with THEFT
A "boy" who claimed to be in the employ of the Shanghai Club was charged in the Provisional Court last Friday with obtaining 622 1b. of pork by false pretences. It stated that accused went to a butchery in Chekiang Road and said that he was authorized by the club to purchase 60 Ib. a day.—This amount was given him for more than 'a week, when the shopkeeper became spacious and reported the matter to the police. Accused was sentenced toa month's imprisonment,
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