Shanghai, Aug. 27, With one suspect confessing to the crime yesterday in. the First Special District Court the Settlement police have now partially solved the mystery surrounding © daring armed Fobbery staged on" August 30 Hupeh Road when a nephew of Mr. To" Heslen-chang. manager of the Yung. Kong Cotton Shop in Route de. Pere Robert, was robbed of $1,263. The hearing.was postponed for a week, however, pending the arrest of two accomplices and the Fecovery of most of the stolen money.
The suspect, Lin Yung-fah, was arrested on August 25 by an alert detective attached to the Sinza police when he was walking North Chekiang Road, Lin's "house Chekiang Road was soon raided and there the police "found imitation pistol believed to have been used in the hold-up, more than $13" and two. watches. "He was charged. with robbery by municipal advocate, who told the court he (Lin) had already confessed to the crime in the police station, naming two other men. as his accomplices. "Lin only obtained and it hia confession is true, then his accomplices must have got
stolen money. away with the greater part of the The robbery, it will be recalled, was committed shortly before noon when Tsai Ta-fu wan returning. to his uncle after withdrawing $1,203 from the Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank in Ningpo Road. He was followed by three men and when reached Hupeh Road in front of Chinese seal-carving shop he was waylaid, menaced with. pistols and relieved of all the money he carried
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