injures Youth Mystery Surrounds Urga Road Mishap A 17-year old Chinese youth was brought to Kashing Road police station in a semi-conscious condition at about 930 a.m, yesterday, after having been down by a truck on Urga Road near Hailar Road, about 30 minutes earlier, Due to his serious condition, the youth could not be questioned and police enquiries were limited to the questioning of witnesses, It was not known whether the driver of the truck which was believed to have coen loaded with cotton waste, knew that he knocked down the victim, since he failed to stop after the accident, A news item in the "North-China Daily News" has helped the Settlement Police bring justice to three ex-employees of the now-defunct Ghinese Telegraph Office, Nantao, o were each sentenced to a suspended term of 30 days' detention by the First Special District Cour. yesterday for having solicited money in the name of charity by false pretenses at a foreign residence on Friday.
The three accused were Hsu Wen-ti, Yao Sih-ching and Zee Yeh-ming. Evidence was produced in Court by Mr. Wellington F. S. Fong, Assistant Municipal Advocate.
Wearing the uniforms of the nonexistent company, the three men made their appearance at House 1. Lane 1220 Avenue Road, residence of Mr. H. Taylor, Superintendent of Cemeteries, S.M.C, shortly after midday Friday.
On the strength of a list of contributors to a fund for unemployed former workers of the Chines Telegraph Ca, they obtained $2 from Mrs. Taylor. When Mr. Taylor learned of it a short while later, he informed the police immediately, as he had been warned of such nefarious activities of men in the uniforms of local telegraph companies by a news item in the "North-China Daily News."
Det.-Sergt. K. J. Larby attended and placed the three men under arrest while they were soliciting money by a similar method from other householders in the vicinity. A sum of $17.50, representing the amount obtained at other places, and two blocks of paper were seized by the police, During questioning at the station it was brought out that the men had been carrying on their illegal activity for about a month.
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