Labour Trouble Occupies Prominent Place with 46 Strike:
Two Homicides Listed The Acting Commissioner of Police reports that the total of 1,976 cases of crime dealt with by the Settlement Police in June shows a decrease of 11 in comparison with that for May and an increase of 144 as compared with the figure for the corresponding month of last year. Arrests for crime committed show a decrease, 1,466 persons having been arrested in June as against 1,738 in May and 2,107 in April. In addition 114 persons were taken into custody for crimes committed in previous months; 92 persons were arrested on behalf of other authorities.
Chinese whom he attempted to detain in answer to an alarm of robbery raised by a Chinese female. The culprit escaped after firing a second shot.
One case of armed kidnapping occurred when a Chinese. boy, aged 9, was abducted in a motor car by three armed men, who intercepted him whilst en route to school. A hire car was used for the purpose, the chauffeur having been left tied up in the country prior to the commission of the crime. The car was recovered later. The kidnapped boy has now been released.
A male Chinese employed at a lodging house in Canton Road was attacked, whilst asleep, and fatally stabbed with a fruit knife by another male Chinese employed in the same place. A rebuke in connection with his "duties appears to have caused the crime.
A male Chinese was fatally stabbed with a knife by another Chinese, in consequence of a quarrel based on jealousy. The accused was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
One case of attempted murder was reported. A male Chinese was fired at and slightly wounded by another
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