THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1932.
ZIMMERN UNDER SEVERE CROSS-EXAMINATION
(Continued from Page 1). remarks of that kind are to objected 'to.
be
Mr. Potter:-Then, my Lord, I shall be as silent as an oyster.
Mr. Jenkin (to witness).- What's your answer to that have practieally forgotten your qucation.
CAN'T RECOLLECT.
Who Poon.
Introduced you?-Mr.
as
We
That proportion was acceptable to you? Well, I would take It.. If Mr. Poon says he didn't, whal Did you not tell the learned
word against mine, and my were 4-1-27-Yes, the same do you say to that?--Then it is magistrate that the proportions word against his.
2-2-1, because I knew that Why did you approach Cheng? could not get $10,000,
did not approñen Cheng.
You were satisfied with You say it was a chance meet-proportion?--I knew for ing? We were in the South China that we could not gei Athletic Association when I was. It might interest you introduced to him there.
U.S. MOTOR SALES SLUMP
INDUSTRY IN SERIOUS POSITION
New York, July 18. The earnings of the motor-car that industry excluding Ford-for certain the first quarter of this year show $10,000, an 88 per cent. decline compared 10 know with Inst year. Sales had dropped- My question was that there's m Did you know anything at that to take $2,000, the balance of
that Cheng actually asked Christie, by 30 per cent, entire ominion from that state-time about Cheng's atsairs?No. $8,000 to be put in a bank account earnings and sales may be ac- This difference in the decline of ment of any reference to the con- You know nothing about him in Christie's name. versation to which you have spoken either personally, socially or his there was something fishy and I
for, according to the I knew then counted. between yourself, Cheng and business?-No.
Evening Post, by the fact that Christie in the Nathan Hotel root brother Cheng Kwok-on. "
I only knew his told Christic not to fall for it.
in the first quarter of 1931 the with regard to getting rich of
You did not know at that, time']
Mr. Jenkin:-Dld I ask
motor-cni industry again Fung-I cannot recollect,
you cluding Ford-operated to about Chut? that Fung had alienated Lai Ming-j You cannot recollect whether it fayle affections?—No.
Zimmern: No, but I thought city, while this year it has operat- 40 per cent. of its working capa- is in the statement or not?
might interest you. Exactly.
ed at 30 per cent.
I put it to you that there's an entire absence from that state-
REPULSE BAY INCIDENT.
itį
THE WINK. Cross examined on the alleged
When was it fixed?-The first ment of any reference to the con- Cheng gave witness $2 and asked tempting to swindle accused was Repulse Bay Hotel incident when thing I can remember about at versation to which you-have de- pased to whilst walking to the him to sit at a separate table, when he gave me $10 in Statue Zimmern said he did not 'ask Cheng Square and asked Christie and I Ferry There may have been revision to my evidence. I have who lung and Lai were until after to consult other lawyers. It was since been examined by Mr. Lind-e had been given the money. then I asked Christie about rell and 1 believe I may have spoken He was told that Fung was George wink.
to him on that poisi.
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Mr. Jenkin: Are we to under-it. was a conversation.
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A p.m. agna, Christie suggested poison. | (£72,000,000 at par) from which Although you had asked him?- was startled and Christie gave they derived net earnings All he toki me, as far as I en re-me a wink. member was that he did not like!
nearly 10 per cent.
Mr. Jenkin repeated the question to which Zimmern replied, "That
I don't know."
You have referred yourself toj a revision to your evidence? You, quite so.
A BLACKMAILER.
You are a blackmailer I think? -Well, according to this case you can put it at that, yes.
I just want to deal first of all, before cross-examine you on this blackmailing napeet, with jest a little history leading up to this matter.
You
arrived in! February
this year? Yes, From Shanghaj?--Yes, Where you had been for years?--Yes,
fue
Whilst there Chief Justice: - don't see any blackmailing yet in this ease.
Mr. Jenkin:-On his evidence-
in-chief be and Christie hoped to get $5,000 out of Cheng.
Chief Justice:--Swindle
j
was-Noue whatever.
to be seen by Fung at table with me.
The
SWINDLING IDEA.
of
In the first quarter of 1932-- operating at 30 per cent, of capa- ofeitythe sales amounted to 250,- 800,000 dollars (£54,000,000) from which net earnings amounted to only the per cent.
Do you say that the idea Did you ask him who Lai Ming-swindling Cheng never fay was? can't recollect.
entered your head up to that moment? Witness was asked the same Nut far as I know, question several times but could not remember.
"MAY HAVE."
he
Mr. Jenkin; On that Sunday did you ask him about Lai Ming-fay
or not- may have.
Mr.
Jenkin:--You omitted to telt us That. when yon were stay ing at the Nathan Hotel, in the some poor, was Christie? That questing was never put in me.
Do you say that this idea windling Cheng which you, Christie and Pung arranged never entered your head betore
that mement Well I don't say that. not
Mr. Jenkin: No, I should think
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Zimmern: --The idea came into dinner. but I did not speak about us." my head when we were having it.
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Mr. deukin-1o you remember | dark." this journal says,
"It appears to be a leap in the
same floor as George Fung7-1 diding or March 19, when you said to be better to reorganise capital
And you were staying on the tion with Cheng in the early morn-creased production. It is believed FRENCH
deposing to an alleged conversa-hope
in the that it will result not know. Mr. Jenkin: He used the word Nathan Hotel, witness said it was not carry out his instructions and for the unnecessary capacity upon ECONOMIES REJECTED: LOAN Asked why he stayed at theo Cheng you were sure the two structures on the basis of prevent Jimself.
men he had talked about would stock prices and eliminate, some always late when he left Cheng at Chief Justice:-I don't see any 50, Village Road. blackmail here.
He could not asked him to let you have go all the way to his uncle's housutter in your hands? That toesing to earn dividends.
the which the companies are now-try-
ONLY SWINDLE.
Mr. Jenkin:--Swindle;
use the word swindle.
I
Chief Justice: Yes, Lut blackmail.
neveral jobs,
was
use
the
On
as
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You have never
it
the hands of two ather swindling rogues? No, I don't agree. I had handle the matter because I was every right to ask him to let me employed as his personal body-
"BUSINESS ASSOCIATES".
NAME BOARD. Gunmen Included?-No. sir. Outside the Hit there is a notice More or less business associates, board showing where, and which.
Christie likewise Associated people are living on that floor? guard. with rogues in Shanghai? That A Blackboard, yes,
I don't know.
HIDING SCHEME.
Did you telephone 7-Yes, enuse he was so late.
Yes. You sat as host at the dinner?
NOT A SOLOMON!
And you had your own girl? Not my own girl. I am not a Solo-
SANCTIONED
the
before separating for the vacation The last act of Parliament
ing was to vote a Bill permitting in the early hours of this morn- the Treasury to raise additional funds by a loan.
into
at Kowloon Tong. Be did not t man there was any intention slay at his parents' house because of swindling.
"In the fate of the present fer- with they did not like him going home!
rible economic conditions, 450.- I want to warn you this much.
Paris, July 17. late. He had no desire to stay in am asking you if you said it?-jar) have already been spent by ment's
000,000 dollars (£90,000,000 ul Having rejected the Govern
plan of economies, not Hotels in Hongkong but preferred | Yes, I admit it.
Yaumati, where it was cheaper.
the public in the first five months French Chamber has had to re- Mr. Jenkin:-- will
THE TIGER TRIAD.
of this year for passenger, cars.
sort to the inevitable alternative word swindle, then.
"A BIG JEW."
I challenge the whole of, that | 72150,000,000)
Last year 750,000,000 dollars borrowing. Mr. Jenkin (to witness) :-Aud Mr. Jeaking-Why worry about evidence and I put it to you that corresponding period. This indi- were spent in a whilst there I don't Want to that when Cheng was giving the you asked Cheng to leave quibble about small points), you money? No, he is a big Jew with matter in your hands ---I said that going to have transportation in theeates very forcibly that people are had seven jobs in two and a half regard to giving me money, the two men happened to be of the spite of the devil and high water years and for one and a half thave
had te pawn my
Clothes Tiger Triad, a society in whom years you were out of a job? No, sometimes.
had very little faith, and I knew any a left, that the automobile and should convince sceptics, if sir. I was never out of work for Mr. Joakin: --Can you give me that they were out for Cheng's
The legal maximum up to which one and a half years. I had any other reason for your being money. That is why i said leave as now become an economie nee-the Treasury could emit bonds up
present with Christie that the matter in my hands".
cessity and not a luxury,"
to now was £55,000,000, but a fur-. You knew Christie there?--Yos, Hoor?-No, sir. So far
Now that statement, I put to
fher issue of £22,000,000 is hence- he stayed with me.
understood it. Christie
forth authorised. This is neces- He was imprisoned in Shang-time lived in the garage and Yes,
that you, if true, is absolutely new? Pung and held him so that hesary owing to the refusal of the hai and deported to Hongkong at told him that if he liked he could
(Cheng) could slap Fung in the majority, suggested the end of 19317-That was what come along with me. The reason before?-The question was never true? Yes.
represented by the face and save his own." Is that Finance Committee, to sanction I understand, but not deported, no. Why I took a room on the third put to me. I knew the men were
the fifteen million Chief Justice:You agree about floor was because it was the only rogues out to swindle Cheng Cheng was reluctant to have any-vernment.
ody uf Mr. Jenkin: I put it to you that economies proposed by the Go- the imprisonment but ant the de- room vacant, but I knew nothing and get his money, portation?--Ile
de-about Fung or that he was residing never
thing to do with it and you had to The principal motive for the porled, my Lord,
on the floor.
Mr. Jenkin:--And the reason wait for him and finally telephone Proposed economics, Mr. Jenkin: Whilst in Shanghai)
why you suggested the matter be for him to come over? The rea- reducing the immediate deficit, Apart from You went up and down in the taken from one lot of swindling son was he was having a game of was to facilitate the task of the you associated with rognes?--lift--Yes, when I left, and return-rogues, was in order to put it in snooker. mixed up with any kind of people, to the hotel.
Budget Minister in 1933 by. mik- being possible a big conversion of Rentes. The success of such an operation naturally depends to il large extent on the general fin- ancial situation, and its chances would have been much improved had the Government been allowed to put its good intentions Mr. Jonkin: The dinner and mon. the the idea of giving Fang a hiding
practice. Mr. Jenkin: Now let us get the
As it is the failure to deal with was engineered by you.
You and Christie had worked iter in an hour or so.
atmosphere. This dinner is taking the deficit now aggravates the Witness: That is entirely false. place and he is going to talk mur-difficulty of meeting it in the fu- You were ture. The Budget for 19:3, which Did it ever occur to you during room?—That is an allegation.
out when staying in the same sitting as his hust with a girl; Is already on the stocks, will have those four days to look at that
other girls were present and these to employ much more Well we shall see,
drastic Mind you board?-1 did not take any notice wanted Cheng involved in the as- Nathan Hotel? No. They did not necessary if the first stage in re: You had it worked out and you girls accompanied you to the measures than would have been have told us everything that took it. I saw no attraction in it. place. I am putting to you At the main entrance of thesault on Fung ?—That is not true feans to the Nathan flotel.
trenchment your own evidence what I shall Nathan Hotel there is a
had been tackled And Cheng did not want to have submit is obvious.
I put it to yon that they went courageously, instead of simply You told us board showing the names of all anything to do with it but at last to the Nathan Hotel, remained in adjourned. The Parliamentary before leaving the box on Friday the residents--There may have agreed upon the basis that all that the hotel and left when the party battle will be flereer, in proportion, that the idea was to get money been, I did not notice it.
was to happen was that Fung's left the hotel?-No.
and in these circumstances the out of the accused and share it It is strange, Zimmern, is it not, Iace should be slapped?--If you with Fung?-Christie told me he that you and Christie both lived are going to put the question to not recollect.
You swear it?--At least. I can-plans for conversion which are would forewarn Fang. Fang did the same flour as Fung for four
to be embodied in the Finance me like that.... not know anything about it then, daya
Then what about your evidence Bill may be seriously compro- not knowing that he
I am putting it to you to agree in the magistracy? Did you iden-mised, INTRODUCTION TO CHENG.
there--Let me tell you this much, with me or deny it--Well, how tify two girls present at dinner, I swear I knew nothing about it. cames it that he had two men aml also at the Nathan Hotel after-
DIVIDING THE "SPOILS."
shadowing Fung?
wards?-I can remember one of to indulge in the humour of the girls at the dinner also being slapping Fung's face in front of a How did you think
SLAP IN THE FACE. you
present at the Nathan Hotel, Christie and Fung were going to }
girl, suddenly turned into doing it your answer was that share this money?-Christie told you that Cheng was at last per- Answer my question. I put it to
DIFFERENT GIRLS?
manke and murderer and had long "We wanted to get money from me he was going to
discussions with you as to how he Cheng."-Because on our way to Fung. 3 did not know what was Hotel on this basis only-that tion, witness thought that the girls death?--I don't know. Torewarn suaded to go across to the Nathan
Under further cross-examina- should encompass the man's the Inwyers Chriatie told me hein his mind. would forewarn Fung.
there should be nothing more than who subsequently left the Nathan Did you fix the proportion in the slapping of Fung's face?-Hotel when the party broke I put it to you that you had in which you were going to divide Yes. I quito agree. your mind at the start to get the spoils?They said that I
were not the girls present at the Mr. Jenkin:The room at the Mr. Jenkin repeated his ques-dinner earlier in the evening. money out of Cheng?—No, sir.” should get half. By that I under-tion and Zimmern's second answer
Tung Shan Hotel was paid for by Why did you seek him out, for stood that Fung would
Proceeding, he said that the Cheng but engaged in the name of Ket hin was "That is not so." employment?-1 was introduced to share and Christle and I would that Cheng wanted "the boys" to the influence of Roven bottles of
le sak party was "pretty merry" under Christie?—Yes. him and, knowing his brother and share the remainder,
If the boy who booked the room knowing he was wealthy and had
give Fung is hiding.
beer and one bottle of Chinese says only one man went to the Were no figuren mentioned?—I influence, I asked him to get me a understood it would be $2,000 for this to the magistrate in the low- to see Fung's face slapped.
Mr. Jenkin: Welt, did you say wine. All of them were willing room and that man was Christie, fab but I did not expect him to myself, $2,000 for Christia
what will you say? have a and or court “He (Cheng) said all he give me a job himself.
Mr. Jenkin: You would have us plece of my mind about him. wanted us to do was to get hold of believe that Cheng, from wanting The trial is proceeding.
orl
It shows the number of the: After tracing the arrival in rooms and the
INUIKIS of The Hongkong of the witness and anb-people living in them sequently of Christie, and later board? Yes, quite str Zimmern's introduction to Cheng.) It is a conspicuous hard, is it Mr. Jenkin said: "1 pui it to you not?--It is not a very attractive that you, Christie and Fung were board. out to swindle?-No, sir that's an allegation, sir.
In answer to Mr. Lindsell, who asked you what was your iden off apparently assenting to kill Fung when you hnd no intention
$1,000 for Fung,
notice
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