Charged with misappropriation, Shih Ah-keng, a former postman of the Carter Road Branch Post Office, was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday for trial The accused was alleged to have stolen, many registered letters in which money orders were contained but the hearing was postponed for a week pending further investigations.
According to the prosecution, Shih admitted at the police station that he had taken out a money order for $200 from a registered letter addressed to Mr. Tang Yung-hwa of Yates Road from New York and also $1,300 from another registered letter that ought to have been sent to Mr. Vu Yeo-han, of the Tseng Chang Dry Cleaning Shop, 724 Avenue Foch.
He was also alleged to have admitted taking $150 in all from two other letters but the police thought that he might have also repeated the offence on many other occasions and therefore they wanted to make more investigations.
Shih disappeared from his office in July of last year but was eventually seen at a racing track in the French Concession by an, alert police detective on Wednesday.
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