Woo Nee-dong, s conductor employed in the Shanghai Electric Tramway Ca., was charged with defrauding: the Company of the sum of twenty-eight cents on the 24th instant.
Insp. Kossack, of the Tramway Ca., stated that in Broadway the previous day he got into the No. 2 car, which was travelling towards the Astor House, and found that accused (a conductor) had supplied seven passengers with five-cent instead of seven-cent tickets for fares from the Point, and to seven others, travelling from three - cent instead that he had been giving correct tickets all the time, but that was not true. The practice was found out by ® smart Chinese, who strongly objected to being rand, and immediately igo matter. From inquiries made it was found that what the Chinese had said was correct, and he was immediately placed under arrest. The very light sentence of three days' cangue at the car shed, and seven days' imprisonment was recorded.
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