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COURT MARTIAL
ARTILLERY CAPTAIN
ON TRIAL.
Capt. P. V. Williams, R.A. prominent local sportsman and Interport cricketer and polo player, plended guilty to Reven charges of making false entries in the balance sheet and cash books of the Battery Funds of the 4th. (ILKS.) Heavy Battery, ILE.S.I.A. and the Garrison Hunt and Polo Club at a District Court Martial at Sennial Polut all yes- terday.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1934.
Also it shows in the cash book in MAN'S' MEAN ACTION May that the Fanling Hunt re- celved $100 from me and in July n cheque for $250. . I have-n ro celpt here for paying $80 to the kennelmon: $65 paid to the Fan- Hing Hunt for the overdraft; and receipt for the second payment of $0 to K. Loc.
.
REPAYS HOSPITALITY HY
STEALING CLOTHES -
Repaying a friend's hospitality by steating a saltesse containing "This shows that all the money 30 articles of clothing, Ylp: Tak, as actually given to the Fanilax aged 27 years, unemployed, was Rix weeks' hard Hunt and not to the Garrison Hunt sentenced to und Polo Club. The cash which labour by Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones should have been paid in on the at the Kowloon Magistracy yes- 16th, was in my safe less $97. Iterday morning. paid it into the bank on the 17th, borrowing $97 from the messing When Col. Wilson sent for The Court comprised Brigadier to check the cash on the 19th., F. 5. Thackeray, B.5.0., N.C.. Shanghal, (President), Lieut. Col, was on my way to get the $97 to A. C. Marsh (East Lancashire Re-put back in the safe and I setually giment). Major J. A. A. A. Griffin, put it back an hour after Col. ns.o. (Lincolnshire Regiment), Wilson had checked the money. Major P. Gotlwaltz, M.c., (8.W.B.), Capt. A. R. Gottwaltz, M.C., (s.W. B.), and Capt. R. A. Irwin (East Lancashire Regiment).
realise
fund.
Previous Court Martial,
I
Defendant was invited by his friend, Lau Yung, to play mah jongan his flat at No. 2 Mow Lam
Street, Brat floor, on October 26. and was invited to stop the night| there. The next day he went away and took the suitcase with him. but the loss was not dis- covered until two days after the theft. Defendant was arrested in Publle Square Street. All the! clothing and the sultense were later recovered.
"Poverty drove mê to steal the things," said defendant in answer Why he had stolen the things from his friend, after he had been in- vited to play mah jag and had been give a food and shelter.
"I should like to state here that I have once before made a meas Capt. D. Dunlop, R.A. prosecuted, of running accounts and was couri and Capt. A. C. Hancock, R.A.. martialled for it, and 1 realise appeared for the defence. that it is no good my going on
After accused had plented trying to ran accounts in the to his Worship's question an to gulity to each charge, the Pre- Army, so i am going to send my aldent, said: You
that papora In, 1 have asked to do so you are admitting that you did but they have not been accepted these things knowingly and you yet. I have them with me here." will not be able to plead that you In ropeating his statement, ac- did them unintentionally ?-Acensed ackled that his misfortune cused: Yes.
was due to carelessness. He in was exceedingly well run and the A summary of the evidence was tended sending this papers no hounda very well kept, shows that ordered to be read. It was stated matter what happened.
the money was definitely expended that Capt. E. C. J. Barry was Pre- The President: Having read on them. He is probably one of sident of the Audit Board which carefully through your statement the keenest and most energetic examine the accounts of the Bat-I see what it amounts to is, that Masters the Fanling Hunt has tery as a routine matter in Sep-you use the word "carelessly". ever had, and he found his means tember and he discovered Ir-that word implies that you have unable to meet the expenses and regularities which he pointed out not been guilty of the second, borrowed from his Battery fund. to accused. He told accused that third and fourth charges. Do you Every cent of that money had been he could not audit the necounts wish that word to remain Ae- | paid back." As they stood and handed the ne-cused: No.
guilty?—Yes.
counts back to him for alteration, Then it means that I and you
The Board was adjourned and Capt. Barry ordered that all ne- counts should be made up.
When
You are prepared to have that word taken out?-Yes.
In conclusion, the
defending
officer said this charge could not have been raised in war time, when the accounts were not the res- he received accused's accounts You must have realised when ponsibility of the officers. Capt. again he had a conversation with you inked in, what you were writ-Williams bad, rightly or wrongly, Capt. Dunlop and Capt. E. M. Bolting I did not realise that put-been encouraged to participate a and they decided to put the matting earelessly in meant that great deal in the sports in which) ter before Lt. Col. D. C. Wilson, was pleading not guilty.
he was no proficient. He was a
Q. C. of the Battery. A sum of You made the entries knowing-sportsman and a lender of men,
but he was no accountant, 360 had been paid into the ney Yea.
counts the day after the nadi! Accused said he wished to call meating.
two witnesses as to character.
la
He asked the Court to give full
Major P. A. Gedge, Assistant Col. Wilson gave evidence and consideration to the meaning of Section under which the Command Paymaster, in his de-sald: I think Capt. Williams is the
charges were brought. He sug position stated that he ይዞ
A very energetic officer and chartered accountant and examin-many waya most capabler He Kested that the meaning was some- what obscure. The Court should ed the accounts of accused. There trains his Battery well and it isnther bear in mind the needs of were Items of $100 to the in my opinion, an eficient Garrison Hunt and Polo Fund Aery.
Bat-
war as well as the needs of pence.
drawn by Capt. Williams, Ael Major . M. J. Melntyre suid fand the characteristics of accused, out as having been received, by he had known Capt. Williams for who was more a aportsman and him as a loan to the Club. There four years. He had instructed leader than a man who kept ac- were two similar items of $60 accused in gunnery at Shoebury-
counts.
cach noted as a loan or grant and ness, when he had been distinctly The Court was then closed to a further item on July 31 showing above the average in ability. ile consider its decision, which will be
payment by cheque of $250 to had represented the Army and promulgated later.
the same effect. Receipts had Regiment in many games, was a
been signed by Capt. Williams well-known regimental amateur stating that the money was a loan rider and an exceptionally
to the Garrison Hunt and Pola all-rounder,
Club Another receipt stated
$100 loan to Fanling Hunt" and
was signed by accused.
Civilian Witnesses.
.
Army Record.
good
The prosecuting officer, reading accused Army record, said he was mentioned in despatches in 1917.
The depositions of Mr. W. H. B. He was 37 years of age, and was Rigg, cashier of the Kowloon | entitled to reckon 19 years service | branch of the Hongkong and for the purpose of pension.
Ha Shanghai Bank, were read, with had been under open arrest for that made by Mr. W. B. Johnson twenty-four days and in close' ar- ; of the Chartered Bank, bearing rest one day. Accused was court- out previous evidence.
martialled at Bulford in October
1. G. B. Courtland, R. A. had 1932 for making a false statement deposed that he acted as secretary in a book kept by him while 0. C. of the Garrison Hunt and Polo in charge of messing for the 9th. Club up to June 22 and received | Field Brigade, that 19.8.0 had been no payments at all from accused. paid to the Bulford and Brighton Lt. A. J. Ropes, R. A., who took Breweries when it had not been over the secretaryship after June, Jitat. The sentence of the court had given similar evidence.
that was
severe reprimand
01
K. Lec, forage.. merchant, of sliculd be administered, Pottinger Street, and Lo Kuen, The defendings officer, addrea- representing Wang Hing Jewellerasing the court in mitigation said: No. 10. "Queen's itoad, had stated" must point out to the court that they received cheques in part pay here is nothing in these charges ment of their accounts,
of fraud, showing any mort The deposition of Lt. Col. D. G. fraudulent intent or misappro- Wilson stated that after the report pristion. This is nothing of a made to him he examined the ae-dishonest nature and accused has counts and found a defelt of $97 produced the Fanling Hunt au- in the cash book. He spoke to counts to allay any suspicion and accused who said he had borrow-explained how the sums were ex- ed the money with the intention pended.
of returning it. Witness ordered Continuing, the defending off- him to be placed under open arcer emphasised that the offence rest as he had no nuthority to was committed under a military horrow money or make transfers and not a vivil law and, in fact, from the accounts.
could not have bron maintained Accused had declined to cross-under the latter, in which there examine any of the witnesses or must be shown an attempt to de make a statement and had reserved fraud. Without attempting to tell his defence.
the court whether the charges Following the reading of the were trivial or not he was bound summary of evidence the President to say that they were laid under asked accused if he now wished
the least innocuous part of the make a statement.
Soction. A mistake in a cash book
technically was
sufficient to sustain the charge, and it was for Accused Bild: "I ran both the this enson that accused had de Garrison Hunt and Polo Club atid cided that it would be
waste of Fanling Hunt accounts. The time to argue about each charge. Battery Fund account is kept in though argument would probably some pointa and ponell for me by my pay-servant have yielded and I ink it over at the end of the material in his favour. The month when I go through the ne- offence was technical and technical counts. On each occasion when only, he submitted.
Accused's Statement
the Garrison Ilunt and Polo Club has been written down in the cash!
A Human Story.
book it should have been the The use the money was put to Fanling: Hunt. No money has is a very human and simple story, over boon paid by me to the he continued. It was used for the. Garrison Hunt and Polo Club. Fanling Hunt, of which accused is a self supporting account which was Master. It is common know- is paid through ofticora mens ledge that all Mastora of Hunts books mostly.
have considerable difficulty · In
"I have carelessly-inked in over meeting their expenses. Expenses Pole Club amounts in the cash come on wintel and summer and book instead of writing in Fanling subscribers are slow to pay, Hunt. I have got the Fanling "It is no exaggeration
to say Hunt books here which shows that that all Masters are out of pocket, In February, I handed back $100 and Capt. Williams was no ex- In cash, to the 4th. Battery funds. coption. The fact that the Hunt
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