Wong Ab-kong, alias Sian Foo Hien, unemployed, was charged with bei concerned with others already charged in several cases of highway robbery and with stealing valuable hairpins from people at various times daring 1906 anc 1907. He was farther charged with being in unlawful possession of " gold hairpin, value $12, on the 4th instant.
Det.-Sgt. Craickshank stated that accused was arrested on a warrant issued for the arrest. of a certain gang of robbers, several of whom had already been sentenced. Accused admitted having snatched several hairpins and took witness to a pawnshop in Frenchtown where he recovered a gold hairpin accused had pawned a short time ago. The police, being unable to find the owner of the pin, returned it to the pawnbroker's shop. Prisoner has been convicted on three previous occasions and sentence of one year's imprisonment with hard Iaboor, to be followed by expulsion, was passed on him.
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