Shanghai, June 12.
Probably the cleverest ruse ever reported here was referred to in the First Special District Court yesterday when five men, 11 good friends, were brought before the tribunal for a. writ of detention on suspicion that they had faked a robbery in order: to enable one of their number, a native bank assistance, to defraud is. manager of more than $5,000 which four of the men were supposed have stolen in a daring "robbery' staged in Ningpo Road, Hearing was postponed for a week, Of late, there have been severa) cases in which robbery stories were invented by those who had gambled away money entrusted to them by others, but if the police allegation is: true, then Chu Yung-ting, employee of the Hsieh Hsing Native Bank at, 420 Kiukiang Road, is cleverer than of them, Instead of making a false robbery report to the police, the truth of which can be easily found out later, Chu is alleged have actually played the victim in a "robbery.
While walking recently in Ningpo Road near Szechuen Road, several men rushed up to him and robbed him of a parcel, He shouted at the top of his voice and when the police arrived, he said that more than $5,000 had been stolen from him by robbers. After asking questions at length at Central Police Station, officers came very doubtful of' the case and Subsequent investigations resulted in the arrest of four of Chu's friends, who are alleged to have acted the robbers. They were arrested in 'a hotel where the police recovered more than $4,000,
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