At the Mixed Court on Tuesday two men were charged with being concerned in the Lo-ka-wei ontrayo on the last. They were then sent into the city. For some days past, we have been in pos session of the following particulars, but as it was: impolitic to publish them before, we refrained: from doing so till now. The Police had information of the whereabout of some of the men early last week and on Wednesday night, the detectives succeeded in arresting two men who were said to have been implicated in the affair. The two men were taken quietly through the streets without handeutis, so ascot to arouse suspicion as to who they were, and_wero locked up at the Central Station. It appears that the outrage was planed some days pi viously. The leading spirit was a soldier, aa were many of the others, and he engaged some of the other men till the amounted to eight. Some days bef fire, one of the gang, the head: to Lo-ka- in fact he had been quite a number of times and he had drink sold and the money the till. This fired his imagination, and he determined to organise a gang to plunder the place, The gang arranged to plunder Lo-ka-wei on Thuraday night, Qud August and some of them left a tea shop on the French Concession ana on the road were joined by others. When they got to Lo-ka-wei, they saw Darko sift in th verandah suaoking a cigar, and thet cluded they were not strong eno to attack the place on that night, notwith. standing that one of the gang—a tall man—volunteered to kill Clarke if the others would do the rest of the business. The offer was not accepted and the gang then operations tilt the ut, On their way back tio countrymen, one of whom was carrying some cloth and the other some pork. Hero seemed to be a chance not to be thrown away, and it wax proposed that the two country-mon should be killed, their bodies thrown into the water and' the cloth and pork taken possession of. This plan was not approved of, as one of the gang said this was only a small affair and would interfere with the attempt on Lo-ka-wei. He further stated that if they were determined to carry out their project of murdering untrymen, he would assist the Late.
induced the rest of the gang to giv up their plan. It was arranged that, as the next day was the first of the moon, a' chi chin joss" day, they should all go'and fice and bind themselves not to turn traitors, a that day they appear to have increased their hi to fifteen persons, and on Saturday night fourteen of them, one being delayed, went to Lo-ka-wei and committed the outrages as we have previously described them.
We have mentioned that two of the gang were arrested While Sergeant Mack was going to the Mixed Court on the morning after the capture of the tio, he saw third man, who, not knowing that some of his friends had been arrested, was idling about the place. He arrested the man and took him to the Mixed Court, where he fell sick, and died of cholera on Sunday in the Shantung Road Hospi The Police are uow on the track of four others of the gang who have g to Soochow, so it is probable that they too will soon be arrested. It appears that the gang decided, after the Lo-ka-wei affair, to disperse for a time, and the: meet again at a certain place to plan an attack on a foreign residence, where it twas believed that the booty to be obtained would pay them for their risk and exer-tious. The raid was to have been made about this time. Some of the members of the gang were salt smugglers,
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