The Archive · 1929

Denial of a Letter

He-was shown a typewritten letter alleged by the police to have been written to his father by Pick and enclosed in a hand addressed envelope which Pick admitted writing at a previous heaving though he authorship of the contents saying they had been written by the police on his typewriter which had been seized by the prosecution, Witness:—Why, that letter was never sent to my father. The cone Piek sent him was written in ink and signed "E, Tt was about whether or not I was in Shanghai and if I wanted to sell 'a stamp collection I had. These jeontents are altogether different. Lam sure this is not the letter. was taken from me by Robertson jand not returned and now this letter is in the envelope. This is raw. Why are you blushing over there, Robertson?

Pick (from the dock):—Yes, R berton is framing you just' like The witness said further that he had worked for the Russo-Asiatic bank for eight years doing transations and that his father was the former Russian postmaster in Tientsi Mr, Bryan:—How is it you admit Doing at 23 Myburgh Road and seeing Pick there, but you don't admit going to the British Consulate as Yao testified you did?

Witness don't get you. admit being at 28 Myburgh Rond Hbecause I was there, but I deny the automobile ride to the British Consulate, because I never took it Mr, Bryan then sought to question the witness about some clothing he bought "about the time thi fraud was perpetrated; you suddenly got a lot of money then, what about it:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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