Three Chinese made their appear ance at the Mixed Court on Wednesday afternoon charged with receiving and uttering counterfeit bank not purporting to be those issued by the Ningpo Commercial Bank, of the $1 denomination, well knowing that they were false, The Prosecuting Solicitor, Mr. E. T. Maitland, appeared for the Police, and Messrs, N. E. Lurton, 8. Moss and P. Tsiang represented the prisoners. THe case was heard by Messrs. Spiker and Sung.
According to the evidence of Det Inspr. Conduit, information was received on July 14 that counterfeit bank notes wore being sold at 23 Fokien Road at $60 per hundred. Inquiries were made and a detective's assistant was sent to the place with two marked notes of $10 each. For $24 he purchased 50 spurious notes. A search was made of the premises and one accused was found to have in his possession the two marked notes, In a crevice between the counter and a pillar, 15 counter-felt notes were found, Accused admitted buying these from another men at the rate of $43 per hundred, This man was questioned and he said that he bought them from sti another man at 105 Canton Road at 17 per hundred. This place was issited und the police found 4,079) spurious 20-cent pieces and 25 brass ones, as well as some counterfeit notes, One of the prisoners said that his master did not know anything about the notes but—sometimes he bought and re-sold bad 20- cent. pieces at $1 for 15.
With the exception of the first prisoner, the others admitted their guilt. The former denied all knowledge of the matter, The first prisoner was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and the ther two received 18 months each, ON Thursday morning in the American Consular Court before Mr.
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