Alleged Theft of Clothes and a Wicked Brother Yau Kung-fah, a shopkeeper, was charged on Tuesday in the Mixed Gourt before Messrs. Spiker and Kuan with the theft of $400 worth of clothes from 220 Chihli Road.
Anspr. Conduit appeared for the Police and said that he was called "to the premises on Monday morning where he was told of the theft.
Tt appeared as though the burglar had entered through a rear window. Going there it he found several of the moth balls in which the clothes had been placed for the fummer. He walked on a short way and found another camphor ball, and still a little further on another. Following: the trail was led to the shop of the accused where he found one vf the balls Of the foot of the stairway.
Questioned by the Court, the shopkeeper denied emphatically the theft and said that his brother had been staying with him and had only recently been released from the French gaol after serving a sentence of receiving stolen pro perty. The Court, on this evidence, Temanded the case for one week wud issued an order for the arrest of the brother, who, apparently, has absconded.
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