The Archive · 1929

THE. PICK CASH

The casel which Eugene Pick, Levitsky and L. Gordin are charged with obtaining $12,000 from a wealthy Chinese named Chang by means of fraud in connection with 2 mahjongg club, with forging the Signatures of British and Ameri Consular officials and with forging seals of the two Consulates came up again in the Shanghai Provisional Court on July 31 before Judge Chou and My. J. Van den Berg, Senior Consul's Deputy, Counsel appearing in the case were: Mr. R. T. Bryan, Jr, Police Advocate, for the prosecution; Mx, J. Schuhl, representing Picks Dr. 0. Fischer, who appeared for Gordin; and Messrs, K, W. Luchieh and A. E, Seddon, who represented the interests of Levitsky.

the outset the Police Advocate announced that the police had discovered the shop where the photo-Eraph of the alleged forged doct ment, on which the ease was based, had been taken and he proposed to. call witnesses from this shop, Ar, Schuhl then asked that wit pess should be excluded and this was permitted, Rare Mr. C. P. Holcomb stated that he desired at this time to enter the case us representative of the com= plainant, Chang Tz-yuan, and Chin-ling, whose names" had mentioned in the press, Mr. Schul objected to this on the ground that these men, were not entitled Jawyer: their interests were in charge of the Shanghai Munieipat Police,

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