Charged with forming themselves into a criminal gang for the purpose of extorting money by means lof threatening letters, four Chinese appeared before Judge Sun in the Special District Court on October Mr. T. S, Lea, Assistant Municipal Advocate, told the Court that the police received information that the! first accused was concerned in the writing of several threatening letters and he was arrested in Boone Road. He led the police to Chapei to arrest a man named Wong, the fourth accused, who was later handed over by' the Chapei police. }A pistol was found in Wong's house. The first accused then took the police to 802 Hailar Road but nobody was there. A detective was left on watch." When the second accused rode up on a cycle, he little! suspected that the man on guard was a detective, so he told him to warn the tified accused that the police were after him. He was then arrested. A piece of paper was found on the first zecused bearing the name of a native bank and the police had reason to think that threatening letters had been sent to this bank by the gang.
Det-Sgt. 119 said that the firs accused admitted being concerned with others in attempting to extort money by sending threatening letters, and corroborated Mr. Lea's statement. The first accused mitted also that threatening letters had been sent to a man named Zao Yin-san demanding $5,000.
The first accused said the letters were written by the fourth accused who was formerly employed in the Tong Yue Bank.
The second accused denied the Jcharge and said that he was asked by a women to go to the third accused's house to warn him that the! police were locking for him for fighting. He did not know the per son he told was a detective, Mr. Lea said that accused ad mitted also that, in September, they wrote three threatening letters, 'A remand was ordered.
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