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would be asked to account and would have no receipt available ex-
-cept the genuine receipt for $100 of the 14th. June, which Muhamed Akbar would have put on the file; and so Mim khan would
Have stood convicted of the misappropriation of 113.93. Luhumed
Akbar and Khawas Khan, the clerk in charge at the Kowloon Post
Office, also an enemy of Alim khan, later conceived together the idea of sending the balance of $113.93 to India. They foresaw that no one would suspect any one but Alim Khan of having sent the money, and so the fact of its being sent would be regarded as conclusive proof of Alim Khan's guilt. (It will be seen from the evidence and from Alim Khan's statement that his actual explana-
-tion is altogether confused and incoherent, but an attempt has been made in the foreping paragraph to set out in as logical a sequence as possible the ideas which were apparently at the back of the tortuous working of his mind.)
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There would seem to be no point in lim khan's atory which is worthy of serious considoration. Even if Luhamed Akbar had been sufficiently quick-witted to work out so elaborate a plot on such short notice the plot was in its very essence one
in which luhu od Akbar ran all the risk and Alim Khan was absolute-
-ly safe-guarded. Muhamed Akbar would know that the letter of advice would go forward, that in due course the non-receipt of the money would be reported, that Alim Khan would then produce the forged receipts in the handwriting and bearing the signature of Kuhaned Akbar. Muhamed Akbar could not possibly have guessed on t 17th. April that he was to be transferred to the Registry on the 1st. July as the transfer was first sugested by myself, as Chair- -man of the Subordinate Staff Board, at a considerably later date. Further there is no possible reason why Muhamed Akbar should have asked for two application forms. He explained that he never asked for two such forms except when the sum to be transmitted was
which was not greater than that allowed under one Money Order the case in the present instance ; and the making out of two forms involved entirely unnecessary clerical labour in a buay office. The suggestion of the forged receipts may also be dismissed
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