Two wheel-barrow coolies were charged with stealing two bales of cotton, valued at $60, on the 27th instant.
It seems that two merchants engaged 'a number of coolies to remove a quantity of cotton from Yangtzepoo to Peking Road. When the others reached the destination it was found that the two accused had not arrived. Upon search they were found on the Szechuen Road Bridge, with two bales of the cotton missing, which had not since been recovered.
After a lengthy examination by the Court, in the course of which it appeared that one of the men was to a great ox-tent the dupe of the other, the principal was ordered 500 blows and two years' imprisonment, while the other escaped with 600 blows.
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