Stern punishment was meted out by Judge Foo in the Hirst District Court on Nov, 26 to Day Nyi-pa aged 37, unemployed, who, with an accomplice, robbed two men of halt a picul of rice valued at $7 In Tsai Sze Loong, off Robison Roud, on Nov, 25.
'The complainants were friends of a rice shop. owner, #0 they were allowed to. buy half a picul of the cereal Instead" of only' §l_ worth, The rice having been pul in sucks, they left the shop by the rear door, carrying their sacks on their backs, In Tsal_ Sze Loong, off Robison Road, at 845 pam, two men, one was Day, came and seized the rice from the' complainants, In the hurry, however, the sacks dropped and the lee' scattered over the ground, Day was arrested by Chinese Police constable, but his accomplice escaped.
The police preferred a charge of unarmed highway robbery against the arrested man, Judge Foo" sent the man to goal for w year on a charge of snatching, Life Prison form for C. P. C.
Chinese police constable No, 2423 of the S, M. Pollec, was sentenced life imprisonment by the First District Court on Nov. 27, convicted of the charge of murdering his senior officer Chinese police Ser~ geant Wong Yoh-zal, by fiting six shots at him with his service pistol in the compound of the Louza Police Station, A grudge the constable had against the deceased was alleged to have led to the shooting.
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