Nineteen natives were before the Mixed Court on the 21st instant charged with having been concerned with others not in custody and two others who were 219 in the custody of the City Police, in feloniously robbing " house at Zangeoh and stealing the sum of $2,000 and 12,000 one cent pieces; farther, with having robbed from a boat on a creek near Zangzoh $373 on December 16, 1909. According to the nee one of the accused was arrested in a teashop by a native detective, who had received certain information from a friend. The accused admitted that be had served a sentence of four years for highway robbery. As the result of further inquiries the accused implicated the other acoused before the Court, in tarn admitted several robberies at Zangzoh, which is about twelve miles beyond Soochow. Dissension was caused among the rank and file because the leader of the gang absconded with most of the plauder, and this led to one of them communicating with the police. [At this stage the police were granted a remand to enable them to make further
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