Arrested for Complicity in Ghastly Siccawei Crime A second Chinese was in the cusboty of the French Police yesterday for participation in the murder and robbery of the Rev. Father E. Lebreton, SI, French priest, at Siccawei on August 30, last.
The prisoner, Wong Kwoh-yung, aged 41, is accused of having helped Kien Ah-loh, ithe actual murderer, carry out his fiendish scheme of killing the aged clergyman in order to steal money held at Siccawei for the payment of wages to employees. Actually, the robbers obtained only about $200 in Northern bank-notes as they were unable to open a safe containing some $20,000.
Wong was arrested by French de-tactives, with the assistance of the Settlement Police, in the Gordon Road district on Friday and taken to the Concession for trial.
Kien had previously surrendered and confessed his guilt.
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