Two Chinese received sentence of a year's imprisonment and one was additionally fined $300 at.the Provisional Court on August 18 when they were charged with taking 543 tins of foodstuffs from the Amer~ ican Marines' store-room at their billets in Medhurst Road which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption, and selling them to retail dealers in Chapel.
'The accused were employed as the store room coolies, and one who was dismissed suggested to the other that they might take the tinned food, which had long sine rotted and' been ordered to be dumped in the garbage receptacles pri transferred to a house near where the tins were opened and part fof the poisonous food which was green in colour was removed and the rest re-canned, After this criminal piece of work the tins were taken into Chapei and sold.
'A check made at the store room ascertained that nearly $1,000 worth of goods had been stolen, and the police were notified and immediately. took measures so as to prevent any of the tins that had been sold being opened and eaten.
Court Inspector Mills asked that the Court should give the accused heavy sentences as one might well imagine what would have been th result if any part of the food ha been consumed.
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