On Wednesday at the Mixed Court before the British Assessor, Mr. Blackburn, and Magistrate Tsang, a Chinese hawker and a coolie appeared under remand upon a charge of burglary. A Chinese woman who was concerned together with the two accused also was in the dock charged with receiving the stolen property.
Det. Sub-Inspector Prince, who was in charge of the case, told the Court that since the last' hearing many further charges had been preferred against the accused. Indeed, the charge sheet revealed the fact that these three were held responsible for no fewer than 15 burglaries which had been effected in widely different parts of the town and upon various dates between May 27, 1919, and February 17 of the present year.
In the evidence it was shown that the two men had stolen the property from the various hones and that the woman afterwards had pawned it. The Police had recovered stolen pro. perty to the value of about $1,300, and a number of complainants appeared in Court and identified the same. Both men pleaded guilty to most of the charges, and the woman stated that they had stolen all of it, confessing that she herself had pawned most of it for them.
The two male accused were sentenced to three years' imprisonment each and subsequent expulsion, while the woman was sentenced to two years also with expulsion.
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