OUTCAST CHINESE
STOLE FIVE GRAMO. PHONES ASTUTE FRAUD SCHEME ••Five gramophones, two bag. two watches, steal - um?” ask.H Chief- Detective Hammond of a prisoner at the Police Court this morning. But Ns Shou. alias Bens slum «u Sinso On. could not. or would not understand and an interpreter had he called in. Shou pleaded cullty 2 the theft of articles totalling nearlv £SO in value. “His modus operandi.~ said Chief Detective Hammond, • was to bur ar" tides on time-payment and lmmedi* ately resell them to pawnbrokers - " Shou. who is at present serving a term of two months' Imprisonment at Mount Ellen, was remanded until to morrow for sentence In order that it might be discovered whether it w a , possible to recover any of the stolen goods.
“There Is no chance of restitutionconcluded the chief-detective. *‘Shou is an outcast among the local Chinese and they will do nothing for him.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 12
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150OUTCAST CHINESE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 12
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