At the Mixed Court last Friday morning an accountant at " gold and silversmith's shop at No, 123 Honan Road was charged on remand with receiving certain goods well knowing them to have been stolen, and also with failing to the articles described in the books kept for the purpose, and further with feiling to keep the articles for the prescribed length of time before smelting them or converting them into bull contrary to Article VI. of the Gold Silver Smitbe" Guild, Mi. ©. G. Kirk appeared for the prosecution and Mr. T. Morgan Phillips for the dete:
Mr, Kirk enid that the defendant was a member of the Gold and Silver Smiths' Guild. About six years ago eet of regelations was drawn up and they received the sanction of Taotai, the Senior Consul and the Manicipal Council, These regulations set out that all goods received by the shops were to be entered in books Kept for the purpose and that no goods were to melted dowa in lees then six days from the date of receipt. The gold ear pick mentioned in the charge was stolen from mediately for $13.86 al Ithongh the com-women at 2.30 p.m. and sold im-
pect] plainant said that he paid $19 for it, The hair pin mentioned was received on the 11th jostant and melted down on the 16th, The buttons were stolen from Honan Road on the 20th of last month by the same man and wore suld to the same shop fur $.0.30, whereas the complainant i2 that case paid $14 for them. These battens were melted down on the 25th of the month, Det. Sgt. Kay said that be went to the shop and asked if they had received the ear pick. The men at the shop said that they did not know because anything they received like that was written down as gold in their books, There was an entry in ths books showing that two mace six candareens of gold bad been bought. Ata later date he revisited the shop and foued that there was another extry la the books which was not there his firet visit, marked ior gold, Mr. Phillips said that the +bop bad carried on basines for many years and had never hed a report of this natare made against it before. The defendant was a man of very by him indicating that the goods were stolen Property as they wore auld to him immediately they were stolen, The price paid by the defendant was the correct price, as the est of manufacture and the shopkeeper's profit bad to be deducted from the price at which they were purchased ty the owners, The Price paid by the shop was the intrinsic value of the goods. The defendant handed over his books to the detective without any hesitation.
Defendant gave evidence bearing oat his conned's statement.
Mr. Kirk esid that there had been a breach of the regulations in that a proper description was not entered in the
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