Police Report for Ap:
Serious Crime—This includes the murder of two Chinese and the: attempted murder - of a Foreign Constable and coolie by an armed gang of robbers in the Gordon Road District on the night of April 5: the murder of a railway coolie who was, shot dead'on the Chekiang Road on the morning of April 19: the murder of an unidentified Chinese who was shot in a house in Yunnat Road on April 20: the death of a. wheelbarrow: coolie on April 24 fol: lowing a fight with another coolie in the Central District on April 22: the murder of a Chinese who was! found with bullet wounds in an alleyway off Park Road on April 24 and who died in hospital the following day: the wounding of a Chinese who was shot in the. stomach on the afternoon of April 26 on the Fokien Road: the murder of an unknown Chinese whose body with a bullet wound in the head was found in an alleyway off Taku Road on the night of April 28: and the murder of another unknown Chinese whose body bearing two bullet wounds was found in the country of Penang Road in the early morning of April 29.
Seven men arrested in the first Jmentioned case and one in the fourth were under remand at the end of the month.
Robbery.—Seven reports of armed robbery from dwelling houses and shops and two of armed highway. robbery were recorded. Shots were fired by the robbers in six instances, resulting in the death of two Chinese" and the wounding of a Foreign Constable, a Chinese coolie. and a Chinese feniale. Two cases of attempted armed robbery from welling houses also occurred, the robbers in both instances making' ood their escape on an alarm being: raised by the In connexion with the foregoing reports and with armed robberies committed prior to April 1, eighteen persons in possession of two auntopistols were arrested. Four were remitted to the Court of the Military Governor, one was sentenced to imprisonment and the charge against six was withdrawn, while the remaining seven were under remand at the end of the month. The charge against three. men arrested for beng associates of armed robbers was withdrawn. Two men arrested for being associates of in possession of a loaded pistol each foran unlawful purpose. One was sentenced to imprisonment whilst the other was under remand at the end of the month. One man, arrested for murder and armed' robbery in territory under Chinese Jurisdiction, was handed over to the authorities concerned.
'A robbery from a building in course of construction in which no.
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nexion with this report and with a' arrested. One" wi in China as elsewhere, it is common Knowledge that it is recognized and extensively practised. and there need, therefore, be no apology for. setting out' for purposes of record yet another case which has been dealt with and which goes to show that these children even when placed in homes where their lot might be a happy one are very badly treated, As a role previous reference has been made to these cases when the cruelty has been of a particularly, revolting nature. In the instance now dealt with, however, the main point of interest lies in the fact that. the cruelty was perpetrated with the full knowledge of and. in the house of an ex-official of high position, Two slave girls aged 18 and 15 had been accused of the theft, of a silver spoon. Their. mistress previously the mistress of @ brothel and now married to the aforementioned off assaulted the gir! rod on several previous occasions, and this instrument, according—10 their statement, w tioned to punish them for the loss of the spoon. Subsequently the girls ran away from the house intending to proceed to the Door of Hope. They spoke to a Constable who took them to the Police Station, from which they were sent to the Shantung Road Hospital.—The medical certificates show that one] 2 of the girls was suffering from extensive and severe bruising in both shoulders and thighs and the second from a small scalp wound probably, caused by a blow. One of the girls states that she was sold. into a Brothel previously managed by the woman, now the oficial's wife, for the sum of $70. On the girls being brought before the Mixed Court, they were at their own request sent to the Door of Hope.
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