Serious Crime.—This includes the murder of a coolie who was; shot in a field off Penang Road on January 6 when crossing the path of armed robbers retiring from tI Scene of a crime; the murder of a Chinese female associate of band: fis "who. was, shot in a house the Wert Hongkew Dis trict on the. morning of. Jan. tary 20; and the murder tro women and a man who. were house in the Sinza District on Tanuary 28. Enquires re: Yealed that the latter waa a well; Keown bandit leader ho pi men. on several "occasions inst the Government. (roope in wae one of the participants in the tung and who: in addi
Txncheng outrage. He shad. two fairly. well-farnished houses Shanghai with women in each who had been carried away at different} times from places in' the. North during raids made there by men under his command.
The case against six Chinese charged with the murder of pawnshop assistant during an armed robbery at a shop on Woosung Road on December was con-eluded during the month when five of thi accused were remitted to the Court of the Military Governor and one was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, Robbery.—Eight reports of fed robbery from dwelling houses and shops, two of attempted arm-Jed robbery from dwelling—houses and one of armed highway robbery were received. In three instances shots wore fired by the robbers on departing, resulting in the death fof one man and the wounding of another. In connexion with the foregoing and armed robberies occurring prior to January 1, fifteen [persons in possession of two automatic pistols were arrested. One Was remitted to the Court of the Military Governor while the remaining fourteen were under romand. at the end of the month, [One man was arrested. for armed robbery committed in territory, un:
handed over to the: authorities cor der Chinese juriedition" "end four is mentioned in my re-[corned. "Nineteen of the twenty-port for December as being under ig remand charged with armed robbery, were dealt with. Eleven were sent to the Court of the Military Governor, one was sentenced to imprisonment, one committed si cide in the Po agai wi two were discharged, The remain. ing five were atill under remand at, the end of the month, 'Three eases of highway robbery in which no arms were used and! one of attempted robbery' from dwelling hous occurred! during month. In connexion with these and reporte received prior to January 1, four persons were -arrested, two of whom were. cen: fenced to imprisonment "and one to expulsion from the Settlement whilst the fourth was under romand at the end of the month, Two persons ander remand at the jond of December on a charge of highway robbery wore sentenoad to imprisonment, Threatening Letters, ete-—On January. 8 seven men, two of whom were: stated to have been armed, entered a dwelling house in the Hongkew District but left Without steriling anything on. a the servant closing down two trap its which led upstairs, The incident was followed by the son of the, widow who occupied the premises receiving one letter on Janu: ary 11 and one on January 15 de-manging $2,000 and threatening death to various niembers of the family should thig_sum not be forthcoming. On January % a shell about, six inches long was ted found inside the front gate leading to the haute, together with a piece of paper containing certain writing which when. translated. read "Take notice of the bomb. Expecting that you will be awaken ed." Two other instances of Chines0 residents receiving threatening anonymous letters in which the suing demanded were $8,000 and 8500 respectively, wore recorded.
Crime beyond Settlement Limits,—Threo cases of murder, in one of Which the victim waa a' foreigner, and 12 of robbery and piracy were reported as having occurred during the month in territory under Chinese jurisdiction in the_ncighbourhood of Shanghai, In one instance pirates attacked a boat and seized it, while in another the Jaodah was killed and several boat hands wounde Ezecutions:—Two Chinese found.
settlement in September last and of armed robberies in the with being in possession of firearms were executed at Lunghua on Tanuary 30 in the presence representative of the Municipal Police.
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