Shanghai, May 28, A new victim of gambling which, alleged, caused him to" mi appropriate money belonging to his brother-in-law, is now being" de> tained by the' First Special District, while another embezzler whose downfall was also caused by gambling has Just' been given a sus ended sentence of "two months: Imprisonment Feng Ssu, the gambling victim, is an employee of the Sun Company. Recently" his brother-in-law gave him more than $2,000 to buy loth but he is alleged to have gambled way all this money ina short {ime and then tried to palm off a forged receipt from a foreign frm Where he was supposed to. have bought "the cloth. He didn't produce the cloth onthe pretext that the goods had not arrived.
His brother-in-law. waited "some time before suspecting him. then went to the foreign frm' and he discovered that the receipt, was a forged one. 'The Central ' Police were informed and Feng was arrested, Feng has admitted his' misappropriation, but judgment was The sentenced gambler is Chen Tee-cheng, an employee of a Japanese firm at 107 "Museum ° Road, Last month, he was given $1,000" by his Japanese employer and -told to Geposit the money with a" bank. instead of carrying out the order; he went to. the "badlands"" Hamble and. lost all "the money, Early next morning, April 27, when passing through Avenue vit when terrorists were bombing the printing amice of the "Shanghai Evening Best" he was, wounded in the head. He has now recovered. "His relatives and. frien: have helped "him to' refund misappropriated money, "accounti for a lenient treatment by the {ud
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