Reader Harris, It was learnt that Mr. Reeks was to conduct the lease for the prosecution and Mr. Me-Neill was representing the defendant, At about 1030 am, the Registrar, Mr. 1. T, Morris, came into court and turning to Mr, Reeks asked him to proceed.
Mr. Reeks rose and asked for an Jadjournment, which was granted by the Registrar, who postponed the lease for one week.
Later in the day an inquest was opened at the apartment, in Avenue Joffre, where Mr. Leech' was found dead.' Evidence of identification was tgiveh before the Coroner, Mr. Morris, by Mr. Thomas Leonard Rawsthorne, who said:
"Iam a chief assistant in the sec retariat of the Shanghai Municipal Council. 1 recognize the body I have just seen in your presence as that of Archie Sydney Leech. He was the Committee Clerk of the Shanghai Municipal Council. T have known the deceased for the last eleven years, and last saw him alive on Monday, October 8, at his office."
The Coroner adjourned the inquest until 10 am. on Saturday, October 20, Posts in Essex Mr. Leech, who was born in El land on February 20, 1894, was educated at King Edward VII Grammar School in Chelmsford, Essex. Subsequently he was appointed to a post in the office of the County Accountant for Essex. At the age of 22 he was made junior committee clerk in the office of the Clerk of the County Council for Essex, In September, 1914, he joined the Germany until demobilization in balance of $245, Mr. January, 1919. In February, 1919, the was appointed personal secretary to the Clerk of the Essex County Council and remained in that posi-joined the SMC. as mittee Clerk on October 5, 1922. He also. became active in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
He was unmarried and is survived a sister, in the United States, and 2 brother, in England.
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