Four Men and Cabaret Girl Arrested Chen Lin-mei, an assistant of the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank, a Chinese lawyer, a cabaret girl alleged to be Chen's sweetheart and two other men were brought before ' the First Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention on suspicion that they are involved in a fraud in which a Chinese native bank lost nearly $10,000.
It was alleged that Chen was the chief plotter in the crime being badly in need of money in view of his friendship with Miss Sheng Li-li who works in a cabaret located not far away from Chen's bank. Recently, it was alleged, he asked a native bank to send him $10,000 worth of American notes. The money was given to him in his bank by a representative from the native bank but after receiving the money Chen slipped through a side door of his bank and never showed up.
He recently wrote to his friends apologizing for his act, explaining that he was living in an outport. Realizing that it was difficult to arrest him, the victims offered a reward for his arrest. Alert police detectives found Chen and his sweetheart in a house in Avenue Road the other day and arrested them. Three other arrests were made latter, because they might have also been involved in the crime.
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