'A compradore nated Loh was charged with having obtained the sum of Tls. 3,535 by false pretences from a woman named Wong Tser-sze on Apri 15, 1907.
Godfrey (Messrs, Ellis and applied for a remand on the ground that appeared for the defence and
the wife of the accused was ill and unable to appear.
The accused was remanded until Wednesday morning next.
DANGEROUS CRIMINALS, Two men were brought up on several charges of robbery with violence and inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Detective-sergeant Thygesen stated that one of the acoused had been previously arrested on a charge of having been concerned in the murder of the late P..C. Morrow on Elgin Rosd on March 12, 1907, but as he then gave information which led to the arrest of the real murderers he was sentenced to children. only three months' imprisonment. Since then he had frequently come under the notice of the Police. When on the present charge, he had admitted having been in the company of three 1 convicts who bad escaped from the Manicipal Gaol on August 7. He said that he had met the escaped convicts at Soochow and accompanied them to Kadiog, where several robberies had been committed. Witness produced a deguer which was found in the possession of the accused.
Several complainants gave evidence of having been attacked and robbed by the accused.
The Court sentenced the prisoners to four years' imprisonment each, with time.
ar, and ordered that they be expelled from the Settlement at the expiration of their sentences.
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