Mefore Mixed Court on Charge of Stealing Jewellery from is Mother Before Magistrate Loh and Mr. £M, Hamilton (Assessor) at the Mixed Court on Monday morning an unrecognized Eurasian,—_Vietor {Sydney Elliott (26) was charged Cwith the larceny of approximately {$1,000 worth of jewellery, including yiwo gold bracelets, two single stone diamond rings, one plain gold ring, and a diamond brooch, 'Detective Sub-Inspector RW. FYorke stated that he arrested the accused on warrant the previous night at No. 6 Kungping Road, on Ethe information of his mother who {resided at No, 122 Boone. Rond, The accused pleaded guilty' and Fmubmitted to the jurisdiction of the Mixed Court without argument, {He fs described as an unrecognized Usurasian, having voluntarily renounced claims to any nationality rome months ago when he was charged with another oxime in the "American Court for China, Detective Sub-Inspector Yorke, Swho-prosecuted, stated that the nc-Cased had ta sisted in the recovery most of the jewellery which had {heen pawned at various pawn-shops the city for considerably less Dihan its, value, "According to. witness the accused pad been In the habit of visiting hhis mother's house and had at one time found out where the key of tthe safe was kept. He subsequently. Muted it to open the safe and from Time to tine extracted the various Darticles of jewellery and disposed Rot them, Witness asked for a re-Fmand of one week to enable the {police further to Investigate the recent movements of the accused, The remand was granted and the Eaecused will remain in custody the meanwhile, The U. $. Court Proveedings will, ho, remembered that October 26 vf Hast year arrested in Shanghai by the U. S. Court Marshal upon his return rom the United States from which ince "he hat been deported for having in his possession a forged "Daseport, He was arrested on a Teharge of having forged his mother's ame to cheques aggregating 1G$5,500 and the cave was tried in the American Court before Judge {Milton Purdy.
Tt was at this time that the question fof his real citizenship was raised Sand Mr. F. 5. Schuh, who appeared for the defence of Elliott, pleaded thats the accused way "not 'TAmerican citizen and therefore did Met come under the jurisdiction of the American Court, Me. Schuh! accordingly filed a writ of haber Scorpio, anid lenicthy" a=zument. was Sheard on the question.
The eave. rots in Shanghai heemuse yor Elliott 1. the Orients TBanking Corpo Honour Audge Purdy) ruled in favour of defendants, and. as Mr. Fleming. counsel for the Americin Oriental tanking Coxporation suggested, indicated possible collusion be: tween mother and son, ell be yeealled that atthe Teime of that heaving, Mrs. Elliott alleged that Victor, her son, forged jer name to a gold account to the value of G.85,509, and had fled to PAmerien after drawing these sums. Accused was brought back from, Joan Francisco, where he served a, sentence of two months for ate tempting to. enter America by, Imeans of a false passport, and with" Sri two days Mr. Schuhl, filed the writ of Mibens corpus.
Mrs, Elliott stated that her husband's father wax a Bute ish sea capt her father an Americun steward on the early Pacific Mell Line and her husband G"worthless chap, who at times Risted that he was born iladelphia, Pennsylvania, "or in fWarmiouth, "Nova Scotia. Mrs. HENiets's mother was Chinese.
Wis Monowr' subsequently ruled at Elliott did not come under the fon of the American Court.
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