The Archive · 1934

Second Special Court

Two Russian Accused Described by the French Police as two of the most dangerous persons in Shanghai, J. I. Stanishevsky, and Pouhalsky, both "Russians, arrested recently on suspicion of being concerned in many house-breakings in the Concession, were arranged before the Second Special District Court on Tuesday (May 8) morning and remanded till May 17 'The Court was told by the Police lawyer that the two accused rented garage at House No. 44, Lane No. 150, Baikal Road, to keep the articles stolen by them and that, in a raid upon this garage by the' Settlement police, a motor car bearing. leone No, 4953, 104 pieces of worner clothings and a quantity of other articles were found.

The French Police had found out, the Court was told, that the accused were responsible "for housebreaking at the following places:—043 Avenue Joffre, 945 Avenue Joffre, 3044 Route Mercier, 257 Avenue Haig, and 65 Route Delastre.

The first accused, the Court was further told, was once sentenced to death by the Chinese" court in the north and the second accused ceived life imprisonment term, but both were later released under amnesty rules of Manchoukuo.

'A. quantity of chemical substance and papers was seized at the accused's premises and these, according. to Pouhalsky, were to be used for the manufacture of counterfel he arrived in Shanghai from the north Ju Pose as S.M.C. Employee Accused of defrauding a foreign shop of goods valued at over $00 by posing as an employee of the Shanghai Municipal Council, Alexandre Nedilsky, Russian, was sentenced {to five months' imprisonment by the [Second Special District Court on Friday.

'According to the prosecution, the accused appeared at Messrs. Tehaka-Vian and Cie, 873 Avenue Joffre, on 'April 24 and, producing 'a paper purporting to' show that he was an employee of the Shanghai Municipal Council, ordered seven bottles of French liquor on credit, When the complainant shop failed to get their money when the date was due, they made ingulties at th Shanghai Municipal Council and were told that the man Nedilsky was not employed there. The polic subsequently found out that the accused, after obtaining the liquor from the complainants, sold the goods to 'a restaurant for $30 the same day.

The prosecution, asking for the imposition of the maximum penalty jon the accused under the article of fraud, told the Court that the accused had no less than ten previous convvietions on fraud charge, Five of his previous "convictions were the Settlement, according to the prosecution.

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