CHINESE BANKRUPT

FOURTEEN CRIMINAL CHARGES

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. -.In the Polieo Court a long list of | charges was answered by a Chinese, business wan, Jinn Toon Lee, who appeared as :t bankrupt before the Official Assignee in April. After the evidence had been taken in the Bankruptcy Lourt it wus decided that the matter should be handed to the Crown Prosecutor to consider prosecution. Counsel intimated that the accused would stand his trial on all fourteen charges, which included obtaining money by valueless cheques and breaches of the .Bankruptcy Act. W. Y. K. Chan, a market gardener, or! Invercargill, father of the accused, said that ho told tho accused that if ho behaved himself he would give him his gardens. His son had been educated at Dunodiu, Auckland, and some other place outside New Zealand. Ho did not. know if the accused had ever been at Oxford. At the- end of last year his sop. came to Dunedin. Witness was at that time working in his garden at Invereargill, and witness gave the accused 501110 -money. Witness did not know to whom his son was married. Witness was in China before the war, and when at col logo he was captured by brigands but did not have to be ransomed Witness had never owned a motor-car worth £1350, but he did own a cheap car Ihs'son was in the silk business with him, and so much money had been lost ho did not know what it was. _ Cross-examined, witness said that his family had had large business operations at Auckland, Duiiedin, and liivercargill. He had been a Chinese missioner in Dunedin for some years lie had traded under the name's of Tone king Lee and Kum Toon Lee It was an understood thing j,, Chinese families that a man 's property passed to his son' and in the present case . everything would go to his son if he behaved him self. Witness had done his best to help Ins son in his trouble. His son was now working for him in hi. K .- m len n luverear g ill. His son had a bi X ■, ■ Auckland. The money for it cameo, of the business. Witness had sold his business in Auckland some time ago.