Death or Riches Promised by Mysterious One Plain crookedness and a spot of black magic enabled a shrewd man from Pootung to defraud a superstitious Shanghai student of approx!- mately $40,000 during the last few Municipal Polls, resulted in the months, but the alertness of the
Fecovery of three-quarters of the alleged loot over the week-end.
The almost incredible facts were fovealed on Sunday, when it was] learned that the perpetrator of the fraud had been arrested and would be Drought before the First Special District Court. At the same time delective attached to Central Police Station discovered bank—deposit Dooks into which the accused fatleged, had put about $30,000 of his plunder, It was when the victim, Tei Ying-ding, 17 years old, a student residing] in An Zung Ka, Nantao, started to take automobile driving lessons. last July that he became the alleged victim of a swindler. The man who was arrested'on Saturday offered his Jservices as an instructor and suppl mented his practical lessons with a bit of supernatural guidance as he apparently had good connections in the spirit world.
It is alleged that Ku, the driving teacher, sent an agent ta Tzi's house jand learned that Tzi's mother was on her death-bed. It is further said' that he used this knowledge to read future events from Tal's face a1 Predicted the death of Ta!'s mother "very soon." When the mother died within ten days the young student iwas greatly impressed. The next} move was to predict Tzi's own death. That could be plainly read in his} features and it was inevitable unless certain highly-placed monks were ap-'Iproached and persuaded to make] jsertain joss. But having expensive monks do elaborate joss, of co: trse, [ost money. First it was $100, then $2.000 and then larger amounts. Young! Tai scraped everything together that! he could beg or borrow from well-to-do relatives, Just because she likes to "poke around" in the out-of-the-way naces the world Mrs. Richard. Gtenrietta Sands) Merrick of New York City has had in the past seven years some amazing adventures and fa Tot of tun.
Mrs, Merrick, who arrived Shanghai a few days ago and is stopping at the Cathay Hotel before Jgoing on to Peiping on Saturday, is a [delightfully modest woman who gives the "appearance of having known nothing but city comforts and luxuries all of her life. Tt is hard to imagine ther in the role of a feminine explorer and to believe that she Jhas walked uch as 23 miley "a day' for stretches of weeks ata' time, and
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