In connexion with the Pakhoi Road affair, eight men and two women were placed in the dock, with a list of charges against them covering two foolscap pages of typewriting. In some cases individually, in others two or three or all of them in conjunction and sometimes in association with those who were killed in the melee, or with others not yet in custody, they were accused of one case of armed highway robbery, an armed robbery in association with two foreigners, eight other armed robberies, the murder of a man and a woman in the Boone Road robbery, the -attempted murder of a man in Ché- kiang Road, the murder of_ two Chinese detectives in Pakhoi Road, the attempted murder of two others and also of _Detective-Sub-Inspec-for J. W. Prince. As to the proceeds of their robberies, the amounts varied from $7 up to $1,240 in cash and valuables and a haul of $3,600 worth of opium.
The case came before Mr. Hutchison (Assessor) and Magistrate Loh. Mr. R. C. Faithfull conducted the prosecution on behalf of the police, and for the defence there appeared Mr. K. E. Newman, Mr. H. D. Rodger, Mr. L. K. Kentwell and Mr. Ponson Chu.
Sub-Inspector Prince recapitulate ed the stirring events of the raid on the Pakhoi Road lodging-house and gave the added information that he had since learned from the accused that, when he demanded entrance, one of them looked through a chink in the door and saw police officers, so the gang gathered up their pistols and waited for the police to break in. They said there were six men la the room, though only five were seen. One was killed, three captured and two other were still at
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