Six Embezzlement Cases Keep Courts Busy Fron Our Own Comesroxsrst Canton, Sept. 18.
Two Shameen embezzlers are! making restitution and will escape prosecution: three defalcators are Jwanted; one other is standing trial for his breach of trust, With six cur-
Fent embezzlement cases, Shameen may be said to be riding on the crest Jof a crime wave.
James Young put many miles between himself and Canton before the European importer opened up the many bales of matting and discovered. they were all of the worst quality, with about half of the items missing. 'With a profit of well over $100,000 to hhis credit, Young can afford to lie low while the search is on, and it, has been on 'For' two "or "three Getting his inspiration from James Young, with whom he was once associated, Edward Chang "put a fast tone over" on a firm of Bombay Indian merchants, who are. reputed to have lost $80,000, the difference between the worth of the silk that, they contracted for, and the cotton that was in the bales they got, It is said that for bringing in undeclarled cotton they were heavily fined by {the Indian Customs to boot. Chang. moved ihis office out of Shameen before the ship touched at Bombay, and has not since been seen in these ports, When the senior partner of Vasunia Ca. got reports from his Shameen agency in which settlements of large accounts to a Chinese silk merchant were recorded he grew suspicious jand came to Canton. The complaint gainst N.C. Dastur accuses him of falsifying checks, and embezzling Hongkong $131,979.06. His arrest followed, but there has been a two weeks' postponement after a_ partial hearing of his case before H.M. Consular Judge Whitamore.
Lui Shu-wing was a life insurance ssclesman with Gilman & Ca, Sha-moon. Writer of much life business the could not live within his good-sized incomes, and took to forging receipts and getting premiums from new and old policy-holeers, although. tunathorized to act as shroff. "He, too, has skipped away.
Manners & Ca. and Dodwell & Ca. each hada fire insurance solicitor whose memory was short; they took in plenty of premiums but forget they belonged to their employ Jers. Each had a guarantor who will probably make good the loss if the Jdefaleator does. not.
Lawyer Suffers for Cilent tis not often that a Canton attorney has to serve time because fient" whose appearance at is eri= inal tral for whom he made hire felt responsible has Jumped ball The frudity of the bonding system is in such a siate, however, thatthe lawyer going on a clients bond. Is. always Table to. arrest and incarceration it! his client, does clear out. Wong -Tuen-wai, long established in practice Canton, will be behind the bars for aix: months, low his civil Fights for Whree. years, and. be debarred {rom future practice, in consequence the ball jumping of a defendant.
In Wong's case, the judge who has sifted the evidence concluded. that] {rom the bennning the defendant must have planned running. away with Wong's Connivance and that of Wongs clerk, Yin Ping-naam. Te was the clerk who took the lawyer's seal tothe cout and rene tan bait bond. for the attorney who was nor presen, in had 0 sig for him, but gave his own name {Lob Shang. As a ce-conspirator Ying-naam wil be in gaol with Wong PPaenewal for six months.
Post Office Scandal 'A. commissioner of the Chinese post office was brought back to Can-{fon on a gunboat yesterday, and will have to stand trial as an accomplice of professional smugglers. Treasury operatives had their suspicions [aroused because packages of artificial silk were passing through this rural office daily. 1.200 bundles of this sill were piled up in a back room of the post office at Wuchang, Sunwui mountains Schafer saw a native trapjDistriet, as part of the incriminating evidence, all lacking taps to identity. the sender and receiver, all minus postage stamps.
With Commissioner Tsai, Postal Inspector Fung is to be put on trial After a complaint had been made to ie Canton Postal Commissioner, Inspector Fung was given instructions {0 act for the latter in conduct ing an investigation, and his report exonerated Mr. Tsai. Tt is the theory of the Treasury investigators that he is in the smuggling ring or would not have found the Wu-Tchang post-master free from all blame.
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