Shanghai Sept. 25.
Found guilty of having forged." cheque for $16,900, Y. ¥. Shuan, former clerk of the K. M. Cumming Ca., 16 Central Road, was sentenced fo one year and eight months' imprisonment yesterday by the First [Special District Court. The prosecu-ion revealed that accused had stolen blank cheque from his employer's desk and forged the signatures of the company's (partners to enable him to collect $16,900. When accused at-{tempted to cash the cheque with the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, the bank's management informed the company that a cheque for a large sum of money was bolag, Jcashed. Payment was stopped, Trade Mark Forgery Shanghai Sept. 25.
Two Chinese were each sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined $3,000 yesterday by the First Special District Court for forging the Indan-throu trade mark of the Defag Com-any at 261 Szechuen Road. It was Fevealed in court that the sentenced printers had printed several thou-Sands of the Iadanthren trade marks which they distributed to-various dye firms which in tum used them' to cheat customers.
A raid recently conducted in the home of one of the accused at 14 Pakhoi Road enabled the police to yh] seize many fake labels. The court was informed that the labels were entirely different from the genuine ones used by the foreign firm. One fof the accused had been sentenced before on a bank note counterfeit charge.
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