On Thursday at the Russian Consular Court, before Mr. ivanoff, three Russian subjects were brought up upon a charge of having stolen from certain shops in the settlement various articles of wearing apparel and piece good. The three Russians whose names are A, Kudrin, J. Labassoff and J. Biberfeldt, all denied the charges, but as they refused to state the address at which they lived and were unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves, they were remanded in custody.
The story of their alleged doings with their subsequent arrest is one of considerable interest and one which reflects much credit on the efficiency of the detective department of the Municipal Police.
About 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning an employee of Messrs. Lane, rawford's reported to the police that a roll of silk valued at $200 had been stolen from that shop on the 9th instant. It would seem that a series of such-like reports had been received by the police from various shops within the settlement for several days previously, and that in each case the proprietors had suspected a party of Russians being the perpetrators of the thefts.
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