Police on the Scene First and. the Running Fight Which Followed Seven Chinese made their app" ance at the Mixed Court on Tuesday afternoon, before Messrs, Buclnell and Kuan, charged with breaking and entering into 1800 Tatung Road with the intention to rob the place 7 am. on September 28. They were further charged with being] members of an organized gang of armed robbers operating in the Settlement. Three of them were also charged with attempted homicide in. shooting at P.C.C, Rhind and Chinese detectives 122, 117, 107 and 74, with intent to kill.
Mr. E. T. Maitland, prosecuting! solicitor," appeared for the police, and Messrs. W. 8. Fleming, R. Bryan, 8. A, Moss, W. Y. Char and K. W. Chang, represented the accused.
Mr, Maitland said that the first accused had been injured in jumping from a roof and he would ask that permission be granted to this man to sit down during the hearing.
Det,-Sub-Inspr. Quayle said that, acting on information received that an armed robbery was to be com mitted in an alleyway off Tatung Road, he warned the Chinese dstectives and P, C, C, Rhind, They left the station at 4 o'clock in the morn. ing, their information being that the robbers would probably come at 7.30} asin, in a motor car. When the police arrived, no ear was f be seen. The} Getectives secreted themselves In various alleyways and the Municipal] stone-yard, whilst others were rossed as coolies and patrolled the place.
The Arrival At 7.20 a.m, a detective reps tea that the armed robbers had arr so witness collected his forces and went into the alleyway when he! heard that some of the robbers already had been arrested. Tt appeared that the fourth and fifth cued had been caught and Inter he cavy the sixth and seventh, wko were} obtained by the side of motor ear. Witness heard firing and went half way down the alleyway when he raw the robbers attempting to es wer the roof. His infern that pmbably they would exeape rough the floors of a mill and then hrough a silk filature, which was at the back of the house. tle w 6 this place and found the first lying under the machinery, injured. He was arvsted.
By his time, a couple of the other tad boon caught. Firing came from the house where the robbery was to ake place and witness Inter fou three pistols on n piece of was stound. All were loaded and all had nen fired from,—Witness took tatements from the various acused. The motor ear had two num. ver plates, 6044 and 7547, the latter, yoing underneath. Ove of the! teenses had been stolen and the sixth] censed admitted that the car was his und that the seventh accused was} vis ageistant,
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