Further interesting revelations were made in the Provisional Court on July 18 at the continued hearing of the criminal charges against Eugene Pick, M. Livitsky and L. JGordin before Judge Chou and Mr. Van den Berg, the Senior Consul's Deputy.
The accused are charged with fraudulently obtaining $12,000 from wealthy Chinese on a promise to obtain for him a Municipal Council licence to operate a mah-jongg club, with forging the signatures of pro: minent British and American Consular officials and with forging the the seals of H.AM. Supreme Court and the U.S. Consulate-Geneval to the al-loged licence.
Pick is represented by Mr. F. J. Schuh, Livitsky by Me. K, Lucbich and Mr. 'A. E. Seddon, Gordin by Dr. 0. Piacher, and the' prosecution is conducted. by Mr.
Police advocate, The hearing was opened with the appearance in the witness box of Mr. E. A. Kobsa who had given testimony at the previous hearing that he was a photographer and a handwriting expert of many years? study and had appeared as 'a number of Shanghai court tr
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