A Buddhist monk by the name of Hwa Shang Woo Zaung was arraign~ ed before the First Special District Court on June 24, charged with misappropriating bank deposit. receipts the value of $70,000. He was remanded til July 1 next, The complainant was a widow, Huang Tsing-shi, who claimed to be Formosan, Her husband died several years ayo and she became ae-quainted with the monk at Pootoo when she visited the famous Budhist temple there. She deposited {$70,000 with a local Chinese bank for 4 period of two years and got seven reeeipls, At the end of the period, she wished to have it extended for another two years and gave the seve bank reecipis to the monk for this purpose. Tt was alleged by the prosecution that the monk unlawfully appropriated the receipts to his ow TI was alleged tived™ with the the widow tad singe her hus bat death, expenses. "Accused, having been om-ployed at the bank for some time. knew this system very well. From March, the police alleged, accused started to steal blank chits from the office and also a stamp of Mr. Lin. an assistant of the Bank's research department. He stamped the blank chils and wrote on them any kind of Incidental expenses together with the names of other bank employees. He then look these chits {0 the Bank's general affairs division and obtained money with them. His practice was not discovered until he had already carried on like this for over three months and obtained a oral of $124.78. Accused admitted the charge.
Nicolas V. Stenin, Russian, aged 46, was found not guilty of comiting mischief, but ordered by the tst Special District Court to be ded over to a proper institution for guidance for six months. The man was arrested for breaking a plate glass window of the Inlourist Travel Agency at 64 Szechuen Rowd
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