Two Ledger Clerks Sent to Prison for Three Years: Smart Detective Work After lengthy proceedings in the Mixed Court before Mr. Allman (American Assessor) and Magistrate Kuan, two ledger clerks employed by the American Oriental Panking Corporaton were on Tuesday sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forgery. The accused were Tsang Tsu-ching and Tsu Ding-yn, and in the four cases against them, involving theft of $5,100, they had forged the names of C. A. White, Carl Fied-ler and Mrs. N. Kretova.
The proceedings disclosed smart work on the part of Det. Inspector Reeves who was called in to investigate. He found it necessary to search the accused and on Tsang he found a memo, done. in foreign and Chinese words and figures, which Tsang protested was mere scribble and meant nothing. Upon close examination, however, the document was found to be a record of distribution of cash among seven people, the total amount being
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