boatmen were charged with stealing thirteen pieces of satin, each piece being worth $14. A Cantonese merchant the prisoners to take the silk on northern steamer, and while they bad it in the boat thirteen pieces were extracted from the parcels, Information was jen to the Police, who ascertained that the tolen property had been given to a broker to f, and they succeeded in recovering nine pieces. Prisoners did not deny the theft, and they wore remanded for " week in order he Pol further opportunity of the doe of the stolen pro-
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