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The case ngainst Mr. N. 1. Brewer, barrister-at-law, who la charged with a number of offences | under the Perjury and Larceny Ordinances in connexion with the affairs of the Instone Banking Corporation, of which he was President, came up for the second time before Mr. AW, G. H. Gran- tham at the Central, Magistracy yesterday afternoon.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1929.
AMAZING THEFT.
INGENIOUS THIEVES AT WORK.
Behind a police report yesterday briefly stating that goods to the value of $600 were stolen on Mon day evening from the Wing Nam jewellery shop at 66, Queen's Road Central, les an amazing story of a clever ingenuity displayed by gang of thieves, who up to now, have successfully eluded capture.
The Wing Nam jewellery store la similar to other shops of its hind. For the Crown, the Public Pro-The front carries a display of secutor Mr. Somerset Fitzroy) choice jadestone and other jewel- put in certain revised figures and ery arranged in tiro shop windows additional particulars amending
on either sido of the entrance. Situa- two of the three charges, which Street, on the north alde, it is in ted at the intersection of Pottinger now rend as follow:
a busy quarter, which at the time (a) For that you, Noel In-when the crime is supposed to have stone Brewer, on the 16th day of been carried out, somewhere be August, 1927, in a statutory re-tween 7 and. 8.45 in the evening, port made anul fled by you on the was still thronged with pedestrians. sal date (which report you were authorised to make by the provi"the fokis were moving about on the The shop was open to business, slons of the Companies Ordinance premises, when it was discovered of 1911), and on behalf of the that no fewer than thirteen dif Instone Banking Corporation, Ltd., ferent articles of jewellery did knowingly and wilfully make vanished from one of the street (otherwise than on oath) a state- showcases without the glass being ment false in a material partica-| so much us scratched or any parti lay, to wit, that the total amount] tion opened. The shop and street of the cash received by the said | outside were brightly lit, and yet Instone Banking Corporation, nobody appears to have witnessed Ltd. in respect of Shares issued anything unusual which may have wholly for cash, was $876,750; been cannected with the disappear- this being contrary to section 7 of the Perjury Ordinaneg, No: 21 of 1922.
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b) For that you. Nou alone Brewer, on the 9th hy or July, 1928, in a balance sheet dated the 6th day of August, 1928. for the period ending the 30th day of April, 1928, filed by you on be half of the Instone Banking Cor- poration, Ltd. (which balance sheet you were authorised to make and file by the Companies Ordin ance of 1911), did knowingly and wilfully make a false statement (otherwise than, on oath) in tl material particular: to wit, that the assets of the said Company consisted of accounts receivable by the said Company which amounted to the sum of $221, 360.87; of collatoral and security loans which amounted to $349,633 of mortgage and long-term loans which amounted to $266,630 stocks, snares and investments which amounted to $484,831.80; and ufcalled capital- which amounted to $1,420,950; contrary to Section 7 of the Perjury Or dinance, No. 21. of, 1922.
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A CLD. Inspector arriving post- huste from Police Headquarters shortly after the discovery of the loss of the jewellery at 8.45 p.m.. was puzzled for a short time, and then he made a happy solution of the mystery.
Wire Through Aperture." Examining the window, he found two tiny apertures in the lower frame flush with the floor of the show case, which when not hooked P with clamps securing the shut- ters at night, presented two square open slits through which there is a free passage for any small instru- ment that may be inserted.
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SCHEME FOR LONDON SET ON FOOT ALREADY,
London, Nov, 20. Steps toward the establishment!
The Inspector's theory is that the thief, working most likely with ments by surrounding him on all accomplices who shielded his move- sides, had inserted a wire, hooked at one end, to rake all the small pieces of jewellery, within range through the apertures. This could be done in a leisurely manner and without the people in the shop or in the street seeing what was going on. The casual. and unsuspecting observir, would only have perceived (c) For that you. Noel (n- a group of individuals making an stone Brewer, being a director of examination of the contents of the the Instone Banking Corporation, showcase, and probably, carrying Ltd., published or concurred in on an animated discussion as to making, circalating or publishing their qualities or prices. a wrong statement, to wit, a bal ance sheet of the said Company. dated the 6th day of June, 1928,
After carrying out the job, the
probably, departed for the period ending the 30th thieves day of April, 1928, filed by you The people in the shop were not casually as they had gone there. on the 9th day of July, 1928 with aware that they had been victimized
SECOND READING PASSED. the Registrar of Companies on be- until, at closing time, a foki missed
IN COMMONS. half of the said Instone Banking the jewellery and reported the dis Corporation, Ltd., which you knew covery to the Manager, who in
Tokyo, Nov, 26.
London, Nov: 26. to be false in a material parli-turn, informed the Police.
The allegations connecting Mr.
The second reading of, the Un cular, to wit, that the assets of
The Police Officer assigned to the Wakatsuki's name with the rail- of a National Theatre in London employment Insurance Bill, the the said Company consisted of a case, in discussing the main way scandal, which resulted in a were taken yesterday at a confermain provision of which increases counts receivable amounting to features of the robbery with movement to compel his resigna ener, over which Sir Johnston the rates of benefit payable to un- $221,380.87; of collatoral securi-a Press representative yesterday, tion as chief naval conference de- Forbes Robertson. the well-known employed insured young persons, ties and loans amounting to $349,- spoke of the ingenuity of the legate, are definitely refuted.
was carried, in the House of Com- 030; of mortgage and long-term thieves as lying entirely in the utter
The scheme will be placed mens last night by 299 votes to loans amounting to $266,630; and simplicity of the idea they adopted Procurator General has proved, before the Prime Minist, 213. of stocks, shares and other invest- and which hitherto had escaped the that Mr. Wakatsuki is innocent. who tras promised to con- The Liberals voted with the ments amounting to $184,831.80; attention of shop people, careful as according to a statement issued xider the possibility of State Government. They had stated and of uncalled capital amount the latter always had been to guard this evening by the Minister of ready in hand £90,000 which have take this course, but would op.
sunnort. The promoters have al- during the debate that they would. ing to $1,420,250; and that the against such daring robberies. Justice. liabilities of the said Inatone
been voluntarily subscribed.pose certain features of the mes In view of the fact that many Mr. Naotake Sato, Chlef Secre: British Wireless, Banking Corporation consisted of hundreds of native shops in thotary of the London delegation; haij
sure in its committee stage. Capital Lasued and subscribed Colony have shutter devices similar left for Europe vin Siberis, and it
This is the largest division taken amounting to $2,613,260 and of to the Wing Nam (who since the is expected he will confer with Ma certain amount of discretionary Conservatives
In the present Parliament: 25 customers deposits amounting to robbery have taken ample precau-Briand on naval limitation, espe- latitude.
were paired with $466,100.25 with intent to de-tions against a repetition) it is de- cially submarines,
absent Government supporters, ou which the ceive shareholders of the said sirable that the fullest publicity Japanese and French views are alleged details. most of which Conservatives in the House of The vernacular papers publish and of the remaining eighteen Corporation and to induce persons should be given to this case ns known to coincide.
Reuter's correspondent has reason Commons several are abroad or ab- to become shareholders, or to en- warning.
The Cabinet's instructions on to believe represent the Govern sent owing to liness.-British trust or to advance money to the Up to a late hour last night, no Japan's policy at the naval con-ment's wishes fairly accurately, the Wireless, said Corporation; contrary to see arrests had been made in connexionference, for the guidance of the main principles being an actual tion 21 of the Larceny Ordinance with the affair. ..
delegates, have received the Em reduction and not mere limitation, limitation; seventy per cent of the No. 5 of 1865.
peror's sanction, and this after a seventy per cent ratio for aux American strength in eight-inch Mr. Fitzroy mentioned that Mr.
roon were delivered to Mr. Wakat-laries, and opposition to the aboli-gun eruisers; limitation of capital E. Davidson, of Messrs. Hastings, and Lo, intimated that he was suki, and also cabled to Ambassador tion or drastic reduction of sub-ahips to twenty-five thousand tons Dennys and Bowles, was appear-watching the case in the interests Matsudaira for his guidance in marines.
discussions
and fourteen-inch guné, and air- ing for Mr. Brewer, and the ques-of Mr. Lee Tung, the auditor em-further preliminary
Other desiderats noted include craft carriers to twenty thousand tion of another remand, a formal ployed by the Instone Banking with Mr. Ramsay MacDonald,
submarine parity with Britain and tons; the age limit of a capital one, was raised by the fact that Corporation.
Though the nature of the in-America of eighty thousand tous ship to be twenty-ve years, of Mr. Davidson would require time! The enge was then formally re-structions is not divulged, it is with a maximum-unit of two thou-cruisers twenty, destroyers sixteen, to go into the books and accounts.manded until Monday morning, stunderstood they cover all possible sand tons, while vessels under six and submarines thirteen years.----
Mr. Horace Lo, of Messre. Le 10 o'clock, defendant being on bull. phases of the situation, but leave hundred tons are exempted from Reuter.
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