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Trickery often tricks all the world Rogues usually resort to it

It's an honest work with Max Malini Confidence men are Kings of Trickery Knaves turn readily to card-sharping Even wise men are often victims, but Rarely do tricksters avoid the Reckoning You can now read more about

Find The Lady TRICKS

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THE

THREE-CARD

TRICK

THE STRANGE CASES

OF FOUR

MEN WHO STOOD IN THE DOCK

Tricksters All?

Trickster-a sleek word. It conjures up risions of sleck men, tean, sicarthy, talkative, humor- ous, shifty-eyed.

Yet take a tour through the courts of Hongkong where the tricksters are brought to justice. You will find that they are not quite like that.....

CHAN stood in the dock at the Kowloon Magistracy earnest, recently, young, modestly dressed, cultured bearing. But his face was drawn, his eyes shamed and

downcast.

Chan, the scholar, found himsel

Chan, declared to the Colony us Trickster.

THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

29, 1936.

A PAGE INSPIRED BY MALINI Whose Card Tricks Are World Famous

Trickster's Paper Chase

Can you do this trick? Hold a sharp knife, blade Into the hands, In stretched angers. It's one of the tricks demonstrated by Max Malini,

LIQUOR TRICK STOPPED

LINERS CARGOES OF HEADACHES

New York, Sept. 28.

AN old trick that enabled many Americans to pay for holiday trips to Bermuda, Nassau, and other parts of the West Indies

by liquor running" and yet keep within the law-has now

Of Valueless Cheques HE MAY

BE IN

HONGKONG

FLYING through the air

with the greatest of Jazz

casc is

an

international

swindler known to the police

as "The Colonel." Police in

RADIO BROADCAST

Selections by "Three

Blind Mice"

RECITAL FROM STUDIO

From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of

four continents are looking 355 metres (843 kilocycles):

for this man, who leaves be- hind him a long, long trail of dishonoured cheques.

Not so long ago he was in Hongkong, and the police now have a

dossier of his misdeeds.

His carcer, furnished by the Commissioner

in of Police Madras, says:

"The Colonel' went from Madras to Calcutta, where he cheated some firms with bogus cheques. He left Calcutta by air for Rangoon, where be cheated A hotel manager by issuing a bogus cheque for payment of his hotel bill...

to

"From Rangoon be flew Singapore, where he paid for his cheque which was

passage with

inter dishonoured.

"His wife left Madras two days before her husband, and she has not

been heard of since.

"When in Madras "The

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m. European Programme. 7 p.m. Half an hour with Saint- Saens

Concerto in G Minor Op. 22..... Arthur de Greet (Pianoforte) and New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Landon Ronald.

only--Andante

First Movement sostenuto.

Song-Softly Awaites My Heart ("Samson and Delilah").... Maria Olczewska (Contralto); Orchestral--- March Heroique....Orchestre Sym- phonique (of Paris); Orchestral- "Samson and Delilah"Bacchanale.

1.30 p.m. Quotations.

Closing Local Stock

7.33 p.m. Pablo Casals ('Cello) Richard Crooks (Tenor).

1. 'Cello Solos-Muselle (Bach); Mazurka Op. 11 No. 3. (Popper); 2. Widow-I Love Sont-The Merry

So. You

3. Cello Solo- (Lebar): Chanson Villageoise, (A Vilinge Song) (Popper): 4. Song I'll Always Be True (Benatzky); 5. 'Cello Solo Vito (Spanish Dance) (Popper); 0. Student Song Serenade The

Prince" (Romberg). Colonel' 8 p.m. Local: Weather Forecast,

ran a magazine. Before leaving he secured

His

the from rupees

on

the

to

be

1,250

Bank Peoples' Madras been stopped.

forged Jeller, and paid strength of Vacationists found they could the registration fee of his motor car pay for their trips to the Ber-with a cheque that was dishonoured.

found Was muday, the Bahamas and other

passport islands in the West Indies by buy-

forged."

KNOWN AT HOME "The Colonel is known at New ing cheap-priced liquor up to the

From that value of £20 and reselling it to Scotland Yard, too.. that

their friends at the American source comes a report which says, "The man wanted at Madras is un- market price.

doubtedly identical with one of our An order limiting the duo six aliases in our records, in addition duty-free liquor to one quart was Issued on Saturday.

A matter of ten cents and hundred yards

had travelled downfall. He distance in a Kowloon Motor Bus Company's bus on a season ticket that belonged to a friend.

brought about his

He heard himself fined $10-a lot of money to a scholar.

Harsh? Well, no. There is the other side, as explained by the pro- secution.

Too

Chan's trick was a habit. many people are trying to do it in Hongkong.

To the bus conductor this kind of fraud is serious. If on inspector boards his bus and finds there a passenger who does not really

ticket, there

possess (season trouble fur the conductor.

DOUND about

4

the same time,

is

TRICK OFR Constable faced the magistrate

·

FATE

it Central.

A very ordinary kind of Constable, he. One of Hongkong's hundreds of Chinese law-minders, on oath paid to protect the Colony from evil-

and

Leo F. Kane, of Johnstown, doers.

But Constable C of the Hoogkong Pennsylvania, made a tour of all 2"*

is facing the major Police Force, his friends. "My wife's had crisis of his career. He has been twins," he announced delightedly charged with (a) accepting a bribe of 50 cents from a ricksha coolle and But when Leo returned to the

(b) misconducting himself as nursing home he found he had constable by accepting a bribe.

According to the prosecution, been in too much of a hurry. He Constable asked a ricksha-man made the round again with a re- pay him 50 cents a month so that he

not be brought before vised announcement-"My wife's would

Magistrate and charged with being had triplets."

an unlicensed coolie.

Canton Commuter Committed To Cooler

AND ALL BECAUSE OF HIS TRICKS

the

to

After this alleged request, the to the Central ricksha-man went

Police Station and made a report.

state the Police, had Defendant. marked coins in his possession when he was arrested.

is

He has been in the Police Force for over a decade. If trickery proved against him, he will lose his position and his freedom.

DICKPOCKET trickster No. 1 met

his downfall this week, when tenimes imprisoned Chan Chung, thirty-three years old, faced Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy, and heard the Magistrale pass ken- tence of six months' imprisonment.

Nimble-fingered Chan belleved that trickery was an casler way of Canton making money than toll. Before travel-Chan comes out to face a further two years of police supervision he will be one of the "first-nighters" at the new Stanley Gaol, which will be opened before his term expires.

Chan picked his first pocket when way by making periodic trips to and he was quite young, and found it from-Hongkong.

easy. He tried it a second time, and was caught.

L

KIM FUNG, gentleman of leisure, led extensively.

the to

He added considerably revenue of the Kowloon Canton Rail-

occa-

LI Kim-fung is now residing in

Since then, Chan. has faced Hang- will be kong Magistrates Hongkong. In fact, he

on twelve residing here for the next two slons, eight of which were for his months as the guest of the Govern-pet hobby. ment, and all because he was found The attempt that led to his down- in possession of a wallet that be-fall this week was upon a Chinese student, who did not notice Chon longed to someone else.

Chung extricate his wallet, but Mr. Li Kim-fung was described by found it missing later, and, by a the police as a typical professional little trickery on his own part, muc- pick-pocket, of the type who made ceeded in recovering it their living by coming to Hongkong on the morning train from Canton, stealing what they could find, and returning to their homes in the Kwangtung capital on the evening boat.

The result was that nearly two thousand tourists returning to New York in the Cunarder Carinthia and the Furness Withy liner Queen of Bermuda found themselves with nity thousand pounds' worth of liquor on which they would have to pay nearly that sum in duty, They were advised by radio of the new order.

Tho tourista were faced with two alternatives to destroy their stocks of liquor or to drink them...

They did both.

to his real name.

Time and Announcements.

8.03 p.m. From the Studio.

"The Three. Jazz Selections by Blind Mice."

Programme,

1. I Wanna Woo; 2. Song-I'm A Fool for lovin' you; 3. Medley- Way down yonder in New Orleans; I'm Sweet as apply elder; Ain't mis- behavin'; 4. Please belleve me; 5. 0. Piano Solo-After you've gene:

2. Gotta bran Song-Would you; new suit.

8.30 p.m. The Regimental Band of 11. M. Grenndler Guarde.

Marche Slav (Tschaikowsky); "His Inwful wife, who took his villanelle (With the Swallow) (Arr. real name, was last heard of la Winterbottom); Belphegar-- Quick September, 1932, when she was March (Brensant); Marche Lorraine residing at Sandringham, Australia. (Canne); The Grenadiers Waltz

"There are six

for convictions

(Waldteufel); Parade of the Elc- fraud against The Colonel', two of which were in South Africa. The phants (Chenette); The Old Frog

Pond (Alford). last conviction in this country wasp.m. A Relay from London. on October 8, 1929, when he was

England to Johannesburg Air Race sentenced to three years penal seDeparture, followed by the News and vitude for larceny and obtaining money for goods under false pre- -tences.

il

Announcements.

9.30 p.m. Three Numbers by Marck Weber and his Orchestra.

1. Simple Aveu (Thome); 2. The Music Comes (Oscar Strauss); 3. Her first dance (Heykens).

"It appears that on May 7, 1932, Scores of passengers coming off

he went to the Bank of New Zealand the Carinthifa and the Queen of Bermuda

a false in London. aching heads

where, under nursed and look aspirins for breakfast. name, he opened an account on false

9.40 p.m. From the Studio. references, and by that means ob- ALL-NIGHT DRINKING

tained

of book

12 cheques.

A Recital by Margaret Bates Directly afterwards, accompanied by (Soprano), and Rupert Baldwin Miss- he went to Ireland, and | AT.CL. (Pianoforte). carried out an extensive system fraud with the aid of the cheques..

"He made a final sweep on July 1, 1932, and, still accompanied by the

They had organised indignation meetings when theic ships were more than eighteen hours from port, and continued the meeting, which de veloped into half conference, half jamboree, all night.

The drinking lasted all night. By dawn survivors who could still think suficiently decided to protest against the duty. They also decided they should be allowed to bring in

CAME TO FAR EAST

of

Programme.

..Delius; Now

1. Planoforte Solo-Prelude in E. .Bach; 2, Song The Nighün- woman, boarded the liner Ansonla gate... Kierulf: Out of the twilight at Southampton, landing at Quebec,Harding; 3. Planoforte Solo- Canada,

Wedding Day........Grieg: 4. Songs The Nightingale..etal Quilter; at least four bottles from their cases. "In May, 1933, a letter was re- steeps the crimson

Customs Inspectors politely but ceived from the Vancouver Police, ¦ G. Planoforte Solo--Finlandia............. firmly allowed them only one quart, stating that 'The Colonel' was under- Sibellus,

Tourists landed and, angrily stood to be residing in Delgium, In 10 p.m. A Relay from London. seizing pieces of wood, smashed August, 1934, It was ascertained that bottles

Dix Ben: Talk: "Imperial Affairs” whisky, rus, gin, liqueurs Bowed January 21, 1932, a marriage was by H. V. Hodson..

on the dock.

Scolchon

along the guiters, Others, less impetuous, left their stores and threatened to bring legal action to regain their lost invest- ment.

'WARE THIS TRICK

Meanest trick known to shady motor-car dealers turning back the speedometer of a second-hand car to deceive buyers about its mileage.

St. Louis (US.A.) Court of Appeals has officially ruled that this is "per- petration of a fraud."

kong. Many are case-hardened, but some are truly pathetic.

TI KI was once a fireman, and part of his daily practice was to scale the tower opposite the Fire Station in Kowloon.

When LI KI left the Brigade, scaling walls became his new pro- fession. The last time he attempted

contracted at the registry oflce in Bloomsbury between

She

10.16 p.m. Colonel'

Jack Jackson and (under his real name) and the his Orchestra, woman with whom he went to 11 p.m. Close Down. Ireland and Canada. So It is obvi- ous that he committed bigamy."

The Colonel' is believed to have visited Hongkong in 1934, and is stated to be now "somowhere in the

Six months ago he Orient." believed to be in Australia.

.

Safe Trick

was

Burglara who robbed a restaurant į In New York, and wanted to do so at their leisure, made a cardboard model of the safe to be cracked,

They removed the real sufe from near the window, where it could be seen from the street, substituted the Imitation, and got on with the job in peace. An Ingenious trick-and it worked.

it was at the quarters of Revenue TRICKS IN EVERY TRADE Onlcers Ahern, Ward and Dunlop.

Revenue Officers Ahern, Ward and Dunlop had already been victimised once, and naturally felt sore,

So when Revenue Officer Ward was disturbed one night by someone twisting the handle of the door, he decided to investigate.

Trickster Tricked

A thirty-five year old Chinese woman, Chan Ping, la spending five months in a quiet place with lots of leisure to think up new tricks as the result of an unsuccessful trick last week on another woman.

Chan Ping's hollday results from her participation once too often in the "job racket," wherein, for a con- {sideration, tricksters promise work to their victims. In this case, four married women paid between them $7.80. If Chan Ping cannot find the $7.80 to refund to the four women, her "holiday" will be extended by 14 days.

TRICKS IN COMPOSITION WON TELEGRAPH PRIZES

DR. F. BUNJE WILL EXPLAIN THEM WHERE are tricks in every trade. Little photographlo tricks helped several competitors win prizes in the "Telegraph's" Amateur Photo Competition.

He crept out upon a startled Li Ki. But tricksters have plenty of aplomb, and Li Ki decided upon one est trick in a bid for freedom. He hastily grabbed a plece of cloth, and commenced industrially dusting the floor,

Revenue Offeers, however, used to tricks, and Li Ki was ar- rested.

Only the best pletures are being shown, these having. been spécially Tricksters, tricksters.

His adventure lost him six months.selected by the Judges, Admission will be free. .. Anof his freedom when he appeared

Dr. F. Bunje, one of the three Judges, will give a talk on the Com- unending procession of tricksters before Mr. Balfour at the Central petition, with special reference to the quality of the entries on Tuesday, march through the courts of Hong-| Magistracy.

October 6, at 5.10 p.m. All Interested are invited to attend,

sre

Art lovers and all interested in amateur photography will have an op- portunity of seeing the beat of the entries in this competition at an exhibl- slon on the top floor of the Gloucester Hotel The exhibition commences next Monday, and will continue until Friday, October 9.

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