Prosecution: Me. J. Lo Winkle man for defendeni.
Stating that from the morning's evidence a prima facie case of forgery was made. against "Mr. Albert H. 'Marigold, charged with stealing a cheque of $1805 and. fraudulently converting the cheque to his own use, Mr, Gilbert Chatterton, counsel for the prosecution, asked' for an adjournment for one week in order that further investigations might be made, The Registrar, Mr. C, H. Haines, said that the request Was roper' one to make as It appeared from the evidence that someone—not case until 10 a.m, on Friday, May 15 The accused is represented by Mr. alleged by the prosecution that in December last year Miss M. N. Novadskaya handed a letter, cortaining a cheque made out to Mrs. Agnes Wachtel for $180.65 and a Christmas card, to Mr, Marigold, He was asked to send it by registered letter to Mrs. 'Wachtel, who was then in Hongkong. On December 23 Miss 'Novadskaya fse handed Mr. Marigold a cheque for $1520 made out in her name' asking him to cash it for her. December 24 he did so, paying the money to Miss Novadskaya, On the rt Wachtel's "name, an attempt, having been made to' imitate Mrs. Wachtel's signature, Witnesses Callea Miss Novadskaya confirmed in a1, Police Court on Thursday that she had handed Mr. Marigold a letter con-faining a cheque made out to Mrs. Wachtel asking him to post it to Mr Wachtel for her, Mrs, Wachtel, wh husband had with him on the last day she saw him but three days before he had $20. He wore a gold signet-ring and had a gold watch. Insp. J. Kirlchok {old the Coroner that $9 and two twenty cent pieces were found in the deceased's pockets when ken from the river.
Det-Serg. S. Nancarrow, who attended the inquest, said he had nothing further to report when asked by the Coroner.
Medical Evidence Further evidence was heard on the resumption of the inquest on Friday }when medical evidence was heard, and the testimony of an American naval [ratinglwho travelled down to the Customs Jelty with the deceased before the occurrence, and of two members of the Customs River Police who had occasion to see the body after ward vas thu, en, r, s. K, Squires, police surgeon, said that lie made 'a post-mortem examination on May 1, and found that the cause of death was asphyxia due to drowning. He discovered no signs of violence on the body, the internal organs of which were entirely decomposed. There were no signs of a struggle having taken place. He did not "find any mud embedded in the finger-nails.
The Coroner:—Did you form any conclusions from this, other than that deceased did not clitch against the bank? Would he have fallen into the water in a semi-conscious condition?—That Is quite possible. He might have been completely unconscious.
The Coroner:—It may also have been possible that he went in deep water?-—Yes, that is possible, With regard to the presence of mud {n the stomach, witness said that this Indicated that it was "likely that deceased had fallen into the water while. still alive, though not necessarily conscious, as the mud would most likely have been swallowed.
could not definitely state whether deceased was conscious or not at returned to Shangha! on March 12, said she had received no letter from any blow with, say, a sandbag, would you have been able to. tell?—Not Miss Novadskaya but she had from Unless there had been a fracture. Mr. Marigold, who said that the Bruises would disappear on decom-American-Oriental Banking Corpor: tion was paying a 7% per cent. dividend and that he would be for-Dead for Several Days warding the cheque later.
Witness stated that deceased had The signature on the back of been dead from four to six days, and cheque, " while produced in it was therefore possible that he had" court, was not hors, Mrs, Wachtel been drowned on the night of April said, Mr, W. J. Lamneck of the Chase Charles Emil Hubert, a naval rat-Banke said that the cheque had been ing attached to the "U.S.S. Oahu, cashed on Christmas Eve, They were stated that he boarded a tender to very busy at the time and he had proceed from the ship to the Customs not suspected than that there was Jolty at about 4.45 pin. on April 24. anything wrong with the signature, He took a seat on the upper deck, He expressed the opinion that Mrs. and soon afterwards met a man whom Wachiel's cheque was probably cashed he now knew to have been the
cheque had been, Wu Ko-shang, 180 'Miss Novadsiaya' deceased. It was raining hard, and the two went into the pilot' house employed for the past 14 years by for shelter. They talked about gen-the compradore of the Chase Bank, ral topies, and also looked at a book said that he had written on the back on yachting which witness had with fof the larger cheque $105.05. him. Deceased told witness that he referred to the total of two was a chief affeer. cheques received at the same tim The trip down to the Customs Tt was his practice, when he Jelly occupied about 45 minutes, and received more than one cheque. to deceased seemed very cheerful dur write down the total amounts ing that time. On arriving at the the back of one of the cheques, he he stepped on to the said, His evidence concluded the case for the prosecution and the court adjourned unfit 2.20 p.m, On resump-id said that he was very lon in the afternoon counsel for the glad to have prosecution asked for a further ad-said Journment and this was granted, towards' Nanking Road to board a Inquest on Mr. 'T. Norman tram. Mr. Norman did not say where he was going, but mentioned that his Before Mr. C. Hf. Haines, Coroner wite was in Shangh Mrs, Dorothy Agnes Norman, widow CPC. Number 102, attached to the of the late Mr, Thomas Norman, whose Customs River Police, said that he ady was found. floating in the was on patrol at 7.25 a.m. on May Whangpoo on May 1 afler ho had at Pootung, and discovered deceased's been missing for a week, could throw body floating face downwards in the no fight on her husband's death when water near Number Four Buoy, off questioned by the Coroner, Mr. C. Hi. the BA'. wharf. He brought' the Haines, In H. M, Police Court on Tues-body to the B.A. Wharf, and then day, Day 8. She said that she had telephoned for a foreign police officer, no Feason to believe that her husband who arrived in a motor launch at should take his own life, He was not about 8 o'clock, and took the body worried and had no enemies. He was to the police station, The late Mr. Thomas Norman was chiot officer of the China Navigation Company's. s, Wantung. "He was 32 years of age, The last time she saw him slive wa: at about 8 a.m, on Friday, April 24. the boarding house in which they were staying, 427 Vu Yuen Road. He was going to catch an 8.0 a.m. tender leaving from the Bund for the Kiangnan Docks. He told her to expect him back in the evening but as it was going to be a busy day for him he might not get off duty. Tu that, ease he would telephone her at 6 pin. and say he could not come. If he did not telephone she was to expect him by 6.15 pin, Her husband normally made such arrangements with her she said.
Mrs. Norman said she was quite sure that the body recovered by the River Police was her husband's. She did not know how much money' her
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