A coolie was charged with the larceny of the sum of 500, the property of the Yih Dah Bank, and a hawker was charged with having received a portion of the stolen money, knowing it to have been stolen.
Det.-Const. Tinkler said that at 10 a.m. on October 29 the coolie was sent by the Bank to deliver $500 to a firm in Museum Road. The coolie failed to deliver the money and absconded to' Hangchow. Prior to leaving for Hangchow, he handed $300 to the second accused. The latter sum had been recovered intact at the house of the second accused.
A representative of the comiplainants said that the first accused was his nephew. He had been employed as a coolie for four years and until this occurrence had always proved honest. He received $10 per month wages. His mother had asked witness to appeal to the Court not to punish him, and to act with leniency. Complainants had recovered $380 of the stolen money.
The accused coolie said that ho lost $30 in gambling and spent about $100 of the stolen money on clothing.
The second accused said that the coolie told him he had finished work with his firm and asked him to take care of $300 that he had until then kept deposited with the firm. Witness had no knowledge that the money had been stolen.
The Court ordered that the accused should give bonds for their future good behaviour, explaining that the lenient treatment was due to complainants' request.
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