or CONSPIRACY
Employment Bureau a Fraud But Accused Unaware of the Fact Morrison was acquitted by Mr. G. W. King in H. M. Police Court on Saturday of the' charge of conspiring with a Chinese named Zang to run a bogus employment agency. The Magistrate found that the agency was a bogus one, but that Morrison was not aware of the fact.
Morrison told the Court that he took over the management of the: bureau in return for board and lodging, till the business was on a sound footing. He had done a great deal of work in regard to attempting to place patrons as watchmen with several companies. He said that he had been round to almost every company in Shanghai and had written numerous letters to several of them. was that this bureau held its His Worship said-the cons Out to give employment to those who applied there. A certain name ber of Chinese "did apply. Their money was taken by Zing, and they did not get employment or their money back. Zung was now! now est, with a warrant out for those facts he thought jed to say that it was fraudulent concern. Accused the manager. If he had be ager entirely, in the same aman is manager of a firm, then, undoubtedly, he would have been guilty. But the evidence showed that in each case it was [Zung who took the money. The evidence went to show that Zung was the principal party in all the transactions of which evidence had been given.
Tt was regrettable that they had not Zung in Court, his Worship observed. It was regrettable that in this international place the two. men could not be in the dock together, because in such ease it often-happened that one man, in an attempt to clear himself, would jeriminate the other. It was obious that Zung was the principal this business, It seemed rather pitiful, his Worship commented, that a' foreigner should be in position that just for his keep he should with' Chinese, although his Worship could understand accused's. Position—that anything was better nothing. Mr. King concluded ing he was not" convinced that accused knew, or should have known, that this business was not straight—that money was being' taken from Chinese and they were not going to get it back. He had considered the position of the eased and the evidence before him, and he was convinced that accus ed was not guilty. He would be discharged.
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