· PRACTISED. FRAUD TOO OFTEN.
BOGUS ORDERS ON BEHALF OF
CHINESE FIRM.
TRICKSTER CAUGHT.
How a man was able to per- patrate a series of frauds by the exercise of ingenuity of an excep tional kind was told to Mr. Lind sell, at the Central Magistracy this morning, by Detective Sergeant J. Murphy, who said that the man met his downfall by practising the trick once too often.
Recently, it was stated, there called at the Po Cheung Tai, dealers in earthenware, at No. 208, Wing Lok Street, a man named Lung Hung, who said that he had come to give an order for goods on behalf of the Lun Chung Tei, well- known to the former firm as be- ing one of their regular customers, Lung Hong was asked by the shop people for the order book from the Lun Chung Tol, which usually accompanied such orders, and he went away... promising to return Inter with it.
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UNIQUE COMPANY LAW CASE.
(Continued from Page 1). dissolved the Russian companies in law but had stripped them of their assets and their good-will and confiscated their shares..
Counsel went on to say he would submit that the Russo-Asiatic Bank was not destroyed in law for the technical reason that there was no winding-up in the Soviet Courts, but while they admitted it was alive they would say if it was alive at all it was kept alive by what might be fairly described as "artificial respiration" and although technically alive it did not actually carry on business in Russia at all but did so elsewhere.
Directors Flec.
In December, 1917, Mr. Potter went on, as the result of those decrees, the banks in Russia became a stato monopoly, Some were sequestered and attached, some were actually liquidated and some were incorporated in what was called a State Bank,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 28, 1930,
OPIUM FINE OF `$15,000.
MAN WITH SACK FULL ON STEAMER.
COOLIE MURDERS FOREIGNER.
(Continued, from "Page 1.)",
[denied all, knowledge of the crime. Taken to Hongkew Police Station, he persisted in bis denial until Det ESCAPE ATTEMPTED. despite the fact that he was wear- Sub-Insptr. T. Hill notice that ing clean slippers he had blood stains on the soles of his feet,
1′′
Revenue Officer charged a Chinese before Mr. Lind- Grimmitt sell at the Central Magistracy this morning with having in his possession 570 taels of raw opium
rope..
The Magistrate: Just as could be used for dumping overboard?
Witness: Yes.
Confession Made.
committed the murder and made the He then acknowledged having
following confession:
2,000 CASES OF OPIUM.
DRUG LANDED ON YANGTSZE
ISLAND.
A MYSTERY SHIP.
Shanghal, July 29. Carrying 250,000 t. of oplum contained in 2,000 cases, a steamer which attracted the attention of the
League of Nations in producing
from a "port in a certain country," identified as Bushire, Peraia, is reported to have landed its shipment among the islands off the mouth of the Yangisze river.
After following a devious course on her way to China, the steamer is understood to have made for one of the islands at the mouth of the Yangtaze, not far from Shanghai,. and transferred the opium to the custody of a party of Chinese, some of whom wore military uniforms. A large payment of cash was band-
that about 9.15 last night he was A Chinese revenue officer stated on patrol duty on board the s.s "I had watched the foreigner to Kong Su lying at the Tai Hing see where be kept his money and wharf. He saw defendant emerge other property," he said, "and found from the galley-way carrying a out that he always put his money sack which was tied with a lous in a black box beside his bed. I decided to kill him when I saw that in addition to his other belongings he had bought a diamond ring, which he wore on the little finger Witness, continuing, said that of his right hand. I had told the the defendant was alone and seem-cock of my intention. I waited ed to be in a hurry. Witness until the foreigner came home last flashed his electric torch on de- night and was asleep. When I hearded over in exchange. fendant and shouted to him to him anoring I entered his bedroom This amazing episode follows stop, and the man thereupon from the kitchen where I slept mention of the departure of the dropped the sack and turned to taking a meat chopper with me. I vessel as long ago as May. In a Under those circumstances, cor- bolt. tain of the Directors of the Russo- and asked him what was in the bed and tried to cut his throat with the League Council and the drug Witness grabbed at him, stood on the left hand side of his message from Geneva relating to Asiatic Bank fled from Russia, sack Defendant said he did not the chopper. He moved, and I hit him traffic in The Times of May, 15, reached Paris, and there resumed know, as a friend had given it to on the left arm instead of in the there appeared the following pas control of the bank's branches him to carry. outside
On being asked throat When he started to shout sage: Russia. From evidence it clearly appeared that said he did not know.
the where his friend was, defendant 1 hit him again on the body and "Mr. Authur Henderson said that
ran away. The cook who had the British Government was con the bank" continued to function
Defendant said that he had followed me into the room armed tinously receiving Information outside Russia until September, 1926, when the branches outside nothing to do with the opium. A with an axe got afraid and ran showing how widespread and how Russia went into liquidation all and had run
man had dumped it down near him away. I hid in the lavatory dangerous the illicit traffle was, over the world. It would appear, arrested at that moment.
He was downstairs until the Chinese con- That morning he had received stables found me. That is the from. London'a letter in which said Mr. Potter, that instructions for liquidation came from the witness): Did you see another I intended to kill him and then cently left a "port in a certain The Magistrate (to the first chopper with which I struck him. it was stated that a ship had re-
man by the defendant?--No. The same process was repeated In Hongkong the position, was, A fine of $15,000 or in default run away. I knew that I could see producing country," it may
part ja well enough to kill him, because mentioned that the on subsequent dates, but always that a winding-up petition was 12 months imprisonment wig
COD- preceded by a confirmatory mess-filed, the branch was wound up imposed.
the lights from the street shone Bushire,-with 2,000 cases
was alone, and taining the appalling quantity" with assets to the extent of about Another Chinese was charged on his bed. He $300,000 which were in the hands by the same officer with having in I thought it would be easy to kill of 250,000 lb. of opiuma, all for the
Illicit traffic". of the liquidators who were wait-his possession 55 taels of pre- ing to dispose of the money. pared opium, and on pleading
A few minutes later, the shop received a call over the telephone, which purported to emanate from the Lun Chung Toi, confirming the order and saying that they would be sending a foki along.
Lung Hung then reappeared at the shop, and this time there was no further delay. The shop peo ple naturally concluded that he came from the Lun Chung Toi and delivered the goods to him.
age over the telephone.
Ther there came a time when Lung Hung's greed got the better of his caution. He practised the trick once too often. One day he called with an order for 40 rice bowls, in the afternoon of the same day he again asked for an- other 40 bowls. The shop people marvelled how business in these slack times .could have picked up so easily. Their suspicions were aroused and they made investiga- tions without his knowledge.
The next time Lung Hung called at the shop he found himself ar- rested.
Pleading guilty, he was sentenc- ed by Mr. Lindsell this morning to three months' hard labour.
SOLDIERS STEAL WATCHES.
TWO ARGYLL MEN GET
Paris Office..
Head Office Location.
Mr. Potter went on to explain that before Sir Henry Gollan, Mr. Jenkin contended that although Hongkong was a mere branch of the Bank, London creditors or any creditors from any part of the world could prove in Hongkong, The other side argued that the bank had been dissolved by what took place in Russia in December,
away.
guilty to the charge was fined $5,000 or six months imprison- ment..
RUSSIAN CAPTAIN DESERTS SHIP.
DISGUSTED WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS.
the
him."
Cook Arrested.
be
Inquiries establish the fact that the vessel which left the Persian Gulf in May was in due course seen. Following on this confession, a off Saigon, and it is believed to have search was made for the cook. It communicated with the shore and was learnt that he was in the received instrutions as to the dis- habit of returning to his home in posal of her cargo. The same vessel Chapei each evening about 7.30, subsequently touched at Keelung returning to prepare Mr. Goddard's and Tsingtao and eventually reach- breakfast at 6 am. A number of ed Shanghai with, of course, detectives were left outside the trace of any illicit goods on board. thouse to await his return. Pune- Nevertheless, there is reason to tually at 6 am, he tried to enter believe that at one stage of her through the back door. He was voyage, this vessel, which seen by Miss Aaron Fein, who told queraded under different names, rË-
no
mas-
1917, and had formed itself into Bolshevist ranks has to be chroni-him to walt while: she opened the ached one of the islands off the
various independent groups, Hong- kong being in what was called the Far Eastern group which had Shanghai as its head office.
They relied on the rule of law that liquidation of a branch of a foreign company in England and under English law was merely auxiliary to the main head office liquidation and any assets would be remitted to the head office for dis- tribution among creditors all over the world. They then believed that Two Argyll and Sutherland Shanghai was the head office and Highlanders appeared before Mr. that therefore the surplus should Butters, at the Central Magistracy be sent to Shanghai where credi: this morning, on a charge of hay-tors could prove.
FOUR MONTHS.
cases
of
A fresh defection from
cled.
transferred the 2,000 Captain N. V. Solomke, a well-door. While the cook was wait-mouth of the Yangtze and then chant Service, and considered its Hongkow Police Station, which large sum of money was received in leading captain, arrived with his sent a number of detectives, who exchange. ship Leningrad at
arrested him on the second floor, Alexandria. The captain, alleging that he was where he had gone from the back ill, was put on shore and removed door.
known figure in the Soviet Mer- ing, Misa Firman telephoned opium to a party of Chinese, and a
-
It is hardly necessary to add that there is little or no mystery about the opium traffic between the Per to hospital after first taking the He professed ignorance of the sian Gulf and the Far East.. It is precaution to hand over formally murder and demanded to know a well-established business by which to his second in command and to what had happened to his master large quantities of the drug are obtain a receipt for the ship's and why the staircase and the shipped usualy to Vladivostok but i cash.
walls were bloodstained. Taken never reach that or any other dis- letter to the Russian Press outside denied all connexion with the is surreptitiously effected at any of to the Station, he vehemently closed destination. Transhipment the jurisdiction of the Kremlin crime and accused the coolie of coast of Chine, and the prohibited the numerous islands that fringe the containing the following remarks: having lied in an effort to in- opium under Chinese guards is "I break off for ever from the criminate him. Soviet service, for the reason that
speedily delivered on the mainland.
Captain Solomko then wrote
.
ing stolen six rolled gold watches Mr. Jenkin said he agreed that from a jeweller's shop in Queen's] in liquidation assets would go to Road Central, on Saturday night. the head office.
Taken before Judge Kuh in the the Soviet Government, under the The two men entered the shop just before closing time, and ask-Jenkin for his admission, stated sants' Dictatorship, is a regime coolie were charged with the pre-bailiff, and his wife, of Stone Acre Mr. Potter, after thanking Mr. name of the 'Workman and Pea-Special District Court later in the morning, both the cook and the ed to be shown some watches. A that Sir Henry
Mr. Walter Humphrey, a farm Gollan found of robbery and systematic oppres- whole tray of rolled gold watches against him (Mr. Potter) was placed on the counter before matter of law that the
as a sion of the Russian people, the meditated murder of Mr. Goddard. Cottages, Stone Court, Farma, them, when they suddenly grabbed had not been dissolved and
company like of which the history of the The coolle adhered to the con- Otham, near Maidstone, Kent,
that world has never known.
fession he had made to the police and were both found dead at their siz and bolted. One of them was position was now accepted. The "Conscious of the impossibility embellished it with such details home. Humphrey rushed into 3 caught by a Chinese district bank was in liquidation and in or of living and working under such as, "I think the cook lost courage neighbour's house and said his wife watchman, and the other by an der to apply the rule of law they conditions I have been compelled when I decided to kill the was dying. The neighbour found Indian constable. They offered had to discover where the head to abandon my work and to give foreigner and ran away." "I had the woman dead in a bedroom. no resistance..
Hugh Munro (23), and Alexan- the assets ought to go to Paris help of humanity in some place with the cook many times," and glass of water, and on his return If it was Paris then my remaining strength for the discussed killing the foreigner Humphrey asked him to go for, a der Paddam, (24), by name, they where English creditors would no both pleaded guilty to the charge doubt apply to the Paris
where it is possible to live freely. "He owed me for weeks he found that Humphrey had this morning.
Courts to think freely, and not to feel work." The cook still denied that collapsed. He died shortly after- and obtain judgment. submit that when the facts
He would the moral and physical yoke of the he had had anything to do with wards. A bottle containing a been heard they' would find a prac-
had Bolshevist tyranny."
(Continued on Next Column). fluid which was found in the house tically unanswerable
has been sent to the county Case that Paris was the head office and not
analyst. Shanghai.
The Magistrate said he under- stood the men had committed the offence with a view to getting out of the Army, but he had been in- formed that that would not hap- p.
He sentenced them to four months hard labour each.
TYPISTS CLUB IN WEST END.
WHEN 300,000 WANT TO SMARTEN UP.
Girl typists of the City of Lon- don now have their own club.
office was.
Entirely New Case, :
Mr. Alabaster objected at this stage, saying Mr. Potter had not said a word about representing Paris creditors and should not be allowed to take that line."
Mr. Jenkin also objected, say- ing that Mr. Potter was putting up an entirely new and different case than previously. He would submit that their Lordships must refuse an adjournment upon a new and entirely inconsistent ground to; And it is in, the West-end,The plen that Paris was the head that put up before the Trial Judge. close to Piccadilly.
Established by the Federation office was so dilatory and late that of British Typists, it is one of their Lordships could not enter- the largest office girls clube intain it.
existence. In the City alone there
of
Sir Peter Grain pointed out to are 800,000 typists, the majority Mr. Potter that in his notice of them young girls who live in appeal he had said in effect that the euburbs, and the idea to pro- the money should go to Shanghai. vide them with premises where they might change after business, rost or read, or meet their friends,
was born.
So, the federation, which' num- bors among its patrons the Arch bishop of York, Lord Brentford, Viscountess Erleigh, has and opened the club. at, 11, Regent street. It has reading and, writ ing rooms, and refreshments are served at all times babwen 9 am and 8.30 p.m.
In reply, Mr. Potter said they were appealing against the whole judgment and there was nothing in the point as to whether the money should go to Shanghai or but it did not necessarily mean not. He had to state some place that their Lordships would order the money to be sent to Shanghai just because that name was on the notice of appeal, if they found, in fact, that the money should go to' Paris or anywhere else.
Further argument ensued and
Thers, are cubicles where girls,their Lordships decided to hear the who have just left the office, may remainder of Mr. Potter's argu change their clothes, and "smartenment before listening to Mr. Jenkin up” to go to the theatre. -
The subscription for 12 months and Mr. Alabaster.
is one guinea;
The case is proceeding.
11334 MASLENCEť vnt.
two
"No use, see how my game has fallen off because of the time we spent driving up from Florida?"
+
the murder. Judge Kuh remand- ed both indefinitely in custody.
Inquest Held..
Earlier in the day, Mr. C. G.,0. Anderson, Registrar of H. M. Supreme Court, sitting as Coroner, had viewed the body of Mr. Goddard at the General Hospital and taken the evidence of identi fication given by Mr. A. G. Borras, Mr. Borrás said that he had known Mr. Goddard for the past 16 years. Mr. Anderson then adjourned the inquest until July 26 at 10 a.m.
The late Mr. Goddard was one
of four members of the crew of H.M.S.. Cadmus who left the Navy together and took up posts in Shanghai, the other being Messrs. Hermitage and Laval, who joined. the Police, and Kennedy, who joined the Customs with Mr. Goddard.
Mr. Goddard joined the Cus. toms, in November 1905, as a gunner on one of the revenue cruisers, and later on transferred to the shore staff, serving in many ports in China. In March, 1927, he was appointed to the rank of Examiner "A", and on the re- organisation in June of this year he was made a Senior Chief Examiner · “B”, - the substantive rank he held at the time of bis death, altogether he was Acting Inspector of Examinera.
He is survived by his wife, a Cantonese lady, who is at present in Hongkong and in poor health.
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