THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948.
PRISON SENTENCES FOR BANK CLERKS
Plead Guilty To Forgery
CONSPIRACY STORY
Carlos Jacinto Pintos, 20, clerk of the Hong- kong Bank, was sentenced to six years' hard labour, and Cheung Yuk-shat, alias Joseph Osman, clerk of the Hongkong Bank, and Louis Francisco d'Azevedo, clerk of the Mercantile Bank, were each sentenced to five years' hard labour at the Criminal Sessions this morning for forgery and uttering a forged docu- ment.
All three pleaded guilty to the charges before the acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice Williams.
All three
wero
charged
with
the Government Relief Section, and having on or about January 10. In 1940 joined the staff of the Hong- with stent to defraud. forged akong Bank. cheque fe- $50,000, purporting to be Lo the cheque of Messrs Le and drawn on the Mercantile Bank., Atin Mheau the time d'Azevedo was sold to have alded and abetted Pintos, while Cheung
counseled
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D'Azevedo was also a La Salle College boy, and had been to school
with Pintos. In taken on the staff of the Mercantile
Is Lordship asked and procuretl
each of the Accused what salary they were earning in their respective employ
Pintos to commit the offence,
further necusal
about
the vounselled and
They Were
having, 011
or
diate,
of same
procured
the obtaining, by a person whose
Bank in 1946.
went.
Platos replied he had been draw- hug $270.80 monthly but was given name is unknown, of 550,000 in then increase in March last, and that Mercantile Bank with intent to de- brought his salary
up to $269 fraud by virtue of a forted cheque, month. well knowing the same to be forged. Pintos was adelitionally charged with having, on or about December 27, 1947, with intent to detrand, forged cheque for $4,500, porting to be the cheque of C. Carr, Joseph's College, and from 1942 Lo
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Cheung raid he was paid $350 monthly, while d'Azevedo said his total earning was $245 a month.
Cheung was educated
SI
1915 he was working
DS a ac-
drawn on the Hongkong and Shang-countant in a hotel in Macao. During hni Bank, and with having obtained the money on a forged document,
and
| 1946-47 he was a typist at La Sallë College, and early in 1947 he joined the staff of the Hongkong Bank.
LENIENCY PLEA
years
PROSECUTION'S CASE Relating the circumstances, Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, who pro- Pleading for leniency and mercy, secuted, said that there was a con- Pintos sald he was an only son on spiracy between the three accused whom his mother and Rister de-
two others. Pintos was em-pended. ployed in the Hongkong Bank and Cheung said he had a family of he had a friend, d'Azevedo, in the live to support. liis father died Mercantile Bank. In the course of during the Japanese occupation, and the conspiracy, it was agreed that his mother, who was over 60 d'Azevedo obtain a specimen sigma-of age, was entirely dependent on
He further had to look after: ture from his Bank where he was him.
theja 13-year-old sister, and his wife ledger
Ile obtained dner clerk. specimen signature of Messrs La and and two children, one two years old the other 10 months old. Lo. It was an easy thing to take the and specimen from the ledger away at Asking for a light sentence, he pro- night and return it in the morning, mised he would not commit a similar Counsel remarked, and the specimen offence again. was left with Pintos for him to prac- tise on the signature.
The next step was to obtain.
#
it
the
cheque book. This was acquired from the Mercantile Dank, and
thing that was a necessary
Pollec.
D'Azevedo said he was sorry for what he had done. He pleaded for mercy and for another chance.
MADE CLEAN BREAST Crown Counsel Informed the Court that following the discovery cheque should be issued ns if it was of the fraud, all the accused made being issued by Mesars Lo and Lo. clean breast of the whole affair to the It was agreed with Cheung that he and gave every assistance
the should introduce a Chinese to the Mercantile Bank to cash that cheque.
specimen let D'Azevedo wrote out ter of application which Pintos typed and signed, forging Messrs Lo and Lo's signature.
but had uttered a documen! on On a Saturday morning, ot a time whic
which they obtained a sum of the Bank was in rather a money, They were using special hurried state, that the cheque was knowledge which they should have -presented. As a result of the colla- used in the interests of the Bank, boration of d'Azevedo in the Bank, and they had used that special the cheque-book was procured, and knowledge against their employers. after the cheque had been used, the There was no excuse for them what- remainder of the cheques were dis- soever. posed of.
CHEQUE PRESENTED
A further person in the conspiracy was handed the cheque to get the cash. On January 12, the cheque was presented 10 the ledger clerk at the Mercantile Bank and payment was authorised after ascer- signature. The
taining the ly good as to
forgery was be able to deceive.
After the cash was obtained, thic $50,000 was
taken to Pintos' house,
The Chief Justice remarked that the accused had pleaded guilty to most serious offences. They had not only taken part in a forgery,
After sentence had been passed, | his Lordship ordered that the $4,000 in the Bank be restored to the Mer- cantile Bank, and that the goods purchased by Pintos be auctioned and the proceeds returned to the
Bank.
Heavy Fine For
and divided. Pintos took $16,000 for Possession of
himself, handed $10,000 to d'Azevedy, while Cheung and two others each obtained $0,000. Thereafter the Po- lice investigated the matter and the Irregularity was uncovered.
Tainted Pork
.
Out of the proceeds of the fraud, Four coolles were heavily fined by Mr Lonsdale continued, eash to the Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Court extent of $13,000 was recovered, as this morning for possession of 450 well as $4,000 deposited in a bank pounds of unwholesome pork at which the accused admitted was part Eastern Street on June 17.
the proceeds. Out of his share,! Defendants pleaded not guilty on Pintos had bought himself a radio, the around that, being coolles, they carry anything if they were a camera, a pair of binoculars and had
of
(all produced in Court as engaged. They also said that they had no knowledge of what was in the oiler forgery,bags they carried, and that at the
with the
Mr Lonsdale said that Pintos bought time of their arrest they pointed out
the
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5,000,000 Workers To Strike For One Hour
FRENCH LABOUR ISSUES CHALLENGE
Paris, June 17.-The Communist-controlled Labour Organisations tonight ordered a one-hour nationwide general strike of 5,000,000 workers on Saturday in a new showdown threat to the French Government.
'CAT' FOR ROBBER
Attack On Kaifeng By Communists
Shanghai, June 18. The Communista stormed into the airfield and both railway sto- tions of Kaifeng, strategic government base on the Lung- hai railway, in what was be- Heved to be a major diversionary attack nimed 'nt relieving the government pressure on Red concentrations in southwest Shantung, according to pro- Government reporta reaching here today:
Kaifeng, which was the capital of China in ancient days, is located 90 miles southwest of the Wanfoh River bank, where the on the northern government troops were claimed to have surrounded an estimated 80,000 Communists.
Chinese press reports from Kalleng Bald that the city entered a stage of siege at 1a.m. on Thursday when the Red columns were within three miles of the walled city, capturing the airfield and two rall stations cast and west of the cfty.
The reports sald that all govern ment garrison units, as well as the people's militia, have taken up battle The people positions.
were cali despite continuous gunfire as the de- tenders opened up heavy field pleces on Communist concentrations and the Reds replied, aiming at the city walls, according to the reports.
REINFORCEMENTS ON WAY
Pro-Government reports claimed that reinforcements were scheduled to reach Kalteng before midnight on Thursday,
Meanwhile, the government forces tightened, the cordon around the Reds on the north bunk of the Wanfch river. Pro-Government re- ports claimed that Chinese. Force
Air units continued daylong strafing and dive-bombing ns well as maintaining close vigilance in order to prevent possible Communist attempts to break through eller toward the cast to reinforce the Communists attacking Yenchow on the Tientsin-Pukow railway, or join the forces al present attacking Kalteng.
of
In East Hopel, the government troops joined forces at Fengjun, noth of the coalmining centre Tangshan, in an operation designed to beat off the Red thrust at Tang- shan.
Reports said that the Reds The strike call 'was the sharpest appeared to have abandoned their challenge of labour since the disas attack on Tangshan and were re- trous situation of last November and treating- northward, wrecking that December. It was sued by the section of the Pelping-Mukden rail- Confederation of Labour as way which is the vital communica- lions broke down between the tions line between China Proper and Government and the 30,000 strikers Manchuria.-United Press. in Clermont Ferrand. It is estimated that 50,000 other workers are alleg- edly in sympathy strikes throughout the country.
The CGT called for a one-hour
June 10 of all
Besides being sentenced to six years' hard labour for armed robbery and possession of arms, Mak Chi, 31-year-old hawker, work stoppage between 11 am. to
ordered by Mr Justice noon on Saturday, Williams at the Criminal Ses-workers, civil servants, railroad men sions this morning to receive 18 and public utility workers, strokes of the "cat."
was
Mak pleaded guilty to robbing a woman, Chan Mul-mui, of $3,000 n gold chain, five gola Anger rings, two fur coats, and three pieces of silk clothing at 111 Second Street, West Point, on April 9.
The Christian Federation of La- bour, CFTC recommended to its followers that they are not to follow the lead of the CGT In Saturday's demonstration strike.
PROCLAMATION
Stillman For
Canton
Shanghal, June 18-Mr Charles Stillman, Director of the Recon
Mission of the struction Survey
C Economic Co-operation Administra- tion,
will fly to Hankow this morning en-route to Canton-with-a
number of American technical ex- perts and Chinese representatives for a survey of South China indus- tries.
In a strike proclamation, the CGT Mr A. Lonsdale, Crown Counsel, called on workers to "Show their According to an announcement by said the robbery occurred while the solidarity with the workers of the the Managing Director of the Chine occupants of the dat were asleep. Puy de Dome department in which National Aviation Corporation, the An employee of the Queen Mary Kos- Clermont Ferrant is located and a survey is part of the aid programme, pital, Li Fing, was awakened by a determination to put an end to ag- A second CNAC plane will take
took him to a rear person who cubicle where he found the rest of session by the Police and provoca-off tomorrow morning for Hankow, carrying another group of American his family held prisoner by three tion by the Government."
and Chinese specialists, alsó the other men, one of whom was
The strike call also hinted that route to Canton for an industrial accused, who held a revolver in his the CGT is about to launch a new survey.
Mak appeared to be the campaign to push through demands The entire party is scheduled to leader as he was giving instructions for a nationwide 20 per cent ware be flown to Hongkong on June 25, to his companions.
boost and setting of a new mluimum and will fly from the Colony to
Taiwan on the following day,—- monthly wage of 12,000 francs.
Reuter.
After the robbers had gone, Li Ping released himself from his bonds
The mounting labour tension is and immediately gave chase. Re
threat to the now a dangerous was assisted by a polleeman and the Government which only last night accused was arrested. He was seen scraped through the National Assem-
л away, and to throw something
bly showdown on the foreign policy search resulted in the discovery of by 14 votes. the revolver which, however,
The Government had hoped for a unserviceable and had apparently temporary breathing spell until early been used to frighten the victims. next week when it will face a crisis of stabilising prices Passing aentence, the Chief Justice on the issue told Mnk he had no right whatsoever and salaries.
was
to carry any arms. "The carrying of arms by people like you must be stamped out," he declared,
for
Struck Tram Conductor
a counter-cheque at the Hongkong the man who hired them to and Shanghai Bank, and filled it in Police but this was not taken up. for
$4,500,
"Obviously, the defendants were writing the name of un
He then going to make use of that late hour unknown drawer on it.
smuggle the tainted meat arranged with Cheung to cash the to
This was dressing," said Inspector Brownrigg, cheque after presentation. done. Later on, it was discovered who prosecuted.
In Aning the defendants $500 each by Bank officials that the cash book and ledger did not
Mr Hin-shing Lo and or two months, ngree,
"I can reduce the fine if, by a further check was made against said: the individual accounts and the asking help from your relations, you list of payments. From that it was can get hold of the man who hired disclosed that the cheque had not you to do this job. Be careful not been entered in the ledger, and the 10 carry again things of which you cheque Kself could not be traced. jare not sure, for it may be a corpse It was, in fact, destroyed. When or ammunition, which will lead you it was discovered that Cheung had into trouble." handled the cheque, the fraud per- petrated by Pintos came to light, WELL-PLANNED FRAUDS
nt Central Court this morning. attempwhile there
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plainant gave chase but was stopped M. Paul Reynaud who impressed outhorities have been approached for had been planned over n eausing obstruction by parking her and assaulted by both defendants, the National Assembly with a one permission to inaugurate such ser-i considerable period, ns was evid- car in Queen's Road Centro wear together with 10 other Chinese not hour speech in the foreign as vice.-Neuter. enced by the amount of practice put
over the specimen 11.30 am to 11.40 am on April junction of Wongnelchung Road.
in custody, at Shing Woo Road, near debate last night or the Minister of in by Pintos
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also two cargo boats were fined $10 each of each of the accused, Fintos, ho Store to pick up a parcel and did defendant snatched the ticket punch of Interior, M. Jules Moch
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