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POLE & PERSIAN CHARGED.

TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1931.

LARCENY CONSPIRACY

ALLEGED.

An elaborate trick to gain pos- session of a diamond ring pawn at $600 from a Wanchai pawn- broker was detailed at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon when hearing was commenced of charges of larceny and conspiracy Jakuinst two

foreigners. The accused were I. T. Nowachinsky (42), a Pole describ ed as a merchant, and

Abdul Dodan (38), a Persian

his who

KRYQ: pccupation as a music ball artiste.

Final Singe.

War

A CHEAP HOUSE.

SIR CECIL CLEMENTI'S CANTON STORY.

When Sir Cecil Clementi came

Que

living among

In the western nuburb of that city.

made it clear that he wanted that particular ring he had pawned for $60. That article boing produced, ho passed it to the Persian, who then commenced a long and care- which he found it necessary to ful scrutiny in the course of demand

and Immediately handed one by the from Hongkong to govern Malaya

A microscope antified with the results, the what it would not be lese mafeste willing accountant. Apparently there came with him rumours of Persian pocketed the ring

to enll eccentricity manifested in and handed some Rotes to the Pole. his youth, says the Straits Times. There The were counted out to the

His Ex- story had it that accountant and. further 56 cellency, in his zeal to know the

and having been produced by the Pele Chinese

their language, and added to the wnd to cover the shocked British

living orthodoxy by in д

a sampan in a muddy creek on 10 per cent, pawnbroker's Interest, the accountant was

content to Hongkong island. Now, however. Dormit the redeeming of the we know that it was not as bad an

It was a clever scheme, com- article.

that, for Sir Cecil told the true story of

hie youthful enterprise to the mented Mr. Lo, designed to give his Chinese hosts at Malaces

Bald that Both men were defended by Mr.the pawnbroker the Impression other day. Sir Cecil F. X. D'Almada e Castro, Snr.

that the ring had been sold by the when he was young endet in Can-

ton he decided that an In his opening on behalf of the Polo to the Persian and prepare

effective way

to learn the Cantonese prosecution, Mr. M. K. Lo dealt the ground for the swindle that at great length with the facts of followed.

would be to become Beholder the case, commencing from a visii

Chinese made by the Pole to the Tung

On the very next day the two nt Hing pawnshop Jardine's foreigners again appeared at the Accordingly he anked his Chinese Bazaar, where the alleged fraud shop and on this occasion

friends to get busy, and eventually the took place, until the arrest of Pole produced the pawnticket re- they led him to an empty-house both men subsequent to visit Inting to the $600 diamond ring which was so fine that young Mr. as he then was, waa made to another pawnshop at Wast he had pawned in the first

ins- Clementi,

the Point.

tance. There

an amazed at The Tung

Hing pawnshop. elaborate display of courtestes all-rent asked. However, he which was the complainant in the round. Again the two foreign into it, accompanied by his Chinese proceedings, explained Mr. Lo, gentlemen were ushered into the teacher and most of his teacher's was similar to other establish inner room, and the ring readily family, and proceeded to enjoy an ments in the Colony with its produced for the Persian's ins-existence in which he spoke nothing interior divided into two portions pection. He took an unconscion- but Chinese for months on end and the front where the customer able time over it, as must be was three miles from the nearest stood to pass his goods up to the where ring of such value was Europenn habitation. counter and the back where there involved. Not only did he insist time he came to know his Chinese was a dais on which the accoun- on being again furnished with the neighbours, and he asked tants presiding at the

inter microscopic glass, but he must why it was that he had been able stood. There Wig n side

door also complain of the poor light, to rent his house so cheaply. fending to this inner sanctum, and and walked over to the counter to explanation, somewhat reluctantly it was into this that the Pole on examine it the better. All this given, was that his landlord's wife his first visit to the shop on Octo- while the accountant Lee Lin was and several of his children had ber 17 expressed a desire to be kept engaged the prosecution died of plague in that house, and conducted. He held up a ring alleged that he was dunsignedly that his landlord and then mounted with a diamond and this. kept in conversation by the Pole sulted a geomancer, who had ad- coupled with sundry signs and who seemed enable to make out vised him to vente it. On hearing gesticulations, left the two ac-un estimate of the Interest sccru-

that # "foreign, devil" wished to eguntants with very little doubtable and had to resort to pencil lease it the landlord had again con- that the object he held waa

of and paper.

sulted the geomancer, who had de- value and his business above rare value

livered the profound dictum that the ordinary,

"one devil would drive out another, Sir Cecil did drive out his fellow "devil," for he lime-washed the walls of the house and when he vacated the house, having escaped the plague, his grateful landlord moved into it again.

counter

Once within the burrier, the Pole held up one finger. which Lee Lin, the first accountant, rightly construed to mean $1,000,

blk

was

of the moved

After a

them

The

can-

Mr. Lo digressed at this point explain that as a rule the ring should have been kept carefully stowed away while the matter was being discussed, but he pointed out that by this time the accoun- It

a loan that was being tants were led to regard there anted for, and Lee Lin found it foreigners as customers above the necessary to confer with his part-ordinary, and so, when the Per- ner, Lau Lam, before making a asian turned away, ostensibly to counter offer. The conference examine the ring by the better shop at West Point, and followed closed with Lee Lia holding up ghi at the counter. Lee Lin did him in to make enquiries. The five fingers. It only remained for not pay much attention to him. Pole was not long inside. He the Pole to hold up six fingers engrossed as he was in algua and came out, was rejoined by the before the den) was closed at gesticulations and sundry jottings Persian, and the two next went to went in. The detective arranged Of course the interest at ten with the pawnbroker to keep the he conversation while countant was not at all suspicious per cent, would be $60, and the accused in

Police Station. at which the ring was re- telephoned to the amount he had no particular reason to deemed would have to be $660. On the arrival of the Police, the be, but there was the formality of That having been made clear, two foreigners were taken

into name and address to be complied there was some little time spent

The Pole was then en- with. He had it noted down in by the foreigners in conversationing to pawn a ring, which Chinese caligraphy that the man

would say, was the prosecution who pawned it was a European,

the same one they had

$600. The ring changed hands.

No Suspicion.

Now, continued Mr. Lo, the ac

the paper to show what | another pawnshop, where the Pole

on the

the article was. On

it appeared that the Persian had not brought the requisite Bum..

but the address remained a diffl-1 what he did way to hand back defrauded the Tung Provin

culty. To solve the problem he detailed 4 foki to follow the foreigner after he left the shop and traced him to the French Hospital at Causeway Bay

On the same day, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Polo re-appeared at the pawnshop. He held aloft another ring, and the same procedure was followed that marked the previous visit. That was to say, the customer Wils

An

pawn-

shop of, in spite of the fact that in the interval an additional stone to of little value had been added the

mountings in BI obvious endeavour to alter original appearance.

Lee Lin, one of the two

its

Accoun-

occurred

the

what appeared to be the same ring, and at the same time, the Pole, till inarticulate because of language difficultien, walked over

A calendar block on

wall, TroG

rom which he tore a page. ingenious way of conveying the Evidenco was then called and Information that one

would be coming again the very next day. tants from the Tang Hing pawin

The Pole, taking leave, shook shop, testified to what bands aminbly with Lee Lin and

Identified in his shop., bis fellow. Not to be out-done by two accused as being the for-

The and

case was adjourned until shook hands heartily with both his afternoon. accountants. They then left the shop. That was the last seen of hem, remarked Mr. Lo, for some days afterwards,

dis-

again ushered through the barrier the ordinary aanges of courtesy, I cigners with whom he had dealt.

and he took the hands of both the Persian followed suit countants in a hearty shake. He was. Mr. LA remarked. being treated 215 ส a bort of superior Kentleman.

The ring on which the foreigr gentleman now wished to negotiate a loan was also a diamond ring

but of much lesser value and on which the foreign gentleman asked for a modest $60, The money was given to him and he left.

The Conspiracy.

row

When the

Police Called In.

Accountants covered for the first time that the ring left with them was a spurious one and very obviously not the one they had accepted on pawn, they sent out tokia to chase the for- eigners, searching for them in Continuing, Mr. Lo told the both districts but without dis- Court that they were

up-covering them, proaching the material stage where it was his case that the conspiracy assumed a

tangible form. The day following the Pole events detailed above the again called at the shop, on this Occasion in company with the Persian, who was now the second the alleged swindle, a Chinese de- On October 21, two days after defendant in the proceedings. They were admitted into the inner tective observed a foreigner who room and shook hands cordially afterwards turned out to be the with the accountants. The Pole first accused, going into a pawn-

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The Police authorities were next Informed and they took measures very efficient, in Mr. Lo's regard, and which subsequently in to the arrests of the wanted men.

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