Ex-Magistrate Receives Threatening Letter from a Shanghai "Army"
Armed robbers are getting decidedly busy. again, and there is reason to believe that disbanded soldiers are taking a hand in the Dusiness. - About 10.20 on Wedn" day morning six men, two of them: carrying "pistols, entered: No. 4! North Honan Road, a.foreign house: oceupied: by Mr. Tsou Pau-hung, exemagistrate,. and: demanded $50,- 000, the leader presenting a threat= fening letter purporting to come from "the Self-governing, army: of' Shanghai." Whilst Mr. sen was: holding the men in conversation; cone of-his servants ran upstairs and: informed his master's son, the two-of: them raising an alarm by throw-some loose bricks though window into the street and blowing police whistle. A squad of 20+ vvolice was at once despatched from: West Hongkew police station, but despite their prompt arrival' the would-be thieves had departed, the entire party bolting as soon as the alarm was. 1 Later inthe morning, My. Tseu found in the yard of his house a second threatening etter demanding: money in the name of the so-called Self-governing army fof Shanghai, The matter is re Ing the necessary police atte The of a pawn shop i East Kashing Road having been eft open, three robbers entered and collected '8158, affair happens edo ing and vecupied " couple of minutes, the thieves uletly getting away with their loot and disappearing in the adjacent alleyways.
your 1 a.m. on Thursday a silvers smith's shop in East Seward Road was visited, the cash. box broken open and $48 extracted, The job was the work of a few minutes and bhat a word was spoken while it was in progress, the sual display. of revolvers keeping. the inmates quiet, 'A pawn shop in Thorburn Road: was visited by another gang in the early hours on Thursday and $200 in Jeash and jewellery stoler
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