Arrested with two Formosans, a German and ten Chinese were remanded by the First Special District Court yesterday until next week on suspicion of having defrauded a Chinese merchant of $1,525.
The German, F. K. Wittrack, was arrested by Detective-Sergeant G. W. Wright in Rue Lafayette, while the Chinese and Formosans were rounded up in a room in the Far Eastern Hotel in Vu Ya Ching Road.
The arrests were made upon the receipt of a complaint from one Zee Dee-hwa, proprietor of a sauce shop at 38-40 Route clu Pere Froe. He was alleged to have paid sums amounting to $1,525 to the accused for the removal of goods from his shop in Yangtszepoo district.
All the goods, according to the complainant, were removed by the Shanghai Citizens' Association, and the accused therefore had no right to obtain money from him. In addition to the $1,525 he had paid, the accused were alleged to have further demanded $100 from him and also threatened to use force. His mother was!' alleged to have been beaten by them in a quarrel.
All the accused denied charges and were remanded under a writ of detention.
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