$1,000 Idol Starts Trip to Melting Pot 'A solid gold Buddha—the kind that laughs and is supposed to bring good luck to its owner—was stolen from the office of the Shanghai Printing and Dying Ca., 94 Woo Foo Loong, some time during Wednesday night and has now presumably lost all identifying marks in the melting pot.
The idol, which was valued. at $1,000, was a gift to the menager of the concern from a close friend and had occupied a place of honour in the manager's office for some weeks.
was of extraordinarily tine work: manship and greatly prized by. ils owner, who kept it on his desk where he could admire it every day, An accountant of the firm reported the loss to the police on Thursday. {is believed that the burg entered the place by means of duplicate key in the dead of night without waking any of the six employees asleep on the premises. The office is situated on the Arst oer of the two-storey building,
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