the There is general relief in com- satisfactory issue of the first day's
deliberations.
Mr. Leask: Mr. Haynes, I wish you would be more careful. I put he went to to you that you were convicted for address, and had conspiracy with Enever to defraud
The second rending of the draft "straightforward chat with many other people in connexion him. Witness told Christie
with Ho-culled China Gold-Mining disarmament convention, at-which that Au was very anxious to do Company, was it not?
the Russian plan has been act business, but that he was no fool.
Witness:The Lord Chief down for discussion, will probably Justice, in an uppeal lodged by be taken in January. The present me, did not uphold the appeal.session of the committee will prob lie said he had no power to up ably conclude at the week-end.- set the lower Court's decision. Reuter. The decision was wrong.
He told Christic that Au pointed out that "even a prince would not require $1,000 for a week's trip to Shanghal. Witness suid that Au was willing to pay $300 for Bluhm's expenses and considered amount ample: "If you will necept $300, he will come here to-morrow and hand you the cash." concluded Haynes in that interview.
that
The reply which Christie is aller ed to have made to that was: "Bring him right along and if he has another $100 in his waistcoat pocket, trust Jimmy to get it out
of him."
mind
His Worship: Never about your opinion. Were you convicted?--I was, but as a result of the appeal, I only served seven- teen days from the date of appeal.
DUEL GOING FROM AUSTRIA.
victed all the same?-The Lord Mr. Lensk:-But you were con- Chief Justice said that it was never HUNDRED SLANDER SUITS a
gested that Haynes was at any time receiving any of the money.
In Shanghai Journalism.
*
The whole of this interview, wit- ness transferred to the police.
Mr. Leask-You told us that To full Christie into a sense of for three years you were engaged security; witness said that he hand-in journalism in Shanghai, Would ed to him a written note to the 1926 be one of these?--I was on the effect that "the Chinese had only staff of the Shanghai Mercury. $300 on him and it would be no use asking for more."
I had a row with Mr. Davies of the Why did you leave that paper?—
Mercury.
DAY.
Vienna, Oct. 19. The courts appear to have driven duelling from fashion in Austria, according to statistics released by the Government. to- day.
Under an old law in this coun-
try, a person who is Inculted in
OC-
any manner may seek satisfaction At Christie's request, witness Let me bring you shortly to the in the courts, and now that the typed out a receipt for this money, point. You were accused of em- statue has been revived there are which Christie first drafted, and bezzlement and dismissed? But at least 100 applications à day then claborated the matter further there was no question of embezzle-under it. There have, on the by asking that a proper receipt ment. I was dismissed in the very other hand, been virtually no stamp should be affixed. Christie heat of the argument, I was dis- duels in Vienna, while before the was going to send out Bluhm to missed because I held a record for war at least two or three fetch the stamp when witness, long service and preference was curred every week. Punishments realising that this might apoll, given to other white men. I wrote are indicted for everything, from the police trap, said that it was a leading article attacking, thea verbal duel to, a slap in the all right, the stamp could be fixed China Presa. I said I would sue on afterwards,
them for libel. I left the Mercury on February 28th at 10 o'clock, and was written to by Reuter's, and offered the post of night editor. I was even advised to take action. However, I got a better post within a few days...
Police Arrive.
face.
Yesterday, during the trial of one of these so-called "ehrenbelei- digung" cases, the judge remark- ed in jest to the defendant, who was found guilty: "In Austria you are punished for an insult, but if you murder someone you will go free."
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As Christie received the three marked notes, a car drew up out side the house and there came a knock at the door. The police party then entered. Chief Detective In any case, you were not sue- Inspector Reynolds came in follow-cessful? did not take action, if cd by Mr. Perdue, A. S. P. and that is what you mean. other police officers.
When and how did you first Reverting to the interview, wit-meet the prisoner, Christle? HOW MUCH DO'YOU KNOW? ness said he was not positive' whe. Through a man named Knight. ther the word "morphia"
was Knight came to mc and actually used by Christie. Christie said "the notorious Colonel had always insisted that, when re- Christie would like to meet ferring to the drug, they were to you as he knows friends of use the terms "white paint" or yours in England." This was in "white cargo."
June, 1926. I met Knight-the next The order given by the Chinese day and we went to see Christie was for a tentative amount of ten in his room at the Carlton Hotel kilograms, dates of arrival and de-jat Shanghai. livery to be communicated through Haynea.
HAYNES CROSS-EXAMINED.
Enever Case Recalled.
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:
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1. Lambeth Palace, London. 2. A mythical monster, balf man, half hores. 3, Bordeaux, 4 Tamb. Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, 6. (n) A middlecourse: (b) Too much of a good thing (terally "always partridge"} (c) Always the same (d) The latest tech Jonable fad. 6. "Every day. In every way, I'm gelding beiter and beltur." 7. A council
called in 1521 by the Emperor Charles V. to try Martin Luther for his heretical teachings. 8. (a) England: (b) Ireland; (c) Bratland;
Nathan to King David. 11. That the path of wvery planet about the sun is an ellipse. 12. Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex: the prevailing wirls are westerly, and aked their rain in the
I put it to you that it was at your awn request that Kaight took you round to see Christie? (4) Italy. 9. The Flying Dutchman. 10. I most emphatically deny that.
Sure of it?-Certainly I met Christie, who introduced himself
to me.
Mr., Garden Leask, for the de-
Did you see him again at a fence, then commenced his cross-house at No. 10 Park Lane. in examination of witness, which he Shanghal? Yes. Christie left the previously intimated would take Carlton Hotel to live there.. a long time,
I think you were a frequent Mr. Haynes, you describe your visitor to this address?It de self as a schoolmaster. What pends on how you faterpret "fre- qualifications have you for being one?-Brains, I suppose.
Is that the only qualification?
I have been in a University.
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On either the 8th or 10th of Jane, you visited Christie at his. house in Park Lane and poured" out to him your troubles, with the bank? I hadn't any troubles to
pour out.
Did you have cheque? Yes, one.
post-dated
Did you ask Christie for $150 to enable you to open a new aes count with the American Oriental Bank?No.
I put it to you that at this point
A Cheque Transaction. Continually
a visitor?-Cer- tainly. I went there four or five times, probably for the purpose for being a schoolmaster?-Tench of settling a cheque transaction. ing experience and a recommenda: Christie went to my compradore's tion by the local Board of shop, posed as my friend, and ask- Examiners,
ed my compradore to cash for him when defendant refused to lend Then you have some qualificaa cheque for $30, which was dis-you the money you said, "Jim, I tion for the post?Yes, the recom-honoured.. mendation from the Board of I put it to you that you want Park Lane to borrow money Is it a fact that you failed in from the person of Christia? your Matriculation Examination? Certainly not. Not only he bor
Yea.
rowed ten, fifteen dollars from What else have you dono in your me, but he also absolutely ruined life except as a schoolmaster?-my credit with my compradore by I have gone into journalism for means of the dishonoured cheque, three years at Shanghai. I was Did you go to take a house at at Oxford and I ran away at the Avenue Haigh in Shanghai? Did age of 16 into the Army and you not ask Christie to go there served during the war.
to live with you? No. He said 'Have you done any company he would like to live with me if promoting ?-No.
that was possible. I offered to live with him? Certainly not.
Ever known 趱 man named Enever?-Yea, to my sorrow.
In what connexion 7-In Hong- kong in 1921, I met him. It was this man who persuaded my father to invest $2,000 in a Company of which I was appofuted Secretary."
The name of the Company? -The Anglo-China Trust and
Was it ever registered?-Cer tainly,
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A Day in June,
Do you remember the 9th or 10th June, 19267-I remember the 8th. It was my birthday.
-Your bankers were the P. and O. Bank-Yes.
Were you involved with them about that date 7-Definitely, no.. Not over an overdraft?-No.
thought you were a friend, I shall never forgive you for this." At this interview, did not Christie tell you he was going to Siam?—No.
Was Christie's departure for Siam mentioned?-I don't think so, but he disappeared from Shanghai entirely after this.. No- body knew where or when
Did you know he had a in mining concession Slam--Certainly not.
gold
meeting with Christie in Hongkong, Questioned with regard to his
witness said he first saw Christie' in the lounge, of the King Edward Hotel in company with-Mr. R. H. Charles and a lady. He could not (any which of them made the first overture at recognition, but he thought they both beckoned to each other at the same time.
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