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An unusual situation was crent- ed in a case before Major C. Will- son at the Central Magistracy- yesterday afternoon when Mr. M. here the Cabinet has approved the K. Lo, while defending a Chinese appointment of Dovgalaveki as the merchant charged with trafficking Soviet Ambassador in Paris.tary of the Interior, and Harry aident Coolidge, who is convinced

in opium, announced that he would withdraw entirely from the case, in the event of his Worship ruling that certain documents seized in a Revenue Department raid are connected with the charge, and that they are admissible as such.

The announcement followed on a lengthy argument aa to the merits of a number of exhibits handed in, after which his Wor- ship adjourned the case in order to go more closely into the con- tents.

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where the charges were duly pre ferred..

Replying to Mr. Lo, witness said that when the defendant came to sec him, the defendant did not say that at the time of the raid he was not in the Colony, but witness was given to understand, irrespec- tive of dates, that defenda.it had been to Canton.,

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CONSPIRACY CASE OPENS IN SHOWS GENERAL PROSPERITY

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Washington, Oct. 19. The famous Teapot Doma cil A survey of economic conditions conspiracy case has opened, the in the United States has just been defendants, Albert Fall, ex-Secro-made for the information of Pre-

Sinclair, the multi-millionaire oil from study of the survey that a magnate, being charged with con-aatisfactory measure of pros- spiracy to defraud the Govern- perity now exists throughout the ment.

country, with every prospect of its Fall was previously tried on a continuance. charge of criminal conspiracy in Mr. Mellon, on behalf of the his dealings with Dahony, another Treasury, assured the President oil magnate, but the jury dis- that the monetary situation is sound and that there is adequate agreed.

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The jury in the present contains two women. At the open- ing of the case counsel for the de- fence contended that there were no questioned, witness requirements in law under which said that at this interview the Fall was obliged to dispose of oil impression conveyed by the de-lenses by competit re bids fendant was that he was out of the Reuter's American Service, Colony at the time of the raid, that he subsequently heard of it,

The case concerns Foo Yuk-yin, Who in addition to telug charged - with possession a small quantity of

both raw and prepared opium, was and that he went to see witness addressed. They were all date indicted on a more serious count about it. Nothing further took at a time when he was occupying of wholesale trafficking in the place in the interview, and de- the premises. They were retained drug, the fifth and last count read- fendant was immediately taken to ing as follows: "In the year the Central Police Station on in-by him there, and therefore they 1927, the defendant did aid, abet,structions

must be genuine lettera addressed from the Assistant counsel or procure the commission, Superintendent. The

charges in the Philippines, of an oflence when preferred at the Station punishable under the provisions of were not preferred in witness' a corresponding law in force in that place..." The correspond- ing Hongkong Ordinance was also quoted,

presence,

to him.

Importance of Letters.

these letters to substantiate your Major Willson-Do you rely on

case entirely?-

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President Coolidge expects that a reduction of taxation will be pos- sible next year. Reuter's Ameri- can Service.

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The prosecution had not obtain-i On the point of admissibility of ed the ledgers tallying with the the correspondence into the ovid Trip to Canton.

period covered by the letters, ence, Mr. Carrie quoted a parallel which of course, was unfortunate. case of a man who was charged Mr. Lo thought this a convenient If they had the ledgers with the with obtaining money by false Mr. Carrie, Assistant Superin stage to hand in statements made entries exactly corresponding with pretences through the medium of tendent of the Imports and Ex-by the defendant in reply to those the statements in the letters, then the post, and he submitted that as ports Office, in opening the case charges, and read one of these they should have a strong con-in that case, he for the prosecution, stated that on statements as follows:-"On June irmation, but they hadn't. They answerable for those letters ad- defendant was July 16 last, Senior Revenue 20, I went to Canton to get my eyes had got ledgers tallying with the dressed to him. Officer G. Watt raided premises cured. This opium does not be years 1925, 1926 and for the early necupied by the defendant at long to me. When the Inspector part of the present year, which No. 20, Wing Kat Street. second arrived, I was not in the house. entries tallied, but they had not floor, where he found a hot opium Afterwards my wife informed me the period covered by the letters.

Mr. Lo disagreed, and after pipe and a lamp still burning, as that a man named Lai left it there The case therefore, would have to which might be said to guide MC quoting "general principals" if the smoker had just left. The when he went there and paid a stand on these letters, but as Mr. Carrie in his aubmission stated daughter of the defendant, when visit."

Carrie had pointed out, a lot of that such interrogated, said it was her

principals With the evidence of Senior items in the ledgera-ran in a de- absent from father's and gave his name. S.R.O. Revenue Officer Watt, the prosecu-finite sequence, there were pointsHe pointed out that the

the present case, Watt found a small quantity of tion said they had closed their of connexion between these and fendant WAS *away opium, and also correspondence case, except for the putting in of the letters, and Mr. which was concealed under the translations of the

Carrie sub-period of the raid, and that the documents mitted therefore, that these points possibility should be considered of mattress or kept on the person of seized in the raid. In this con must be admitted as evidence of somebody else in the house using one of the defendant's daughters.nexion, Mr. Carrie stated that it the contents.

defendant's name and address for All these letters referred to would be seen that the date of the opium-dealing referred to under letters were prior to the defend

the safety and convenience of the trade. Mr. Lo put this forward other charges also a small quanti-ant's alleged departure to Canton, ty of raw opium was also found but they were addressed to him

by way of amplifying the position in favour of the defendant, firstly contained in one of the letters. under his proper name and ad-

Mr. Carrie-Practically

that those letters were not found These with certain other docu- dress, which was the Wing Cheung

these letters.

His Worship; That makes it he was not discovered writing, re- on the defendant, secondly that ments of an even more open nature shop at No. 20, Wing Kat Street, were collected by S.R.O. Watt, and These letters formed A definite very important.-

plying, or handling any of the let taken

Translations of sequence and they talked one with "A" and "B" deal with the definite were many missing links in the Mr. Carrie-Yes, and Charges ters in question. In short there away. these letters had been prepared another. They mentioned the and would be submitted. Regard- sailing of certain vessels-Mr. finding of illicit opium-raw and case against the defendant which ing the oplum seized it was of a Carrie had verified the sailings of prepared-in the house.

would have made a prima facie small quantity, and no great im- every one of these vessels and they portance was placed on it except corresponded with the dates of the that its presence tended to con letters-and they mentioned that Mr. Lo said he was glad that firm that the defendant was deal goods might be sent to Amoy. It this point of procedure was thus ing in opium.

was from this port that the de-made early by the prosecution as Hearsay Evidence.

fendant criginated.

he had reserved his argumenta un til a clearer indication was given Letters from Manila. Senior Revenue Officer Watt

him of the lines on which the case then proceeded to give evidence. The letters mentioned, a man would be proceeded with against concerning the raid and the dis-known as Uncle Sheng Kwai in the the defendant. He was prepared Mr. Carrie then alluded to the covery of the opium and docu-Ching Chow district, and it was

"to make a present" to the prosecu-admissibility of the ledgers, ments, until an objection was also verified that defendaht came

tian there and then, in rat accept whereupon Mr. Lo declared that raised by Mr. M. K. Lo against the from that district. There

ing the bonafides and admissibility there was nothing in these to con- inclusion of a statement made by certain other letters from Manila, of the translation without disputé; nect defendant-nothing to show one of the defendant's daughters which mentioned a man named So and secondly, in conceding that even that he was a partner of the in reply to witness's interrogation. Heurg. They had got a

book,

the entries in the letters such as firm. To go into this would be Mr. Lo said that this evidence was namely the Wing Cheung firm several cattles of goods" and so working around again in a circle merely hearsay, and in any case, book, which tallied with clienteler, were capable of the meaning in proceeding with the case. It his defence would be that at the in Manila. So Heung's name was given to them by the prosecution. would be tantamount to reopen Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. time of the raid, the defendant mentioned in the book, it also oc- the onus having been thrown on the as that of "n wretched amah with But only on this condition, that ing the case when evidence such was absent from the Colony on a curred in letters addressed to the defendant to prove that these a visit to Canton, and that anything defendant Foo.

four-months-old baby on her in the nature of ex-parte state-lish address was also given, some

Where the Eng-words were innocent of the sig-back" was called upon to give evi-

nificance ments during this period would be curious spelling

alleged, effects

Lu dence that the defendant was a inadmissible.

witnessed, but in all cases, the

must given

an assurance partner of the firm and had sub- His Worship noted the objection. Chinese addresses were correctly prepared to stand, or fall on capital to the concern."

that the prosecution were scribed several million dollars' Resuming, Senior Revenue Om-given. cer Watt anid that the pre-

His Worship intimated that he Further confirmation was ob-seeking to call further evidence.

those translations alone, without

would have to go carefully through mises which he entered were tained from letters from Manila,

Mr. Carrie said he required time the letters and ledgers before arranged as living and office revealing transactions made to go seriatim into the documents giving his ruling on the point of quarters, and in the course of the through a bank called the Ting before admitting such documents admissibility of those letters. He search he came upon a loaded re- Yat Bank," with a note recording as he considered had an important proposed to adjourn for a week. volver with defendant's photo ap- the receipt of a letter from. So bearing on his case.

Mr. Lo: My position is this; If pearing in the corresponding arms Heung through the Ting Yat licence.

Mr. Lo I understand that Mr. your Worship says that these do- Bank.

Carrie's position is this that so far cuments are admissible, I shall Sometime after the search, at; Letters were found concealed, as facts in evidence are concerned, and allow defendant to make his withdraw entirely from the case 5.30 p.m. on September 30, the and in one of these a small quanti-his case is finished. It is for defendant came to witness office ty of raw opium was found, and your Worship to admit or not to own explanation of the entries, and on the instructions of Mr. Mr. Carrie submitted that the admit this correspondence. In excepting advising him as to what Carrie, the Assistant Superinten- opium and letters could not be other words, the prosecution is: he should do. dent, witness took him into custody there without the knowledge of closed subject to the admissibility next Wednesday afternoon, at 2.15. The case was adjourned until to the Central Police Station, the defendant to whom they were of those leters.

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