Two silversmiths, a carpenter, and fan unemployed native wore charged being concerned together in making spurious gold and silver jewellery for the purpose of defranding pawnshops; also with defrauding various complainants of the sum of $14 by pawning some of the said spurious jewellery ea various dates in July: also with stamping the said articles with the chops of certain complainants.
Detective-sergeant Burnside said that on the evening of the 16th instant he wived information that the above-inencarried on, and at Tam. on the I7th instant he visited the defendants' premises in Avenue Road orougit search of the pre-'There he found all the present defendants at work and seized a lot of imitation jewellery as well as lead and copper used in the making of the articles, away from the stables when the other*and also samples of chops—forgeries on! had on the end of a piece of string. other hongs in town. It was the practice of the defendants to send the goods to Soochow to be sold or pawned. There were two other men who were at present in the country and had not yet been arrested. There were two cases of goods having been pawned in Shanghai and the pawnbrokers were present to give evidence. No less than thirteen chops of well-known hongs in town had been imitated, and witness produced a piece of lead showing all these chops. The defendants made imitation gold articles out of lead plated with gold, and imi liver out of copper plated with silver.
Several complainants gave evidence, and the case was then remanded for further enquires and in order that the police might have an opportunity of arresting the other two men concerned.
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The principal prisoner in the ease above reported, toyetior wit! a native shrott, were charged with being in unlawful possession of a piece of platinum, alned at $75, at 4.30 p.m. on the 7th inst., the platinum being the property of the Kiangsu Acid Works.
Detective-sergeant Burnside said that in searching the premises mentioned in the last case, he came across the platinum in aman's boot, The principal prisoner stated that he had received it. from the shroff, so both men were charged with being in unlawful possession.
Mr. F. Mann, of the Kiangsu Acid Works, said he believed the platinum to be part of a piece that was stolen from the Acid Works about last Chinese Year. They were constantly having platinum stolen and as those were the only Acid Works in China and few other people used platinum, the piece now produced was probably his firm's property. The shape was the same too. The piece produced weighed 6 oz. and was worth £3 per ounce. The piece lost was 224 inches in length, with a stop-cock and phlange in the middle, and weighed 37} ounces.
The shroff said that the platinum was loft at his shop by the first defendant and when he found it he returned it to the first defendant. When he last saw it was much longer and had a kind of tap in the centre.
The shroff was ordered to find security; and sentence on the silversmith reserved until the conclusion of the other ease agains} him.
Cherehez lo Singe.
'A house-boy employed at No. 4, Park Road, was charged with assaulting the complainant with a stick, and also with using threatening and abusive language to her at 7.15 on the 16th instant.
The case had previously been before the Court on the 17th instant, when Mrs, Mattei, the prosecutrix, stated that the defendant came to the back of her premises, 3, Park Road, in search of his master's monkey, which had been purloining jewellery and any tit-bits it could find from her house. Her boy had just succeeded in catching the monkey and taking from it the things that it had taken when the defendant came up with stick, He threatened witness with the stick and used abusive language to her, whereupon she gave him in charge.
The defendant said the monkey belonged to his master. On returning from buying some articles for the house he discovered that the monkey was missing and went in search of it. Then he saw the monkey in the possession of the boy next door. He asked for it, bnt was set upon and beaten by the complainant, who also struck him with a revolver which she
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