A mafoo having the charge of a carriage plying for hire on the stand in the Honan Road, was ordered to be cangued for a week for impudence to a respectable Chinaman whom he importuned to hire his carriage to take him to the East Gate of the city.
Theft of $200.
Two wheelbarrow coolies w in the custody of th charged with being impi $200. It appears that on Tuesday five wheelbarrow men were employed to convey $50,000, in boxes of $5,000 each, from a foreiga bank on the Bund to a native bank in the Nanking Road. All the boxes were delivered by the coolies, who were then told there was more work for them to do, but they objected to do it and three of them ran away without payment for what they had already dove. This created suspicion that all was not as it should be, and the boxes containing the dollars were examined. It was found that the hinges of one of them was insecure, and that $200 had been abstracted during its removal from one bank to the other. By this time all the coolies had decamped, but the police were soon on their track, and the tivo prisoners were apprehended. It was ascertained that the other three prisoners had ganoin the direction of Koompoo, the town near Soochow where all the wheelbarrow men come from, and it is supposed they have the $200 with' them, as none were found on the prisoners. To afford an opportunity for the arrest of the three men who escaped, the prisoners were remanded for a week.
20th May.
Before the Chinese Magistrate Cues, and Mactay, Esq., United States Assessor. An Incorvigible.
A culprit who had been but three weeks out of jail, was brought up for stealing a clock from' foreigner's house. He was detected while going out of the house with the clock under his clothes, He was sentenced to one hundred blows and three mouth' imprisonment.
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