Shanghai, Jan, 29, twenty persons including two bodyguards of the manager of the victimized frm, the Fu Shing Flour Mill, Kiangse Road, are being detained by the First, Special District Court on suspicion that they have stolen more than 200 paxs of flour from the firm over a long period of time and sold them. to. the firm itself. "A hearing of the case is scheduled 40 take place on Friday.
According to the police Andings, the detained persons, most of whom fare well acquainted with the transportation business of the victimized firm, rented 2 room in the Bubbling Well district last winter and there Jstored whatever quantity of flour they stole, From December 13. last year to January 8 of this year they had stolen 281 bags of flour and sold them at a price of $l4 a bag to the firm itself. The money. thus obtained was distributed among the detained persons, it was further alleged.
Some alert detectives. attached to the Bubbling Well Police Station only discovered the trick played. by the accused early in the week when some wharf loafers were seen secretly opening some flour bags being transported to the mill, Investigations: revealed that the theft gang was a well organized one.
Members of the gang specialized in stealing wheaten flour from" bags unlanded from boats anchored off the Bund before they could be transported to the firm. They were alleged to have taken only" litre' from each bag and from 22,000 bags they stole flour which they Inter ut in 261 bags and sold to the victimized firm.
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