Accused was cross-examined at Length by Bir. Maitland, who conducted the prosecution." He said that he had earned some small commission in connexion with a Property sale, but did not know exactly where the property was.
You bought two cigarette cases and two cameras without there being the faintest chance' of your be-not "tvithout the faintest. ing able to pay for them?—I would
chance." Supposing I had sold this ear!
Who was going to buy it?—That Lam not willing to state. But I had a client who proposed to buy a Cadillac.
Why did you pawn the camera immediately you got it from Wat-T wanted some Yes, you got the camera with the idea of selling it cheap and living fon the procceds?—It might be that T got the camera with the den of selling it cheap and living! perhaps, but it does not follow that never intended to pay for it.
And you did the same with the other cigarette cases and the cameras, for the same reason?—That might be true.
What you were doing, in fact, was to go round signing chits in the name of a respectable firm and pawning the proceeds to live on?—True, But that does not mean I had no intention of paying for the things.
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The Magistrate—You will have show me that you had a reasonable chance of paying.
Accused—I have just said that there was the prospect of my being: able to sell two motor-cars, which is endeavour work.
Mr. Maitland—Even if you had sold three ears, the commission duc would have been a drop in. the ocean compared with what you owe. What have you paid off the Arts Grafts" accounts?—May that is true, but the money would have been of some assistance Why did you sign your name as Bowen?"'—I signed my own name! aya matter of fact, Why did you print the name Bowen?—The simple reason was that I did not wish Mx. Harnoviek to know that I was Bowler.
Why?—Because it might have influenced his doing any further business.
So you wanted to deceive him?—Well, I was not exactly deceiving him,' but it might have influenced him, What is it but deceit if you make him think you are somebody else? Well, in a way it is.
Is it' anything else but deliberate deceit?—If you think it is deceit, all right,
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