The Archive · 1938

Suspects Arrested in Concession

Three men suspected of having committed an armed robbery were far tested yesterday by the French Police in a room attached to the Long. Kong Hotel, Rue Kraetzer. Two false pistols hidden in the bedding, were seized, and it was evidently with the aid of these "weapons" that the men had carried out the robbery, entering. a house in Rue Lafayette, and making oft with a booty of $1,000, Questioned fon the robbery, the gang gave full dotals of how' they plotted it and carried it to a successful conclusion successful, that is, in their own timation up to the time when they received most unwelcome visitors in the form of a party of French Police.:{'The men will be brought before the Second Special District Court in due} course.

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