Five Chinese, four of whom were printers, were brought before Judge Feng in the First Special District Court on Sept. 26, charged with forging 3,000 receipts for the Shanghai Race Club Champion Sweepstake tickets. After a -btief hearing, the prisoners) were ne-manded in custody until Tuesday next for further examination.
According to police evidence, detectives attached to the Louza Police Station, led by Acting Det.- Inspr. White, arrested the gang in two Chinese lodging houses on Sunday and seized the counterfeit receipt tickets as well as a hand press which the gang was operating. The seized receipts were printed in light green ink, as were the genuine ones. The printing was fair and there was very little difference between the originals and copies, but the quality of paper in the forgeries was not so good as used in the genuine ones, Mr. S. C, Chien, Assistant Municipal Advocate, who conducted the prosecution, told the Judge.
The second accused, questioned by the Judge, stated his two friends from Ningpo recently gave him $80 and a_copy of the complainants' Champion Sweepstake ticket and asked him to find a local shop to print several thousand more. He ty then approached the first accused, who was a printer, with the offer and the latter agreed to print the whole lot for $50.
The first accused admitted this, but said when he found out that the tickets were counterfeit ones, he refused to print them and transferred the work to the printing shop, Amoy Road, where the three other accused were employed.
The Judge then questioned the three remaining prisoners whether they were responsible for the printing of the false race tickets. A general denial was entered by them, it being asserted that they were workers of the Amoy Road printing shop and did not know that the printed receipt tickets were counter-felt,
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