Detectives Follow Up to Harbin CPC. 741 said he bad noticed the' altair between the first Marine and the boy and had di persed the crowd of onlookers, who Were obstructing traffic and returned to his post on traffic duty. Later Ihe was told of an assault, and, pro: jeeeding to the scene he' saw two foreigners, one in uniform the other dark jacket, the colour of the [trousers "being undistinguishable, He was told that the foreigners had [wounded several Chinese, but he did Rot see the assault. Then he went to Gordon Road where he saw the two foreigners in a bar (the Privates Club), He informed Bubbling Well station and awaited the arrival of detectives.
Cross-examined by counsel, the cession Police, after a. chase which Detclives of the Fegich Cone fas fed from Shanghai to Nanking, Tientsin and: Harbin, have succeed: ed in laying hands "on two men Alleged to have taken "part. ina Fobbery on the night of May 2¢-25- which Mrs: Maguire, "a British rblet lst jewellery to, the value $13,000 and a. cheque for $0,000. third accomplice is stated to itave. made his escape into" Soviet Russia, 'The robbers took place between 10 pant on May 24 and at on making an 'To the. ground floor of the mdgetting away safely. The fheque'was'ef no value to them og the bank would not have cashed having' been warned to. stop Pay! ment before banking "hours" com Delsctives of the Sth dition of attempt to me' sist the for the "Surete made. Immediate me After he (accused) had gone, I dis-Aiiries and succeeded in. obtaining persed the crowd. varve, Tnquiries amongst pawndions fngorprints which proved of great Mah Zung-poo, a tailor's assistant, silted" in the, recovering of pare identified Cpl, Soon as the fof the booty, while the deteriptions had stabbed him. The stabbing, be feiven by asiotants of the" shop said, was the sequel to a disturbance Regarding "the pawners of "the Seymour "and Avenue Roads, them appeared to be involving a number of Matines, a nay also. proved usefal, Cri. Moon was the aggressor." Hi employer, Chew Sze-chiang, ras also upon several people, many of whom ons bstame., rected stabbed, he added. were detained and" released after Cross-exanyined by Capt, T. A, cing interrogated.
'Afier these ingles ud been Tighe, this witness denied thai mide, without "appreciable dif hes had given Cpl." Moon a Culty' the detectives" succeeded, reason for' the stabbing. "hi May 24, two daya atter the todbery, had, however, " interfered with pi. Moos "riaha, "impeding its In"arreiting one Annokent Tropa, progress, after he and Pte. Kinas 4 Yeats of age, wh' had not heed ie fas caused trouble with the son of werent. to. the his master, a 16-year-old student, In knowledge addition to being stabbed, he had theft and, "subsequently, that been punched on the nose. took part in it, As a result of his statement the Police commenced Dan Foh-ling,, a chauffeur, oft search for one Leonid Siniavsky, uty, who witnesadd the whole affair, alias Haskkell, and one ion, stated" that before the stabbing loft' Vahtan. They were allegfeccurred there had been a sen un lasting for two or three minutes, fed fo have taken part of the stolen Jewellery and to have left Shanghai Cpl. Moon and Mah Zung-poo, t without. telling Ivanoff of their tailors assistant who was stable
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