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showed that the sole employee was a Chinese office boy
The premises appear to have been
who had disappeared.
frequented only by the man who rented them, and he only
made occasional visits.
On the 20th January the two Treasury clerks,
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On Wing and Cheung Man Kun were placed on an Identification
Parade.
The officials who had dealt with the person or
persons who opened the accounts at the three banks above
mentioned all attended and stated that they were unable
to identify any person as having been connected with the
opening of the accounts.
On the 28th January the three suspected cheques,
together with a number of genuine chequed, were handed over to Mr. Dovey, the Government Analyst, for examination
with a view to ascertaining whether they were forgeries,
and on that day Mr. Dovey commenced his examination of
the signatures.
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In the meanwhile to two reasury clerks were
remanded from time to time bail being refused.
On the 1st February the Treasury Solicitor was
instructed to conduct the case and on the 2nd February, having pursued enquires in the Treasury, he came to the
conclusion that there was reason for believing that the writing in the cheques (apart from the signatures) might
prove to be forged.
On the 2nd February he accordingly directed Mr.
Dovey to concentrate for the time being on the handwriting
in the bodies of the cheques, as being the point of
greatest importance in relation to the question of the two men who had been arrested, and by the 7th February, Mr. Dovey was satisfied that this was forged (see the