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On charges of receiving stolen' property, three Chinese shopkeepers appeared in the Provisional Court, on July 11 before Judge Liang and Mr. Stevens.
Mr. R. T. Bryan, Police Prosecu-for, told the Court that the accused had received stolen property from the Robert Dollar godown some time last year. The goods consist-
Jed of a quantity of tin plates. One Jof the accused was arrested, charg-the offence, and was now of imprisonment in the Municipal Gaol. The first accused admitted having received 250 tin plates and that he had sold $0 of them to the second accused, who in turn sold 60 to the third accused, Mr. H. Gibson, manager of the Robert Dollar Ca., said that, on December 28, 1927, a quantity of tin plates were stolen from the Company's godown, and that their value was approximately Tls. 4015. He had examined some of the tin plates found in accused's possession and diseove ed the Company's stamp thereon. The man who had been arrested had admitted breaking into the office at stealing the delivery order required for the passing of the goods from out of the godown. The numbers on the boxes were altered by means of chemicals and 350 cases had been taken away from the godown, A remand was ordered.
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