Young Bank Clerk Fined $1,000
A fine of $1,000 was imposed ey the First Special District Court on Monday, Dec. 9, upon Ching Yah-z, a bank clerk, aged 26, charged with obtaining $10,000 from Ling Suh-nyne, a wealthy woman living in Soochow, with the intent to unlawfully ap: propriate it to his own use. Accord. ing to the prosecution, the accused, with another not in custody, told the Soochow woman to take out her deposit amounting to $10,002 from a Chinese bank which, the accused declared, would soon 42 bankrupt. As the deposit was fixed one, the accused mortgaged the Geposit book for $9,000 cash, which was put in another bank in Hongkew. The complainant soon received word from her husband to take out the money from the Hongkew bank and the accused was again told to do so. The accused failed to give the money to the complainant after taking it from the Hongkew bank, it was said.
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