Over $10,000 in cash and 40 prisoners were the net proceeds of the robbery of the Koyiu passenger boat on July 6. Rice merchants. who had come to Canton to dispose of their season's crops were followed, the 12 robbers went! aboard the vessel on which they] returned home with the proceeds of their purchases, and among their. luggage they had buried revolvers, which they took out and made use of not far out from Canton, On the head of a Suntoh. Dist robber chief, Sham Wang, a price of $600 had been placed by! the-authorities. By popular sub option another $300 was raised. lineard of it, has sent a spokesman in to say that if, instead of giving the $900 to whoever catches him it be given to him ko will go
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