'Smoolevsky, the youthful Russian ho. was given an 18 months' suspended sentence by the First Special District Court in February on charge of being concerned in the Chartered Rank cheque forgery case, was one of the witnesses at the trial, on Tuestlay (July 3), also in the Chinese Court, of Vladimir Dubinin and Rachek, accused of having forged a cheque at the Chase Bank, Kiukiang Road, on June 22, td" Shmoolevsky had ood time in'vatiousballsoms and cinemas, Questioned by Judge Chien Hung-yee, who gave him. the suspended venience. in connection' with the Ghortered Bank cave in. Februar Shmootevsky denied. having gued the Chase Bank cheque for Dablnin The youthful" Russian said he had ieiown Dubinin and Rachek for sine ting, but that when Be was informed the 'Chase 'Bank affair he gave the police information which led to tie treest of Rachel. The witness Ainitied that, on dune 22, he. and {vo prisoners visited Ave' Chinese Ball-tooms and' the" Cathey. Theatre Ait "the expenses. were paid by. the two accused, Witness told the Judge that "wen, Rachek learned" wes' wanted by the police, he asked Mines for a Toan s0 that he could Tee" to Che, but witness" id' not tive him a loan, Dubinin," questioned about ale statement atthe police station, tala the Judge that be himself had signed tke Chase Bank cheque and: that hit Hacementat the. police station was wrong, Accused also denied having fEven_Shmoolevaky $100 after cash: irq' the cheque at the Chase Bank: reasons were given by Judge yesterday when he acquitted the four accused, it being stated only that the four accused were found not guilty on the robbery charge.
'There was an array of lawyers for defence, chief among them being Messrs.' Eugene Kiang. Yun-chin Linn, Ao Sen, T. ¥. Van and D. S. Chen. Mr. S.'T. Fair conducted the prosecution. I
Novel Way to Break Windows 'A novel method of breaking into a residence in the early morning with out awakening the inmates came to Light in the Second Special District Court on Thursday at the trial of Loo Mao-sen, unemployed, accused of attempting to break into Mr. N.M. Clark's house, 251 Rue Courbet, at 230 a.m. on June 30 with the intent to commit theft. Mr. Clark is a Briton.
Instead of being armed with chisels and knife, Loo, together with two others not in custody, carried with them a bottle of and several pieces of thick in the early morning of June 30 and went to Mr. Clark's residence. Having removed a wooden post at the front gate, the trio gained entrance to the house achek admited having cashed the' cheque for the frst actued, But al when he. cashed it, he aid not Know that It bad been alen. counsel for the prosecution and defence having summed. up, the came toa window. the window pan the papers on it, breakitas they thought that the glass pasted with paper would make no noise when it was broken. Fort-
Fudge found Both accused "gully nately, one of the. inmates" in the Dubin was sentenced to two years howe at awake and, seeing" that wd four months imprisonment and|seme one were moving outside. the Rachek to two years. window, immediately raised an alarm Eve. "of the would-be burglars Jmanaged to escape, but Loo was nol Fast runner and Was arrested and German Released on Security fanded''over to the French Police William Keliner, German, charged Court on Thursday Lao wat sen-the First Special District Court j"e"ce# 9 @ year's imprisonment. on Tuesday uly' 3) "with mise appropriation "was balled "gut reach'
sum of $1,000 in" order to compromise with the MISCELLANEOUS complainants, Messrs. Reuter, Brock-Two Russian boys were sentenced elman, and Ca, It was alleged to five days' detention each by the that " the accused misappropriated First Special District Court on Fri-over $1,000 when he was employed day on charge of being found drunk by the complainants. "If no. com= promise could be reached, the next hearing of the ease would take place next Tuesda; and incapable on Broadway, near Minghong Road, on Thursday' night. They were Steven Miasmikoff, 15, and Boris Doobrovin, 16, Beggar King Going Back to Gaol Declaring that he got. insufficient chow when he served short prison terms, Hans Hansen, the 40-year old Latvian, known to' the Municipal Police as "King of Vagabonds", asked for the imposition of longer gaol term on him when he appeared before the First Special District Court Jon Thursday, accused of being a mulsance to the public by begging on Broadway, near Nanzing Road, at 11.15 pin.' on Wednesday, Juvenenr was given on a promissory note by Judge A, G. Mossop in HM. Supreme Court on Thursday on jo" promissory note amounting to $619.66 plus $17.75 against Mr. T. J. fRoche. 'The plaintiff, Mr. Ong Hock-ithe, said he had taken over the note' from the United Trust Society, jo Chinese partnership, for $250. The defendant admitted the debt specified lby the promissory note.
'The Court sentenced the "King of, 'Vagabonds" to ten days' detention, several days longer than the previous one received by the Latvian.
Hansen's number of convictions in Shanghai is fast approaching the hundred mark. Strange to say, he has never been convicted on any serious charges, being sentenced to short detention terms for' petty offences, begging and drunkenness.
H. M. Supreme Court on Thursday morning Kishan Singh asked for judgment against Mrs. W. Raymond for the sum of $300, which he had ent to the defendant for the purpose of furnishing a boarding house. The' defendant aid not appear in court and Judge A. G. Mossop, having' heard the evidence of the plaintiff, Jordered judgment for the sum of {$300 plus $10 court fees.
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