Twomen were accused of stealing thirteen passeng-r tickets, the property of Messrs.
i-mss-n & Ca., 28, The Bund. Siso with ug Mr. F. H. Birchoff's name with {inte..t to defraud the company of S117.
Seryt. Ress produced two wooden bl-cks bearing Mr. Birchoffs name, which he sail accused had had made.
Mr. Bischoff said the signature was very well imitated, but the difference was ap parent "n comparison with his own and itat on the wooden block. At the rqnest of the Court Mr. Birchoff wrote his siguature on a piece of paper.
Ress stated that one man had been a shroff in Messrs, Siemssen's employ when he stole the blank Hongkong passenger tickets. He sod them toa friend for $6, who in tarn sold them for $8. The wh proper fare to Hongkong was $9. It was the sheeff who forged the tickets, and the her maw must have known he was doing wrong in buying them, Detective-Sergt. Gilfillan said each of the men had admitted to him,—one to the forging and the other to the baying and selling of the tickets. Both men were <qually implicated. The chops hed been und in the ex-shroff's house. It appeared he had considerable difficulty in tracing the tickets, and accused as the yur shaser in the first place sold them to a Judging house keeper and they were thus distributed by among other lodging houses. The two accused were, he hud ascertained, hus om friends, Accused mentioned that the tickets were uraris Cickets.
Mr. Birchot explained that a gratis ticket wes given for every ten sold to Chinese hotels, If they were free tickets they would have 1 come to the firm, besides they had been sold for 26 while they were worth $9, "Phe Assessor remarked they might have sold them for $6 a they obtained them free, Detective Serg*, Gillan pointed out the friendship existing between the two m The Court fined the purchaser of the tickets $109 and ordered him to pay $20 pensation to a complainant who had three tickets from him at $3 each, who had lost by the transaction, as the lickits were now of no use. Accused's father was ordered to pay the balance of S4. The ex-shroff was sentenced to six snonths' imprisonment,
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