A daring burglary took place in Nanking Road on Sept. 4 in the early morning that but for the vigilance of a policeman would have gone undetected.
Lipkovsy's, better known ao the Siberian Jewellery Store, was the scene and the instigator described himself in Provisional Court:
Judge Koh and Deputy Ramondino, as Zung—Yihesung shopkeeper, resident of 612 Yuenfong Road. He gave hiv age as 41 years, claimed he was out of world and first insisted he had no new complices in the deed.
Zung adopted the expediency of sending a brick through the plate glass window and was busily Stuffing watches and rings from the display inside, into his pocket when " policemen on beat heard the crash of falling glass and vestigated. The arrest followed, and at Court the accused admit his guilt.
An Indian watchman employed by the management of the store to guard against just such an event was absent from his post at the time Zung appeared but it is not known whether the thief was aware of his absence or not.
At the trial, however, Zung change ed his story somewhat under questioning and when Mr. Lipkovsky testified that there were several hundred dollars worth of goods still missing the accused admitted he hae three accomplices who managed to The Court thereupon at the re~ quest of the police remanded the ease to enable a further investiga tion of the affair.
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