SETTLEMENT, A most daring attempt.at highway robbery with violence, was made in Hongkew at the early hour of about six o'clock, on Friday evening last. Captain Pike, formerly of the Chinese Naval Service, was walking along the Seward-ruad, and hnd arrived at the junction of' the Wovchang-road, near Portland-place, when he observed a China-mau waiking near him. The captain's coat was open, and his watch-chain in full view, and this no doubt excited the eupidity of the Chinaman, who passed close by him, and louked hard at his face; but the captain thought nothing of the incident, and walked on, He had not, however, proceeded many yards further, when he received a heavy blow on the head, behind his right ear, which partially stunned him and brought him to his knee, the fire, as he expressed it, flashing from his eyes; the right eye particularly. He was just able to look round him, and in doing so, caught ight of the Chinaman he had seen before, standing under a lamp a little distance vff, as though watching the result of the blow. Captain Pike got upon his feet, and tempted to run towards the Chinaman, Who then algo ran off, but the effects of the blow caused the former to stumble twice, and the man seemed to be in a fair way of getting off altogether, when he likewise fell, and his pursuer at length closed with him. He was, however, still unable to retain his hold of the fellow, who again ran off, Some Chinese had begun to assemble by this time, and seeing how n tod, ave chase to the runaway, being incited still further by Captain Pike exclaiming he would give $10 to the man who captured him, 'The scoundrel was shortly afterwards overtaken, seized, conveyed to the Hongkew Police Station,' and charged with the crime, 'The captain's hat, made with stiff felt, was found to have been crushed through the brim, and the accident of the blow falling upon' that part of the hat, almost beyond doubt saved his Li for had the weapon struck the top of the hat, his skull would probably have been fractured. The weapon was not found, but it is believed to have been one of a kind similar to some others that were found by Acting-Superintendent Stripling, on searching the house where the prisoner had lived in Hongkew, scarcely fifty yards from the scene of the outrage. When th prisoner first ran off, he seems to have made for this house, but somehow or other could not get in, and so had to continue his flight. It is a place frequented by Chinese stokers, a number of whom were staying in it at the time. It is tory that Captain Pike did not sight of the man from the time he began to ran, and there is, therefore, doubt of his identity so far. Ho stranger in Shanghai, having arrived here in a steamer from Hongkong, accompanied by another man, both being coal-trimmers. The two men have been out of employ ince their arrival here, and the prisoner's comrade, being suspicious-looking, and having no apparent means of subsistence, wae also taken into custody, with a view to deportat While searching the house above mentioned, the police found a heavy bludgeon, a bar of iron of handy length for striking purposes, and a sheatled table knife, ground to a point and of exceeding sharpness. Of course, there were no menns of directly connecting the men with those weapons; and equally as matter of course, nobody in the house would acknowledge the ownership. The police, who have for a long time past had their eye upon many ruffianly fellows who have reached this Settlement as stokers or coal-trimmers, believe such weapons as the bludgeon and the bar of iron are expressly prepared for the kind of attack which was made upon Captain Pike.
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