The Municipal Police of the Laoza district have succeeded in bringing to account at the Mixed Court a young native criminal, whose career in the Settlement, short though it was, exhibits some extra:
ordinary features. The youth, who claimed to be fifteen years of age but looked considerably younger, gave his name as Sun Wo-sun, hailing from the not distant city of Kashing. "On the 3rd of the present month he escaped from the Tuotai's city goal, where he had been locked up for:
thefts in the city. In the course of his way out of the city he stole some clothing, which he pawned for $2, He commenced operations within foreign jurisdiction on Vednesday, the Sth inst., and it is a singular fact that though unacquainted with foreign houses, he had little difficulty in carrying out the most daring thefts, He y stealing a silver cup and silver box from Mr. Arthur Dallas' house, worth $50; then, on the 8th, he visited the house of Mr. Midwood and Mr. W. Lamond, Mohawk Villas. Belonging to the former gentleman he appropriated a valuable gold watch and chain, three sovereigns (sporting mementoes), and a gold matchbox, worth at least $300; and Mr. Lamond he relieved of a gold watch and chain, some gold studs and sleorelinks, and a silver pencil case and shoe of sycee, worth about $150. Mr. Shaw's house was the next object of his attention, and from there he took away three: watches and some silver ornaments. Mr. J.C. Johnston's house also received a visit, and from there, as elsewhere, he took a clothing. 'The' young thief was captur almost red-handed. Ho was detected on the premises of Mr. Bruce Robertson, and being unable to give a satisfactory account of himself was taken into custody. At the time he was dressed like young mandarin, but a. suspicion as to his connection with the previous robberies was aroused in the minds of the detectives. After a time he began to "open his mouth," and the police once fairly on the scent cleverly unravelled the intricate story. Without any accomplices the young criminal adopted a clever mode of seeking to conceal his operations. When he became possessed of Mr. Midwood!'s watch, worth ome $6: guineas, he found it impossible to pawn it, mut he went to a shop in the French Concession and there changed it for a silver watch, worth $25, and $8 in money. 'The second watch he took elsewhere and changed for a third watch and $2, and the third watch he changed for another, which he then pawned. Mr. Lamond's' watch went through similar system of barter and sale, but some of the articles he pawned direct and became possessed of $475 in hard cash. But when arrested on the 13th he had managed to: get rid of all but twenty cents, It was discovered that during his brief career in Shanghai he was in the habit of travelling about in a private'riesha, varied by an occasional carriage drive to Chang Ssu-ho's garden. At this popular resort he succumbed to the fascination of a Chinese beauty, to whom he considerately gave a silver watch. He also figured as a patron of music, and on the occasion of 2 visit to a concert in Frenchtown, finding the programme not to his liking, paid certain sum to have it entirely altered. When brought up at the Mixed Court he
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