The witness said toat he knew 'Kiu-ling-and his business was half political and half eviminal. He was the compradore for Chang Chung-chang and paid off the Russian soldiers, He was a member of the roulette" with a place' at 108 Thibet Road and they Tad' one at 9 Yates'Road but that was closed. The Thibet Road pla was a political club upstairs and a wheel downstairs.
Pick admitted that he knew a man named Chang-whom he was alleged to have defrauded in the present action. "Chang was the manager for Wu-Pei-fu'and-later worked in the British Consulate in Hankow.
Then "he was concerned in several opiam and criminal and gambling cases in Shangh Tost his. money but as he was a Christian he got a job with St. Elizabeth's Church: here. But he doesn't dare togo ito the Chinese side. I was told "by the head of the British secret service to watch Nien and T found he'and his club were sen: money trid arms to Shantung."
The witness was questioned about the alleged licence and was shown the photograph of the two seals and signatures that were said to have bbeen: on the bottom of it together with the top piece which read Diplomatic Corps. Theseentre had been torn out ~and oat a "previous hearing Chang "had said that this was'ithe Hence for which he had paid Pick-$12,000, "He: (Chang)' had had it photographed "but the middle was torn out; I don't know whom?
Witness:—I saw the "original of that inthe C.D. fice. "I didn't hyn the'riames' but'l know who did. And T-know that man Dickson of the potice made the photograph the police'were hunting for and couldn't find, He knows -all about this When they showed it to me the contre was there but was written over with'peneil: and Tveouldn't'read it. "They asked me if it was mine "No, I never saw it Where-the Seals Came From Pick'then offered to tell the court there the Consular seals came from. a vessel full of the Commigeioner of the shanghai Police. The Chief of the inese Military Intelligence went Clarke told me to seize ments and I arrested nine and gave them to the Chinese had "Greek passport to the United States with an American Consilar visa from Shanghai and that was the seal in the picture. I turned the passports over to Robertson and that Russian detective Ovsiannikof? and they had them in their desks the last time I saw them, They had the passports and the seals all the time. That's where the seals ame from in the picture."
"Barton knew I searched the ship. and got the passports. Everybody knew' about it because the papers all had my name. Now when the seals have been used they blame me. I didn't do it but Lknowwho did. And you compare the pictures of the jarviwriting you had before with the tores of the signatures and seals you will see they were all made bby the same camera, Call in any Chinese photographer and he'll tell You but the police won't. That men Dickson made all the photographs and he knows what was in the middle of the paper that was torn out, I'don't."
The court then ordered the nceused to be remanded in custody for a
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