WAS ASHAMED
A CHINESE THIEF Sydney's Chinese are a law-abiding lot. Their main offences against society seem to be smoking opium and having a ittle flutter at pakapoo, says the Sydney "Sun." That is why police officers and shop detectives were so surprised when a Chinese was led into the Central Police Station and charged with the thefts of beads valued at one shilling He hung his head in shame. He had done what no other of his countrymen had done in Sydney, acocrding to police station officers.
"They seldom commit offences against the whites," a policeman said. "We round them up in droves for smoking opium, or for gambling, but both these 'offences' are Chinese pastimes—the same as horse-racing is one of ours.-The Chinese are more sinned against than sinning. They are nearly always the victims in a criminal case in which they figure."
"Chinese crooks? There aren't any!" exclaimed a "Central" sergeant. "They are the most honest lot in the world. "Why, in all my years as a station sergeant I have known only one of them to be charged with drunkenness. He was utterly ashamed of himself."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3445, 19 March 1932, Page 2
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190WAS ASHAMED King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3445, 19 March 1932, Page 2
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