Six boatmen, who on the evening jot September 30 this year held up the steam launch Yuen Foong on the Soochow Creek and robbed its passengers of everything of value, were sentenced by the First Special District Court on Thursday. Two of them were sent to gaol for Jseven years and, six months, while the other four each got five and halt years, Although the outrage was perpetrated outside the Settlement, the riseners, who were all boatmen in Shanghai, were rounded up in Carter Road houses where the police found two pistols and 230 rounds of ammunition. The seized weapons wore confiscated. The arrested men admitted that, the day before the jenine was committed, they held a meeting in the Carter Road house fand then sct out in boats. The police also arrested three women in, the Carter Road house, but they were found not guilty.
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