Although there have been many men punished by the First Special District Court because they gambled too much in the western district, Mrs. Hu Ying is the first woman who has become criminally minded for the same reason. She has just been sentenced to pay a fine of $30, but the sentence has been suspended, for three years having failed in a ruse in which she told a make-believe robbery story saying that her gold bracelet had been stolen so that her husband would not blame her but, in reality, she had gambled it awa She was charged with false acensation with the intention of incriminating others. The case dates back to April 26 when the woman. who lives in Chi Shan Li. Connaught Road, pawned her gold bracelet for $230 and gambled away all the money thus obtained in a western district establishment. After leaving the gambling house she reported the matter to the Gordon Road police stating that she had been robbed of her gold bracelet while riding in a rickshaw in Kiaochow Road near Wuting Road. A watchman saw her being victimized, the police were told. At the time and place specified the officers investigated but found out no such thing had happened. investigations revealed the and the officers med the char airist the woman accordingly. A woman living near the scene of the imaginary robbery told the court that the accused women asked her to find a policeman near by. The next day, witness said, the accused came again asking her husband came to in-she should tell him that she had been robbed of her bracelet The accused said very frankly, however, that she had gai.bled away the gold ornament but that she afraid of her husband, witness said.
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