Proceedings in Shanghai in Connexion with Detention in Canada Proceedings on a warrant.taken out by Mr. W. D. McCallum on behalf of the Sun Life Insurance Ca. of Canada, were begun at H. M. Police Court_on Thursday be-bore Mr. G. W. King.
Lhe warrant is for the arrest of Stephen Power, formerly an employee of the company and now in Canada, who is charged, that on or about May 15, 1922, he stole $2,645.50, and that between February 1 and March 10 he unlawfully embezzled Tls. 783, Tls, 736, $282 and $273.
Mr. K. E. Newman, for the prose-caution, stated that Mr. McCallum swore an information before the Supreme Court and applied for a warrant under section 2 of the Fugitive Offenders, Act. As a result of that, the acting Consul-General cabled to the police at Victoria Jast week asking for the arrest of Stephen Power, who had been in the service of the Sun Life Assurance Ca. at Tientsin and Peking. A reply had been received from Victoria stating that Power was being detained pending the arrival of papers. It was therefore now necessary for the prosecution to make out a prima facie case, and he proposed to call Mr. Ashcroft, the company's resident secretary in Shanghai, and two Chinese witnesses from the north. The first charge concerned the sum of $2,645 forwarded to the accused from the Shanghai office te be handed over to a_ policy holder by way of a loan but which was not so paid to him. The other sums mentioned were premia handed to the accused by his clerk in Peking and for which he had not accounted to the company.
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