The Archive · 1927

Mr. W. Van Buskirk, Deputy

S. Marshal, was called and described how he had met Mr, Crawley in, Japan. on September 2, Mr, Crawley was in a Japanese hospital and had offered no resistance and was quite willing {0 return to Shanghai, Witness had only shown Crawley, the warrant because he had asked to seo it. Witness understood that} Crawley had booked a passage on the President Taft which was due to sail from Kobe on August 31, but, owing to quarantine, did not actually sail until the night of September 2 or 3.

Dr, Sellett said that he desired that he was humane protective devices which. included bullet proof vests, He had. made several sales in the latter article.

Chiang "Kai-shek had.

rided to purchase 1,000 buk after he had paid for 101, "Chiang Kai-shek went to Ningpo more far." Witness knew Mr, Yang, Tt was during August when the door. of witness's office on the 5th floor of 4 Ezra Building was open that. Yang blew in, Witness discussed, a sale of 2,000 vests at a price of $225 per vest. Since that date wit. ness had only seen Yang once and that was in the Palace Hotel, Cross-examined by Dr, Sellett, been since 1916. On this last occasion he had been here about one year. In reply to Dr. Sellett, witness admitted that hho had been prosecuted in the US. Court in connection with the importation of aeroplanes, Wit ness added however, "that ho was too modest to talk about it." On this occasion he had been arrested: by Admiral Phelps of the U.S. Navy, He had not known Widler as a gun= runner as he. did not listen to gossip. Witness had not heard: any gossip to the effect that he also Was a gun-tunner, He also did, not agree with Dr. Sellett that he (witness) was a gun-runner and that the bullet proof vests were merely used as camouflage, This completed. the morning session, to call a witness from the Dollar Steamship Ca. The witness was not

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