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TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1931.
INTERESTING BANK- ACTION.
A SPECIAL KILLED,
COUNSEL'S ARGUMENT ON CREDITS.
A TRAGIC ENHOR IN SHANGHAL
That no
ort
Identification of a man shot A fine of $400 was imposed upon Mr. Jen Sih-val, manager of the
bank could recover down and killed by Shanghai Set-" motion picture company bearing sums of money credited and paid, tiement police in pursuit of robbers Thibet his name, and a fine of $300 im-
Nanking Ilond near posed upon a director of the cum-out to a customer on the mere rover-
sal of accounts, was emphatical Road as a special policoman pany, Mr. Chen Tauh-min, byly pleaded by Mr. Eldon Potter, created sensation in the Public Judge Chien Zung-chung the K.C., during yesterday's opening Mortuary. Shanghal District Court, Nantno. of the civil court action between Shon Chi-ting, who identified for producing a film allegedly slan- the Equitable Eastern Banking the dead as his son, Shen Yun- dering the stepmother and brother Corporation and Mr. Chon Po-sies, chich, 22, employed by Arnhold of the lending Indy of the pleture, regarding naettlement of ac and Co., and at the same time a Miss Wu Ah-yung.
counts dealing with the redemp- member of the Special Police, tion of securities by the latter. declared that lawyers had been en- The present action is an appeal, Enged to file suit against the being heard by the Chief Justice Police. (Sir Joseph Kemp), and Mr. Jug
an order tice Lindsell, against made in Chambera by the Acting, Chief Justice (Mr. Justlee J. B. Wood).
Action against the manager and director was taken by Mrs. Wu and hor aon. A third party, stated to in a photographer of the film com- pany, also was named but was Acquitted.
The case is an echo of the love affair of Miss Wu and her mute lover, Jimmy Lin (now her hus-
Verdict Against Police. When the inquest was ended Coroner Que returned the verdict:| The late Shen Yun-chieh died of bullet wounds inflicted by police, The appellant (defendant) was who mistook him as a robber dur- hand) in 1929, and which attracted the bank, represented by Mr. H. Ging a gun battle between policemen wide attention in Chinese circles. Sheldon, Instructed by Mr. En un batt
Davidson, of Mossra: Hastings, Alles Wu and Lin met in 1929. fell Demmys and Bowley, while the
was re-
F. C.
in love and eloped in the autumn of the same year. Lin was arrest-respondent (plaintiff)
together with Mr. ed by offlera of the Bureau of presented by Mr. Eldon Potter, Public Safety at the request of Jenkin, instructed by Mr. M. M. Mr. Wu. lie was tried, convicted Watson, of Messrs. Johnson, and sentenced to serve six months Stokes and Master, on a charge of seduction, but the sentence was suspended.
The bank
The deceased received 10 bullet: wounds to his body, and at the time of his death wore a gray hat and gray coat, which according to
plain-clothes policeman 184, re- presented exactly those worn by one of the robbers.
Running Fight.
The gun battle took place at 10.- 40 o'clock Wednesday night in the wake of a slice store robbery at 1980 Sinza Rond. Plain-clothes policeman 184 followed the robber to Thibet Road, where the shooting affray started as the gang cut short the police activities.
The deceased was the second son of the Shen family, native of Nan- ziang and was single.
SIR WM. HORNELL.
PRESENTED WITH LETTERS PATENT.
Judge Not Wrong. Arguing on behalf at respon- Mrs. Wu received another blow when the couple married, after dent, Mr. Potter submitted that sentence had been pronounced. their Lordships would not be ablo Chinese social circles were as-to say that Mr. Justice Wool wan founded and outraged but the tin wrong in halding that neled spangled professional world should start the proceedings aus. whether it was a matter of law or of make-believe appinusled,
The gun battle soon reached: After their marriage it becurred fact, the onus was on the bank to establish the position which they to the young couple that in order
in order to were seeking to establish in their Nunking Rond and then toward the
out
east near the corner of Lloyd Rond. to live they must eat.
afidavit. Counsel pointed
res the robbers took to their heels, The that respondeat, wishing to eat they must earn money.
the ring as they ran. At this point | set out to earn money, both join deem his accurities. asked
was returning home ing the St-Vai Motion Pictu bank for an account and worked Shen, whe Company. Success came to them out the amoual himself at $130,- from the Louza Station after night. a special policeman, was They were made leading, players in
000 odd. When the, bank's ae-duty ns a film called "Mute Lovers." The count showed he owell $500,900 maile the target of the police originating bullets. He was killed almost in- picture depicted the home life of odd, he took out n Ms W and set forth that she summons and asked for a settle stantly. had been ill-treated by her step-ment of accounts.
Referring to mother.
The fact that The picture, it is reported, is amounts were eredited to respon hased on the netual life and ex-dent, when no cash had been paid perlences of Miss Wu and her to support them, counsel said that young husband. Mrs. Wu saw the once the money had been drawn picture and was not at all pleased. out the onus was on the bank, and She and her son filed private always remained on the bank, to criminal action against officials of set up some cane, sucti as a mis the concers and appiled for an take or whatever it might be, to
At u meeting of the Court of the injunction to prevent the screen-show they had the right to get
It was not t University yesterday afternoon His ing of the picture. Following the that money back. judgment notice of appeal was question of respondent proving Excellency the Governor presented the Vice-Chancellor, Sir William led. Both men were released on payments in and so forth.
Patent total- Hornell, with the Lotters There were five entries bail.
ling $356,000 credited to respon-conferring upon him the title and dent's account, leaving a balance dignity of a Knight Bachelor. due by respondent of $139,236, which he claimed to be A true balance.
Mr. Potter added he would show entrion must that those credit stand and could not be altered by the manager (Mr. D. M. Biggar) We regret to announce the death merely making a reversal in the surn of of Mr. W. W. Fox who passed awaybank's own books. The yesterday morning, after a long $139,000 odd had been tendered, illness, in his residence, No. 6, Ying and it was up to the bank to show Pal Terrice, Calne Roud.
that the other credit entries could The late Mr. Fox wan 54 years of be got rid of. They were stated age and was educated at the Dioce- to be due to extensive frauds.com- sau Boys' School. After serving nmitted by a former compradore, few years in Messrs. Jardine, but the oons was on the bank to Matheson & Co., Ltd. he took up the get rid of those items. profession of a school master. to
Cause Not Stated. which he devoted practically the whole of his working life. A few There was no error in law. What years ago, he was appointed Aasis-the bank had done, it intended to lant Master of King's College and do, and it was nothing to do with this position he held at the time of them. Mr. Sheldon had not yet on which death. He is survived by his formulated the ground wife and seven children including the bank was entitled to recover Miss K. Fox, who is also on the the five lakhs. They had merely staff of King's College, Mr. W. A. said that an entry was wrongly Fox, Secretary to the. Hongkongmade in the first instance. They and Kowloon Cinema Co., Ltil, and had not yet been told of the cause Mr. i. L. Fox, assistant manager of of the action. Messrs. II. Skott & Co, and to them much sincere sympathy is extended, The genial disposition and kind liness of nature of the deceased earned for him a large circle of friends.
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF MR. W. W. FOX YESTERDAY,
The funeral has been arranged to take place this afternoon in the Protestant Cemetery: the cortege passes the Monument at 6 p.m.
Paris, Apr. 27. Prince Chandabari, former Siamese Minister of Finance, and A brother of the King of Sinm, has died here.--Haras.
of
to the present not been told what form of action was being taken.
The position was that the Bank had not only credited Mr. Chen with sums of money but had it- in faith of these self acted credits, and had not only cashed overdraft the cheques,, but the had been regulated by the credita items and interest charged him in dobit.
The reversal of accounts was of no use, for it effected no legal lability. The position was that it was open to the Bank to prove the facts alleged in Court, and, if¦ the facta constituted an offence (which his client denied), the ande. necessary claim could be and the Bank was entitled to take relief accordingly.
Banker's Position, Once bankers had credited one with sums of money in the books,
sums had and once those
been paid out, that masey could not he recovered by a simple altoration In the books. That money could only be recovered by establishing an appropriate cause of action against the person.
The accounts submitted to the Court were but a copy the Bank's books. It showed that $356,000 had been credited to Mr. What Mr. Biggar should have Choa, and $350,000 had been said was "I have credited items debited in drawings. Mr. Potter to you, which you have drawn, bul submitted that could not be reco-]I find that those entries were vored by a mere reversal of entry. wrongly credited." That was Mr. The bank admitted the crediting Biggar's position. No matter of re and drawings-out. How were versing accounts would do. There they going to get the money back? was only one way they could te Not by any reversal of necounts. reversed in law, and that was by Their only way was in the deci-the costomer agreeing to the re sion of the trial Judge that the versal. and admitting there had money was due to them on any been a wrong entry.
to count which they were able
The proceedings were adjoin- establish. Yet the Court had, up ed.
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