Two Help Armed Men Loot Jessfield Road Place Two Chinese women—the counterparts of the "gun malis" of gangster stores—pártieipáted in an ariméd robbery in the Settlement yesterday morning.
With five men, the women: entered a Chinese house, No. 21, Lane 37, Jessfield Road, at 1045 o'clock and produced three pistols. They demanded valuables and obtained about $70 in money and jewellery. They decamped with their loot without having fired any shots, One hundred and sixty-five crime cases were reported to the Settlement Police during the week ended yesterday. This represents a decrease of thirteen cases from the previous week- Armed robberies and robbery attempts totalled.six decrease of four), while burglaries and breakings mounted from thirteen to twenty-There were only three snatchings (decrease of six), and twenty-tve cases of pocket picking (increase of two).
A total of 159 arrests were made (decrease of 42)
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