'A Chinese Who Stated That He Had Been Robbed Charged with having supplied the Municipal Police with a false report, one Li Koh-ling, was brought up before Messrs, Martin and Kuan at the Mixed Court on Wednesday. The charge was that on Tuesday he made a false report to Pootoo Road Police Station to the effect that he was out that day and had been held up by six or seven. persons, of whom was armed with pistol, and that he had been robded of the sum of $27, Det.-Sgt. Grubb informed the Bench that accused had reported that he had been robbed in Robison Road. One of the alleged miscreants was supposed to have had a pistol and to have taken $27 from him, Accused said that he had borrowed the money from a friend. Witness and other officers went to see the friend but could find no such person, Later on, acy used admitted that he had not received the money. "He said that he had been asked by a detective's second to make inquiries about a Labour union meeting and that had" visited 4647 Robison Road.
When leaving he was asked by some of the mill workers what he wanted and when no satisfactory reply was forthcoming, they belaboured with iron bars, Accused further said that he lived in Tonquin Road and produced a tax receipt to this effect but he later was found b be living in Ohi Dai Koh. He said that he knew one of the men who assaulted him but did not know his name.
When questioned by Magistrate Kuan, accused gave a very rambling story, and was sent to prison for six months.
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