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WILL.

OLD MAN'S APPEAL FOR LENIENCY.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1928.

"Interviewed Barrister.

Mr. Hin-shing Lo, a local bars rister-at-law, stated that he knew the defendant alightly, this being one day in early November Inst when defendant came to his office and introduced himself as being a teacher at a night-school. De With tears coursing down his fendant also said he know a young check, a father at the Central Police nephew of witness, after which ho Court yesterday afternoon appeal-produced a document which ap ed to the Magistrate for clemency peared to witness, after & cursory for his youngest son, charged

Mr. H. K. Woo, partner in the firm of Woo and Nash, solicitors and public notaries, stated that ho took the necessary steps to obtain probate, and in so doing expended $64.10 for which he had not yet been reimbursed.

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with glance, to be genuine, and asked forging his will with the intention witness to help him realise the of obtaining possession of his payment of the estate due on it. alender estate. The old man fear-He said he was orphaned, without ed that the news of the son's employment or friends, and asked plight would cause the mother to witness to take pity hira

Witness rang.up Mr. H. K. Woo commit suicide.

There were other charges pre-on the telephone and asked him to ferred against the accused, a prepare the necessary documents young man of 18, one of these to obtain probate.. being that he committed perjury by swearing a false will at the Registrar's Office, and represent ing bis father as being deceased.

The Assistant Crown Solicitor (Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith), who pro- secuted with Dotective Sergeant

He wrote to the Hongkong and Whant; said the case was evident- ly an attempt to raise money. Shanghai Bank, and arranged that What Lau Shu-look, the defendant, defendant was to call at the Bank. did was to steal three deposit re- with one of the office staff to col ceipts belonging to his father. léct the money. Before this ap- Two of these were deposit notespointment could be carried out, with the Kee Fook Yuk firm of Sergeant Whunt had informed wine-dealers at Bonham Strand, him, on December 31, that the for $1,000. They were cashed by defendant's father was alive. defendant, and now formed the subject of the larceny charge. There seemed to be no false. re- presentations about it. This firm knew both the father and the son, and had no objection to cashing the notes as they thought he had an implied authority from the old

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Father's Evidence.

The next witness was the de- fendant's father, who gave his evidence with great reluctance. WIS the He said defendant youngest of three sons, whom he left behind in"Hongkong when he returned in October of last year, to the country..

Solicitors Deceived.

The strike had ruined his Another of the deposit receipts business and with no prospect even which he stole, was one on the of employment, he had retired to longkong and Shanghai Bank for the country after drawing a Sum $1,500 forming the subject of the of $50, on one of the two $600 de- other four charges. Defendant reposit accounts with the Kec Fook cognised he would have more dif-

Yuk firm. fculty with this receipt. He must have realised that his father's chop and signature before. the necessary

were

money

could be obtained, and failing these. what he did was to spread a report of the fictitious death of his father. He then for- ged, or had someone else to forge, the will, and sought probate on this from the Supreme Court. through a frm of solicitors, Messrs. Woo and Nash. The so- Reitors were deceived by this per- fectly plausible document, and they carried out his instructions.

The first charge was simply one of larceny, but it was the first stage in a line of conduct which led up to forgery and. perjury.

Probate Proceedings. The charge of uttering a forged will in Count B took place, Mr. Whyte-Smith submitted, when de- fendant took the document to Mr.

When he returned to Hongkong, some time later, he found that all three deposit slips which he had left in a box, had disappeared.

He did not give authority to his son on this occasion to cash the deposit slips, although previously he had been sent to the Bank to draw, various sums. In spite of many opportunities, in this direc- tion, his son had never misappro printed a cent.

An Appeal for Leniency: There was an affecting scene when, with tears running down his check, the old man appealed for leniency for the youth, stating he had been led astray by a bad com- panion whom he named. His wife, witness said, would take her life if she ever heard of the posi tion in which her youngest son was now placed.

His Worship said it was for. H. K. Woo and directed proceed-witness to appeal to the mercy of ings to be taken for a probate to be the Judge at the Supreme Court) case came before the granted. Mr. Woo took those pro- when the ceedings and incidentally com- latter for trial. His Worship mitted himself to an outlay of noted the appeal, and the old man's

remarks in that connexion. money which had not been covered sinee.

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Not a Simple Matter.

Mr. Whyte-Smith said this fur-

In order to obtain probate. the defendant was obliged to make two affirmations, thereby commit-nished the explanation why it was ting himself to the two perjury necessary for the defendant to go to the extent of forging a will and charges of D and E.

After probate was obtained, Mr. securing a probate on it. He had Woo forwarded this document, not found it the simple matter it together with the depositer's slip, was when he presented the first to the Hongkong and Shanghai two slips with the Kee Yuk Fook Banking Corporation: and that, firm Mr.. Whyte-Smith, submitted, 'was endeavouring, by the defendant, to obtain the sum of $1,500 by means of false pretences, by means of a forged will, or, on a probite, ob- tained on two affirmations which were known to be false,

Evidence was then called.

A detailed statement of the charges was then read to the de- He was accused of fendant. stealing nearly $1,000 on the first two deposit receipts with the native firm; of uttering a forged will and presenting it to Megers. Woo and Nash; of perjury before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Registrar the Registrar by swearing two of the Court, formally proved the false affirmations in respect of the swearing of the two faise affirma-forged will; and uttering this with tions, which he-produced, together the view to obtaining with the probate granted on these $1,500 from the Hongkong and false affirmations.

Shanghai Bank. To these charges, In the false will, the defendant's defendant replied that he was not father, Lau Po-san, was represent-responsible for the forging of the ed as having died on a certain will, being in effect, directed by date. An armation by another two evil, companions whom he man' in connexion with the same named.

The hearing was then adjourned application for a probate, was also

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