Forgery in Connexion with Lubricating Oil Disclosed at Mixed Court An interesting story of a plot by a chauffeur and a second-hand dealer in motor car accessories to defraud the Shanghai Horse Bazaar by forging the name of Mr, J. A. Moller, of Messrs. Arnhold Bros. Ca., Ld., and obtaining lubricating oil, was told to Messrs, Blackburn and Yui at the Mixed Court on Wednesday morning by Det.-Insp. Knight.
The chauffeur was, said the detective, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Arnhold Bros., but was dismissed last July. The company had certain - printed requisition forms for lubricating oil, some of which this man had stolen and used during the months of Novem-her and December. He had sold three of the forms to the second accused who was dismissed two years ago from the Horse Bazaar. When questioned by the police he denied any knowledge of the affair but finally confessed when a similar form was found in his pocket and another, in the same handwriting, in his room. THe told the police later that he had sold the forms te the second accused for $7 and, acting on. this, the police arrested the second man. A search was then made of this man's premises where there were found four tins of lubricating oil, and a visiting card of the first man. The second man, in snite of this, denied that knew the other.
Cross-examined by Mr. PW. Goldring, for the first accused, Det.-Sgt. Knight said that both of the men denied knowing who stole the forms and who took the oil. Witness did not compare the handwriting on the forms with that of the accused.
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