Shanghai, Apr. 28.
The case against 49 Chinese and a woman, charged with armed robberies, was drawing to a conclusion yesterday when Judge Feng of the First Special District Court heard the 25th of the 27 charges fled inst them. The case was ad-inurned until May 6.
The group was rounded up by detcotives of the Central Police Station alter two months of exhaustive work, Twenty-one pistols and 600 rounds of ammunition were seized, According to Mr. Thomas S. Lea, nuunicipal advocate, who conducted the prosecution, the men are ex-con-viers who left the Tsachoching Prison to join the labour corps after the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, 'The men soon escaped and formed themselves into a robber gang. Between November last year and beginning of March this year, they were' said to have perpetrated o total of 2 armed robberies, First arrests of the gang were made in a raid on a lodging house' in Hankow Road. A total of 62 persons was taken to the Central Police Station in subsequent raids. One of the suspects had been traced for over two months before he was finally arrested and charged in Court. He was well dressed when the police frail began. At the time of his arrest, he was even without his shoes.
Twelve of the 62 persons were Iter released.
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