News has been received from Hongkong of the death of Mr. Tycho Wing, who. was chiefly known in Shanghai one of the ablest defending counsel in criminal prosecution cases. He was @ brilliant man with a very able tongue and vivid mind, His best services were rendered after the war when he was attached.to the British army of occupation at Co-Jogne on the Rhine as a court-martial officer. In this position he was one of the few men whose court-martial eases were never questioned by the War OMice, and he was considered the leading court-martial officer tached to British headquarters, The late Mr. Tycho Wing frst came to Shanghai in May 1921 and entered into partnership with Mr, A. Preston as legal practitioners under the name of Messrs, Elli and Hayes. In 1925 the partnership was alssolved and the late Mr. Wing commenced to practise on his own. He then made his mame as a defending coune sel" in criminal cages. With his able tongue he could be both humorous and caustic, An amusing tale is told that during one court case, while the was addressing the judge, the opposing counsel remarked continually, "Well, Well Mr. Wing, think you wasting the court's time." To ch Mr. Wing replied, "Not on this side of the bench, my Lord."
During the war the late Mr. Wing served as @ commissioned officer with the Wiltshire Regiment, and who the Armistice was' signed he had tained the rank of captain, Aft ace was declared he was with the irish army. of occupation on. the Rhine from April 1919 to April. 1920, He was called to the Inner 'Tem: plain the. Michaelmas November 17, 1904, and. lime a member of' the south circuit. He was called to the bar Shanghai in 1921, "He retired to England about two' years ago, but a while returned to the Far East to Hongkong, where he prac-tiged as a barrister-ate law at TEM.
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