Witness:—Certainly, I got a tot of money. T bought a lot of clothes, too, because I was robbed Just then and the report is in the Police station at Wayside, I got the clothes to replace those stolen land the money was given to '$500 by a prominent lawyer, who name I don't want to give.' I had letter about it from the lawyer but Robertson took the letter from my house and he had no right to [do that.
An argument followed over where the witness banked his money and refused to reply to Mr. Bryan's interrogations, "but I will tell the The witness said that when he iwas arrested Detective Ovsiannikoft had" told him "we want you to blacken Pick as much, as possible and Robertson told mie this case wouldn't ever come up, But it has!
The court then asked the witness where he had his bank account and he replied "National City Bank."
The case was adjourned.
On July 18, Mr, Bryan cross-examined Mr. E, A, Kobza, the handwriting "expert who had testified at a previous hearing that in his opinion the photo of the alleged licence which forms the basi of the charges against Pick "wes forged by somebody trying to imitate Pick's write Mr. Kobsa, after showing two additional photos he had put to-wether bearing the signatures of Mr. Schuhl, Mr. Bryan, Pitk, and Sapajou, to a receipt of $1,000 by.
ick" again declared he would defy any expert to prove from the photograph that the signatures were not genuine. He said that the detection could only be made from the original, not of the photograph and he thought it "funny" that the police could not produce the original against Pick instead of a photograph with the centre missing.
ess said further that he still believed the police evidence was a "fake" and he believed it was made with a cheap lens because the centre was clearer than the edges, "et whether it was done by the police I cannot say. It might be against the police as much as against Pick and I believe there was to be another name of a_ hig! police official to be added in the space where it is typewritten Commissioner of Police, CLD." He believed that there were only two or three studios in Shanghai that} were capable and had the apparatus to t-mn. out work of the type introduced as evidence. He was ex-cased after he had told Mr: Bryan
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