A shroff, employed Waterworks Company, fraudulently altering teecipts fur naunts, on various dates, thereby:
ling the complainants to the of S14.
Fron the ey lence for the proseentiv it seemed that certain bills were handed te the shraf for collection from Chinese customers, These were metre avenues, not fixed accounts. The shrvlf alte asin the receipts. buth Eh slish characters, and collected fr Tris, Dut the tin Pes app red in the C was only wveredt dentally. One Chinese customer tured his receipts to the Company for sonne purpose el neciele tally that wh showed the figure on the ree Than other receipts were examined and it was found that several receipts had been similarly alter On finding that his fraud was the shroff' went to several of th and obtained their receipts fro them.
Mr. A. PI Wood) said that it was Aeeus matters as it was not only the din pany Unt had be Wed. but the public. He aske the defendant be made to refund the ple who had been defraud The p suner was sentenced one month's cangue, 18 months' imprison ment, ud ordered ty refund the mon by Mr. Ton; h receiving into his possession the sunt of the property of the suid Ts anon account of the said 1 vations dates arm presentative and had been As far as could b> ascertained present he had embezzled $32,144, but
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