Mr. C. J. Ashley were charged with being Two men employed as sailmakers' concerned together in stealing a quantity. of canvas, valued at $27, from the pre mises of the complainant, No. 53, Tsingpoo Road, on the 11th inst.
Mr. Ashley said that in October last he was ordered to take a trip to Japan for the benefit of his health, aad "on his return recently he found that the acon the business in witness's absence, had cused, who were employed in carrying; sold a quantity of canvas, for which they had failed to account.. There-had been a considerable amount taken in addition to that mentioned in the charge, but he could not say exactly what loss he had sustained. The canvas produced was his propeity, and.had been found inthe house of the man to whom it was sold accused. In addition to stealing:.; the canvas the men had also stolen his book, and he was from day to day finding out fresh instances of their dishonesty.
The Assessor remarked that the. ques: tion of the cheque book might form the subject of another prosecution, but: could not be gone into under the present charge. The accused would be ordered to receive 200 blows each and be imprisoned for three months.
Larceny.
'A house boy was charged with stealing a plush table cloth valued at $5 from No, 3, Yuen Ming-yuen Road, and with: leaying his employment without giving due notice.
Mr. A. D. Lowe said that the accused had been employed by him for about hing months, having been taken over. with house, which witness rented, turn from Mr. Gould. The boy left his ent ployment without notice, and it was sub-
Wang ha-leong, clerk in the U. 8. Con- seq quently discovered that the table cloth sulate, was charged with embezzling $400 old.
Mr. A. H. White, Vice-Consul, who pro-secured, said that it was the boy's aut, to enter lices in the Consular k. He hail falsified the books and embezzled to the extent of over $400, U.S. money. He did-this by duplicating the numbers of the invoices. If he had torn up any of the invoices, then there was no means of finding out the extent of his frauds until the U. S. Government reported to Shanghai that the funds were not true. The prisoner had acknowledged tli¢ embezzlement of this money. Witness considered this boy a danger to the Settlement, inasmuch as he was such a clever criminal, It had taken him, witness, days to sort and find out 69 of these duplicated invoices. He thought the boy should be expelled from the Settlement. Witness produced' one of the duplicated invoices, as an example.
The Assessor—He only admits one duplicate invoice, out of the 69.
Mr. White—He admitted in the presence of Detective-Sergeant McDowell, at the time I accused him, about 50, and T actually found 69, and furthermore;-he helped me to pick out more than 50 of these himself. He offered to pay $200 at a time until he had paid the whole off; th.refore he must have altered more than.one.
By the Assessor—[ believe the Consulate is secured so far as the money is, concerned—the money will be paid, and other domestic articles were missing, The police were notified, and the property was recovered when accused, was arrested, As a matter of fact the table cloth was not witness's property, but botonged to Mr. Gould, but ho identified it.
The Court ordered prisoner: td: receive 200 blows and to be cangued for one month.
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