ABSTRACT
THE year 1921 was remarkable, among other things, for its crop of scandals, though it must be confessed that many of those which gained publicity in that year were of a quite respectable antiquity. From time to time the deliberate progress of the Kitahama Bank trial was reported. The directors of this Osaka bank had made away with nearly all the money, and, after ten years, the case was still proceeding. Neither the offence nor the delay, however, was specially remarkable, and it is as a matter of curiosity rather than importance to record that the procurator of the court summoned a broker and sharply rebuked him for extolling the character of one of the directors who was under trial, for, in contrast with this praise, which was doubtless inappropriate, was the fact that no newspaper ever appears to have got into trouble for assuming the guilt of an accused person while the case was still sub judice.
