The Archive · 1937

HOPEI BANK MAN SEIZED HERE

Accused of Misappropriating $33,000 at Kau Yih Five weeks after his disappearance, Van Sau-chang, missing assistant manager of the Kau Yih branch of the Hopei Provincial Bank, was arrested in Shangha} on March 18 and. charged rpprapration Van, who is 26 years old, was taken into custody by Del, Sub-Insp. Rhind, of Crime Branch Headquarters, at the Yanjlsze Hotel In Yunnan Road. The bank employee wast companied by his attractive youns wife, revealed deposits in local banks A search of the couple's effects Sir, {otalling $20,820. Besides, valuable jewellery was found, so tha the ess to the northern bani is ae= tually quite small Van and his wife left Kau Yih on February 12," They headed south, boarding an aeroplane at Chengchow for Shanghat.

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