TRICKY CHINESE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 6

TRICKY CHINESE

DISCOVERS NEW METHOD OF MAKING EASY MONEY. SIIOPKEEPER DECEIVED. "This case is after the style -of 'ringing the changes'," said Chief- Detective Young in the Dunedin Police Court, when Arthur Wong, a young Chinaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of the theft of 9s, the property of Leonard Ernest Stevenson. Mr, Young told the court that the complainant Stevenson owned a fx-uit shop in Princes Street. The accused had called twice and asked for change of a pound note, but this was not available. Howevcr, on Saturday afternoon, when the complainant's son was in charge of the shop, the accus-ed returned and made a similar request. The boy told him that he could change the note, and the accused then produced a wallet. This he opened and exhibited the edge of a £1 note, tuclced into a pocket of the wallet. Wong then aslced for 10s immediately and said he would return laber and get the rest of the money and the wallet. He was given 9s, but when the alleged note was examined it was found that it consisted only of thc extreme edge of a note. This edge was all that could be seen. The accused was subsequently interviewed hy the police and admxtted the theft. Wong, who was 22 years of age, was before the court in April last, when he was sentenced to three months' hax-d laoour on four ehai'ges of false pretences.