Continuing their round-up of robber gangs, the S.M. Police took into custody forty suspects and seized three guns during the holiday period and brought them before the First Special District Court yesterday when writs of detention were issued against them for investigations.
Fourteen of the suspects were arrested by officers of Sinza Police Station in Ferry and Sinza Roads, eleven others, by officers of Gordon Road Station and nine, including a woman, by officers bf Pootoo Road Station. A police party of Chengtu Road Station arrested six men.
Besides. the police arrested a man for committing a robbery at 140/314A Nanking Road early yesterday morning. He was further accused of a tempting to murder an occupant of the house by striking him on the head with a steel chopper. Two other men, one of whom was an inspector of the former Public Safety Bureau of Shanghai and a woman were ordered held for having been found in possession of arms for sale in the Chung Nan Hotel, Avenue Edward VIL
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