Narrative of How an Exchange Expert Posed as Taipan Details of an ingenious swindle were disclosed to Magistrate Li and Mr.. Mead, British Assessor, at the Mixed Court on Monday morning by Det.-Insp. Conduit in the case of a Chinese who was charged with larceny by trick.
It appears that the accused, on February 14, went to the offices of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and called upon the manager, representing himself to be an accredited representative of the Peking Government. He said that he had received instructions to purchase some steamers and asked the manager of the N. Y. K. if his company had any for sale. The latter replied in the negative. Leaving the N. Y¥. K., accused went to an exchange shop in Seward Road and said that he wished to purchase Yen 10,000. He announced that he was connected with the offices of the Japanese steamship company as sub-manager, and told the assistant at the exchange shop to bring the money to his offices at the N. Y. K. the next day.
The following morning, accused again went to the offices of the N. Y. K. and asked for the manager, but was told that the latter was busy and was asked to sit in the sub-manager's office. Here he sat in the sub-manager's chair, and when the exchange shop man came to make sure that accused was submanager he found him sitting in the taipan's chair and was 80 satisfied that he handed over Yen 2,000 to accused who told him to go and get the remainder. The exchange shop man left, and so did the accused, the latter, however, a side door. The exchange shop man returned but could not find the accused. He waited until 6 o'clock and was then told that there was no person answering to the accused's description in the employ of the Ni Y. K. The police were notified but accused was not apprehended.
A Farat MisTage.
Thinking that the matter had by Spdsit this time been forgotten the accus-
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