A Chinese was brought before the Mixed Court on Monday by Det-Sgts. Douglas and Grubb in Jconnexion with the Lincheng, Road rice shop robbery, when $22.50 iwas stolen, It will be recalled that} this man was captured by a plucky little shop assistant after he and companion had intimidated the in-ates, about 12 in number, with a dummy pistol and tried to escape ]with a cash-box. Not knowing that) the pistol was a dummy, the young, assistant chased after the men, who, the box containing' the!
and called, as he was in Xo a watchman to come to)
The prisoner, Tsang Ah-szu, was Jcharged with being concerned' with Janother not yet in custody, at 7.20 pam. on February 27, in robbing an unnumbered house, a rice shop, in Lincheng Road.
Mr. Alcorn, of the Electricity Department, said that prisoner was an. employee in the boiler house of the Riverside Power Station. He was fon duty on the night of the robbe-y_ and witness could not see how he: feould have gone out without his: knowledge. When the employees, came in they reported their numbers to the clerk in charge, and the prisoner's eard was among those. reistered. There was a wall eight, jor nine feet high, un the top of which were barbed ments, and this the prisoner certain ly could not scale. On the other: side was the Huangpu River.
The police stated that the prisoner: had confessed to being present at the robbery, and that he admitted being outside the shop. He bad been atked by a friend to go on a. "pleasure trip" and had shown polies hew he hed sealed the wall and where.
Prisoner admitted his complicity in the case and said that he had been Jasked by 2 friend to go on a pleasure rip.
The Court (Messrs. Whitamore jand Zau) found prisoner guilty and sent im th prison for 10 years.
Moronsts should note that owing the narrowness of the roads, in Chapei, the Chinese authorities hi issued, orders prohibiting fast dri uni. The notice says that motor-rivers are to pull onto by ths pal ear police" whisttes
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