A Chinese named Zung Aungmoh, unemployed and of no: fixed abode, appeared on Tuesday at the Mixed Court, before afer, Sacobs ered countertect coins. and Loh, ona charge of having ut~
Det-Sub-Insp. Hunter told the Court that the accused had for some days past been in the habit of go: ing to a hawker's stall in. Shanse Road and buying a few cents worth of freit, offering spurious coins in payment. These were accepted by the hawker, who was unaware that he was being theated, and change was given to the accused. On Sunday evening, the hawker found out that he was receiving bad coins and informed the Police, who arrested the man when he went along to buy fruit on Monday, When he was arrested, the accused tried to throw away more than 30 spurious 20-cent. pieces which he had in his post sion. This evidence was corroborate ed by a Chinese detective and the hawker, and accused, having plead~ Jed guilty, was given six months and expulsion. second accused was dealing in opium and he would have been sent! to prison but for his decrepit appearance, He will be fined, hows lever, the sum of $1,000. ' There] is a' grave suspicion against. the other prisoners, but they will be bound over only, not to engage in the sale of opium. They will have to give personal bonds. The books! and money must be confiscated after the Police have had returned to them $5, which they used for marking purposes, Another case, similar to thi heard yesterday by Mes and Loh when nine Chine Fokien Road, were brought up on.
similar) One man, shopkeeper, was given three months' imprisonment and expulsion and the others were fined $100 each, or two. months' imprisonment each. The evidence seized by the police included some opium and approximately. '$550. The latter included $16 in worthless notes, 12 spurious 20- cent pieces, and a counterfeit 10-|- cent piece, A bar boy in the employ of the Wintergarden Cafe was sentenced to tone month's imprisonment in the ly, from the cafe. Mr. L. B, Brown, manager of the cafe, told the Court that daring the past week he lost something like 15 bottles of different brands of drink by theft, and he determined to keep watch, On Tuesday he saw this particular boy tying up his trousers outside the bar. The boy walked jour, and as he did so his trovsor leg. bumped up against the door with thud. Witness was immediately suspicious and senrehed the youth, inding the bottle of brandy concealed in the trousers. Mr, Brown believed hho had a special pocket made inside in which to hide bottles, Trade With Australia
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