A yous: sumes, aged 19 years, was charged si: stealing Ts. 10,000, the property of his employer, a Tientsin banker.
The prisoner had been sent from his employer's bank in Tientsin to a neighbouring bank to get a draft for Tis, 10,000 cashed. After cashing the draft he failed to return to his employer's bank was afterwards discovered that he had gone to Shanghai.
Inspector Matheson gave evidence that the prisoner was arrested by Detective-sergeant Gilfillan and native detective Lee Ling on the Bubbling Well Road on Sunday evening and that early on Monday morning nearly all the stolen money had been recovered by the Police, having been found in the house where the prisoner was staying. A young woman was also taken to the Police Station, and it was found that she bad been bought from a brothel by the prisoner for the sum of $2,000.
The money recovered was handed over to the complainant in the Court and the case was left in the hands of the Chinese Magistrate, as the'offence was committed outside Tientsin.
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