The Archive · 1926

A Duplicate Key

The complainant, Mrs. Elliott, in giving evidence at the Mixed Court on Wednesday, "covered more or ess the same ground as previously, recounting how the cheques had been forged without her knowledge and how she surmised that Victor had had made a duplicate key to the private drawer in which che kept her pass book. On one occasion she went to the bank to see about her account. and was told that all monies had been drawn out. At the American Consulate she was told that Victor could be stopped if he was not an American citizen, whereupon, in view of the fact that her husband was born in Yarmouth, Nova Seotis, she' made formal denial of citizen: ship. She knew none of the details, she informed the Assessor, only what Mr, Husar and Mr, Sawyer had told her. While her Son was in custody in Shanghai, he asked to see her, witness continued, and he told her when she visited him, how he prepared a duplicate key, forged

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