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TREASURY CASE
(Continued from Paye 1)
Departments, but it had never been
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TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
On London--
1/11/
... 1/11 5/16
said that Mr. King was unfitted to Rank, wire be the Chief of the Criminal Bank, on demand Intelligence Department. Mr. King Bank, 30 days' sight. did not release Tsang to save the Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 1
4 Treasury from a seandal as the Credits,
months' glaring head lines in the newspapers trad called it.
[Case is proceeding.] Further Submissions Continuing his final address
sight Documentary 4 months'
on demand Credits, sight
to the jury yesterday, Mr. Jenkin dealt at great length, with Tsang On-wing's hand- writing, He said that the On demand writing of Tsang On-wing varied
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On-Bombay. writing. Counsel then referred to the different formations of letters on demand made by Tsang On-wing on all the genuine cheques.
Ile was
a man who might do anything when writing a cheque.
On Singapore-- He might make any form of letter. On demand
Counsel went on to say that On Manila- when he asked Tsang to write on demand .... specimens of his types of "H's" he
On Shanghai- put in the "H" in the C.S.P. On demand cheque.
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once and when he was not aware that he bad written it?
Absolute Indecision Speaking of handwriting general ly, Mr. Jenkin said the jury would recollect that considerable evidence had been put before them as to the bank interview which had a very close relation to the trick hypo- thesis. He would suggest, on that aspect of the case, there had been a possible misapprehension as to what line he had intended to take on the intended to matter and what he submit. Mr. Jenkin continued it was never his idea that the parties were absolutely decided at that interview. His point had always) been that there was a state of absolute indecision on the part o everybody concerned with the Trea-) Bury and Government and they did riot declare their hands at the interview or at the Treasury, or in the letter which was written to the bank on January 20.
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whether they were genuine and obtained by a trick,
Eight Days Afterwards
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A Curious Fact
After commenting on the curious
be forgeries by the signatories fact that both Mr. Dallin and Mr. was it that Maugham, of the Audit Office, and from the start, why
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forged and (2) that the signatures ing cheques. He said that the mat- were genuine and had been obtained tor went right down to the core of the case. If Taang had appreciated by some trick in the Treasury.
"I put it to you it is impossible what he discovered, the case would to escape from the sonclusion that never have come on and nothing that view was held." Counsel added would have happened. And yet they could not square everything Tsang has been for eight years the which took place at the time with trusted deputy of Mr. Masser and anything but that view. If that custodian of Government cheques? view was held by people who should He was so much trusted that there Hong Kong Constructions $11⁄4 a any inspection of the B. Ind. G.$ Bonds.. ..67% b have been very intimate with the was never general surrounding circumstances, cheque book by either Mr. Meseer H.R. Govt. Loans..6%% b Prem. was it to be said that the bank or Mr. Black. No one checked the should be bridled and governed by contents of the safe which was left a department's mentally changed absolutely to Teang and Cheung.
Some Significant Facts that it was. almost
"Do you believe, if he made that audacity for the bank to appear in the Court and say that the hypo-discovery for the first time on the 22nd, it is to be attributed entirely thesis of a trick was entertained?
to an inexplicable patch of mental Counsel said that he was attacking Mr. Messer in any per-Inertia on his part, that for some unknown reason he suddenly lost sonal form, but the evidence Was elcar that there was no notion that degree of mental alertness by anyone
that Mr. Messer had which he would appear to have dis- repudiated the
the played in other functions he would signatures on disputed cheques until eight days appear to have discharged in the afterwards, and even then the first Treasury."
"Where is Cheung Man-kuen?" intimation of it was conveyed to the
asked counsel; "the one other man Bank by Mr. King.
in the Treasury who was intimately
front and
Trusted Tsang Arrested
not:
the jury that it would be a fair. finding that if Mr. Messer and or Mr. Black had exercised a reason- able degree of care this matter would not have happened.
Mr. Black was sitting in the office as a matter of custom. He was almost cheek by jowl with Tsang and Cheung. He was a senior man. It might he that he took the system as he found it, taking a line that it was not his pidgin,
Mr. Messer passed around the office from time to time. He went so far as to say that he sometines noticed the cheque book lying on the desk at tiffin time. It was not compatible with reasonable care in matters of this moment to absolute ly turn over to a subordinate clerk the entire custody and management. of the cheque books and never check them; never exercise the slightest check upon them. Surely there must be some degree of control exercised over a subordinate, even if not by the most senior man by someone responsible under him.
All these free and loose pro- cedures have now been changed.
Tsang Silent
Mr. Jenkin next devoted himself to the question of whether or not Tsang was concerned in the fraud.
It was also clear from the evid-concerned with Tsang in this man is ence that the view was held at the matter. We know the Treasury that the writing on the available, this other man who could cheques was that of Tsang On-wing, either confirm Tsang's state of in becausa Tsang was suspected from becility at this period and con- the start and no one had questioned vince you that it was a fair view him on the matter until January 18. to take on this question, or else They all knew Tang and hat to give Tsang away" assistant were arrested. It was a Mr. Jenkin suggested to the jury curious fact that the officials in the that Tsang and Cheung knew that Treasury most concerned in the after the book had been received in matter considered that Tsang was the Treasury the incident had in it, otherwise if they held him in happened. If they knew, the jury the high esteem they say they did, would also find, because there svas it would at least have been fair to no other conclusion possible, they him to have asked him for an ex must have known that the number planation but they asked him had been altered for a wrongful purpose, that cheques had been nothing..``
This trusted servant of the Trea- extracted for a wrongful purpose, sury and his assistant Cheung Man and that wrong was not only wrong kuen, were arrested and prosecuted in the widest sense but was wrong although no evidence was taken be in a fraudulent sense; that fraud fore the magistrate. The charge was afoot and they knew it. Free and Loose System against them was only compatible
Commenting on the working pro- with one view, that the signatures were genuine and that Teang had cedure in the Treasury, Mr. Jerkin conspired with someone else to said that in December, 1927, obtain them. The jury would see absolutely everything was left to at that stage the view was held Tsang and Cheung They were not which he had pressed upon them by checked at any possible point. No the people most concerned with the one did anything compatible with ment. After the discovery it was any kind of care, Counsel put it to question
Counsel reminded the jury that the key to the question, aye or nay was Tsang in it, was whether the covers were altered at the date alleged-were they discovered to be altered on the date alleged. The evidence showed that Tsang was silent, that he never spoke to anybody, that he was as silent as the tomb •
With regard to the second cheque book Tsang pointed the alteration out to Cheung who made no com-
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