A formal charge of fraud was preferred by the police in the First [Special District Court on June 2 ayainst Vecheslay Adamsky, Pole, and [Constantin Grigorieviteh' Denisoft, lias M. 'V, Polansky, whose delention was ordered ast week on. suspicion of being concerned obtaining by fraudulent means. money and jewels valued at $5,203 from Messrs. Ismer & Ca, Nanking Road, between April and" May this year.
Mr. 'T, 7, Tsang, Assistant Municipal' Advocate, prosecuting, stated that the box alleged by accused to contain platinum was taken from a Yank on May 25 and opened in the Presence of the accused, the complainant, and the police, Two bottles of samples were taken, one of which was sent o a laboratory for examina tion while the other was kept by the police. A certificate had been received fromthe laboratory, saying that the metal examined was not platinum, but antimony.
Meanwhile, Mr, Tsang continued, the complainant, who recently. forwarded to Germany a parcel of cused's sample for examination, had also received a reply saying that the sample contained 0.75 pure platinum, Tt was therefore apparent that the accused had defrauded the complain ant, Furthermore, the second accused had declared that the metal had
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