Mr. Rodger then questioned the witness on his living expenses. Mr. Mark denied that he had an eleven room apartment, but stated that his parents had a_six room apartment.
"Have you any polo ponies?" asked Mr, Rodger.
"Do. you race ponies?"
"Have you a paper hunt pony?"
"What! You haven't got Walnut?"
In eross-examination by Mfr. N. E. Lurton, who with Mr. J. B. Davies, represented the defendant, Mr. Mark denied that he had intended to leave Shanghai permanently. He told the court that he intended to go to New York on business and that would return in the Autumn, He repeated to his attorney that the money he had given to his mother was an outright gift, that he had no creditors at the time of the transfer, and that after giving his mother the money, he estimated he was worth slightly'more than a. mil-Vion. As regards the motor car, he stated that he had bought it on his mother's instructions while she was in America, using it himself until she returned, and then handing it over to her.
Under further examination by Mf. Rodger, Mr. Mark stated that in the ast. several months he had given LID. Rodger & (Ca, three cheques for $150 each as partis! payment for Tegal services which had. amounted to $13,000. The amount he had paid brought the balance due to. $12550.
Questioned regarding how" he had lived for the past year, the witness from his father.
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