Folice made reference to the statements of the four accused saying tat the first accused was arrested Jat the No. 21 alleyway on the Rue' clu Marche, where he was found be in possession of 500 notes of 185 denomination of the Bank of Communications. "Accused in. his statement said that he had received! tlese_ notes from Tsu Sing-toong, second accused who himself claim: fee to have received the notes from Mr. Kentwell at 1 Soochow Road. Sceused in his statement also said hat he accompanied Tsu Sing. tseng to 1 Soochow Road for the purpose of receiving the notes.
the case of the second accused, who was charged with acting. as intermediator, he asserted that had received the notes from. Mr. Kentwell at 1 pin. on March 18, 1 Soochow Road and said that the notes were made ina foreign Louse at Nanziang, which belonged to Daung Tse-kung. Accused said that the house belonged to Mr.
tweil and that the notes were made by a number of men whose frames were Woo Young, Tseng Ah-long, Wang Mictse, Tsang Dah-yih Tou Sing-tseng and Tsu Ming-june. Accused's statement also alleged tnat the house was financed by Mr. Kentwell and Dzung Tee-kung, and scoused also said that Tsu Ming-2i had given money to support the! house at Nanziang.
Dealing with the third accused Dzung Tse-kung, his statement that "he sold the house. at Na long to a man named Li Vai-tseng who was at present in Fengtien vd that the transaction took place in. Noveniber 1923. and was -conjeladed for the sum of $20,000. Accused said that he had since been living on the ground floor ina small Chinese house in the same property which altogether extended te some 20 mow. He had paid $80 month rent and also the wages of, three gardeners, the fourth accused Tsu Sing-tseng to have financed the house at Nanziang and was also accused stealing a motor material to Nanziang.
On Wednesday, Tsu Sing-tseng! was recalled for further cross examination and made statem different to those previously ay HE. M. Supreme Court, char Kentwell as well as Sung Ming-being at the head of the bank-note forgeries. Witness said thut it was Sung and rot Dzung wns introduced him to Kentwell as had been said in the British Court, explanation of the to give any different state. ments.
Kentwell, declared that the allegations of Tsu Sing-tseng, the previous witness were all lies. Asked by the Court what he knew of Sung who was ed by the last witness and T. K. Daung, he said that to his know ledge the accusation was totally unfounded. Sung had never seen Tsu. As to the accusation of T. K.
Daung, the latter had a grudge against Sung as he was instromental in having Dzung disbarred from the Chinese Court after Dzung. had changed his nationality. He saw Tsu in Sung's office was close to his own.
T. K. Drung mede a similar statement to that made in the Si preme Court. "In reply to Gremieux accused admitted that he nad come communication with Teu The Coury alked why accidsed had on December 17 lent his motor-beat as he alleged tp Sung, his enemy, to which accused answered that he was. disbarred from the] Chinese Court on December 14 but at the time he did not know that Sung had been instrumental in his being debarred.
Sung Ming-zi denied any connex-fon with the affair. He said that he never had any knowledge previous to Kentwell's arrest of the forgeries. The accusations against, him were framed by Dzung as he Mas an active party in having him debarred from the Chinese Court, The case was adjourned.
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