An interesting, and yet complicated ease came up for hearing} Defore Judge Chow in the First Special District. Court on Sept. 11 when M. G, Beilin, of the Redraw Salvage Ca, was arraigned on a jeharge of forging a bill for. the sale of certain machinery, easing the complainant, Mr. Nosterenlo, to suffer a loss of several thousand dollars.
According to police evidence, acjeused, who" was arrested at 7 p.m. jon Thursday by Det-Sgt. A. Belo-she-ko, entered into on May 27 last, an agreement with the complainant whereby the Redraw Salvage Ca. represented by. him Hwould undertake to furnish. funds
shop in Shanghai at a cost of $3, the establishment of work fand the complainant would supply the machinery necessary for the manufacture of certain salvage impiements.
On August 19, accused rented a godown situated' at No, 2 Baikal toad, to. which place the com plainant removed his machinery and Instruments specified in his agree ment with accused. Ten days afterwards, complainant visited—the! [godown for the purpose of examining his machinery and, to his great surprise, he found the godown bad been broken into and that all hi machinery, ete, valued at approximately Tls. 1,440, had dis-Appeared. The complainant. then reported to the police and inqul conducted by the latter elicited the: {fact that the machinery had been sold by accused to the Union Realty and Investment Ca,, 23 Peking Road, without complainant's know-
According to Mr. Ribakoff of the Union Realty and Invefment Ca. accused visited the company August 8 and offered for sale the machinery which he stated he bad bought in Harbin for $1,500 from, Jong Nozdratcheff. The necessary arrangements regarding the sale having been completed, Mr. Kibakoff, accompanied by accused, visitchinery and, on August Union Realty and Investment Ca. paid to accused Tis, 630 for the Purchase of the machinery.
Complainant having corrsborataccused, questioned by the [Court, denied the charge and stated that the machinery which he had sold to the Union Realty and Investment Ca. was his property. To apport his allegation, accused told' the Court that, when he sold the machinery to the Union Realty and, Investment Ca, he produced a bill of sale in the Russian language, which bore the signature of Nozdrateheff from whom he kad purchased it in Harbin.
Complainant told the Court that the bill in question was a forged tone and that it was on account of this that accused bad been arrested and charged.
The case was remanded until next week,
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