'Mrs. La Pei, alias Mrs. Colgate, unrecognized American woman, who was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment by the First Special District Court recently on two charges of fraud, on Tuesday (June 12) caled against the decision in the Second "Branch Kiangsu High Court. Judgment will be given next Tuesday.
The woman was sentenced by the Lower Court on the charge of obtaining goods by fraudulent means from a dressmaker's shop, 360 Yates Road, on March 31, and on the further charge of obtaining goods by similar means from a shop at 1711 Bubbling Well Road between April 1 and 2 last.
The woman declared in the High Court that che had no intention to commit fraud because, she declared, she had $180 to pay her bills and she was going to the complainant shops to make the payment when she was arrested by the police.
Asked by the Judge where was her money, the accused replied her money had been stolen.
Mr. ¥. D, Wong, Assistant Munieipal Advocate, prosecuting, asked the Court to dismiss the accused's appeal pointing out that the accused was arrested in her home and not when she was going to the complainant's shop to make the payment as alleged by her. The accused, course! continued, had many aliases, indicating that she had the intent to defraud others.
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