Charge of Plotting to Steal Over $200,000
A plot to pirate a bullion ship out side Woosung is thought 10. have been nipped in the bud when Settle ment Police late-on Sunday afternoon arrested a man whois. said fo be the leader of the gang who planned the daring crime. 'The rest was made at the request of the Chinese authorities, to whom the man was handed over' after his flager= prints had been taken, According 10. Information received by the police, Ting Tuli-pao, wanted for banditry in Sungkiang, was. arranging to commit a piracy on the [Dah Ching, of the Sung Ching Steam: ship Ca, Nantao, as he and several others who have not yet been arrested had reason to believe that she would be carrying between $200,000 jand $200,000 from the Central Bank of China; the money was. intended {for distribution to the bank's various upsriver branches, Plans had been made for the piracy to be committed when the ship pass-4 Woosung on her journey up-river, [The Bureau of Public Safety in Nan-20, however, learning of the proposed piracy through channels which cannot be divulged, requested. the ce-operation of the Settlement Police in the arrest of Ting, who was staying In the Sefement,
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