Shanghai, Nov. 4, A large swindling scheme in which the victims have been defrauded of about §100.000 pald in order to safeguard their lives against evil spirits, {that threatened to" Kill them. wat brought to light in the First Special District Court yesterday when Yang Ho-ming, an amateur fortune teller, who was alleged to have played the Whole trick was brought before the {ibunal on a writ of detention.
The case Is rather complicated and in view of the large sums of money involved "in the crime the police merely asked the court for the right detain the fortune teller who evidently has tailed to tell his own fortune, He admitted having obtained about $20,000 from his. victims but the police asked the court to postpone the hearing to facilitate further investigations "which request was readily granted, The rich victim Shih Kung-yv, a former exchange broker, was sometime ago led to believe in the words of fortune tellers because one of {riends died recently as was predicted professional fortune teller. Shih went to a Sinza Road fortune telling stand to have his own fortune told but he was told that he himself would dig in September of this year,
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'The detained man was alleged 10 have {old the same story but he told Shih that he could use the "Li linking method" by praying his god. "Shih. was again eve in' every word he sal prised to see that a white sheet of fetter. paper put in an envelope a placed on the altar had words wrlt-Yen on it indicating the future trend money' with Yang. in order to sve His te" Yang pretended) to try to Show safety box of th lay fair suggesting thatthe mo (ely box. Yang th ested that with the money satd business propos could be cor "The business proposition seemed to be a method of marking although there were business-like meetings between him and his victim hho. profit-making proposal had ever been carried out. Shih woke from his dream only the other day when his wife, ready to go to a ban= ave at which she" must. wear her ings, discovered that her gold ornaments in the bank had been transformed "into" small sheots paper. Yang. was arrested at his re-Eldence in Great Western Road by the Central Police.
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