"My Brother's Keeper."

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 19, Issue 35, 30 August 1919, Page 5

"My Brother's Keeper."

I Matter of "Liftiij." The impassivity of the Oriental is proverbial, but unfortunately, it is a factor not always to be relied on, as an old Chinaman, 6J years of 'age, by name Sin Kae, found to his cost when, in the role of tempter, he subjected the adage to a practical test. At the time he made the experiment old Sin was in the employ of Mrs. Kionka, who lias a plantation at Avele. Not far from this plantation there lived another Celestial named Tat Chou, and it was during the latter's absence in Apia that Sin went to his compatriot's abode and "lifted' 1 according to 'fat's evidence, N oue saddle,- seven tins of salmon, seven £\ notes, and ?2s. in silver. Sin admitted the charge, except as regards the muiiev, adding by way of explanation, l( 1 only rook the goods to try the other man's temper '. " Most unfortunately forSiu, the other man's temper w;i> unequal to the strain imposed upon it, as a consequence of which he laid a complaint with the police. In the District Court on the 4th inst., when the sequential charge of theft was inquired iutOj Judge Roberts found the accused guilty, »Siu being sentenced to one month's imprisonment with labour and costs amounting to 445, as the penalty of his unholy curiosity regarding the psychological make up of his fellow countrymen.