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A SHOP RAIDED.
DARING ARMED ROBBERY N HUNGHOM.
TUESDAY,
DEFENCE IN YEO TRIAL
# (Continued from Page 2.) entirely for the purpose of demon- Chinoso etration.
Two Chinese, attired in black Jackets, walked into a sundry goods store and monoy It does, in fact, contain letters changer's shop at No 155, Wuhu what I would call of exceptionally Street, Hunghom, Inst night, short-neute angles f--I can assure you ly after ten o'clock, and at the that in the taking of that specimen the idea of those angles was never pistol's point held up the inmates.
The raid was carried out with in my mind. considerable case. While one of the mon held up three fokis, the other robber opened the drawer of the counter and secured all the money therein, totalling about $60,
The shop was divided into two sections, one occupied. by the sundry, goods store, and the other by a money-changer's shop. There was a big safe in the shop, shared by the store and the money changer, but on account of their hurry to make an oxit the robbers did not attempt to open the safe.
It struck me at the time a little peculiar that you did not take a cheque signaturo?
Witness replied that it occurred to bim that way also. He was taking many others in detail, time was a factor and he thought that the specimen showed the writing very well. It did not seem to him to vary from the others. Thoro was no intention of dodging the
heques.
Mr. Potter remarked that he had not made that suggestion and merely wanted to know the rea son.
"
Difference of Writing.
DECEMBER 4, 1928.
LETTER GOLF.
Down on the farm this time of the year, they're thinking about atarting to SMOKE MEATS. is a tricky process in letter golf, as well. Pur is geven.
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MEATS
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The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do it in par, a given number of atrokes. Thus to change COW to Hon in three strokes, COM, HOW HEW HEN.
2--You can change only one letter at time.
3-You must have a complete word, of common usage, for each
tlong don't count. jump. Slang words and abbrevia
4-The order of letters cannot be changed.
"One solution is printed on an other page.
The two men stayed in the shop only a few minutes. It is thought the robbers took to their becis in such a hurried manner because, although the district la fairly quiet Witness agreed that a person at night, thore were still some who wrote his signature very often pedestrians going from the Star formed a habit but to describe Forry to Kowloon City, passing the habit was very difficult he Wuhu Street.
said. He agreed that one form The victima say that the thieves of a habit was where one might start to wrile one's signature. ran in a westerly direction, head-He also agrood that Mr. Black had lag for the railway bridge in formed a habit in, this respect as Tsimshatsui. No
also had Mr. Messer. The latter's been effected.
habit was to get quite near the right hand side of the cheque, Witness said he had noticed that a person's signature, might differ
With regard to the alleged for- when writing on a cheque, a letter and entering account booke. The geries he agreed that the "2" of Black for all practical purposes Individual handwriting of an might vary considerably accord started in the same place on all did not attach much importance ing to the circumstances in which three cheques, but said that ho he wrote. Also a person's phyto.lt, saying that it might be sical and mental condition might found in other choques. have quite a serious effect.
have arrests
OPIUM SCANDAL.
A POLITICAL TURN.
Shanghai, Dec, 3.
hig
different signatures as it was outside lifs experience,
The Pasalbilities.
The dispute which originated in connexion with twenty thousand ounces of oplum shipped from Hankow on the China Merchants
If a man, accused of a serious
At Mr. Potter's request, witness 8.3. Kiangan te Shanghai, is assuming first class political im- erirac, after a lengthy cross-produced a cheque, but Mr. Potter portance, following the suspension examination during which certain pointed out that he had asked for such cheques eigned on the same of Tai Shek-fo, the Chief of Police suggestions with regard to of Greater Shanghat, by order of handwriting were made to him, day, Witness produced two such
cheques. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. It ap- is suddenly asked to sit down and
When Mr. Potter said that they pears that Tai Shek-fo was inform-write, may be the formation of his
did not, agreed with the letters ed at 1.20 on the morning of No. letters would vary?—Yes.
Witness further said he would on the alleged forgerica, wit vember 23 that twenty soldiers were landing a quantity of opium not consider that was a fair teatness said that they were not far on the Nantao bund, into a motor and he would not consider that to off it. He said he could not, at lorry and two motor-carn, alleged-be normal writing to make an in- the moment, produce a nearer aam-
ly is the property of the Garrison Commissioner, Hsiung Shih-huei.
Tai Shek-fo sent a party of police to investigate, and if necessary to aeize the opium, but the military arrested the police and carried off the opium to the native city. Incidentally, the military censor prohibited the vernacular papers from printing the news of this Incident.
vestigation on. The only sus-ple. piclon he had was that, which he had previously referred to. It had been very slight..
A Complete Tent, Mr. Patter then handed the three disputed cheques to witness and asked him if he did not think that the signatures were very regular In their form. Witness replied One outcome of the case has that he did not think so, been the detention of the steamer Professor Shellshear and he Kinngan on her arrival at Nanking was satisfied that the cheques yesterday morning, Captain Laken afforded a complete test for Steward, and the chief engineer,the handwriting, after which he Mr. Rosa, being went to the British was questioned as to the manner Consulate, while the Chinese crew in which the cheques were select- of twenty-three have been detained ed. by the Nanking District Court.
The suspension of Tai Shek-fo hus resulted in strong protests from the local, Kuomintang and uther organizations, who have wired to Chiang Kai-shek that his orders are open to crisletsm unless Hsiung Shi-huel be also suspended, pending an investigation of the
Mr. Potter-I put it to you that so far as October, November and December, are concerned, out of 2,824 cheques, there is not a single one in which you will find the position of the "B" the same 48 in the suspected cheques? Will you accept that from me?--Yes.
Before you could get a "B" starting in the same position you have to go back to June, 1927. You accept that?Yes.
You any it is fair to go back to June 1927, when you have almost 3,000 for the period of October,, November and December?--Yes.
It is a most remarkable thing that the only three cheques In question out of 3,000 are cheques with the bottom of the "B" in that position-Yes.
He was then handed documents relating to two of the banks at which the acensed was alleged to
Such result can only be produced have opened accounts, Those documents hore the names C. Yes by accident or design, that is to and Chan Man-wai. Mr, Pottery that Mr. Black had done it de- asked if witness would think that liberately, or the liypothesis of they were written by the same hand. Witness replied that if it whole affair.
was suggested to him they might The main Chinese interest, how-be, he would not deny it." ever, centres in the fact that It is Mr. Poller then put the ac reported Tai Shek-fo- neted under | cuned's alías names before witness the orders of Marshal Feng Yu- and questioned him with regard hsiang, while Helung Shi-huet to any differences. He would not is a protege of Chiang Kai-shek.-be prepared to say what prepara- Reuter.
tion a man would need to hnvr sch...
forgery. Can you put forward any other explanation 7-It seems to me that you have exhausted the possibilities.
No one has suggested on behalf of the accused that either Mr. Black or Mr. Messer ever did such thing. The only things left öre forgery or accident? Yes.
At this point the court adjourn-
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