The Archive · 1939

Would-Be Embezzler

Shanghai, Aug. 31.

Cong Yung-lin, a shroff of the Mei Vu Silk Hong in Tientsin Road, was elvan a suspended sentence of 10 months' imprisonment yesterday by the First Special Disiriet Court a charge of embezzling nearly $3,000 from his employers. It was a case of ruse in which Oong played the part of a victim of an farmed robbery in which he wns supposed to have been relieved of $2,800 which he took out from a shop in Honan Road qn behalf of his employers.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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