The Archive · 1937

Two Arrested for False Robbery

"Loot" of $900 Recovered from Accomplice Detectives and uniformed officers turned out froth Central Police Station on Jan. 21 when an alarm of farmed robbery was received from Kung Zung Li, off Canton Road. When they. arrived they found a trembling apprentice who told them the, had been robbed of $900 in bank-nolos by a Tuflan armed with a pistol The Police soon, however, realized that the man was not telling the truth, and detectives learned that he had made up the story, it is alleged, to make away with the $900, which his master had entrusted to his care, He admitted that he had an accom: lice, the man who had posed as 8 robber, and this man had taken the 'a house in the with the operation of the Prench Police, arrested the accomplice and recovered the money, which had been placed ina bank for safe-keeping.

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