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MANAGING PARTNER CHARGED

Mung Wing-shun, of No. 18 Ashley Road, and managing partner of Messrs. Batten and Company, China Buildings, was this morning charged before Mr. R. A. D. For- rest at the Central Magistracy on two. charges. of (a) fraudulently converting to his own use the sum of $1,000 entrusted to him to pay Messrs Mitsubiski Shoji Kaisha on November 21, 1931 and with (b) while being a partner of the firm did embezzle the sum of $4,000 on May 17, 1932.

RUMANIAN PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED

Bucharest, To-day.

The Rumanian Parliament has been dissolved by Royal Decree. Elections for the Chamber will be held on March 2 and for the Senate on March 4.

The new ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄Parliament will be-- convened on March 10-Reuter.

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 19, 1938,

RUSSIAN ACCUSED OF INGENIOUS SWINDLE OF CHINESE WIDOW

HOW A RUSSIAN, NICOLAI PAV-1 there was not known. He came out LOVICH CUSTAREFF, WAS ALLEG, with a basin full of water and put the ED TO HAVE ATTEMPTED TO IN-roll in it. At the end of about 15 min- GENIOUSLY SWINDLE A CHINESE utes, he unwrapped the roll, inside of WIDOW, MRS. HUI SHEK YUEN. which were two bank-notes instead of WAS RELATED BY THE ASSIS- | one. Each of the notes bore the same TANT ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MR. number.

JOHN WHYATT, AT THE CRIMIN- The woman again consulted Mr. Mui AL SESSIONS THIS MORNING and told him the story, at the same WHEN ACCUSED WAS ARRAIGNED time giving him the notes. On Novem- BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR ber 5, accused called again and asked -- ATHOLL MACGREGOR, ON THREE her for the notes. She said she had ACCOUNTS OF FORGING, POSSESS not got them with her, whereupon he ING AND UTTERING A FORGED told her not to spend them in one shop BANKNOTE:

as they bore the same number. He also asked her, since she had witnessed the experiments, for notes of $100, $50 and $10, but did not receive any.

notes.

had a hair-cut.

but her

Accused was alleged to have altered

Mr. P. H. Sin was for the defence

numbers on genuine bank-notes, telling Mrs. Hui that the notes were forgeries could while Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton ap-of festivities, beginning to-morrow, made by himself, and that he

AS GOOD AS BANK NOTE she supplied

Meanwhile, Mr. Mui took the notes peared for the complainant, Chan in connection with King Farouk's produce more provided Taze Hung, a partner of the firm. marriage, have now reached their him with genuine notes of $100, $50 to the proper authorities and Mr. V. and $10, and to have attempted to gain C. Branson, Government Analyst, dis- In asking for bail, Mr. Sin said climax.

her confidence by substituting two covered that the last number in them that the case was a partnership dis-

genuine $5 bank-notes, with numbers had been altered from the figure 6 to All the chief thoroughfares and altered, for one $5 bank-note by a con- 0. The Police went and arrested ac- pute and he hoped to prove

squares of the capital will be illu-juring trick in the course of showing cused at the Queen's Theatre, where he in due course that

The Police searched it should.

minated with millions of electric

the woman how he made forged bank-was employed.

his premises and found the various ar- not be brought to court. There

lights every evening while the fes-

MORE A CONJURER

ticles mentioned in 'the experiments as was no question of defendant run-

Mr. J. Whyatt said that if the case

well as çertain conjuring parapher~ tivities are in progress. The high- ning away and asked that a small

nalia. way between the Koubbek Palace for the Crown was correct, accused was bal would be sufficient..

more a conjurer than a forger,

The note in question was as good as and the Abdin Palace, has been

The person selected by prisoner was any sent out by the Bank, said Mr. When questioned, defendant said

transformed into triumphant a woman named

a

Hui Sik-yuen,

who Whyatt, but how accused managed to that he had $15,000 in the business

roadway.

owned and managed a barber shop. On substitute two in place of one he could and that for the past two years a

October 26 last, accused came in and not explain. However, he suggested profit had been made.

Every 1,000 metres is a triumphal turned and after having a shave, he found in accused's premises, he must Two days later he re- that in view of the conjuring articles The case was adjourned formally arch, in the form of a comet, cross-Lasked the woman to go out to tiffin, have done it through conjury. for a week and bail was allowed ing the roadway, the arches being Apparently wishing to be on

When formally charged, accused good for $10,000, $4,000 of which was connected with each other by fes- terms with her clients she agreed and made a complete denial but at the Ma- took him to her flat. After a short gistracy he admitted having swindled to be in cash and the remainder toons hung with electric lights.

talk on personal matters, accused ask-the woman but only because she had in à personal bond.

ed for drinks and on being told by the asked him to forge money. He further woman that she had none, produced a stated he did not forge the note five-dollar note to buy some, Bottles of alter something in it to deceive beer were bought and accused was

into thinking he could make money. handed back $3.40 as change.

Counsel concluded, his opening by Accused returned to the flat the fol-saying that the mere altering of lowing day and again asked for beer. genuine note was forgery, and that if The woman sent out for some but this the statement of the accused was not time accused did not pay, asking her changed in his defence to-day, the Jury

had no alternative but to find to get it on account. Whilst drinking, prisoner was alleged to have said:

guilty. "Have you got the note I gave you? It is a bad note. I made it myself.". He then asked her to get it for him but she said she had mixed it up with other notes. On being told that he could re- cognise it, the woman went to her, bedroom to get the money. She brought out a number of notes and accused picked up one and said he made it.

PROPOSED MARRIAGE Counsel said accused called on the woman again on October 30 and 31- and he proposed marriage, and was accept- ed. He suggested that if she wanted to make money she could buy from him: The appointment of the 62-year- one $100 note for $50. When he left. old M. Kalinin to the presidency the woman began to think matters over and fortunately for her she go of the Supreme Council of the So- in touch with a Mr. Mui, who happen-viet Union is considered in. diplo ed to be in the Special Branch at Pomatic circles here to constitute pro- lice Headquarters. - She showed him

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M. KALININ'S NEW POSITION

a

him

Moscow, To-day.

the.

the note and from then onward she acte motion, although ever since 1923, ed on the instructions of Mr. Mui with M. Kalinin, as chairman of out the knowledge of accused.

All-Union Central Executive Com- mittee, has occupied the highest post

On November 4, accused paid another visit, bringing with him an attache case, which he described in broken. En-in Russia. glish as a "money-making box." After It is, however, observed that carefully closing the door, he asked the his previous position, M. Kalinin woman for a $ɓ note. He put the note

in

in a dish in which was some liquid and was only first among his colleagues,- after leaving it there for some time he whereas under the new Constitution took it out and attached a piece of the President of the Supreme Coun- thin paper to it. He produced two

of

pieces of rough paper between which cil occupies the rank of Head he put the note and thin paper and State, both in law and fact. wrabbed them round a small roller In any case, the fact that M. rubbing it with a piece of wood.

Stalin did not take his place, in the

YELLOW LIQUID

He unwrapped them and took out assembly hall at the meeting of the thin paper on which, when put to the Supreme Council but contented the light, could be seen a facsimile of himself with appearing among the a bank-notes

-Accused then produced another dish members of the Political Bureau of into which he poured some yellow li- the Communist Party in a box quid. After dabbing the note with overlooking the hall, is taken in well- the liquid he again did what he had informed circles to mean that the done in the first experiment wrap-

re-

ping the note together with pieces of Political Bureau continues to

main the Government of the Soviet

paper into the roll.

He then went to the kitchen. That Union in whose hand all final deci- was the first time he was out of the

sight of the woman and what he did sions will rest. Trans-Ocean.

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