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FORGED TICKETS
ANOTHER MOTOR BUS CO.
CASE COMMENCES
Another Kowloon Motor Bus Com- pany ticket forgery case opened at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon before Mr. Wynne-Jones, whon Ave Chinese ex-conductors ap peared on various charges of om- bezzlement, defrauding and uttering Ave defen- of forged tickets. The dants were:
Tang Koon-wah, 25 years of age, ex- conductor, charged with having, on April 10, (a) embezzled ten cents. from the Kowloon Motor Bus Com- pany, (b) uttered a forged ticket and Motor (c) defrauded the Kowloon Bus Company.
Fung Hap alias Fung Chun, 22 years of age, ex-conductor, on similar charges to first defendant.
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Lau Cheuk alias Lau Kwan, years of age, ex-conductor, charged with uttering a forged ticket.
Wong Shui-ping and Tang Young both charged with embezzlement, uttering forged tickets and defrauding the Company.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, of Hastings for the and Company, appeared prosecution, while Mr. D. L. Strel lett, of Hall Bratton and Company, represented four of the defendants.
Separate Cases
At the commencement of yesterday's hearing, Mr. Brooks suggested that it would be impossible to take all the defendants together. Although the Baid, evidence would be similar, he there were different buses, different to tickets and different passengers be dealt with. In
to Mr. answer Wynne-Jones, Mr. Brooks said that the case was not for committal.
his Mr. Strellett, on behalf of cllenis, pleaded not guilty.
It was decided to hear the case Yeung, and Mr. Brooks
against Tsang
in giving a general opening covering the main facts, said:
a conductor Trung Trung WRS employed on one of the Kowloon Motor buses on April 10. The system by which the tickets are issued is that when a conductor is first am- ployed he is given a punch, specially bought from America, for which he
signs B
a card. He retains that punch the whole of the time he is on the run. The tickets, which have coun- terfoils, have numbers entered in the way-bill. When the tickets are issued, the conductor checks them up and
is required to sign a book mentioning the number of the bus, way-bill and his own number. When he sells a ticket, he is, of course, required to collect the money and put the num- bar of the ticket on the way-bill. When he goes off duty, he returns the unsold tickets and hands in his way- bill, signed. The money is thon checked up by a shroff,
the
Bus Co. Suspicious "On April 10, of this year, defendant was acting as conductor He was on Bus 660 on Route No. 1. given tickets numbered from UR3000 to UR3009 which were ten cent se cand class tickets. On that day, the Bus Company, being suspicious, em ployed two men in plain clothes to board any bus, purchase a ticket and to write down in a book the time, place where he boarded
the bus, bus number and route number. Lator, these two men handed these books over to the company. In each caso, the number of the forged ticket which was sold was not entered as sold in defendant's way-bill. There is definite difference between a forged ticket and a true, from a printer's point of view."
Mr. Li Yat-ngok, owner of the printing office for the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, entered the witness. box to give expert evidence on forged and true tickots. Among the points showing the difference with the two types of tickets were that the words Kowloon Motor Bus Co," were linoty- ped on the true tickets and hand-sel on the forgeries, in reproduction the word "and" was changed to "ano" and "demand" to 'demand", and the chop wna different.
Secret System
that Witness estimated
between 600,000 and 700,000 second class ten cent tickets were issued every month. The system of choosing the serial numbers was a secret. He then gave of detalls of the various processes
printing tickets.
Mr. Sai-tak Liu, manager of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company, cor- roborated Mr. Brooks description of the methods used for checking up tickets by the Bus Company. He said that on April 10, be instructed
to board
and en close tickets in books
de. containing Lails of their journeys. They re- turned at 4 p.m. with the forged ticket UR3662. In defendant's way- bill this ticket was entered as not sold.
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any
bus
At this point, the hearing was ad- Journed until Wednesday, June 19, ut 2.30 p.m.
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