Shortly after 10 p.m. on March 14, two men and a woman, speaking the Yangchow dialect, were seen to be purchasing tickets at the Shang hai-Nanking Railway Station. They had a trunk with them, and a Chinese policeman demanded to examine this trunk for opium. Instead of opium, he found in it twenty-seven silver shoes and 1,200 silver dollars. When questioned where they wished to transport the silver shoes, they replied that the silver shoes were brought from Yangchow to be changed into dollars, but owing to the rate of exchange being unfavourable, they were taking them back to Yangchow again.
The policeman then summoned the assistance of another policeman, and they took the three persons and their belongings to the Station of the sth District, where they were detained pending investigations. It will be remembered that a robbery was committed upon the house of a curio dealer in the city about two
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