A man named Tan Wei-tsu was charged with fraudulently obtaining a bicycle valued at $10 from Yue Ah-ching on the It seems that the accused was employed as a tutor at St. John's College, Jessfield, and that on the 3rd instant ho went to the shop of the prosecutor and hired the bicycle for two hours. Ho rode away, and had never been soon till arrested yesterday, endeavouring to pawn the machine.
Accused was ordered to receive 400 blows on the hand and to be imprisoned for three months.
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