Murder of Sing-song Girl, Big Robbery and a Fraud Fnost Our Own Connesroxoest Hankow, Aug. 19.
The detective forces of S.A.D. 1 and 2 at Hankow have recently' done some very smart work in are 'a murderer and some! armed robbers, The victim of the murder was 'a pretty sing-song. girl, who had been the favourite Of an ex-police constable, but who} had also. won the favour of a Japanese barber. The El lover seems to have concealed his} hate very successfully, for on the! evening of the murder he met the Birl and the Japanese at a hotel find played cards with them. When the party broke up, the Japanese went home and the git! announced) her intention of going to a cinema, Dut the Chinese lover guessed that, her destination was the barber's} shop.
Tt was a dark night, with heavy rain, 20 he made his' way, to the] dooraray of the shop and, when the girl arrived, he stabbed her to death, As she was struck, the girl seveamed and the Japanese rushed out and, although stabbed by the murderer, made a pluckly attempt} to capture him. Warning was at] fence given to the police, and squad of detectives watched the railway station. The man arrived to catch a train and on being approached bolted for a pond. The police dragged, him out of that, and fon the way to the police-station he managed to -swallow some opium. Remedies were applied and his life was saved so that he can stand his trial.
Robber Gang Arrested The robbers arrested were the men who raided a goldsmith's shop] last month. There seemed to be no clues of any kind for a time and then a man fell into the hands Of the police. Anxious to save his! own skin, he volunteered to put the police on the track of the robbers and their loot. He was as good as} iis word and the descent on the place was so sudden that the robbers were captured before a shot] could be fired. Two hundred rounds of ammunition were found in there room, So daring have these kind of men become that the Mayor has issued orders that all police in the Chinese city are to be fully armed, from dusk till daylight.
A Shroff's Fraud A cotton dealer's shroff has perpetrated a big fraud. Being pretty' well known in the cotton market, he started a small hong of his own! and arranged for the purchase of pressed cotton of the value of $26,000, He paid down $5,000 at once as earnest money and secured
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