M., de Ruffle: When Pinto comes to my office, he always has to have an interpreter. He does not understand French. It is quite unbelievable that be can converse in that language.
'MI de Ruffe further brought. out that an amicable settlement had been reached between the witness and the people who put him' in. gaol, this, having been concluded the previous day.
Summing up, M, de Ruffe said that what insurance companies hated to do was to pay up when the time came. He had come to the conclusion that unless there had been any miscounting in the books of the Pinto bank, there had been no defrauding of the insurance company. The state fof the books had nothing to do with the robbery itself. The first time that it had been suggested that Pinto was responsible for the robbing of the bank was in the evidence of the ast witness. "The police had done their best to find out who was responsible for the robbery, but they had not found that the Pinto Bank or any of its employees were responsible. Tt was probably arranged, he declared, by the same gang as had performed the same kind of trick before, once a jewellery firm in the same block the Pinto Bank, which was burgled about {wo years ago, and once again when the premises of Sennet Freres was burgled, about a year ago, They must consider the fact that Pinto's premises were burgled as being apart from the case, was absurd'to say that a person with average intelligence would have talked about having a robbery of his Premises two years before it wat supposed to take place, and to have prepared his books accordingly, The alleged mistakes in the books had probably been made in the best of faith, No bank would carry on for months, and even years, and fix a definite date on which a burglary w to take place,
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