The Acting Commissioner Police reports that the total of 1,976 cases of crime dealt with by the Settlement Police in June. shows a decrease of 11 in comparison with that for May and an increase of 144 as compared with the figure for the corresponding month of last yet 'Arrests for crime committed show decrease, 1466 persons having been arrested' in June as against 1,738 in May and 2,07 in April, In addition persons were taken into custody for "crimes committed in previous months; 92 persons were arrested on behalf of other authorities.
'A. male Chinese employed at a lodging house in Canton Road was attacked, whilst asleep, and fatally stabbed with a fruit knife by another male Chinese employed in the same place. A rebuke in connection with his duties appears to have caused the crime, 'A male Chinese was fatally stabbed with a knife by another Chinese, in consequence of a quarrel based' on jealousy. The accused was sentenced. to 15 years" imprisonment, 'One case of attempted murder was reported. "A male Chinese was fred at and slightly wounded by another Chinese whom he attempted to detain in answer to an alarm of robbery raised by a Chinese female, 'The sulprt eveaped after fung' a second One case of armed kidnapping curred when a Chinese boy, aged 9, was abducted in a motorcar by theee armed men, who intercepted him whilst en route to school. A hire car was used for the purpose, the chauffeur having been Toft tic up in the country prior to the com= mission of the crime. The car was recovered later. The kidnapped boy has now been released.
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