Liu Sung-hoong, aged 25, former clerk of Messrs. Thomas Cooke & Son, Nanking Road, charged with embezzling US. $5.000 belonging to his employers, on November 6 last year, was sentenced to 18 months' imprison ment and further fined $500." The sentence. however, was suspended for five years, but the accused was order-pay the complainants $16,350 and interest at five per cent. per annum from November 6 last year Lill the. payment of the last instal-mont, The former clerk was told by his employers to seal up US, '$5.000 in. an envelope and send st by. ost toa New York bank. Instead of sending the money, the former cleric put plain paper in the envelope fand sent it to America, The theft was discovered when the New York bank sent-a message to the complainants,
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