The Archive · 1938

Chinese Charged in

U.S. COURT

Alleged Looting of Wing On Mill in Yangtszepoo Zee Sih-kung, the tatter three being among the 25 Chinese arrested and charged in the First Specíal District Court. According to Wong Vungchiao, the accused had paid $90 for the hire of lighters to transport the coolies to Yangtszepoo to get the cotton, The case against Wong Sam-tin, charged with being involved in the theft of over eighty bales of cotton from the Wing On Textile Manufacturing Co.'s godown in Yangtszepoo was adjourned by Judge Milton J. Helmick in the U. S. Court for China yesterday to this morning.

Mr. Leighton Shields, District torney, prosecuted, while the accused, an American-born Chinese, was defended by Mr. N. E. Lurton.

According to the prosecution, the accused on January 28 continuing on or about January 30, paii money to a gang of over twenty Chinese to proceed in lighters to Yangtszepoo, where they broke into the Wing On godown and stole a quantity of cotton. About $100 paid to one Wong Yung-chiao to get lighters and coolies, while another $100 was paid by the accused for bribery to cotton thieves.

The accused, according to the prosecution, had opened a room in the Yanize Hotel where plans were said to have been laid for the theft of the cotton. Police, who raided the room in the'afternoon of January 29, arrested 25 persons.

The cotton bales stolen from the warehouse were transported to an godown in Szechuen The goods found there were enfiled by a representative of the Wing On mill. The accused, together with three other Chinese were s to have been engaged in disposing of the raw cotton. Over $10,000 was said to have been obtained through auctions.

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