How Various Malefactors Put Their Necks in a Noose A simple but effective ruse on the part of Detective Inspector Cruickshank has been the means of running to earth six members of a gang of Cantonese loafers who have been terrorizing local Cantonese residents.
It appears that the men, who are members of a gang known as the San Huh Wei (an organization deseribed by the police as being unlawful and a menace to the peace and good order of the Settlement), sent an anonymous letter to Mr. Chen Ping-chi, a Portuguese protégé demanding the payment of $3,000 under certain threats. The recipient placed this note in the hands of the police who immediately took the matter up. to terrorize people, but said their association was a benevolent one.
'After consideration, the Court sentenced three of the men to three years' imprisonment each, to be followed by expulsion, and the other three were ordered to be expelled from the Settlement, forthwith.
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