WICKED WONG

Bolts With the Boodle 'In Bedroom

.(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dun' edin Rep.) According to the Chinese religion alman who steals becomes an outcast. Wong Ah Chong wanted money^very much and m the flush of temptation forsook his gods andcommitted theft. TO-DAY he is very sorry for "he aAvaits sentence on a charge of stealing £130 from Kan Wing Kai. Kan "Wing Kai is a Dunedin fruiterer and had employed Wong, but the latter had been out of Avork for two month's and on February 25. went up to Kan's place and m the dead of night crept up to Kan's bedroom. The latter had packed his money m ,a suit-case AA'hich he placed, under his bed. Knowing' some of his former employer's ways Wong hit upon this, scheme to get rich quick. Stealthily he crept m and noiselessly got away with the case. He then raided the till which 1 contained about £6, and. with the aid of a candle stole some money, leaving a trail of pennies which he had dropped m his excitement. Wong's only thought then was to clear out of the toAvn. He booked a passage by train to Christchurch: Prior to leaving he took a lump sum chiefly silver, to the National Bank at North Dunedin and asked it to be changed into note's. An inaccurate description of him liad been furnished to the police Avho rang Timaru to intercept the escapee. Detective Walker interviewed. Wong on his arrival. He gave his name as Low, On and had £51 in notes in his possession. Because of the description Wong was., permitted'" to go and duly landed in Christchurch. There he .joined some of his compatriots and soon Wong was lamenting. All his mo/icy had been lost, gambled away. At some back street Monte Carlo m Christchurch, Wong had "done m" the stolen money. From Christchurch he went by motor to Blenheim and thence to Nelson where he walked into .the waiting arms of the law and was brought back to Dunedin. The- story Avas soon unfolded at the Dunedin Police Court. >Ah Sing, a fruiterer at Caversham. with whom Wong, had stayed, said. Wong was missing on the morning of the theft, returning about 5 a.m. Avearing an overcoat. Howard Stanley Perry, a teller m the National. Bank,: North Dunedin, said the accused came m with a, parcel of silver and .waritetty it v changed into notes. He asked Wong, to Avait, but he seemed impatient, and when the money was handed over to another bank official, Wong made a hurried exit. "Wong pleaded guilty and Avas committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. NZ Truth , Issue 1116, 21 April 1927, Page 8