Accused of being one of the leaders of the gang which committed the $91,000 robbery at the General Post OMice in September last year, Won; Sub-loh, alias Wong Suh-kwei, Wong Sion-tse, alias Tsung Yo-tsun; alias Tsung ' Puh-koh, who was arrested by Yulin Road Siation police, was sentenced to death in the First rested In various districts in the Set-loment on Wednesday on charges of Jdeflating rickshaw tyres and preventing the pullers from carrying on their trade through intimidation, "The trouble-makers came up' for nearing in several groups in two dif ferent court rooms. In every case, the trial was brief, the accused having admitted the charges, The reasons for the intimidation as given by the accused was generally to the effect that they wanted to share the profits of those who had rickshaws pull. They believed that when the rickshaw trate was completely paralysed, the dispute would be selted quickly one way or the other.
An accountant and a rickshaw fitter arrested in the Sinza district told an entirely different story. They aukly admitted that they had been sent out by their employer, owner of a certain hong, to disable rick-Shaws belonging to this firm, Night-shift pullers who should have turned rickshaws to the fxm early on Wednesday morning had failed to do so. Hence they were sent out with the mission of preventing the hong's pullers from continuing to ply for hire. "Asked why they had disabled rickshaws not belonging to their firm, the accused replied that they had genuinely made a mistake. Bach was sentenced to 20 days' detention, Five more rickshaw coolies appeared on Friday, accused of being concern fed in the disturbances that followed the lock-out declared by the riekshaw owners on April 1, "Four of the prisoners were arrest ed by West Hongkew police on' charge of deflating and destroying rickshaw tyres. on North fhibet Road, North Shanse Road, and Winchester Road, 'Three of them were sentenced' to twenty. days' detention each while the fourth tone got twelve days only. The, Atth prisoner was arrested by Hongkew police, it being alleged that, with two others not in custody, he attempted to prevent other pullers from plying their vehicles on Range Road, near North Szechuen Road, on Thursday.
The Judge found him guilty and sent him to gaol for fourteen days.
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