'Suspected of being implicated in' a daring robbery in January when $32,000 sri cash was stolen from sov-Gral safes ata cool hong in Sinza Road, foun Chinese appeared in the First' Special District Court yesterday to face charges of armed robbery, Drought against them by Mr. Thomas 'S._Lea, "Municipal Attorney.
one of the four men, Lee' Chichming, is the desperado Who shot his way through a police cordon at a Gowntown hotel some time ago and, in addition to the armed robbery. charge, he faced another count of attempted murder.
The three other charged with Lec were Chen Pao-song, Wong Shing yang, and Shang Yung-ziang and many crimes during thei tion by' the police, following fby a party of detectives from the /Sinza "station, under Detective Sergeant J. D, Sortie, last week. Statements made by the men at Police Headquarters wore handed to the Judge, who remanded the four. men jin custody for one week after the usual preliminary evidence had "The sensational robber [the men are stated to ha Jcipated, was staged at a coal hong at 184 Sinza Road on Janvary 10, [shortly before midnight," The gang-[sters, ofter ransacking the place, made off with $22,000.
'Detectives, who were working on the ease, It' was stated In court, refeelved information which led them to raid the Old Tung Fong Hotel on Chekiang Road. Here they seized Lee and another man but, while they were being escorted out of the room, with the arrested men - handcuffed together, Leo drew out his pistol and fred at one of the detectives, wounding him. He then made 9 dash for freedom with the man to whom he [was handcuffed, Later, however, he was caught by /Detective-Sergeant Sortie and a ralding party and on the day following his arrest the other three men were taken into custody with a fifth person, who was released for lack of evidence. Several banknotes amounting. to about $5,000, believed to be part of the Joot stolen from the coal hong, Leen recovered,
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