The jury need not concern themselves, his Lordship continued, with the number of people who might be guilty, the sole question for them being whether or not Kentwell was in the way suggested. The informer gave correct. information, as was proved by subsequent.
but he never said a word implicated Kentwell - at all. We did say he had seen Kentwell at Warren Road, but never in the attic where the photographs were taken He also said he had never seen him at Nanziang. The only time he brought Kentwell into the picture was on the occasion when the: goods packed in sacks were put on the houseboat and taken to Nan-tiang. Kentwell's answer to. the direct implications of the two Tsus was that it was part of the plot against him, though he was unable to give any reason for the plot.
Discussing next the close connexion of the three houses with the forgery scheme, his Lordship referred to the curious fact that at Warren Road the servants" were not engaged by Kentwell, but by Dzung, and that one of them was an ex-convict. The house at Nan-long undoubtedly was used as a factory for making notes. Kentwell held this place only on a mortgage, which was still mortgage although it had some peculiar features, and it had never been suggested by a single witness that he once slept at the place or had been seen in the room where!
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