The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-01-10
MADE BUSINESS (
OF EMBEZZLING
But Young Chinese BunCo Man
Finds Legal Necessities
in His Way.

facsimile of the smooth.tongued con
fdence, something for-nothing gent, has
been caught. He now occupies cell
in the city Jail, trying to estimate how
many charges of embezzzlement and
forgery his friend, Mr. McDufie, is GO
ing to place against him.
Francis is of the type labeled by the
police as dudifed Chinaman. He is
the half -Americanized specimen, whose
oriental ideas have ended at sharp prac-
tise and tan shoes. When his acquaint-
ance with the next American institu-
toni. e., the iail-ends he will doubt
less be as old as the aged father he is
now supposed to be supporting.
At the present time he faces about
four ENLIGHTENMENT charges and one of
forgery, but the end of the story has
not had time to develop yet. 1t has,
however, been developing as fast as
possible, and there has been something
doing every minute. When Alfred j.
Dram of the Office Supply Company
first came down to the police, McDuffie
got the first inkling of Francis Ching
Fun and his peculiar traits.
His Investment"
Dram, it seems, had given Ching Fun
5000 to put in a rice paddy proposition.
The young and enterprising financial
agent, however, had ideas of his own
on Investment, and placed the coin in
the Canton restaurant, the new appe-
tite dispeller which has been opened
on Hotel street, and which has already
figured in a blind pig prosecution.
This will constitute one charge of
embezzlement against him, although
Dram did not want to prosecute at first,
on the plea that he did not want to
ruin the young mans chances in life.
McDuffie was willing to acquiesce in
his request. and went to the receiving
desk to order his release, when he hap
pened to glance through the papers that
| had been taken from Francis when he
was put "down below" gave a long
whistle and countermanded the order
Since then developments have been
coming thick and fast.
Check Transaction.
Dram discovered that he had been
! victimized several times. Among other
things, Francis had forged a check to
the order of "Ching Hing CheOng,'
believed to be well.known Chinese
merchant, for $50 and signed it in
| Dram name. The check was drawn
on the Bishop Bank.
! The young Chinaman had also taken
typewriter. from the Office Supply
Company on the partial payment plan
| paying a small sum each month, and
j promptly sold it to Attorney Leon M
Straus, pocketing the money ani
doubtless adding to his already elabo
rate wardrobe. This, as yet, hardly
constitutes a criminal charge.
Saturday evening, after McDufie had
decided that his capture would beal
further investigation, he received Q
telephone call from w. Hurst, VINO was
extremely agitated upon hearing that
Francis Ching Fun had Just been ar
rested and was about to be released
again.
Another Development.
He had Just discovered that Hurst &
relations with the high frenzied finan
cier dates from month ago. Francis
came to him with bill of the Oahu
Rice Mill Company on a certain Chinese
| u
of how the debtor had no cash with
which to meet it, hut had lot OF
stock which he was willing to sell.
After a very plausible explanation
Hurst was induced to give him casf
and checks to the amount of 1920, witt
which Francis was to purchase The
stock and take his commission, ant
then presumably collect the bill from
the sellor out of the money so made.
But Francis cashed the checks will
the Oahu Rice Mill Company and be
came that much ahead. When Hurs
heard about it he was naturally peeved
| but gave the young man some time t,
make good Hurst was also mixed NJ
with him in connection with 100 share
, of oil stock, the handling of whicl
will probably bring another erimina
: charge against Francis.
Key to Trouble.
1t is believed that he has also beer
mixed up with the Oahu Rice Mill
where his father works and where h
was formerly employed, as the compan,
has been looking for him for severa
!. days, although it has not yet COM
forward with a charge. An apparen
NDpN VI d hpbp tbhhu a.
: Francis possession is a probable Ike.
to this trouble.
! This note, worded in the pecula
Chinese English legal dialect, is mad
! out by him TO the rice company 70
, $4,000 at ten per cent. interest. Il
]. security, so says the note, he offer
e quantity Of stock, among which wa
S 1000 shares of Ventura Oil, which h
$ valued at dollar per, making $4,000
T As the actual value of the stock is sal
). TO be about ten cents, Francis agai
e testifes to his capability as a moderi
business man.
( Whether he made this note out jus
] for practise or not, remains TO be seer
!. but the police believe that he has nerv
d enough TO put it through, having ac
y Gnired from some mysterious course tn
: Yankee gift of CAB +"
= Handy Notes.
: lie also carried about with him