CO129-510-14 Report of committee of enquiry into discrepancies and losses in government departments in Hong Kong... 21-4-1928 - 24-10-1928 — Page 104

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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,

Tsang

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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