The Archive · 1937

Three in Court

Three of the Chinese, one of them a woman, appeared in the First Special District Court yesterday and, on application of the S. M. Police, were ordered to be detained for being concerned with six others a ready in custody in uttering 400 counterfeit $5 notes of the Bank of China, The prisoners were rounded up by a police party led by Det,- Sub-Inspr, Bebenin, in the Concession and Settlement. Mr. Paul Y. Ru, Assistant Municipal Advocate, pro-securing, told the Court that, in connection with the case, four Japanese suspects had been arrested and one of the Japanese named Ishii had implicated one of the Chinese before the Court. After briefly questioning the prisoners, the Court adjourned the hearing till next Friday morning.

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