The sensational Customs case, in which a Russian, Nicholas Potapof. and six Chinese were accused variously: of robbery, malfeasance in office, impersonating public officers extortion and other offences, came to a finish in the First Special District Court yesterday when the men were sentenced to serve prison term ranging from fifty days to one and a half years. Eight charges altogether were brought against the men.
Potapoff received a sentence of one year, while the three Chinese revenue guards involved got one and a half years each. A Chinese former revenue guard also was sentenced to one and a half years in jail, while another former guard got a one-year term. A Chinese who had received the silk stolen in the case was sentenced to serve fifty days behind bars.
Detective Sub-Insp. B. Makhlevsky, of the Shanghai Municipal Police, arrested first Potapoff and then the six Chinese involved in the crime.
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