Case against Wallace Withdrawn At the Mixed Court on Monday, the police withdrew the charge against W. Wallace, who claims American citizenship, of being ¢on-cerned in the alleged insurance fraud, in connexion with which the British subjects A. M. Spence and G. Y. Chalmers have been sent for trial. Wallace, against whom an additional-charge of obtaining at Tientsin goods to the value of $538 by false pretences was withdrawn by the complainant through his solicitor, Mr. Roushkovsky, was cautioned by Magistrate Tsang and My. Jacobs as to his future behaviour. " "Before we dismiss these charges," said the American Assesser, "we wish to urge you to get into some legitimate business, and refrain from those lines of activity which you have carried on in the Dr. O. Fischer defended, "Det.-Sgt, Yorke stated that. since the first hearing the police had. gone thoroughly into the case. At the time of the raid on the offices in Kiangse Road, it was found: that most of the documents seized were signed by Wallace. The police believed at the time that he was in the conspiracy. Later inquiries, however, showed defendant was an employee, receiving a salary of $250 a month. In the cireumstances the officer asked leave to} withdraw the charge.
Replying to the Assessor, Sgt. Yorke said that there was nothing to show that the defendant had taken part in any way in the founding of the company.
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