'A gang of suspected armed robbers: was seized by Settlement detectives in & "bloodless raid" int 1030 a.m, on February 9 at the New World at the corner of Bubbling Well Road and Ya Ya Ching Road. Detective Sergt. L, W. Hide led the raid, in which six men and one woman Were arrested and three fully-loaded utomatie pistols seized. One of the pistols was of the Mauser type and was signifeant that all three weapons had a cartridge inthe breech. No shots were fired, how-over, The seven suspects appeared in the First. Special District Court on Feb, The bandit who was killed ina raid led. by Detective Sub-Ingp. Cumming near Singapore Road on the night of Feb, 8 was on Feb. 9 Identified by fingerprints and it was learned that he had been convicted four times for violent crimes, Another suspect was taken alive in the same raid.
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