Two men were charged with assaulting and attempting to rob the complainant, a boat contractor employed by Messrs. Jas. Tones and Ca, on the 27th of May, and with assaulting and robbing the same complainant of $19 and $69 about January, 1901.
Inspector Mellows of the River Police said that the accused had been handed over to him by the Magistrate at Pootung, whose soldiers had arrested them in the act of assaulting and robbing the complainant, whom they had robbed on two other occasions. Prisoners were the ringleaders of a gang of loafers and thieves infesting Pootung, and the local Magistrate was afraid to Keep' them in his yamen, fearing their comrades might attempt a rescue. It was quite a regular ling for criminals from Pootung to be headed over to the Mixed Court to be dealt wish when one of the parties concerned was connected with a foreign firm as in this instance. If they were sent to the Shanghai Magistrate the witnesses would probably fail
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