Li nine Chinese, including a cook, 2 hawker, an unemployed and six coolies, came up on remand on charges of armed robbery and attempted murder involving a long series of crimes in the Settlement. Six of the gang were ordered to be sent to the Chinese authorities for execution while three were sentenced to 10 years each and expulsion, Mr. E. T. Maitland conducted the case for the police and called Det.-Sgt. Tabrum who said that he had "arrested most of the gang. Through informers the police learn ed that an armed robbery was being planned by the gang at 1474 Avenue Road and that the gang was to meet in the quarters of the cook in a foreign house at 76 Avenue Road to discuss their procedure. Tolice were stationed outside the place and when the gangsters assembled a number of them were arrested. On information gained from them others of the gang were rounded up in a teahouse, while was found in a house in Route Pere Robert. The first and second accused were in possession of automatic pistols when arrested,
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