Admitting that he, broke into the. office of the Cornhill Insurance Ca., 18-The Bund, and stole.a typewriter to pay his debts.and to cure his mother of her illness, a young Chinese clerk wag charged before Judge Feng in. the Shanghai Special District Court on September 9, He was sentenced we a year's imprisonment which. was suspended, Dr. Paul P, YY. Ru, Assistant Municipal Advocate, who prosecit= ed, told the Court that accused was, employed as a clerk. by the. complainant firm and he was charged with the theft of a typewriter valued at $150, At midnight on September 1, the office. door was. foreed open and a typewriter was stolen, This was later pained in a shop in Haining Road for $33, The Joss was discovered on the following morning and a report was made to the police who circulated a list to the various pawnshops, Three days later, a pawnshop keeper brought chine to Hongkew station.
wants identified this but did not know who had stolen it, Accused. was later suspected and he ad-I. saying that he forced the door open with three nails, Mr, A. Tipple said that accused was a clerk in the complainant firm. On September 1, the door was found open and the typewriter was seen he didn't tun up for work for several days. On being questioned, he admitted his guilt, DeteSgt, Wilton told the Court that accused said. that he had spent the money to engage a doctor to cure his mother of gout. in her legs.
Accused admitted: the charge and said that he had spent the. money to pay off his debts and to engage doctor to cure. his mother of her illness, He had a brother who wa insane, Ar, Ru said that accused seemed to have been hard pressed, as he apparently had fallen into difficulties. He had never been charged before and, as he was young, counsel hoped he would reform. He would not, therefore, press the charge or ark for a heavy sentence.
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