A Chinese detective dressed is a°stylish long coat and _weari horn. rimmed glasses succeeded in arresting a clerk in the Ordnance department for the sale of explo-ives, including sulphide or arsenic and potassium chlorate and also chloroform. The detective represented to the defendant that he was a leader of the strike pickets in Shum. Chun, and that he wanted the explosives for manufacturing bombs. The dynamite wes to be sold at $40 per pound, as it was obtained direct from the Government Ordnance. A. search of the prisoner's home disclosed several recipes for bomb. and a military book on gunpowder. Magistrate Lindsell fixed bail at. $2,000 cash, and the case was ad-Journed for' further hearing.
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