The Archive · 1940

Russian Sentenced

Shanghai, Sept, 4.

Finally. arrested after a' year's hunt by the 8. M, P, for complicity in a $5,000 machinery theft, Vasily Bulatom, a Russian mechante, was sentenced to six months imprisonment by the First. Special District Court yesterday. His accomplices in the ihett were arrested last year, sharily fatter the crime, and were sentenced Witness went on to say that the ceiling leaked after each' rain, the first leakage occurring in July when, she said, she complained to Mr. Ciker said he would tell the landlord, ach rain, she said, water would come to the ground floor from the verandah and first fleet, which plain= {ft told the court was rented to's Mr, to the spot on the ceiling, which was seen by the architect of the house. Mr. Gabriel Rabinovich, 'The spet he explained, was unavoidble, beeatise of dampness, the house Leing only recently' built In adjourning the case sine die His Lordship remarked:

"It is obviously impossible 10 doc this ease on the evidence before me. then,

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