The Archive · 1939

Ordered To Pay Debt Appearing before Asst. Judge

Jones in H. M. Court yesterday morning, Jagat Singh, an Indian watchman employed by the Holy Trinity Cathedral, was ordered to pay a debt of $160 to Mahan Singh, money lender. The defendant stated in his testimony that living expenses were high and that he had a wife and two daughters. Only after further questioning by the court was the fact revealed that Jagat Singh's wife and two daughters were residing, not in Shanghai, but with relatives in India. The defendant was ordered to pay his debt in monthly instalments of ten' dollars.

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