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in cash. In your letter of 11th November, 1910, you stated that the money with which the shroff decamped was collected on Friday and Saturday, the 21st and 22nd October.
It would seem a more probable theory that the embezzlement axtended over a considerable period, small sims being taken from time to time, to be accounted for, if questions wore naked, on the ground that money had been received too late for paymont into the Bank and was carried forward to the next day. It is very possible that the shroff had spent most of the money vide the I.0.Us. and that he absconded on the T.0.Us. being found becauSO he could not replace what he had taken.
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Paragraph 2(v). This admission substantiates the allegation that the clerks did, as they admit, issue slened receipts to the shroff,
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Paragraph 2(v1). See paragraph 21 of Mr. Clemonti's minute of 24th August, 1911, to the effect that you made the chock once a month only. The Pailors' Home Cash Book was on the 25th October found entered up to the 5th October orly. Having delerated your powers of signing receipts you can hardly have attempted to see that amounts received were entered in the Cash Book before receipts were simed.
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Paragraph 7. In view of the very common austom of shro'?s geine round to collect money the Shipping Pirms could hardly be expected to keep in mind a Circular or a verbal warning if, in spite of those, the shroff appeared with sirmed receipts and called on them for pay- ment.
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I am to add that Chan Pui Sam and "an Taung Wine were tried by Executive Council and the orges against them were found not proven, and that there was no evidence
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