A man named Chu Liang-doo was charged with having stolen the sum of of $24 from a person of a native complainant on board the str. Chuhwoo on the 16th instant, The evidence was to the effect that several larcenies were committed on the steamer on the voyage to Shanghai and suspicion fall upon the defendant. His effects were searched and a number admitted that they obtained these ngs to sell and that they had sold xcirl for $50 in Ningpo, also that there was a second girl in the custody of the French police, 'The case was adjourned for the production of the gid premt la the' Fron Concession hawker arid a widow were charged with wing concerned together in Kidnapping " boy named San Yih-ture from his parents residing in Markham Road. AE barber was charged with disposing of the bay and a boatman ith illegally purchasing the child.—Det.-Sergt. Vighan deposed that there wax a child kidnapped from Markham Road on Sunday morning about nine o'clock, At eleven o'clock the accused woman went to a barber's shop and asked the man if he could sell a boy. She gave a description of the child and the barber undertook to dispose of him. The child was taken to the shop and the boatman agreed to pay $40 for him in a few days, On Tuesday the parties assembled at the boatman's house and he paid $32 on account, Witness and a native detective arrested accused and recovered the child on Thursday night.—Prisoners rom
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