The Provisional Court of Appeals on Wednesday, heard the petition of Wong Tuli-pian against his sentence connection with charges of altering bank notes of the $10 denomination, issued by the Mercantile Bank of India, and substituting for "$i0, "Hongkong.
Alr, G. H, Wright, counsel for the prosecution, again called Mr. A, Jacobs, of Messrs, Jardine, Math son & Ca. who gave evidence on lines similar to that given at the original trial, Mr. Jacob stated that the could positively state that the accused was the person who tendered the counterfeit $100 note board the Kungwo in return for 'a passage to Kiukiang, for the very fact that, when persons applied for Passage on board the Kungwo, only one person at a time was allowed in the room. There could be no confusion of identity. Witness saw the accused tender the note to the ser, who referred it to witness When questioned as to whether (accused) knew that the note tendered by him was a counterfeit, acplied in the negative, and said that it had been given to him by a friend in Szechuen Road. This friend, whose name he did not know, cowed him $200, and the note was id to him.
Farther evidence of identification of the accused, as the person who tendered the $100 note earlier in the day in question at the office of Jardine, Matheson & Ca., in return for a passage ticket to Tsingtao for $25, was given by T. W. Pan.
A remand to next Wednesday was ordered.
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