Shanghai, Sept, 7.
'The Chinese saying "plucking a hair from the tiger's head" might be well Used to describe the act of Chang 'Yun.shing, the telephone operator of the Carter Read police oticers' quarters who was brought before the First Special Disiict Court' yesterday_and charged with stealing & weir watch froma foreign affeers Judgment war Feserved" pending further investiga: lone becatise the police thought thst might be involved in offer crimes, "The erstwhile. police. telephone operator" was alleged to: have tion {he watch from s foreign sergeant fon September while the latter was engaged in answering a-telephone call. When he came back he found out that hhis watch had disappeared from his desk, For a time the efime puzzled his colleagues but Detective Sub-Inspector Darvill knew what to do once the case was referred fo him.
He questioned all janitors and other small employees but they swore that they had not done the job. He then sent out his men to keep an eye on pawnshops and investigations finally revealed that the stolen watch had been mortgaged to a pawnshop in Avenue Joffre. Since it was taken to the shop only one day later the shop assistant could easily describe the man who pawned it, The thief had pawned it for only $18, but the watch fs worth several times'that sum.
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