Foreign Women Defrauded of Clothings, Tseu Kyang-sung, ex-tailor, who had defrauded *a number of foreign women of clothing in the past several months, was sentenced to 14 months' imprisonment by the First Special District Court yesterday.
The prisoner was arrested by the French Police and handed over to the Settlement Police after Mrs, Kommisisky residing at Apartment 105, 587 Bubbling Well Road. had filed a complaint with the S.M. Police in December accusing the prisoner of having obtained from her three suits of clothing by means of fraud.
It was alleged that the prisoner visited Mrs. Komminsky and asked if he, a tailor, could do something for her. The complainant, suspecting nothing wrong, gave him three suits of clothing for alteration. Although the prisoner promised to bring back the clothing within three or four days, he failed to turn up again.
On November 27 last, the prosecution alleged, the prisoner visited Mrs. P. O. da Rosa of Apartment No. 1147 Bubbling Well Road, and obtained by fraud a length of Black Canton Crepe de Chine and a suit of slothing by producing e letter of recommendation of a foreign lady who had issued the letter because the prisoner had done work for her in a satisfactory manners By similar method, the prisoner obtained clothings, ete, from a number of others, including Mrs. R. Ross, Mrs. J. Malley, Mrs. A. V. Stevens, and Mrs. Maritsky-Stetson. He either pawned the clothing or sold it to others and pocketed the money obtained. He got three months in the Concession court for similar offences.
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