The Washington times., 1919-12-16
TELLER IDENTIFIES
VAN At wan TRIAL
Says Brother Of Accused Chi
nese Tried to Cash
Forged Check.
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Hotel. Van said to the Riggs Bank.
Reaching the bank / drove to the
curbing. Van remained in the bank
about a half hour and then told me
me $2.2O for the trip. I'm sure they
are the two Chinese / took to the
bank"
HALEY said he returned with the
Chinese about IL o'clock. 1t was tes-
titled yesterday that Wan and Van
left the Hotel HArris, where they had
been guests on the same mornins,
between IL and 1 o'clock.
George o. vass, assistant cashier
OF the Riggs Bank. also identified
Van. when he was brought into court.
as the Chinese who presented the
forged check for $4,000.
Night Clerk Called.
To show that Wan and Van re-
turned to the Harris Hotel after mid
night OF January 20, the night that
the three Chinese educators were
slain, the prosecution called George
Spohn. $40 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, night clerk, and Robert
Lee Carter. colored bell man of the
hotel. to the stand.
and Van to their room in the elevator
at 12:45 o'clock on the night of jan
uary 20. He also told Of frequent
calls he had from the room for pitch
ers Of hot water.
Mr.. Spohn testified he saw the two
Chinese, but their backs were turned.
He did not know who they were until
Carter returned from taking them to
their room.
The object Of the prosecution In
bringing these two hotel employees to
testify was to show that Wan and
Van were out Of the hotel on the
fwere slain and did not return until
after midnight.
Van II Excluded.
Van has been excluded from the
trial room. When the officials OF the
bank were on the stand he had to
be called for Identification. Found
lettering about the witness room. or
in the corridors, Van would be pre-
emptorily ushered before the witness.
He manifested extreme nervousness
on tho occasions when he faced
Aessrs. Dent and Vass, of the Riggs
Bank. and HALEY, the chauffeur.
To bring out the evident time that
DR.. Theodore T. Wong and c. n. Hsie,
the other two members of the mis-
sion who were slain, reached home
on January %, the night they met
their death. the prosecution placed
lingo Wsng. second secretary Of the
Chinese legation, on the stand. M.
Wang to. titled that on the night the
three members Of the mission WEI.
stain ns;e left a group of Chinese
educators at the Nankin restaurant
at 10 81 .ock, and a few minutes later
Dr.. Wong left. He figured that Hsie
reached the mission about 10:45 ana
DR.. Wong around IL o'clock.
Te3egra2s Int1oAueed.
Two kilograms, which the Govern
ment contends il tell-tale evidence
that Ziang Sun Wan, on trial for his
life before Justice Gould, in the Su-
preme Court premeditated murder, II
necessary, in order to obtain funds
from the Chinese Educational Mission
to retrieve his financial losses, were
introduced into the record yesterday.
The telegrams, signed by Wan. and
dispatched to his brother. Tsong Ing
Van. who has been identified as hav-
ing presented . check for 5000 at
the Riggs National Bank. to which
DR.. Theodore T. wong's signature
was forged, were offered by Assistant
District Attorney Bolitha J. Laws,
who is vigorously prosecuting Wan
lon indictment charging him with hav-
ing killed Ben Sen WI. one Of the
| three members Of the mission who
were found slain January 20. last.
One telegram, sent to Van on Jan
uary q. this year. read: Come At
once Hotel Harris, Massachusetts, ave-
nue. and North Capitol street Wash
ington, D. c."
| Tba o+har ts1s~r,~ ..~< ~ P>1.
lowing day. and the day before the
members OF the Chinese mission were
slain, stated "T. T. Van, 313 West
112th street, New York. Just come
Immediately. Throw away your work.
z. S. Wan, Harris Hotel"
Given To Jury.
| Assistant District Attorney Laws
declared that these kilograms sent
from Washington after Wan had left
the Mission on January p. ostensibly
1 to return to his home In New York.
indicated that he had coolly planned
| to obtain money from the mission,
and to use the brother as = confed-
crate in his plans. The kilograms
were not read in court, but were
handed to the jury to read after JUS
tice Gould admitted them into Vle
| records.
| To prove that the kilograms had
been dispatched by Wan. the prose-
cution placed Robert William Nj .es,
former bellboy At the Harris Hotel.
on the stand to testify that he had
received the kilograms from Wan at
ter he had engaged Il room at the
hotel on January 81.
| AS soon as I took Wan to his
room, he asked that l take a teI4-
gram to Union Station. l read the
! telegram, and then filed it. The
next day he gave me the other tele-
| gram, which l also read" Miles said.
Officials OF the branch office OF the
| Western Union Telegraph Company