The Archive · 1937

First Special Court

Greek Held for Fraud

Charged with attempted fraud and fraudulently altering' private docu ments, Emmanuel was remanded till' next week in the First Special District" Court on March 10.

Mr. Paul Y. Ru, Assistant - Mtunicipal Advocate, prosecuting, told. the judge that, while a Greek ship w In Shanghai last July, a seaman 5 landed due to sickness and. the accused, was asked to find a doctor because the ship could not walt. till his recovery. After the seaman had recovered, the doctor who had attended him issued a bill for, $05 to the accused who paid the amount and got a receipt. The accused sent the bill and the receipt to the seaman's employers in Greece after he had changed the amount in both documents into $368, Mr. Ru said, the figures in documents, "It The accused said he did not alter somebody else has done it, I do not know it," the accused said. Mr, Grove was the lawyer for the defence.

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