All Sing alias Ah Wong, was charged with, smoking opium on February 6. He was also charged with having.' between January 31 and February 6, at Aramoho, stolen from the; dwelling of Kwong Chong one suit of clothes valued at £5, flhe property of Nga.n Jam, and about 10s in silver, the property of Kwong Chong.
The evidence was to the effect that on the.evening of Sunday week Ngan Jam put in .'his box a suit of clothes which he had bought four or weeks previously for £5. On Saturday last he wished to go to the circus, but on looking for his clothes, "found them missing." He informed the police, and investigation was made, with the result tinat they were found at dough's second-hand shop, where they had been sold for 10s by -accused, .who had given a wrong name, and stated that he was a. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 12137, 9 February 1904, Page 2
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