A youthful looking Chinese, d|described as a clerk, was on Monday at the Mixed Court, charged with obtaining by false pretences sums of Tls. 4,500 and Tis, 7,000 from Chang Sung-tai and two other, merchants.
Dr. H. C.° Mei, who appeared with Mr. A. M. Preston, for the complainants, asked for a remand. The accused, he said, belonged to a gang of swindlers and he would require to produce important documents which were in the interior. The defendant had made preparations to abscond, and the other members of the gang had escaped. Orders were received by all these men from the complainants for certain goods, anid 30 per cent, of the price of the goods had boom paid. Quantities of petroleum, the goods in question, were alleged by the defendants to have arrived the P. & O. S. Dilwara. Dr. Mei said he could produce witnesses to prove that the defendant and his confederates not in custody had not forwarded a cable home, indenting for the consignment.
It wag stated by the police that the accused was arrested on Saturday, and when charged made no reply.
Mr. Preston said two other mem were concerned who were British subjects, and they would be proceeded against in H. M. Supreme Court.
When the Assessor (Mr. Blackburn) said he would remand the case and allow bail in Tls. 5,000, Dr. Mei submitted that if he were released from custody the defendant would abscond. Counsel asked the Court to make the security double that amount. Eventually bail was fixed at Tls. 10,000, and an injunction was made against the Chung Foo Bank, ordering it not to pay out any sums standing in the name of the accused.
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