The Washington times., 1926-08-07

written. They are very definite
In having Us write the check on
the kitchen table with MI. Hsie's
pen taken out OF Mr.. Wu's pocket
but there was no typewriter in the
kitchen, and we will proba Div never
know just how this note Was pre-
pared.
Question No. 100 reads as follows
Burlingame: When you left the
mission house you had the check
letter and Mr.. Wu's card-did YOU
take them to the hotel with you?
Wan: Yes.
The detectives almost forget Mr.,
Wu's card as well as -the note
but the card has to be in because
one OF the bank officials claim
that when Van presented the en-
velope at the window it contained
the check and the note, and that
he then presented one Of Wu's
cards evidently to give the impress
sion that he Is Mr.. WI, secretary
OF the mission.
Does any reasonable person think
Tor one moment that I would send
my younger brother into J. bank
impersonating a man who Is pre-
sumably well known there and
who am supposed to have muir
dered the night before?
This Is one Of the most preposter.
Gus features Of this whole pre-.
posterous story. Mr.. WI had been
secretary to the mission for nearly
three years. He must have gone
to the Riggs Bank (where the Mis-.
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times on mission business. To Use
personate him would be the most
highly dangerous and most stupid
performance.
Furthermore, this involves vio-
lation OF Chinese ethics, which is
almost IL not more serious than
murder itself. Americans probably
cannot understand the attitude Of
q Chinese older brother towards
a younger one. 1t is fundamentally
trained into us to guard and pro-
tect the younger one"
That could send him on an
errand Of crime, involving almost
certain detection, in time, (if the
circumstances in this confession
were at all true) is UNTHINK-
ABLE from q standpoint Of Chin
csc character, alone. I would have
gone myself, q hundred times over.
rather than have him run such
risk.
Kelly and Burllngame have me
say that Van was in the bank
about fifteen minutes. The bank
officials, Van and HALEY. the taxi
driver, all agree that 1t was mp
proximately three quarters Of an
hour
Halle testified that his taxi was
an open, touring type. This was
q January morning. 1t Is known
was sick. Ask any doctor what
a forty or forty-five minutes wait
in an open taxi would do to man
in my condition. And aside from
the physical discomfort, there would
be the uncomfortable mental anxiety
Of such a wait which ] would
naturally interpret as trouble.
Would not under these alleged
circumstances disniss the taxi and
wait in a place Of safety? With
both forgery and murder on ones
mind and conscience, no one would
passively wait three-quarters OF an
hour while an accomplish was ap-
parently detained by the bank of
ficials. From all ! have learned
OF criminals at 200 18th st. s, E.,
otherwise known as the District
JafIl criminals do not handle their
crimes In this open. casual man.
ner. 1t is q most reasonable as.
sumption that the person who sent
Van into the bank knew the check
to be genuine and knew also that
there would be no reply to the
mission telephone should the bank
people attempt to call.
The detectives fail to mention
that Van carried to the bank with
him that morning a medium sized
suitcase about 10 by 16 inches in
This contained about
$500 in war savings stamps which
he carried with him for safety and
as an emergency fund, also q great
deal OF my jewelry.
The district attorney alleged that
he took this suitcase to get the
in. If a person expected to
get, $4,000 or 100000 that might
be reasonable but such q satchel
for so small a sum is not reason
able, unless one should want silver
AoE Poy1OI OE SOHSluAuS uoSI
Under any circumstances, IL 1
had been in the taxi, he surely
would have left this with me-if
a stranger had been in the taxi
las was the facD he would have
taken the suitcase into the bank
with him in spite of the bother
and this Is just what he did.
The detectives have me say that
Van and 1 returned to the hotel in
the taxi. HALEY, the taxi driver,
says he drove us back to the sta
ton. Just small discrepancy, COM
pared to the many great ones.
Questions 1921, Inclusive
After was in. New York, / told
Van what had happened. didn't
tell him anything about 1t on rhe
train. When Van handed back check
and l on train D to New York, Pore
them up and threw them down the
toilet. When I reached New York !
told Van my friend was very bad
HIM who my friend was. Just meE-
toned my friend. l think did men
t1on WI but I don't remember whether
killed WI. | don't know anything
about 1.-THE division of this money.
was going to bring 1t all back to
WuIthen he gives me some of it
It is evidently difficult for the
detectives to finish this up catisfac-
torily. When arrived in New York
1 am supposed to tell Van about
the crime. but l am not sure / tell
and DR.. Wong were killed,
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