One of the reasons for the breach] iwas that Chen cheated him by saying he had. plenty of capital when, jas a matter of fact, he had none. Henry Maitland & Ca. was to have been an import and export firm, imperting Japanese goods, doing real estate and collection business as side lines, There was no discussion of the insurance business and this matter did not arise, nor was the insurance firm started, until after witness had left the company abi sold his interests to Chen, He did Jnot order any policy forms. After! that, witness joined a Chinese coal] hong at 196 Szechuen Road end, since his arrest, had been detained in the Amoy Road Gaol, 30 he could not] carry on his business.
The Judg—Have you any assets?—Accused—No. If 1 had, T should] not be in the Amoy Road Gaol.
Henry Chen eaid that he was at] they were doing everything they could, but that their Inndlords, Binmed the condition of affairs on to the Chinese workmen.
Cross-examined—He claimed that the part where the leak occurred was included in his lease, The restaurant had only been out of use as such for two days, but for six' months it could not event tha it is brought on failure Prosecuting Solicitor, appeared for present a prisoner in the Municipal of payment.
That said note was in ithe Police; Dr. F. Wilhelm watched Geal. He was bearing witness turn endorsed by the defendant to the proceedings on behalf of several] the plaints There are e mambo of he company's clients, who, were sgaingt Maltiznd and ut i kate apa After going into of defences raised thy It should not bg held Mable for 0, Waeber was present for Maitland; Get", womens te Be tnae by the defendant alleged to have been swindled; Dr.(dovail payment of this note.
"The defendant contends that the jntiff abandoned its right to hold the defendant liable on this note jand Dr. Pooh Tsiang represented Koo Tuli-min 'Superintendent P. W. Reeves recounted the circumstances leading to' land knew all the time of the insurance business and of the fictitic policies, Maitland had a friend named Patterson who was the own-source of income.
He had made when it took possession of the Morris mau complainte—almost every day. Cowley car on or about April 19, raring his profits, wine said] 1926, and wrote-a letter to the de-his. books regularly were fendant requesting that it hold the and audited and could be sak! ur for plaintiffs account until if desired, Hawkers' sal further notice, and that subse-responsible for 10 or 18 per cent. quently the plaintiff endeavoured to the arrest of the accused men, his statement being the same as those which he had made on two previous, occasions in the former Mixed'
The Prosecuting Solicitor, questioned by Judge Hsu, said that he! er of a bogus insurance company Known as the Atlas Insurance Corporation and introduced this man to witness with a recommendation that Henry Maitland & Ca, should purchase his assets, which were for sale at a low price. Witness then of his daily turnover, A Landlord's Position sell the car to others to liquidate this account.
Tu reviewing the evidence on this! was charging the accused wit obtained the money from Koo and Doing concerned with others in paid Tls. 1,000 over to Patterson. obtaining money by means of false] After that, he made inquiries at the the defence, Mr, Brown re- point, T cannot agree with the de-mind the Judge that the law was! fendant's contention, as the evidence 7 that a landlord was not responsible fails to show that the car was, ever for damage caused through failure gold and it cannot be assumed that to execute repairs, even though he] the pi ntiff's intention was to take had covenanted to attend to them, over the car in liew of payment from unless he had received warning that the defendant, In defendant's ex-they were necessary. hibit No. 2 relative to the storage Gordon Craigie Ross, of of this car in defendant's garage, Moore & Ce said that, ennnot imply specifically that the auctions from the defendants, plaintiff had taken it over for the he examined the plaintiffs' damaged specific purpose of payment under: advertising material. Tt was in a. the note, as the deed of transfer on box mixed up with some shoes and this note gives the plaintiff the right. straw, Witness told Mr. Crawley to take charge of the car at any at the time that considered some time, and until it, by some of it could hav deen dried and|net, either by express used. Mr. Crawley admitted that] of taking it over as he obtained the material for no-some act on its part in disposing of thing. He. showed witness some the car by sale or otherwise, it can-advertisements in his windows not be said that it has relinquished Which witness considered to be in|its right to collect payment from 8 worse state than the allegedly the maker and endorser on this! damaged goods.
Witness suggestes note, Te ig further contended by the] Ts, 25 a8 compensation, the plaintiff has pretences, Accused, on their insur-Jance policies, claimed to be @ Sino-'Scandinavian company with a eapiital of Swedish kronen 2,600,000, boreas it was not a Sino-Scandins—vian company nor did they have any Two men, who claimed to be complainants, were called and one said that he did not know who he was [charging nor did he know the names fof the defendants. The other said [that he was suing Keo and another Iman named Chen Hai-pao, otherwise Henry Chen, who had obtained mon-joy from him by false pretences. He was not charging Maitland.
The Judge then told one of the complainants who was not legally [represented to file a format petition, outlining the circumstances, ths) charge and the persons charged, 'A Defendant's Evidence Koo, one of the prisoners, war American Consulate-General and the American Chamber of Commerce but could gather -no information about the Atlss Ca. Neither did the Hong Book show, although he searched carefully for half a day. Patterson had promised to obtain him registration as an American company. The Atlas Insurance having been taken over, it was necessary to obtain a name and, as their offices were above the Sino-Scandinavian Bank, Maitland suggested that an appropriate one would be the Sino-Scandinavian Insurance The next witness was the printer jof the policies, who, after being warned against perjury by the Judge and signing a statement, said the order to print these was given by Chen Hai Two thousand were printed.
Tend.
Dr. Wilhelm was instructed by the The Judge—This Court as reeelvoda similar letter but we have fdccided to try the case and, if we think fit, we will hand the accused over.
'P. C, S, Widdowson said that on January 25 he and two Chinese de-{tectives went to 1719 Bubbling Welt Read where all the accused lived, information having been received [to the effect that accused were involved in two murders which had [taken place in Robison Road. After taking them into custody, the police [searched the place and,' upstairs, Jfound half a dozen hatchets, five of which were in leather pouches. Alt the prisoners, said witness made statements giving information regarding their movements, and one used admitted that he possessed 'a pistol, which was at a relative's: house, 16 Bubbling Well Road. This was eventually found and the bullets corresponded with the one found in the body of the deceased. mai who wore a badge which showed that he was a delegate to the Third National Labour Conference, Wu Chia-mu said that on January 19, deceased came and asked witness for the return of certain money which he had lent to him. Witress had no money so he asked deceased to wait while he went to ask his friends if they would help him. In the alleyway, he saw ten men, five of whom he recognized among those in the dock, Failing to seeuxe any money, he returned he was met by him upstairs.
He saw the deceased and Jone of the prisoners who asked him Jwhether ho was) Tal Tx. chien. Deceased replied ind the man fired a shot fat him, which missed and struck witness, who fell to the floor, After that witness heard several more shots. He then fainted, but was afterwards told that deceased died jin the house and that another friend had jumped out of the window and had died somewhere else, Accused all denied the charges. They had obtained the hatchets and julie pistol for self protection, they aid, as the aim of the Kung Yut Schdol was an Anti-Bolshevik and opposed to strikes by labourers. At that time, the Inbour crisis was at its zenith' and so they, the accused, made a number of enemies, with the result that they had to arm themselves, They know nothing of the murder, The case was then remanded,
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