Japanese Police Still Seek Escaped Convict 'Japanese sleuths, still vainly scouring the city for Masao Hotta, alias "The Fox", have been recently' given the unsolicited assistance of a Russian fortune teller, the "Shangh: Mainichi" repens.
The crystal Razer, the journal said, found that Hotta is still hiding himself "somewhere near Shanghai", and that he would return to the ily 4s00n as the $275 which he stole from 8 police safe 48 days oxo is spent.
The Russian seer, the "Mainichi" said, wag not the only one to come to the aid of the bamed Japanese Consular Police. "A few days ago police "informer" told the Japanese guardians of the law, in exchange for fan undisclosed amount of money. that Hotta is hiding in a temple in The ablest Japanese detective was Immediately dispatched to Lunghwa, Dut after two days of strenuous gum= shoeing has come to a conclusion that was not of unim=
Another vain search for Hotta in the Yanglszepoo district was launched several days ago, when a Russian detective of the French Police force Feported to the Japanese Consulate General that he had seen Hotta on bound street car.
of the Consular Police said he saw Shortly" afterwards another, trend Hotia aboard a vessel that had just left Shanghai. Hastily boarding a motor launch, a police squad rushed after the vessel, overtook it, made a search, returned to Shanghai Hotia's escape from the Japanese consular jail and his theft of money from a police safe, the Japanese Papers said, have left a blot on the Police escutcheon that the minions Of the law are most anxious to erase.
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