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THE BUTLER WRIGHT TRIAL.

FOURTH DAY'S HEARING.

ACCUSED SENTENCED TO. TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT,

The trial of Mr. W. Butler Wright on charges of fraudulently misappropriating rail way funds concluded before Mr. Justice Lindsay Smith in the Supreme Court of China and Koren held at Canton on Saturday,

The jurors wars-J. C. H. L. Smith, R. T. Matheson, W. H. Hill, H. Dent, and C. II. Mr. Hiram P. Wilkinson, Crown Advocats, of Shanghal, instructed by Mr. H. W. Looker (of Messrs. Descon, Looker and Deacon) appeared

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 1909.

Mr. Douglas-That is an offence, which in, The Crown had not shown how the defendant time, when the whole of the accounts were to ba'y- called larceny, and is read with a cartain section actually took the money on exchange. It had audited, he did not tail the sub-accountant what to come out of one or other of the bank soseants, he had been doing with the money, ner did he of the Larceny Act.

His Lordship There are many offences called larceny.

Mr. Donglas→What I mean to say is that in this ease there must be a criminal intent to convert the money to his own use.

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for the prosecution, and Mr. J. C. E. Doug which it was drawn. When the money was Shanghai Bank, and, the defondant said that jury were satisfied in their minds, that there minutes.returned into Court, and on reply STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY ·

represented the defendant.

Before the Crown Advocate addressed the jury the Poroman (Mr. Dent) said the jurors thought the defendant should have an op. portunity of earmarking the amounts which he sail had been placed to the 29,000 in the "Ao7" account.

His Lordship informed the jurors that for a fortnight the defondant had had an opportunity of consulting his account book. If he could earmark the account, he had had every oppor- tunity to do it "

Mr. Diugise-It would be a tremendous

labour to find those amounts.

His Lordship-1 take it if he meant to do it he would have done so. I think the jury think ho has not had the opportunity. If it was - possible for him to do it he has had the oppor.

tunity.

The Foreman I thought, he had not had an opportunity,

His Lordship-He has

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that they hail agreed upon their verdict. to the Judge's clork, Mr. Romer, announced

THIS CLIMATE,

They found the prisoner guilty on all thrae SUPERIOR VALUE counts, and the Foreman handed a written slip

His Lordship, after perusing it, said he was BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR of paper to the Judge.

read it. The slip read The jury-are-of- not sure that it was quite in order, but he would

not being aware that large sums of money were opinion that great negligence is been shown. by the general managers for the Corporation iu drawn from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and passed into other bank accounts which were operated apon solely by the defendant. Had an audit been taken half-yearly the present case might have been avorted."

and had to come out by cheque, and they had try to explain. Instead he shipped away to THOROUGHNESS not found those cheques, Mr. Butler Wright Shanghai, and was going to Japan, whore he was a man of great arpérience, having 30 years' wonki have been out of the jurisdiction of the railway service, and he was in receipt of over Court. In all these giremstances it seemed to £600 a year and allowances. As he stated, he his Lordship that it would be vay diffoult to Proceeding, Counsel said the charges against hail a wife and six children at home. The jury come to any other conclusion than that the ne the accused were of stealing mm of were asked to say that for the sake of onsed used the money of the railway because be $22,000, made up of amounts of 35,000, $13,000 $9,000, which he was able to pay back, he had not sufficient money of his own. Of course, and $4,000. It wee diffanit, he thought the absconded from Canton, threw over, after 30 it was for the jury to decide and if they jurors would sgroe, for a man standing on a Jar service, the billet he had, as well as his came to this conclusion they were bound to A de money from the railway without permission, criminal charge upon a complicated matter of wife and children, and decided to become an find the prisoner guilty. If he took the accounts, to go into the box practically without entoast and fugitive from justion. assistance, and to give them a clear and concise faulting accountant would have gone to another and could not put that money back, he was- lecture for an hour and a half on complicated pisos under an assumed name, and could zeroz guilty of ombezzlement. The jury were then They retired, and after an absence of forty- facts. They knew that funds under the railway hare written the bank to draw the accounts asked to consider their verdict. agreement must be kept in the Hongkong and which the defendant had left behind. If the any accounts kept outside of that bank defendant's statement was true when he said he cansed, strictly speaking, a breach of the believed he put the accounts in order, thien railway agreement, and were not railway Counsel submitted that he was entitled to accounts at all. Acoused told them it was acquittal. They had to be satisfied that a his duty to organise the accounts, and the criminal offences had been committed. The first difficulty he had to contend with defendant was not being tried on a civil action was the fact that he required a very large for breach of agreement and duties. It was cash balance from time to time. It was to deal very much more serious charge, and son. with this that he, on his own initiative, opened viction meant raination and in all proba the three accounts in the International Bank, bility imprisonment. It meant rainstion to him and in doing this he took a certain amount of and his family, but of course these were facts risk and responsibility because he was acting from which the jury must not shrink in outside the agreement. In the event of the weighing up the evidence. They had to give bank failing, or anything of that sort, full weight to that and Counsel's arguments, in he would have had to make good. He thought deciding whether the man was guilty or not, and there would be sorse dioulty to the jators in if they had any reasonable doubt, the prisoner appreciating the point Mr. Wright tried to wag entitled to the benefit of it. What they had make. The accused's actual way of looking at to try was not criminal offence, but criminal things was that once the money had passed out intention, and the intention of a man could only be gathered from the faste put before them of

Mr. Douglas then informed. B is Lordship that Counsel submitted that the jury must find that aloud.

as the prisoner had been found guilty it was there was not intention on the part of the accused, and that he was entitled to acquittal.

His Lordship, in diresting the jury, said they the Judge's duty to pass sentence. had listened so cacefully, and patiently to the asked his Lordship to take into consideration facts, and they were, as business men and the fact that the prisoner was an old man of merchants, so well qualified to decide them that fifty-five, and that he would have to serve the His Lordship William Betler Wright, you it was unnecessary for him to deal with them at sentence imposed under conditions which would any length. He would simply contiae himself be exceedingly trying to a man in his position. to pointing out the law which governed the have been found guilty by this jury of unlaw offence, and also one or two important fuota. fully and trasdulently misappropriating three Before he did that, however, he wished to impress specific sums of money. The law always regards apon them the great necessity of eliminating from

in your case because you have been specially chosen su an Englishman to defend that offence, had not been proved at the trial. Anything

and have been found guilty. After making. they had been told, or anything they read in the newspapers, which had not been told at the trial, they must dismiss from their minds and allowance for what your Consel has said of the decide the case simply from the facts heard trying climate in which the sentence will have during the last three and a half days, to be served, I cannot do less than pass sentence -Prisoner, who appeared quite calm. when The three charges were eznotly of the same of two years" hard labour...

from the Court

The Crown Advocate passed up to his Lord- ship a letter which he had received on Friday, and which, in the circumstances, he thought his Lordabip should see.

The letter was not read

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to pay back was made because Mr. Grove wan worrying the socused to know how the account stood as between the "Hongkong construction Bocount and the amount expended in Canton in construction of the railway. The prisoner did nothing that Mr. Grore wanted. Instead of getting out the account in a simple and business. like way be, by a complicated system of raising $9,000, and juggling bookwards and forwards with $4,000, managed to ramli back through the mercantile agents of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank the sum of $22,948 into the Hongkong construction account. As regarded the amount lent on silk, the prisoner sonverted the money to his own us by drawing out of the Hongkong sonstructien acount and by leading $10,000 to a Chinaman. What he ought to have done when it was repaid was to pay the money back into the socount from returned to him he must have known that he had advanced it out of railway funds, and if he was trying to conduct the railway sermounts honestly, he would have put it back where he got it instead of taking the money a second time, The question as to how far from normal Mr. Wright's ideas of fluance might be would be a matter on which his Lordship would direct. A man of his experience and ingenuity, and bold enough to refuse to carry out accounts as two * other large railways in China carried them out, and to appoint his own system, must have known what he was doing. He took his risk, and preferred to keep his accounts in a way in which his junior refused to take them over. The speaker suggested to the jury that they would require a very good reason to find that these transactions were innocent If a man took money ontrusted to him, meaning at some

the construction account into his time or other to pay it tack, that was larceny. Regarding all the questions of exchange, the bands, it became oneh in the hands of Mr. The Crown Advocate, in addressing the Court Crown had a right to bring in evidence to show Butler Wright. The prisoner had explain and jury, said that before proceeding to su that the three specifle charges preferred against ed the system by which he kept his accounte, and up he wished to refer to a gentleman who had Mr. Batler Wright were not an accident. In Counsel submitted that it was not understood at been referred to, but who had not been in Court. the lower court there was a charge with reference all, and was certainly discarded by the auditors There was an unfortunate reforones to a district to exchange, but he found this unnecessary, he in their investigations. The accused's story was engineer, who weaslleged to be going to keep ex- the three present charges were quite sufficient that he was himmelf in receipt of large sums of ohange. The speaker wished to say that be The intors bad beard how the accused knew private cash, and a man in the habit of handling looked into the acconats with the assistance of that exchango was mother a difficult ques- large amounts might become a little bit incau- the secountant, and found there was no fonds tion, and addressed certain instructions totions in the way in which he kept the cash in His parent tion for this statement. There was a profit on the district engineers. They had also heard his office absolutely distinct, exchange placed in the accounts. The accused how he started the "A 07 account, and medicine brought him in an income, and for the was indicted under a certain statute that how he gave it up, and the spooker sale of a third share. he realised $8,500. The be, having by himself others, the care of certain monies, con would not satisfy the jury. They heard of as much as $10,000 in ecnnection with work he vorted them to his own tine. It had nothing that had been substituted for the did on behalf of a syndicate for negotiations boon proved that Mr. Butler Wright was account mentioned. The position Mr. Wright for a loan for China, Sams of $13,000 and not only entrusted with property, but was in took up was that if he had not been greated, if $4,000 were drawn out of the account of William charge of it, and be himself admitted that be all his property had been sold, it he had been Butler Wright, chief accountant, and Counsel made certain use of the three particular sums

asked to come back he could have repaid the submitted that the jury were entitled to ask mentioned in the indictment. The prisoner railway more than any of the sums in the for explanations as to how those sums had been

The Hon. Mr. H. May, C.M.G., Mers ssomed to have taken a very peculiar view of indictment. That was a new end startling paid back. Defendant's story was only really kind. his position, and that had to be taken into con-dufence, and if that was his defence he should hackable by the balance, and his case was that defendant of having fraudulently misapprop-i-sentence was passed on him, was then removed of the Hongkong Jockey Club. (Ex-Offico). Hall Britton, John Paterson and Major W. A sideration, because it thres a light on his never have gone away from the Shameen he had made payments for aud on behalf of the oted certain sums of money. The essence of The Crown Advocate applied for the ro5. Johustons, J. A. Jupp. H., P. White, O.K.

a stretcher railway out of his own private cash, and there fraudulent misappropriation was not, as Mr. subsequentuctions. He read the trust agree unless he was taken away on ment in a very peculiar way, and considered There was a diflculty in mecting a defence of were vonshers which set off the money which he Douglas had stated, intention. It was wrong storation to the railway of the property seized It was his duty to supplement that by saying that sort. As a matter of law, if the chief took into his own bande. This method had fally converting to one's own nee money which when defendant was arrested, and stated that he that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bandidocountant of the railway took interest and used bean going on for some considerable time, had been entrusted to a person. If a man who thought it his anty to mention that under su something wrong in-not sending out $5,000,000 it for six months, then, the Crown Advocate the amounts would be amalgamated by s at the T/T rate of the day. The prisoner also submitted, the jury must find him guilty of lot of small payments in cash, and it would said that by clause 4 of his own agreement he conversion of railway money. The defendant be very difficult indeed to trace through could absent himself at any time. was not only in a position of trust, where he was all the vouchers of the railway The was a peculiar idea in Mr. Butler Wright's mind of his position and of his duties. representing the honesty of Great Britain, but amount of Mr. Power's passage money was

he was representing the honesty of Englishmen railway charge. The defendant paid it out of The prisoner also rolit the jurors that in Chins, and he dealt with those accounts in his own cash, but it came in on the debît side as the accounts opened in the International Bank the way he did. It was for the jury to my an expense of the railway. A most peculiar was a mattor. sntirely off his own bat. The whether the defendant was guilty or not; feature of this case was that the Crown Advocate first point the Crown Advocate wish the whether he acted innocently or criminally. The looked upon the payment back of a sum of jurors to remember was that the money in the speaker did not sea how the jury could say that money as a much more suspicious action than International Bank was earmarked as railway the accused had an honest excuse: such an the taking of a sum. In the June quarter Mr. money. The construction account in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank fed the Hong-excuse as left an honest doubt in their minds Wright decided to close the International Bank kong onrroney account in the International to whether he used the money or not. If they accouts entirely, and the closing of those av.

Counsel

or jointly with | thought defondant's reasons for giving it up defendant had also told the jury that he received their minds any fact they may have heard which that as a sorions offence, and it is more serious

There

In each the Crown accused the

It was decided that the application should be heard later at Shanghai.

Bank at Canten, and the local currency account could agree that the dofondant was not respons- counts caused this transaction to take place they heard from the evidence of the chief in this place for the next three years.

case for

The prisoner was brought to Hongkong on imprisoned in Victoria Gasl Saturday night by the steamer Kinshan, and

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THE CIRCUS.

the Cirens.

FIFTH MEETING. After a week's postponement the fifth meeting was held on Saturday afternoon and proved even more anccessful than its predecessors.

introduced and the agreeable nature of the weather. The Bathe Band played delightful selections in the course of the afternoon, and This is perhaps explained by the novel features

among the visitors was H.E. the Governor who were very interesting and the results were by no was roofved by Mr. H. P. Whito. The scents means as antisipated. The biggest dividend paid by the pari-mutuel was $67.10 - Greyback in the fourth event.

The officials of the meeting were: Patrons His Excellency Sir Frederick

ton, C.R., His Excellency Maj. Genl. R. Q. Lagard, K.UM.G., C.B., D.S.O.; His Excel

Broadwood, C.B.; Rear Admiral H. Lyon, R.N. lenoy Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Hedworth 1 amb.

Hon. W: J. Gresson, Committee: The Stewards

A. Eaton, Handicappers; Mesers. H.. Whits and J. A. Japp, Clerks of the scales; Mr. H. Eaton, Judges; Mr. J. A. Jupp and Major W. J. Gedge, Starter; Mr. Marcus Slade 2nd Starter; Mr. M. S. Sassoon, Time Keeper; Mr. C. Gordon Mackie, Hon. Sec, soil)reasurer.

Distance GYMKHANA STAKES.Value $100.

One Mila. For all China Ponies. Catch weights at 10 st. 6 lbs. Winners of an open Griffin race 5-lbs. extra. Non-winning Sub. Boription Grifine allowed 5 lbs. Jockeys who. have won more than two oficial races in Hongkong, Shanghai or Tientsin allowed 5 lbs. A Cap called the Gymkhaus Cup will bo presented at the end of the Season to bo won by the Pony scoring most marks in the races for the Gymkhana Stakes at the Gymkhana Meetings during the Beason, counting 4 points or a first, 2 for a second; and 1 for a third. The benefit of marks already scored to pass with the Pony on à sale. Any win- ner of the race to carry 5 lbs. extra for anol win in subsequent starts for the Raco, but in the event of a pony carrying the penalty not wianing, 2 lbs. to be deducted next time be starts. Sach 2 1. to remain ected until he wins again, when he will carry the full Penalties without deduction. Penalties 'accumulative up to 15 lbs. Entrance Zee $5. 2nd Prize: $25. (Half entrance fees to go to winner.)

516s allowance (Mr. Mackie). Hon. Mr. W. J. Greason's Garth, 156lbs

Order-in-Council the prisoner could be ordered was given money to take care of, instead of do. to pay the costs of the proscation. There was ing that used it for his own purposes, that man about $5,000 in the hands of the Court.

His Lordship (to Mr. Douglas-If you like was guilty of fraudulent misappropriation The Crown therefore had to prove in this case, first, to consider the point-there is no necessity to

argne it now. be to.

ased for the require Mr. Douglas The money should be sent to that the accused yes entrusted with certain monies ments of the railway. They had also to the man's family prove that he need this money or part of it for his own benefit. It was clear from

His Lordship Gentlemen of the jury, you the evidence of His Excellency the Managing Director, and also from the whole history of the have listened patiently to this case and given Wright, that he was entrusted with monies

that you should get some sort of recompense. which he put in the International Bank, and You will be exempted from serving on a jury. cuts and the position held by Mr. Butler it every attention, and I think it is only right

The Crown Advocate had told the jury that the gineer, and would see from the total of defondant was not being tried with stealing s

were Mr. Douglas, in addressing the jury on behalf copper cunt of exchange, but he also said that the the pass hook and the accounts, that those It was also clear that the accused on three occasions of the defendant, after referring to the very matter of change was important to his case. The monies in the International Bank

The period of the stay of Harmaton's Circus tedious time they had had said he would like Crown appeared to have little confidence in the for the use of the railway first of all to deal with certain facts which had exchange charge, and that charge was dropped, removed money from the railway accounts in crept into the caso. It was natural in a matter The prosecution had not made any allowance the International Beak to his own account. in Hongkong is drawing to a close, ab it of so much importance as a charge being laid for loss on exchange, while the system Mr. Therefore he was in possession of certain money behoves all who have not seau the excellent

5The over (Owner) 2 against the accountant of the Canton-Kowloon Wright instituted for keeping a record of that which belonged to the railway funds, and performance provided by this combination to

was charged. It seemed to His Lordship Point a visit. To-night there will be Mr. Blank's Greyback, 1461bs. (Mr. Dapres) 3

te-mor- Mr. Dryssdusts Best Friend, 151 lbe Railway that that charge should orente a good was a perfectly scourate system. He had to

that the Crown had proved all that was second change of programme, and

146lbs * (Owner) 0 deal of excitement, stir and commotion. It was coal with varions currencies, and wanted to ko had committed the offence with which he lose no time in paying the tent at West Mr. John Johnstone's Hertzblatt, 1511s not altogether as natural; however, nor quite able to evolve a system of keeping accounts in

+ Penalty of 5bs. § Penalty of 15lbs, so necessary, that the rumours which were one currency, and did evolve a very clever

trophy presented by

Allowance of Elbs. going about should creep into print, and by system by which all his exchange should, proper. necessary. What, then, was the defence! The mow evening there will be a local amateur Mr. Sell's The Tortoise (inte Strathmilly

Points swarded up to date are as followe virtue of the written word receive canotion they ly speaking, be a bank transaction, Connsel prisoner's defence was that he thought he was riding competition, limited to six sutriss,

Garth were not yet entitled to. It was in consequence submitted that the accounts had not been entitled to mix his private money with the rail-for

It had been hold Colonel Bob Love, and no doubt there will f of that having happened that an application properly audited, and that the case against way money, and that he was entitled to draw On Friday there will be complimentary a erowded tent to bid adieu to the was made to change the venue of the trial to the accused had been very largely supported aonies from the railway accounts as long benefit to the veteran manager of Harmstons, Another attraction that night

Greyback secured the best of an indiferent Shanghai. But the fact that such an appli- by evidence of absconding. Some of it had not as he put them back. cation was made did not cast any reflection en been put before the jury as fairly as it might hundreds and hundreds of times that it was bo

to him and use it for himself, simply will be a high jump contest for local ponies and anybody, and if there was a feeling in the have-bas. The prosecution made ont that no defence for a man to take money sutrusted old soldier.

with a trophy by Madame Harmaton Love. For held the land for some time, until darth, passing Hertzblatt and The Tortoise, obtained minds of any of the jmors that it did cast the defendant was going away because he knew because he meant at some time or other to put it riders, the winner of which will be presented start. Garth being left at the post. Greyback

reflection, that fesling should be entirely there was going to be an audit of the accounts, back. Nearly every unfortunate clerk or 12

Garth overtook Greyback and a fine strug removed by the very high compliment which As a matter of fact he did know about the andit, fortunate solicitor one saw in the Old Bailey this event the tent, will be open for practice second place his order was maintained the Chief Justics of Shanghai corferred on the but he announced his intention of departing took money honestly with the intention of paying from 6.45 to 7.45 pm, from to-day so that the till the home straight was reached and then gle resulted Gartli obtaining the verdict by a neck from Hartzblatt. Time 2m 113 secs. community when he refused the application on openly. Other evidence, called to show that ho it back. But they could not pay it back at the ponies may get used to jumping in the lights.

IMPORT AND EXPORT OF LIQUOR, Parimutuel, 81620, Cash sweeps, $129-13, the opinion given by the Conenl-General at must have run away was because the things in time, and they were not able to pay it back

$36.90, $18.45. Canton that fifteen men could be obtained to his dat were parked up, and it took Counsel before the time came when the whole matter

came out. First of all, this. man Wright, The undermentioned places in the Colony are FIVE FURLONG HANDICAP. For all ponies give an impartial verdict. That was a veryuttle time to get the answer from Mr. Grove in

which have run at this season's Gymkhanas and liave not been placed first or second. high compliment to the community, and one the cross-examination that there might bave been

Entrance fee 85.. 1st Prize: Presented by community thoroughly deserved. Ha falt aura another reason, snd that reason was because although the money was borrowed as far back specified by His Excellency the Governor as

own ebowing attempt to par back to

spirite, may be imported-

Officers of the Garrison 2nd Prize $25 that the jurors would liston with absolute the defendant had to remove to Tangshan, The as September, 1908, did not, even on his places into which dutiable liquors and dentured 1. The place where the road from Sha Tan

(Entrance fees to go to winner.} -- impartiality to what he had to say, and that defendant was said to be absconding on account

Mr. C. BAntons Dukerry, 154-1bs-1-b- a certain time, paid-back some monies, but he Kok-to-Shek Chung Au- crossos the Chinese

frontier, the accused at their hands would have a per. af $9,000, wheress he left debts and assots in June. The defendant may have, after

overweight (Mr. Johnston) 0 did not inform anybody that he, was using

2. The and in Britial Territory of the bridge' footly square doul. He vishe, the jury to Canton which greatly exceeded that amount.

146 lbs 1lb overweight (Owner): 0 understand that the prisoner was not being Mr. Douglas submitted that it would have railway money, and he did not keep any between Lo Fong and the Lo Shu Ling Mr. L. K. Leeson's Soudan (late Forfar), arraigned for not keeping a proper system of been much more satisfactory to everyone

3. The landing place in British Territory of Major H. Findlay's Polo Blick, 145 lbs accounts, he was not being arraigned for making if a logram, had been sent to the British slip or record of the amounts red. Neither blockhouse.

4. The landing place

(Owner) 0 errors in keeping those accounts; he was not, Consul General at Shanghai requesting bim

Commodore H. Lyon's Cavalier, 140 lbs, draw it out of that and use it. Dealing within fact, being arraigned for transferring certain to ask Mr. Wright to return and explain he took this money, have a substantial eum in the En Fu Ferry in British Tozitory of Mr. Slater's Pioneer (lato. Todestt), 145 1

(Owner) 0 the amount which it was stated the accused was

sums of money from the account of William Then, if defalcations were found, he could have the bank at his own credit. He had talked the Lok Ms Chau Ferry.

(Mr. W. 8. Dupreo) 0 supposed to have tried to pay back, the Crow Butler Wright, chief accountant, to the account been charged with larceny, ombezzlement, or

1. The place where the road from Sha T'au A field of six faced the starler, and a fine. with that would have been to put it in as one against him was a charge of larceny: that was the jury had to try was determined on the ship should point out that there was to evidence from which dutiable Liquors and denatured Mr. Blank's White Heather, 1404bg. Adrõeste said the proper way to have dealt of William Butler Wright. The charge whatever was necessary. The mere 1880s the 4 m of money. It was only right his Lord.

favourita by & comfortable margin. Soudan clear earmarked transuotion: to pay it back of taking a sum of money; the property of the question of intention-intention to defrand the about this valuable patent medicine, and it was

2. The end in British Territory of the bridge led at the start from Pioneer who however one up to the Hongkong currency Chinese Government, and converting it to his Chinese Government of money. To here that really for the dendant to prove that he had Kok to Shok Chung An crosses the Chinese race ended in White Heather beating the

charge made out, the jury ought to be satisfied get these ample means to pay the railway money frontier.

came ap own me so as to permanently deprive the that there was, beyond any doubt, a shortage back. It was not so according to his pass book betreen Le Feng and the Lo Shu Ling block passed into first place at the village. Dunkerry

who brought up the rear, now of money, and to prove that shortage they With regard to the accused leaving the-Shahouse,

3. The landing place in British Territory of strong and took third place, In the straight. White Heather got well to the front and mode Chinese Government of the benefit of that sumi

had to be satisfied with reference to the men, one could not tell where he was going. He

4. The landing place in British Territory of

~(Continued on page 5) from somewhere or other in cash; and, then the larceny, but, for fraudulent conversion of cation put the loss as high as $270 no one knew. Anyhow, at a most important the Lok Ma Chan Ferry,

His Lordship-This man is not arraigned for question of exchange on which the prose might have been going to Shanghai or Japan; the Lo Fo Ferry. property,

was fed with certain irregularities, by the ible for his actions, then it was a

dismissal. Hongkong cartenoy account. Mr. Wright said the whole of the accounts in the Inter national Bank were the sturens his private account. It was an impossible position for anyons to say that he had the right to mix the money of his employers with his own Even if he was prepared to take a tremen dous risk in dealing with large, lamp sume of railway money, it was all the muore necessary for him, & man who had dealt with accounts for thirty years, to see that be kept those accounts in such a way that they could not possibly be mixed up with his own private account or the seconuts of any other persons, If the accased was content to say that he alone was responsible for the half-yearly balances, he should have been most careful that the Inter- national Bank was not led into error through - his living the accents in a somewhat similar name. If a man chose to deal with the money of others in a way in which he exposed himself to extra risk and in which he took the responsibility, then he was all the more liable for failuge in his trust. But the accused had shown by his actions that he did not think a. The defence was that he thought he had a perfect right. to draw these thras cheques, for his own private and innie- diate convenience, on the bank on any account he liked. If Mr. Batley Wright honestly thought he could on September 14th and December 30th, 1909, and on February 1st, 1909, draw a cheque for his own private purposes, or to oblige a friend or let out at interest, he would Tot have taken the trouble which he did, and which had been proved by the bank books, to first draw the money out of the tailway accounts, then put it in his own private account, and then

in

account in the International Bank. Instead of that was found an extremely complicated transaction of $4,000 taken out of one necount and put into another, and $9,000 brought in whole amount net squared up. This attempt

of money.

did he, so far as one could sacermin, at the trian

about his patent medicine, and also said he had

The following places are specified as places spirits may be exported; -

Triud

Best Friend Sportsman

(Mr. Scarlett