[several expensive watches and clocks jin Messrs. Alexander Clark Ca, Sassoon House, Nanking Road, by one of the company's Chinese employees was described in the First Special District Court on Oct. 20 when Yih Tsun-pao, the jewellery firm's watch maker, was charged. At the conclu-slon of the hearing, the accused was According to the prosecution, when watches and clocks were Imported from abroad by the complainants, the accused was instructed to assemble or repair these before they were put on sale, It was by virtue of his occupa~ tion that the accused was able unlawfully to appropriate the watches J.|and clocks. When the complainants [suspected the accused, they reported to the police.
At about 1 pin, on Oct. 19, a cus tomer in disguise was sent by police to the accused and purchased from him a watch for $260. This watch, the prosecution alleged, had been unlawfully appropriated by the accused and its original price was $400. The accused was accordingly arrested aid /he confessed misappropriations at the station. The total value of watches and clocks misappropriated amounted to over $2,000, "Charity" Workers Charged Five people charged with.collecting large sums of money by fraudulent means on behalf of cer-fain hospitals, some of which were non-existent, ' were remanded custody by the First Special District Court on Oct, 21." They are Yang Ying, Sun Soo-tseng, Sung Teulelan, Dzung Kwelstai, and Sung Lai-sun. A sixth, Chang Hsuchziang, was allowed bail on $300 shop security.
'According 1o tH prosecution, the 'Yang Ying admitted to' the Police having "been engaged by Dzung Kwei-tai and Hu Wel-min to collect contributions. She arrived from her native city, Kating, three years ego, in the company of the other woman, Sung Tsul-lan, and both worked for Dzung Kwei-tal. She collected over $2,000 in Hongkong and later gathered. thousands of dollars in Shanghai. Since April this year, she had worked for Wel-min, who is not yet in custody. In September this year, over 100 persons and shops were defrauded by the accused, It was stated that, according to information obtained by the: police, the suspects had collected no Jess than $100,000 in the past three yea Imitation "Pirate" Cigarettes Found in the act of manufacturing cigarettes infringing the "Pirate" trade mark of the Yee Tsoong Tobacco Ca., three Chinese were placed under arrest at 709 Fearon Road by the police on Oct, 19. An application was made and granted for the three men's detention in the First Special District Court on Oct. 20 and" the Prisoners will appear again before the court next Tuesday. he prosecution told the judge that the police who visited 709. Fearon Road to make inquiries first knocked at the door and a Japanese by the ame of Igora came out from the rear door, The police party entered and found a quantity of half-frushed cigarettes on the machines, In a small room upstairs, there was a quantity of unpacked cigarettes and on all of these, the trade mark "Pirate" was printed. The bolide took three men and seven women, all Chinese, to the station where they stated that one Koo Yien-sung was the manager of the plant, Koo, before his arrest, tried to escape by the drying stage. According to the Yee Tsong Tobacco Ca, all the "Pirate" cigarettes found the house were false, The first suspect, Koo Yien-sung, questioned by the judge, said that a Japanese had asked him to assist in the cigarette manufacturing,
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