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CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney.

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932.

CHARGES AGAINST·

A JAPANESE.

SERIES OF INDICTMENTS

BY GANDE, PRICE A series of charges brought at the Instigation of Messrs. Gande, Perhaps the greatest record ever Price & Co. Ltd., were preferred established in tournament play was against a Japanese, Maselje Tani, made by David Burnstine of New on his appearance before Mr. York in the recent championship Wynne Jones at the Central Police tournament at Asbury Park. Mr. Court yesterday afternoon, four Burnstine was a member of the indictments being substituted for team which won the mixed team of the two original counts. four championship. He and his

The defendant was originally partner won the New Jersey State accused of embezzlement of various Contract Pair championship. He, sums of money amounting to $20, with his teammates, won the clul-000 and also of uttering a forged lease team of four championship, document.

and his crowning achievement was Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith (Assis-

"The acouned took the list away and came back on April 13 with the list chopped as you sec. Now

I shall prove that these chops are forgeries."

His Worship: All of them? Mr. Whyte Smith: All of them. There are just two chops but several impressions of the

chops.

Hamo

His Worship: All the, Impres- sions are forgeries?

Mr. Whyte Smith: All the im- pressions are forgeries.

Continuing Mr. Whyte Smith said, "That forms the subject of the second and third charges uttering forged dies or Impres-575 sions of a chop. For the next four days. the accused was not at the office. He was said to be UI,

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Paid in $500.

"On April 18 he came in paid the winning of the National tant Crown Solicitor) appeared for $500 which he said was due by the Masters Pair championship with the prosecution and substituted || a.s. Santos Maru. There is a sum his partner, Howard Schenken. four charges for the original | due by the Santos Mara un the Hat. Only those who have won a national counts. The defendant was re- I think you will observe that that championship are eligible to parti- presented by Mr. Leo d'Almada, is the biggest item on the Hat and cipate in this Masters event,

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my suggestion is that this payment The following hand was defended

The first charge accused the de- of $500 was probably to avert sus- by Mr. Scheken and Mr. Burnstine fendant of falsification of accounts picion, because, this being the in the Masters event. Min that he, on or about April 11. biggest amount on the list, Gande Schenken's tricky opening gave being a clerk or servant of Messrs. Price were more likely to in- them top score on the board. Gande, Price and Co. Ltd., with investigate that than other amounts.

tent to defraud, made or concurred That was on the 18th.

forenoon of Saturday "On th In making a false entry in an ac- count belonging to the said Gande, April 23 he came in and he then Price, and Co. Ltd., purporting to

said that he would hand in other show that on March 31 an account aums when he had collected them amounting to $1,278.40 was out- on Monday the 26th. Well that standing against the captain and

was the last seen of him. He did owners of the Osaka Shosen not return to the office on the 25th. and the next heard of him was that Kaisha's Buenos Aires Maru.

he wns in Shanghai. Sergeant Groves of the Hongkong Police was sent up to Shanghai and he re- turned on the same boat with the nechwed

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9-6-2

EAST

A 8-2

NORTH

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The Bidding.

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On the second charge the defen- dant was accused of uttering forged die in that on April 13 he uttered a forged impression of a chop purporting to be that used by Nobuji Okamura, accountant of the O.S.K., for the риглоно of his affairs, knowing the same to be forged and with intent to defraud or deceive.

The third charge was in term similar to the second except that The denier opened the bidding | the impression of the chop purport- with

one spade. Mr. Schenken,ed to be that of Its Umpei, chief sitting in the West, doubled. clerk in the Store Department of North bid three spades. Mr. Burn- the Nippon Yusen Kaisha. stine sitting in the East passed, aud Sorth went to four spades. which hought the contract.

The Play.

Embezzlement Charge Also, The defendant, on the fourth

em- charge, was alleged to have bezzled a sum of $294.60 received by him for or in the name or on account of Messrs. Gande, his employers.

Price.

The natural opening on the hand is the king of hearts, but playing for a national title, Mr. Schenken decided to pull the unusual and de- Detailing the substance of the Jiberately led the ace of hearts--charges to his Worship Mr. Whyte the lead of an age denies the bid-Smith said:

ing of the king. Duminy played "The accused has been in the the six and Mr. Burstine, who had employment of Messrs. Gande, no suit to which he wished his part- | ner to shift, deckied to invite, his partner to continue with the heart suit, which might do the least dam

seven of age, and gave him the hearts on this nec. South, the de- clarer, played the five.

Price and Co. for some years. Ilis duties were to go out and get orders from Japanese ships and then, having got these orders. he bad to get the stock, liquors or tobacco or whatever it was, and see that the things were delivered to the ships. Then it was his

res-

.

Mr. Schenken now realized that the seven of hearts from his part-ponsibility for going out and get ner might lead South, the declaring payment of the accONTII. er, to believe that West held the "He was paid partly by salary king of hearts, as his lead or an and partly by commission. About nes denied the king, therefore Mr. the luth, of each month he was Schenken next led the three of supposed to hand in to Gande, Price hearts, under-leading his king. To and Co. a list of outstanding ac- put up the queen in the dummy counts. On April 11 the manager looks like suicide to the declarer. of Gande, Price and Co. asked him His only hope is to play the eight for the said account and on the of hearts, hoping that it will force 12th. he (accused) hunded in the king from the East hand. Mr. Account (account produced). This, Burnstine, in the East, played the will submit, is almost entirely jack which held the trick, and then false. This is the account he hand- returned the dence of hearts, South, ed in and that, your the declarer, played the ten, and to forms the subject of the the declarer's surprise, Mr. Schien-charge-that is, making a frauda ken in the West won the trick with lent entry in the account.

the

won

Worship. firal

Forged Chop Impressions. "For the purposes of these pro- item ceedings I have selected one

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outstanding

Mr. Schenken then returned a trump.

which the declarer with the ten spot and then led the

in the account. I have selected ace of trump, picking up the out-

the item of $1,273.40 which is sup- standing trump in the opponents"

0.5.K's hands. The jack of diamonds posed to be due by the was returned, and when West Buenos Airen Mara. covered with the king, the trick cial from the O.S.K. will say that was won in the dummy with the no such account was Ace. The queen and ton of dia- at that date.. monds were then led, the losing : "On receipt of this account the club of the declarer being dis-manager of Gande, Price and Co. carded on the second diamond, was surprised to see that such but the tricky opening and the large sums were outstanding and underleading of the king of how long they had been outstand- hearts on the next play netted Mr. ing. He asked the accused to go Schenken and Mr. Burnstine three heurt tricks and the declarer's con- truet was held to four odd. Only a matter of one trick, but it is slight margins of one trick that win cham- pionships.

SALESMAN SAM

SO YER A STRANGER IN THIS TOWN, HUH?

round to the O.S.K. and the N.Y.K.

these are the only shipping com- paníes concerned-and get them to chop the various items to show that they admitted ability of the accounts stated.

YUP! AN' I'M GONNA

STEP RIGHT OUT AN'. GET ME A JOB!

YA SURE GOT A LOTTA CONFIDENCE IN TERSELF, YOUNG

FELLA!

Of

Arrested on Arrival.

arrested "The accused was arrival in Hongkong. When it had was found, that the accused left the Colony investigations were made and it was found that many sums that had been paid to him

the O.S.K and the NY.K.-in particular the 0.5.Khad not been accounted for by him.

"I have taken simply one of the items and that is an item of $294.- 60 received from the N.Y.K. оп April 21, and that forms the sub- ject of the fourth charge. I should explain why I simply selected one item and that of a rather small amount. There are really two that reasons. One is that with sum it is easily proved, and AR- other is that it is not necessary for me to prove general deficiency in order to establish the case of em- bezzlement.

After quoting Archbold on that point, Mr. Whyte Smith went on to say that he proposed to prove other cases in anticipation of a possible. defence that in the one item there might have been some mistake..

"The accused was paid in three different

continued the ways,"

O.S.K. Crown prosecutor. "The sometimes gave him 54 crossed cheque payable to Gande, Price and Co., at other times he was paid by compradore order, which was pay- able to bearer and he could that, and in other cases-and this refers to the N.Y.K. and the item I have selected-ho was paid in cash.

"As you

cash

cross cheques were paid, the sccus- may imagine where ed could do nothing with them and they were handed in, but where compradore orders were given to him and where cash was given it was in all these cases that he fail- ed to account for payments given to him."

The hearing was adjourned after evidence had been taken.

SUNDAY, July 31st

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