Mr. G. D. Musso here protested that, although the witnesses had been ordered out of court, they were looking through a loophole in the door. This caused some laughter and he retorted: When you have been 23 years in this court. like have been, you will have all the prejudice that is necessary. 7 Cross-examined: Witness said that she believed her husband's boat stopped at Tsingtao, but she did not send a cable to him there.
Mr. Musso: Can you say why the defendant should pick on you, a stranger, out of 30,000 foreigners here?—I don't know, but J think he heard the doctor mention my name, Witness said she had been a long time in Vladivostok, but she had not heard of a factory there which made false banknotes. When she went to the first boat and found her husband was not there, she tried to leave at once by a sampan, but the prisoner prevailed upon the boatman not to take her. The police had never searched her rooms at 78 Bubbling Well Road. Witness and her husband were not searched personally by the Customs officer.
Do you know Neiman is a notorious bad character and_ has been in gaol several times?—No, I don't know it. He was a partner with a man in Vladivostok in dry goods.
You don't consider banknotes as dry goods?—No.
Mr. Musso suggested that the action was taken in Tevenge for information given to the police by that she did not know of any such, information.
Frederick Thomas Mills also gave evidence as to his wife telling him of the prisoner's accusations and of the proceedings at the Customs examination shed. Last Wednesday, a man, identified by witness' wife as the prisoner's partner, came to sec them and gave them the address of the prisoner as 5 Shanse Road ent in search of him, taking Neiman with them, "as I ~jhad been warned that I should not go there alone."
Mr. Musso: It is alleged that Neiman was your partner in a deal in forged banknotes?—That is not true.
You know he has been in gaol T have never heard of it and I have known him for four years, Attecep Bank Note Factory.
Witness said that he also had never heard of the forged banknote factory near Vladivostok. He admitted that he heard from the police that some information had been given to the French police, but not against him and he was told that "the French police had got hold of the wrong end of the stick."
Dr. J. T. Podeak, the gentleman who gave Mrs. Mills her husband's letter, said that she complained to him about the prisoner's accusations and witness spoke to him. The prisoner also told him that he was a detective and that he had information that Mr. Mills was bringing in forged $10 Chinese banknotes. The prisoner added that it would be possible to arrange the matter so that Mr. Mills' arrest could be avoided.
The case was adjourned and the Assessor refused an application.by Mr. Musso for bail.
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