The Archive · 1937

Alleged Flit Fraud

'A charge of fraud was specified in the First Special District Court on April 12 against Court Walter Smith, German, The police alleged that, on March 8 this year, Smith caused Messrs, Mustard. &' Ca. to deliver to him tins of Flit and Flit sprayer valued at $402, with the alleged intent unlawfully to appro= priate the same to his own use. Smith denied the charge, saying that it was a civil case as he did not mean to cheat the complainants, With the German appeared two Russians, Boris Haimoviteh Tochvidoft, and Sergi Ivanovitch Mihallof, who were charged with causing, between March 19 and 23 this year, at 190 Peking Road, G, P," Ferminger, French, to deliver to them a quantity of wine valued at $388, also with the alleged intent "unlawfully to appropriate the same to their own use. At the conclusion of the hearing, the Judge ordered the Russians and German to. be remanded till April 21,

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