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2.
On the 149 of June last William
"Tropic"
was
the
Kent Stanford, Master of the "Tropic"
Receiving Ship,
was
apprehended by the
Police on a
charge of frand- he
before the Police elbagistrate
was taken
on the 16th
[Monday) and after a lengthened:
investigation he
Committed
19th July
for
was
on the 3rd July ~
trial. He was tried
on the
on tive informations charging
him with Larceny and Conspiracy to - defrand, and having pleaded guilty to both indictments, was sentenced.
by
the chief
Justice to eight years penal servitude.
3.
de
tras a
appears that Stanford partner in the firm of Charles Jameson and Company (Sinee dissolved), Opium Inspectors, and that the Receiving bessel
property of the Firm, and that
Opium as well as other Merchandize
deposited
was -
on board this vessel for safe custody.!
There
was also a Parsee firm-
4.
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Styled Hormusjee
and
Rustomjee, who were
Opium Brokers and I believe carried on various other kinds of business - Rustomjee
-
Burjerjee
a
the resident partner, transacted
large business with the firm of Jameson
and Company, and it' transpired in the- course of the investigation that he had, with the connivance and assistance of Stanford, defranded a great many of the Mercantile Community, principally
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the Banks, by borrowing money
large amount on
to
a very
opium which he asserted
to be his property and thew on board the -