Collective Sigh of Relief by Consular Police July 23, Shanghai's* Japaneye community will lose one of its best-known charfsclers, this morning, and Japanese (Consular policemen will breathe 9 collective sigh of relief.
'This will' be occasioned by the departure of Masse Hotta, also known by his sobriquet of "Fox," from Shanghai, which provided for four teen months a happy hunting ground for an elusive defer of the law.
Hotta will sal at 9 o'clock this morning in the s, Shanghai Maru for Nagasaki where he will stand trial ged with fraud, attempted fraud, housebreaking, theft, robbery breaking gaol, 'The Japanese, who is 31-years-old, was catapulted' into prominence on May 11 following "his escape from the Japanese Consular gaol on the previous night. In taking French eave from his gaolers, he took with him $277.40 from the' police station safe. "He was rearrested on July 2 while soundly asleep in the home of a Korean friend in Bubbling Well Road. This asylum turned out to be police trap, wma to shortage of silk cocoons in Shanghai, local silk factories have edded to petition the Chekiang and Klsngsu Provinaal Governments. to cancel their respective orders prohibiting the export of this commodity, Tp was reported that silk cocoons, exported from Shanghai during the past six months were valued at $22,000,000. "Hence the shortage in 'Two cocker spaniels belonging to Mr. and Mra, C.J. Merritt, Medhurst, 'Apartments, 934 Bubbling Well Road, have been' killed by a poisoner, while a third dog of thesame breed has been made violently ill, it was Jearned on July 24.
Mr, and Mrs. Merritt, who occupy Apariment 10, left recently for a holiday in Japan and placed the three dogs with servants. 'The pels were kept on a verandah and there two them were discovered dead Friday, while the third had also been Dolsoned although not fatally. This dog was immediately taken' to a veterinary surgeon who is trying to save its life Detectives' attached to Bubbling Well Police Station, in investigating the ease, found thal a strong poison had been introduced into the dogs' food. "A-complete analysis will be made in an effort to trace the poison and apprehend. the perpetrator of the fondish deed,
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