Mr. A. Ullrych, a Polish merchant, testified that he entered into a contract for the gasoline in Shanghai. Mr, Bidwell gave him the first firm offer, and received from witness a guarantee from the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation for payment. A re-pittance was forwarded by telegraphic transfer to Yokohama against payment for the oil. Later notification was received from Mr. Bidwell that a steamer would arrive in a few days. After waiting a week plaintiff saw Mr. Bidwell at Yokohama. The latter said the boat with the oil on board was overdue and plaintiff waited another two weeks.
As the business seemed ''crooked," witness gave full particulars of the transaction to the French Consul, who, on making inquiries discovered that a firm in San Francisco had received no orders to ship the oil. Eventually Mr. Bidwell wrote saying that he could not supply the oil, and witness immediate informed the Asia Banking Corporation.
Mr. Ullrych added that Russian Government had cancelled his contract with them. He had lost not only any profit that might have been made on the deal, but Y.50.- 000 im various ways. A letter was received from Mr. Bidwell authori. ing him to obtain title deeds posited with the defendant ban' The bank informed him that thes could only hand over the deeds to Mr. Bidwell, and they were at that time at the Tientsin branch. cross-examination by Mr Fessenden, witness denied that the letter had instructed the bank to hold the deeds for Mr. Bidwell.
QtestTion oF Titte Deeps, Mr. E. T. Macquade, managing Seven men, Mo Tseu-dong, Dau Yih-foo, Ts Tsung-vong, Liu Hongnyoh, Yui Tz-ming, Loh Yoong-kwo, and Tsang Hui-dong, appeared before Messrs. Tsang and Jacobs, at the Mixed Court, on Tuesday, charged with being concerned in a shooting affair at the Tsodahkoh Village, near Gordon and Markham Roads, on the night of March 2, it being alleged that they went to the houses of two brothers, Dzung Wen-fok and Dzung Wen-lok, and there began to shoot indiscriminately, killing the wife of the latter, and wounding the two brothers, as well as a small child. Mr. R. C. Faithfull, police legal adviser, prosecuted. while Mr. H. D. Rodger represented the first and fourth accused.
In outlining the case, Mr. Faithfull said that the shooting had arisen from the prosecution and execution of four or five men at Haichow and was an act of revenge. Dzung Wen-lok was lying in bed at the time. His wife was sitting at the bedside, and his mother-in-law was also in the room, Men entered and began to fire pistols, wounding Dzung Wen-lok and killing his wife. At the same time other members of the gang visited the house of Dzung Wen-fok and shot the man and his child. It was preconcerted matter, said Mr. Faithfull, and the intention of the gang was to wipe out the families of the two brothers. He asked that the proceedings against the sixth accused, Loh Yoong-kwo, be with: drawn, as there was no evidence against him. That man proved to be at home in bed at the time.
Dzung Wen-lok gave corroborative evidence, but said that he did not know his wife was killed, he identified the fifth accused as the man who shot him. He did not see -any of the other accused. He had clerk of the Asia Banking Corpora-received a letter from~his brother, tion in Shanghai, said that in April] he interviewed plaintiff, who askeditain men had been executed warning him to be careful. as ser in
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