In the Kajang police—court recently, reports the "Malay Mail," before Mr. R. Irvine, who went specially from Kuala Lumpur to hear ths case, Kok Pak-sin, a well-known mining towkay and estate owner, of Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, was charged by Inspector H. Lloyd, O.C.P.D., Kajang. with wilfully using as genuine 2 false document—nainely, " rubber sales receipt. The accused, who was defended by Mr. Bostock Hill, pleaded guilty through ignorance. After hearing the evidence, the magistrate remarked that the accused might not actually have altered the documents, but he had profited by the alternations. Mr. Hill said that the might be so, but the amount of profit was so smal] that a man in the position of the accused was not likely to lend himself to such alterations for so smal] a sum.
The accused had been carrying on business in Kuala Lumpur for the past 36 years. and had nothing whatever against him before this affair. He was purely a business man. For 20 years he had been the owner of a large tin mine, employing over 300 coolies.
He had @ large family, one of his sons being at present in England, reading for the law. In conclusion, counsel again submitted that the accused had not actually. altered these documents, which was done by his clerk, who leit the country in December last. The magistrate asked the accused whether he had anything further to add to what his counsel had said. The accused said he was an ignorant man. He could neither read nor write English, and as regards Chinese, he could only sign his name. The alterations were done by his clerk, and he knew nothing about them. The magistrate convicted the accused and fined him $100, or in default, weeks' rigorous imprisonment. Tke maximum fine is! $5,000.
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