The Archive · 1879

An Incorrigible

who ted with a monomania for stealing flower-pots, having been up on previous occasions for the same offence, was Sentenced to eight months' imprisonment for stealing three flower-pots from the garden of a foreigner on the Bubbling Well Road, Ho hat sold the pots to a shrip-keeper fr sixty cash, who had in turn subsequently sold them for 420 cash. As a knowing receiver of stolen property, the shopman was accordingly een-Yeuced to a fortaight's imprisonment, 'THE WU-SHIH-SHAN TRIAL,

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