The present unsatisfactory state of the relationship of the Chapsi and Settlement authorities with reference to the boundary question was further instanced by a case which came before the Mixed Court on Saturday. A Paoshan police constable was charged with sasaulting P. C. Fraser, of West Hongkew and sentence of six days' imprisonment was passed. According to the evidence, P. C_ Fraser was patrol. ing Haining Road about 5 p.m. on Friday afternoon and near the barrier he noticed that a Paoshan police constable, who seemed to him to be on duty, had crossed the boundary. As he was some forty yards inside the Settlement the constable proceeded to arrest him. The man resisted and struck P. ©. Fraser, calling upon some Chinese who w standing by to assist him. They declined, but the officer was very soon in the midst of a hostile crowd.
The people made no attempt to molest him, and in a few moments a Chinese Municipal police constable and a Sikh, went to the officer's assistance, and the native constable was taken to the police station. Robbery in North Szechuen Road.
An attempt to commit robbery at the residence of Mr. J. D. Read, Deputy Trafic Manager of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, at No. 175 North Szechuen Road Extension, in the early hours of Thursday morning led to the capture of members of a well-known gang of thieves. About 2,45 a.m. the occu; its wer awakened by noise at the rear of the house and it was found that a native was attempting to break in. The man immediately decamped, but was pursued by a Sikh constan ble, caught, and taken tothe North Szechuen Road station and recognized there as an old offender. He gave certain information to the officer on duty and this led to the raiding of s house in Kuling road. Three men were arrested, all well-known to the police. One was armed with a Colt revolver, and a eixchambered revolver and a plentiful supply of ammunition were found in the house. The weapons are said to have been stolen from a military camp, and it is believed that the men arrested are members of an organized gang implicated in several serious crimes recently committed on the borders of the Settlement in the Sinea district. The three prisoners have given further information to the police with regard to two men concerned in the murder of an off cial in the French Concession at the' end of last year.
The four men appeared at the Mixed Court on Saturday, one charsed with the attempted burglary and the others with being membere of an organized gang. They were remanded while further inquiries are made by the police.
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