Charge of Fraud Againet Pala-mountains Withdrawn: Complainant's Admissions Interesting developments were mentioned when the case of A. and P. Palamountain, who were remanded from the previous week, came up again before Mr. Peter Grain at H.M. Police Court last Friday. They were charged embezzling $30,438 received by them en behalf of their employer, Hip Han-ching.
Mr, Tycho Wing, for the defendants, now said he was happy to inform the Court that the prosecution had agreed to what he told his Worship at the first hearing, that the charge was preferred as the result of delay in handing over certain property and in adjusting accounts. There was nothing more in the case than that. The prosecu-for admitted that although, at the time, owing to this delay he formed the opinion or had the fear that he was going to be deprived what belonged to him and therefore preferred the charge, thinking the Palamountains were not going to settle up, he now realized there was nothing more than delay on their part, and perhaps not very careful attention to business. But nothing was done to prejudice his interests, and certainly nothing these circumstances, the preseculike embezzlement or larceny. In tion were prepared to ask the Court for permission to withdraw the charge which they now appreciated could not be substantiated.
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