Alleged Failure to Return Recovered Property Charged with malfeasance by retaining two gold bracelets and a sum of money which they had recovered on the person of an arrested robber, Kau Sian-ming and Li Sau-san, respectively C.P.C. No. 2084 and No, 1994 of the S. M. Police, were remanded for one week in the First Special District Court yesterday after the preliminary hearing.
It happened late on Sunday afternoon when there was an armed robbery at 353/14 Sinza Road. An alarm having been raised, one of the robbers, in an attempt to escape, climbed io the roof of a neighbouring house, from where he got to 398 Myburgh Road. An occupant of the Myburgh Road house, Wong Yoong-foh, overpowered the robber, searched him and found several articles of jewellery and a sum of money in his possession. Wong handed over the arrested man to the two accused who brought the man to the Sinza Police Station.
At the Station, it was alleged, it was found out that jewellery and money to the value of $340, stolen by the arrested man, were missing. C.D.C. No. 346 was detailed to make inquiries and, as a result, the stolen bracelets were found to have been sold to a silversmith shop at 330 Avenue Road by two Chinese constables on Sunday and Monday respectively. The two accused were suspected, but, questioned by the officers, the first denied, but the second admitted the offence at the station,
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