French Concession tailor was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in the Provisional Court, on July 23, on a charge of armed robbery.
Det-Inspr. Henry told the Court that the accused and two accomplices held up a shroff employed by jan exchange shop and relieved him of $880 in banknotes. The accused evidently knew of the practice of the exchange shop in sending silver dollars at various times to the bank to be exchanged for banknotes, and so waited their opportunity to attack him on his way from the Dank after the transaction. A detective's informer, however, grapple. with the accused and effected his arrest, but the two other robbers fled with the money in their pos-
So far the money has not been recovered, nor have the two accomplices been arrested.
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