Three coolies appeared at the Mixed Court on Thursday upon a charge of highway robbery in Ward Road early in the afternoon of October 30.
The case against them is that they held up Mr. Woshikawa, who was on his way from the bank with wages for factory employees, overturned his ricsha, and seized his cash bag, which contained $1,406 in notes, $500 in silver, Y. 89, 185 ten-cent pieces, 58 twenty-cent pieces, a total of $2,150.
Accused were remanded until Saturday.
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