Shanghai, Mar. 9.
John Robert Llewellyn, 37, an une cognized British subject, was found in first Special District Court yesterday, on a charge of having fraudulently' altered a British Passport, and was sentenced 10 two months impr @ fine of months'" imprisonment or of
Liewellyn_was arrested by detec tives from Central Police Station on the premises of the Philipine-Amer-can Import and Export' Ca,, with offices at room 300, 131 Museum Road, on the morning of March 6, on Warrant issued by the First Special District Court for non-payment of a '$100 fine in connection with a gamb-Jing charge which hed been brought against him in 1937, and to which he had pleaded guilty at the time When the detectives arrived Museum Road address, Llewellyn, according to the evidence, produced British passport from one of the drawers of his desk, which, on closer examination was found to have been "The accused admitted having alter= ed the name of the owner of the document in such a manner tat the asport was made to be in hig and his wife's name. He said' that he bought the document for $5 some time last year, and that he used it merely to get tino the Hongkew and Sentence was accordingly passed,
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