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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1932.
SILK MERCHANTS NERVE TEST FOR FORTUNE TELLER
AT LAW.
INDIAN CASE RESUMED THIS MORNING.
ARGUMENT FIRST.
CAMPBELL.
150 MILES. PH. THROUGH PIER PILLARS.
CONVICTED.
"PLANTING THE SILVER TREE."
WOMAN DUPED.
"
After being adjourned--last!
A "planting the silver tree" Thursday, the action between In-
(Rautar's Special Service):
Jense came to a conclusion at the dian parties concerning
Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. money allegedly due was resumed before
London, Feb 1.
Frazer this morning-when Trol ปี fortune-teller, the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph' Sir Malcolm Campbell is teay-Kwing-kwong. Kemp in the Supreme Court this Ing England on Wednesday to was convicted and sentenced to make his attempt to create a new two months' hard labour with the Plaintiff, Rattanchand Jeram-and speed record at Daytona. joption of a fine of $200,
Mr. M. A. da Silva appeured for das, of China Building, is suing) The attempt will be made, it Pritamas Hashmatral Vaswani) is understood, on ar about the the prosecution, while Mr. P. L. F.
morning.
25. 15th instant.
am Utomal Thudant, No. Wyndham Street; claiming nes counts and enquiries, payment of the amount found due to plaintiff. other and further relief and costs. Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., together with Mr. Len D.Almat. Junior. C. Is for plaintiff while Mr. F. Jenkin, K. C.. ln for defendants.
After argument from both sides on the point, his Lordship held On Mr. that i was incumbent Jenkin to begin.
In opening his ense. Mr. Jenkin whose real nid that plaintiff. surname was Kaswant, traded as Kaswani and Company as a silk) merchant. Towards the end of
carry- 1928 the defendants were ine on business under the name! of Jhurai and Company, also silk merchants, in Wyndham Street.
Advance of $4,000,
they
Rendall was for the defence.
It was alleged by the prosecu- For the first time in Daytonation that on December 2, 1931, in #peed attempts history, he will his house in Reclamation Street, start beyond the pier, which the defendant obtained $100 in means that he will be required notes from the complainant. Taol to drive at about 150 miles an Wah-yan, put them in a pot, cover- hour between the pillars of the ed the pot with red paper, and told pler in developing a flying her to return in two days when, if start over the measured course. fortune favoured her, she would And the seed had grown to $6,000 or $7,000,
BRITISH FLYING
RECORD.
HANDLEY-PAGE FEAT.
(Reuter's Special Service).
London. Feb. 1.
On December 4, she returned, to And the fates averse, and her money gone. In the meatifate, her husband had discovered that she had misapplied money ho had given her for household purposes, and subsequently, she had the defendant arrested.
In his summing-up, his Worship suld the evidence for the prosecu ition showed that defendant told complatant's fortune on Novem ber 27. at his stall, invited her
A new British commercial dying and her sister to his house for a
on record has been created by an Im-further sitting, and, on November
thei
Belang in need of money, approached plaintiff and he made them an advance of $4,000 terms incorporated in an agree-perial Airways piani, Handley-28, suggested planting the silver Under that agreement, In Page machine, which to-day cam-tree for the complainant. There- ment.
ad-pleted the distance from, Hushireafter, complainant and her sister consideration of the money
at defendant's vanced, plaintiff was entitled to to Karachi, a distance of eleven attended daily
hundred miles, in a single day. Thouse till December 2 when the four things:-(1) Twenty per
1"tree" was planted. Returning cent, of the net profits of
on December 4, complainant business, (2) Interest at six per cent, on his inorey per annum, (3) Last week's health return shows realised that she had been duped free access to the books of the right cases of diphtherin, with five and accused defendant of. trick- annual deaths; four of small-pox (one faint).ing her. company, and (4) to an
(three His Worship remarked that statement of accounts of the busi. four of verehres-spinal fever
fatal), three of typhoid (two fatal) there was no doubt the defendant 2ቶ* 544 .
and one fatal ense of puerperal fever, had taken adfantage of the Counsel continued that de There were also fiß deaths from pul-feredulity of the complainnot feudants found they required fur-monary tuberculosis.
obtaining the $150. ther money and plaintiff, during the next five months, advanced, a further $10,000, making $14,000 books had not been made up, and went on, that witnesses for both of it was left over as a matter of sides had lied, but this did not in all in the first half-year
Convenience, it being agreed that make any difference, to the case 1029.
defence the amounts fount due should be, for the prosecution. There were
plaintiff's account weak points about the credited to
which were impossible to over- ¡look while he was away.
In October, 1929. plaintiff con- templated going on a long busi- ness tear and defendants suggest ed il might be to their mutual ad- vantage
ነቲ ነ.
in
It was unfortunate, his Worship
In consideration for the length of time which defendant has been
sentence in date from December 16, thus leaving defendant only
few days to serve.
Plaintiff returned in July, 1930, ! te amalgamate ther and then asked for payment of his business with that of plaintiff interest and profil, but he was that the existing agreement be put off with the excuse that the prison, his Worship ordered the
made up. tween them should be cancelled. books had not been and that a new agreement govern- Later, the action was started.
two Mr. Jenkin explained that a sum ing the relationship of the fram should be drawn
Aof money had been paid into Court drast of a
was for interest, but nothing had been! agreement
Summoned for assault, a district drawn up. but it was not signed paid in with regard to profile.
alleged to have by the time plaintiff left Hong-i When Mr. Jenkin was going to watchman who was 'kong on February 2, 1930,
call evidence, Mr. Potter said be struck a travelling trader because the latter refused, on a previous occasion, I would submit that there was
to lend him money, was convicted by No Profits Paid.
case to answer, elther
Mr. Schoßeld at the Central Police Court to-day nu cautioned. Mr. Shortly before he left, the ad-pleadings or on the opening. vances he had make were repaid! I was decided to hear the argu-c. Y. Kwan was for the complainant, but neither interest nor his share ment before calling evilence, and who accused the defendant of ron-
stantly annoying him. of the profits were putil, as the the case is proceeding.
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