Shanghai, Aug. 24.
ong Yung-ting, a sible hong shroff who failed in a ruse in which hho pretended to be the victim of 3 $2,800 armed robbery, was formally charged with misappropriation yes-(terday in the First Special District Court. Hearing was adjourned for a week.
Oong was placed under arrest on Aug. 22 by Detective-Sub-Inspector Gazeley of the Central Police Station after he had told his make-believe story of an armed robbery in which he was robbed of a parcel containing the above mentioned sum of money. He said" that he was mized in front of a bank Ningpo Road by two gunmen who whisked him away in a walling car Into the French Concession, where hho was forced out from the car blindfolded.
As no such robbery had been staged, Oong finally" broke down afler undergoing a long grilling, explaining that he had invented the story as a cloak to obtaining the money, which belonged to his employers. The money has been recovered from Oong's friend, living Siking Toad,
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