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THE TREASURY FRAUD ACTION.

BANK CASE DRAWS ON TO ITS CLOSING STAGES.

SPEECHES TO-MORROW,

Yesterday was the fourteenth day of the hearing of the action in which the Government claims for the re-crediting of $200,000 by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.

LUFTHANSA SERVICE.

CURTAILMENT FOLLOWS THE LOSS OF SUBSIDY.

Berlin, May 13.

As a result of the reduction of the Lufthansa subsidy last month,

the Company's sunimer time-table

shows that various services, not- ably to foreign countries, have

been cut out.

Only 4,375,000 miles will be flown in 1929, "compared with $250,000 last year.

The case Foreign aviation companies for

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ed to finish at the end of this week. Rontor.

It seems likely that Mr. Jenkin will address the jury to-morrow. After that will come the speech by leading counsel for the Govern. mont and the summing up by the Chlef Justice,

1.

Mr. Polter concluded his cross- examination of Professor Shellshear yesterday afternoon, the last ques- Lions being concerned with details of handwriting.

Professor Shellshear was then re-examined by Mr. Jenkin. Wit ness said he was retained by the Bank on January 19, 1928, as a re- sult of a telephone communication. Replying to his Lordship, witness said he could not remember the time. or whether it was in the morning or the afternoon. He first saw the three disputed cheques at the about a week afterwards Central Police Station, with Mr. T. I. King and Dr. Dovey.

Asked how it was that Dr. Dovey was present, witness, sald Mr. King told him that he was showing the cheques to Dr. Dovey and asked witness if he would like to go along and see them. Witness according- ly went.

Professor Shellshear further said that he was approached by Mr. King either on the same day that he was retained by the Bank or the next day. Witness's frst ference with Mr. Jenkin was late In the year 1928, as witness went to Australia in the Spring and did not return ust September.

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on Mr. Jenkin then went question Professor Shellshear with regard to experts and the expert's views in the Wakefield case.

Counsel stated in the case the expert we asked to give evidence upon the question as to whether two short words "and wife" were In the same handwriting an the signature which preceded them. which was that of Bishop Wakefield. Witness said he had read the statement in the judgment as to the effect of that man's evidence. He had also seen a work written by the expert after the Wakefield case.

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FUND OPENED FOR SIR RONALD ROSS.

London, May 13.

In a letter to the Press, Sir James, Barr appeals to the public to subscribe to the One Million Shillings National Testimonial to Sir Ronahi Ross, whose health has been seriously impaired by his strenuous research work in the tropics, and who has been obliged for some years to draw on his capital for family necessities. ruter.

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fluence and In that examiner might fall into the error of anying that the signatures were not by the same man.

"I Am Fatigued.".

Sir Henry Gollan commented that it gave one furlously to think when an expert said that the same pen pressure was shown in all his signatures.

Witness again said thut every signature he had ex- amined showed the same quality of pun pressure, causing the Chief Justice to say "Mr. Black must be a man of an extraordinarily equable temperament."

At one stage of the re-examina-1 tion, in reply to Mr. Jenkin, Pra- fessornellshear' said "I am quite clear in my head hut I am fatigued."

Mr. Jenkin: The signatures of Mr. Messer and Mr. Black in the disputed cheques, They show no signs of hesitation, or distress, or wenkness or anything like that? None whatever.

Do they appear vigorous signa- lures? Yes.

Just as in the known genuine signatures? Yes.

And having made an exhaustive examination of the pen pressue in the disputed cheques and the genuine cheques do you repeat that the pressure an recorded is identical in both cases?—I do.

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Mr. Jenkin And In that case. while referring to the Wakefield

Sir Henry Gollan said that the case, does he state that sometimes the probabilities of a disputed modern burglar about to crack a writing, being that of another per-safe armed himself with the latest son, are so great that it could be blow-pipe known to science. The ntated with certainty that the one forger could similiarly equip him

self with n'microscope and by look- is by the other?—Yes.

ing carefully at the signature to be copied could find just where the peni pressure was. In reply Professor Shellshaar said, he did not think n man could copy the pen pressure with one movement of the brain and hand. In reply to another question by is Lordship witness was understood to say that if the signattires on the disputed cheques were fargerles they were marvel- lous.

Mr. Jenkin was proceeding to further question witness, when hin Tardship held that he could not do so whereupon counsel referred to the case of Adolph Beck,

Professor Shellshear agreed that certain atatements had been read to him as evidence of that case, Witness snid that he bad since made Home further search with regard to it and he had found that to the expert's credit it must be said that the question being as to whether

Questioned about the endorse-

or not the handwriting was that of ments on the three disputed che Beck, he was given as handwrit-ques counsel asked witness how that ing, handwriting which was, in could be done, assuming that they fact, not that of Beck, among were three types of writing by the

but other specimens,

WOB the sume man. Witness replied that it writing of another man named would be quite a simple process. If the man changed his hold on the pen Smith.

he would therefore change his grip and his pressure,

In reply to further questions by Mr. Jenkin, Professor Shellshear said he had examined a great num- ber of cheques with regard to pen pressure and said he had found no cases where the pressure of Mr. different. Black's signature wa from that on the disputed cheques. Questioned by the Chief Justice

Sir Henry Gollan: Then in these thousands of signatures Mr. Black must have held his pen in the same way:

Witness was understood to say that that was so.

The re-examination of Professor

on the question of pen pressure Shellshear concluded by the time witness said that his own signa- the Court rose yesterday afternoon, ture might vary if one was wrliten. In reply to Is Lordship Mr. when he went into the witness box Potter said the Government would and another after be had been in put in a Hat of questions on the the box for some time. The state issues of the case and the points of of a man's mind might have an in- law involved, ..

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