The Archive · 1934

POLITE ROBBERS

Stolen Property Pawn Tickets Sent to Vi tims Robbers of an unusual type, who showed some consideration for their victims, and thus risked the dange of being arrested, operated in Way~ side District in the Settlement on Monday night (Nov. 26), when the occupants of a Chinese dwelling house, No. 16, Lane 14, Muirhead Road, having been relieved of jewellery, were relumed pawn-tickets after one of the "gangsters had made a fying visit to a pawnshop in the vicinity.

During the robbery, one of them lett with a portion of the stolen [Property just collected and returned about thirty minutes later with four [pawn-tickets, which he handed to the victims before decamping. The loss was estimated at $509,

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