Three women and a man were charged with stealing 10 Tbs. of waste silk, valued at $15, from the Sin Chang Filature on the 27th inst.
Mr. Denegri, the manager of the fila~ ture, said that the accused were concerned in the case of stealing silk from the same Filature that was before the Court yesterday, when a man was punished. It seemed that that man was in reality the agent of the present accused, who stole the silk ind handed it to him for disposal. The man accused in this case was the one through whom the silk passed to the other. A sum of $9.60 was dite to the women as wages, they being all employed at th2 Filature.
The Court ordered that the wages due to the women be forfeited and sent to the Shantung Road Hospital, and the man was sentenced to receive 300 blows.
A similar case to the foregoing was heard, when a young girl was charged with stapling a small quantity of raw silk.
Ir. Denegri said that on Saturday last an|assistant informed him that the girl wok then in the set of stealing silk. She wok detected in possession of a small quantity, which she had hidden in a vessel used for making tea.
The girl was ordered to receive 30 blows on, the hand.
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