JAmerican citizen, wa: sued, civilly, jin the Shanghai Special District Court on August 29 for $1,309, complainants being various local' mer~ chants whom the prisoner is alleged to have defrauded in 1928, whilst partner of the Ajax Trading Ca.
Eliott was brought to the court! from his cell in the Amoy Road Gaol, where be is undergoing a sentence of six months for fraud.
Judge Chen ordered an adjournment of the hearing until prisoner had served his term and Elliott was} taken back to prison.
Elliott, it may be recalled, was! arrested Jetty on a former Provisional Court. He had Jcome here to spend his honeymoon /and, he said, to make arrangements to pay off his debt
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