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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

ALTERCATION ENDS FATALLY.

FORGED SINGAPORE BANK NOTES.

FURTHER EVIDENCE AGAINST | SIX MONTHS SENTENCE FOR

A JAPANESE.

LICENSED HAWKER.

a

The services of a Japanese in- Before Mr. Butters, at the terpreter were requisitioned when Central Police Court yesterday' a murder charge against Fumia Fukien Chinese was charged Hagiwara, the quartermaster of with being in possession of the s.s. Saka Maru, was begun be- fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kew- forged $10 Hongkong and loot Magistracy yesterday morning. Shanghai. Bank note and 22 The accused is charged with the one-dollar Straits Settlements murder of a Japanese carpanter. notes. Sogara Mishima, on board the ship, which was lying in Victoria Harbour, on August 23.

Mr. T. G. Bennett appeared for the defence.

Detectivo Sergeant Flattery pro- Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Public Prosecutor, conducted the secuted and, in detailing the facts that at prosecution. Instructed by Mr. of the case, mentioned Murphy, A.SP.. whilst Detective about 11.30 pm on August 10, à Sub-Inspector Dorling also was in Chinese revenue officer had re- Court. The accused was unde-ceived certain information and ar- fended.

rested the defendant, whom he saw in Graham Street. He did not search the defendant but took him back to the Revenue Office where he was searched by R. O. Grimmitt.

In the stocking of defendant's left leg were nine $1 Straits Settle- ments notes and the $10 Hongkong note while in his other stocking were the other Straits Settlements notes."

Chief Officer's Evidence. The Chief Officer, Matsumoto Rihee, was called next. He said that on the night of August 22 he was awakened by the quarter- master on watch and was inform- ed about the incident. He went to the main deck and saw the carpenter lying at the bottom of the ladder. The bo'sun and the accused also came to the place. Mr. E. R. Dovey gave evidence of The carpenter was lying on discrepancies in the notes found on his face and could not speak. the defendant when, compared with There was blood all over the deck,genuine notes which had peen sup The accused told him that heplied by the Hongkong and Shang- (accused), had injured the car hai. Bank. Witness indicated that penter, and asked witness to do the forgeries were detected by the his best to save the man. Accused inaccuracles in the details. He was carrying a knife, which he pointed out that in the forged notes handed to witness. There was Dien was spelt Dieo. blood on the point of the knife about one and a half inches up the blade.

genuine note the forgery. Witness replied that he had compared the notes with more than one genuine note.

In reply to Mr. Bennett, witness admitted that the discrepancies were detected by comparison with Witness attended to the car-1 notes stated to be genuine but penter. There was only one which he himself could not swear wound about two inches wide in were genuine. the front of the left armpit. Mr. Bennett pointed out to wit- There was no doctor on board.ness that the converse would apply, The carpenter was bandaged-up remarking that as far as witness' and left lying on the deck Wit-own knowledge went the forged ness went up to the Captain's note might be genuine and the room and hoisted the signal for the police. When he came back to the main deck, he found the clothes taken from the injured man. The carpenter died about

Mr. Bennett then pointed to an hour afterwards. When the varicus details in the forgeries police arrived and the body was and, from the point of view of the taken ashore, witness and the art of craftsmanship, asked wit- accused accompanied the police. ness if they were not more accurate There was no trouble at all be-than in the genuine note, witness tween the accused and the de- agreeing. ceaned. In fact, they were good friends. Before the carpenter died the accused shaved his head (a mark of grief).

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Mr. G: W. E. True, of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking Cor- poration, testified to the $10 note being a very untidy and crude Yoshio Harada, the quarter- forgery. The ordinary person master who was, on watch that might be deceived but anybody, night, said he saw accused and who handled notes daily, would not deceased together in the quarter-likely be deceived. Compared with master's cabin. The deceased other forgeries of bank notes wit- was shouting out and accused ness said that he would say the one was begging his pardon for some-in question was a very poor speci thing which witness, did not mer. know. The deceased was drank, but he could not say whether the accused was drunk, though he had had some drinks. As witness went up the ladder he, heard shouts from the direction of the

no evidence on which a jury could the same time, had borrowed $7. COMEDIAN ON "HARD cabin. It was the deceased's

find that the note, with which the The man had intimated that he had valce. After doing a round on alleged forgeries had been the deck he came to where thepared, was genuine. He pointed no local currency and handed a beli was amidships and there be out that it was necessary to call parcel containing the notes to de-'RILLY MERSON DISCLOSES heard the sound of a slap coming somebody who would be able to

fendant until he returned with the from the direction of the quarter-awear that the note produced for He had failed to return and, on necessary money in local currency. master's cabin, and also more comparison was a genuine one. He

Evidence was then given by a Chinese revenue officer, who made the arrest, and R. O. Grimmitt, who had the defendant searched.

Mr. Bennett submitted there was

com-

TIMES."

Billy Merson: I have earned on the average £35 a week but I have my staff to keep.

Judge Tobin: What do you pay" the staff?-Ten pounds a week. HIS EARNINGS.

Well that left you about · £330 That he only made £7 or £8 a in the last 13 weeks. Why is it haven't paid. anything?—

than that judgment.

talking. He recognised the voice recalled the Carvalho Yco case in opening the parcel, the defendant week for himself was stated by you

had found the $10 note He sus Billy Merson, the "comedian, at There were more pressing ones:

'struck me." . After a

of the accused who said, "You which the signatures of the Hon.pected that something was wrong Westminster County Court

further Mr. C. Mel. Messer were in dis-

Mr. W. P. Doyle, barrister, for round witness came back to the pute. He pointed

out that Mr. as the man had told him he had

no local money, He had gone to John Horne, Ltd., printers, Char- same place and looked down to Messer had gone into the box and Graham Street, to find the man ing Cross-road, applied for an the main deck. He ALT the said that, while one signature, was

when he was arrested.

order or a judgment against the deceased walking backwards along genuine, the other was a forgery the deck followed by the accused.and he had spent a whole day ex-

A ricksha coolie gave evidence comedian, whose real name is Mr. The accused started to take off plaining why one was a forgery. that he saw a man hand a parcel to William Henry Thompson.

On April 10; in the High Court, his coat, when the deceased The only way the police could prove the defendant. staggered. Witness heard groans, their case in the present instance

judgment was obtained for $117 and £61 costs by plaintiffs against and at once shone his torch and would be to call the printers of the

Mr. Thompson. Up to the present saw the deceased lying on the Straits Settlements notes. deck with blood all round. Wit-

His Worship held that the mis- ness,reported to the Chief Officer spelling of the word Dieu was auf-sonable explanation, immediately.

ficient evidence of forgery..

Accused's Story.

Mr. Bennett submitted that there was no evidence that defendant knew the notes were forgeries and contended that his story was a rea-they had not received a penny.

Wouldn't I be right in saying you were among the first flight of Hia Worship convicted, accept-comedians to-day?" Mr. Doyle! The bo'sun, Yoshio Kodiara, said that he was awakened by

ing the evidence, of the conceal- asked Billy Merson.-Yes. ment of the notes, as conclusive evi- You will probably command a somebody shouting outside his

Mr. Bennett called his client and dence of guilty knowledge. The de- greater salary than most artists? cabin. He opened the door and intimated that his story would be fendunt, who had a previous con-I don't know, that is not so ob-

saw the that the notes were given to him viction under the Tobacco Ordin-vicus at the moment

Judge Tobin: How much have accused with a knife with blood by a customer who had purchased ance, was sentenced to six months'

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some cigarettes from him and, at hard labour.

you been earning since April 10.

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Judge Tobin: How much profit do you make for yourself?"

Billy Merson: £7 or £8 a week. 3r. Doyle asked for an order to pay £3 a week,

Judge Tobin: Can he pay that? Billy Merson: I hope to, but I

am in terrible daancial distress.

Judge Tobin ordered payment of £3 a week, with liberty to apply

after Oct. 10.

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