Charged by the Municipal Advocate with misappropriating $49,197 Woo Dou-ching was brought before the First Special District Court vester-day on a writ of detention. Hearing was postponed for a week. Woo was arrested last week in a restaurant in Park Road after a complaint had been filed by Woo Hsiao-ching relative of the accused. The relative told the police that before leaving Shanghai recently on a business trip he left his business to the care of the accused who misappropriated his money. It was revealed by the prosecution that accused had lost most of the misappropriated money in gambling houses.
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