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THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929.

TREASURY FRAUD DUTCH ASTRONOMIST, SHANTUNG CONTROL.

SÉQUEL.

THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF MR. BLACK.

A "MARE'S NEST."

AWARDED MEDAL BY U.S. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.

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Supreme Court yesterday, Mr: T. vice; Black, Accountant in the Tron- sury, was cross-examined by Mr. F. C. Jonkin, Counsel for the would also have looked to see the Hongkong and Shanghai bank,

line filling, in the remainder of the After the tiffin adjournmont Mr tank apace and the dots indicat H. E. Lammert, the foreman of the ing that there were no conts in the special jury, addressed His Lord-amount of the cheque. He would ship in connexion with the ad- notice the absence of these things journment over the visit of the Duke of Gloucester and was understood to ask that the Court should not sit on Friday,,

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Peking, Apt. 24.

KOWLOON WEDDING.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO TAKE INTERESTING CEREMONY AT

OVER 'SHORTLY.

ROSARY CHURCH.

Washington, Apr. 24.

The wedding was solemnised at The National Academy of Mr. Yoshizawa postponed his Rosary Church, Kowloon, yester Science has awarded the James trip to Hankow at the last mo-day afternoon, the Rev. Fr. Spada Craig Watson medal to Doctar ment when he received a tele- officiating, of Misa Louisa Gill, William Desitter, the Dutch phone call from Nanking that Mr. astronomist, whose researches have At the resumed haaring of the resulted in a new theory of re- T. Wang, the Foreign Minister, daughter of Mrs. P. M. Gill and the was informing him that he had late Mr. Arthur Gill and Mr. Treasury fraud action in thelativity Reuter's' American

received a telegram from Marshal A, M. B. da Rocha, son of Mr. Chiang Kai-slick stating that he AJ: C. da Rocha and the late Mrs. had definitely to inform the JC..B. da Rocha, panese that arrangements would be made for taking over Shankung The bride, who was given away within a day or two-Koufer. by her brother, Mr. A. A. Gill, was charmingly gowned in Ivory the Treasury, after Chung Man- natin and lace, with silver shoes kun had returned from the bank and carried a beautiful bouquet with the memorandum, witness of arum lilies. She was attended anid he came on the scene from by the Misses Beatrice Gill and

and Zaida Barros another part of the office found them at his deak. They had the memorandum, two coun- terfoils and the passbook. Teang did not then make any statement to witness about the cover of une of the cheque books having been altered and that there WAS a shortage of 30 cheques. Such a roport was not made to witness by Chung Man-kun and when he His Lordship pointed out that (witness) took the stubs to the there was no need for Mr. Jenkin Bank he did not then know that to state his defence at that stage, any cheques were missing,

When Mr. Jenkin suggested that but if he was going to suggest a trick of that kind then he would his visit to the Bank was of a have to refer to it when he open-friendly nature, Mr. Black replied "I intended to be quite friendly- ed his case.

as friendly na one can be with the Hongkong Bank." He continued that the sole object of his visit to the Bank was to get the disputed cheques. He did hot know why Government auditors also went.

Sir Henry Gollan consulted Counsel and it was decided that at the end of the afternoon hear- ing the Court should adjourn until Monday morning.

Continuing his cross-examina- tion of Mr. Black, Counsel for the Bank dealt with the end of the year rush in the Treasury and asked how many vouchers witness | checked in December. Mr. Black replied that the books showed that 1,112 vouchers were dealt with, but it was probable that numbers of these were not passed by him until the following month.

Mr. Jankin: As far as humanly possible you tried to get the vouchers checked and through by the end of the year?-Yon.

The checking process would be at its highest at the end of the month 7-Yes,

Signing Cheques.

Mr. Black was also questioned about the signing of cheques and said that it was not an inflexible rule that Mr. Messer should sign frat. On occasions witness had signed before Mr. Menser. Asked how often that occurred, he said he could not say, but it was not a frequent occurrence. It would not particularly occur at the end of the year even.

Mr. Jenkin produced a cheque which Mr. Black admitted was not signed by himself. Asked to account for this he said It must have been an oversight on his part. In reply to other questions witness said he had examined the corresponding voucher for the cheque and had found it quite in order.

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Witness also admitted that cheque had gone out without Mr. Messer's, signature, and with re- gard to another one Issued during this year and not signed by wit ness he sald it was probably an oversight on the part of the shrof.

Mr. Jenkin: Cheques which re- quire your signature are lying about on your desk? They are on my

desk during working hours.

If you leave the office are the

cheques left there?—Yes,

In reply to further questions relative to signing, witness said he naturally paid a greater amount of attention to cheques for large amounts than those for

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form.

Possible Tricks.

'Mr. Jenkin held up photographs of three cheques no that only the bottom part of each cheque waa visible and asked witness if he had ever signed cheques while lying like that. Witness replied that he had not.

Mr. Jenkia: Then there are no circumstances under which you can sign a chèque by trickery? If you will kindly suggest one I will tell you. That one was too simple.

Not a very good effort?-No. Counsel asked witness to assume that the Katz cheque had.coma to him with the amount written as $86 instead of 386,000 and asked if the cheque could have been signed in that form.

Witness replied that he would' have looked to Bec the words

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If such a thing did pass you it would be simple to add the re- nininder of the wording and the figures? could not do it myself. it might be simple for a really good forger, say for the man who forged the cheques.

Mr. Potter interjected and said he thought they ought to know whether a trick of this kind was going to be suggested by the Bank. if so it might lead to grave con- sequences.

No Idea of the Trick.

Mr. Jenkin explained that his case was that the signatures were genuine, the other side saying among other things they were not genuine because of the large

A Different Story? amounts of the cheques. He said

Mr. Jenkin then questioned wit- that the trick hypothesis as he hadness as to evidence he had given leseribed it would be developed at the Criminal trial of Carvallio during the case. Ho had merely Yeo, when he had said that at the put to Mr. Black one form of

Bank he did not say anything aboy: trick by which the aignatures the handwriting in the body of might have been obtained.

the cheques not being that of Tasang On-wing. Witness agreed that Chat evidence was correct, upon which Mr. Jenkin pointed out that witness had said in the pru- sent trial that, when at the Bank, he had then told the oflicials that the handwriting was not that of Tsang On-wing.

"I do not know how they were tricked, if they were tricked. have not the remotest idea," said Mr. Jenkin.

Mr. Potter said that was what Lhey wished to know.

His Lordship pointed out that the possible trick referred to would also involve the vouchers and suggested that Mr. Jenkin should develop his questions on these lines.

Mr. Jenkins Assuming that at the rush period that you did relax your checking of the individual Items, vouchers could be slipped in among the large number which would accompany a number of

if you cheques?—Yes, that.

assume

And some vouchers are of the simplest nature 7-Yes.

The Discovery of the Fraud. Counsel went on to deal with the discovery of the fraud and asked if it occurred to anyone to ask Tong On-wing to assist in clearing up the matter. Witness replied that Tanng was asked about it, when the thirty cheques were found to be missing. As far as witness was concerned when he went to the Bank and when he ro turned he reported to Mr. Messer Did Mr. Messer send for Teang? Yea, he told him to bring in the other choque stubs.

Can you remember any inquiry being directed at Tsang On-wing? -I think I recall him saying some- thing in Mr. Messer's office about from the bank. two cheque books coming short

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In reply to this, Mr. Black stated that at the previous trial Mr. Jenkin's questioning did not enable him (witness) to give a proper narrative,. They were more or less all over the place.

Mr. Jenkin: You said we were "all over the Ince," whatever that may mean, and for that rea- son you

couldn't give a proper narrative. Were we more "all over the place" then than we are now?--Yes.

In what way? Because it was very difficult for me to follow your questioning.

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ALLEGED THEFT.

CHINESE SHOP LOSES OVER $5,000.

A big theft is said to have been perpetrated at the premises of a Chinese flour.company, No. 300 Dos Voeux Rond Central, involving the loss of $5,253.38. According to information available, it appears that, the money was in banknotes, and was missing some time between Tuesday evening and yesterday morning.

Early in the morning, when the accountant found that money was missing he made a report to the po- Hee, who lost no time in making en- quiries. Suspicion fell on a dis- missed fokl, who had left his employ- ment in the company some time Inst January, and returned to the shop tɔ sleep on Tuesday night, leaving the premises yesterday.

The Police, it is reported, raided the Asin Hotel, Des Voeux Road Central, yesterday, and the suspect- ed foli was detained when found staying in the hotel. It is also stated that in a drawer in the room were

about $4,000, eight $600 Shanghai found banknotes, to the value of banknotes being included.

An Explanation. about this question. "Did you any Tell me what was the difficulty anything about Messer's signature or Tsang On-wing's handwriting? No."-Probably. was thinking of the interview at LLOYD GEORGE'S SON, Mr. Hegarty's desk at that time.

that stage they had not come to Mr. Jenkin pointed out that at the discussion at Mr. Hegarty's desk,

Mr. Black and he expected that the matter had slipped his memory. That was his only reason. He was just as clear on the point as he had always been.

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It is learned that the N. Y. K.

Shanghai'office has received a tele gram from their London Office, through. Tokyo, to the effect that Mr. Jenkin: Yet you denied it the son of Mr. Lloyd George, Mafor to me when I asked you that ques-wife left London on the 6th Instant Lloyd Gwyllam George, and his tion on this earlier occasion.

1 put it to you that the dia- covery of the fact that the cheque hook had been tampered with and

Mr. Jenkin asked:-Am. I to by the Kashima Maru, using the that another thirty cheques were

understand you suggest that by N. Y. K. round-the-world ticket. the time the meeting at the Bank missing was made without any

The Major is 35 years of age, a ivas concluded, everybody con graduate of Cambridge and a mem.. assistance at all from Tsung Oncerned should have been clear, bybor of the Liberal Party. He won when the other thirty cheques these three cheques were forged?ing as wing? I think he gave assistance reason of your protestation, that his scat in Parliament when stand- were missing.

What assistance?-I think he said that two books had come short from the bank. As far as I remember I think he said some. thing about it while in the Trea- surer's office.

In any event that is all that he said?-1 was not in the office at the time.

No Report Made, Speaking of the gathering of

candidate for Pembroke- Yes, they should have been,

shire, seven years ago. vernment auditors returned to the Do you know that the twd Go-

Major and Mrs. Lloyd George Treasury in the belief that it was are due to arrive in Shanghai on. à "Mare's Nest" and was a mía-May 16. on their way to Japan conception on the part of Mr.where, after two weeks of eight- Musser? They may have.

seeing, they leave for San Fran- not heard the expression "Mare's from Yokohama on June B. They Witness continued that he had cisco by the Talyo Maru sailing

Nest" used.

will-stay In America about 20 The case was adjourned until days, after which they intend leav half past ten on Monday moring Montreal for Liverpool by the

Duchess of Richmond on July 12.

"dollars eighty-six only." He Mr. Messer and Tsang. On-wing at ning next.

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